A bright orange jelly fungus grows out of a dark, damp stick. It is shaped like a small jiggley brain, with many wrinkles and folds.

The underside of a cluster of oyster mushrooms growing from a log. You can see their many gills running all the way to their bases. They are backlit.

A flat, orange, fan-shaped fungus growing out of a layer of light green shield lichens. The fungus is darker rustier orange at its base, with lighter stripes on its edges.

A small cluster of classically shaped, stem and capped mushrooms with gills. They are a pale Grey and their caps look kind of shiny.

Mushroom time 🍄🕙

recolección de suministros de ayuda mutua 4 artículos más buscados sin caducar y sin abrir compresas y tampones jabón o gel de ducha desodorante champú y acondicionador 4 cajas de recolección BBMAC Black Belt Martial Arts Center 10576 Metropolitan Ave, Kensington TPSS Co-op 201 Ethan Allen Drive, Takoma Park Unitarian Universalist Church of SS 10309 New Hampshire Ave, Silver Spring Silver Spring United Methodist Church 8900 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring 1 lista de deseos [codigo de QR] https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3G91HL12CWLN9 @sstpmutualaid sstpmutualaid.wordpress.com Ayuda Mutua de Silver Spring y Takoma Park

Nuestro grupo de ayuda mutua está recolectando artículos de aseo personal y suministros de salud para su distribución. Déjalos en una de nuestras cajas en Silver Spring y Takoma Park, Maryland, o haz un pedido de nuestra lista de deseos. ¡Gracias! #takomapark #silverspring #ayudamutua

MUTUAL AID SUPPLY DRIVE 4 MOST WANTED ITEMS UNEXPIRED AND UNOPENED menstrual pads and tampons soap or shower gel deodorant shampoo and conditioner 4 DROP BOX LOCATIONS BBMAC Black Belt Martial Arts Center 10576 Metropolitan Ave, Kensington TPSS Co-op 201 Ethan Allen Drive, Takoma Park Unitarian Universalist Church of SS 10309 New Hampshire Ave, Silver Spring Silver Spring United Methodist Church 8900 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring 1 WISH LIST [QR CODE] https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3G91HL12CWLN9 @sstpmutualaid sstpmutualaid.wordpress.com Silver Spring/Takoma Park Mutual Aid

Our mutual aid group is collecting toiletries and health supplies in for redistribution. Drop off at one of our box locations in Silver Spring and Takoma Park, MD, or order from our wish list. Thank you! #takomapark #silverspring #mutualaid

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Border Patrol shot someone south of Tucson this morning. Three gunshot wounds. No other details atm.

I also share what I want to cover more: food as commons, procurement, food environments, more guest voices, & stories og change.

If you’ve read Thin Ink at any point over the past five years - thank you. If you haven’t, this is a decent place to jump in 👇

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Some ways you can support the people of Myanmar here

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Myanmar to release more than 6,000 prisoners to mark Independence Day Unclear whether political detainees locked up for opposing army will be let go

There is a f*cked-up tradition in Burma/Myanmar where you pay for little caged birds to be released to ‘gain merit’ for freeing them.

After, the birds get recaptured and the cycle starts again.

This is an even more twisted variation, except the prisoners are treated worse.

#MyanmarIndependenceDay

It’s been 5 yrs since the coup in Myanmar and the military junta’s reign of terror continues - 7,427 people have been murdered and another 22,587 have been wrongfully imprisoned.

Just this month, the junta bombed a Festival of Lights in Sagaing, killing 20, incl children 💔

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Events for this Halloween

This Halloween in Wheaton 👻🎃

Wheaton! It’s good!

MUTUAL AID FALL FEST kids' halloween costume swap winter outerwear swap health supplies & toiletries giveaway/drive repairs of clothing, electronics, more home garden harvest share & seed swap potluck snacks & sweets - and more! 2:00-4:30 PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 10700 GEORGIA AVE, SS Bring: - A desire for community - Halloween costumes to give away - Winter outerwear all ages - Electronics, clothing, and other items needing repair - Harvest and seeds from home gardens - Snacks & desserts to share Leave with: - New friends and community! - Halloween costumes - Winter outerwear - Health supplies: Covid tests, masks, pregnancy tests, Plan B, condoms, toiletries - Repaired items - Veggies, fruits, seeds - A belly and heart nourished by community Hosted by Silver Spring / Takoma Park Mutual Aid sstpmutualaid.wordpress.com

Mutual Aid Fall Fest is TODAY, Saturday 10/11, from 2:00-4:30pm, 10700 Georgia Ave in Wheaton. Costume swap, winter coat swap, potluck, repairs, harvest share, health supplies (including free covid tests!). Come by and help our community stay strong & connected! #silverspring #takomapark #mutualaid

See you at 2pm in Wheaton!

