everyone more pretentious than me is an insufferable poseur and everyone less pretentious than me is a clueless philistine

These were SUPPOSED to be quick Wake Up Deadman still studies, but I got lost in the sauce

there's so much i don't know. how do i learn everything by tomorrow

I live by the motto, “if you can’t buy what you want, make it.” And this motto came to life recently in the form of a floral mosaic dining table for my back deck.

Our deck table had been showing its age already when the wind caught the umbrella and cracked it. I wanted to replace it with a mosaic table because I’d been enjoying that art form recently. But I couldn’t get one the size I wanted so I got creative.

I spent a few weeks looking for tile and figuring out a very loose design concept. I started by picking a limited set of tile shapes and a color palette.

Once the tiles arrived I had a piece of particle board cut to size for the base and I experimented with different motifs until I settled on a selection of floral shapes that gave me plenty of variety to fill space without locking me into one repeating pattern.

And then I was off! I basically doodled my way around the table, attaching tiles with Weld Bond (I went through 4 full bottles!) and rocking out to the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack.

Once the florals were done it was time for the background…

Over 3,800 1cm glass tiles make up the not-design part of the design. It went pretty quickly though because I just had to fill the space, leaving room for grout.

Once I had the tile done, my husband assisted with disassembly and reassembly. We used the legs off the original table for this one (waste not).

One huge bucket of black grout later…

She is finished.

I enjoyed making it and just looking at it makes me so happy - I can’t wait for all the dinners we’ll have around this table 🌼❤️

Wait how the hell does she have two different bangs at once

You cannot comprehend the powers of an italian woman from new jersey

it probably feels kind of good to get forcibly shut down as a frozen computer

Constructing geographic edifices that challenge the boundaries of hilldom and devising exciting new dooms to meet upon them.

Best way I’ve ever seen academia described.

Fandom, academia, and Minecraft.

if everyone in the world including all systems suddenly forgot your birthday and you had to pick a new one , which month would you place it in ?

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The majority of the rich teach their offspring to perpetuate a system that keeps the wealthy firmly in power, while the rest of us struggle. People with less are always more generous to others.

i finally get to do more of the work i was doing for the phage lab last year holy shit it feels so good to be an expert in something again.

i'm fifteen genes and two massive hot takes deep. I'm nursing a one-sided grudge against an academic i've never met who i disagree with on something trivial. I am penning scathing critiques of 30 year old journal articles FUCK. it feels so good hholy shit i was made for this #womeninstem

We do not do elf of the shelf but our house does have borrowers. Penny knows that if she leaves a mess out at night the borrowers will take that as a sign that they can have it and take it into the walls to build their homes

This teaches her to out her stuff away at the end of the night or I chuck it out and also sometimes she wakes up and yells "HEY ELEVES I LEFT YOU SOME STUFF!" And it is hilarious

Penny: THE ELVES HAVE ONIONTIZED

My mom on FaceTime: ???

Me: I had to explain to Penny how the borrowers are part of the elf union and so they go to North Pole the last 3 weeks of the year so no one ever has to work too much over time and that's why they haven't taken mommy's wrapping paper or scissors or anything else I've left out... shes trying to explain the elf union to you.

Penny: THEY GET PAID EXTRA CAUSE OF THE ONION

I'm in tears 🤣🤣🤣

I can't get over "and comes fucks me".

This video ruined all those aesthetic photos of fog for me. I can’t see a foggy landscape without this video playing in my head.

I kept forgetting about it but i edited my uhura poster to look more comic book-y and i rlly love it so here u go🤲