Jan Merta
@lunruj.bsky.social
Interested in science, especially physics, evolutionary biology, psychology. Hunting fungi mostly not to eat them, a bit of an amateur mycologist. Chess noob. From Czechia.
A fungus I found today on moss covered willow. Czechia, Šumperk District. Any idea for identification? Note that we have some snow and had freezing nights/mornings.
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi
November 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
A fungus I found today on moss covered willow. Czechia, Šumperk District. Any idea for identification? Note that we have some snow and had freezing nights/mornings.
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi
I made this as a cover pic for my fb group using pics of my more interesting finds from this year but I thought I might share it here as well. Can you identify the species displayed? Have you found them?
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi
November 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I made this as a cover pic for my fb group using pics of my more interesting finds from this year but I thought I might share it here as well. Can you identify the species displayed? Have you found them?
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi
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that really does seem to be the most noteworthy part of the post to me! like this is straight up just what a racist character in a movie might say to indicate to the audience how racist they were!
November 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
that really does seem to be the most noteworthy part of the post to me! like this is straight up just what a racist character in a movie might say to indicate to the audience how racist they were!
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See also the hilariously unaware tweet from yesterday:
November 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
See also the hilariously unaware tweet from yesterday:
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“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
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Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
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Iowa Republicans blocked a Satanic Temple holiday display AGAIN because "anything that is not God first" is harmful to children.
(Yes, they actually said that.)
This is what the collapse of “religious freedom” looks like.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/iowa-offic...
(Yes, they actually said that.)
This is what the collapse of “religious freedom” looks like.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/iowa-offic...
Iowa officials block Satanic display again, exposing GOP's true stance on religious liberty
State officials keep inventing rules to silence The Satanic Temple while pretending they only care about “protecting children”
www.friendlyatheist.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Iowa Republicans blocked a Satanic Temple holiday display AGAIN because "anything that is not God first" is harmful to children.
(Yes, they actually said that.)
This is what the collapse of “religious freedom” looks like.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/iowa-offic...
(Yes, they actually said that.)
This is what the collapse of “religious freedom” looks like.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/iowa-offic...
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“What sustains these protests is a clear sense among Georgians that they won’t accept a Russian-controlled autocracy.”
Meduza talks to former defense minister and diplomat Vasil Sikharulidze about Georgia’s year-long political crisis. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Meduza talks to former defense minister and diplomat Vasil Sikharulidze about Georgia’s year-long political crisis. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
‘Georgians will not accept autocracy’: Former defense minister and diplomat Vasil Sikharulidze reflects on Georgia’s year-long political crisis — Meduza
Protesters in Georgia have been taking to the streets for 364 straight days. On October 26, thousands joined an anti-government march in central Tbilisi marking the anniversary of the country’s…
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November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“What sustains these protests is a clear sense among Georgians that they won’t accept a Russian-controlled autocracy.”
Meduza talks to former defense minister and diplomat Vasil Sikharulidze about Georgia’s year-long political crisis. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Meduza talks to former defense minister and diplomat Vasil Sikharulidze about Georgia’s year-long political crisis. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Chucpe. Nikdo nedokázal z české univerzitní demokracie vytěžit víc než Ševčík. V systému, kde šéfa volí menší sbor studentů a akademiků, využil každou skulinku, každou kličku, každou tolerovanou levárnu, aby získal a udržel moc a Národohospodářskou fakultu VŠE fakultu zcela ovládl.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Chucpe. Nikdo nedokázal z české univerzitní demokracie vytěžit víc než Ševčík. V systému, kde šéfa volí menší sbor studentů a akademiků, využil každou skulinku, každou kličku, každou tolerovanou levárnu, aby získal a udržel moc a Národohospodářskou fakultu VŠE fakultu zcela ovládl.
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Phyllotopsis nidulans, a typical late autumn and winter sp. here in Czechia. Pic from July which is not typical here (I have yet to find it in August). I want to ask you - do you know about a significant decline of this species at any time in your country/region?
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Phyllotopsis nidulans, a typical late autumn and winter sp. here in Czechia. Pic from July which is not typical here (I have yet to find it in August). I want to ask you - do you know about a significant decline of this species at any time in your country/region?
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi
#mycology #fungifriends #fungi
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Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY
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I remain genuinely gobsmacked that this wasn’t picked up more. The Alex Jones who *repeatedly accused grieving parents of making up their children’s murders*.
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
On US TV shows and podcasts from 2009-18, Farage discussed supposed plots by bankers to create a global government, citing Goldman Sachs, the Bilderberg group and George Soros as threats to democracy. Included six guest slots with the disgraced far-right US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I remain genuinely gobsmacked that this wasn’t picked up more. The Alex Jones who *repeatedly accused grieving parents of making up their children’s murders*.
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
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Logician's note: in fact, if the president hadn't issued illegal orders, telling the members of military to defy the president's illegal orders wouldn't be "by definition illegal", but "by definition vacuously legal", since there would be zero cases to defy.
