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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!)

hamletthedane

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)

hermscat

Reblogging to remind myself that retirement is the perfect time for some of these!

wellwhiskey

he’s just like me fr

wellwhiskey

we are the same

#adams is just like me #fr fr

zababova-pomsta

Pokud někdo hledáte spolubydlícího v Praze do 6000,- nebo znáte někoho, kdo ano, tak pořád hledám bydlení.

Jsem studentka, bude mi devatenáct, hledám bydlení kvůli méně než ideální rodinné situaci.

Můžete napsat do zpráv 😄

elib-rarian

Jak jde psaní bakalářky?

elib-rarian

ty vole ty vole ty vole. Já to poslala. Vedoucí. A reálně se fakt hrozně moc blížím dokončení.

elib-rarian

Já jsem sem ani nenapsala update: před 6 dny jsem odevzdala bakalářku.

Trvalo mi to od zadání do odevzdání přesně tři roky bez jednoho dne.

Já vím, že je to jenom pitomá bakalářská práce, ale byla to ta nejtěžší věc, co jsem v životě udělala, vyšly mi celkem incredible výsledky a reálně je ta práce strašné moc povedená!

Jsem na sebe hrozně moc pyšná.

Nebudu lhát, při odevzdávání jsem si pobrečela.

elib-rarian

Obhájila jsem bakalářku. Mám jedničku. Let's go!

teplejtrouba

Měli jsme s kámošstvem (už poněkolikáté) diskusi o tom, co se počítá za sklenici a co za hrnek. Sklenice, dle mého názoru, protože to má kurňa v názvu, musí být ze skla. Výjimka, jež navrhla moje kámoška, tedy takovéty plastové sklenky na víno, je abominací mezi nádobami na pití, a dle mého názoru kelímek, co si hraje na sklenku. Ano, můžeme tomu říci sklenka, protože se to používá jako sklenka a lidi jsou líní, ale ve své podstatě je to kelímek.

Celá ta prvotní diskuse začla kvůli jedné lokální kavárně, ve které nám naservírovali kakajíčko ve skleněném hrnku. A kdesi se ozvaly názory, že to je tím pádem sklenička. Hledal jsem pak urputně definici hrnku a na naší drahé wikipedii stojí, že hrnek může být z jakéhokoliv materiálu. Proběhly mírné rozepře, ale obecně jsme se usmysleli, nebo minimálně já se usmyslel, že to teda asi bude hrníček, když to má tvar jako hrníček, používá se jako hrníček a když si takovou věc chcete koupit, vyplivne vám to všude název hrnek (skleněný). A IKEA by nám přeci nelhala.

Myslím, že u nádob na pitivo je první věc, na kterou bychom měli koukat, funkce a tvar a až poté materiál. S výjimkou skleniček, tam je materiál, Z OČIVIDNÝCH DŮVODU, KÁMO, na prvním místě. (Ano, ta kámoška se mi taky snažila tvrdit, že takový keramický hrnek/kalíšek bez ucha je SKLENICE. Kacíř.)

Diskuse se samozřejmě pozastavila i nad půllitrem. Má to ucho. Mohl by to být hrnek. Je to skleněné. Anatomicky velký hrnek, ale funkčně se celoživotně řadí mezi sklenice, mezi hrnky ho jen tak nenajdete. A stejně si většina lidí, když ho vidí, řekne prostě jen 'půllitr'. Což má pro mne jediný možný závěr:

elib-rarian

Semi-unrelated, ale tenhle post mi připomněl mojí oblíbenou restauraci v Dejvicích, kde mi vždycky potom, co si objednám konvičku jasmínového čaje přinesou ten čaj v půllitru

#realne netusim co to znamena pro debatu #pullitr je konvicka

forthegothicheroine

I’m not a classicist, but I suspect one of the reasons so many of the Greek gods are portrayed so unflatteringly was less because they were seen as villains than because they represented their domains. Of course Zeus sometimes misuses his power, that’s what a king does. Of course Artemis’s wrath is wild and painful, that’s what nature can be. Of course Hades snatched away a young girl from her mother’s arms, that’s what death does. This is one of the reasons callout posts for some gods comparing them negatively to ‘nicer’ gods are kind of missing the point.

selavy

as someone who is partially a classicist, this is a better analysis of Greek mythology as a whole than 99.95% of the takes I’ve seen on here (and a substantial number of the takes I’ve seen in ~academia~)

sportsbianism-deactivated202402

what in the hell is luffy

uncomfortablecliche

weeb shit don’t worry about it queen

sportsbianism-deactivated202402

Takže ty jsi v t4t vztahu, huh? A která z vás je teda módní ikona a která je ta, co nosí havajskou košili v kombinaci s tiger print legínami?

elib-rarian

Jak jde psaní bakalářky?

elib-rarian

ty vole ty vole ty vole. Já to poslala. Vedoucí. A reálně se fakt hrozně moc blížím dokončení.

elib-rarian

Já jsem sem ani nenapsala update: před 6 dny jsem odevzdala bakalářku.

