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elisgeorge · 22 days

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#the most depressing thing about being in education #is seeing the schools eing bought up by comapnies (UK)#the biggest MAT in my area is owned by CO-OP #yes you read that #the supermarket #CO-OP the SUPERMARKET owns so many schools around here #and you best believe the schools are ran like profit drivers #its ridiculous #let schools be schools with their interest in the kids #not how much money they can mae

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elisgeorge · 27 days

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"Honey, I'm a much bigger bang than you bargained for. I will shatter this silly little battlefield into dust. In a heartbeat. Into dust."

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Change.org - Petition To Hire 1,000,000 People To Put Their Fingers In The Shoot Hole Of Peoples’ Guns So They Can’t Shoot Them

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"You need her, Doctor!"

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more good omens!! literally whats up with these guys

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"Donna's so happy for him." | Doctor Who - The Stolen Earth script by Russell T. Davies

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elisgeorge · 4 months

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Did you know there are services that offer free university-level modules, for free?

I am one of those people that are obsessed with learning, but structured courses are expensive. Not these. Here are some links if you, too, are obsessed with the pursuit of knowledge and want to learn something (for FREE!)

EdX is my personal favourite. It offers loads of subjects that are usually taken from university courses, and the ones that I have done are pretty good. These can all be taken for free, or you can pay £40 to take the assignments and recieve a graded certificate. Now, the catch here is that most of the courses are archived, which means that, occasionally, some of the links won't work and you have to be creative with the readings. I have found this to be a pretty minimal issue though, and it is worth it.

I recently took this EdX course about 19th Century literature and it was excellent. Some of the links were broken so I took some creative liberties with the readings, but I read all of the books discussed and used the course materials to critically analyse them as I did so. I didn't follow the course exactly, but it was still an enriching experience and something I wouldn't have thought to do otherwise.

Another good one is OpenLearn, which is a branch of the Open University. The OpenLearn courses are usually pretty good, although some can feel a bit lackluster and basic. Don't expect super in-depth courses, but they're good for an introduction to a subject, or to top up your skills in somethign you haven't done in a while. These offer free certificates of participation, so they're great if, say, you want a career change but you haven't studied data science since college. I enjoyed the classes I took, but I wouldn't say they were as challenging as EdX.

I recently took this OpenLearn course about Hadrian's Rome. Classical history is something I'm interested in and this was a great way to guide my study of an aspect of it.

Coursera is a very popular one. Similar to OpenLearn, these courses can sometimes be a little surface-level. These also have a much larger focus on building transferrable skills than developing cultural knowledge and learning for your own enrichment. Even so, there are some wonderful gems on there if you're willing to scroll through and find them. Coursera is also great because it has project-centred courses, where you work towards a finished product under the (virtual, recorded) guidance of an expert. Think of it like a corporate skillshare.

Last summer I took this Coursera course about screenwriting. It was project based, and I came out of it with a fully realised first draft of a pilot episode of a TV show. I realised through this process that maybe screenwriting wasn't for me, but it allowed me to get out of my comfort zone with writing and explore that avenue that I would have probably always wodered about.

OpenCulture is a good database of free courses that then redirects you to other websites, but you have to be willing to sift through the sludge with this one, as some are more worth your time than others.

Another good way to find free courses is to search for them on university websites. I have found that most US universities (and loads of UK ones too, though it is less common) offer free online courses. You have to be careful here, because sometimes they will say they are free but actually the 'free' part is viewing the syllabus.

You might be thinking 'what is the point of a course that doesn't get me a qualification?' and I'd say 'I get you, because I felt the same way,' but if you're anything like me and love learning, they're a godsend. Of course, there is nothing stopping you from finding all of the course content online, and I'd actually encourage you to do that alongside the courses, but knowing where to start is the difficult part. There is so much information to learn about any given topic that it can be overwhelming. These courses provide you with a structure that you can then use within your own wider research to learn about subjects you maybe don't want to commit to in a formal setting.

I'm not paid by any of these websites, I just think the monetisation of knowledge is wrong and awful and disgusting and anyway to beat that should be celebrated and shared and used as widely as possible.

Happy learning! :)

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elisgeorge · 4 months

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💪🏻 theoeikelos because you follow #athenian politics

just a reminder in advance of ostracism season: i know themistocles might not be your first choice to exile (he sure isnt mine!) but being realistic, the only people who have a chance of winning are themistocles and aristides. if you vote for some random guy you hate or write in a joke, thats as good as voting for aristides and we cant take that risk. please please please vote themistocles

#athenian politics #themistocles #aristides

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hey guys should i go knock the penises of the herms i think it would be really funny

🌌 your-fave-is-aeolic follow

this is probably the unmixed wine talking but yes, yes you should

🏛 generation-of-leaves follow

It makes me so sad to see how this website glorifies impiety against the city and the gods. I have hope that you will find your way back to timē.

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lmao i always forget there's a cult of hermes side of tumblr

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guys ive been looking at that most tragic character poll and honestly i think that the antigone side is using bots to vote. the vote count is going up by 100 every few seconds, who even likes antigone?? all i remember about that play is that my teacher made me write prosopopoeiae based on it

#also its just suspicious to see so many antigone votes on the new music enjoyers website #choregos shut up

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finally finished painting this today, im really happy with how it turned out!

like all my other projects, this is for sale at my etsy store! support metic artists :)

#art #artistsontumblr #redfigure #vasepainting #oenochoe #my art

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reblogging again because we can not let antigone lose to a character best known from a fucking EURIPIDES play! medea isnt even that tragic she's just evil

#tragedy agon #antigone

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i keep getting s*cratics following me so i guess i havent been clear enough on here: i do not support oligarchy, terrorism, or corrupting the youth and if you do then i kindly suggest that you unfollow me and also go to the fucking crows

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#sicily #lilybaeum #bucolic #bucolic aesthetic #shepherd aesthetic #selinous #magna graecia #apoikia

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i call my dick the thesmophoria because it's abundant in seed and only for the women

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i call my dick the panathenaea because i parade it through the acropolis

🆕 post-store

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elisgeorge · 5 months

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no punctuation we read like romans

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elisgeorge · 6 months

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nanowrimo is a great example of how you can do anything if you have a big, important, boring task that you should be doing instead.

#have a masters thesis to write #instead i have written 10k words #its more fun than scientific papers #everyone is invincible if they procrastinate something big enough #writing #writer #nanowrimo #national novel writing month

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elisgeorge · 6 months

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ok but s4b of ouat is soooo funny when you think about it

4x13 -> gay couple goes through a crisis when a group of nuns and a big sky monster jump out of a hat

4x14 -> two idiots accidentally help resurrect their long dead enemy, who also happens to be a dragon

4x15 -> mayor of town goes undercover and calls herself a “bad girl” when ex girlfriend comes back to life

4x16 -> former mermaid tries to get rock to give her back her singing voice

4x17 -> everyone in town goes to sleep. in the past, two idiots ask a unicorn for advice

4x18 -> woman is confused when she finds out her previously-thought-to-be-dead sister is pretending to be her ex-boyfriend’s dead wife

4x19 -> lady who can talk to animals gets upset while playing angry birds, tries to push child off a cliff

4x20 -> lesbian must venture to new york with her wife when it turns out her ex-girlfriend hatched from an egg

4x21 -> crazy mayor releases dragon upon town

4x22/4x23 -> boy must save entire town when everyone gets trapped inside an evil dude’s fanfiction

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elisgeorge · 6 months

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drawing fish for today

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elisgeorge · 6 months

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Painting from a few years ago that I made depicting a Berber (Arabic) warrior from the middle ages! The rope he holds in his hands is a bola sling, used to grapple / dismount opponents.

Hope you like it!

Best,

JCH

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elisgeorge · 6 months

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some quality hilarious content was missed out on when in once upon a time, regina and neal/baelfire met and she tries to throw her weight around as "im the evil queen" and he's like I don't even know you. genuinely what are you talking about. what evil queen. you're a girlboss in a power suit who is perpetually stressed out about a child. queen of what exactly. because he was fucking about running around neverland when regina was being a menace in her realm and he has no clue who this lady this and regina is so mad about that

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elisgeorge · 6 months

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Isn't it so weird that the default commercial state of the green olive is Turducken

#idk if its the same everywhere but #the easiest way to buy green olives here is Stuffed #with another fruit!!#turducken vibes

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