GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY THREAD WELCOME.TO JANUARY 1ST THROUGH JANUARY 31ST 2026

[killarney rose]

I vividly remember the day the Challenger exploded. It was a clear, cold day here in SE AL. That vapor plume was visible here.

 

[Dotta]

Hi guys!!!

In Poland we have now STUDNIÓWKA season

It means Prom Parties for High School students

It is the last opportunity for a moment of carefreeness before intensive preparations for Finishing Exams.

100-day rule:
Traditionally, the prom takes place approximately 100 days before the high school leaving exam.

Studniówka (100 days)
ALWAYS starts with
POLONEZ
Traditional Polish Dance

Students are dancing
and teachers & parents
are bursting with pride haha!!!

58K views · 841 reactions | Zobaczcie poloneza w wykonaniu maturzystów 33 LO Łódź 😍 Dla nas bomba i jesteśmy pewni, że wyniki matur będą tak samo dobre 💪 | Łódzkie dla Ciebie

Zobaczcie poloneza w wykonaniu maturzystów 33 LO Łódź 😍 Dla nas bomba i jesteśmy pewni, że wyniki matur będą tak samo dobre 💪

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This Studniówka Polonez is older
and I have already sent it to Music Thread
BUT it is my FAVOURITE

 

[Gemmie]

This is strange. A mushroom that causes THE SAME hallucination no matter where it's grown/eaten.... seeing little people.

Every year, doctors at a hospital in the Yunnan Province of China brace themselves for an influx of people with an unusual complaint. The patients come with a strikingly odd symptom: visions of pint-sized, elf-like figures – marching under doors, crawling up walls and clinging to furniture.

The hospital treats hundreds of these cases every year. All share a common culprit: Lanmaoa asiatica, a type of mushroom that forms symbiotic relationships with pine trees in nearby forest

One must be careful to cook it thoroughly, though, otherwise the hallucinations will set in.

In a 1991 paper, two researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences described cases of people in Yunnan Province who had eaten a certain mushroom and experienced "lilliputian hallucinations" – the psychiatric term for the perception of tiny human, animal or fantasy figures. It is so named after the small people who inhabit the fictional Lilliput Island in the novel Gulliver's Travels.

The patients saw these figures "moving about everywhere", the researchers wrote – usually, there were more than ten tiny beings on the scene. "They saw them on their clothes when they were dressing and saw them on their dishes when eating," the researchers added. The visions "were even more vivid when their eyes were closed".

people in China, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea do not seem to have a tradition of purposefully seeking out L. asiatica for its psychoactive effects, according to Domnauer's findings. "It was always just eaten for food," Domnauer says, with hallucinations being an unexpected side-effect.

There's another curious factor: other known psychedelic compounds also usually produce idiosyncratic trips that vary not only from person to person but also from one experience to the next within the same individual. With L. asiatica, though, "the perception of little people is very reliably and repeatedly reported", Domnauer says. "I don't know of anything else that produces such consistent hallucinations."

'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans

Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.

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[Megnut]

This is strange. A mushroom that causes THE SAME hallucination no matter where it's grown/eaten.... seeing little people.

Every year, doctors at a hospital in the Yunnan Province of China brace themselves for an influx of people with an unusual complaint. The patients come with a strikingly odd symptom: visions of pint-sized, elf-like figures – marching under doors, crawling up walls and clinging to furniture.

The hospital treats hundreds of these cases every year. All share a common culprit: Lanmaoa asiatica, a type of mushroom that forms symbiotic relationships with pine trees in nearby forest

One must be careful to cook it thoroughly, though, otherwise the hallucinations will set in.

In a 1991 paper, two researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences described cases of people in Yunnan Province who had eaten a certain mushroom and experienced "lilliputian hallucinations" – the psychiatric term for the perception of tiny human, animal or fantasy figures. It is so named after the small people who inhabit the fictional Lilliput Island in the novel Gulliver's Travels.

