Queer Defense Squad

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[queerdefensesquad]

Taken from Instagram. You cannot reform this. #Minneapolis #BlackLivesMatter #FuckThePolice #ACAB #MinneapolisProtests #Protest2020 #FUCKmpd

[hookieduke]

I am teaming up with @triplestamppress in Richmond, VA to raise money for @splcenter (Southern Poverty Law Center). The SPLC does amazing work fighting against intolerance and racism, hate, and working to obtain and uphold the civil rights that all peoples deserve. So next week please join @triplestamppress who has generously donated their time and skills, and me, by purchasing this this tshirt. ALL proceeds will go to SPLC and help fight the hatred and bigotry, that that seen in Charlottesville, VA this past weekend. Details on shirts forthcoming! We are still picking out blanks. (: #resist #fightracism #southernpovertylawcenter

[chaoticum]

I believe in free education, one that’s 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!

FREE ONLINE COURSES (here are listed websites that provide huge variety of courses)

Alison 

Coursera

FutureLearn

open2study

Khan Academy

edX

P2P U

Academic Earth

iversity

Stanford Online

MIT Open Courseware

Open Yale Courses

BBC Learning

OpenLearn

Carnegie Mellon University OLI

University of Reddit

Saylor

IDEAS, INSPIRATION & NEWS (websites which deliver educational content meant to entertain you and stimulate your brain)

TED

FORA

Big Think 

99u

BBC Future

Seriously Amazing

How Stuff Works

Discovery News

National Geographic

Science News

Popular Science

IFLScience

YouTube Edu

DIY & HOW-TO’S (Don’t know how to do that? Want to learn how to do it yourself? Here are some great websites.)

wikiHow

Wonder How To

instructables

eHow

Howcast

MAKE

Do it yourself

FREE TEXTBOOKS & E-BOOKS

OpenStax CNX

Open Textbooks

Bookboon

Textbook Revolution

E-books Directory

FullBooks

Books Should Be Free

Classic Reader

Read Print

Project Gutenberg

AudioBooks For Free

LibriVox

Poem Hunter

Bartleby

MIT Classics

Many Books

Open Textbooks BCcampus

Open Textbook Library

WikiBooks

SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES & JOURNALS

Directory of Open Access Journals

Scitable

PLOS

Wiley Open Access

Springer Open

Oxford Open

Elsevier Open Access

ArXiv

Open Access Library

LEARN:

1. LANGUAGES

Duolingo

BBC Languages

Learn A Language

101languages

Memrise

Livemocha

Foreign Services Institute

My Languages

Surface Languages

Lingualia

OmniGlot

OpenCulture’s Language links

2. COMPUTER SCIENCE & PROGRAMMING

Codecademy

Programmr

GA Dash

CodeHS

w3schools

Code Avengers

Codelearn

The Code Player

Code School

Code.org

Programming Motherf*?$%#

Bento

Bucky’s room

WiBit

Learn Code the Hard Way

Mozilla Developer Network

Microsoft Virtual Academy

3. YOGA & MEDITATION

Learning Yoga

Learn Meditation

Yome

Free Meditation

Online Meditation

Do Yoga With Me

Yoga Learning Center

4. PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMMAKING

Exposure Guide

The Bastards Book of Photography

Cambridge in Color

Best Photo Lessons

Photography Course

Production Now

nyvs

Learn About Film

Film School Online

5. DRAWING & PAINTING

Enliighten

Ctrl+Paint

ArtGraphica

Google Cultural Institute

Drawspace

DragoArt

WetCanvas

6. INSTRUMENTS & MUSIC THEORY

Music Theory

Teoria

Music Theory Videos

Furmanczyk Academy of Music

Dave Conservatoire

Petrucci Music Library

Justin Guitar

Guitar Lessons

Piano Lessons

Zebra Keys

Play Bass Now

7. OTHER UNCATEGORIZED SKILLS

Investopedia

The Chess Website

Chesscademy

Chess.com

Spreeder

ReadSpeeder

First Aid for Free

First Aid Web

Wolfram Demonstrations Project

Please feel free to add more learning focused websites. 

*There are a lot more learning websites out there, but I picked the ones that are, as far as I’m aware, completely free and in my opinion the best/ more useful.

