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[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 89 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

“That is not dead which can eternal lie…”

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 49 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"... And in strange aeons, death itself may die."

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 22 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

If the author wasn't such a piece of shit I would love to get that tattooed.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

"Them fucks who laze about ain't died, just napping. One of those 'the fuck time is it?' naps which feel fucking strange."

There you go, that's a Fooie original for you. And I'm not a piece of shit. Though I was a piece of shit. Sloppy steaks and all.

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Let's slop em up, boys!

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Very likely schizotypal, definitely severe social anxiety, a fuckton of phobias, upbringing and class context which was racist AF but still he managed to have good "salt of the earth" black characters in his stories. That is, he imagined black people, with agency and everything, whom he was not terrified of, that's not being a piece of shit that's conscience and hope shining through more existential terror than you can imagine. Hard enough to find rapport with people when you're schizotypal in the first place (you inevitably, in search for actual connection, start talking to their subconsciousness which often ends in a barrage of projection), doubly and triply so when you're caught up in upper-class ritual.

So, kindly, fuck off with your normie judgements building the exact barriers that cause the persistence of problems you're judging others for not solving.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world -2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm only guessing it's Gaiman based on that response.

But remberer that as humans we have the ability to good and bad.

You can like the work while not liking the guy.

[–] Contentedness@lemmy.nz 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I assumed it was HP Lovecraft, who was a white supremacist.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah. True ofc, seeing the context of the post.

My dumb

[–] nomylous@lemmy.today 11 points 2 weeks ago

Obligatory HP Lovecrafts cat name reference.

[–] NKBTN@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

As humans in civil society, we're kinda obligated to not do the bad things though. That's the danger with becoming rich and/or famous... I don't believe money corrupts, but reveals our darker impulses, once we feel we could get away with doing them.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 55 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Let it cook.

Humans need need some dread to take our minds off from all the other dread.

[–] DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 50 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] knightly@pawb.social 46 points 2 weeks ago

One hundred and thirteen times a second, nothing answers and it reaches out.

[–] kefalos@reddthat.com 47 points 2 weeks ago

“I am not the guy that gets you high. That’s my cousin

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Get your hand off my penis!

[–] graff@lemm.ee 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I see you know your fungi quite well

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is mycology manifest!

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent mycelium meal?

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 39 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Can I have a link to the actual article/paper?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 54 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] Hegar@fedia.io 24 points 2 weeks ago

University of the West of England’s unconventional computing laboratory

The "unconventional computing laboratory" was definitely founded in partnership with Miskatonic U.

[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Reading the introduction of the study (first link), they completely fail to explain why they call this language. Like, first they explain that fungi also have action potentials and that this seems to work like neurons and then they immediately jump to talk about how this could be a language. Am I missing something here? This seems like a legit paper, but why don't they even attempt to explain or discuss this?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It just is establishing something is happening that needs further investigation. Language is used because it's the closest possible parallel we have so far. Papers like this present ideas to legitimise further investigations. It's a starting place.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago
[–] electricyarn@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

This came from the New York Globe on April 1st, that's all I know.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

“All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again. And again, and again, and again…”

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 weeks ago

So say we all!

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just started watching Last Of Us, don't fuck with mushrooms

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Fun fact, global climate change is actually changing the temperature ranges that many fungus can exist in. Last of Us probably won't come to pass because the cordyceps fungus evolved to zombify ants and other insects that it existed alongside with over millions of years, and we haven't had any kind of constant contact with a similar fungus strain, so the chances of it being able to interact with our physiology is really, really remote.

But we can absolutely get really harsh strains of Valley Fever in areas where the infectious fungus doesn't usually exist, and fungal infections are incredibly hard to treat.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11034633/

[–] nibble4bits@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] zerofk@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong.

[–] considine@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Usually ends in "wheep ni ni grah". But my universal greeting is rusty. Maybe a regional dialect of universal greeting.

[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

May need Weird Al to confirm with some party music.

[–] derry@midwest.social 15 points 2 weeks ago

We've been trying to reach you about your car insurance

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

“Humans did their job. Time to finish them.”

[–] xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 weeks ago

"Anyone got a lighter?"

[–] lath@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Too late. It already clicked.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

"Oh no. Not again."

[–] NeelixBiederman@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This further reinforces my theory they fungi are an alien species that is trying to guide humans towards a better future

[–] huf@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

lenin was a mushroom, so this checks out

[–] match@pawb.social 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

did it tell them the name of god???

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

There is no god, only Cthulhu

[–] Rubanski@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

Bantha Poodoo

[–] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago

I want to join the Mushroom collective amd trip for all eternity

[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 1 points 2 weeks ago

For the first few words I thought it was in Klingon.