The patients saw these figures "moving about everywhere", the researchers wrote – usually, there were more than ten tiny beings on the scene. "They saw them on their clothes when they were dressing and saw them on their dishes when eating," the researchers added. The visions "were even more vivid when their eyes were closed".

people in China, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea do not seem to have a tradition of purposefully seeking out L. asiatica for its psychoactive effects, according to Domnauer's findings. "It was always just eaten for food," Domnauer says, with hallucinations being an unexpected side-effect.

There's another curious factor: other known psychedelic compounds also usually produce idiosyncratic trips that vary not only from person to person but also from one experience to the next within the same individual. With L. asiatica, though, "the perception of little people is very reliably and repeatedly reported", Domnauer says. "I don't know of anything else that produces such consistent hallucinations."

'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans

Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.

www.bbc.com

I wonder if the Lilliputian people are nicer to each other than the fullsize ones sometimes are.

 

[Dotta]

This is strange. A mushroom that causes THE SAME hallucination no matter where it's grown/eaten.... seeing little people.

Every year, doctors at a hospital in the Yunnan Province of China brace themselves for an influx of people with an unusual complaint. The patients come with a strikingly odd symptom: visions of pint-sized, elf-like figures – marching under doors, crawling up walls and clinging to furniture.

The hospital treats hundreds of these cases every year. All share a common culprit: Lanmaoa asiatica, a type of mushroom that forms symbiotic relationships with pine trees in nearby forest

One must be careful to cook it thoroughly, though, otherwise the hallucinations will set in.

In a 1991 paper, two researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences described cases of people in Yunnan Province who had eaten a certain mushroom and experienced "lilliputian hallucinations" – the psychiatric term for the perception of tiny human, animal or fantasy figures. It is so named after the small people who inhabit the fictional Lilliput Island in the novel Gulliver's Travels.

The patients saw these figures "moving about everywhere", the researchers wrote – usually, there were more than ten tiny beings on the scene. "They saw them on their clothes when they were dressing and saw them on their dishes when eating," the researchers added. The visions "were even more vivid when their eyes were closed".

people in China, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea do not seem to have a tradition of purposefully seeking out L. asiatica for its psychoactive effects, according to Domnauer's findings. "It was always just eaten for food," Domnauer says, with hallucinations being an unexpected side-effect.

There's another curious factor: other known psychedelic compounds also usually produce idiosyncratic trips that vary not only from person to person but also from one experience to the next within the same individual. With L. asiatica, though, "the perception of little people is very reliably and repeatedly reported", Domnauer says. "I don't know of anything else that produces such consistent hallucinations."

'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans

Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.

www.bbc.com

Gulliver's Travels
and Little People!!!

This illustration always scared me as a child

I preferred
"Children from Bullerbyn" by Astrid Lindgren!!!

 

[Gemmie]

Gulliver's Travels
and Little People!!!

This illustration always scared me as a child


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I preferred
"Children from Bullerbyn" by Astrid Lindgren!!!

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As it should because they are apparently real! Think about it... hallucinating is one thing, but for different people, in different geographies, over different time frames... all with the same hallucination!??!

 

[TootsieFootsie]

It sounds funny but it's not.
On reading this, it drives some people mad.
And for some people it doesn't wear off.

 

[Dotta]

As it should because they are apparently real! Think about it... hallucinating is one thing, but for different people, in different geographies, over different time frames... all with the same hallucination!??!

In near death experiences
for people all over the world
there are also common elements:
a feeling of leaving the physical body,
entering a tunnel,
seeing a bright light,
experiencing deep peace,
and encountering beings.
Some also see their life as if watching a film.

 

[Dotta]

Hi guys!!!

In Poland we have now STUDNIÓWKA season

It means Prom Parties for High School students

It is the last opportunity for a moment of carefreeness before intensive preparations for Finishing Exams.

100-day rule:
Traditionally, the prom takes place approximately 100 days before the high school leaving exam.

