I have never once made a good decision in my life and that's God and everyone else's problem now.
I am the buildings abandoned, the bones of civilization overgrown with arbor and life, new lungs in an empty ribcage.
I am hungry and alone, pressed flat under stone and glass, but I am patient. I can wait.
Soon you will be little more than a trellis for my vines, a home for my hungry thorns.
And the wanderers of man will marvel at how quickly you became mine once more.
“i’m not going to link any of them here, for a variety of reasons, but please be aware of what is probably the deadliest AI scam i’ve ever heard of:
“plant and fungi foraging guide books. the authors are invented, their credentials are invented, and their species IDs will kill you.”
…So please be careful if you run across anything of this kind.
Yup. There’s also a lot of “herbals” out there, including some claiming to be Native American herbals and some of these could be just as deadly.
I’ve done the “sneak peek” thing on a few of these and tried to find the authors (who are as made up as the information in the books). This shit is dangerous. Anything that states: “The skill and art of foraging date back to the days of Adam and Eve” Isn’t so much waving a red flag as setting off signal flares and a air-raid siren.
I thought the ones on mythology and history were infuriating enough - misleading, inaccurate and often incomprehensible gibberish - but they’ve now gone into producing books that could get people hurt or killed.
A lot of these books are marketed as “the ultimate collection” or “bible of” and purport to be written by an author who appears from fucking nowhere (‘cause they don’t exist) and has miraculously produced multiple books on complex subjects and got them published all at the same time.
Now there are some prolific authors out there but they tend to produce books on a limited number of subjects over a period of years. It’s also usually possible to find an internet or real life presence of such people - often they have a youtube channel or have collaborated with others in the same field. Sometimes you can find the record of their academic studies and qualifications (some of the cheeky AI authors might even _claim_ to have an academic record but amazingly, there’s often no trace of these at the schools they claim to have attended - or even teach at[1]).
[1] I admire that some of them not only lie but lie big.
Hi, amateur (and as yet unpoisoned) mushroom forager here! Here are some foraging field guides you can actually trust:
- The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms, an amazing book that lists mushrooms by trait and contains full-color photographs. This one’s a bit of a brick (almost 1000 pages!) but it’s really unmatched as far as good resources for beginners go.
–For specific guides, Teresa Marrone covers mushroom foraging various regions of the United States. Her books are great if you want the full-color photographs of something like the Audubon book without carrying around a 1000-page tome.
Happy hunting! And please don’t trust random Amazon listings.
does tumblr know about tim misny??? like has the level of tim misny awareness that exists in northeast ohio broken containment and become known online yet???
ok so tim misny is a personal injury lawyer here in ohio.
that’s him. you do not have to remember his face from this image because you’re gonna see it a lot in this post. so mainly i think we all kinda honed in on tim misny because of his slogan
he’s gonna make them pay. he’s gonna get you that money but also it’s a little threatening like he’s gonna fully fuck his legal opponent’s shit up. this sprung tons of local memes. then there were the billboards which were normal at first.
but here’s the thing; we already know what misny does. he makes them pay. so it turns into just saying “you know what i do” which is funny enough if you don’t at all have the context.
but this is not where the absurdity caps out, my friends. no. this is what it has evolved to and they. are. everywhere.
that’s right. no text. just the judging eyes of tim misny, glaring through our skin and into our souls. there is no god. there is no devil. there is just tim misny and he’s gonna make them pay.
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