Nerding out at @ohiomushroomfestival about my favorite genus..... Amanita 🍄

This was a new speech I presented titled "Psychoactive Amanitas of North America"

It is an overview of isoxazole containing Amanitas in section Amanita: subsection Amanita, Gemmatae, and Pantherinae.❤️

I'll have the full lecture out on youtube this week, my youtube is available in the link in my bio 🔗

Photo credit: @queenofthebridges

Anyone else notice that Shop BVV equipment has gotten thinner and cheaper over the years? I bought all parts for a 15L reflux reactor 5 years ago and was impressed with it. Last year I bought all the same parts and everything is much thinner and cheaper. Functions almost identically the same but instead of two joint tri clamp the switches to one joint. All the hand turn parts are thinner, hurt my fingers a little more. I recently bought a 15L jacketed base and had to get a new one sent out because the inside was all dinged up and marred.

Any one else go with USA Labs? I'm curious on a new supplier for an upcoming 150L jacketed vessel reflux reactor I will be buying.

I have a friend who has been in and out of hospitals due to manic bipolar 1 episodes over the last 16 years. He has a wife and toddler, two weeks ago he went to the hospital, self admitted, and they kept him there on drugs for a period of time but then released him. He still wasn't fully ok, but he wasn't a "danger to himself or others" so they released him. A day went by and stuff happened at home, and he proceeded to stay awake for 48 hrs and drove to another state (like 18 hrs drive) somehow managed to not die. Then he got pulled over after reckless driving, and a nice cop gave him a ticket and didn't arrest him for driving at criminal speeds thru construction zones. He got 302'd at this hospital and finally he called me.

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He trusts me, and doesn't believe I have ill will, and I am like 1 of 2 people he actually will open up to.

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He thinks he is the messiah, and he is here to help in a holy war. And thats apparently more important than taking care of his family.

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He refuses medication. But will go to hospitals during episodes. But as time goes on he thinks more and more that mania is a myth, he doesn't need help, and that this is his spiritual awakening. He wants to isolate himself on a family's property nearby, but it doesn't look like that family member will even go for it.

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I tried to reason with him about the messiah stuff but he is convinced. He's far away, and the hospital is doing the best they can but his behavior there has forced them to keep him in the ER because he was aggressive.

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I wish I could help him more, but I know my limits. Open to any feedback. Thnx.

I have a friend who has been in and out of hospitals due to manic bipolar 1 episodes over the last 16 years. He has a wife and toddler, two weeks ago he went to the hospital, self admitted, and they kept him there on drugs for a period of time but then released him. He still wasn't fully ok, but he wasn't a "danger to himself or others" so they released him. A day went by and stuff happened at home, and he proceeded to stay awake for 48 hrs and drove to another state (like 18 hrs drive) somehow managed to not die. Then he got pulled over after reckless driving, and a nice cop gave him a ticket and didn't arrest him for driving at criminal speeds thru construction zones. He got 302'd at this hospital and finally he called me.

​

He trusts me, and doesn't believe I have ill will, and I am like 1 of 2 people he actually will open up to.

​

He thinks he is the messiah, and he is here to help in a holy war. And thats apparently more important than taking care of his family.

​

He refuses medication. But will go to hospitals during episodes. But as time goes on he thinks more and more that mania is a myth, he doesn't need help, and that this is his spiritual awakening. He wants to isolate himself on a family's property nearby, but it doesn't look like that family member will even go for it.

​

I tried to reason with him about the messiah stuff but he is convinced. He's far away, and the hospital is doing the best they can but his behavior there has forced them to keep him in the ER because he was aggressive.

​

I wish I could help him more, but I know my limits. Open to any feedback. Thnx.

I have a friend who has been in and out of hospitals due to manic bipolar 1 episodes over the last 16 years. He has a wife and toddler, two weeks ago he went to the hospital, self admitted, and they kept him there on drugs for a period of time but then released him. He still wasn't fully ok, but he wasn't a "danger to himself or others" so they released him. A day went by and stuff happened at home, and he proceeded to stay awake for 48 hrs and drove to another state (like 18 hrs drive) somehow managed to not die. Then he got pulled over after reckless driving, and a nice cop gave him a ticket and didn't arrest him for driving at criminal speeds thru construction zones. He got 302'd at this hospital and finally he called me.

​

He trusts me, and doesn't believe I have ill will, and I am like 1 of 2 people he actually will open up to.

​

He thinks he is the messiah, and he is here to help in a holy war. And thats apparently more important than taking care of his family.

​

He refuses medication. But will go to hospitals during episodes. But as time goes on he thinks more and more that mania is a myth, he doesn't need help, and that this is his spiritual awakening. He wants to isolate himself on a family's property nearby, but it doesn't look like that family member will even go for it.

​

I tried to reason with him about the messiah stuff but he is convinced. He's far away, and the hospital is doing the best they can but his behavior there has forced them to keep him in the ER because he was aggressive.

​

I wish I could help him more, but I know my limits. Open to any feedback. Thnx.

I drylok'd my basement walls and floor to create a sealed concrete wall for my lab, I now am realizing drylok holds dirty and stains badly so I'm wondering if I can paint or epoxy over it and what my best options would be?

I would love something low VOC as I have little ones in the house and don't want to have to evacuate it. I also make herbal medicine and that's just not the vibe, although I am aware I may have to apply something nasty if I want an easily cleanable surface. I am looking for suggestions for floor and wall, something that can be mopped up easily and something that can be wiped with isopropyl alcohol/cleaner solutions etc.
TIY

I have shipped out two packages yesterday that have wrong tracking numbers somehow. Shopify prints the label, I live in Pennyslvania and the tracking numbers say they were printed somewhere else and delivered to a wrong address and that the whole thing went down in April lol. Wtf? I'm telling customers to wait to see if it gets delivered but I will be filing some insurance claims if they don't. Anyone else dealing with this?

I have been shipping UPS for 5 years over multiple locations for my business.

I usually go to a designated UPS pick up location like CVS or other stores.

Sometimes I know a package is coming to my house so I will leave UPS packages on the porch with a P/U sign and they pick em up.

Occasionally when I'm in a pinch I will drive around and hunt down a UPS truck and ask if they can take my package. They always seem to not have a problem with it and take it.

I do this because I know it'll go out the same day instead of dropping off at a drop point and waiting for the next day shipment or even a Monday if its a Friday drop off.

I have hunted down many UPS drivers and they were all obliged. Except this one guy.

And he just so happens to be the main guy I see when I do this as I live in a small town.

He always gives me sass when I do it, but he still takes them.

He even told the girls at CVS that he switches up his schedule so people don't meet him in the parking lot.

So I think he is just cranky.

Last time he said "Still haven't scheduled a pick up??" In a demeaning tone.

I know I can pay for a pick up, but I'm trying to save money.

Am I in the wrong? Or is he just cranky? Have all the other drivers just been nice to me?

Just a heads up to any vendors that gets an order from someone named Majd Mohammad from

Florida, I got scammed out of $250 and the Amanita he bought because he filed a charge back dispute. I tried to appeal and had all the correct information, problem is that 65% of the time vendors lose the dispute.

I could dox him completely but I will not do that. Just remember the name and state.