[clevergirlhelps]

General Resources

Encyclopedia Britannica

Everything Writing

Goddess of Writing Advice

History Channel

National Geographic

refdesk

TED Talks

TV Tropes

Useful Notes

Wikipedia

Writing Exercises and Generators

YouTube

Academic

allacademic

Apps for students

Bibliography Maker

Free online courses

Google Scholar

How to Write a 20 Page Research Paper (In a Day!)

mendeley

wolframalpha

Art

3D Drawing and Modeling 

Adhesives reference

Clothing reference

Color palette designer

Color Scheme Designer (2) (3)

Google Fonts

Free editing software

Free fonts

Online Ruler

Textures

Tutorials Masterlist

Characters

100 Questions

25 Ways to Torture Your Characters

Body builder

Character feelings

Character outline (2)

Charahub

Compare heights

Evil Overlord List

Free Myers-Briggs Test

Family Tree Builder

Genealogy Resources

Genetic Heredity Calculator (physical appearance, inheritable diseases, immunity)

Superpowers

Hobbies

Manipulating People

Psychology

Plutchik Emotion Wheel

Romantic Questions for Your Character

Short Character Profile

Superpower Generator

Clothing

Dress Shapes and Fashion

Fashion Encyclopedia

Fashion era

Fashion terminology

Historical Fashion

The Costume Institute

Crime

Black Market Prices

Drugs

Drugs and Dosing

How Street Gangs Work

The Mafia (2)

Crime Fighting/Legal

Common legal questions

Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security

Forensics

Juvenile detention centers (2)

Laws (2)

Conworlding

10 Mistakes Alternate History Writers Make

3D Geography

7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding

Conlang guide

Creating a Unique Magic System

Fractal World Generator

Heavens Above

House Plans

Mapper

Pronunciation of the International Phonetic Alphabet

Room Planner

Scribble Maps

Worldbuilding Questions

Death

10 Methods of Death

How Bodies Decompose

Poisonous plants

Poisons (2) (3)

Venomous animals (2) (3)

Global

100 Free Foreign Language Classes

Alternative Dictionaries

Climates

Countries (2)

Cultures

Duolingo

Global Etiquette

Global Religion (2) (3)

Global Weather (2)

Real Time World Statistics

Wordreference

World Cultures

History

American History and Culture

Ancient Egypt

besthistorysites

Edwardian Promenade

History of Art

History of China

History of Shoes

History World

Middle Ages

Prehistory

Roman and Byzantine Empire

Read More

[damaramegido]

adulting

learn how 2 be an adult

how to pack luggage

how to balance a checkbook

a shitload of coupons

resume hacks

art

sai brushes [1] [2] [3]

andrew hussie teaches u how 2 ink

draw a fist

draw titties

draw clothing wrinkles

photoshop coloring tutorial

photoshop brushes

skintone palettes

anatomy refs

character design refs

so many pretty color palettes

a boatload of art tutorials

krita (very a++ art program)

make comic panels in photoshop

homestuck color refs

make the eyes match

how to make facial expressions happen

foreshortening w boxes

make rad shit in ms paint

so many photoshop resources

so very many photoshop tutorials

some sweet coloring tutorials

cosplay

cover ur tattoos

unfuck ur wig

make armsocks for ur cosplays

some sewing machine info

food

make yummy food in the microwave

make so many snacks

make a cookie in a mug

make a smoothie

loads of recipes

get told what to make for dinner

magic hot cocoa (this stuff is so good wtf)

make ur own strawberry frogurt

make irl pokepuffs

makeup/beauty

make a sugar scrub

learn 2 braid

basic facial contouring maps

some nice budget makeup brands

makeup for beginners

reading

download some classic literature

creepypastas up the wazoo [1] [2]

some choice creepypastas

some less-than-choice creepypastas

myths retold

cracked (u all know this site)

tvtropes (u all know this one 2)

some old-school 4chan copypastas

happy appy (this shit is fucked up)

