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fossilesque @mander.xyz

2y ago

How can I score an invite to these parties?

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This is the future we deserve. Everyone wears a ball gown, everyone can fuck anyone who's down. Transhumanist mushroom future is the future we need.
- Sign me up for this genre of solarpunk.
  
  Shroompunk? Myceliumpunk?
- Terrance was right
  
  Unfamiliar with Terrance. Splain?

Imagine the size of their fucking flag.
- That's the glorious thing about the rainbow. It contains all (visible) colors. (Obviously the pride flag is limited to stripes of distinct colors, but it's supposed to be representative of everything.)
  
  I guess the flag could be made into a gradient, that would show more of all the possible distinct colours, but that may be impractical to make into actual flags.
  
  Seems a bit shortsighted and bigoted to only include visible colors considering I identify as an xray.
  
  What about magenta though?
- Full RGB cube matrix

- Just go to any other country. Many countries and cultures historically have a third gender, so bounce around a little and you'll realize how illogical and weird the puritanicals in the states are.
  
  Really? As long as you're not talking about grammatical gender, that's news to me and very interesting. Examples?
  Edit: Thanks for both links! I'll read through it later.

How do they differentiate these mating types and what separate things do they contribute to the life cycle?
- From the Wikipedia page:
  It has 23,328 distinct mating types. Individuals of any mating type are compatible for mating with most other mating types. There are two genetic loci determining the mating type, locus A with 288 alleles and locus B with 81 alleles. A pair of fungi will only be fertile if they have different A and different B alleles; that is, each mating type can enter fertile pairings with 22,960 others.

and it's a commune!? sign me up!
- good grief
  
  https://youtu.be/PnsfRWaDL-E?si=S07lHF07Q6JhwpU7

Progressive open minded mycologist: "Which of the 23,328 sexes are you?"
Me: "Stop trying to put me in a box!!!" 💃

Real Douglas Adams vibe off this.

Damn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophyllum_commune?wprov=sfla1 It's true

I read "how can I score an invite to these panties" lmao

And when you fill out a form you get a phonebook full of options to choose from. As a human at least you don't have to specifically define yourself, if you get the option "other".

Real life cognito hazard?

Well, that's one way to enable autogamy; not having both sexes but having thousands of sexes.
- I imagine it is awesome for genetic diversity too

Pecan trees are effectivly similar. In order to have pecans you have to have 2 tree that are ready at the same time of the year. Otherwise you get no pecans

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