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@jenaciousd

Midlife crisis, hyperfixations, cats, watercolours. Chronic fatigue and depression / anxiety. I need a nice cup of tea and a hug. PhD student in microfluidics with the OU.

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Shrek has been modded into ‘Resident Evil Requiem’ 🧟‍♂️

07.03.2026 21:17 👍 1459 🔁 365 💬 39 📌 59

I’ve just emailed you. I have to go out today but will check replies when I can. Thank you!

07.03.2026 10:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
(Beartato and Reginald, in a museum, gaze upon the Mona Lisa)

BEARTATO: There it is. The Mona Lisa. The most famous painting in history.
REGINALD: Wow! What's it do?

BEARTATO: It... what?
REGINALD: Why's it famous? What's it do?

(Beartato thinks.)

BEARTATO: I don't know.

REGINALD (to nearly museum employee): Excuse me! Sir? What's it do?

EMPLOYEE: You're the first person to ask! Watch this!

(The employee yanks a pull-string. Mona Lisa's eyes spin around and her mouth opens like a puppet)
MONA LISA: Honk honk! Honk honk!

(Everyone is delighted. This is true art.)

(Beartato and Reginald, in a museum, gaze upon the Mona Lisa) BEARTATO: There it is. The Mona Lisa. The most famous painting in history. REGINALD: Wow! What's it do? BEARTATO: It... what? REGINALD: Why's it famous? What's it do? (Beartato thinks.) BEARTATO: I don't know. REGINALD (to nearly museum employee): Excuse me! Sir? What's it do? EMPLOYEE: You're the first person to ask! Watch this! (The employee yanks a pull-string. Mona Lisa's eyes spin around and her mouth opens like a puppet) MONA LISA: Honk honk! Honk honk! (Everyone is delighted. This is true art.)

True Art

06.03.2026 19:03 👍 6651 🔁 1490 💬 33 📌 13

Oh my goodness I need to paint that!

06.03.2026 11:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I can, but only because I’m naturally a tenor and it skips over the craterous passagio I have in my range.

06.03.2026 11:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

'Dirigible' sounds like a vehicle designed specifically for people to hurl insults from.
Like those olde election cars, but for sarcasm.

06.03.2026 10:48 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

I can’t decide whether I want him to be small enough that he can sit on my lap, or big enough that I can sit on his.

06.03.2026 11:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
watercolour painting of a six legged caterpillar-shaped monster with a big smile. He's green and teal with a purple tail and legs.

watercolour painting of a six legged caterpillar-shaped monster with a big smile. He's green and teal with a purple tail and legs.

Gareth enjoys crochet and making friends.

He will be looking for adoption when my Mini Book Of Monsters launches next month. Do you think you could provide him with a good home?

Get notified here: buff.ly/S4gl6xi
#monster #adoptamonster #artbook #cute #monstercore

06.03.2026 11:01 👍 120 🔁 24 💬 5 📌 1

Not sure I quite understand. I think you need to demonstrate.

06.03.2026 11:37 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m genuinely excited by this!

06.03.2026 11:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

+- 7s is a pretty large variation from “the same”, when “the same” is 12s, but I’m going to put this down to the write up and not the maths.

Anyway, fluid plugs in tubes! I have another answer when people ask me what my subject is for!

06.03.2026 11:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you do choose to sell it, I’d be very interested (but I’m not sure I could sell, if I was in the same situation).

05.03.2026 20:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Looming six foot red haired jump scare. In the TMNT logo.

Looming six foot red haired jump scare. In the TMNT logo.

05.03.2026 15:25 👍 24 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The gif below is a metaphor for my experience of coding.

04.03.2026 17:49 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A Sign of my current state of being: I don’t see why people have a problem with this. I think it’s good, actually.

04.03.2026 11:51 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
04.03.2026 10:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

03.03.2026 13:29 👍 17674 🔁 4057 💬 53 📌 837
Twin Peaks Logo Generator

Turtle Power!

Twin Peaks Logo Generator Turtle Power!

02.03.2026 19:28 👍 7808 🔁 1860 💬 51 📌 41
Facebook post by the Daily Mail: 

'I'm not only trappedin a warzone, but I'm going to get fat again as well."

"I'm trapped and under attack in Dubai - but worst of all, I left my Mounjaro pen in the fridge"

Facebook post by the Daily Mail: 'I'm not only trappedin a warzone, but I'm going to get fat again as well." "I'm trapped and under attack in Dubai - but worst of all, I left my Mounjaro pen in the fridge"

It's Private Eye I feel sorry for. How do you spoof The Daily Mail these days?

02.03.2026 13:17 👍 225 🔁 64 💬 7 📌 4
I am sitting on a purple sofa. You can see my dark grey jumper and black jeans. To my right is a ginger tabby; a small fluffy black cat is on my lap; and an absolute unit of a black cat is to my left, on a grey fleece blanket printed with bees.

Nobody is bleeding, swearing, or walloping anybody else. This is *unheard of*.

