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Loid: *cough* Please, I have a wife.
ES: Do I look like I give a shit?
Loid: *smirk* That wasn't a plead. It was a warning.
Yor: *tears the man apart with her bare hands.*
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Enemy spy: Looks like its over for you Twilight.
Loid: *cough* Please, I have a wife.
ES: Do I look like I give a shit?
Loid: *smirk* That wasn't a plead. It was a warning.
Yor: *tears the man apart with her bare hands.*
Today's Adventure is that I, after an unintentional 13-hour power nap,
Got woken up at 6AM by a phone call from a friend stranded in Montana because of the heat wave and almost no cell service because of their crap provider.
OhSoThat'sHowIt'sGonnaBe.jpg
Ok.
I somehow summon a week's worth of spoons and in less than 30 minutes and 5 phone calls, get them
A hotel
An appointment with a mechanic from 2 states away
A perscription refilled from 2 states away
and A Pizza
Go me.
But then it's 8AM and there are unscheduled live humans at the door and while EVERGENCY MODE is still on, I have already blown through a ton of spoons, and also probably shouldn't meet whoever it is wearing just a pair of bootyshorts that say "CRYPTID" in Gothic Font on my ass.
So I greet them in those shorts and a T-shirt that I manage to put on both inside out and backwards
#nailedit
It is, Fortunately, not the mormons.
it is, Unfortunately, two UPS guys trying to deliver my other in-house friend's new phone except the new guy doesn't know how to operate the "sign for package" device, and the old guy that's supposed to be mentoring him is like, 92, deaf as a post, and doesn't actually know how to operate the device either.
by the way
it is already
over 100 out
it takes almost 30 minutes to sign for the phone
when i get back inside, i discover that apparently the Corgi has learned how to open his kennel from the inside because he is now out of the kennel and waiting for me to come in.
he also has cat litter all over his face because while he was waiting for me he also learned how to open the baby gate to the cat's room and help himself to a cat shit breakfast.
He'll be fine
He's a cattle dog, they're legally required to have at least 1 really disgusting snack they love.
but
more to the point
i have no idea at what point he learned to open his kennel from the inside
has he been staying there out of politeness this whole time??
And
I got other shit to do today.
namely.
I'm seeing a realator
The Devils most pathetic yet effective demons
I get a reminder text that I have an appointment with her
at least
I think that's what it is because what she sends me is: "đĄâ°12:00 â"
With the time typed in the middle like that.
She is, according to her profile, at least 80.
so I reply "đđ"
and then she sends me a string of GODDAMN POST-MODERN EMOJI HEIROGLYPHICS THAT TAKE UP MY ENTIRE SCREEN.
She's on an iPhone so half of them don't even translate across platforms
It takes me half an hour and three different software programs and goddamn wingdings to translate, but she has sent me the address and rules about masking and not wearing shoes inside.
in emoji
instead of like
literally any other format
I am
FASCINATED
and simply must meet the woman so if I don't come back to update I got stolen by the fairies but I'm taking the Corgi with me as protection so I'll see y'all later.
Update:
It's not fairies
It's Doris.
might be about to get a sewing machine and/or start an ACAB riot.
Ok, so:
I'm going to see a prospective house because due to various circumstances, I'm probably going to be moving to the other side of a major metropolitan area in the next few months, but that's not important.
I get to the house
I get a text from the realtor
The realtor is not the person who has been texting me in emoji
The person texting me in emoji is the homeowner, who the realtor says will let me in if I want, she's running late.
Sure
Why not
I put Herschel on leash and go to the front door
As much crime as he commits at home Herschel The Hanukkah Goblin has terrific public manners, and is Very Cute so I'm about 90% sure the emoji fairy is going to let me take him through the house
Door opens.
90-something blue haired old lady with a spine like a question mark and glasses that could be used as telescope lenses opens the door.
"OH [Gallus]! How lovely to see you!"
This woman clearly knows me because she remembers my anniversary was last week and that my sister is back from Australia.
Problem is
I know about 500 geriatric ladies with blue hair, scoliosis and extreme prescription glasses, because I am a member of 2 quilt guilds, the scientific illustration guild, the rocky mountain SCA and stagehand for three different theater companies, so I know everyone's grandma and fuck me if I can tell them apart.
Wait
There's a quilt in thekitchen, visible front hall
I don't know faces but apparently I can recognize applique techniques at 40paces.
"...Doris? From SAQA?"
"YES! Who is this handsome little man?"
Herschel speaks enough English to know that "handsome little man" means "this person will feed me milk bones and bacon if I'm cute enough"
Immediately does a Sit Pretty and Shake.
Doris is bewitched
This is fine, but I also know I'm about to severely disappoint the realtor because there is no way in hell I'm moving into this House.
Because
The reason Doris is moving out is that her neighbor is a Cunt Magnifique and has been harassing Doris and everyone else to form an HOA and "improve the quality of our residents" because this woman has nothing better to do than be a racist-ass busy body, and recently, she's set her husband, a county sheriff on Doris, trying to bully her into signing paperwork and threatening her with legal action and writing her up for bullshit property violations
Ain't putting up with that shit
And neither is Doris, so she's selling all her shit and moving out to live with her grandchildren in Santa Monica.
