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peak art is when u were like six and u scribbled all over ms paint and then carefully paintbucketed in all the different shapes in the scribbles to make “stained glass” 

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Sibylline Meynet on Instagram

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“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”

— Stephen King

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Happy Anniversary to Undertale!  (September 15, 2015)

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to my fellow Australians: we do not get to look at what’s happening in the US right now and be angry without feeling the same about the racial injustice in our own country.

434 Indigenous Australians have died in police custody since 1991 and at least five have died in the past year.

Indigenous Australians make up 3.3% of the population and 28% of the national prison population.

Indigenous Australians make up 25.5% of the Northern Territory’s population and yet they are 84% of the NT prison population.

Indigenous Australians are 12.5 times more likely to be in prison than non-Indigenous Australians.

More than half of the Indigenous people who have died in custody since 2008 had not been convicted of a crime.

In 2019, 34% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners were unsentenced.

The imprisonment rate for Indigenous Australians has increased 12 times faster than non-Indigenous Australians over the past 30 years.

Despite making up only 5% of the population aged 10-17, more than half 10-17 year olds in prison are Indigenous Australians. They are 26 times more likely to be in prison.

Indigenous Australians are still less likely to be granted bail than non-Indigenous Australians.

Racial inequality and police brutality are not only relevant to the US, they are just as relevant here and we need to realise that and make a change. If you are angry about racism in America you should be angry about it in Australia.

BLACK LIVES ALWAYS MATTERー NO MATTER WHICH COUNTRY YOU’RE IN.

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Some bakers have transcended the art of making bread and pastries, they don’t need tools or ovens, they are called, the Doughmancers A small animation done to expand a bit on the world of Saltenpepper

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50 years. What they had to do with so little is still astounding today.

50 Years Ago: “Houston, We’ve Had a Problem”

NASA - Apollo 13 Mission patch.

April 13, 2020

During their third day in space, the crew of Apollo 13, Commander James A. Lovell, Command Module Pilot John L. “Jack” Swigert and Lunar Module Pilot Fred W. Haise, traveling some 205,000 miles from Earth, had just concluded a television broadcast that included views of their Lunar Module (LM) Aquarius and Command Module (CM) Odyssey. Controllers in Mission Control at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), now the Johnson Space Center in Houston, enjoyed the broadcast from their consoles, while Lovell’s wife Marilyn, accompanied by Dr. Charles A. Berry, MSC’s Director of Medical Research and Operations, watched the broadcast from the Visitors Gallery. The astronauts were looking forward to entering lunar orbit in less than day, followed by Lovell and Haise making a landing in the Moon’s Fra Mauro highlands the day after. During their 33-hour stay on the Moon, Lovell and Haise planned to complete two spacewalks, conducting geologic surveys and placing scientific instruments that would return data to scientists on the ground long after their departure. Swigert had his own science to conduct from lunar orbit.

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God, I loved this movie. I still grieve for Robin Williams.

Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir

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New Trio Adapts to Station Life, Crewmates Prep for Earth Return

ISS - Expedition 62 Mission patch. April 13, 2020

International Space Station (ISS). Image Credit: NASA

Three new crewmembers are getting used to life aboard the International Space Station. Meanwhile, the Expedition 62 trio is getting ready for its return Earth on Friday. Three NASA astronauts and three Roscosmos cosmonauts have been working together on the orbiting lab since April 9 when the Expedition 63 crew docked to the station’s Poisk module. U.S. astronaut Chris Cassidy is leading Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner during their 195-day mission.

Image above: NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Cassidy pose in front of the state flag of Maine inside the Kibo laboratory module. Both astronauts’ home state is Maine. Image Credit: NASA. They will be familiarizing themselves with station systems and getting up to speed with science work over the next several days. Cassidy put on virtual reality goggles this morning for an experiment monitoring how he visually interprets motion, orientation and distance in microgravity. Ivanishin and Vagner were researching space biology and technology studies today, as they get used to their new orbiting home 260 miles above Earth. Expedition 62 Flight Engineers Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan with Commander Oleg Skripochka will complete their station mission on Friday when they return to Earth. They are packing their Soyuz MS-15 crew ship and reviewing landing procedures this week. They are also familiarizing themselves with the conditions they will experience upon reentering Earth’s atmosphere and feeling gravity for the first time in months.

