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Cake day: November 7th, 2024

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  • I’m probably not the best person to explain the party’s structure because I am just some degen who finally got mad enough at the world to pull out of my depression doomscrolling, but my understanding is that it’s not a party specifically owned/run by unions. Rather, the people running for office must run with the endorsement of at least one labor union, if not more. It was founded sometime in November by 3 people but they are currently working on registering the party and filling out structure, and plan to flesh out platform and policies post-holidays. FWIW, when I popped into the discord to see what was going on, it was like 580 people there, now a couple weeks later it’s at 717. Their goal is to start getting people on ballots at the local levels as soon as possible, ideally challenging unopposed Rep/Dem candidates, and only later after there are many Labor Party candidates in offices nationwide will they try for a presidential nominee. Until then, there are channels for every state so people can organize with their state peers. I recognize that it is a young party and it’s hard to say how things will go, but it feels better to work with them on what the workers in this nation need instead of melting further into my couch while reading yet another headline about Dems not following through and Repubs being sadistic pedophilic billie-sucking fucks.








  • Thank you, I was so pleased to see this transfer grow out so vigorously, knew I had to share!

    For starters, I do all my work under a laminar flow hood. This is from a liquid culture syringe, it took about two weeks for the first blob of mycelium to grow out on the agar and was a bit sporadic but with sections of nice rhizomorphic growth. Once I had enough good sections to choose from, I transferred a few wedges to fresh plates. From there it was about 12 days until I had the plate above, but it was very consistent growth across all transfers (took 3, this is just the one I ended up turning into LC).

    For agar, I make my own using this video by Fungaia as a general recipe base. It’s more involved to make because it calls for more than just water/agar/sugar/peptone, but rather all that plus a mix of pulverised grains, straw, hardwoods, and other trace minerals. I strongly believe in it, though, I feel like the industry standard recipe for agar is easier to make but lacks complex nutrition. In the video, it is equated to a person drinking nothing but soda. Sure, there’s calories there that our bodies are capable of processing, but that doesn’t mean you’ll be healthy, especially when compared to a person eating full balanced meals.

    For capturing and storing genetics, I like using a tube like this to drop some of the best agar wedges into, top that up with sterilized water, cap, wrap the cap with parafilm, then fridge.








  • I hear you on just wanting what’s best for your community, but checking out will only harm them further. Our communities need support now more than ever. I’m not trying to harp, either, I get it. I am demoralized as fuck these days, and honestly have little to zero hope for humanity in general. But even so, I won’t be a part of letting these fucks just walk into office unopposed. Votes matter, and especially at the local level. Vote for the best candidates at all levels, every election. I am not even suggesting that means your choices must be for a democrat, vote independent if that’s who the best option is. I live in a blue state, but my county historically leans red. What’s promising is that even in this shit show of a situation, a couple postions that usually go red went to non-red people this time (yes, someone who ran without party affiliation won, AND they were running against a Republican). I hope my community can keep that trend moving. Nobody good is going to get through without support. Be there to support the people who have the guts to try to unfuck this mess.