But she's technologically impaired, so the only indication that there is an estate sale happening is a small paper sign in her front yard.
"Doris." I say, as Herschel makes himself comfortable on the couch for belly rubs and pieces of ham. "Did you tell SAQA or FRCC or anyone on Facebook that you're having the sale?"
"oh, I don't know how to do all that!" She sighs. "I tried to call the Denver post but they just put me on hold for ages..."
"Watch Herschel for 20 minutes and he's only allowed to have that one piece of ham."
Pics of everything
Address, time and pics to Facebook, both quilt guilds she's in, two more I have contacts for, nextdoor, and the local SCA discord for good measure.
It's 12 minutes and Herschel persuaded her to give him at least three pieces of ham.
He is petitioning for a fourth by doing a little puppy dance on the living room rug.
"OK, that's enough ham, people will be here in 10. Where is your cash box?"
Because apparently I'm running an estate sale today too.
It's fine :)
There's about 7 minutes of quiet.
Then
They DESCEND
The first on the scene is DeeDee, who doesn't believe in speed limits. She's arrived with a horse trailer. I remember that she is also moving.
"HI DORIS SWEETHEART WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL I HAD NO IDEA THIS WAS TODAY I WAS GOING TO TAKE ALL THIS TO THE GOODWILL HERE LET ME SET UP ON YOUR LAWN "
DeeDee is 73, and has a special spiritual bond with Hello Kitty. She weighs like 98lbs, dresses exclusively in neon pink sanrio clothes and the kind of eye makeup drag queens aspire to.
She also speaks non-stop at a volume normally associated with jet engines.
Half the horse trailer is already spread out on the lawn.
Doris is putting price stickers on stuff
Herschel is trying to tear open a bag of cotton batting.
This, and the arrival of approximately 56 minivans, five more trucks with horse trailers and Corgi Excitement Screaming alert Cunt Magnifique that something is happening outside.
Madame saunters off her porch up to Doris and Demands to know what's happening, you're supposed to notify the neighborhood and get a permit to-"
Doris, surrounded by her pack of silver wolves, shouts. "OH HELLO! EVERYONE, THIS IS MARCIA. I'VE TOLD YOU ALL ABOUT MARCIA." >:)c
... further details in a bit I think the Vikings are here.
~`* SOMEONE'S GETTING FIRED!!*`~
OK so.
You know those high school house parties you see in movies, where the person invites only a few friends, but those friends call their friends, and those friends call THEIR friends and soon like 500 people show up to one house and someone calls the cops and that one John Mulaney sketch with "SCATTER!" happens?
Old people will 100% do this too, except instead of a house party it's an estate sale on a wednesday afternoon and when the cop shows up there are lawyers present and he is in DEEP SHIT because his wife just spent the afternoon admitting to doing a bunch of wildly illegal shit on tape.
So when we left off, the party had really started getting underway, because Marcia the Cunt Magnifique had decided to crash the estate sale and whine about "we're supposed to coordinate garage sales as a neighborhood" and "your friends are blocking traffic on this cul-de-sac while nobody is home" weh weh-
DeeDee is about ready to throw hands but she is nowhere near the most dangerous of the Silver Silver Wolves.
That's Dr. Ruth.
Dr. Ruth turned 99 this year and went paragliding for her birthday
So you understand just how hard she goes
Dr. Ruth sort of hobbles over and point-blank asks "So I understand you've been trying to start a homeowner's association?" :3c
Marcia
Entirely misunderstanding how much danger she's in
Starts enumerating the TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS of trying to start one, because SOME PEOPLE DON'T RESPECT AUTHORITY and all the paperwork and talking to people and she even had to ask HER HUSBAND. A SHERRIF. To go around and hand people stuff to sign.
Some people, right?
Dr. Ruth nods. Some people. She agrees.
You know.
Her son is a lawyer.
Why doesn't she give him a call?
Marcia, a Moron: Oh that'd be great!
Dr. Ruth, hobbling back to Doris: "Don't worry. David will handle this."
Meanwhile
The Friends-Of-Friends and the Friends-Of-Friends-Of-Friends are arriving, lured in because they heard the words "Longarm Sewing Machine" and "Hand-made quilts"
Various factions present include but are far from limited to: -Probably Six Quilt Guilds -The Denver Art League -The Denver Leather League -The Vikings -The Klingons -The Colorado Wild Game Share -A Pack of Scientific Illustrators -A Pack of Assorted Scientists they brought with them -The Sheep Lesbians -The Horse Lesbians -Three Extremely Competent Finnish People (My Scientific Illustration Professor and her sisters) who immediately take over the estate sale and turn it into an auction to maximize profit and keep the taxes in order.
