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Something quite peculiar has happened to my Facebook feed, and I like it. (Yes, I am still on Facebook; I like to call it “research”.)
One day, a few months ago, a post popped up from a group called Poisons Help: Emergency Identification for Mushrooms and Plants. I don’t know why the algorithmic gods delivered it to me, but I was curious, so I clicked.
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