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Steven Universe - Future Boy Zoltron (full episode)

Here’s today’s Steven Universe episode in HD!

I post SU episodes every week. Enjoy!

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Someone asked for a link to watch this episode so here ya go! If this isn’t working for some reason, you can try kisscartoon

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People born in 2016 will probably be alive to see the year 3000

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Okay I’m not that great at math but I’m pretty sure this is wrong

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People live to be 84 quite often

stebean-universe

But in 84 years it'll be 2100

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24 Invaluable Skills To Learn For Free Online This Year

Here’s an easy resolution: This stuff is all free as long as you have access to a computer, and the skills you learn will be invaluable in your career, and/or life in general.

1. Become awesome at Excel.

Chandoo is one of many gracious Excel experts who wants to share their knowledge with the world. Excel excellence is one of those skills that will improve your chances of getting a good job instantly, and it will continue to prove invaluable over the course of your career. What are you waiting for?

2. Learn how to code.

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Perhaps no other skill you can learn for free online has as much potential to lead to a lucrative career. Want to build a site for your startup? Want to build the next big app? Want to get hired at a place like BuzzFeed? You should learn to code. There are a lot of places that offer free or cheap online coding tutorials, but I recommend Code Academy for their breadth and innovative program. If you want to try a more traditional route, Harvard offers its excellent Introduction to Computer Science course online for free.

3. Make a dynamic website.

You could use a pre-existing template or blogging service, or you could learn Ruby on Rails and probably change your life forever. Here’s an extremely helpful long list of free Ruby learning tools that includes everything from Rails for Zombies to Learn Ruby The Hard Way. Go! Ruby! Some basic programming experience, like one of the courses above, might be helpful (but not necessarily required if you’re patient with yourself).

4. Learn to make a mobile game.

If you’re not interested in coding anything other than fun game apps, you could trythis course from the University of Reading. It promises to teach you how to build a game in Java, even if you don’t have programming experience! If you want to make a truly great game, you might want to read/listen up on Game Theory first.

5. Start reading faster.

Spreeder is a free online program that will improve your reading skill and comprehension no matter how old you are. With enough practice, you could learn to double, triple, or even quadruple the speed at which you read passages currently, which is basically like adding years to your life.

6. Learn a language!

With Duolingo, you can learn Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, or English (from any of the above or more). There’s a mobile app and a website, and the extensive courses are completely free.

Full disclosure: BuzzFeed and other websites are in a partnership with DuoLingo, but they did not pay or ask for this placement.

7. Pickle your own vegetables.

Tired of your farmer’s market haul going bad before you use it all? Or do you just love tangy pickled veggies? You too can pickle like a pro thanks to SkillShare and Travis Grillo.

8. Improve your public speaking skills.

You can take the University of Washington’s Intro to Public Speaking for free online. Once you learn a few tricks of the trade, you’ll be able to go into situations like being asked to present at a company meeting or giving a presentation in class without nearly as much fear and loathing.

9. Get a basic handle of statistics.

UC Berkeley put a stats intro class on iTunes. Once you know how to understand the numbers yourself, you’ll never read a biased “news” article the same way again — 100% of authors of this post agree!

10. Understand basic psychology.

Knowing the basics of psych will bring context to your understanding of yourself, the dynamics of your family and friendships, what’s really going on with your coworkers, and the woes and wonders of society in general. Yale University has its Intro to Psychology lectures online for free.

11. Make your own music.

Step one: Learn how to play guitar: Justin Guitar is a fine and free place to start learning chords and the basic skills you’ll need to be able to play guitar — from there, it’s up to you, but once you know the basics, just looking up tabs for your favorite songs and learning them on your own is how many young guitar players get their start (plus it’s an excellent party trick).

Step two: A delightful free voice lesson from Berklee College Of Music.

Step three: Have you always thought you had an inner TSwift? Berklee College of Music offers an Introduction to Songwriting course completely for free online. The course is six weeks long, and by the end of the lesson you’ll have at least one completed song.

Step four: Lifehacker’s basics of music production will help you put it all together once you have the skills down! You’ll be recording your own music, ready to share with your valentine or the entire world, in no time!

12. Learn to negotiate.

Let Stanford’s Stan Christensen explain how to negotiate in business and your personal life, managing relationships for your personal gain and not letting yourself be steamrolled. There are a lot of football metaphors and it’s great.

13. Stop hating math.

If you struggled with math throughout school and now have trouble applying it in real-world situations when it crops up, try Saylor.org’s Real World Math course. It will reteach you basic math skills as they apply IRL. Very helpful!

14. Start drawing!

All kids draw — so why do we become so afraid of it as adults? Everyone should feel comfortable with a sketchbook and pencil, and sketching is a wonderful way to express your creativity. DrawSpace is a great place to start. (I also highly recommend the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain if you can drop a few dollars for a used copy.)

