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hamletthedane:

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

Want to learn something new in 2023??

Cooking with flavor bootcamp (used what I learned in this a LOT this year)

Beekeeping 101

Learn Interior Design from the British Academy of Interior Design (free to audit course - just choose the free option when you register)

Video on learning to read music that actually helped me??

How to use and sew with a sewing machine

How to ride a bike (listen. some of us never learned, and that’s okay.)

How to cornrow-braid hair (I have it on good authority that this video is a godsend for doing your baby niece’s black hair)

Making mead at home (I actually did this last summer and it was SO good)

How to garden

Basics of snowboarding (proceed with caution)

How to draw for people who (think they) suck at art (I know this website looks like a 2003 monstrosity, but the tutorials are excellent)

Pixel art for beginners so you can make the next great indie game

Go (back) to school

Introduction to Astronomy (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Principals of Economics (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Introduction to philosophy (free college course)

Computer science basics (full-semester Harvard course free online)

Learn a language

Japanese for Dummies (link fix from 2022)

Ukrainian

Portuguese (Brazil)

American Sign Language (as somebody who works with Deaf people professionally, I also strongly advise you to read up on Deaf/HoH culture and history!)

Chinese (Simplified)

Quenya (LOTR fantasy elf language)

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pagansphinx:

Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (Russian, 1848-1926) Sirin and Alkonost: The Birds of Joy and Sorrow • 1896 • Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Sitting on the branches of the tree on either side of its trunk are two mythological creatures from Russian folklore: Sirin and Alkonost. Each one represents a being that is half woman, half bird…more here

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redlipstickresurrected:

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九水巷 aka 999999999sx aka Jiushui Xiang (Chinese) - Untitled, 2022, Photography

exhaled-spirals:

“I am forever denouncing this therapeutic obsession that governs our modern society, scared of living and haunted by death. We must protect ourselves from everything, heal from everything. Nowadays, food, music, painting, hiking… everything is repurposed as a method for healing, for keeping fit, for keeping healthy, when these activities are first and foremost opportunities for pleasure, desire, gratitude, knowledge, wonderment, and bonding with others. Our entire culture, as well as politics, imposes on all citizens this endless and nagging preoccupation with mental and physical health.”

— Jacqueline Kelen, L’Esprit de Solitude

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tim-official:

afloweroutofstone:

You can scratch the surface of a lot of different ideologies and find racial/religious/cultural hatreds right beneath the surface, but I’m not sure there’s any large-scale example on earth today worse than Hindutva. Every Hindu nationalist I encounter is like 0.2 seconds away from talking about the need to purge Muslims from Indian society. Modi has built his entire career on this and he has a 75% approval rating. Obviously this comment doesn’t mean much coming from an American, but it seems like there is something extraordinarily dark that’s been emerging in Indian politics the last few years

context from someone who is Indian, bc I want more people to know: hindutva is uncannily similar to the idea of pan-european “whiteness” and the rhetoric they use has similarities to that of white supremacists in America, complete with great replacement theories, conspiracy theories (look up “love jihad” on Wikipedia for a bad time), historical revisionism, insisting that relatively recent traditions have existed for millennia. would be fascinating if it wasn’t the dominant political movement in a country of a billion people - more popular than white supremacy is in America, for sure

I was in India last year for a conference on Indian music and an older dude, educated businessman type, saw that I had an American accent and came to talk to me - IMMEDIATELY started talking my ear off about how great Donald Trump is. No expectation I’d have any criticism of Trump whatsoever. he was shocked when I told him that people are racist to Indians in Texas often because they assume any brown person who isn’t Latino is muslim. All my conservative family over there love Trump from afar, loved to go on about conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton. it’s a wild time

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mortalityplays:

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fun fact: if you pirated six full length albums from your favourite band, listened to them all back to back 5 times, and then sent them $20 on ko-fi or whatever, on average they would have earned slightly more money per play than they’d get from you streaming the same shit with ads on spotify.

invariably when I talk about media piracy people are like “but what!!! about creators!!! they need to make a living!!!” my homey in romey if you’re that worried about it send your favourite artist $5 right now. do it. shut the fuck up.

I want to support artists but I can ONLY do it if I’m being drip fed shittier and shittier versions of the content a tech executive thinks I want. I have no choice in the matter because uhhhhhh other people won’t pay for things if they’re free. yeah that’s right. other people are the problem.

here’s the piracy secret big media don’t want you to know: you can always give artists money if you want to.

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nasty-redacted:

eepy lil guy sitting on ur dash

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probablyasocialecologist:

The problem, [Frans Vera] explains, is that we have forgotten about the megafauna that would have been roaming our landscape before we arrived on the scene: large herbivorous mammals like the aurochs (the wild ox), tarpan (the original wild horse of Europe), wisent (the European bison), elk (known in North America as moose), European beaver and the omnivorous wild boar. All, according to fossil bone records, re-colonized the lowlands of Central and Western Europe along with red deer and roe deer about 2,000 years after the end of the last ice age – around 12,000 years ago. Trees, on the other hand – according to the pollen records – appear only between 9,000 and 1,500 years ago. So, oak, lime, ash, elm, field maple, beech and hornbeam – the key species of what is claimed to have been the primordial closed-canopy deciduous forest of Europe – arrived at least 3,000 years after the large herbivores. This is a very different picture to the one that has rooted in our mythology. It flies in the face of the received wisdom that closed-canopy forest is the natural habitat of these large animals. It also suggests – another heresy – that large herbivores played a part in, or at least did not prevent, the generation of trees in our landscape.

Isabella Tree, Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm

astronautdogs:

Tbh if there isn’t genuine non arg patho bachelor route news by The end of this year I’m going to burn my apartment down I’m done getting psyched for nothing

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roguesynapses:

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what’s going on people?

general depression

hate the military

So does general depression. Why do you think he’s so morose

if he hated it he’d kill his commander-in-chief

Unfortunately the commander-in-chief, five-star General Paranoia, is always alert for any threat to his person

orbital strike is always unlikely but never impossible

He’s got that exact quote as a wall poster with a kitten on it

well…. fuck….

gentrification is an endemic issue plaguing this wet cite

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cea-tide:

ladyshinga:

I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.

Time to drop some links again.

– https://searchmysite.net/
Search engine for the indie web, personal websites, digital gardens. You can also find them in websites like Neocities, Indieweb, Blogarama, and write.as. There is also a big list of personal websites.

– https://search.marginalia.nu/
Search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and promotes websites that aren’t usually at the top of the list.

– https://www.worldcat.org/
Search engine for items in libraries (books, but also maps, articles, sound recordings, theses, etc.)

– https://scholar.google.com/
Search engine for scientific papers, reviews, etc. It’s still google, but a lot better than the normal search engine counterpart.

– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines
A list of search engines sorted by subject, area, and more. If you’re searching on a specific area, it might be worth checking if there is one focused on that area.

– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines
A list of academic databases and search engines.

– https://tineye.com/
Reverse image search alternative to Google’s.

Also, P.S.: Please stop using Google, and start using more privacy focused search engines, like DuckDuckGo or SearchX (opensource; personally haven’t used it yet, but it looks promising for privacy-focused users)

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scavengedluxury:

Limiting your users’ ability to read the same tweets that you depend on them seeing to make you advertising revenue, business genius. 5D chess.