Someone brings two additional Corgi called "Cap" and "Bucky"
They are Pembroke Corgi, and weigh about 21lbs apiece
Herschel is a Cardigan Welsh Corgi and weighs 42lbs because he's hug even for a Cardigan, and is Delighted with his New Minions.
They worship him as a God and follow him around so every time he sticks his face in something two smaller corgi faces immediately follow, like some kind of adorable cerberus.
Pelts and meat shares are being traded out of the backs of trucks and vans
Someone is making bratwurst.
Intrigued by the Brouhaha, Doris' neighbors emerge.
They are also Geriatric and very nervous, because Marcia has been harassing them too.
They are telling this to the members of these factions that are also lawyers.
There are at least 5 of them so far and David isn't even here yet.
I realize my realtor isn't even here.
I decide to text her.
She is somewhere in the crowd and having a nervous breakdown because She's SO LATE!!!
Ma'am.
It's 103 out.
I was just handed a freshly grilled Brat
Some bitch is incriminating herself on the lawn.
Nothing scheduled is happening.
Come sit in the yard and watch the Corgis play on the Palyskool plastic slide set. They're disassembling it like tiny furry engineers.
Have a bratwurst.
One of the Klingons appears, having physically carried my realtor through the crowd, and gently deposits her on the lawn before handing her a Bratwurst.
Diane, the Realtor, is not much older than I am, and from the preppie swaths of society that has "Never had a dog growing up" and "Didn't Know People Could Just. Make. Blankets?" and "What is this? It's like a hot dog but spicy?"
She is having a LEARNING EXPERIENCE.
One of the Horse Lesbians comes over and compliments Diane on her Dior handbag.
Diane thanks her ans compliments the apparently expensive brand scarf she has on. Do you. Know all these people?
Horse Lesbian explains that she's part of the SCA, and what that is, and that why yes. Her girlfriend Tasha is an armorer. Yes like for knights.
More Livestock Lesbians assemble.
They are pulling off shirts to show off livestock and battle scars, and biceps.
Diane is LEARNING A LOT TODAY.
I am just getting everyone's contact info and making sure Herschel does not consume his weight in bratwurst.
BWOOP!
Uh-Oh.
Marcia's Husband is here.
I step out front.
He has used the siren to largely part the crowd and pull into his driveway but it has closed around him and there is No Escape.
He starts huffing and puffing about blocked traffic and permits and the like, but this is not his usual Can-Bully-Without-Consequences crowd.
These are Grandmas.
Veterans of the 60's protest front who never let up.
He's starting to turn bright red and looks like he's about to cry and I've got my phone out to record whatever Incident is about to occur.
-And a Mercedes pulls up.
It's David.
Dr. Ruth's son.
The Lawyer.
And I emphasize that The because David is not some mere ambulance chaser.
David is the guy that the state sends to prosecute Corporate Fraud and Organized Crime and Other State Departments.
David was part of the team that took down the CO Branch of the KKK.
David is all of 5'4", very round and a balding little man that looks like the Dictonary Definition of "Nebbish" that moves with such intense confidence and authority that he pretty much has the Pillar Men Theme Blasting behind him at all times.
So when he and three other lawyers from the state's office step out of the car
Mr. Sherrif goes from red to while like color-changing octopus and I am like 50% sure he shit himself.
Because what he and Marcia have been doing is Very, Very, Very, VERY, Fucking Illegal.
"mArCiA!" he garbles. "sHuT tHe fUcK uP!"
Marcia is standing in the middle of the cul-de-sac, having spent the last 3 hours recounting to anyone who will listen about the 'measures she's had to take' and now the 5 lawyers that were here are delightedly handing over the paperwork that she had forced on Doris and her Neighbors, and pointing at all the doorbell cameras and witnesses out to the state's top prosecutor.
Friends
I ugly laughed.
FOUR HOURS LATER: -Auction wrapped up with a solid $40K to Doris' name plus pending sales on some of her larger furniture and antiques
Plus whatever David gets in damages from the county sherrif's office.
Marcia and husband are fucking busted
Herschel spent all afternoon running around and eating snacks and is passed out on the floor
Diane is "meeting up with" one of the Horse Lesbians next week.
The sewing machine went to someone else but I did open my purse and found out Doris or someone shoved a bunch of cash in there.
I'm getting ice dream and going to bed.
World Heritage Post
Reblog, click the picture, and prepare for battle.
after a while i became convinced that the words were mocking me
Nothing happened.Â
I WAS PROMISED A BATTLE
*throws down gauntlet*
Edit: Went back. This is the best thing to happen to my dashboard ever.
Reblogging again because my followers need to see this. To be clear, rebog, go to your actual blog, then click the picture.Â
aight
OH MY GOD I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT
DO IT
WOW IT REALLY IS SOMETHING FREAKING GOOD PLEASE CHECK IT OUT
Okay, if this is a rickroll I swear toâŠ
1) It was not a rickroll
2) It was super awesome!
3) No jumpscare or anything designed to freak you out, so doesnât need an unreality warning (YMMV, of course).
Suspicious but curious. Curiosity wins!
attention all writers following me- try this or you will lament.
