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NullPointer 🍄

@nuiipointer.bsky.social

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I post cool things that I find in the forest. 🌳 Unreliable identifier of mushrooms, plants and insects. Photos by me. She/her.

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NullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · Aug 7

Coral slime and moss.
#slimemold #moss #fungifriends

Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa slime mold, looking like white, semi-transparent coral with many tendrils or fingers sticking out. It is intermixed with some nice green moss. I don’t know how to identify moss.

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NullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 4h

Blood sugar spores magik

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NullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 5h

If they keep me alive, I can transport and distribute their spores over a larger distance! (Pleading)

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NullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 5h

Ours in particular.

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 1d

I was trying to photograph Groove-billed Anis this morning, but I was photobombed by his scofflaw.

At @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#tapirs #birds #nature

A tapir resting in green grass with two small black birds nearby—one perched on its back and the other on the ground in front.

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NullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 6h

So annoyed that my teeth are just boring white.

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Temple Balsall @templebalsall.bsky.social · 12h

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 12h

Happy #Invertober day 8!

Bee-killer robber fly (mallophora fautrix)

#SciArt #Invertober2025

A black and gold insect that looks like a bee but is actually a species of fly that mimics bees. It is crawling through thick green grass.

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NullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 7h

So you’re saying I should breathe less of their spores. Hmmm.

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PacBirds @pacbirds.bsky.social · 11h

Anna’s hummingbird.

#birds #photography #birdphotography #birding #nature #naturephotography

Molting male hummingbird in flight approaching a grevillea flower

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NullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 11h

Glad to see libraries and others resist this stuff.
If I was a teenager, this list would make it very clear to me which books are interesting to read :D

NullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 11h

[ben zelf geen boer]

NullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 11h

We’re probably about the same age.

That’s insane. Here we don’t do that because banning books is seen as banning ideas and that is a sign of fascism.
Crazy to see things like Slaughterhouse Five on there. They banned an anti war book? What do they want with that?

NullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 11h

What makes you think that? We have only one banned book and it is Mein Kampf. I was well aware of that as a child.

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NullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 11h

I wasn’t sure if this was funny or concerning, because I wasn’t sure if that was police or an ambulance.
Yeah, it’s funny.

NullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 12h

My sauna bucket looks just like this. I use the handle as a stand for the wooden sauna scoop.

NullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 12h

Nothing would have motivated me more to read as a child than banning books. As stupid as this is, it might function as an unintended reading program 🙃