Studniówka (100 days)
ALWAYS starts with
POLONEZ
Traditional Polish Dance

Students are dancing
and teachers & parents
are bursting with pride haha!!!

58K views · 841 reactions | Zobaczcie poloneza w wykonaniu maturzystów 33 LO Łódź 😍 Dla nas bomba i jesteśmy pewni, że wyniki matur będą tak samo dobre 💪 | Łódzkie dla Ciebie

Zobaczcie poloneza w wykonaniu maturzystów 33 LO Łódź 😍 Dla nas bomba i jesteśmy pewni, że wyniki matur będą tak samo dobre 💪

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This Studniówka Polonez is older
and I have already sent it to Music Thread
BUT it is my FAVOURITE

To add...

Studniówka 2026
So many Parties
So many High Schools

But....
One Polonez/Polonaise

Tradition!!!

80K views · 1.5K reactions | Tego wykonania nie można przegapić! 🎬 Maturzyści z LO im. Króla Kazimierza Jagiellończyka w Wysokiem Mazowieckiem zatańczyli poloneza we wspólnym, doskonale przygotowanym układzie. 👏 Uczniowie zrezygnowali z balowych kre

Tego wykonania nie można przegapić! 🎬 Maturzyści z LO im. Króla Kazimierza Jagiellończyka w Wysokiem Mazowieckiem zatańczyli poloneza we wspólnym, doskonale przygotowanym układzie. 👏 Uczniowie...

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16K views · 187 reactions | II Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Króla Jana III Sobieskiego on Reels

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Teachers dancing too

108K views · 1.3K reactions | Studniówka 1 Liceum Ogólnokształcące w Miasto Legnica - Polonez klasy :4 C1, 4C2 | e-legnickie.pl

Studniówka 1 Liceum Ogólnokształcące w Miasto Legnica - Polonez klasy :4 C1, 4C2

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57K views · 1.8K reactions | 🤩Ależ to był piękny polonez👏zobaczcie zdjęcia ze studniówki "Chrobrego"⤵https://dzienniklodzki.pl/studniowka-2026-i-lo-w-piotrkowie-wyjatkowy-polonez-zachwycil-gosci-piekna-choreografia-i-umiejetnosciami-tanecznymi-maturz

🤩Ależ to był piękny polonez👏zobaczcie zdjęcia ze studniówki...

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Practising in the gym
Teachers too (Principal, vice, senior classes teachers )

133K views · 919 reactions | Ostatnia próba poloneza przed Studniówką 2026. W pierwszych parach dyrekcja i wychowawcy czwartych klas 😍 | LO Chyliczkowska

Ostatnia próba poloneza przed Studniówką 2026. W pierwszych parach dyrekcja i wychowawcy czwartych klas 😍

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Even in the streets

29K views · 221 reactions | Polonez maturzystów na wodzisławskim rynku wygląda tak 😎 | Dziennik Zachodni

Polonez maturzystów na wodzisławskim rynku wygląda tak 😎

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I remember my Studniówka.
It was unreal hahaha
Beautiful memories.
You know...
Long dress and a red garter
Wearing a red garter on the left leg is the most well-known Studniówka custom.
Every girl is expected to wear one
as an omen of good luck during final exams!

 

[tricia]

This is strange. A mushroom that causes THE SAME hallucination no matter where it's grown/eaten.... seeing little people.

Every year, doctors at a hospital in the Yunnan Province of China brace themselves for an influx of people with an unusual complaint. The patients come with a strikingly odd symptom: visions of pint-sized, elf-like figures – marching under doors, crawling up walls and clinging to furniture.

The hospital treats hundreds of these cases every year. All share a common culprit: Lanmaoa asiatica, a type of mushroom that forms symbiotic relationships with pine trees in nearby forest

One must be careful to cook it thoroughly, though, otherwise the hallucinations will set in.

