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Normal Horoscope:
Aries: Your obsession with death will be satisfied. Eventually.
Taurus: When I asked for your fortune the stars just started throwing rocks at me. They have been placed in time-out.
Gemini: Visualize your goals and adapt accordingly. It will spawn possibly hostile thoughtforms.
Cancer: Inflate your ego to scare away predators.
Leo: Remember leo, you can fill your clothing with sand to instantly feel heavy and sandy.
Virgo: Sometimes the simple fact that you are there and listening is enough. Most things are easier than we give them credit for.
Libra: Do not speak unless you have something nice to say, but sometimes the nicest thing one can say is to call the bastard a foul little toad.
Scorpio: Today is the day to take charge and lead by appointing someone more qualified to lead and then going to take a nap.
Ophiuchus: The key to life is persistence. Do you exist every day? You’re already halfway there!
Sagittarius: Opportunities can be fickle things that descend from large trees and use their powerful talons to pin you down while they eat your soft tissue.
Capricorn: Nobody cares if you legally adopt a ghost.
Aquarius: The places where people seek answers are transitory. They are only the signpost for where the answers lie.
Pisces: Any statement about human nature by anyone but an anthropologist can be discarded. And anthropologists are on thin goddamn ice.
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Planet Earth II (2016) Episode 03 “Jungles” Directed by Emma Napper
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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
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.
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I feel like so many people do not realize how important comprehensive and actually fucking useful sex Ed is. All I learned in sex Ed is 1) don’t have sex 2)that birth control isn’t just for contraception and if you do use it for that purpose I should be embarrassed and 3) anatomy. Not once was consent even mentioned, let alone how to set healthy boundaries with a partner(casual or long term). and I live in the Bible Belt so any mention of LGBTQ+ sexuality or health was fucking avoided like the plague. This lack of education and information for young people trying to understand their sexualities and essentially learn how to have healthy, safe, and FUN sex can put people is potentially dangerous and traumatic situations.
When I first started having sex with my partner, I was 16 and neither of us had any idea what to do obviously. And my partner was amazing and never mistreated me or hurt me intentionally, but I ended up being genuinely traumatized when I first began having sex because
1) I had no idea how to set boundaries or assert myself
2) neither of us had been taught how consent works
Consent is not just a verbal yes or no, it’s making sure your partner is comfortable, making sure they genuinely want to do something. If your partner says yes to something and then is silent and expressionless, then it is your job to check on them and make sure they’re okay. Getting a verbal response is not your only responsibility when it comes to gaining consent. There were so many times that I had said yes to either having sex or doing sexual activity when I didn’t really want to, I just felt bad if I said no and had no idea how to set boundaries. And when I finally gained the energy to tell my partner how I’d been feeling and how they had made me feel it was really hard. They had unintentionally hurt me because we were not taught how consent works or how to have sex, neither of us knew what to do and were just guessing. It took months and a lot of work to repair and heal my relationship with sex and my partner , and as well as a long time for my partner to deal with the guilt they felt. It was terrible and the fucjing worst, and it all could have been avoided if we had actually sex Ed to teach us these things.
I know so many other women who have struggled with either similar or more dangerous situations, and I specify women bc we have an especially hard time asserting ourselves and setting boundaries. We are taught to make everyone around us as comfortable as possible and that becomes really difficult when you have to learn how to say no or have uncomfortable conversations with a partner about sex.
Not to mention how LGBTQ+ young people are completely ignored and left out of the conversation completely. There is zero mention at all about sexuality other than straight relationships, and no education about sexual health and safety within queer relationships.
Because adults feel uncomfortable about having real, genuine conversations about sex, they not only fail their children but also are responsible for the dangerous and/or traumatic experiences they have to go through because of their lack of information.
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Melon Bread Time!
Bread Dough
140g Bread Flour
25g Johakuto or Powdered Sugar
1/3 tsp Salt
5g Lukewarm milk instead of the lukewarm water.
3g Instant Dry Yeast a little less than 1 tsp (3g)
1 tbsp Beaten Eggs
70 ml Lukewarm Water
15 g Butter
Some Bread Flour for dusting
***Optional flavor choice add: 2 tbsp matcha powder***
Cookie Dough
25 g Unsalted Butter
35 g Johakuto or Powdered Sugar
25 g Beaten Eggs
80 g Cake Flour
1/4 tsp Baking Powder
Granulated Sugar for glazing
Some Bread Flour for dusting
***Optional flavor choice add: 1 tsp matcha powder***
Cookie Dough
1. Let's make the cookie dough first. Whisk the butter until creamy. Gradually add the sugar, mix and dissolve in the butter.
