Madi

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[madsocstudies]

I just finished the spreadsheet minicourse for my class! This table is the finished result

[transxfiles]

to everyone else in school right now: 

please use sparknotes. please use khan academy. please listen to school house rock songs and watch the history of the entire world i guess and tim and moby and bill nye. any documentary you watch in class can be found somewhere online with a quick google. get your books from project gutenberg and z-lib. download textbooks off the internet whenever you can find them. use desmos for a free online graphing calculator. if you’re learning something and you don’t get it look up the wikipedia page on it and put it into simple english to get the gist, then put it back into regular english to get the full story. cheat if you have to. school sucks so bad rn and if you’re like me and you get all your materials secondhand or from the lost and found, online resources are really useful rn; all of the above have helped me pass a class in some way, and i hope they can help you too.

stay inside and stay safe. best of luck to all the students out there. 

[madsocstudies]

What? Me? Actually doing school work at a table instead of on my bed so I ACTUALLY have an aesthetic picture? It’s more likely than you think!

I’m off work for the first time in what feels like FOREVER, so I am taking full advantage of my day to get a lot of school work done!

Thanks to @ hisgoodgrace on insta for this preset, and all the presets I’ll be using in my pictures!

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

I love this post because the replies are like "for anyone who doesn't know what nestle did, they benefited from [insert human rights violation here]" but nestle has done SO many fucked up things you get a different topic in every comment

[breakingboob]

Nestle has:

Drained water from places suffering from drought for absolute pennies.

Made African mothers dependent on their milk formula, which they gave for free, until their milk dried up. Then they required them to purchase it, mothers could not afford it, mixed in too little to fulfill nutrient needs, and mixed it with polluted water. Children died.

Used slavery to produce their cocoa.

Pushed for water to be considered a “want” not a “need” and is at the forefront of arguments that water is not a human right.

Poisoned Chinese infants with melamine in their milk formula.

Demanded Ethiopia pay a debt owed to Nestle, during a FAMINE.

Price-fixed food items.

Contributed to deforestation for their cocoa farming.

The worst thing is, Nestle owns TONS of other brands, making it difficult to avoid for certain products.

[abysmal-absinthe]

Nestle owns RALPH LAUREN?!? 

[snowylynxx]

doesnt l'oréal also have like a bunch of class action lawsuits against it for using chemicals that cause hair loss in all of their shampoos and conditioners

[madsocstudies]

https://www.nestle.com/brands/brandssearchlist here’s a list straight from Nestle’s website. I don’t know if they’re just not as open about L’oreal and the clothing, but I’m hoping they just don’t own it anymore. I love Garnier and Maybelline, but I will stop using it if they’re still linked to Nestle

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

I didn’t want to disrupt the post about hostile architecture I saw because it’s true that the main target is homeless people but I did want to mention that this architecture also hurts people who aren’t skinny. I want to preface this all by saying I am in no way trying to minimize how this impacts people experiencing homelessness I am just trying to add on to the discussion of how these are bad.

You think that someone who can’t fit into those weird little yellow seats is going to feel comfortable? No. It will only make them feel bad or excluded.

Look at this shit. It’s not good or nice.

It only adds to the ways fat people are made feel unwelcome and though we already needed to tear this shit down because it makes life a million times worse for people experiencing homelessness and so this isn’t saying this is why you should tear it down. It is saying that our society is fatphobic and that sucks.

[bread-and-roses-too]

It’s also not great for disabled people (or god forbid, disabled homeless people because they exist too) because if someone is having a crisis and needs to lay down they have to lay on the ground instead of on a bench.  A bench is a lot safer because you’re not as likely to lay on something hard or sharp or be tripped over/stepped on.  Someone might also see a bench like these and opt to try to find a better place to lie down and end up falling instead.  People who pass out or have CFS episodes might only have a few seconds warning before they should really be lying down, and benches like this make it much harder. 

I’ve seen some places say that benches like the first one are “wheelchair accessible”, which is fucking stupid because it’s already a chair??? the nature of a wheelchair is that it’s a chair, you don’t need a special space to park your wheelchair, you can just park in on one end of the bench. 

[madsocstudies]

Good morning everyone! Today is a football and homework kind of day! I’m hoping to be almost done with this week’s work today so I can get started on the work for the week of my trip! That means writing a news lead and taking notes on four handouts, but I think it’s possible!

[madsocstudies]

Hi everyone! If you celebrate it, I hope you had a merry Christmas, and if you don’t, I hope you had a great few days!!

I got my first quiz and lead grades back in Media Writing, and they are both 100% !!!!! I’m super excited!! Now to get all of the next two weeks’ work done so I’m ahead for my (COVID safe of course) trip to the beach!

[random-fandomania]

[garlic-slut]

These men said “that is NOT what women are for” so fast

[gothdolphin-deactivated20190409]

me: how do churches deal with gluten at communion

first response on a catholic forum:

[hvlthgxth-deactivated20241124]

The Roman Catholic church is the only Christian faith with any mettle.

[hvlthgxth-deactivated20241124]

It’s not bread. It’s Jesus, dipshit. Next question.

[regrettablyjake]

It’s jesus, but also jesus’ body activates Celiac’s

[madsocstudies]

I can’t speak for other denominations, but Methodists actually use gluten-free bread! It makes communion available to more people. Our Jesus bread doesn’t activate Celiac’s

[plxviophile]

john mulaney has checked into rehab. here’s what we are going to do:

• support him

• wish him well

• respect his privacy

here’s what we are NOT going to do

• make jokes because addiction is not funny

• speculate anything about his marriage or personal life

• attack those in his personal life (*ahem, leave anna alone. don’t go asking pete davidson for details. none of that)

addiction is a serious disease, and while this news may be troubling, i am so proud of him for seeking help. you can too.

[untroubledkiss]

20.12.20 • Another day, another flashcard. Today’s objective is to memorize the new vocabulary I picked up during this week’s lessons. I also got a few Taschen art books I’d love to read. I hope your Sunday is going fine x

[sciencebelongstoallofus]

Maki Naro @ The Nib

[mistertotality]

There’s a lot of misinformation going around about the Covid-19 vaccines, so now is a good time to bring this back.

[lexeries]

2021 Planner

I made a digital planner, heavily inspired (it’s almost the same except the colour and I added more hyperlinks) by sobac’s (YouTube) 2021 planner.

Download link

Dark ver

Light ver

[navramanan]

You ever feel a massive existential dread because of this pandemic

[iskastudiies]

my new purchases — some stationery + this super cute glass ✨ i guess this is kind of like a reward for myself for finishing the semester yay (although i’m not officially done ahsjdkd). one more paper!!!!!

[madsocstudies]

Good morning! I started my media writing class last night and it’s really interesting! I think I’m actually going to stay interested in it unlike chemistry I do have to work all day (retail at Christmas wooooooo), but my goals for tonight are to write my first news lead and maybe even do my second quiz???

What are your goals for today? Let me know!

[iskastudiies]

my new purchases — some stationery + this super cute glass ✨ i guess this is kind of like a reward for myself for finishing the semester yay (although i’m not officially done ahsjdkd). one more paper!!!!!