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[licenseddoctor]

Hey kid you want a job?

Great get online and go to a job board. Indeed, Linkedin whatever. Now you're gonna search for a role that's in your city, fits your qualifications, and doesn't seem like a bad time.

See that easy apply button? Don't hit it they just throw those in the trash. Now you're gonna want to go to the company's website and check their careers page.

Oh? That job doesn't exist anymore. Cool go back to the job board and find another one.

Great you found another job, you're on the company's career page and the job exists!! So you're going to need to make an account on the career page website. They're using Workday, the same site as the last job you applied for? Who cares? You need to make another account for THIS job's workday page.

Now you're going to upload your resume. That'll autopopulate about 15 boxes with everything on your resume, except formatted wrong and with tons of errors. So just go through and painstakingly check the dates on all of that and rewrite everything you already laid out in an aesthetically pleasing format on your resume.

Ok time for the cover letter, explain why this specific job and company are deeply important to you. You love their mission statement and wouldn't even laugh if their ceo was gunned down in the street. You'll really want to reiterate the things you just spent the last 20 minutes filling out on the resume section

(Remember to include language from the job description, people who work in HR are lower than dogs and they need patterns or they get confused.) Write about a page, but hey don't sound too desperate or robotic this is where they judge your character!

Maybe add your portfolio site at the end here, who knows if that helps no one has ever clicked mine haha.

Anywayyy time to hit apply! Congrats! You'll see that confirmation email come in and you should be getting the rejection letter in about 2 weeks. Unfortunately your resume didn't have the right buzzwords and the AI auto rejected you :(

Time to start again and try not to kill yourself!

[your-werewolf-boyfriend]

Listen to me

Listen very closely

The above is exactly why half of my friends come to me, and cry they're suffering, and I get to bestow my job hunting knowledge on them. I love this shit, it's a game.

For credentials my fastest job hunting time has been 1 week. I searched for 1 week, got an interview, and was hired within a week. My slowest was 1 month, while out of work, while telling ALL my interviewers that I quit my work without notice (I was testing my interviewers to see how shocked they'd get when I'd tell them why, anyone who wasn't shocked I would tell them at the end that I will keep them in mind (not)). My entire average is 2-3 weeks.

Firstly, what you're gunna do is pick a job sector. You're gunna pick a few of these by the end, but for now pick one. Maybe you wanna do bookkeeping, maybe you wanna do something in doggy daycare. Maybe you're a sous chef. Idk! Figure out what abouts you want first. Do not apply to anything yet. You're gunna look at the job description, I've picked out a few for bookkeepers below.

Now what you're gunna do is you're gunna look for "buzz words", or rather words that are gunna appear commonly and indicate the tone for that job. I've highlighted some, but not all in my examples below

Just look at that snout at how similar those descriptions are!

Now that you've got your buzzwords, you're gunna slap those babies into your resume! You see, since your resume is usually read by a computer first, you're gunna trick the computer into giving it to a person. Really what the computer is scanning for is how similar your resume is to the job description. Remember your bullet points, and to keep it short, try to only have 3 to 5 bullet points per job:

- Processed over 500 invoices a day in an efficient and accurate manner

- Curated reports for management review by utilizing available data

- Monitored and recorded over 100 submissions each day increasing accuracy by 50%

These are some great, made up examples I pulled from those buzz words. You might notice I added some numbers into there. That's something you'll wanna try and note for yourself, how much of something you can do, how accurate, how much efficiency you increased, these look GREAT when your resume gets past the computer and is moved in front of a real person.

Now you have your sector-based resume with lots of buzzwords. This is great! Now for the easy part. You're gunna channel your inner "IDGAF" And you're gunna send that to every listing you like on indeed. Filter for "Apply on Indeed" and spam that shit. Sometimes you gotta answer a few extra questions, but if they give me more than 5 quick questions I trash the submission and move on.

Don't waste your time jumping through hoops, streamline it for yourself and use the same methods companies are using. Push MASSIVE amounts of average quality resumes out. The more opportunities taken = the greater the chance of success. For every opportunity taken you've now pitched a chance of success, for every resume you cannot submit because you're piddling around on their stupid website or answering 50 interview questions online, you send out a 0% chance of success.

So go, try this, and see how it works for you.

Some additional things to consider:

- Add random shit in your resume, I added my "Board Game Club" (BDSM group) into my resume for hobbies and discussed how I got my start using sparklines there

- Never underestimate the flair of a little Clipart fleur-de-lis or something on your resume. Never put colored Clipart, but a little floral or swirl design located somewhere nice makes it stand out

- if you don't have a degree that doesn't mean they won't pick you, twice now I've come to a job without a bachelors and being honest that I was only getting an associates before I think of my next steps

- Embellish, do not lie. Jargoning your job description to make it sound cool and professional is GREAT. Do not give me a resume saying you can use CNC machinery when you've only used a 3D printer. Just tell me you know how to program and manage a 3d printer and want to learn CNC machinery.

- Keep. Your. Resume. To. Two. Or. Less. Pages. You don't need EVERY job, only the relevant ones, if your interviewer asks about the gap, tell them what job you had during that time (or if you wanna lie say you were taking college courses and were on a break, you dont need a degree to say you took courses) and that you only wanted to showcase the most relevant ones

- I'm serious on that last one I'll eat your fucking resume

[godteri-takk]

Jobserarching is Kafka hell but this helps a lot thanks QwQ

[somerabbitholes]

Essays

Here’s a (non-exhaustive) list of essays I like/find interesting/are food for thought; I’ve tried to sort them as much as possible. The starred (*) ones are those I especially love

also quick note: some of these links, especially the ones that are from books/anthologies redirect you to libgen or scihub, and if that doesn’t work for you, do message me; I’d be happy to send them across!

Literature + Writing

Godot Comes to Sarajevo - Susan Sontag

The Strangeness of Grief - V. S. Naipaul*

Memories of V. S. Naipaul - Paul Theroux*

A Rainy Day with Ruskin Bond - Mayank Austen Soofi

How Albert Camus Faced History - Adam Gopnik

Listen, Bro - Jo Livingstone

Rachel Cusk Gut-Renovates the Novel - Judith Thurman

Lost in Translation: What the First Line of “The Stranger” Should Be - Ryan Bloom

The Duke in His Domain - Truman Capote*

The Cult of Donna Tartt: Themes and Strategies in The Secret History - Ana Rita Catalão Guedes

Never Do That to a Book - Anne Fadiman*

Affecting Anger: Ideologies of Community Mobilisation in Early Hindi Novel - Rohan Chauhan*

Why I Write - George Orwell*

Rimbaud and Patti Smith: Style as Social Deviance - Carrie Jaurès Noland*

Art + Photography (+ Aesthetics)

Looking at War - Susan Sontag*

Love, sex, art, and death - Nan Goldin, David Wojnarowicz

Lyons, Szarkowski, and the Perception of Photography - Anne Wilkes Tucker

The Feminist Critique of Art History - Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Patricia Mathews

In Plato’s Cave - Susan Sontag*

On reproduction of art (Chapter 1, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger*

On nudity and women in art (Chapter 3, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger*

Kalighat Paintings  - Sharmishtha Chaudhuri

Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images From the Past -  Maël Renouard

Arthur Rimbaud: the Aesthetics of Intoxication - Enid Rhodes Peschel

Cities

Tragic Fable of Mumbai Mills - Gyan Prakash

Whose Bandra is it? - Dustin Silgardo*

Timur’s Registan: noblest public square in the world? - Srinath Perur

The first Starbucks coffee shop, Seattle - Colin Marshall*

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai’s iconic railway station - Srinath Perur