In a 1991 paper, two researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences described cases of people in Yunnan Province who had eaten a certain mushroom and experienced "lilliputian hallucinations" – the psychiatric term for the perception of tiny human, animal or fantasy figures. It is so named after the small people who inhabit the fictional Lilliput Island in the novel Gulliver's Travels.

The patients saw these figures "moving about everywhere", the researchers wrote – usually, there were more than ten tiny beings on the scene. "They saw them on their clothes when they were dressing and saw them on their dishes when eating," the researchers added. The visions "were even more vivid when their eyes were closed".

people in China, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea do not seem to have a tradition of purposefully seeking out L. asiatica for its psychoactive effects, according to Domnauer's findings. "It was always just eaten for food," Domnauer says, with hallucinations being an unexpected side-effect.

There's another curious factor: other known psychedelic compounds also usually produce idiosyncratic trips that vary not only from person to person but also from one experience to the next within the same individual. With L. asiatica, though, "the perception of little people is very reliably and repeatedly reported", Domnauer says. "I don't know of anything else that produces such consistent hallucinations."

'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans

Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.

www.bbc.com

WOW. This is nuts. How in the...?

 

[tricia]

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY THREAD, JANUARY 29TH 2026​

On January 29, 1964, the band was in the middle of their Paris residency at the Olympia Theatre, performing nightly shows while simultaneously recording in London during off-hours — a genuinely exhausting and surreal period of Beatlemania.

• 1820 — King George III died at Windsor Castle (after a long reign and years of serious illness).
• 1845 — Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” was published (in the New York Evening Mirror).
• 1861 — Kansas became the 34th U.S. state (a major milestone after the violent “Bleeding Kansas” era).
• 1886 — Karl Benz applied for the patent that’s often called the “birth certificate” of the automobile (German patent no. 37435).
• 1959 — Disney’s animated “Sleeping Beauty” was released (official Disney reference lists Jan. 29, 1959).
• 1964 — “Dr. Strangelove” premiered (the Cold War doomsday satire that’s funny and horrifying at the same time).
• 1979 — The Cleveland Elementary School shooting in San Diego (Brenda Spencer killed two and wounded others; the “I don’t like Mondays” line became infamous).
• 1991 — The Battle of Khafji began (often described as the first major ground engagement of the Gulf War).

 

[Gemmie]

• 1979 — The Cleveland Elementary School shooting in San Diego (Brenda Spencer killed two and wounded others; the “I don’t like Mondays” line became infamous).

Dang. All it would have taken was to find a job with Sun-Mon OFF!!! Just work Tue-Sat! Sheesh.

 

[Dotta]

Enjoying Winter Holidays

1.3K views · 1.3K reactions | Just remember those spikes🥶🕺🧊🔥 Dance joy happiness Norway ice cold | Kjetil Krogstad

Just remember those spikes🥶🕺🧊🔥 Dance joy happiness Norway ice cold

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3 parts of Poland have 3 different school winter holidays times,
to avoid crowds in skiing resorts

 

[tricia]

