Dr Kylie

its crazy that you can live 25 years without knowing that moths can show up at your house and ruin everything you hold dear and then boom one day it happens and you’re totally blindsided

States with a smaller population than Los Angeles County

The USA and Israel were booed during the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics.

This place is the only national park besides the Grand Canyon that I just stood in awe and couldn’t comprehend. Every other place I have visited I thought “yep, looks like the pictures.” Not this one. Your eyes can’t reconcile their enormity until you see someone standing on the other side, even then, it doesn’t quite compute.

Woman With Shrimp by Ercole Barovier (Italian, 1889-1974), 1930s (approximate). Medium: Blown and solid-worked glass; gold-toned metallic particle effects. Collection: Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk. Produced when Art Deco aesthetics were at their peak, this figure is completely devoid of facial features; instead, the focus is on the fluidity of the form and the material itself. The woman carries a large shrimp on her back. The long, pleated dress she wears is shaped from a dense pink glass paste. Metallic (gold-toned) particles are trapped inside -- using a technique similar to avventurina, though I couldn't fully confirm this -- which creates a metallic shimmer on the surface. I want to talk about the artist. Ercole Barovier wasn't actually a traditional glassblowing master, but a designer with a medical background. After his studies, he joined the family business and took over management in 1926. He approached the workbench not with the muscle memory of a craftsman, but with the analytical intelligence of a researcher. While other masters of the period repeated centuries-old recipes, Barovier tried vastly different techniques. He experimented with metal oxides in his laboratory, developing numerous unique formulas such as "hot coloring without fusion" (colorazione a caldo senza fusione).

if i had a boyfriend i would put him in a cute little bug enclosure with lots of leaves and twigs, and take him everywhere with me :)