From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective -  Andrew Harris

The Limits of “White Town” in Colonial Calcutta - Swati Chattopadhyay

The Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg Simmel

Colonial Policy and the Culture of Immigration: Citing the Social History of Varanasi - Vinod Kumar, Shiv Narayan

A Caribbean Creole Capital: Kingston, Jamaica - Coln G. Clarke (from Colonial Cities by Robert Ross, Gerard J. Telkamp

The Colonial City and the Post-Colonial World - G. A. de Bruijne

The Nowhere City - Amos Elon*

The Vertical Flâneur: Narratorial Tradecraft in the Colonial Metropolis - Paul K. Saint-Amour

Philosophy

The trolley problem problem - James Wilson

A Brief History of Death - Nir Baram

Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical - John Rawls*

Should Marxists be Interested in Exploitation? - John E. Roemer

The Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief - Scott Berinato*

The Pandemic and the Crisis of Faith - Makarand Paranjape

If God Is Dead, Your Time is Everything - James Wood

Giving Up on God - Ronald Inglehart

The Limits of Consensual Decision - Douglas Rae*

The Science of “Muddling Through” - Charles Lindblom*

History

The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine - Maria Dolan

The History of Loneliness - Jill Lepore*

From Tuskegee to Togo: the Problem of Freedom in the Empire of Cotton - Sven Beckert*

Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism - E. P. Thompson*

All By Myself - Martha Bailey*

The Geographical Pivot of History - H. J. Mackinder

The sea/ocean

Rim of Life - Manu Pillai

Exploring the Indian Ocean as a rich archive of history – above and below the water line - Isabel Hofmeyr, Charne Lavery

‘Piracy’, connectivity and seaborne power in the Middle Ages - Nikolas Jaspert (from The Sea in History)*

The Vikings and their age - Nils Blomkvist (from The Sea in History)*

Mercantile Networks, Port Cities, and “Pirate” States - Roxani Eleni Margariti

Phantom Peril in the Arctic - Robert David English, Morgan Grant Gardner*

Assorted ones on India

A departure from history: Kashmiri Pandits, 1990-2001 - Alexander Evans *

Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World - Gyan Prakash

Empire: How Colonial India Made Modern Britain - Aditya Mukherjee

Feminism and Nationalism in India, 1917-1947 - Aparna Basu

The Epic Riddle of Dating Ramayana, Mahabharata - Sunaina Kumar*

Caste and Politics: Identity Over System - Dipankar Gupta

Our worldview is Delhi based*

Sports (you’ll have to excuse the fact that it’s only cricket but what can i say, i’m indian)

‘Massa Day Done:’ Cricket as a Catalyst for West Indian Independence: 1950-1962 - John Newman*

Playing for power? rugby, Afrikaner nationalism and masculinity in South Africa, c.1900–70 - Albert Grundlingh

When Cricket Was a Symbol, Not Just a Sport - Baz Dreisinger

Cricket, caste, community, colonialism: the politics of a great game - Ramachandra Guha*

Cricket and Politics in Colonial India - Ramchandra Guha

MS Dhoni: A quiet radical who did it his way*

Music

Brega: Music and Conflict in Urban Brazil - Samuel M. Araújo

Color, Music and Conflict: A Study of Aggression in Trinidad with Reference to the Role of Traditional Music - J. D. Elder

The 1975 - ‘Notes On a Conditional Form’ review - Dan Stubbs*

Life Without Live - Rob Sheffield*

How Britney Spears Changed Pop - Rob Sheffield

Concert for Bangladesh

From “Help!” to “Helping out a Friend”: Imagining South Asia through the Beatles and the Concert for Bangladesh - Samantha Christiansen 

Gender

Clothing Behaviour as Non-verbal Resistance - Diana Crane

The Normalisation of Queer Theory - David M. Halperin

Menstruation and the Holocaust - Jo-Ann Owusu*

Women’s Suffrage the Democratic Peace - Allan Dafoe

Pink and Blue: Coloring Inside the Lines of Gender - Catherine Zuckerman*

Women’s health concerns are dismissed more, studied less - Zoanne Clack

Food

How Food-Obsessed Millennials Shape the Future of Food - Rachel A. Becker (as a non-food obsessed somewhat-millennial, this was interesting)

Colonialism’s effect on how and what we eat - Coral Lee

Tracing Europe’s influence on India’s culinary heritage - Ruth Dsouza Prabhu

Chicken Kiev: the world’s most contested ready-meal*

From Russia with mayo: the story of a Soviet super-salad*

The Politics of Pancakes - Taylor Aucoin*

How Doughnuts Fuelled the American Dream*

Pav from the Nau

A Short History of the Vada Pav - Saira Menezes

Fantasy (mostly just harry potter and lord of the rings)

Purebloods and Mudbloods: Race, Species, and Power (from The Politics of Harry Potter)

Azkaban: Discipline, Punishment, and Human Rights (from The Politics of Harry Potter)*

Good and Evil in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lengendarium - Jyrki Korpua

The Fairy Story: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis - Colin Duriez (from Tree of Tales)*

Tolkien’s Augustinian Understanding of Good and Evil: Why The Lord of the Rings Is Not Manichean - Ralph Wood (from Tree of Tales)*

Travel

The Hidden Cost of Wildlife Tourism

Chronicles of a Writer’s 1950s Road Trip Across France - Kathleen Phelan

On the Early Women Pioneers of Trail Hiking - Gwenyth Loose

On the Mythologies of the Himalaya Mountains - Ed Douglas*

More random assorted ones

The cosmos from the wheelchair (The Economist obituaries)*

In El Salvador - Joan Didion

Scientists are unravelling the mystery of pain - Yudhijit Banerjee

Notes on Nationalism - George Orwell

Politics and the English Language - George Orwell*

What Do the Humanities Do in a Crisis? - Agnes Callard*

The Politics of Joker - Kyle Smith

Sushant Singh Rajput: The outsider - Uday Bhatia*

Credibility and Mystery - John Berger

happy reading :)

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Language Resources Masterpost

[piracywhiskeypoetry]

soon-to-be-polyglot:

I hope that this post makes it easier to find what you are looking for!

General

Community: lang-8, SharedLingo, Livemocha, unilang, LingQ, gospeaky

<10 languages: languagehelpers, Miscositas, SayJack, languagereef, saysomethingin, languagerealm 10-20 languages: languages online, elanguageschool, linguanaut, learnlangs, speak7, languageguide, ielanguages, learnalanguage, nativlang, rocketlanguages 20-50 languages: FSI Language Courses, surfacelanguages, BBC, +50 languages: Learn101, Omniglot, UniLang, the joint language university, Göthe Verlag, iLanguages, loecsen, parleremo, polymath, mylanguages, 101languages, digitaldialects, Language Materials Project Conjugation: verbix, conjuguemos, Cooljugator Interactive learning: Busuu, Duolingo, Memrise, languagepod101, babadum Pronunciation: Forvo Listening: Easy Languages, Dingo Lingo, bookboxinc, Fluentu, lyricstraining, mamalisa Reading: bliubliu, multilingualbooks, lingvist, Project Gutenberg, polyglotproject, grimmstories, lonweb, interlinearbooks Test & Exercises: göthe-verlag Vocabulary: Most common words, Anki, internetpolyglot, Word Frequency Lists, ASJP Grammar & Spelling checker: languagetool

Here’s my dictionary masterpost!

Afrikaans

Dictionaries: rieme PDF: Grammar of Afrikaans Websites: easyafrikaans, wespeke, heinsuniverse, wikibooks Youtube: learn afrikaans, STEOHENSTONE

Albanian

Dictionaries: argjiro PDF: Albanian Grammar, Peace Corps Albanian, Grammatical Sketch Websites: learnalbanianlanguage, utexas, albanianoverview, Youtube: learnalbanianonline, violagj, Learn Albanian by IALC Group

Amharic

Dictionaries: amharicdictionary, abyssinica PDF: Amharic Basic Course 1, Amharic Basic Course 2 Websites: amharicteacher, learnamharic.ning, learn amharic!, learnamharicnow, amharic.com Youtube: Learn Amharic Ethiopian Language, Learning Amharic Language, MsBissirat

Arabic

Dictionaries: arabdict, almaany, firdaous, lisaanmasry (egyptian), PDF: the Arabic Alphabet, Easy Arabic Grammar, Verbs & Grammar, Colloquial Levantine Arabic, FSI Arabic

Peace Corps Arabic (Chad)

Peace Corps Arabic (Jordanian Arabic Grammar)

Peace Corps Arabic (Mauritania): Hassaniya Grammar Lessons, Grammar

Peace Corps Arabic Moroccan Arabic Textbook

Peace Corps Arabic (Tunisia)

Websites: talkinarabic, arabiconline, learningarabic, salaamarabic, learnarabiconline, madinaharabic, arabic-studio, arabic-alphabet, arabic-course, desert-sky, learning.aljazeera.net, Egyptian Arabic Grammar, SpeakDziri Youtube: Learn Arabic with Maha, Arabic for beginners, arabicpod101, learn lebanese arabic, NassraArabicMethod.com, learn arabic, everyday arabic, Saifi Institute For Arabic Language, ArabicWithNadia, learnarabiclanguage

Armenian

Dictionaries: nayiri, english2armenian PDF: Armenian for everyone, Eastern Armenian for the English-speaking World, Peace Corps Armenian Websites: Armenian Language Lessons, arak29, little Armenia, Aybuben Youtube: Garegin Avetisyan, Karim Musallam           Reading: Haybook. Armenian ebooks

Basque

Dictionaries: elhuyar, euskaltzaindia PDF: Course of Basque, A brief grammar of Euskara Websites: Habe Ikasbil, Hiru, A Brierf Grammar of Euskara Youtube: Learning Basque

Bengali

Dictionaries: bdword, english-bangla PDF: Peace Corps Bengali Websites: Learn to Read Bengali, bangla bolo, virtualbangladesh, bengali podcasts, bangalinet, wikibooks, mybengali, bangla-online Youtube: Enchantress, talkingbees, Barnamala Online Bengali School- BOBS, Learn the Bengali Language

Bulgarian

Dictionaries: diri PDF: FSI Bulgarian (1) (2), Peace Corps Bulgarian, Bulgarian Grammar, Frase Book Bulgaria Travel, Basic Course Websites: Elementary On-Line Bulgarian Grammar, blazingbulgaria, bulgarianlessons, learn-bulgarian.net, Easy Bulgarian, Bulgarian grammar drills Youtube: Merli Uchida, Vasil Todorov, Learn Bulgarian Easily, bulgarianpod101, I learn Bulgarian (Аз уча български)

Burmese

Dictionaries: burmese-dictionary, myordbok PDF: elementary hand-book of the Burmese language Websites: The Free Online Burmese Lessons, seasite, Learn Burmese online, salika, Burmese Script, University of London Youtube: Burmese Lesson, Prof. Bo, maung Lu, BurmeseLanguage, myanducation’s channel, Kenneth Wong, fissace

Cantonese

Dictionaries: cantodict PDF: Basic Cantonese, FSI Cantonese (1) (2) Websites: Learn Cantonese, Learn Cantonese 學廣東話, Cantonese Lessons, Learn Cantonese with Free Lessons, popupcantonese, hkmz, Cantonese Podcasts, wikibooks Youtube: EZCantonese, Cantonese Lessons, LearnCantoneseFast, CarlosDouh, cantoneseclass101

Czech

Dictionaries: seznam, slovnik PDF: Grammar of Czech as a foreign language, Czech Grammar, FSI Czech Websites: ilearnczech, locallingo, the little czech primer, czech grammar, Outline of Czech Grammar, czech-in-prague, wikibooks Youtube: onlineczech, Learn Czech Online, Learn Czech with Rich, czechclass101 CCE: Czech Language Certificate Exam

Danish

PDF: Danish, an essential grammar Websites: Danish Grammar, speak danish, Danish Grammar for English Speakers, copenhagencast Youtube: Danish Lessons with Marty, Danishclass101, TheDanishLessons

Dutch

Dictionaries: mijnwoordenboek, woordenlijst, vandale PDF: Dutch: a comprehensive grammar, Dutch: an essential grammar Websites: learndutch.nu, learndutch.org, taalthuis, dutchgrammar, heardutchhere, dutch for kids Youtube: Learn Dutch With Rozemarijn, learndutch, OnlineDutchLessons, dutchpod101    Conjugation: verbuga Reading: wikikids, kinderverhalen, 1001korteverhalen Listening: 2bdutch

English

Dictionaries: yourdictionary, Dictionary of Unusual Words PDF: Oxford guide to English grammar Websites: English as a Second Language Podcast, english grammar, english banana, perfect-english-grammar, learn-english-online, learnenglish, learnenglish-online, alison Youtube: Voice & Accent Training, Daily Video Vocabulary, Learn English with Let’s Talk, Englishclass101 Grammar & Spelling checker: spellcheckplus

Esperanto

Dictionaries: majstro Websites: lernu, esperanto-chicago, esperantofre, The Sixteen Rules of Esperanto Grammar Youtube: American Esperantist

Estonian

Dictionaries: dictionary.ee, dukelupus, eki.ee PDF: The Estonian Language, Grammatical Case in Estonian Websites: engetranslations, keeleklikk, panglosskool, Estonian language blog, Estonian Language Course, Estonian Morphology Guide Youtube: Little Miss Squirrel

Farsi

Dictionaries: dictionary-farsi, farsidic PDF: FSI Spoken Persian, Persian for Beginners, Websites: easypersian, PersianDee, jahanshiri, learn-persian, persian language online, Persian Online, Virtual Persian, Let’s Learn Persian, persian grammar guide, chaiandconversation Youtube: Farsi Wizard, Farsi or Persian, Persian Online Academy, Reza Nazari, persianpod101

Finnish

Dictionaries: kaannos, fincd, ilmainensanakirja PDF: FSI Conversational (Textbook) (Workbook), Finnish for Beginners Websites: uuno, tavataan taas, uusi kielemee, a taste of finnish, venla, Finnish grammar, thefinnishteacher Youtube: inFinnish, finnishpod101 Reading: puhutaan-suomea

French

Dictionaries: linternaute PDF: French Pronunciation

Peace Corps French (Cameroon)

Peace Corps French (Mali)

FSI French (1) (2) (Belgium)

Websites: frenchstepbystep, french-today, french-online, talkinfrench, lingvist, frenchtutorial, bonjour, français interactif, the french experiment, frenchcrazy, frenchbyfrench, lawless french, tex’s french grammar, Allons!, phonetique Youtube: Alexa Polidoro, FRENCH FROM BEGINNERS TO ADVANCED, Comme une Française, YouLearnFrench, frenchpod101, Frencheezee Grammar & Spelling checker: bonpatron Reading: historiettes Listening: news in slow french

Fulani

PDF: Fula Basic Course, Peace Corps Pulaar (Mauritania) (Gambia), LEARNER’S GUIDE TO PULAR  Websites: Adamawa Fulfulde Youtube: FulanITales, Learn Fulani Online

Georgian

Dictionaries: translate.ge PDF: Georgian Grammar, Peace Corps Georgian, a learner’s grammar Websites: georgian-language, THE GEORGIAN LANGUAGE , georgianweb, georgian language & culture, funkygeorgian, Youtube: learn Georgian language, Georgian Language, საბავშვო არხი

German

Dictionaries: langenscheidt, duden PDF: FSI German (1) (2) Websites: german-grammar, deutsch-lernen, dw, umich, learn-german-easily, canoo, flageorgia, Basic German, germanlanguageguide, german.net Youtube: Deutsch für Euch, Lern Deutsch mit Herrn Antrim, germanpod101, DW – Deutsch lernen, Deutsch Lernen Conjugation: cactus2000 Reading: Leselupe, germanstories Listening: slowgerman, Kindergeschichten Goethe-Zertifikat: Goethe-Zertifikat TestDaF: What is the TestDaF?

