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I crocheted a series of hyperbolic planes and strung them up into a garland. Each module is one more round than the one before, and each round has twice the stitches as the round before.

I made eight iterations; the largest one took an entire skein of cotton yarn. I really liked how this shows the change in curvature as cross section of the plane expands.

Source: my lectures, but its mostly ascomycota, basidiomycota and Chytridiomycota fuckin around in there.

Marine fungi are often overlooked because barely any of them make the fruiting body part (the bit of the mushroom on land -- toadstool style). A lot of them are parasitic on fish, coral, algae, and phytoplankton (Gladfelter, James and Amend, 2019). some coral fungi has already been mentioned in da comments. Chytrids are particularly important parasites that facilitate zooplankton feeding through phytoplankton death -- chytrid loop (Kagami, Miki and Takimoto, 2014). They’re very important for degrading organic matter, and also have been seen degrading plastics (Russell et al., 2011). (some microbes in general looveee oil and hydrocarbons (King et al., 2015))

I also gotta briefly mention planctomycetes which are NOT fungi but they were thought to be because they do a lot of weird eukaryote stuff despite being bacteria (Wiegand, Jogler and Jogler, 2018). They’re also the only thing (as far as I know) that can do Anammox, which is ammonium to N2 gas (strange and weird) (Op den Camp, Jetten and Strous, 2007).

creatures ^ (x)

here is but asmall. section considering how much there is about them now. enjoy. my creatures also its like 8am when im writing this i woke up to write the fungi post

bibliography #myreferences. tried to find free access for the papers for people without academic access, but my extension doesnt work for all of them so just message me if theres one you want to look at and i will find a way.

Gladfelter, A. S., James, T. Y. and Amend, A. S. (2019) 'Marine fungi', Current Biology, 29(6), pp. R191–R195. free access: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(19)30148-4.pdf

Kagami, M., Miki, T. and Takimoto, G. (2014) 'Mycoloop: chytrids in aquatic food webs', Frontiers in Microbiology, Volume 5 - 2014. free access: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00166/pdf

King, G. M., Kostka, J. E., Hazen, T. C. and Sobecky, P. A. (2015) 'Microbial Responses to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: From Coastal Wetlands to the Deep Sea', Annual Review of Marine Science, 7(Volume 7, 2015), pp. 377–401. (no free access, dm if you want to read)

Op den Camp, H. J. M., Jetten, M. S. M. and Strous, M. (2007) 'Chapter 16 - Anammox', in Bothe, H., Ferguson, S.J. and Newton, W.E. (eds.) Biology of the Nitrogen Cycle. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 245–262. (again, dm me)

Russell, J. R., Huang, J., Anand, P., Kucera, K., Sandoval, A. G., Dantzler, K. W., Hickman, D., Jee, J., Kimovec, F. M., Koppstein, D., Marks, D. H., Mittermiller, P. A., Núñez, S. J., Santiago, M., Townes, M. A., Vishnevetsky, M., Williams, N. E., Vargas, M. P. N., Boulanger, L.-A., Bascom-Slack, C. and Strobel, S. A. (2011) 'Biodegradation of Polyester Polyurethane by Endophytic Fungi', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 77(17), pp. 6076–6084. (free access: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3165411/)

Wiegand, S., Jogler, M. and Jogler, C. (2018) 'On the maverick Planctomycetes', FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 42(6), pp. 739–760. (this ones a free article already read the pdf here!)

BY YOUR RESPONSE TO DANGER IT IS EASY TO TELL HOW YOU HAVE LIVED AND WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO YOU. YOU SHOW WHETHER YOU WANT TO STAY ALIVE, WHETHER YOU THINK YOU DESERVE TO, AND WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IT'S ANY GOOD TO ACT.

This one hurt, her work had such a profound effect on my life, thoughts, and politics.

May her memory be a blessing

but I'm hearing there's a NSFW-friendly ko-fi alternative built on atproto that's actively in the works, and being vetted by lawyers right now. as torrent-princess (OP) says, you should be able to swap out payment processors while keeping your account intact. this matters since even if stripe removes support, you'll still have a shop and all of your links intact. (ATproto is an infrastructure that bsky is built on, but is far bigger than bsky with far more opportunities.)

additionally, the Free Speech Coalition is working on a credit union specifically for adult work (including kink art) - here's the link so you can add your interest & support. Since this will be built by sex workers, there'll be far less risk of being debanked for spurious and puritanical reasons.

on a domain TLD level, there's an initiative here for a .furry domain built from the ground up by seasoned furries; it's unclear whether they'll support NSFW, but it's yet another promising turn of events for a group that's been similarly affected by censorship.

linked tree (includes options to donate to Ghanaian projects)