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Books UnBanned 🇺🇸 - The Brooklyn Public Library through a teen-led initiative is giving every teen in the USA free access to all of the banned books. The banned list of texts also makes a great reading list for finding Black and LGBTQ+ authors and... more...

The HUMAN realistic 3D portrait courses using Blender by Kent Trammel at CG Cookie are incredible!
https://cgcookie.com/

Geek Food - My productivity relies on automation of things. I love #Python and I use Anaconda daily. Here's a great tutorial on how to build a 🐍CLI app to get weather reports that's good for beginners or those coming from another programming... more...

Geek Food - One of my favorite new features in Python v3.10 is structural pattern matching. Very powerful! 🤯 PEP636 is a good tutorial on how to use it:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0636/

The abortion and anti-transgender cases are my highest priority, but two other cases at SCOTUS concern me: Shurtleff v. Boston is part of their plan for a theocracy, and Carson v. Makin is their plan for taxpayers to pay for religious education.... more...

The Pandora Papers - A massive leak of 12 million files and a long investigation shows how and where the rich and powerful hide their offshore money.
https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/

Animation School - This young man "Bad Normals" (LOL a 3d joke) from Estonia is amazing! He's using Geometry Nodes in Blender v3.0.0-alpha to create lightning effects.🤯 A much better way to do it!... more...

With 64% of their voters supporting it, Switzerland becomes the 30th country to recognize same-sex marriages. Human rights should never be decided by a referendum, but I'll take progress where/how I can get it! 🏳️‍🌈

Two phrases from two different mentors are stuck ringing in my head: "Enjoying the shade from trees I didn't plant" and "Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done." Just by awareness of those two thoughts, you can see the world through... more...