Greek

Dictionaries: greek-language PDF: FSI Greek (1) (2) (3) Websites: filoglossia, greek grammar, kypros, greek language, Learning Greek Videos, agni, ellopos Youtube: linaaaap1, Christos, Papaloizos Publications - Learn Greek the Easy Way, greekpod101

Hausa

PDF: Introduction to the Hausa Language, Hausa Basic Course, Hausa Grammatical Sketch, Hausa language Websites: Teach Yourself Hausa, Hausa Basic Course, Youtube: MSUHausa, Hausa Lessons

Hebrew

Dictionaries: morfix PDF: FSI Hebrew Websites: teach me hebrew, hebrew, learn hebrew pod, free hebrew, hebrewverb, learn hebrew easily, do it in hebrew, hebrew-courses, Youtube: Matan Stein, Learn to Speak Hebrew, Ori Ben, bnaiorpueblo, hebrewpod101, eTeacherHebrew           Conjugation: hebrew-verbs

Hindi

Dictionaries: hindi-english PDF: Learn Hindi through English Websites: hindi grammar online, learning-hindi, virtual hindi, mind ur hindi, a door to hindi, hindilanguage, learn hindi online, hindiGym, hindikunj Youtube: LEARN HINDI with Anil Mahato, itwasnoteasy, CrazyLassi, Spoken Hindi, hindipod101, learn hindi through english Writing: Devanagari script tutor

Hungarian

Dictionaries: topszotar PDF: FSI Hungarian (1) (2), Practical Hungarian Grammar, Websites: hungarianreference, magyarora, hungarotips, hungarian-language-teacher, Hungarian Language Page, Let’s learn Hungarian, A Hungarian Language Course, wikibooks Youtube: HungarianProject, Teacher Hungarian, Eszter Gottschall, Dolores Kostić, Hungarian Lesson With Zsuzsi, survivinghungary, hungarianpod101

Icelandic

Dictionaries: snara PDF: The Syntax of Icelandic Websites: icelandiconline, icelandic grammar exercises, An Icelandic minigrammar, Viltu læra íslensku?, Icelandic Grammar Notebook, wikibooks Youtube: Cool Icelandic Lessons, TransparentIcelandic Conjugations & declensions: Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls

Indonesian

Dictionaries: kamus, sederet PDF: students guide to indonesian grammar, Peace Corps Indonesian (1) (2) (3), Understanding Indonesian Grammar Websites: bahasaKita, beginning Indonesian, Learning Indonesian Online, the indonesian way, Learning Bahasa Indonesia, bahasa-corner, seasite, indodic, learning Indonesian, wikibooks Youtube: iracarolina2001, learn indonesian, indonesianpod101

Irish

Dictionaries: focloir, potafocal PDF: how the language works, Websites: easy irish, daltai, irishlanguage.net, nualeargais, erinsweb, easyirish, gaeilge.ie Youtube: Speak Irish Now LLC, Easy Irish/Gaeilge/Gaelic, Transparent Irish, Irish Language Lessons, Dale Kelly, Gaelic Galore

Italian

Dictionaries: garzantilinguistica PDF: Modern Italian Grammar, Basic Italian, FSI Italian (1) (2) Websites: italian-online, oneworlditaliano, onlineitalianclub, la grammatica italiana, italianlanguageguide, cyberitalian, Free Internet Italian Grammar, zapitalian, iluss, Test your Italian on line, poliglo, italianizeyourself, mitspeakitalian, audibleitalian Youtube: Pensa in Italiano!, Italian for Beginners, italianpod101, Learn Italian with Lucrezia, Sgrammaticando Conjugation: italian-verbs, Coniuga i verbi Reading: ilnarrastorie, vikidia CILS / CELI: Esempi prove di esami, Italian Diploma exam samples, Diploma CILS

Japanese

Dictionaries: jisho, tangorin, PDF: Japanese Grammar Guide, An Introduction to Japanese Syntax, Grammar & Language, Let’s learn Japanese (1) (2) Websites: thejapanesepage, guidetojapanese, freejapaneselessons, learn-japanese-adventure, japaneseclass, nihongoichiban, Visualizing Japanese Grammar, marugotoweb, tofugu, jplang, eigo21 Youtube: LearningJapanese, japanesepod101 Writing: skritter, kanjidamage, kana-invaders, Kanji alive JLPT: jlpt.jp, jlpt-practice, jlptbootcamp, JLPT Level

Kannada

Dictionaries: shabdkosh PDF: kannada lesson, Kannada Manual, Websites: kannadabaruthe, Spoken Kannada, learn Kannada, languagereef Youtube: Learn Kannada Language, Learning Kannada

Kazakh

Dictionaries: lugat PDF: Peace Corps Kazakh Websites: Grammatical Sketch with Affix List, my astana, Kazakh phrasebook Youtube: Maksat Imangazi

Khmer

Dictionaries: angkor-planet, kheng PDF: FSI Cambodian (1) (2), Khmer Grammar Websites: seasite, naturalkhmer, Bong Thom, learnkhmernow, i speak khmer Youtube: CambodianSchool, Khmer Lesson, Khmer Lessons

Korean

Dictionaries: naver, daum, ybmallinall PDF: Korean From Zero 1, my korean 1, my korean 2, a grammar guide, FSI Korean Course (1) (2), Essential Grammar Websites: kosnet, talktomeinkorean, korean grammar plus, zkorean, howtostudykorean, soganguniversity, learnkoreanlp, korean language education center, Matthew’s Study & Reference Guide, cuk.edu, indiana, learnkorean, lets learn korean, berkeley university, learnkoreanlanguage, genkikorean, wikibooks, grammar dictionary, indiana.edu, korean-course, Youtube: KBS World TV, talktomeinkorean, Free Korean Lessons 101, fluentkorean, GO! Billy Korean, koreanclass101, 뽀로로 Conjugation: hangulsoup, dongsa TOPIK: TOPIK Guide, 날다람쥐

Latin

Dictionaries: latin-dictionary PDF: Beginner’s Latin Book, Latin for Beginners, New Latin Grammar Websites: Latin Grammar Resources, beginner’s latin, i learn latin, nugae latinae Youtube: latintutorial, The London Latin Course, Latin Lessons

Latvian

Dictionaries: letonika, dictionary PDF:  Latvian: an Essential Grammar, Peace Corps Latvian Websites: The Latvian Language, Latvian Grammar, learning latvian, Kursa satura rādītājs, learn latvian online Youtube: LearnLatvian, LatvianWords4u, Learning Latvian with Lienite

