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who animated this??? its really great fluid replacement animation w these artifacts, i wanna know who animated it but I cant find any source

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“All Creative Work is Derivative”

Tumblr: Don’t scroll past this! Don’t ignore this! No one’s talking about this!

I’m an adult who reads three different newspapers. This is Tumblr, where I go to get away from the news. If I don’t want to read something on Tumblr, I don’t have to. If I don’t reblog something, that doesn’t mean I’m ignoring it. I’m not talking about it here because I’m talking about it to people in my real life.

Tumblr is not where I come to get news, and quite frankly, it shouldn’t be.

Pride and Prejudice is one of those movies that you watch every once in a while to calm down.. like, the nostalgia makes you feel safe when you’re a little afraid of how fast the time flies by. it’s like a steady rock in the chaotic ocean of life: you watch that movie, and for a moment it’s like nothing changed at all

GUESS WHO GONNA REPLAY THIS GAME FOR 13467743211 TIME NOW????

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Travis Breaks his Sweatshirt to Mii Music

I stopped watching Talks early just to make you all this video. I hope you enjoy it.

24 Invaluable Skills To Learn For Free Online This Year

Here’s an easy resolution: This stuff is all free as long as you have access to a computer, and the skills you learn will be invaluable in your career, and/or life in general. 

1. Become awesome at Excel.

Chandoo is one of many gracious Excel experts who wants to share their knowledge with the world. Excel excellence is one of those skills that will improve your chances of getting a good job instantly, and it will continue to prove invaluable over the course of your career. What are you waiting for?

2. Learn how to code.

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Perhaps no other skill you can learn for free online has as much potential to lead to a lucrative career. Want to build a site for your startup? Want to build the next big app? Want to get hired at a place like BuzzFeed? You should learn to code. There are a lot of places that offer free or cheap online coding tutorials, but I recommend Code Academy for their breadth and innovative program. If you want to try a more traditional route, Harvard offers its excellent Introduction to Computer Science course online for free.

3. Make a dynamic website.

You could use a pre-existing template or blogging service, or you could learn Ruby on Rails and probably change your life forever. Here’s an extremely helpful long list of free Ruby learning tools that includes everything from Rails for Zombies to Learn Ruby The Hard Way. Go! Ruby! Some basic programming experience, like one of the courses above, might be helpful (but not necessarily required if you’re patient with yourself).

4. Learn to make a mobile game.

If you’re not interested in coding anything other than fun game apps, you could trythis course from the University of Reading. It promises to teach you how to build a game in Java, even if you don’t have programming experience! If you want to make a truly great game, you might want to read/listen up on Game Theory first.

5. Start reading faster.

Spreeder is a free online program that will improve your reading skill and comprehension no matter how old you are. With enough practice, you could learn to double, triple, or even quadruple the speed at which you read passages currently, which is basically like adding years to your life.

6. Learn a language!

With Duolingo, you can learn Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, or English (from any of the above or more). There’s a mobile app and a website, and the extensive courses are completely free.

Full disclosure: BuzzFeed and other websites are in a partnership with DuoLingo, but they did not pay or ask for this placement.

7. Pickle your own vegetables.

Tired of your farmer’s market haul going bad before you use it all? Or do you just love tangy pickled veggies? You too can pickle like a pro thanks to SkillShare and Travis Grillo.

8. Improve your public speaking skills.

You can take the University of Washington’s Intro to Public Speaking for free online. Once you learn a few tricks of the trade, you’ll be able to go into situations like being asked to present at a company meeting or giving a presentation in class without nearly as much fear and loathing.

9. Get a basic handle of statistics.

UC Berkeley put a stats intro class on iTunes. Once you know how to understand the numbers yourself, you’ll never read a biased “news” article the same way again — 100% of authors of this post agree!

10. Understand basic psychology.

Knowing the basics of psych will bring context to your understanding of yourself, the dynamics of your family and friendships, what’s really going on with your coworkers, and the woes and wonders of society in general. Yale University has its Intro to Psychology lectures online for free.