15. Make your own animated GIF.

BuzzFeed’s own Katie Notopoulos has a great, simple guide to making an animated GIF without Photoshop. This is all you need to be the king or queen of Tumblr or your favorite email chains.

16. Appreciate jazz.

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Have you never really “gotten” jazz? If you want to be able to participate in conversations at fancy parties and/or just add some context to your appreciation of all music, try this free online course from UT Austin.

17. Write well.

Macalester College’s lecture series is excellent. If you’re more interested in journalism, try Wikiversity’s course selection.

18. Get better at using Photoshop.

Another invaluable skill that will get you places in your career, learning Photoshop can be as fun as watching the hilarious videos on You Suck At Photoshop or as serious as this extensive Udemy training course (focused on photo retouching).

19. Take decent pictures.

Lifehacker’s basics of photography might be a good place to start. Learn how your camera works, the basic of composition, and editing images in post-production. If you finish that and you’re not sure what to do next, here’s a short course on displaying and sharing your digital photographs.

20. Learn to knit.

Instructables has a great course by a woman who is herself an online-taught knitter. You’ll be making baby hats and cute scarves before this winter’s over!

21. Get started with investing in stocks.

If you are lucky enough to have a regular income, you should start learning about savings and investment now. Investopedia has a ton of online resources, including this free stocks basics course. Invest away!

22. Clean your house in a short amount of time.

Unf$#k Your Habitat has a great emergency cleaning guide for when your mother-in-law springs a surprise visit on you. While you’re over there, the entire blog is good for getting organized and clean in the long term, not just in “emergencies.” You’ll be happier for it.

23. Start practicing yoga.

Most cities have free community classes (try just searching Google or inquiring at your local yoga studio), or if you’re more comfortable trying yoga at home, YogaGlohas a great 15-day trial and Yome is a compendium of 100% free yoga videos. If you’re already familiar with basic yoga positions but you need an easy way to practice at home, I recommend YogaTailor’s free trial as well.

24. Tie your shoelaces more efficiently.

It’s simple and just imagine the minutes of your life you’ll save!

#reference

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does anyone remember when corbin bleu was in that movie about jump roping girls

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it was a movie about how he was a boxer who left the boxing world to jump rope.

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Back when Disney was lit

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Still upset over this cancellation

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i adore my mom beyond words but i have to mom-shame her for always doing this to me

