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I collect drums and drum accessories.

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ALL 👏🏾 OF 👏🏾 THEM 👏🏾

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This post goes harder than any post has ever gone before.

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Vienna Opera House, 1927, Luigi Kasimir. Austrian (1881 - 1962) - Color Etching on Wove Paper -

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“Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.”

— Alain de Botton, Essays in Love

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Shoutout to people that were raised in abusive households that are constantly working to re-wire and heal the toxic behaviors they learned.

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Showing Love Through Food May Be Making Our Pets Obese And Unhappy

When I looked at my appointment book for the day, I thought something must be wrong. Someone who worked in the fitness industry was bringing his cat in to the Tufts Obesity Clinic for Animals. Did he confuse us for a different kind of weight management clinic? Is he looking to get muscle on his cat or maybe kitty protein shakes?

I was utterly surprised when I called for my appointment in the lobby and an athletic man stood up with an almost 20-pound cat! I asked if I could speak bluntly with him. Why does someone who clearly knows a lot about keeping healthy need to bring his cat to a veterinary nutritionist? What would he say if the cat was one of the people he helps to keep fit every day? Our conversation then went something like this …

“Well, I’d tell her, suck it up, buttercup. Do some kitty pushups and no more treats!”

“Well, I have to ask, then, what’s stopping you from doing this with your cat?”

With a worried look of guilt on his face, he replied, “Well, Dr. Linder, I mean … she meows at me …”

This was the moment I realized that I was treating pet obesity all wrong. I needed to focus less on the pet and more on the relationship between people and their pets. That’s what’s literally cutting the lives short of the dogs and cats we love so much.

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Photo: Courtesy of Rebecca Flanagan

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grade a quality top notch post 

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if you want to actually start to end homelessness, you need to give homeless people unconditional homes, including when we use them to do drugs or sit around drinking. either housing is unconditional or it isn’t

someone sitting at home alone, an active alcoholic, squandering your charity, drinking all day is better situation than a street homeless alcoholic. someone using drugs in your charity house is better than them doing the same w no shelter

most of you would not like most street homeless people, I definitely don’t and didn’t when I was street homeless. for every one person who uses unconditional shelter to turn themselves around, someone else will do jack shit and very slowly, if ever, work through the issues that made them homeless, will maybe never be able to live independently. still better than street homelessness, still worth doing. ultimately either you believe that shelter should be universal or you don’t

homeless people actually can’t be rehabilitated if you want to end homelessness. we either affirm the right to shelter for the worst drunken, lying, filthy, cheating, self destructive homeless people that exist, genuinely irredeemable wankers, or we concede that shelter is not a right

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i’m about to fistfight my depression wish me luck

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“Don’t give up on the person you are becoming.” -Anon #TodaysMantra 💫 artwork by Giuseppe Penone

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u come home and ur girl is laying on the bed like this… wyd?

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It's finally done, I just played it for the first time. My @cherryhilldrums 14x7 aluminum reinforcing ring prototype. This originally wasn't going to me, but a stroke of good luck made it possible. The shell is Ziricote and Burmese Gold Camphor Burl with the first set of aluminum reinforcement hoops ever put on a drum, with all aluminum hardware, all done at Cherry Hill. The hoops are @angeldrumsofficial aluminum angel hoops. Heads are @remopercussion CS clear batter, Ambassador hazy snare side. Wires are @masshoffdrums 24 strand that I grabbed in Berlin. (at Cherry Hill Custom Drums)

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Coffee in Space: Keeping Crew Members Grounded in Flight

Happy National Coffee Day, coffee lovers! 

On Earth, a double shot mocha latte with soymilk, low-fat whip and a caramel drizzle is just about as complicated as a cup of coffee gets. Aboard the International Space Station, however, even just a simple cup of black coffee presents obstacles for crew members.

Understanding how fluids behave in microgravity is crucial to bringing the joys of the coffee bean to the orbiting laboratory. Astronaut Don Pettit crafted a DIY space cup using a folded piece of overhead transparency film. Surface tension keeps the scalding liquid inside the cup, and the shape wicks the liquid up the sides of the device into the drinker’s mouth.

The Capillary Beverage investigation explored the process of drinking from specially designed containers that use fluid dynamics to mimic the effect of gravity. While fun, this study could provide information useful to engineers who design fuel tanks for commercial satellites!

The capillary beverage cup allows astronauts to drink much like they would on Earth. Rather than drinking from a shiny bag and straw, the cup allows the crew member to enjoy the aroma of the beverage they’re consuming.

On Earth, liquid is held in the cup by gravity. In microgravity, surface tension keeps the liquid stable in the container.

The ISSpresso machine brought the comforts of freshly-brewed coffees and teas to the space station. European astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti enjoyed the first cup of espresso brewed using the ISSpresso machine during Expedition 43.

Now, during Expedition 53, European astronaut Paolo Nespoli enjoys the same comforts. 

Astronaut Kjell Lindgren celebrated National Coffee Day during Expedition 45 by brewing the first cup of hand brewed coffee in space.

We have a latte going on over on our Snapchat account, so give us a follow to stay up to date! Also be sure to follow @ISS_Research on Twitter for your daily dose of space station science.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com.

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I know National Coffee Day is almost over but who can pass up reblogging a combo of coffee, science and gifs? Nobody, that’s who. -Carla

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Not quite finished, but close enough to post. So anxious to hear what this sounds like...#Repost @cherryhilldrums (@get_repost) ・・・ Dry fitting this Burmese gold #camphor #burl and Ziricote #customsnare I made and installed the first ever set of aluminum rerings with brushed #aluminum lugs and @angeldrumsofficial hoops. Still need to brush finish the hoops and install the throw off. #cherryhilldrums #cherryhillcustomdrums #customdrums #drumporn #drumfam #instadrums #baterista #drumlife #snaredrumfreakz #woodporn #knotandgrain #exoticwood

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Yoshitoshi Kanemaki’s Hand Carved Oddities.

Japanese artist Yoshitoshi Kanemaki hand carves miraculously surreal sculptures that are absolutely jaw-dropping.  You can check out his equally as fascinating process below.

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