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Turns out those weird ass AI Facebook videos might have something in them after all...
LINK: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260121-the-mysterious-mushroom-that-makes-you-see-tiny-people
The name of the mushroom is Lanmaoa asiatica, and if undercooked will cause you to hallucinate tiny people running around for days. The curious part is the hallucinations seem to be rather consistent across observers...sort of like the DMT "Machine Elves".
Now I wonder if there's a British or European variant that might explain the fairy folk (often seen around mushrooms), elves & leprechauns...
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The Good-News link of the day; Wild Beaver returns to Norfolk.
It's been so long since I've seen a beaver it's not funny, and this made me tear up a bit. Especially the bit about "Beaver-Bombing".
I need a beaver bomb.
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This struck me as oddly humorous:
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Daughter put me on to this, apparently there's a chain store called "Anthropologie" that uses rocks as props in their window display.
And people, city folks I'm guessing, wanted to buy them...
Hence the satirical site "Anthropologie Rocks"
Link: https://anthropologierocks.com/
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A short read on Qin Shi Huang - site of the burial of China's First Emperor, and home of the Terracotta warriors. Of interest, they've only excavated .1% of the grounds, and there is fabled to be a river of mercury surrounding his tomb. The scale of this rivals or even exceeds that of the Pyramids...
Link: https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/27/china-first-emperor-tomb-sealed-terracotta-army/
and the Wikipedia for more depth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang