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Birth control would suddenly be a hell of a lot more important, that's for sure.

What if we all switched genders for 6 months out of the year

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DA User: Alan Wind

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Former Marine turned photographer Joel Parés’ series Judging America used real people dressed as stereotypes to remind us to not judge a person based on their tattoos, clothing, ethnicity, profession, or sexual orientation, but on their merits.

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Adrian Dadich

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Han Yijie

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Henry Schreiber’s marmots are so majestic

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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.

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DA User: Kanekiru

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Altamira

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League of Irelia

Okay, lots of plans for my League of Legends play moving forward! But first, some history...

I've considered myself to be more-or-less an Irelia main since very early on, when Irelia was one of the free champions for the week I started the game on. My builds were horrible - I'd build multiples of Wit's End because I didn't know what a unique passive was, generally just loved anything that gave attack speed, and built Phantom Dancers for the movespeed - but Irelia being Irelia, I still managed to do well in the majority of my games, even having a 3v3 match at one point where my kill count was well over 25 (a game I eventually lost because of really poor objective control, and also the fact that I was preying upon two of the opponents while the third - another Irelia - was basically doing the exact same to my two teammates). In any case, despite the fact that I quickly became enamored with Akali and thought I could follow in Westrice's shoes, when I did eventually save up the IP and buy Irelia, I slipped right into the playstyle like it was second nature. About two years later, and though I've played many champions off-and-on, Irelia is still my most comfortable pick.

A good portion of this time has been spent playing Co-Op vs. AI games (2425~ wins, 50~ losses thus far), watching streams and tournament coverage, and theorycrafting endlessly about build orders and matchups and team combos. I get a serious case of the jitters when getting into PvP matches and it used to be even worse, but after playing a fair number of Team Builder games lately, I've been getting through all that. I did briefly attempt to ladder climb in Season 3, but after getting placed into Bronze after a 2/8 record in my placement games, I just didn't have the motivation to put myself into Silver (though I had a very respectable winrate of about 65-75% during my following games).

But there's only so much theorycrafting and studying one can do before it gets tiring. I love to analyze everything, and consider myself to be fairly well-versed in even some of the intricacies of game strategy, but I don't really have friends who care for critique nor anyone who'd want to even craft for-fun team comps. They just want to jump straight into games and play as individuals. (nothing wrong with that, it just didn't mesh with what I'd really like to do.) So forget that. Time to put my money where my mouth is and prove, if only to myself, that I can take all of that game knowledge and apply it in real-time. I don't expect to make it to Diamond or even Platinum - my mechanics still aren't that strong, and I make bad decisions in-game - but I'd like to finish out Season 4 in at least high Silver or Gold.

I'm a competent player in all roles, and have a decent champion pool, but the tried-and-true method of ladder climbing in Ranked is to main just one or two champions. Being skilled with your champion gives you an edge in most matchups, even ones that counter you; in fact, it's not uncommon for opponents to see your pick and focus too hard on the counterpick, when they themselves are not good at that champion. (my brother already made it to Gold in S3 playing mostly Ryze, even against the champions that were supposed to counter him, simply because he knows what Ryze can do better than his opponents.) If you hadn't already guessed, Irelia is my main going into this. I do have some "pocket picks" for games where I'm forced into another role or banned/picked out of my main, but all I really need is to get top-lane Irelia for about 50% of my games, and the odds are in my favor to move upwards.

So, look forward to some more posts on how that's all working out! I've been playing Team Builder and the occasional Draft Pick game to practice, with the former providing blind-pick practice to hone my skills against varied matchups, and the latter giving me more experience picking around my opponents and teammates. Ranked promotions are the next stop though, and I hope to have a much better showing in those ten games this time around as opposed to last season.

Also maybe some Irelia fanart sometime, too.

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Okay! Blog update! Whew, I've really let this one fall off...

Alright, so as I'm sure you already may notice, my posts here are mostly art selections I enjoy (which I queue up every so often) and the occasional bit of randomness I see on my dash. There was some plan to use this as a bit more of a journal as well, and/or text posts on the subject of art or gaming (League of Legends mostly) or both. Those kinda just stopped, but I still would like to write a bit more!

So, with that as my new focus, I'll be trying to post more often here on that topic. It'll still be my personal/art blog too, so I'm not necessarily trying to focus things on a particular theme. Just a heads-up for those who follow me and might be surprised to suddenly see me posting more often.

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As an introvert, I’ve done, and do, all of these things…. constantly.

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Tumblr User: raspbeary; milkydayy

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school isn’t even about learning anymore, it’s about passing

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Tumblr: Only a heartless person would scroll pa-

Me: *Scrolls past*

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when your friend makes a vague post and you’re worried it’s about you cause if it was it’d be true 

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How to speak with an Irish accent. [via]