Tuesday, August 19, 2025

IT MIGHT BE HUMAN

A posting on Facebook got me all excited about pink slime mold. Which is a myxogastrid amoeba that occurs worldwide. It is not a fungus. The aethalia (singular: aethelium) develop on wet rotten wood from June to November. Orangeish pink through pale pastel purples, to brownish golden blobs. I like blobs. They can exude a pinkish slime before fully ripe.

Pinks, lavenders, rusty reds, and diverse rubicund hues.
A lovely blobbity blobness.

Before maturity, single celled specimens locomote as masses of reddish protoplasmic amoeba-like particles that swallow bacteria, fungal spores, and organic nutrients.
Then form fruiting bodies of a warty bobbled appearance, soft and spongy.
The microscopic spores are ashen-grey.


Though not in any way similar to me personally, despite what you might think, or may have heard from misguided individuals, I can see myself in that. It speaks to me.
The feurige drang nach lebenslust.

Round red rude thing.
There you are, a small happy insect with an elegant hard shell, wandering around your native environment filled with fragrant rotting wood and good things to eat, when you encounter this large spherical thing. You extend a foreleg tentatively. Can it be moved?
Is it edible? Is it alive?

It is indeed edible. But it ruptures offensively at you.

And, oh horrors, there are more of them clustered in the softest soggiest part of the log, where the best food particles are. What utter evil! It's a whole mob of them!

You need a drink and a smoke after this, to calm you down.
You thoughtfully fill your Comoy Lovat with flake.
Possibly Recency or JackKnife Plug.
Nature is abhorrent.
Mmmmm!



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IT MIGHT BE HUMAN

A posting on Facebook got me all excited about pink slime mold. Which is a myxogastrid amoeba that occurs worldwide. It is not a fungus. Th...