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July 2, 2002, after a routine quarterly blood test, Javier learned he was HIV positive. He’d been living on the West Coast after college, before his parents got sick, hoping to find the growth he’d seen from his friends who’d left New York for somewhere else. Like a good New Yorker, he hated it out there. He missed that “grungy, rusty thing about New York that like makes sense to my soul.” But he met a man there, and they were in a long-term, monogamous relationship—I’ll let him tell it. “We were in a relationship,” he says. “And it was an adult choice to not be safe because I was with my partner.” The man knew he was HIV positive, according to Javier, but didn’t say anything. That’s why Javier is so public about his HIV status; if it weren’t a terrible stigma to have HIV, the man might have told him instead of withholding it from him. Javier spent three days in deep depression after he learned his diagnosis. But then he realized he had to take care of himself. He got up, he sought help, he found support groups, but also: He went home. In New York he told his parents and let them support him emotionally. He found a doctor who gave him an aggressive course of medication. He took pills that tasted like rust and made him break out in hives. He itched so badly he had to stand under the shower to get any relief. Within six months, HIV was undetectable in his blood. Now, he says, he’s pretty sure his T-cells are better than anyone else’s in the room. He’s had long-term relationships since his diagnosis—not right now, no time for that now—but before the show, a lot of times when he’d tell a guy about his status, they’d beat it fast. “There was such ignorance about what HIV even was,” he says. “I mean the fact that someone could say, ‘You have AIDS.’ ‘No. I have HIV. Do you know the difference? Right.’ The fact that the behavior that was permeating at the time was men would ask each other their status and one of them could easily lie and just say I’m negative and they would have unprotected sex. But here I am coming at you saying I’m fully HIV-positive and I’m letting you know that and there are ways to be safe. But you’re gonna shun me but then be unsafe with someone you’ve just met?” But listen to what happens next. Two years after his diagnosis, Javier confronts his old boyfriend. Flies across the country and tells him that he’s HIV positive, that he’s angry and wants an answer. But the guy just sits there and says nothing—he says nothing. And right then, Javier took a breath and felt overcome by compassion. He didn’t yell at him. “I realized how much pain he must be in.” And so Javier forgave him, with his words and with his heart. “I don’t know where it came from,” he says now. “I can’t tell you where it came from.” We’re done eating, and Javier asks if I’d like to see his garden. He keeps one on the roof of the marquis of the Richard Rodgers theater, so that he could be alone for a few minutes on performance days, and so that he could watch things grow. The rooftop garden sits on a balcony that faces 46th Street, and sometimes he walks to the edge and people scream that they love him, and he screams back that he loves them, too. But mostly he likes being alone, watering a big vat of soil and talking to his plants. Late last year, just as Miranda won his Genius grant and began thinking about leaving the show, Javier found a lump on his body, and when he had it investigated, and learned he had cancer. After all that, cancer. Just like the last time he got sick, he experienced all the things that come along with a thing that is plenty hard enough already, thank you very much, only this time he was a prominent figure. Organizations reached out to him, some really nice ones, but some with the obvious, unsubtle intent of binding his name to their PR emails. It happened so often that he has decided not to say publicly what kind of cancer he had, because he doesn’t want to be the poster child for a particular cause—just a general one, one in which you don’t keep secrets about your health because there’s no real reason to. There are still the people, he learned, that think you shouldn’t tell anyone if you have cancer. And there it was again, a stigma against the thing that is happening to so many people that literally no one benefits from keeping quiet about it. Patients don’t feel better, and people don’t know how to treat them. We don’t know what to say when we finally learn what’s going on. We don’t know how to help. “Say the damn thing out loud,” he says now. “Talk about the thing. We gotta talk about it. We gotta talk about it. It’s not gonna change. They’re not gonna learn. I’m not gonna learn. We’re not gonna grow.” But Javier didn’t do any of that at first. At first, he didn’t say a word. He performed for six weeks, knowing he had cancer, not telling the cast yet, just trying to process it. He kept looking for the reasons—what had he eaten or exposed himself to? Was it where he lived? Was it his diet? He blamed himself for everything. He took two months off from the show. He wanted to return, but what if he didn’t recover? “I didn’t know,” he says. “I didn’t know.” He did his treatments, he meditated, he listened to his doctors. “I just focused my energies on it, and finally when I started seeing progress, I started to believe there was hope that I could be back.” By the time he took the stage again, he’d lost so much weight that the costumes hung loose on him. He doesn’t doubt himself often, but that night he did. It was the rest of the cast, he says, who got him through the performance, who loved him and were lifting him somehow. He felt their hands on his back. “There was no one who didn’t believe in me in that moment.” In the show’s final scene, Hamilton, now dead at the hands of Burr, reaches out to help Liza over the threshold of her own death 50 years later. He takes her hand and walks her to the front of the stage. Javier cried through the whole scene. He looks straight ahead into the middle distance as he tells me this with his forearms on his thighs and his hands folded; it’s the only time during our conversations that he doesn’t look me in the eye. Finally, he snaps out of the memory, and he looks at me and says, “How do you describe the feeling that you’re alive? That’s what it was. I was still here and…wow.” You couldn’t seem to die, I say to him. But he shakes his head and tells me I don’t understand. No, he says, “I’ve died several times already.” That’s what it feels like to him. He is not the person he was when he went into that clinic to hear his routine HIV test results; the person he was died right there, in that chair, and he walked out someone different. He died again when the oncologist told him that, yes, the lump was something they had to talk about, and things were about to change once more. Another quick and irrefutable death. The human brain cannot keep on encountering and surmounting such things, and so each time, to survive, you become another person. And each night on stage you die again and you take a bow and you find out who you are again, because now you know what it is to live. In his garden on the roof, there’s a purple orchid, a gift from someone who attended the show, and he potted it among his other plants a few weeks ago, and when he brings the watering can near it, he notices something new: a tiny bit of green in the purple. “Look,” he says. “A sprout.”

Javier Muñoz of Hamilton Has Been Reborn, Over and Over and Over Again (GQ)

beautiful profile piece – read the full article

(via thefederalistfreestyle)

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I pray that September, October, November, & December are all months full of growth, blessings, productivity, new doors open & opportunities.

me @ myself: get it together.....

also me @ myself: ur literally going through a lot rn? cut yourself some slack?

also also me @ myself: ...anyway....i hate my entire self

dennys

What do you call your family members who are always sleeping?

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stebean-universe

Denny's please

perhapsarat

I wish I knew the exact time and date that harry told snape ‘there’s no need to call me sir professor’ so that I could take a moment of silence to remember the moment each year

marauders4evr

Judging from the context of the chapter…

We know that it’s September 2nd. I’d put it between 9:00 AM and 11:00 AM. (They have breakfast and then a free period. They have Snape’s class before their break, which was before their lunch.)

yaneela

But in the UK first period typically only starts at 9 AM. So free period from around 9-10 AM and Snapes class from 10-11 AM I’d say.

perhapsarat

Okay so 10am-11am every September 2nd is now an hour dedicated to remembering the most glorious piece of dialogue ever spoken by a fictional character

infiniteglitterfall

ok this just appeared on my blog with ample time for you all to prepare because apparently I stumbled across it months ago, and scheduled it to post on september first. executive function TRIUMPH!!!!!!!