Trvalo mi to od zadání do odevzdání přesně tři roky bez jednoho dne.

Jsem na sebe hrozně moc pyšná.

Nebudu lhát, při odevzdávání jsem si pobrečela.

doccywhomst

one of my favorite doctor who moments without context:

dommeunist

modern-politics111

Guy Walton has christened two previous heatwaves this summer Amoco and BP in attempt to name and shame fossil fuel firms

ms-cellanies

CHEERS TO GUY WALTON FOR “OUTING” THE FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES

From the article:

Walton has devised his own criteria for named heatwaves in the US, based on duration and extremity, on a one to five scale similar to hurricanes. Heatwave Chevron is classed as a four and is “historic”, Walton said. The meteorologist said he has a list of 20 oil and gas companies – including Exxon and Shell – for upcoming heatwaves and will turn to coal companies if he runs out of names.

headspace-hotel

OUTSTANDING MOVE

headspace-hotel

Y'all know what to do. Use Walton's naming system. Make it catch on.

segacity

Sailor Venus ‘Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S’ SEGA Saturn

othersystems

urbanpineapplefarmer

It is really important to me that all of you learn about Al Bean, astronaut on Apollo 12 and the fourth man to walk on the moon, who after 20 years in the US Navy and 18 years with NASA during which he spent 69 days in space and more than 10 hours doing EVAs on the moon , retired to become a painter.

He is my favorite astronaut for any number of reasons, but he’s also one of my favorite visual artists.

Like, look at this stuff????

It’s all so expressive and textured and colorful! He literally painted his own experience on the moon! And that's just really fucking cool to me!

Just look at this! This is one of my absolute favorite emotions of all time. Is Anyone Out There? is like the ultimate reaction image. Any time I have an existential crisis, this is how I picture myself.

And then there's this one:

The Fantasy

For all of the six Apollo missions to land on the moon, there was no spare time. Every second of their time on the surface was budgeted to perfection: sleeping, eating, putting on the suits, entering and exiting the LEM, rock collection, setting up longterm experiments to transmit data back to Earth, everything. These timetables usually got screwed over by something, but for the most part the astronauts stuck to them.

The crew of Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Al Bean, and Dick Gordon) had other plans. Conrad and Bean had snuck a small camera with a timer into the LEM to take a couple pictures together on the moon throughout the mission. They had hidden the key for the timer in one of the rock collection bags, with the idea being to grab the key soon after landing, take some fun photos here and there, and then sneak the camera back to Earth to develop them. They had practiced where they would hide the key and how to get it out from under the collected rocks back on Earth dozens of times.

But when they got to the moon, the key was nowhere to be found. Al Bean spent precious time digging through the collection bags before he called it off. The camera had been pushing their luck anyways, he couldn't afford to spend anymore time not on the mission objectives. Conrad and Bean continued the mission as per the NASA plan while Dick Gordon orbited overhead.

Fast forward to the very end of the mission. Bean and Conrad are doing last checks of the LEM before they enter for the last time and depart from the moon. As Bean is stowing one of the collection bags, the camera key falls out. The unofficially planned photo time has come and gone, and he tosses the key over his shoulder to rest forever on the surface of the moon.

This painting, The Fantasy, is that moment. There have never been three people on the moon at the same time, there was never an unofficial photo shoot on the moon, this picture could never have happened.

"The most experienced astronaut was designated commander, in charge of all aspects of the mission, including flying the lunar module. Prudent thinking suggested that the next-most-experienced crew member be assigned to take care of the command module, since it was our only way back home. Pete had flown two Gemini flights, the second with Dick as his crewmate. This left the least experienced - me - to accompany the commander on the lunar surface.

"I was the rookie. I had not flown at all; yet I got the prize assignment. But not once during the three years of training which preceded our mission did Dick say that it wasn't fair and that he wished he could walk on the moon, too. I do not have his unwavering discipline or strength of character.

"We often fantasized about Dick's joining us on the moon but we never found a way. In my paintings, though, I can have it my way. Now, at last, our best friend has come the last sixty miles." - Al Bean, about The Fantasy.