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[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

NewScientist

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

NHS Choices

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/ most useful.

[agirlnamedally]

God bless this post

[iwanttobeafirefly]

I love this post! Thank you.

[askun]

You missed the one most needed today Hillsdale College on-line courses. 

[systlin]

Getting down on my knees and thanking the humans who invented dishwashers and washing machines.

[marzipanandminutiae]

Josephine Cochrane (first commercially scalable dishwasher)

several people were involved in developing washing machines, and none can be as easily pointed to as Cochrane with the dishwasher, so here is a Wiki entry to read about that in its entirety

[systlin]

There should be statues of her in every major city. Bless you, Ms. Cochrane.

[flying-ham]

I know why grrm struggled so much with the storm to feast 5 year time jump but god imagine how cunty it would have been to open affc just thrust into things like we were at the beginning of agot. sansa completely immersed in her role as alayne. seasoned lord commander jon snow. dany carrying out aragorn’s tax policy in mereen. cersei drinking herself into a coma of shrunken gowns. like come ON it would have been so fun !!!

[diana-prince43]

I know the decision in Hotd to erase the character of Nettles and make instead Rhaena the rider of Sheepstealer it's understandably controversial, but hear me: Imagine Rhaena running away from the Vale to claim a wildragon, as it happens in the show, but when she reachs Sheepstealer she founds with a fierce lowborn girl who is already gaining their trust by feeding them with sheeps meat. Shortly after that they fell in love and Rhaena joins Nettles in her first dragonrides.

[fortunate-hal]

i find robert's rebellion aus (ie. ned marrying ashara, cersei marrying rhaegar, jaime marrying lyanna) tedious because they tend to smooth out the domestic tensions that make that generation interesting without acknowledging the alternatives could be just as tragic

however, i do think catelyn and jaime could have had an unhappy arranged marriage that produced offspring with kill counts like hotd's daemon in adulthood. an au for the type who looks at the 12 names on the characters killed by jaime lannister wiki page and thinks "i could do better"

[ilynpilled]

echoes of my old meme in this…

[aaloosshitposting]

"If I were orpheus I wouldn't look back"

But we look back everyday- rechecking emails, making sure a friend is still behind you, checking to see if you remebered to pick up your keys. It's second nature, a habit of care.

It was second nature for him too. He looked back, not out of weakness, but love. For what is love, if not to look back?

[anotherbookinthelibrary]

An Orpheus who didn't turn around is an Orpheus who never walked down in the first place

[she-wolfblood]

And whenever someone tries to discredit the Arya and Daenerys's characters by calling them 'typical badass fantasy protagonists', remember that Daenerys was created to invert gender roles in a literary genre largely dominated by men.

- why is Daenerys not a prince?

- I made this choice a long time ago, but I think I wanted to play a little with gender roles and reverse things a little... And, of course, "Mother of Dragons", to my mind, is much better than "Father of Dragons". There is the connection between the woman who brings forth life carrying a huge power of death, fire and destruction. There are very powerful metaphors in there.

and Arya was literally born from feminism.

Asked whether any specific people in his life had helped him create Arya’s character traits, Martin replied: “I can’t say there’s any one specific model, but a lot of the women I’ve known over the years have had aspects of Arya with them.”

He added: “Especially some of the women I knew when I was a young man back in the sixties and seventies, you know — the decade of the sexual revolution and the feminist movement. I knew a lot of young women who weren’t buying into the, ‘Oh, I have to find a husband and be a housewife.’”

They are much more revolutionary than just 'typical female protagonists'

[elucevanlestellle]

Alicent Hightower fanart

This is my second (and definitely not last) Alicent art. I have another one I’m working on currently, if I finish it I will post the drawing :D

[franzkafkagf]

daeron and f!daeron, you'll always be famous to me <3

[help-farah-family30]

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I don’t know how many more times I can come here and ask for help. Every post I write comes with tears, because my mother’s life is all I can think about.

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[farahfamily3]

Please donate whatever you can and share the post 🙏

[jeyneofpoole]

you know anti-greyjoy pov bias is real because nobody except god’s chosen few give a fuck about asha’s challengers situation. objectively an awesome situation. she doesn’t even fuck with one of the guys in a basic friendship way it’s great.

[lambf4rm]

the wolf maid 🐺

[silvermoon424]

I love you magic that comes at a great personal cost ❤️❤️❤️

[witchyhagz]

AU: Rhaenys attends her fathers funeral

──done by @cj-k

[swordsandarms]

Ok, folks, Daenerys didn't get her name as an "apology" to Dorne (as well as Viserys getting engaged to Arianne). She doesn't "owe" them nor is she seen as someone who owes them, but as family - sealed as such by tragedy even as they have no recent blood relatives to share.

Rather, by the time Dany is born, Targaryens and Martells (having been allies before, with Aerys as a sore spot and all) they are united further in the greatest grief (the killing of shared related little children) done onto them by a third party (Lannisters/Rebels). This one act that wouldn't be justified in any situation or world and will never not be condemned by the narrative sets them aside from the others and together, sharing an understanding of a tragedy that is theirs to bear in between them alone.

Fandom keeps trying to set them apart from the other, make up antagonism that is supposedly already there or that needs nothing much to be there in the future; they try to associate Martells with the Rebels and against Targaryens as victims of some centralised guilt in spite of it literally being the other way around.

Those children were killed, and it doesn't matter who did it and who is secretly sorry or not. It matters that the Rebels shook Tywin's hand and thanked him, and whatever Targaryen guilt is there in the entire affair, in this they are victims as much as Dorne, the Rebels alienating themselves from them as an united front in the one situation in which they are the unquestionable villains to both.

[swordsandarms]

Your daily reminder that Dorne and Targaryens are not opposing factions, that their relationship is defined by their first union onwards, not by their very old initial antagonism back in the days of old hundreds of years before, that Rhaenys and Aegon were also Targaryens, and that both Houses were victims of the Rebels & co in the murders of Elia and the kids.

They were family. They've been family for a long time. Arianne calls them family in present time. Doran does not believe in a pipe dream fake!Aegon being sold to him by interesting parties trying to take advantage of his grief, but he believes in Daenerys.

House Martell/Dorne are not your convenient anti-Targaryen mouthpieces.

[she-wolfblood]

Nor was he Aemon Targaryen. Three times the old man had chosen, and three times he had chosen honor, but that was him. Even now, Jon could not decide whether the maester had stayed because he was weak and craven, or because he was strong and true. Yet he understood what the old man had meant, about the pain of choosing; he understood that all too well.

- AGOT, Chapter 70

Thinking about how Jon also had three occasions where his vows were tested, first with Ned Stark's death, then when he left Ygritte for the Night's Watch, and finally for Arya, but in this time he didn't choose honor and vows, he chose love, and that's why they killed him 💔

[hylora]

Arianne and Tyene