EVERYONE TRY THIS (you gotta go to your on blog to click on it!)
OK THIS IS THE COOLEST
Iâm curiousâŠ
Iâm also curiousâŠ
i bet 100 beans nothing will happen
*edit*
I lost 100 beans âŠ
Alright lets see what happens
what the fuck is happening
fuck it im trying it
A typing game that's actually fun to play.
this is the page im guessing is guiding people to, for people that it didnt work for. its actually very fun!
@devious-deeds-indeed @inkytrinket-irii the link!
Evil biology facts that fill me with Fear :)
hey, I heard yâall like evil biology facts like knowledge about horse blood types.
well! today I was researching alternative biochemistries extraterrestrial life could use and. man. I think Earth life is fucked up enough for me thanks
biological dark matter. WHAT DO YOU MEAN MY BLOOD HAS DNA IN IT FROM NO KNOWN SOURCE. YOU CANâT JUST SAY THAT COME BACK HERE
One specific cave that has been sealed for 5.5 million years and has developed an ecosystem completely dependent on chemosynthetic bacteria.
Was anybody going to tell me that bacteria have decided iron is yummy and are eating the Titanic, or was I supposed to just read that myself
Terrible Berry (yes, thatâs what the genus name means). This whole thing is so fucked up. These scientists were testing whether radiation could be used to kill pathogens in food, so they dosed a tin of meat with enough radiation to kill any known living organism (as one does) but guess what, it still fucking spoiled because of THIS BASTARD FUCKER.
(seriously, why is it like this? WHY has a bacterium evolved to chill in radioactive waste like itâs a soothing Jacuzzi tub? What does it know that we donât know?)
(ANSWERS. I WANT ANSWERS, YOU CHERNOBYL ASS BITCH.)
Cursed worm, which has no mouth or digestive system and depends entirely on five (5) different species of bacteria, which consume hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen monoxide, and carbon monoxide, for food. How do you, a worm, even...figure out how to do...all that?
Bone worms. At least they like their bones already dead. I still could have gone without knowing this was a thing.
âOh, parasitic plant, that sounds câWHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THINGâ
I am like half convinced this is made up. Seriously, bacteria grow their own electrical wires and we just let them?
To clarify
Evil (affectionate and admiring)
They took the unkillable bacterium and put a Disney song inside of it.
âIn 2003, U.S. scientists demonstrated D. radiodurans could be used as a means of information storage that might survive a nuclear catastrophe. They translated the song "It's a Small World" into a series of DNA segments 150 base pairs long, inserted these into the bacteria, and were able to retrieve them without errors 100 bacterial generations later.â
*opens worldbuilding notebook* *takes further notes*
does anyone else kind of.. enjoy spoilers ?? like theyâre sort of a relief because then I know whether or not something is worth investing in watching or reading or not
Iâm not gonna be disappointed if it doesnât turn out how I want plus Iâm not going to fast forward and skip through large parts of it to find out what happens, which Iâm embarrassed that I do I just donât have the patience
Is that just a me thing or do other people do that too? Is that an adhd thing?
I just do way better watching things if I already know the entire synopsis and can predict kinda when things will happen like landmarks in a movie that help me through
Please tell me this is an actual thing and not just me
ok so recently i wanted to read a book to my niece, who just turned 7, that I thought sheâd like. but it had some scary parts in it, that might be too much for her. sheâs tough, but sheâs sensitive too, like any kid her age.
so what did i do? I spoilered it. I said âhey this kid runs into some monsters that are gonna try to eat him, and then they chase him and itâs very suspenseful. You think that would be too scary?â
She considered it. âDo they eat him in the end?â she asked.
âNo,â I said.
âThen no,â she said. And then, when we were about to hit the Big Reveal that this person who had helped him was secretly actually a man-eating monster, she lit up and was like âIS THIS WHEN IT HAPPENSâ and I was like âSHH yes!â and she was like âAHH YEAHâ and loved it.
I donât think spoilers are just for kids, though. Iâm now so Tired of conventional mediaâs endless race for The More Shocking Ending that I refuse to watch shit when I donât know how itâs going to end. Itâs not that I donât have the emotional resilience to handle unexpected things (well, sometimes I donât, honestly, and have no shame about that), itâs that if the unexpected thing is the âfuck you if you liked these characters ha ha ha!â plot twist, I just donât have the time to invest in your fictional world. If you canât respect me as an audience then I have other shit to do with my time.
Even my own writingâ I dithered a bit in my latest series, which was going to hinge on a dead character being revealed to really be alive. I did my best to avoid spoilers as I was writing the thing, but now Iâve posted it and I figured, the thing to do is just toâ tag it for the reveal. Itâs not worth trying to be coy or people wonât know whether they want to read your shit.
I stand by my view that if knowing the twist ruins your story, your story is poorly written. Like, I appreciate that some people love the thrill of discovery, and as such, I support making sure people donât stumble over spoilers without warning. But Iâm sick and tired of stories that go âHa, ha, tricked you!â or confuse shock value with suspense.Â
Iâm also reminded of classic tragedies where the entire point is that the audience knows what happens, but the characters donât, and thereâs definitely a good amount of fun in frustratingly watching them careen towards doom, seeing all the signs, and not being able to do anything about it.