November 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Logician's note: in fact, if the president hadn't issued illegal orders, telling the members of military to defy the president's illegal orders wouldn't be "by definition illegal", but "by definition vacuously legal", since there would be zero cases to defy.
What is that? Are you trying to show us the data or not? And who uses 3D graphs for stuff like that?
www.cell.com/chem/fulltex...
www.cell.com/chem/fulltex...
November 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
What is that? Are you trying to show us the data or not? And who uses 3D graphs for stuff like that?
www.cell.com/chem/fulltex...
www.cell.com/chem/fulltex...
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The editors of ACS Omega cheerfully accepted the authors' excuses and replacement image for this weird shit.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
H/t Leonid @forbetterscience.bsky.social
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
H/t Leonid @forbetterscience.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The editors of ACS Omega cheerfully accepted the authors' excuses and replacement image for this weird shit.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
H/t Leonid @forbetterscience.bsky.social
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
H/t Leonid @forbetterscience.bsky.social
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Mike Johnson -- who is, yes, theoretically a lawyer -- has not had a chance to look at the American Constitution because he's been very busy lately, folks, he just can't see everything, gosh, how is he supposed to know if it's wrong that the president called for the execution of congress members?
Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Democrats to be executed: "Attorneys have to parse the language and determine all that."
November 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Mike Johnson -- who is, yes, theoretically a lawyer -- has not had a chance to look at the American Constitution because he's been very busy lately, folks, he just can't see everything, gosh, how is he supposed to know if it's wrong that the president called for the execution of congress members?
Recently I came across the old trope that no virus has ever been isolated. With specifying the isolation basically as pure viral particles in a test tube. No, you don't need this kind of isolation to show viruses are real, that would be like wanting a test tube with neutrons.
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Recently I came across the old trope that no virus has ever been isolated. With specifying the isolation basically as pure viral particles in a test tube. No, you don't need this kind of isolation to show viruses are real, that would be like wanting a test tube with neutrons.
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Warning: contains sex and nudity! Says AI.
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Warning: contains sex and nudity! Says AI.
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
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New reporting shows the "public Christian school" in Colorado wasn’t a mistake.
It was designed to break church/state boundaries.
A right-wing legal group is treating it as a test case.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/colorados-...
It was designed to break church/state boundaries.
A right-wing legal group is treating it as a test case.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/colorados-...
Colorado’s “first public Christian school” isn't a mistake. It's a test case.
Behind the scenes, a conservative legal group and district leaders crafted a challenge to church-state separation
www.friendlyatheist.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
New reporting shows the "public Christian school" in Colorado wasn’t a mistake.
It was designed to break church/state boundaries.
A right-wing legal group is treating it as a test case.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/colorados-...
It was designed to break church/state boundaries.
A right-wing legal group is treating it as a test case.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/colorados-...
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Judge Jerry Smith (Reagan appointee) is out with his dissent in the Texas redistricting case, and it is WILD
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November 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Judge Jerry Smith (Reagan appointee) is out with his dissent in the Texas redistricting case, and it is WILD
www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...
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The CDC has updated its vaccine safety page to promote long-discredited claims about vaccines—namely that they cause autism.
The page links to a number of studies, including one by anti-vax allies of Robert Kennedy Jr.
www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...
The page links to a number of studies, including one by anti-vax allies of Robert Kennedy Jr.
www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...
CDC Changes Vaccine Safety Page to Promote Vaccine Misinformation
It is the latest move by Robert Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services to attack vaccines.
www.importantcontext.news
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 AM
The CDC has updated its vaccine safety page to promote long-discredited claims about vaccines—namely that they cause autism.
The page links to a number of studies, including one by anti-vax allies of Robert Kennedy Jr.
www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...
The page links to a number of studies, including one by anti-vax allies of Robert Kennedy Jr.
www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...
The issue isn't Farage being a bully or racists as a teenager. The issue is that he has been a liar, a bully, a racist for decades.
![Andy Field, 61, an NHS doctor who said he
knew Farage well because they took the
same train to school, has similarly clear
memories.
"When I became a prefect, he [Farage] said,
Tll show you how to do it,' claimed Field,.
"He took me for a walk up to the lower
school playground, where all the children
from about nine years old to 12 would be.
And he singled out, completely at random, a
kid of Asian extraction, and just put him in
detention for no reason whatsoever. I was
flabbergasted, absolutely stunned. I was just
disgusted, really. No rhyme or reason, just
purely based on the colour of his skin.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5mqpgxjffcckasqv7h6g7itu/bafkreifwa2hlzevsllsekm44ne6yprkgrfhwryxxclupy3cz2qqj42sxma@jpeg)
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The issue isn't Farage being a bully or racists as a teenager. The issue is that he has been a liar, a bully, a racist for decades.
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Jesus Christ. This is monstrous. Absolutely sickening. The journalists in that room should walk out en masse.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Jesus Christ. This is monstrous. Absolutely sickening. The journalists in that room should walk out en masse.