11. Make your own music.

Step one: Learn how to play guitar: Justin Guitar is a fine and free place to start learning chords and the basic skills you’ll need to be able to play guitar — from there, it’s up to you, but once you know the basics, just looking up tabs for your favorite songs and learning them on your own is how many young guitar players get their start (plus it’s an excellent party trick).

Step two: A delightful free voice lesson from Berklee College Of Music.

Step three: Have you always thought you had an inner TSwift? Berklee College of Music offers an Introduction to Songwriting course completely for free online. The course is six weeks long, and by the end of the lesson you’ll have at least one completed song.

Step four: Lifehacker’s basics of music production will help you put it all together once you have the skills down! You’ll be recording your own music, ready to share with your valentine or the entire world, in no time!

12. Learn to negotiate.

Let Stanford’s Stan Christensen explain how to negotiate in business and your personal life, managing relationships for your personal gain and not letting yourself be steamrolled. There are a lot of football metaphors and it’s great.

13. Stop hating math.

If you struggled with math throughout school and now have trouble applying it in real-world situations when it crops up, try Saylor.org’s Real World Math course. It will reteach you basic math skills as they apply IRL. Very helpful!

14. Start drawing!

All kids draw — so why do we become so afraid of it as adults? Everyone should feel comfortable with a sketchbook and pencil, and sketching is a wonderful way to express your creativity. DrawSpace is a great place to start. (I also highly recommend the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain if you can drop a few dollars for a used copy.)

15. Make your own animated GIF.

BuzzFeed’s own Katie Notopoulos has a great, simple guide to making an animated GIF without Photoshop. This is all you need to be the king or queen of Tumblr or your favorite email chains.

16. Appreciate jazz.

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Have you never really “gotten” jazz? If you want to be able to participate in conversations at fancy parties and/or just add some context to your appreciation of all music, try this free online course from UT Austin.

17. Write well.

Macalester College’s lecture series is excellent. If you’re more interested in journalism, try Wikiversity’s course selection.

18. Get better at using Photoshop.

Another invaluable skill that will get you places in your career, learning Photoshop can be as fun as watching the hilarious videos on You Suck At Photoshop or as serious as this extensive Udemy training course (focused on photo retouching).

19. Take decent pictures.

Lifehacker’s basics of photography might be a good place to start. Learn how your camera works, the basic of composition, and editing images in post-production. If you finish that and you’re not sure what to do next, here’s a short course on displaying and sharing your digital photographs.

20. Learn to knit.

Instructables has a great course by a woman who is herself an online-taught knitter. You’ll be making baby hats and cute scarves before this winter’s over!

21. Get started with investing in stocks.

If you are lucky enough to have a regular income, you should start learning about savings and investment now. Investopedia has a ton of online resources, including this free stocks basics course. Invest away!

22. Clean your house in a short amount of time.

Unf$#k Your Habitat has a great emergency cleaning guide for when your mother-in-law springs a surprise visit on you. While you’re over there, the entire blog is good for getting organized and clean in the long term, not just in “emergencies.” You’ll be happier for it.

23. Start practicing yoga.

Most cities have free community classes (try just searching Google or inquiring at your local yoga studio), or if you’re more comfortable trying yoga at home, YogaGlohas a great 15-day trial and Yome is a compendium of 100% free yoga videos. If you’re already familiar with basic yoga positions but you need an easy way to practice at home, I recommend YogaTailor’s free trial as well.

24. Tie your shoelaces more efficiently.

It’s simple and just imagine the minutes of your life you’ll save!

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Kindness is the beginning and the end of my religion and yet “why can’t we just be nice” and “why can’t we just treat people decently” sort of of get on my nerves, honestly. Most days I can take them in the spirit in which they’re meant, but…

It’s the “just”. Just be a good person. Just be kind. As if that isn’t actually a massive effort.

Kindness and niceness and compassion and consideration mean fighting with your basest instincts, with the anger and anxiety and fear that have kept us as a species alive for millions of years. It means being able to understand how other people see the world and how our actions affect that, which takes a massive cognitive effort. And not just people in general; we have to understand that different people will see different things as kindness. To be genuinely kind all the time, you have to mentally model the interior states of everyone you meet. That is an ENORMOUS expenditure of mental and emotional labour.