Thatâs also partly why picking up a piece of media youâve already enjoyed again is so fun; seeing all the little hints the author peppers throughout the story you might not have picked up the first time gives you an entirely different, but still very much enjoyable, experience.
Seriously, knowing Frozenâs twist actually made me LIKE âLove Is An Open Doorâ since itâs so full of foreshadowing and you realize every out of sinc moment had to be planned since this is animation and it was all intentional and oh my goodness.
Iâm a bit of both. I appreciate spoilers when they help me make informed viewing decisions. But I would only want a general spoiler about the what, not a detailed one about the how. Iâd want to know that character survives, but not the detailed breakdown of how.
On the other hand, when it comes to twist and major plot points, I prefer to be unspoiled if possible. Yes, if knowing the twist ruins the story the story is poorly written, but you also only get to experience a twist for the first time once.Â
The story should still be just as (if not more) enjoyable on repeat viewing, but it is a different kind of enjoyment.Â
This is the single most Wholesome thing that the internet has ever done or that humanity has ever created
If your having a bad day, watch this animation <3
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This cleared my depression, released my anger, and blessed my day. Thank you original animator.
âYou canât have a character with big boobs and not sexualise themâ
âThere arenât any feminist female characters that want to do things that are typically feminineâ
âThere arenât any badass gay charactersâ
âThere arenât any cool/badass disabled charactersâ
âOkay well what about disabled POC characters?â
âThere are no interesting or complex villains! None that ever question their morals, or have an interesting motiveâ
âThere arenât any women characters that donât just do things for menâ
âI want a poc character that fights against racismâ
âThere arenât any cool characters that arenât young and healthyâ
âThere are no male characters that like feminine thingsâ
Need I go on? Go watch Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood.
Fullmetal alchemist also tackled the issues of imperialism, genocide, PTSD, friendly fire, racism, war brutality, and military corruption unflinchingly. âMost military commanders are killed by their own disgusted soldiers.â indeed.
I just realized that most women in the FMA universe have big boobs and that this isnât even highlighted in the series (or in the manga). âŠThis took me a whileâŠ
The only addition I have to the post is this: if you can, read the manga. Brotherhood leaves out many amazing details.
ed: (opens the portal of truth to get tf out of gluttony)
truth: why are you here again you stupid fucking baby
ed, with like 8 broken bones and a mild concussion: bold of you to assume i have any idea of what the fuck im doing ever
This one time I was at a street festival hosted by my Uni and there was a guy doing card tricks. I was watching him when I noticed he dropped a card. (7 of spades) I quickly pu my shoe in it and then bent down to act like I was tying my shoe. He then asks for a volunteer so I raise my hand. He asks me to say the name of a card at random so I say â7 of spadesâ he does his trick that I guess was supposed to make it come on top. He holds up the Ace of Hearts and says âis this your card?â And I hold up the card and said âno but this isâ and the crowd LOST IT. I handed the card back to the magician and walked away. Later he comes up to me and asks me how I did it. I looked him in the eye, smiled and said âmagicians never reveal their secretsâ and walked away.
this is some god tier trickery and i love it
Radical New Idea:
A female character who is a cold, relentless leader, always pragmatic, and able to make whatever hard decisions need to be made in order to ensure success and survival, tremendously skilled and devastatingly efficient at her job, tragically terrible at being overtly nice to people, who is also not evil and is still fundamentally a good person.
The Moral of This Post is: No matter how genius your idea is, Hiromu Arakawa probably already did it, and she did it better than you could ever hope to.
I believe in free education, one thatâs available to everyone; no matter their race, gender, age, wealth, etc⊠This masterpost was created for every knowledge hungry individual out there. I hope it will serve you well. Enjoy!
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BBC Learning
OpenLearn
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University of Reddit
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TED
FORA
Big ThinkÂ
99u
BBC Future
Seriously Amazing
How Stuff Works
Discovery News
National Geographic
Science News
Popular Science
IFLScience
YouTube Edu
NewScientist
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wikiHow
Wonder How To
instructables
eHow
Howcast
MAKE
Do it yourself
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OpenStax CNX
Open Textbooks
Bookboon
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FullBooks
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MIT Classics
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Open Textbook Library
WikiBooks
SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES & JOURNALS
Directory of Open Access Journals
Scitable
PLOS
Wiley Open Access
Springer Open
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Elsevier Open Access
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Duolingo
BBC Languages
Learn A Language
101languages
Memrise
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Foreign Services Institute
My Languages
Surface Languages
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Learning Yoga
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Exposure Guide
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Best Photo Lessons
Photography Course
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nyvs
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Enliighten
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Music Theory
Teoria
Music Theory Videos
Furmanczyk Academy of Music
Dave Conservatoire
Petrucci Music Library
Justin Guitar
Guitar Lessons
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Investopedia
The Chess Website
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Spreeder
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First Aid for Free
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NHS Choices
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Please feel free to add more learning focused websites.Â
*There are a lot more learning websites out there, but I picked the ones that are, as far as Iâm aware, completely free and in my opinion the best/ most useful.