2. When the color turns to white, gradually add the beaten egg and mix. Do not add the egg at once, otherwise the butter will separate. Bring the butter and egg to room temperature (approx. 20°C/68°F) before use. This will make them easier to mix and the sugar will dissolve better.
3. Add the baking powder to the cake flour and mix with a spatula. Sift the flour mixture into a bowl. Sift it again.
4. Add one third of the cake flour to the butter mixture. Lightly mix with a spatula. Add another one third of the flour and lightly mix. Add the rest and stir until all the flour is thoroughly mixed. Be careful not to overmix the dough.
5. Place the dough on the cooking tray covered with plastic wrap. Rub bread flour on your hands and shape the dough into a cylinder. Cover with the plastic wrap. Cool down the cookie dough in a fridge for over 1 hour.
Bread Dough and 1st Fermentation
1. Let's make the bread dough next. Add the sugar, salt, non-fat dry milk powder and instant yeast to the bread flour. Whisk the flour mixture well. Dilute the beaten egg with the warm water. Gradually pour it into the flour and stir with a spatula until evenly mixed.
2. Clean the spatula with a scraper and place the flour mixture on a pastry board. Gather the crumble flour mixture and form it into a ball. Briefly knead it with your hands.
3. Throw the dough on the pastry board, fold it away, grab the side of the dough and throw it again. Gather the dough with the scraper. Knead the dough with your hands using your body weight. Repeat this process until the dough is less sticky.
4. Flatten the dough and spread on the butter. Gather the rim of the dough toward the center and knead in the butter. When the butter is mixed in, gather the dough with the scraper and form a dough ball.
5. Like shown before, continue to throw the dough on the board. Knead the dough on the board and throw again. Repeat this throwing and rolling process for 10 minutes. The dough is now smooth and glossy.
6. As shown in the video, shape the dough into a ball and replace it in the bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and let it sit in a warm place for 40 minutes. This conventional oven can keep its inside warm for fermentation.
7. The dough has now risen by 50% in volume. Remove the plastic wrap. Dip your finger in bread flour and make a hole in the dough. If the hole quickly disappears, the dough needs more fermentation. Measure the dough to get the total weight.
8. Dust bread flour on the pastry board and put on the dough. Flatten the dough and remove the gas inside. Roll the dough into a long cylinder. Divide the pre-measured dough into 5 even pieces. Make sure they are equal in weight.
9. Spread the dough toward the other side of the cutting surface. Shape each dough piece into a ball. Make sure the bottom is tightly closed. Line up the dough balls on the cooking tray dusted with flour. Cover with plastic wrap and let them rest for 20 minutes at a room temperature.
Shaping Cookie Dough
1. In the meantime, let's shape the cookie dough into round sheets. Divide the dough into 5 pieces. Measure each piece and make sure they are equal in weight. Put a bit of bread flour on your hands and shape each dough piece into a ball.
2. Place the ball on plastic wrap, cover with another wrap and press with the side of the scraper. Placing a 9 cm (3.5") diameter drawing under the wrap will help you get an equal set of cookie sheets.
3. Line up the cookie sheets on the cooking tray dusted with flour. Sit the tray in the fridge while the bread dough is resting. This will make the cookie dough easier to handle.
2nd Fermentation and Baking
1. Let's shape the dough into Melonpan. Reshape each bread dough into a ball, cover with the cookie sheet and adjust the shape. Hold the dough upside down and stretch the cookie sheet up to the center.
2. Pinch the bottom of the bread dough and dip the cookie dough in sugar. Hold the Melonpan on your palm and make a diamond pattern on top with the scraper.
3. Line up the Melonpan on the baking sheet covered with parchment paper.
4. Let the Melonpan sit in the warm place for the second fermentation. This conventional oven can keep the inside at 37 °C (99 °F). After 40 minutes of the second rise, the Melonpan are almost doubled in volume.
5. Let's bake the Melonpan. Preheat the conventional oven at 170°C (338 °F) and bake the Melonpan for about 12 minutes. When each Melonpan gets slightly brown on top, remove the baking sheet from the oven. Cool them down on a cooling rack and they are ready to serve!
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Sophie Lécuyer (French, b. 1987, Épinal, France) - From series The Time Of Anemors, 2016 Etchings, Aquatints printed in Green Ink on Fabriano Paper
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Oleander hawkmoth aka army green moth, Daphnis nerii, Sphingidae
Daphnis nerii is a large hawk-moth found in wide areas of Africa, Asia and certain Hawaiian Islands. The caterpillars feed mainly on oleander (Nerium oleander) leaves, a highly toxic plant, to which the caterpillars are immune.