New Woodward High boundary options keep current Whitman, Bethesda-Chevy Chase attendance zones Attendance zones for Walt Whitman and Bethesda-Chevy Chase high schools would remain the same while those for schools such as Walter Johnson High and Northwood High School would shift.

MCPS is redrawing school boundaries before Woodward HS opens in 2027—while Bethesda-area schools will largely stay the same, high schools in Silver Spring will become even more segregated by class and race. bethesdamagazine.com/2025/10/09/w...

Prey Is Finally Getting the Theatrical Release Director Dan Trachtenberg Says It Was Made For - Reactor The 2022 film is showing as part of a Predator double feature.

You will soon stalk, hunt, and take down Prey in theaters:

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A small, mostly black wasp curls around a goldenrod flower as it takes a drink. Its got big cute eyes, smoky wings, and a cute butt.

A better look at a cute wasps cute butt. While the abdomen is primarily black, though at its thickest point it has an off-white band. This is followed by a very narrow, metalic/copper-colored line.

With probably the best common name for a wasp, the Smoky-winged Beetle-bandit wasp is quite small and very cute. This one was loving this goldenrod along with many other wasps and bees. 🌿🐝

When the Earth Was Green Audiobook on Libro.fm “You'll root for these creatures and their survival. A marvelous narration.”—Booklist “Paleontologist Riley Black’s vivid writing and Wren Mack’s wonderstruck narration make these vignettes of prehist...

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hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

A shiny metalic green bee with dark wings is climbing out of a purple New England Aster flower. Its face is covered in bright yellow pollen. Ita legs and antennae are also coated in pollen.

Metallic-green sweat bees are my absolute favorite bees... Maybe even my favorite insects. This one is really helping out this New England Aster, as it is a very messy eater.

a bald man wearing a scarf and a vest is sitting in front of a window and saying bye . ALT: a bald man wearing a scarf and a vest is sitting in front of a window and saying bye .

google has been trying for months to build a new data center not far from my house. tonight was the final city council meeting and they officially withdrew their proposal! the data center isn’t moving forward! public outrage works!!!

A small, grey black abd white bee hangs to a blade of sedge via its mandibles. Its legs are all tightly tucked up against its body. It is in front of my finger, for scale and to get my phone camera to focus... It is a Coelioxys bee getting g ready for sleep.

A tiny Coelioxys bee getting ready for bed 😍

Life in the wreckage: Earthquake Survivor

"The losses have been immense, yet I find myself clinging to a fragile gratitude: we are still alive."

One of our previous fellows in Central Myanmar was lost her home in the April earthquake. Here, she wrote about her experiences as well as of her neighbours.

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A lime green Paw Paw Sphinx Moth caterpillar covered in the cocoons of a parisitoid wasp. The caterpillar is hanging upside down on a small twig, and a full, bright red berry grows out of the twig.

A long-ovipositored ichneumonid wasp (Odontocolon, maybe?) Resting on the plastic lid of a drink cooler. Its long and thin, a glossy dark brown with amber colored legs.

A very lanky, long-abdomenned wasp in flight, about to land on some goldenrod. (Gasteruptiidae?) It is kind of stretched out looking, with long neck and long hind-most legs. It has segments of amber in its abdomen as well.

A beewolf on a backdrop of goldenrod. It's primarily black, with yellow stripes. Its got cute proportions, with big eyes and a big round head.

It's been a good week for wasps!

Chechov's plant wasn't even in tonight's Alien: Earth...its got a lot of catching up to do, gory-death-scenes-wise in the final episode next week...

She deserves better

The bottom half outshines the top half so hard its wild. D) wins by a league for me, India, China, Myanmar, and Japan all in there. Southern Italy, and various mediterranean cuisines too.

Would miss biscuits n gravy a LOT, though.

I'd like to see a discussion with a better version of this map.

It was a great watch, very well made, and it has some really great shots of some awesome birds!

Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score.

I will never not bring up Surf Ninjas when a chance presents itself.

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

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A sketch of a cartoon stag beetle, upright on wooden boards, dancing with a cane and waving around a top hat.