A D&D party is just half a dozen people who each think of themselves as the only adult in the room.
I appreciate the sentiment, but has any bard, sorcerer, or barbarian ever considered themselves the only adult?
Considers themself the only adult: Cleric, Monk, Paladin, Wizard
Knows theyâre maniacs (will not stop): Barbarian, Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock
Depends on the day tbh: Druid, Fighter, Ranger, Rogue
This is the kind of content Iâm here for.
In the midst of all these âHumans will packbond with anythingâ posts, Iâm going to pause and give you some actual, real-world career advice
Ready? Humans are packbondy creatures.  I mean, thereâs just no arguing it.  They packbond readily, and quickly, and unbelievably strongly.  Once a human has packbonded with a thing, they will do anything to help and protect that thing. Â
Thereâs a downside to that, not often mentioned.  It uses up a lot of their time and energy to build those packbonds, maintain those packbonds, and most especially to do the work of helping and protecting those with whom they have packbonded.  It doesnât leave them a lot of time and energy for helping other beings. If you want a human to help you â if you want to reliably get their best effort â you have to packbond with them first. âYeah? So?â So youâre probably going to be working with humans for most, if not all, of your career.  No matter how good or bad you are at your job, there will come a time when you need someone else in your workspace to help you with something, whether thatâs manning the fry station for 2 minutes while you pee, sending over those numbers from marketing, or dropping everything to teach you how to do a thing that your boss told you to do or else youâd be fired.  Not to mention the big things.  They donât give promotions to just their friends â at least not so much any more. Promotions go to the people whoâve completed big, visible, important projects.  It seems fair until you consider,,,, who gets the big, important, visible projects assigned to them in the first place?  Humans give boosts to the people theyâve packbonded with.  They mention packbondeeâs accomplishments to the boss (or the bossâ boss).  They cover for the mistakes of people theyâve packbonded with. Â
âThatâs not right! It shouldnât be a popularity contest! It should be about who does the best ââ Listen to me. Listen.
You may be right.  You may be the most correct creature to have ever spoken since the beginning of galactic civilization. It does not matter Humans packbond. Itâs what they do. I canât stop it. You canât stop it.  No power in the âverse can stop it. This is how the human do. All you can do is work with it. If you want a human to help you â if you want to reliably get their best effort â you have to packbond with them first. âLook, Iâm introverted and scared of people and I have social anxiety so I really donât know how to ââ Hey, my pal, I feel you.  I, too, am introverted. And I have social anxiety. And I have PTSD that actually â and I recognize that this is bizarre â has âbusiness networkingâ as a trigger.  For you, I have good news: Humans will packbond with anything.  Like, you donât really actually have to do anything. You kinda just have to⊠exist. In their presence. They kinda do the rest.  If you can talk with them, that speeds things up.  But it doesnât have to be, like, good conversation. Like, it can totally go You: boy, sure is hot out! Human: Man oh man, can you believe it? You: Wow, yeah Human: Totally You: âŠ. Human: âŠ.
This conversation â as awkward and uncomfortable as it felt to you, has caused this human to packbond with you a little more. If you repeat it weekly, you will get good results.Â
THE TAKEAWAYS
You need to packbond with the humans you come in contact with
Taking time to do that is not only justifiable, it is an important part of your job, and should be treated as such
That is to say that, as much as you hate it (and believe me, I understand), you have to take time away from actual work and dedicate it to packbonding with your fellow workers
Tips
Plan out your packbonding time. Itâs easier if you can initiate than if a human springs packbonding-time on you all unexpected. Â In an office job I like to use Friday afternoon, but adjust according to what makes sense to you and your situation.
Keep some packbonding-time questions handy. Â My go-to list is:
(If itâs Monday or Tuesday) How was your weekend?
(If itâs Wednesday) Howâs your week been so far?
(If itâs Thursday or Friday) Any big plans for the weekend?
Howâs your day been?
You donât have to care about the answers to these questions. All you have to do is remember that if the human is answering questions, they are not asking you any questions. Â Therefore questions are your friend. Â If you ask follow-up questions, you may be able to get through the entire packbonding time without having to do any of the talking
Learn to disengage from packbonding.  You can use basically the same sentence (or variants on it), but youâll want to practice it so that you can make it sound natural.  I use âAwesome! Well, I gotta get going. Have a good one!â
I know it feels overwhelming, but a few minutes of packbonding, once a week, is all you need. Â Once you build it into your habits it can be no more annoying than doing dishes or showering. Â
So weâre just not gonna talk about how OP is an alien anthropologist investigating the human species before infiltrating huh
âThat is to say that, as much as you hate it (and believe me, I understand), you have to take time away from actual work and dedicate it to packbonding with your fellow workersâ
In many of my shittiest jobs I wasnât allowed to talk to the other employees because the bosses say we couldnât do our jobs if we were socializing. Now that it has been phrased this way it makes me realize how not only just how life-sucking that is but also how dehumanizing.
