This is somewhat mycophobic, you could do the same bit with rowanberries and baneberries or lobsters and scorpions. Oleander branches are the perfect shape for roasting sticks but they can kill you if you eat food off of them or burn them in a campfire.

Nature is always dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing.

Leucocorpinus Birnbaumii, also called “the flowerpot mushroom” because it shows up in flowerpots so often.

The “unraveled” one likely didn’t have enough light and grew into a long string trying to find the sun. This is similar to the principal used when cultivating Enoki mushrooms to make them grow into thin white pins instead of the way Flammulina Velutipes typically looks in the wild.

I loved that movie, definitely worth a watch.

They used to cast actors of appropriate skill nepotism

FTFY, they still do, but they used to as well.

Because it’s what the bad guy in every sexual harassment training video says just before his female coworker reports him to HR?

Humilating women isn’t funny. “It’s just a joke” isn’t an excuse for harassment.

It was a coworker, she was another comedian on tour with him, not a soldier. If they had been working in an office he would have been fired immediately and she could have sued the company.

Making sexual jokes about a coworker without their consent is called sexual harassment. Especially if you photograph this joke so your coworker can be repeatedly humiliated as it’s passed around.

Looks like an Entoloma, their caps are often described as looking “greasy”.

Not my region but Purpleish spores means it’s likely Psathyrellaceae. That pleated sausage-shaped cap is typically associated with the inky caps.

It looks like it might be Coprinellus Micaceus (Mica Cap) which is very widely distributed and is said to feature “glistening mica-like particles on the cap” which yours appears to have.

Like I said, not my region so I don’t know of any potential lookalikes, we have C. Micaceus in my region (North American Pacific Northwest) but I’ve never examined one in person so I can’t be too confident.

Doesn’t look familiar but I’m happy to take a shot at an ID if you’re willing to dig it up and post pictures of the underside and the base of the stem.

Let’s see we got: Suillus, probably Caerulens but could be Luteus or Ponderosus

Helvella Vespertina

Psathyrella of some sort

“Nailed it!” is my goto chill show, all the contestants are failing miserably at making fancy cakes but they’re also not taking it too seriously and Nicole Byers keeps up a positive and encouraging attitude even when she’s making cracks about the cakes.

It’s so dry, how can you even tell it’s a Tricholoma?

I agree with hypholoma but fasciculare doesn’t have white fibrils on the stipe like some of those do. Dispersum is a better match IMO.

It’s already established and a lot of highly knowledgeable local mycologists already hang out there and have no interest in switching to another platform.

That’s consistent with Hypholoma, maybe next time.

I share that hope, I’ve been trying to post to !mycology@mander.xyz pretty regularly.

They have a stiff chalky texture that’s easy to recognize if you know it but throwing them at a tree to see if they shatter like a snowball is a great way for beginners to confirm that they’ve found a Russula.

In addition to the reasons for given for Russula in the other comment: LBMs tend to be deadly poisonous and aren’t that interesting to look at so nobody cares about figuring out which one is which except professional researchers.

Russula at least have colorful caps, choice-edible species, and are fun to huck at trees.