#swimming education

[mypositiveoutlooks]

Swim instructor’s ‘mermaid mantra’ helps in boosting kids’ confidence in the water

Boosting kids’ confidence while teaching them how to swim can be challenging. However, a swimming instructor has a mantra that encourages his students to be brave and not be scared of the water. “I’m big. I’m brave. I’m beautiful.” This is the mantra that swim instructor Tyler Reed is teaching his students. He calls it the “mermaid mantra” and has been applying it to little children who need more…

[bettreworld]

Island youth don't know how to swim on Montserrat.

[ao3-anonymous]

Fastest Growing Fandoms on AO3 This Week (08/20/2024)

Every week I pull data on how many fics are in each fandom and compare to the previous week, then calculate the percentage increase to determine fastest growing fandoms.  Since this naturally skews towards smaller fandoms, I have included the same data filtered to Over 1k, 5k, & 10k fics.

Overall:

Over 1,000 Fics:

Over 5,000 Fics:

Over 10,000 Fics:

Source: AO3 Fandom Dashboard

[bypatia]

book recs no one asked for: always coming home by ursula k le guin, why we swim by bonnie tsui, a thousand splendid suns by khaled hosseini, if you want feminist soul-changing, hopepunk, touches the veil of life reads, and educated by tara westover, all about love by bell hooks, the year of magical thinking by joan didion if you want real, visceral takes on love, grief, and being the master of your own fate, bye

[reality-detective]

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[toyastales]

Modern Step Down Pool

[biologist4ever]

[ryoukio]

Just realised I never posted mermaid Wesker. From the fic: Something Fishy in the State of Science by @cobwebcorner

[mexashepot]

If someone told 23 yo me that I'd lose my job during a war when the market is in the worst place it's ever been and there are almost no available positions and that I'd be totally chill about it all while living on my own and paying rent I would have not believed you and would have asked you what drugs future me was using (even though drugs would be very ooc)

Granted, idk whether I'm chill af bc I'm too depressed to feel anything or because work got me so exhausted and burnt out that I am just happy I can relax a bit and try to get myself together or because I hope I get the unemployment aliments that I deserve by law but fuck knows whether I'll get them

but idk I have been chill for the (almost) past 2 weeks since I got fired and I'm grateful for that

[ssruis]

Aside from the noble platypus I also feel like rui would really enjoy these animals:

Mola mola/Sunfish

Anteater

Echidna

Kiwi

Kākāpō

Axolotl

Horseshoe crab

Gibbon

[theloreofmandy]

Is this really ugly truth, or is it the truth about Mandy we should've known all along? Sometimes, things are better left unsaid. Or not...

Billy and his dad Harold incorrectly told the audience about Mandy when she was a younger. However, when Mandy told the audience how she first met Mindy... That was completely accurate. Even when disguising herself as a human when she was younger, she didn't seem so grumpy or angry.

[fathercharlesoffdensen]

"Now you've graduated / Mind is mutilated / Thrust into the world / Feeling segregated / Move in with your parents / Back into the dark / Landed where you started / Bachelor of Arts." - "Go Forth and Die" (Metalocalypse)

[reality-detective]

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[exxiion]

I love physical media. It's comforting, encouraging in its corporeality, reassuring that it's an object that you own... but I also love gaming on pc, a platform dominated by digital downloads.

It's a topic I feel many don't really discuss, but I feel it is highly important for game preservation, which is a distinct weak spot in the pc platform's otherwise perfect image.

Once a game is delisted on steam, you can only really get it through key resellers, scrounging around in shady digital markets for forbidden goods. it's an insufficient statement of preservation, leaving the future of these games up to third parties.

In light of recent disappointments -Ubisoft, Adult Swim, Sony, and even Valve- the importance of game preservation is called into the spotlight, with initiatives like Stop Killing Games challenging publishers to keep their games alive and accessible.

I would like to challenge Valve themselves, if you wanna take game preservation seriously, introduce physical media into your ecosystem.

You already have family sharing, you could build the system off that to allow for a game that exists with its own account. Sharing with the system its plugged into through a form of family sharing is the most ideal way I could imagine physical games on steam could work.

[biologist4ever]

[tony-blair-erotica]

RIP Saddam you’d have loved the Chase x

Image credits:

1 & 2: Contestant on ITV's The Chase, originally tweeted by Michael Glasper on X, 17/09/2024, https://x.com/michaelcglasper/status/1835716960375525537?s=46&t=EQjf0STbu875ZFjTm8Cxkw

3: Tony Blair on holiday in Sicily, August 2016 from BEESCOP.COM