Photos in order by craigwilliams3998, Alison Day, mlb2005ts, pallab14, balharsh (5-7), Robin Inkysloth, curiousann, and wildcreatures
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Nara Park in Nara, Japan, is home to over 1,200 wild sika deer. A video captured by Japanese photographer Kazuki Ikeda shows a herd of the deer relaxing by the park’s cherry blossom trees.
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心理学 Psychology
生理心理学 「せいりしんりがく」 Physiological psychology
神経心理学 「しんけいしんりがく」 Neuropsychology
認知心理学 「にんちしんりがく」 Cognitive psychology
音楽心理学 「おんがくしんりがく」 Music psychology
言語心理学 「げんごしんりがく」 Linguistic psychology
知覚心理学 「ちかくしんりがく」 Perceptual psychology
学習心理学 「がくしゅうしんりがく」 Psychology of learning i
進化心理学 「しんかしんりがく」 Evolutionary psychology
行動心理学 「こうどうしんりがく」 Behavioural psychology
応用心理学 「おうようしんりがく」 Applied psychology
社会心理学 「しゃかいしんりがく」 Social psychology
産業心理学 「さんぎょうしんりがく」 Industrial psychology
経営心理学 「けいえいしんりがく」 Administrative psychology
広告心理学 「こうこくしんりがく」 Advertising psychology
政治心理学 「せいじしんりがく」 Political psychology
交通心理学 「こうすうしんりがく」 Traffic psychology
災害心理学 「さいがいしんりがく」 Disaster psychology
環境心理学 「かんきょうしんりがく」 Environmental psychology
発達心理学 「はったつしんりがく」 Developmental psychology
犯罪心理学 「はんざいしんりがく」 Criminal psychology
異常心理学 「いじょうしんりがく」 Abnormal psychology
臨床心理学 「りんしょうしんりがく」 Clinical psychology
健康心理学 「けんこうしんりがく」 Health psychology
家族心理学 「かぞくしんりがく」 Family psychology
看護心理学 「かんごしんりがく」 Nursing psychology
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65 LGBT Books by Black Authors
In honor of Pride Month obviously, here’s my next list! Please continue to add authors and books to this list!
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Another Country by James Baldwin
Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone by James Baldwin
Invisible Life by E. Lynn Harris
Just as I am (Invisible Life #2) by E. Lynn Harris
I Say a Little Prayer by E. Lynn Harris
Hood Witch by Faylita Hicks
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett
By Any Means Necessary by Candice Montgomery
A Dream so Dark by LL McKinney
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
Build Yourself a Boat by Camonghne Felix
Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert
Skin Deep Magic by Craig Laurance Gidney
The Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie
Juniper Leaves by Jaz Joyner
Queer Africa - Selected Stories
The Yellow Brownstone by Lisa K. Stephenson
Freedom in This Village by E. Lynn Harris
Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction by Devon W. Carbado
In Case You Forgot by Frederick Smith and Chaz Lamar
Mogul by Terrance Dean
Potomac University Series by Rashid Darden
The Secrets of Eden by Brandon Goode
Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann
Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces by Michelle Sewell
Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell
Black Lesbian in White America by Anita Cornwell**
If We Have to Take Tomorrow by Frank Leon, White Roberts, and Marvin K.
Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men edited by Essex Hemphill
In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology by Joseph Beam
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Here for It by R. Eric Thomas
Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson
Black Deutschland by Darryl Pinckney
A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan
Crossfire: A Litany for Survival by Staceyann Chin
The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir by Staceyann Chin
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
Lives of Great Men by Chike Frankie Edozien
Burnt Men by Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun**
She Called Me Woman edited by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, and Rafeeat Aliyu
B-Side and Other Misheard Lyrics by L.M. Bennett
For Sizakele by Yvonne “Fly” Onakeme Etaghene
Black Power Barbie Volume 1: Love Lives of Heroes by Shay Youngblood
Loving Her by Ann Allen Shockley
No Telephone to Heaven by Michelle Cliff
Something Better than Home by Leona Beasley
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Yabo by Alexis De Veaux
Fragments that Remain by Steven Corbin
Vanishing Rooms by Melvin Dixon
Blackbird by Larry Duplechan
B-Boy Blues Series by James Earl Hardy
The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
**I could not find links to buy both of these books, so if anyone is able to please add them to the post!
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BREAKING NEWS
I just learned about a bird species called Golden Plover. Their chicks have an amazing camouflage: their baby fluff resembles MOSS!
LOOK AT THEM! JUST LOOK AT THEM!
...Oh to be a tiny golden plover lying in the moss safe and sound waiting for your mom to bring you some worms...
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