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY THREAD JANUARY 30TH 2026​

January 30 — History’s Dark & Strange Corner​

1. Charles I of England is executed (1649)
   A reigning king was publicly beheaded for treason against his own people — unheard of in Europe at the time. His execution permanently altered ideas about monarchy and divine right.
2. Oliver Cromwell is executed… three years after his death (1661)
   His corpse was exhumed, hanged, beheaded, and displayed on a spike as posthumous revenge after the monarchy was restored. Yes, they punished a dead man.
3. First assassination attempt on a U.S. president (1835)
   Andrew Jackson survived two point-blank pistol misfires. He then beat the would-be assassin with his cane. Both guns misfiring was considered almost supernatural at the time.
4. Crown Prince Rudolf found dead in a murder-suicide pact (1889)
   The heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire died at Mayerling with his teenage lover. The scandal destabilized Europe and indirectly helped set the stage for World War I.
5. Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
   Legally appointed. No coup. Within weeks, democracy collapsed. One of history’s most chilling examples of how fast things can go wrong.
6. Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated (1948)
   Shot at point-blank range during a prayer meeting by a Hindu nationalist who believed Gandhi was too tolerant. The world lost one of its most influential advocates of nonviolence.
7. Bloody Sunday (1972)
   British soldiers opened fire on civil-rights marchers in Northern Ireland, killing 14 unarmed civilians. It radicalized a generation and intensified decades of violence.
8. The Beatles perform their final live show — on a rooftop (1969)
   An unannounced concert atop Apple Corps in London shut down traffic. Police eventually stopped it. This bizarre pop-culture moment became legendary.
9. The SS Wilhelm Gustloff sinks (1945)
   The deadliest maritime disaster in history — over 9,000 people killed, mostly civilians and children — yet it remains largely unknown outside Europe.
10. Little Shop of Horrors original ending deemed “too dark” (1986)
    Early test audiences rejected the apocalyptic ending where humanity is eaten by alien plants. The studio forced a happier ending — and destroyed the original footage.

 

[PeriwinkleE]

I vividly remember the day the Challenger exploded. It was a clear, cold day here in SE AL. That vapor plume was visible here.

It is a very vivid memory for me too! I was in 3rd grade and so excited about the school teacher on board!
I think just about all young kids were watching from classrooms and libraries that morning (i was in Nevada). I can see shape of the explosion in my mind’s eye right now. I think I was too young to process it, but shocked at the same time.

 

[Dotta]

On va s'aimer, on va danser
Oui c'est la vie, la, la, la, la, la

C'est la vie la, la, la, la, la

On va s'aimer ah, on va danser eh
Oui c'est la vie, la, la, la, la, la


# Studniówka, Poland

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[nhmemorymaker]

Roots. I remember reading the book right before my oldest was born. It was so hard to understand how one group of people could be so cruel to another.

Roots was a hard hard read.... And I was working on my PhD at Univeristy of Massachusetts.... and we had a very strong Black teaching population, and I was dating a Black prof. It was hard.... but it was a tremendous bonding experience as well.
And I also met Alex Haley at a book signing... pretty special memory.

 

[nhmemorymaker]

It was around 2001 when I got my first computer. The days (for me) of Napster, eBay,and HGTV message boards. I made lifelong friends that became real life friends on those boards. The boards are long gone but us four ladies that remain from our group have been friends and have talked daily since meeting back then including many real life meet ups.

I worked in high technology for all my working career.....
So I had technology, computers pretty early on.
In the earlier 80s I was able to have a dial up dumb terminal at my home... was really great with two back to back pregnancies. (remote work at its earliest actually ha). Oh that horrible dial up tone--i can still remember. And it felt like a mirable being connected to our work servers. Not the internet, yet of course, but still "connected" 1!!

 

[nhmemorymaker]

Purchase some concentrated orange oil (I get mine from Amazon). Dampen a kitchen sponge with water. Then pour a small amount of oil onto the damp sponge — wipe down your kitchen counters, backsplash, inside cabinets, base boards, window sills, etc. with oil — whereever you’ve seen ants.

Be sure to test this first on any painted surface. If you are concerned about leaving a film of oil, a few minutes later lightly wipe everything again with a paper towel

Your ants won’t come back for a long, long time! And your house will smell terrific!

Concentrated orange oil is also a good ecological cleaner for bathrooms (including toilet) and other surface cleaning. So is 20% vinegar. Google both for specifics. OMO.

does it work for mice????????

 

[nhmemorymaker]

I vividly remember the day the Challenger exploded. It was a clear, cold day here in SE AL. That vapor plume was visible here.

Such a historic moment, and such a horror of a memory.
I was at a business meeting at a far from home location, 6.5 months pregnant... crying all the way home.
Christa McAuliffe lived in Concord NH, so everyone in the whole state was spellbound with the launch...and then the disaster.
The state built a planetarium in her honor.... so her memory lives on forever.
And local press did --respectfully--keep up with her children growinng up.