They wonât even let us packbond.
Pretty sure thatâs by design. They know you wonât talk to the bosses, much less packbond with them, but if you bond with your coworkers? Well. Thatâs perilously close to unionizing, but arguably more dangerous. Now you actually care about them, like with your real *heart*.
I love that this concept has gone full circle from âletâs talk about how humans interact to aliensâ to âletâs look at humans through an alien lensâ to âletâs use our observations about humans to now interact with other humans.â Itâs exactly what scifi is supposed to make you do: challenge your assumptions about how you view the world so that maybe you can approach your world from a new POV. Just perfect.
people who complain about dinosaurs ânot being scary anymoreâ because its been discovered they have feathers and are closely related to/ancestors of birds are so bizarre like
its not about how scary they are, they are/were real life animals and what matters is learning more about them, not how well they fit into your science fiction horror film lol
can you imagine a 13 foot chicken running at you with full intent to eat you??? thats fucking terrifying holy shit
peacocks are synonymous with vain, frivolous beauty and they will attack cars. they will attack you while you try to get to your car. theyâre like six feet of useless feathers and they will destroy you. imagine if they were carnivorous and had functional spurs.Â
a t-rex could look like a gay disco ball and i guarantee that you would fucking book it if it had a problem with you
listen
listen
have you ever met a swan
if anything the birdier they get the scarier they are
Australia literally fought a war against giant birds AND FUCKING LOST
@kidwithheadphones
Overheard in the student lounge:
âOh man, I canât deal with birds âcause theyâre dinosaurs and sometimes itâs like they get this glint in their eyes and they remember.â
âHave you ever interacted with a goose? âCause those things are dicks.â
If chickens were still the size of a T-Rex weâd all be dead. No question.
Feathered creatures that give some serious lie to the idea that feathered dinosaurs ainât scary:
This is a bearded vulture, or lammergeier. Itâs four feet long and has a nine foot wingspan and it eats bones.
This is a shoebill stork. It dropped the duck without biting down shortly after the picture was taken, but if it had decided not to-
⊠it could have been the end of the road for that duck.
This is the last thing a fish sees before a macaroni penguin eats it.
This is a secretary bird in the act of demonstrating to Lord Voldemort that he came to the wrong neighborhood, ese.
This is a goose.
This is a vulture.
This is a cassowary on the attack.Â
Be glad I couldnât find the actual gif of a pelican swallowing a fish, because itâs freakinâ Lovecraftian in its HEADS SHOULD NOT BEND THAT WAY factor. Youâll have to settle for the idea of a feathered dinosaur suddenly going GLORP and devouring its victims whole just like this lady here.
Steven Spielberg didnât create these. These are the feet of an emu.
And this is what happens when a swan (this one is named Asboy; his father was Mr. Asbo, the first swan in the UK to get named after an anti-social behavior order in âhonorâ of his tendency to attack boaters) decides it doesnât like you. I should probably note that this one attacked a cow.
Respect the feathered dinosaur, yo.
Terrifying. The last two illustrate why you did not fuck around with the Children of Lir.
I suspected that a dinosaur could have been feathered after I heard that a T-Rex is the chickensâ ancestor.
For those who think dinos arenât cool because theyâre featheredâŠwhatever, mutherfuckers.  Evolution doesnât give two shits what you think is cool or not.
You showed a cassowary on the attack, but forgot to show what exactly itâs attacking with. Their feet are nearly identical to the Emuâs, except for one minor, teeny tiny detail: A five-inch claw for killing motherfuckers, raptor-style.
This is like the âfuck birds master postâ and I love it because Honestly, Fuck. Birds.
@magicturtle because MODERN DINOSAURS
if youâve ever wondered what itâs like to live in the midwest, this is it.Â
You missed some of the best ones
the best part about it is that the art installation isnât actually called the Bean. Itâs called Cloud Gate, and artist Anish Kapoor (yes, THAT Anish Kapoor) hates that we call it the Bean.
But i mean, look at it. Itâs a bean.
How could you forget this one though
I HAD NO FUCKING IDEA THAT THE BEAN WAS CREATED BY ANISH KAPOOR.
someone help me why is anish kapoor important what did he do?
Alright sit down for some Art World Drama bcause this is what I live for.
So, sometime last year (?) science invented Vantablack, which is the darkest possible shade of black. Art world got incredibly excited. But as it needs to be very carefully made in a lab, itâs hard to get a hold of, and is extremely expensive. Enter Anish Kapoor, aka FuckFace McGee. Anish Kapoor buys the rights to Vantablack. He is the only human being on the planet that can legally use it, and heâs kind of a prick about it.
Art world is not thrilled with that.
Enter Stuart Semple.
