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Sketchpad: Free online drawing application for all ages. Create digital artwork to share online and export to popular image formats JPEG, PNG, SVG, and PDF.
Useful, free online tool that converts HTML code to Markdown. No ads, nonsense, or garbage, just a neat Markdown converter. Press a button – get the result.
Drag and drop images from your desktop into the app. You can rotate and drag them. And generate your animated GIF! May even work while you're disconnected!
Online GIF maker where you can create animated GIFs, banners, slideshows from sequence of images. Upload frames and make a GIF or merge and edit existing GIFs
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Why far-right groups are increasingly targeting the LGBTQ community
There have been several recent incidents where far-right, white supremacist groups have targeted LGBTQ people, including last weekend at a pride event in Idaho and a during a drag story hour at a library in California. J.M. Berger, a writer and researcher who focuses on extremist ideologies and has written four books on the topic, joins William Brangham to discuss.
Someone asked for the absolute most basic writing advice I could give. Since this week I reached eleven years of self-publishing, it seems a good time to share it. So, here are four pieces of advic…