making someone a cup of tea as a love language
*sits down*
dont you think its weird. dont you think its weird that the space race last time was two of the biggest powers in the world. and now its a handful of rich men. dont you think its weird they can afford that. dont you think its bad that rich men can afford the same things as the government.
dont you think its weird that while the world is suffering and poverty is everywhere, where there's wars and climate change and human pain and homelessness. the same month I've watched people die on the news from unbearable heat and unprecedented flooding. that a rich handful of men are going to space, causing more carbon emissions. dont you think its weird that instead of putting their vast amount of money to use for good they're using it to find a way off the planet theyre destroying.
dont you think its really fucking weird.
Palestinians will tell you that one of their greatest wishes is that the world would not forget them; this is what their oppressors are aiming to do. Unfortunately the attacks in Sheikh Jarrah and Al-Aqsa mosque are just instances in decades of horrific oppression and ethnic cleansing. You can directly help Palestinians by buying from them and helping them take economic power back.
The above are some examples of the beautiful and high quality products available at Shoppalestine.org including their honestly addictive Olive wood series and stunning embroidered goods (just to name a few).
Similar and equally beautiful products here too^
You can also donate to one of the emergency appeals here:
from now on we’re calling all the stem folk ‘students of the unhallowed arts’, just like mary shelley wanted us to do
i missed the word trig when reading this and just thought "wow, i'm sure glad identity crises are a universal experience among STEM majors" :')
reblog if you’re a STEM major and are constantly googling trig identities
‘clair de lune’ by debussy but you’re wandering down the halls of your wealthy reclusive uncle’s grand and empty mansion trying to find who’s playing the piano because you haven’t seen another soul for weeks except your reflection in the mirror (youtube)
I’m like a haunted house but i’m a girl
Four times the amount of people in Afghanistan have been displaced from their homes by the Taliban in a single week compared to the people of Palestine during the May aerial assault by Israel. Both tragedies are extremely important, but please let people know about Afghanistan too.
Please use the tags and spread awareness.
studying the life cycle of star clusters while the thickest fog is blanketing the entire neighbourhood (and probably more beyond that)
For anyone who doesn't know what's going on in Canada right now (which, let's be real, is probably everyone who's not in Canada):
This week, a mass grave was discovered at a former Indian Residential School, in Kamloops, BC. The grave contained the bodies of 215 Indigenous children.
For people outside of North America, residential schools were places that Indigenous children were sent to, to have their language and culture stripped away from them. They were literally stolen from their families, and scattered across Canada, to ensure that they would be surrounded by children who didn't speak their language. They were given Christian names and forced to speak English. They were horrendously abused, and the survivors have been traumatized.
Hundreds of children never returned. The assumption has always been that they died. This has now been confirmed.
The school in Kamloops closed in 1978. They are now trying to identify bodies to inform family members. The last residential school closed in the 1990s. There is growing demand to search all of them, but the government hasn't responded to that, as of yet. Ottawa JUST gave in to pressure to fly the Canada flag at half mast. They weren't even going to do that.
This is the reality if anti-Indigenous racism in Canada. The residential schools may be closed, but that hasn't stopped the abduction of Indigenous children, let alone the hundreds of missing and murdered Indigenous women.
about me
my name is mj, i go by she/her pronouns, and i am 23 years old
taurus, infj, and ravenclaw
i’m studying mechanical engineering
i’m from canada, and i’m part filipino
interests
astrophysics, astronomy, and anything sci-fi/space related
D O G S (please send me pictures of your dogs)
all things halloween-y, witchy, or autumnal
books, especially mysteries
disney & studio ghibli movies :)
baking and painting!
tea enthusiast (especially jasmine tea)
studyblr goals
to motivate myself to still enjoy the school year though it will be all online
to try and be less of a perfectionist and recognize that my notes should be functional before they are pretty :)
to make friends in the studyblr community!!
some blogs that inspire me
@shhcoffeebreak @starrystvdy @studying-engineering @bentostudy @studyingchemeng @belles-etudes @studylustre @inginieur @asteriscuz @kometstudy @caeruleuz @clairethespacelady @philology-studies