Lithuanian

Dictionaries: anglu-lietuviu, dict.lt PDF: A short grammar of Lithuanian Websites: saylabas, Lithuanian Language Lessons, debeselis, lithuanian out loud, Hermes Youtube: videomokykla, Learn Lithuanian, LithuaniaForYou, Lithuanian language, LTvideocourse

Mandarin

Dictionaries: dict.cn, linedict.com, mdbg PDF: Peace Corps Mandarin, FSI Chinese Websites: arch Chinese,  chinese-tools, yoyochinese, popupchinese, cctv, sinosplice, most commom characters, Basic Chinese, Intermediate Chinese, mitlearningchinese, chinesehacks, pinyinpractice Youtube: Fiona Tian, yangyang cheng, learnchinesewithemma, Chineseclass101, minnaxiao, learn chinese now Reading: chinesereadingpractice Writing: skritter HSK: Important HSK Test Practice Materials, HSK Vocabulary and Sample Tests, HSK tests levels 1-6, Past papers

Marathi

Dictionaries: shabdkosh Websites: my marathi learning, mind ur marathi, kaushiklele-learnmarathi, languagereef Youtube: APPUSERIESMARATHI, Kaushik Lele, Pioneers Education

Mongolian

Dictionaries: bolor-toli, englishmongolian PDF: Peace Corps Mongolian Websites: study mongolian, Mongolian Lessons, indiana.edu, funky mongolian Youtube: mongolianlanguage, MongolHel

Norwegian

Dictionaries: ordnett PDF: FSI Norwegian, An essential grammar Websites: Norwegian on the web, norwegianlanguage, sons of norway, norwegian4people, Stein på Stein, norwords Youtube: Norwegian Teacher - Karin, Learn Norwegian Naturally, Courses Norwegian, norwegianpod101

Polish

Dictionaries: ling.pl PDF: Polish Grammar, FSI Polish Course, Advanced Polish Websites: Mówić po polsku, course in the Polish language, skwierzyna, learn polish feel good, wikibooks Youtube: Polish For Beginners, Uczmy Się Polskiego (Let’s Learn Polish), Course of Polish, Kanał użytkownika learnpolisheu, polishpod101 Egzaminy Certyfikatowe z Języka Polskiego jako Obcego: info

Portuguese

Dictionaries: portuguesedictionary PDF: FSI Brazilian Portuguese (1) (2), Phrasebook Websites: easyportuguese, oneness, tá falado, Brazilian Portuguese Grammar Guide, portugueselanguageguide, learn portuguese with rafa, learning portuguese, sonia-portuguese Youtube: EuroPortuguese LA, Practice Portuguese, Tradutex Portuguese Lessons, ILearn Portuguese, Beto Dias Channel, portuguesepod101

Punjabi

Dictionaries: ijunoon, shabdkosh PDF: A Reference Grammar of Punjabi, A START IN PUNJABI, How to learn Punjabi Websites: learnpunjabi, Overview of Punjabi Grammar, wikibooks, maa.com.au Youtube: Hardeep Singh, Speak Punjabi Lessons, Panti Akhar

Romanian

Dictionaries: dictionare PDF: Romanian Grammar, FSI Romanian Grammar, Romanian: an essential grammar Websites: rolang, romanian lessons, learnro, easy romanian Youtube: LearnRomanian WithNico, QuickRomanian, rolangschool, Learn Romanian, Romanian Language Quickies      

Russian

Dictionaries: multitran PDF: A Comprehensive Russian Grammar, A Basic Modern Russian Grammar, Russian Grammar, FSI Russian Course Websites: masterrussian, learn russian step by step, russianforeveryone, yesrussian, study-languages-online, russianlessons, learn-russian, funrussian, russianforfree, russian-translation-pros, worddive Youtube: ROU Russian, funrussian, Antonia Romaker, Easy Russian, R for Russian, learn russian easily, Ru-land, Russian grammar, russianpod101, Listening: rutube, bestrussiantv, top-russian-movies TORFL: Training tests

Serbo-Croatian

Dictionaries: hrvatski-rjecnik (Croatian) PDF: FSI Serbo-Croatian (1) (2), A Handbook of Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian, Websites: serbianlesson, srpskibre, International Serbian Language Course, funky serbian, learn-croatian, easy-croatian, basic-croatian, visit-croatia Youtube: Learning Croatian, learning croatian, Learn Serbian, Learnserbian, monicacorbett26, learnserbianquickly, Lidija Novakovic      

Spanish

Dictionaries: spanishdict PDF: FSI Spanish (1) (2) (3) (4) (Puerto Rico) (Spain) (Latin America), Words and Phrases, Modern Spanish Grammar Websites: learn-spanish-online, Spanish Language & Culture, studyspanish, Spanish Grammar, Grammar Exercises, Spanish Grammar in Context, notes in spanish, bowdoin Youtube: Señor Hey, Butterfly Spanish, Maria Español, spanishpod101, Tu escuela de español, LightSpeedSpanish, Tio Spanish, ProfeDeELE.es Listening: newsinslowspanish Reading: cuentos infantiles, cuentos para chicos Grammar & Spelling checker: spanishchecker DELE: Description of DELE

Swahili

PDF: FSI Swahili Websites: Swahili language & culture, Kiswahili kwa Komputa, kiswahili.net, the swahili coast, learn kiSwahili, swahili website, magical kenya Youtube: swahili101, Tuwaze mawazo, swahilipod101

Swedish

Dictionaries: tyda, ord PDF: FSI Swedish Course, Jag lär mig svenska Websites: Swedish Grammar, onlineswedish, swedishlesson, worddive, lysator Youtube: LearningSvenska, Swedish2go, GoSwedish, swedishpod101, the swedish lad

Tagalog

Dictionaries: pinoydictionary, tagalog-dictionary PDF: Peace Corps Tagalog, Essential Tagalog Grammar Websites: learningtagalog, seasite.niu, learn-tagalog, tagaloglang, pinoydirectory, Tagalog Phrases Youtube: learntagalog, Learn Tagalog with Fides, Tagalog Made Easy, alanmillet, filipinopod101

Tamil

Dictionaries: tamildict, shabdkosh PDF: Colloquial Tamil, A Grammar of modern Tamil, Tamil Morphology, Basic Lessons Websites: thetamillanguage, ibiblio, Tamil Grammar, TamilO, A Grammar of Spoken Tamil, learning-tamil, tamil tutor, tamilcube, languagereef Youtube: desidame4eva, MagicBox Tamil ELS Kids Channel, செல்லமே செல்லம்

Telugu

Dictionaries: telugudictionary, andhrabharati, telugupedia PDF: Conversational Telugu Websites: learningtelugu, languagereef, classle, telugubasha, telugu website Youtube: Learn Telugu through English, Krishna Krish, Easy Learning Ways.com

Thai

Dictionaries: linedict, thai2english PDF: FSI Thai Course (1) (2) (Grammar), Thai Grammar Websites: kruuweeteachthai, learningcentre, learnthaiwithmod, speakingthai, slice-of-thai, thai-language, Fundamentals of the Thai Language, Thai Basic Reader, speak real Thai Youtube: ThaiwithMod, kruuweeteachthai, thaipod101, Thai Language Hut School, learn2speakthai, My Thai Language School, learningthai

Turkish

Dictionaries: seslisözlük, tureng PDF: FSI Turkish Course (1) (2), Turkish Grammar, teach yourself turkish Websites: turkishteatime, turkishbasics, totally-turkish, elon, turkishclass, easy-turkish, turkishlanguage, Turkish Test, learnturkish, I’m learning Turkish Youtube: Learn Turkish with Burcu, OnlineTurkishLessons, totallyturkish, turkishclass101

Urdu

Dictionaries: urduenglishdictionary, urduWord, urdu123 Websites: A door into Urdu, learnurdulanguage, Learn to Read Urdu, urdu-english Youtube: Learn Urdu with Muneeb, EDUCATION PYRAMID UAE, Mohammed Chughtai

Vietnamese

Dictionaries: tratu soha, viet dictionary, vdict PDF: FSI Vietnamese Course (1) (2), Colloquial Vietnamese, Basic Phrases, Introduction Websites: seasite, LEARN VIỆT, hoctiengviet-online, hanoilanguagetours, Learning Vietnamese Online Youtube: Learn how to speak Vietnamese, Learn Vietnamese With Annie, Vietnamese for Beginners, Vietnamesepod101

Welsh

Dictionaries: Geiriadur PDF: Some basic rules of Welsh grammar Websites: learn-welsh, Learn Welsh now, siaradcymraeg, Croeso: Beginners’ Welsh, A Welsh Course Youtube: Learn Welsh with Will, MyWelshTV, Welsh Plus, Learn Welsh, IkkyLee

Wolof

PDF: Wolof Lessons, Wolof Grammar, Wolof Grammar Manual Websites: wolofonline, UCLA Wolof Web Site, laaf.me Youtube: Moustapha Sarr

Xhosa

Dictionaries: gononda PDF: Xhosa Grammar, grammatical sketch Websites: Izifundo zesiXhosa, unisa, learnxhosa Youtube: XhosaKhaya

Yorùbá

Dictionaries: yourubadictionary, aroadeyorubadictionary PDF: FSI (Basic) (Intermediate), Yoruba: A Grammar Sketch Websites: Yorùbá Yé Mi, learn yoruba, Learning Yoruba, Yoruba Classroom Youtube: YorubaSpeaker, necksonUtube, Yoruba language tutorial for medical personnel, Learning Yoruba, IKWYSinteractive

Zulu

Dictionaries: isiZulu.net PDF: Zulu-Handbook, An Introduction to Zulu Language Websites: isiZulunet, sifunda isiZulu, unisa, wikibooks, LEARN THE ZULU LANGUAGE Youtube: Learn NDebele/Zulu, Sharl Henning

[maisiewilliams]

10 Female Written Short Stories Everyone Should Read

I have seen a post circulating for a while that lists 10 short stories everyone should read and, while these are great works, most of them are older and written by white men. I wanted to make a modern list that features fresh, fantastic and under represented voices. Enjoy!

1. A Temporary Matter by Jhumpa Lahiri — A couple in a failing marriage share secrets during a blackout. 

2. Stone Animals by Kelly Link — A family moves into a haunted house.

3. Reeling for the Empire by Karen Russell — Women are sold by their families to a silk factory, where they are slowly transformed into human silkworms. 

4. Call My Name by Aimee Bender — A woman wearing a ball gown secretly auditions men on the subway. 

5. The Man on the Stairs by Miranda July — A woman wakes up to a noise on the stairs. 

6. Brownies by ZZ Packer — Rival Girl Scout troops are separated by race. 

7. City of My Dreams by Zsuzi Gartner — A woman works at a shop selling food-inspired soap and tries not to think about her past. 

8. A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor — A family drives from Georgia to Florida, even though a serial killer is on the loose. 

9. Hitting Budapest by NoViolet Bulawayo — A group of children, led by a girl named Darling, travel to a rich neighborhood to steal guavas. 

10. You’re Ugly, Too by Lorrie Moore — A history professor flies to Manhattan to spend Halloween weekend with her younger sister.

[astrangewoman]

I LOVE THIS POST!!

I’d like to add:

11. Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor

12. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (this one is my favorite short story of all time)

13. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

14. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates

15. Désirée’s Baby by Kate Chopin

16. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

17. Impressions of an Indian Childhood by Zitkala-Ša

(I wanted to put little summaries for each of them, but I’m afraid I’d spoil the whole story if I did!)

[ellydash]

adding a few more! all by women of color, & the first four were published within the last few years

18. “My Dear You,” Rachel Khong — love, loss, & absurdity in the afterlife

19. “The Husband Stitch,” Carmen Maria Machado — a feminist retelling of the folklore story “The Green Ribbon”

20. “Inventory,” Carmen Maria Machado — one woman’s retrospective list of her life’s sexual encounters

21. “Boys Go to Jupiter,” Danielle Evans — what happens after a white college student poses for a photo in a Confederate flag bikini

22. “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” ZZ Packer — a Black woman attends Yale University

[izzychao]

oh i have some of these too! many are science-fiction or science-fantasy, because the woman in those genres are severely under-represented ! The first two authors are slightly older, but their works are so important in the development of the roles of women in scifi as a genre so!

23. “Those Who Walk Away from Omelas” and “Mountain Ways” by Ursula K. Le Guin — The first is a study of philosophical questions similar to the trolley problem, told in very loose form. The second is a science-fantasy story about two women navigating love and sexuality in their society’s polyamorous marriage rituals. But honestly you should read all of Le Guin’s short stories and novels, she’s amazing.

24. “Bloodchild” by Octavia Butler — One of my all-time FAVORITE short stories, about a future where humans live alongside large insect-like aliens, and serve as hosts for their eggs and larval young. It’s gruesome, gory, unsettling, and honestly pretty horrific but it’s really wonderful–if you can handle horror in your stories I highly recommended it. Butler’s novels are also wonderful, please check them out if you can (not all of them are this unsettling)

25. “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi” by Pat Cadigan — A trans allegory in which future humans go through surgery to become invertebrate sea creatures (cephalopods and arthropods mostly) in order to better work in space. Wonderfully weird in so many ways.

26. “From the Lost Diary of Treefrog7” and “The Palm Tree Bandit” by Nnedi Okorafor — Lost Diary is a story about a woman and her husband exploring an alien jungle told through research log-style journal entries. Very much survival horror scifi. Palm Tree Bandit is told as a mother reciting a story to her daughter as she braids her hair, about her great-grandmother who started a kind of small revolution for women in Nigeria. Nnedi’s novels and other short stories, as well as her works within the comics industry, are all fantastic, so look into her more if you can!!!

[linguistness]

My German 🇩🇪 Masterlist

Resources:

Some other German tumblr blogs for German learners

German Sign Language Resources

Vocab, grammar, idioms:

A little text style guide

LGBT+ Vocab

Idioms: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10

German idioms with colours 🎨🖌️

Some funny German words #1, #2, #3

Fun German animal names

Movies, TV shows, books, music:

Movies/TV shows:

German TV show, movie, & book recommendations for German learners

Fairy Tale Films

German Comedy Show from the 90s: "Kentucky Schreit Ficken"

Some classic German TV shows I watched as a child & teenager

Books:

German TV show, movie, & book recommendations for German learners

German comic books / graphic novels

Books about German folklore, myths, and legends

German Publishers & Book Shops

Some classic German literature recommendations

Some disturbing German children’s stories

Music:

German-speaking Singers / Bands

German folk music / traditional children's songs

German Culture & Other Stuff:

German School & Education System

The Berlin Wall (1961-1989)

20 German culture things

German bread

The "Nürburgring"

German food, desserts/sweet snacks & cakes

German currency before the Euro (€): "Deutsche Mark"

Biggest ethnic groups in Germany

German sausages

Some content creators who show what it's like living in Germany

1st of May celebrations in Germany

How to become a beekeeper in Germany 🌸🐝🍯

The German font "Sütterlin"

German Comedy Show "Knallerfrauen"

