Unless it’s been surpassed, the world’s largest living organism is a 9 square kilometer fungus that’s been growing for about 10,000 years.
Just got surpassed by yo momma actually.
(Sorry I couldn’t resist, please no ban)
No worries friend, it’s why she was a perfect match for my dad who is a fun guy (fungi).
it’s geoblocked to god knows what country
Accessible from Canada at least.
Wow, here I was thinking Pando was the biggest. This fungus is a good bit bigger
Now eat your fungi penis up it’s good for you.
I discovered The CryptoNaturalist over at the other place, and ending up buying ‘Field Guide to the Haunted Forest’ and ‘Love Notes from the Hollow Tree’ by Jarod K. Anderson…
Which is unusual for me as I detest poetry. I think it’s a pile of long-winded, navel gazing wank…Except for haiku, (because they’re short and sweet, and condense things down to their essence, which I like).
I like The CryptoNaturalist though, probably because they write about nature in a weird, beautiful and wonderous way. I want to use the word ‘magical’ to describe it, but am reluctant, for reasons
Also, thanks to this post I just found out there’s a couple of other books available which I’m going to buy tonight 😀
What is your favorite haiku that comes to mind?
I rather like this one…
wearily she waves
the white flag of surrender
cobwebbed butterfly
—Tracy Davidson from here
Pawprints fade, empty
Silence fills the empty space
Love lives on, always
From here
I sometimes feel that the classic haiku are let down by some translations, and the fact there are Japanese words that don’t translate across very well or at all.
I have a soft spot for this one
The old pond,
A frog jumps in:
Plop!
Translated by Alan Watts from here
It’s interesting to see how each translation differs, and tries to put into English something that is probably untranslatable…also…
pond
frog
plop!
Translated by James Kirkup
‘The sound of water’ ‘kerplunk’ ‘splashing the water’ ‘leap, splash’ ‘water note’ …just don’t capture it for me
Do you know any that are decent?
Some of them will also make you high, but some will kill you.
Some will make you high, then kill you.
Some taste great on pizza, gets you high and then kills you as a bonus.
and some will taste great on pizza!
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That is what people sound like that have taken too many shrooms. Comes a bit too close to newage bullshit. “Life is the universe evolving to experience itself through you” and bullshit like that.
I believe you haven’t taken enough shrooms
Probably 😅
But it’s cool.
Just don’t go thinking it means anything other than nature is awesome.
Are you giving out a license for all your posts? Are you following up on the usage or is it more of a symbolic act?
I’ll probably determine if it’s symbolic when it turns up in some commercial AI.
You sound like a sour lemon. I’d rather hang out with a hippie that thinks the universe is conscious than someone who slaps a paper tiger license to their low originality threshold posts. Just sayin.
Sour lemons are tasty, dunno what your problem is 🤷 I wouldn’t want to hang out with some rando called “balloon” from the internet either. Just sayin.
You have to be a troll, right?..right?
If someone insulted you, what kind of response would you give (if any)?