Stuart Semple is an artist, and also makes pigments to sell in his free time. Stuart Semple is astoundingly pissed about this Vantablack nonsense, and Anish Kapoorâs dickery. Stuart Semple makes a new pigment, the brightest shade of pink ever, called Pinkest Pink, and puts it for sale on the internet. To be bought by everybody except Anish Kapoor. Literally, to purchase, you need to confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, do not associate with him, and will not sell or give the pigment to Anish Kapoor or his associates. Art world has a good laugh, everyone buys Pinkest Pink because itâs awesome, and damn it we deserve something.
Anish Kapoor however is a penis, and will not take this lying down, because HOW DARE he not have literally everything.
Anish Kapoor gets his London associates to buy him a thing of Pinkest Pink, and being such a classy human being, posts a picture to instagram of him with his middle finger covered in Pinkest Pink, captioned with âUp yours. #pinkâ
Everyone flips shit, because. Yâknow. Fuck that guy. Especially Stuart Semple. For context here, Anish Kapoor is one of the richest artists on the planet, and has repeatedly been referred to as everything wrong with the art world, and the epitome of the art worlds elitism problem. Heâs a giant douchebag. Meanwhile Stuart Semple makes pigments just to get them out there. He turns 0 profit from his now enourmously popular pigments.
Stuart Semple launches an investigation as to who the fuck leaked Pinkest Pink, and plans to strike back. He does so by releasing two new products. First is Diamond Dust, which is a glitter made from glass, so that a painting is still visible after itâs applied, but glitters like a mofo. Itâs the most reflective glitter out there, and is available to everyone who isnât Anish Kapoor. And it being made of glass, if you stick your finger in there, itâs going to hurt quite a bit, so that was Stuart Sempleâs way of saying âshove your middle finger in this, asshole, see what happensâ. Except without saying that, because he can get an insult across while still being fucking classy.
He also releases Black 2.0, created with the help of over a thousand artists worldwide.
Black 2.0 is the answer to Vantablack. Black 2.0 is a slightly less black black, but looks functionally the same to the human eye. Itâs completely safe, smells like cherries, and costs four pounds. Vantablack is highly toxic, potentially explosive, needs to be applied in a special laboratory and sealed properly, canât be moved across borders, can reach 300 degrees celsius if youâre not extremely careful, and costs thousands of dollars. Anish Kapoor is the only human being who can use Vantablack. He is the only human being who cannot use Black 2.0.
So I think we can guess who got the better deal.
And thus the feud ends, Kapoor defeated.
âŠBut not quite.
Kapoor, in this entire afair, has made exactly two comments to the public. The first being his charming message about aquiring Pinkest Pink, the second being claiming to Buzzfeed that he and his small army of lawyers will be suing Semple, an extremely poor artist who cannot afford a lawyer.
No lawsuit has been made yet, fyi.
The point is, Kapoor is a prick, and doesnât like talking to the lower classes. So one day in July 2017, he decides he needs another floor on his London studio apartment, and starts making arrangements to have it built. His neighbors are fucking pissed, because this will ruin the light of their apartments. They call to Semple to save them, or at the very least piss Kapoor off some more.
Semple answers to the call, and releases two new paints, Phaze and Shift, as always, banned to Kapoor. They change colours, Phaze with temperature, and Shift is just iridescent. Shift needs to be painted over Black 2.0 to work, and Phaze just works on its own.
So thatâs been the art world for the last two years.
Basically, get fucked Anish Kapoor your bean sucks and so does your vantablack.
Stuart Semple is organising a bean-kissing event for Anish Kapoorâs birthday.
Reblogging for âBy attending this event you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated with Anish Kapoor, you are not attending on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, information, and belief this event will not be attended by Anish Kapoor.â
ALSO HE JUST POSTED THIS!!!!!! LIGHTEST LIGHT!
I know this isnât my art blog but this entire post gives me life
im sorry is that man holding a real actual miniature star in his hands
Yâall missed the best part about the lightest light, called aptly âLitâ. This is from their product page:
Two things:
1. âAnish Kapoor is however a penisâ is the best line in this post.
2. I wish to be half as petty and half as awesome as Stuart Semple
I hope Stuart Semple is making a lot of money. What a good person.
Go support him the paintâs are pretty cheap and you get the added bonus of being one of many to help piss off Anish Kapoor
@decepticonsensual
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iâd like to point out that when i made this post, all of these comments were at the top, but now if you look at the thread theyâve been replaced by completely different commentsÂ
so please, for the love of god, look at the source link this thread is a neverending source of entertainment. people have added so much fucking shit since i made this
I was proctoring an exam for a student today while reading these, and I had to stop because I got to this one and almost fucking died
these are making my day
Okay, this oneâs killing me:
These ones got me:
Ooohhh noo I canât breathe and there are literal tears streaming down my face
Have a very, VERY good laugh people
Citrus Series by Dennis Wojtkiewicz
man i remember reblogging these very soon after i joined tumblr
you look at them and youâre like âwow! what amazing photographs" but theyâre oil paintings
they are oil paintings
they are oil paintings
of luminescent citrus fruit no less.