Some Iconic German Characters

Supplemental ID for trans people in Germany 🏳️‍⚧️

Germans have two different names for dandelions

German ‘Kraut’ & ‘Kohl’

European Bisons (aka. Wisents)

The famous German pirate / buccaneer Klaus Störtebeker 🏴‍☠️

Typical German sweets & candies

"Rettungsgasse"

Coat of arms of Germany and its federal states

Turkish-German culture 🇹🇷🇩🇪

German Seasons:

Early spring in Germany

German Shorthand / Stenography:

Learning stenography: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13

[thealpacalypse-archive]

sure i guess sex is okay but have you ever closed a dozen tabs after finishing an academic paper

[neristudy]

Learning German & Staying alive

☄  https://german.net/ - free online resource with some tests, text, and planty more. Great for reading and reading comprehention;

☄ https://germanwithlaura.com - great course that explains grammar a bit more manageable;

☄ https://www.clozemaster.com - somewhat of a duolingo-copy, gamification at ift greatest. From 100 to 50 000 common words in context, can be used for free;

☄ https://wunderdeutsch.com/uk/grammatik-null-u/ - grammar, but in ukrainian. Helpful;

☄ https://golernen.com/ - more grammar, with ukrainian language avaliable;

☄ https://piracywhiskeypoetry.tumblr.com/post/136460408137/language-resources-masterpost - masterpost with multiple language;

☄ https://mein-deutschbuch.de/grammatik.html - another damn grammar

☄ https://www.quia.com/web - tests, some fun stuff.

sheesh I would need to make it pretty, but for now will do

[magpie-reads]

Short Story Recommendations

These all fuck me up to a varying degree of emotions

Crime

Philomel Cottage - Agatha Christie

Lamb to the Slaughter - Roald Dahl

Death and the Compass - Jorge Luis Borges

Horror

The Landlady - Roald Dahl

A Walk in the Dark - Arthur C Clarke

The Wife’s Story - Ursula K Le Guin

The Veldt - Ray Bradbury

The Hanging Stranger - Philip K Dick

The Colour out of Space - H P Lovecraft

The Spider - Hanns Heinz Ewers

Sad

The Life You Save May Be Your Own - Flannery O’Connor

A Small, Good Thing - Raymond Carver

Cathedral - Raymond Carver

The Haunted Boy - Carson McCullers

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas - Ursula K. Le Guin

The Chef - Andy Weir

The Martyr - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

Jambula Tree - Monica Arak de Nyeko

The Rats Do Sleep At Night - Wolfgang Borchert

Sci-Fi

Love is the Plan the Plan is Death - James Tiptree Jr

The Last Question - Isaac Asimov

The Nine Billion Names of God - Arthur C Clarke

The Star - Arthur C Clarke

Reunion - Arthur C Clarke

The Commuter - Philip K Dick

Exhibit Piece - Philip K Dick

To Serve Man - Damon Knight

Brothers Beyond the Void - Paul W Fairman

What the Fuck?! 

The Lottery - Shirley Jackson

A Collapse of Horses - Brian Evenson

Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby - Donald Barthelme

Hopeful Monsters - Hiromi Goto

The Box Social - James Reaney

He-y come on ou-t - shinichi hoshi

The Garden of Forking Paths - Jorge Luis Borges

Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang (just the entire collection bro)

Other

Broken Routine - Jeffrey Archer

A Man Who Had No Eyes - Mackinlay Kantor

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been - Joyce Carol Oates

The Lady, or the Tiger - Frank R Stockton

The Continuity of Parks - Julio Cortázar

The Dinner Party - Mona Gardner

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings - Gabriel García Márquez

On Exactitude in Science - Jorge Luis Borges

[dappermouth]

Lonely spring scenery in Yellowstone Nat’l Park.

[turtlesandfrogs]

Listen to me: You get good at things by being bad at them. You learn by failing. You gain competency and a sense of mastery by failing at something many times and in many interesting ways.

The sooner you are able to laugh at your own failures, to enjoy the process of messing up, the easier life will be. Because you'll no longer be afraid of learning.

And once you're no longer afraid of failing, you can learn anything.

[moonwaterandrain]

i wish it were as easy as it sounds

[turtlesandfrogs]

And that's the thing of it, isn't it? Failing and accepting a failure is itself a skill.

And it can be very hard to learn, especially if you come from a family where a failure is a sign that you are a failure instead of a sign that you are learning.

You're going to fail at failing well. There are going to be times when it hurts, times when your brain is telling you that you should just give up and you'll never get it. Times when a failure is going to frustrate you to no end.

And you can still learn to fail well. You can learn to see it as a sign that you're learning, you can learn to give a little chuckle and say to yourself, well, everyone screws up sometimes, I'm just learning.

It is not easy, but it is important.

[moonlit-positivity]

[judassmyvirtue]

Hey folks, just dropping some resources here for those of you who, like me, are always on the hunt for free reading material, whether it's for research or just to satisfy your curiosity. Check these out:

Library of Congress: Absolute goldmine for academic researches and historical documents. You can spend hours diving into their collections.

Z-library: A treasure trove of books, articles, and papers on pretty much any topic you can think of. Quick downloads, no fuss.

Project Gutenberg: Free e-books galore, especially if you're into classics. Saved me from many a boring commute.

Internet Archive: A digital library offering free universal access to books, movies, and music, plus archived web pages. Endless hours of browsing joy.

Google Books: Sometimes you just need a quick peek inside a book without committing to buying it. Google Books has got your back.

Google Scholar: It scours through scholarly sources, journals, theses, and more. Just be ready to sift through some dense material.

JSTOR: Another heavyweight in the academic world. JSTOR is packed with scholarly articles, books, and primary sources across various disciplines. Some stuff may be behind a paywall, but there's still plenty to explore for free.

Newspaper Archive: Want to browse through historical newspapers? This site has a massive collection spanning centuries and covering a wide range of topics. Perfect for digging up primary sources.

Newspapers.com: Need more historical newspapers? Look no further.

Perseus Digital Library: Focuses on ancient Greco-Roman materials, perfect for those deep dives into classical history.

Digital Public Library of America: Another treasure trove of digitized materials, including photos, manuscripts, and more.

Europeana: European cultural heritage online. Images, texts, the whole shebang.

DOAJ: Open access journals. DOAJ indexes and provides access to high-quality, peer-reviewed open access research journals.

Open Library: Another digital library offering over 1.7 million free eBooks.

Librivox: Audiobooks for when your eyes need a break.

National Archives (UK): Offers access to a wealth of historical documents, including government records, maps, photographs, and more.

Sci-Hub: For the rebels. Access to scholarly articles.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB): Looking for free scholarly books? DOAB has got you covered with a vast collection.

Digital Commons Network: Free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.

Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR): Find open access repositories worldwide.

Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France): French flair for your research.

DigitalNZ: Your gateway to New Zealand's digital heritage.

[vexacarnivorous]

i found this website called workonclimate and i highly suggest anyone in compsci take a look at it! it genuinely seems to have some pretty cool resources wrt to how you as a person in compsci can help the environment + break into a job that would help stop things like climate change, as well as learning more about things like climate change itself in depth.

they also have a slack group in case any of you are slack users.

[vexacarnivorous]

for those people who liked/reblogged this post, you might also be interested in these links:

list of resources, services, products and ideas you can use to "stop kicking the planet in the face."

list of more resources.

list of companies in the sustainability sector with jobs for devs.

list of open source tech for agriculture, farming, and gardening.

a software license that devs can use to prohibit the use of their code by applications or companies that threaten to accelerate climate change through fossil fuel extraction.

other:

list of digital tools for citizen science.

list of digital tools for activism.

list of things to keep in mind if protesting.

list for getting started with web archiving.

the hitchhiker's guide to online privacy.