read animorphs

figure out what book to read next

very spooky comics

buy rly cheap books

transcripts of homestuck walkarounds

school/learning

a thingy that does math

online calculator w hella functions

structure an essay

learn a lot of cool shit

learn more cool shit

learn web development shit

some neat japanese language reference sheets

manage references for papers and shit

online courses

how stuff works

learn from ted

get some textbooks for free

learn fictional languages/alphabets

learn languages for free

lots of ukulele tabs

learn the tarot

a boatload of tarot spreads

tumblr

lotsa homestuck pixel backgrounds

redux theme collections [1] [2]

some sweet theme resources

learn to make ur own tumblr themes

check ur post limit

wow that’s a lot of thememakers

how to find posts u made on a certain day

replace ur tumblr tags

find ur tumblr tags

find ur untagged posts

tv/movies/etc.

watch some horror movies

watch bill nye the science guy

when to pee during a movie

watch musicals

watch how it’s made

watch steven universe

a complete list of homestar runner toons

find a random thing to watch on netflix

watch revolutionary girl utena

watch sailor moon

weird youtube shit

video games

some free indie games

psychological games

flash games

cute games [1] [2]

writing

here’s some writing software for ur writing needs

learn about writing mental disorders and not hecking up

openoffice (like ms word but free)

rare words

prompt generators

site for brainstorming ideas

cool writing apps

my rad writing masterlist

make rhymes happen

find some names yo

magic baby name finder

site to find out about the black market and shit

info about basically all the drugs

other useful things

calm urself down

emoji [1] [2] [3] [4]

make a shelter for outdoor kitties

rad text tricks

make one of those kawaii pixel speech bubbles

rad characters to copy and paste

make mp3 files from youtube vids [1] [2]

download videos from youtube and also other sites

remember that one word ur forgetting

make cute shit out of old t-shirts

make a rad font from ur own handwriting

random number generator

convert alternian solar sweeps to earth years

record ur screen

is this site down or is ur wifi just shit?

get old versions of programs

make chrome more accessible

a bunch of cool spooky things

1920s slang

un-capslock things

[bob-belcher]

[lovelivelyhood]

[yoursummerdreamz]

[theespookyarchivist]

[dauntiing]

[silversarcasm]

the idea of people having to be ‘useful’ is just so gross, like people do not exist to be used

having to produce something and have a use is a capitalist ideal and not an intrinsic part of humanity

just by being alive you are human and you are worth something and you can never be useless

[fluttersheep]

this applies to animals as well

[bloodblonde89]

“Having to like DO THINGS is SO OPPRESSIVE. No one had to like DO THINGS before evil capitalism. In ancient times food, water, and shelter just existed and everything was taken care of for me”

Guess what happened to people who didn’t do things before capitalism? They died. Cause if you weren’t hunting, gathering, or useful in some aspect of nature. You were killed, died or starvation, dehydration, or exposure. 

Being useful is literally part of our biology. Fucking moron. You pull some idea out of your ass because you literally don’t want to get off your ass. 

[silversarcasm]

I’m not saying nobody should ever do things ever, I’m saying people don;t have to produce to an arbitrary standard in order to prove their right to live

And if you really think disabled people deserve to die if we can’t ‘contribute’ or be useful in a way you approve of then congrats youre a fucking monster

[alliluyevas]

actually there’s significant evidence in terms of Neolithic burials that disabled people who would not have been able to hunt for themselves (the archaeological evidence mostly shows mobility disabilities because it’s visible in the bone record) were well fed and cared for by their communities

so the “people like you would have been left to die” argument isn’t just cruel and violently ableist, it’s extremely historically inaccurate and based off of projecting modern prejudice on prehistoric cultures

[alliluyevas]

sources because I’m on my laptop now!

note: in the neolithic era, a person in their 40s or 50s would be considered elderly

12,000-year-old burial of a woman about 45 with mobility disabilities both congenital and acquired

burial of a 40-50 year old Neanderthal man who had survived to old age with a deformed right arm and a long-healed head injury that would have made him blind in one eye

neolithic burial of a man in his 50s who lost the use of his left arm in adolescence

neolithic burial of a man in his 40s with evidence of a significant mobility disability caused by an injured hip and leg, some time in adulthood but long before his death

neolithic Asian burial of a man in his 20s with a congenital disorder which would have made him a quadriplegic around age 14. He survived for 10-15 years after that.