Image above: NASA Flight Engineers Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir flank Expedition 62 Commander Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos for a playful portrait in the weightless environment of the International Space Station. Image Credit: NASA. Skripochka will hand over station control to Cassidy on Wednesday at 5:55 p.m. EDT during the Change of Command Ceremony live on NASA TV. The Expedition 62 crew will undock in the Soyuz vehicle on Thursday at 9:53 p.m. They will shoot through the atmosphere in the Soyuz descent module and parachute to a landing in Kazakhstan at 1:17 a.m. (11:17 a.m. Kazakh time). Related article: NASA TV to Air Landing of NASA Astronauts Meir, Morgan, Crewmate Skripochka https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-tv-to-air-landing-of-nasa-astronauts-meir-morgan-crewmate-skripochka Related links: Expedition 62: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition62/index.html Expedition 63: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition63/index.html Virtual reality goggles: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7484 Space biology: https://www.energia.ru/en/iss/researches/biology/all.html Technology studies: https://www.energia.ru/en/iss/researches/develop/all.html Space Station Research and Technology: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html International Space Station (ISS): https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html Images (mentioned), Text, Credits: NASA/Mark Garcia. Best regards, Orbiter.ch Full article

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the part two that we deserve

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Too good.

“Ground Control to Major Tom Cat. Take your tuna pills and put your helmet on.”

Photo by u/thadon-duke-of-mania

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TAG text post memes - John Tracy 2 (1)

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SCIENCE BITCHES!!!

Heart, Eye Studies in Space as Next Crew Nears Launch

ISS - Expedition 62 Mission patch. March 26, 2020 Cardiac research and 3D bioprinting aboard the International Space Station today are helping NASA improve health for humans in space and on Earth. The three Expedition 62 crewmembers also participated in eye exams and radiation checks. Three new Expedition 63 crewmembers are in Kazakhstan just two weeks away from beginning a 195-day mission on the station. NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy joined Roscosmos cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner for a traditional flag-raising ceremony today outside the Cosmonaut Hotel at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The trio is due to liftoff April 9 at 4:05 a.m. EDT and arrive at their new home in space about six-and-a-half hours later.

Image above: NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan retrieves gut microbe samples from a science freezer for an experiment to understand how microgravity affects microbes that impact astronaut health. Image Credit: NASA. Back aboard the orbiting lab, the station crew spent the afternoon on eye checks. NASA Flight Engineer Jessica Meir started the optometry work and scanned her crewmates’ eyes using the Human Research Facility’s ultrasound device. NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan then took over and imaged the eyes of Commander Oleg Skripochka using optical tomography (OCT) gear. The OCT uses lightwaves for non-invasive mapping and measurement of a subject’s retina. Morgan started the day with ongoing tests of a 3D bioprinter without using human cells. The device, also known as the Bio-Fabrication Facility, seeks to manufacture human organs in space due to the detrimental effects of Earth’s gravity. Patients on the ground would benefits and future astronauts on planetary missions could print their own food or medicines.

ISS orbital laboratory flying over Earth at night. Animation Credit: NASA

Meir checked samples of cultured cardiac muscle tissue for the Engineered Heart Tissues experiment in the morning. The investigation is exploring cardiac function in weightlessness that may provide new drug developments for astronauts and Earthlings. In the station’s Russian segment, Skripochka collected radiation measurements then serviced atmospheric purification gear. The commander also spent a few moments working on a specialized research furnace that levitates and observes metallic alloys at high temperatures. Related links: Expedition 62: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition62/index.html Expedition 63: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition63/index.html Microbes that impact astronaut health: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=8240 Bio-Fabrication Facility: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Facility.html?#id=7599 Engineered Heart Tissues: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=8217 Specialized research furnace: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Facility.html?#id=1853 Space Station Research and Technology: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html International Space Station (ISS): https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html Image (mentioned), Animation (mentioned), Text, Credits: NASA/Mark Garcia. Best regards, Orbiter.ch Full article

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Living proof no one can curse out better than the Scots!

This is an absolute religious experience that I was not prepared for