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Jess Liotta 🍄

@jessliotta.bsky.social

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Dual class 🇺🇸/🇮🇹 (siciliana, e imparando italiano). I’m a mushroom forager, parent to two very fucking cool kids, silken windhound owner, and food obsessive; be ready for me to be annoying about all the above. PNW now, CA before, PNW before that. She/her

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · Jan 23

Omg no wait, NOW it’s a yearbook photo

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 7h

I may even break into the bag of shame of overripe bananas stashed in the freezer and make TWO banana breads

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 7h

This is gonna be me today, I can feel it. I even remembered to take my adderall and everything this morning so I really like my odds

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 22h

God Original Sin whips ass, doesn’t it?? I wanted to buy one when they did a print run and it fully slipped my mind. I should ping Joyce and ask if there’s still any kicking around. 👀

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 1d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a card carrying non praying atheist but I nevertheless fully endorse this

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 1d

A critical piece of information that this article is lacking is that for a UC Berkeley person who wins a Nobel, it is generally understood that the biggest perk by far is that you are given access to a permanent, reserved, Nobel laureate only, PRIMO parking space near your office on campus

Berkeleyside @berkeleyside.org · 1d

He won for research on the world of sub-atomic quantum tunneling that advances the power of everyday digital communications and computing.

Nobel Prize in physics goes to UC Berkeley scientist whose work advanced quantum technology

He won for research on the world of sub-atomic quantum tunneling that advances the power of everyday digital communications and computing.

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 2d

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 2d

When my older kid went to kindergarten, all kids at his school were fed breakfast every day. The first day included Cheerios, but… he had literally never seen cereal. That night he was telling us about school and said “I didn’t like the breakfast so much. They gave us little crackers in milk.”

Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 2d

Oh for added chaos context, usually this was a breakfast food

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes butter but mostly they were just experiencing Oops, All Peas

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 2d

Cousin to previous: Generic supermarket bakery lofthouse cookies (you know, the soft cakey ones with seasonal frosting and sprinkles). Complete with too-much-baking-powder aluminum tang. I made bougie ones from scratch once and to say they didn’t hit the same is a galactic understatement

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot be trusted with cans of spray frosting, ideally with so much artificial coloring that it adds its own flavor. If one comes onto my possession I will squeeze it directly into my mouth at a rate that surely reduces my life by weeks, possibly months.

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 2d

When my kids were tiny they requested we create a dish of hot peas fresh from the microwave, mixed 1:1 with frozen peas direct from the freezer. They asked for it constantly and called it Hot Peas, Cold Peas and it was genius. I swear with the right sauce you could probably serve that shit at Alinea

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 2d

My younger child always claims the fish eyes. No one argues with them about that one, but they fight with their older sibling (and me, tbh) for the cheeks and other meaty bits every time too

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 2d

the moomins are great because its like “here is your whimsical children’s adventures, I made it full of melancholic explorations of community and longing, subversive anarchist leanings, and bisexual yearning just like you asked” and some of us DID ask so thank you

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! Like, I’m not an economyologist, but it sure seems to me that if the macro data says things are hunky dory, BUT groups of people consistently report feeling that things are a bit shitty actually… perhaps we should take that seriously rather than dismissing it as a vibes economy hallucination?

Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 2d

This passage succinctly hits the heart of how Smart Number-Knowers can technically be speaking the truth when they say "but the economy is Good by all metrics we have!"... and yet, people are nevertheless struggling in an extremely real and impactful way

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 2d

Same at my house, except it was a duck sugo (made from a duck my friend grew and gave me). Some things remain not so shitty

Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 3d

I’m achieving a new level of old where I somehow tweaked my back by bending over in a weird way while rinsing the dog off in the bath tub. This is some serious silliness and I’m not keen on it tbh

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 3d

This is the way for a serious or high stakes scar situation! (Although, imo aquaphor will suffice most of the time)

Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 4d

type of dye fungus called Pisolithus arhizus every September. It is an uncommonly ugly, totally inedible mushroom which makes phenomenal browns and auburns on wool 😁

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 4d

Oh yeah! Dye mushrooms are a great way to get into foraging with no risk of eg ingesting liver melting amatoxin. It is pretty local but depending on where you are there’s often lots of options. I lived in Berkeley for awhile and the middle hell strip of Sacramento Ave used to be full of this one

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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 4d

Understandable! I always try to strike a balance with my students in giving them the tools to be confident about what they know… but also stay very aware of their own limits! It’s always safest to stick with one or two species in a specific bioregion, taught to you in person by someone who knows.

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