I am sitting on a purple sofa. You can see my dark grey jumper and black jeans. To my right is a ginger tabby; a small fluffy black cat is on my lap; and an absolute unit of a black cat is to my left, on a grey fleece blanket printed with bees. Nobody is bleeding, swearing, or walloping anybody else. This is *unheard of*.

BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT

ALL THREE CATS. NO FIGHTING. NO RUNNING AWAY.

(Bruce Banner, on the bees, is terrified of Ripley, on my lap. Ripley knows this and leans into it. Ripley and Elsa, to my right, are married. Elsa tolerated Bruce Banner as a good pupil and occasional lap pre-warmer.)

01.03.2026 23:26 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Budgerigarter snake. It is a lot less cursed than I might have been: it’s a green/yellow budgie, flying, with a snake’s tail. It’s very loosely painted, with the white of the paper being the white in its wings, and the dark stripe along its tail bleeding out into the surrounding brown.

NGL, I really like the “splot the brush down” method of painting feathers.

A Budgerigarter snake. It is a lot less cursed than I might have been: it’s a green/yellow budgie, flying, with a snake’s tail. It’s very loosely painted, with the white of the paper being the white in its wings, and the dark stripe along its tail bleeding out into the surrounding brown. NGL, I really like the “splot the brush down” method of painting feathers.

#franimals Late (cos brains) and rough (cos I’m figuring out how to paint with fountain pen inks):

01.03.2026 18:14 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
pencil drawing of a wild windswept figure on a small bit of rock in a wild sea. They hold a charmed bit of driftwood.

pencil drawing of a wild windswept figure on a small bit of rock in a wild sea. They hold a charmed bit of driftwood.

and a Salt Hag of @hookland.bsky.social .
If you have not yet visited the county you may very well discover (as I have) that it was home all along.

01.03.2026 12:34 👍 196 🔁 42 💬 3 📌 0
A view of King Alfred's Tower from the north side. The bricks are sooooo tiny and yesterday when I stood next to it, it boggled my mind to try to estimate how many there are. Despite my banker-mocking caption, and my near certainty that Henry Hoare was a total fuckpig, I have to confess I am massively glad it exists and do hope it's true that it really does stand on the site where King Alfred won The Battle Of Edington in 878. It was closed yesterday but I climbed to the top in autumn 2018, drunk on my adventures as a new Somerset resident, on a similarly clear day when I was researching my book Ring The Hill and the three county view was spectacular: Dorset to the south, Wiltshire to the east, and Somerset to the north and west.

A view of King Alfred's Tower from the north side. The bricks are sooooo tiny and yesterday when I stood next to it, it boggled my mind to try to estimate how many there are. Despite my banker-mocking caption, and my near certainty that Henry Hoare was a total fuckpig, I have to confess I am massively glad it exists and do hope it's true that it really does stand on the site where King Alfred won The Battle Of Edington in 878. It was closed yesterday but I climbed to the top in autumn 2018, drunk on my adventures as a new Somerset resident, on a similarly clear day when I was researching my book Ring The Hill and the three county view was spectacular: Dorset to the south, Wiltshire to the east, and Somerset to the north and west.

Aren't rich people amazing? I can imagine one of the labourers who risked their life in the construction of the 49 metre King Alfred's Tower in the 1770s for the banker Henry Hoare asking him "But what is it for?" & Hoare answering "What is it FOR? What it's FOR, my good man, is for me to SHOW OFF."

01.03.2026 09:06 👍 280 🔁 35 💬 10 📌 3

Also Happy St. David’s Day. Gotta love a guy who flat out refuses to kill a dragon.

01.03.2026 11:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

1 MARCH BIRTHDAY PARTY

And who better to start it than lube and mosquito people?

cakes, pancakes, dietary requirement equivalents, Pallas cats, and Facts About Your Current ND Special Interest in the comments, please.

01.03.2026 11:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 0

Birthday Twin! Many Happy Returns and I hope your knees hurt less than mine do 🎂

01.03.2026 11:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It turns out that “Your Mum” jokes don’t work so well on your own children.

01.03.2026 10:15 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Small watercolor of a European barn owl peeking through a weathered brick wall. Warm ochres and soft creams define the textured bricks, while the owl's pale heart shaped face is gently in focus, creating depth against a subtly blurred background.

Small watercolor of a European barn owl peeking through a weathered brick wall. Warm ochres and soft creams define the textured bricks, while the owl's pale heart shaped face is gently in focus, creating depth against a subtly blurred background.

Started this European barn owl yesterday on the train to Toronto and finished it waiting to head back to Ottawa. Painted in my A6 Etchr sketchbook with Pentel Aquash brushes and Golden QoR watercolors. #sciart #bird

27.02.2026 21:27 👍 150 🔁 25 💬 5 📌 1
A rock labelled 'rounded, knob-like mass'.

A rock labelled 'rounded, knob-like mass'.

That time I saw yer dad in the Natural History Museum.

26.02.2026 13:17 👍 372 🔁 46 💬 11 📌 1