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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 23:14:56 JST Charlie Stross

   New blog entry: a novelist's guide to poisoning, part 1: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/01/a-novelists-guide-to-poisoning.html

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 00:51:49 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Ellipsis...

     @tobiaspatton The thing is, A. phalloides is very distinctive in appearance (the cap is a yellowish-green and rather large). So to anyone who's alert for such things (eg. a royal poison tester!) it'd be pretty obvious. Using the sauce from an A. phalloides dish poured over regular mushrooms, however …

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     Ellipsis... (tobiaspatton@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 00:51:50 JST Ellipsis...

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     @cstross rumour has it that death caps are actually very tasty so maybe no need to replace the A. phalloides with a non-toxic species. Also, do you know about the alleged murder-by-mushroom incident in Australia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Leongatha_mushroom_poisoning

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 02:27:26 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Fragarach

     @Fragarach This is all mundane stuff! If you want gruesome, read up on what happened to Karen Wetterhahn ...

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     Fragarach (fragarach@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 02:27:27 JST Fragarach

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     @cstross

     Reading with growing horror...

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 02:29:45 JST Charlie Stross

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     • WellsiteGeo

     @WellsiteGeo I'm not up to date on the state of the art in transplant surgery.

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     WellsiteGeo (wellsitegeo@masto.ai)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 02:29:46 JST WellsiteGeo

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     How good are *transplanted* livers at regenerating?

     Asking for @try2@inconvenient.relative.mortuary.soon