This Guy Has The Most Difficult Bird Of All Time But He Loves Him Anyway

i am delighted to inform you of the existence of the Rosefinch, which is a real actual bird that exists!

hey fellas do you think-- [gets knocked out]

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

#my last two brain cells 

Bidhannagar Mela, Kolkata.

Everyone should know the international sign for Help Me. Let’s make this famous!!

Resenting the male gaze but also being obsessed with how you’re perceived by others

Margaret Atwood /// Susan Sontag /// Real Men - Mitski /// Shame is an Ocean I Swim Across - Mary Lambert /// Birds of Prey (2020) /// post by jitterati /// Liquid Smooth - Mitski /// Jennifer’s Body (2009) /// Bravado - Lorde /// Diagnosis - Cynthia Cruz

Unpopular opinion: homework is the biggest load of BS. I mean honestly, the majority of people value the separation between home and work life, most of us don’t like when we get home and we have to continue working even though we’ve left the office. Why would we do that to children?? 

8.7.2023

I didn't think I'd be doing this again after I got my undergraduate degree, but it looks like I'm back on studyblr. Right now I'm doing some online classes, but I'm prepping some grad school applications and if those go well I will be a full time student again.

Like before, my posts will mostly be for me to look back on, and not too highly polished. Think of a journal about studying and you'll have reasonable expectations.

Today I did a session of my Interplanetary Spacecraft and Satellite Engineering course. I'm just wrapping up the section on different kinds of propulsion. At first I was skeptical of the quality and depth an online course could provide, but I think this course covers the main topics and gives you a good baseline to evaluate new ideas and go into more research on your own.

I've also been trying to get outside more often, the other picture is some salt ponds I visited last weekend.

Fun history facts: One of the 31 people arrested at Stonewall on June 28th 1969 was American folk singer Dave Van Ronk, who was not at the Stonewall Inn at the time and was cis & straight as far as I'm aware. He'd been eating dinner at a nearby restaurant when he noticed a riot happening, said "Well I suppose I should go see what the fuss is about," stepped outside, and immediately started throwing bricks at the cops.