5th century burial of child with Down Syndrome

[robochai]

I thought that this might be helpful to talk about.

Keep reading

[sadscent]

[eponis]

Everything Is Awful and I’m Not Okay: questions to ask before giving up

Are you hydrated?  If not, have a glass of water.

Have you eaten in the past three hours?  If not, get some food — something with protein, not just simple carbs.  Perhaps some nuts or hummus?

Have you showered in the past day?  If not, take a shower right now.

If daytime: are you dressed?  If not, put on clean clothes that aren’t pajamas.  Give yourself permission to wear something special, whether it’s a funny t-shirt or a pretty dress.

If nighttime: are you sleepy and fatigued but resisting going to sleep?  Put on pajamas, make yourself cozy in bed with a teddy bear and the sound of falling rain, and close your eyes for fifteen minutes — no electronic screens allowed.  If you’re still awake after that, you can get up again; no pressure.

Have you stretched your legs in the past day?  If not, do so right now.  If you don’t have the spoons for a run or trip to the gym, just walk around the block, then keep walking as long as you please.  If the weather’s crap, drive to a big box store (e.g. Target) and go on a brisk walk through the aisles you normally skip.

Have you said something nice to someone in the past day?  Do so, whether online or in person.  Make it genuine; wait until you see something really wonderful about someone, and tell them about it.

Have you moved your body to music in the past day?  If not, do so — jog for the length of an EDM song at your favorite BPM, or just dance around the room for the length of an upbeat song.

Have you cuddled a living being in the past two days?  If not, do so.  Don’t be afraid to ask for hugs from friends or friends’ pets.  Most of them will enjoy the cuddles too; you’re not imposing on them.

Do you feel ineffective?  Pause right now and get something small completed, whether it’s responding to an e-mail, loading up the dishwasher, or packing your gym bag for your next trip.  Good job!

Do you feel unattractive?  Take a goddamn selfie.  Your friends will remind you how great you look, and you’ll fight society’s restrictions on what beauty can look like.

Do you feel paralyzed by indecision?  Give yourself ten minutes to sit back and figure out a game plan for the day.  If a particular decision or problem is still being a roadblock, simply set it aside for now, and pick something else that seems doable.  Right now, the important part is to break through that stasis, even if it means doing something trivial.

Have you seen a therapist in the past few days?  If not, hang on until your next therapy visit and talk through things then.

Have you been over-exerting yourself lately — physically, emotionally, socially, or intellectually?  That can take a toll that lingers for days. Give yourself a break in that area, whether it’s physical rest, taking time alone, or relaxing with some silly entertainment.

Have you changed any of your medications in the past couple of weeks, including skipped doses or a change in generic prescription brand?  That may be screwing with your head.  Give things a few days, then talk to your doctor if it doesn’t settle down.

Have you waited a week?  Sometimes our perception of life is skewed, and we can’t even tell that we’re not thinking clearly, and there’s no obvious external cause.  It happens.  Keep yourself going for a full week, whatever it takes, and see if you still feel the same way then.

You’ve made it this far, and you will make it through.  You are stronger than you think.

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[yikyakapp-blog]

[expressivedepressive]

The problem with suicidal thoughts is that they’re not just there when your sad. You’ll be there, chillin, reading a book or talking to a friend and you’ll think ‘This is nice. But do you know what would be better? Death.’

[after-crisis]

@lumos-vs-nox   This is referred to as “mild suicidal ideation“ or the desire for suicide without substantial action behind it. It often happens when someone deals with prolonged mental health issues and suicidality at a young age. When you’re young, we go through a period where our neural pathways completely rearrange- the things that happen to us at that time will influence these changes. In a way, suicidal ideation becomes an ingrained coping mechanism. A sort of “well at least suicide is always there for me”. Your brain is part-muscle, it remembers things, it learns, it’s super great at adapting, this is just a reflex. It doesn’t mean you are weak, it doesn’t mean you aren’t in recovery.

thank you for posting this, you turned a feeling many people have into words!

[fragilecrushed]

this is what healthy people don’t get

[sunshinedaisieswindmills]

this is so important SO IMPORTANT

and i didn’t know this until right now and it like changed my whole outlook on my illness and recovery