BOINC is a software platform for "volunteer computing": large-scale distributed high-throughput computing using volunteered home computers and other resources.

[vexacarnivorous]

Can u teach me python from basic 🙄pls

ok the problem with this question is that it would simply take too long for me to explain to u the basics of programming like functions, statements, loops, variables etc. but i CAN direct u to some good resources that would help u in ur python journey and explain all this stuff

freecodecamp (i think the person for this course explains it nicely here)

pythonprogramming

i especially recommend u look at this website called fullstackpython, which has HEAPS of python beginner recs that seem very useful

u should also be doing projects & exercises to really hammer in what you're learning, so i'd recommend project euler (also found on freecodecamp) or that u search up 'coding exercises' on google. there are some projects listed in fullstackpython i believe as well

[eggman-is-fat-mkay]

I highly recommend the book Python for Kids by Jason R. Briggs. My parents bought it for me for my 12th birthday and while I won't go so far as to say it kick-started my whole programming career, since I'd already been writing batch files and programming LEGO robots for a few years before that, it did get me into the world of "real" programming. It walks you through everything from installing Python through basic programing concepts like variables, types, functions, and classes up to making a simple platformer game (and not one of those half-assed games that run using text characters in the terminal, either). You can buy a copy on Amazon if you've got $30 to spare; if not, you can find a PDF copy by searching the title and author without too much hassle.

[butchhamlet]

i said i was going to arrange a list of my favorite articles/criticism about shakespeare, so here’s my first little roundup! obligatory disclaimer that i don’t necessarily agree with or endorse every single point of view in each word of these articles, but they scratch my brain. will add to this list as i continue reading, and feel free to add your own favorites in the reblogs! :]

essays

Is Shakespeare For Everyone? by Austin Tichenor (a basic examination of that question)

Interrogating the Shakespeare System by Madeline Sayet (counterpoint/parallel to the above; on Shakespeare’s place in, and status as, imperialism)

Shakespeare in the Bush by Laura Bohannan (also a good parallel to the above; on whether Shakespeare is really culturally “universal”)

The Unified Theory of Ophelia: On Women, Writing, and Mental Illness (“I was trying to make sense of the different ways men and women related to Ophelia. Women seemed to invoke her like a patron saint; men seemed mostly interested in fetishizing her flowery, waterlogged corpse.”)

Hamlet Is a Suicide Text—It’s Time to Teach It Like One (on teaching shakespeare plays about suicide to high schoolers)

Commuting With Shylock by Dara Horn (on listening to MoV with a ten-year-old son, as modern jewish people, to look at that eternal question of Is This Play Antisemitic?)

All That Glisters is Not Gold (NPR episode, on whether it’s possible to perform othello, taming of the shrew, & merchant to do good instead of harm)

academic articles

the Norton Shakespeare’s intro to the Merchant of Venice (apologies about the highlights here; they are not mine; i scanned this from my rented copy)

the Norton Shakespeare’s intro to Henry the Fourth part 1 (and apologies for the angled page scans on this one; see above)

Richard II: A Modern Perspective by Harry Berger Jr (this is the article that made me understand richard ii)

Hamlet’s Older Brother (“Hamlet and Prince Hal are in the same situation, the distinction resting roughly on the difference between the problem of killing a king and the problem of becoming one. … Hamlet is literature’s Mona Lisa, and Hal is the preliminary study for it.”)

Egyptian Queens and Male Reviewers: Sexist Attitudes in Antony & Cleopatra Criticism (about more than just reviewers; my favorite deconstruction of shakespeare’s cleopatra in general)

Strange Flesh: Antony and Cleopatra and the Story of the Dissolving Warrior (“If Troilus and Cressida is [Shakespeare’s] vision of a world in which masculinity must be enacted in order to exist, Antony and Cleopatra is his vision of a world in which masculinity not only must be enacted, but simply cannot be enacted, his vision of a world in which this particular performance has broken down.”)

misc

Elegy of Fortinbras by Zbigniew Herbert (poem that makes me fucking insane)

Dirtbag Henry IV (what it sounds like.)

Cleopatra and Antony by Linda Bamber (what if a&c… was good.)

[annoyingthemesong]

SUBLIME CINEMA #635 - THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN

Martin McDonagh likes to make films about unique, fringe places, and the fringe people who cross through these places; the locations are so defined and necessary to his stories. Here now he turns the Irish coastlines into a dream of somewhere far away and long ago, and he envelops you in it.

[lakemichiganbaby]

here r my personal fave irish learning sites, i like these ones bc im always looking for sites that teach using native speakers only or primarily and don't teach the standardized irish dialect & i try my best 2 avoid bearlachas. i havent seen these on any of thee posts goin around lately so i hope they are helpful!

the doegan records project - this is my FAVE hands down bc u can sort by COUNTY, it has a bunch of stories/audio files of native speakers the audio is all crunchy as fuck but theres english + irish transcriptions its really awesome.

Sgéilíní na Finne - this one is a bunch of stories from donegal, with audio and irish transcriptions and at the bottom of each one theres a vocab/idiom cheat sheet.

Peadar Ó Laoghaire Idiom Collection - a collection of irish idioms, descs are all in irish jsyk but this is really amazing theres like 400+

Cainnt na nDaoine - irish phrasebook, lots of rly good useful and natural irish idioms and everyday phrases! no audio and it's written in seanchló for the irish bits.

and of course RnG & TG4 are awesome as well i <3 those .. i like to catch nuacht a sé on RnG bc world news is kind of smth u already have context for so it can b easier to piece together

[studysthetical]

Here are some general tips I’ve summarized from my experience this year in dealing with a bunch of demanding classes!

Plan. Everything. 

This tip is especially for my fellow procrastinators as I’ve never been able to focus completely on a huge task. Do yourself a favor and divide a daunting project into smaller portions and predict how long it will take you to complete the task (it doesn’t matter if its inaccurate). Now since you know how long each sub-task will take, you can use With this method, you’ll find yourself utilizing time much more efficiently as you’ll finish a huge task bit by bit each day. 

(Personal Favorites Marked with 🌟 )

Time Management Methods, Websites, and Apps:

🌟 Schooltraq (future post coming up about this website/app!)

Bullet Journaling (masterpost by @studyign​)

🌟 Momentum (a chrome extension)

Habitica (Previously HabitRPG)

MyStudyLife (there’s an app for both android and ios!!!)

myHomework  (there’s an app for both android and ios!!!)

Notetaking and Studying

To be rather blunt, the majority of studyblr is focused around pretty notes that have been revised many times and most pictures of notes with a lot of notes on here have a lot of notes primarily because they are aesthetically pleasing. I’m all for pretty notes but remember that the universal goal of studyblrs is to succeed and if you have a lot of work to do, you don’t have time to color-code and rewrite everything to look neat. Even if you don’t take too long to make your notes look nice remember that every second counts!

Methods:

Taking Notes in Class/Lecture Notes by @studyquirk​

Efficient Notes in Class by @hexaneandheels​

Making Revision Notes by @raistudy​

How to Make Study Guides by @studybudyblr​

How to Revise by @youaretheairinmyalveoli​

Stress Relief

Remember it isn’t always about studying! Taking a break will help you do better as well so don’t be afraid to do something fun in fear of not getting your work done! 

Calming Music and Websites:

Rain Sounds

Nature Sounds Mixer 

🌟 Coffee Shop Sounds (Coffitivity)

🌟 The Quiet Place

I hope this was helpful!!! also pls ignore my overuse of exclamation marks