And then you have to perform kindness. Kindness is getting off the couch when someone comes in staggering under the weight of groceries. Kindness is not laughing when a child shows you something they’re proud of. Kindness is not lashing out at the person who just thoughtlessly hurt you. Kindness is not giving the curt answer.

Empathy takes work. Kindness takes energy. These aren’t just no-cost solutions. 

And if we don’t talk about how kindness is difficult, we can’t talk about how to change circumstances so other people have more time and energy and freedom and space to be kinder too. We can’t talk about the systems that make people dehumanize each other, the poverty and scarcity that lead to helplessness and isolation and cruelty. We can’t fix things.

And if kindness is the beginning and end of your religion, well… that makes it kind of hard to do the thing you set out to do.

Murder on the Rockport Limited exists in this weird liminal space because it’s better constructed than Gerblins but they still haven’t QUITE figured out how seriously they want to take this whole podcast. So on the one hand you have this cool murder mystery and the introduction of a major NPC and Tres Horny Boys are marginally more coordinated than they have been thus far, even if the overarching plot doesn’t advance very far, but like on the other hand it also includes

—An entire town of Tom Bodetts

—Hand stank

—Everything about Jenkins’ introduction

—The Brief but Horrible Scottish Accent of Merle Highchurch

—“Sorry guys I had a really bad initiative roll”

—Graham the Juicy Wizard

—That moment where Magnus actually very nearly died because no one cared yet if one of them had to roll a new character so he just threw himself off a train

—Jenkins fucked up his roll to attack THB so badly and Griffin didn’t have a backup plan so instead of a boss fight Jenkins just got punched off the train and died

a word of advice: open your windows. wash your sheets. exfoliate your legs. read a paperback. make your bed. moisturize every inch of your body. go to sleep with soft skin and sheets that smell like the wind and a mind full of words worth dreaming about

im tired of yall excusing aphobia by saying shit like "tumblr made me think i was demi which means all ace/aro identities are evil-" THAT'S JUST CALLED QUESTIONING, KAREN. before realizing i was a trans man, i identified as a butch nb lesbian. just because i thought i was a butch nb lesbian doesn't mean all butch/femme culture and nb culture is toxic and "held me back" from being a man, it was just what i was comfortable with identifying as at the time and the label that felt right. eventually i realized hey, it isn't right, and ive been using my sexuality as a crutch to hide from the fact that i may be a trans man! that is not the fault of any lesbian anywhere! nobody is at fault except for a transphobic system and a system that expects you to choose one identity and stick to it. i became scared of being a trans man simply because i was "already" a lesbian, and changing it would be too much.

instead of blaming the lesbian community from "holding me back" from being a trans man, i have a deep gratitude for them for allowing me to feel comfortable with expressing myself in new ways, connecting to other lgbt people in general, and giving me a space to be gnc and realize that im more comfortable being read as a "feminine" guy than a "masculine" woman.

stop attacking identities for making you "scared" to identify as something when that's not how this shit fucking works.

The first feminist gesture is to say: “Ok. They’re looking at me. But I’m looking at them.” The act of deciding to look, of deciding that the world is not defined by how people see me, but by how I see them.” -Agnès Varda

man, something i’ve noticed is that people really, really love to talk about bi people as if the only bisexuals that exist are bi women. and it’s really offputting, because bi men are already ostracized enough as it is.

hell, the lack of resources for multisexual men is so large that there’s a large percentage of men that…never even realize they’re bi/pan. they live their entire lives feeling isolated and confused about their identity and who they are due to a lack of education, a lack of information, a lack of resources.

i never, ever see posts and resources and kind words for my bi brothers, and that needs to change. the bisexual community is the largest out of the lgbt community. we need to stand up for each other, for every single one of us. bi men exist, bi enbies exist. please actively work harder to be more inclusive, for your bi siblings’ sake.

Everyone knows there are only two human emotions: Freddie Mercury crying out “I don’t wanna die, sometimes wish I’d never been born at all” and Florence Welch declaring “I am done with my graceless heart, so tonight I’m gonna cut it out and then restart”.

ivan aivazovsky understood........he got it

this is what it’s all about