A Day In The Shell

Mutato nomine, de te fabula narratur. 23 Cincinnati, Oh

[midtown120blues-deactivated2018]

[bloodytales]

[secondbeatsongs]

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“Call Me Maybe” with every other beat removed

[pucket]

[itistimetodisappear]

Anyone else constantly on edge because we are in the final stages of late capitalism and these next couple of decades are gonna be make or break for the western world, and this just happens to coincide with the part of my life where I’m supposed to make something of myself :/

[nymph1e]

You didn’t have to say it with words

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[kitschycritter]

never stop collecting little things that make you happy! rocks! buttons! feathers! flowers! sticks! bugs! bones! never stop!

[yeahthatsdeepshitman]

how did a crow get a tumblr

[despazito]

[adhd-deluxe]

2 months ago I got an assignment on ADHD in Psychology. It’s due tomorrow and I have written one paragraph…

[adhd-community]

I had to write an email to my professors in my final year asking for an extension on an essay about adhd because of my adhd.

It began: “So I’m aware of the irony here…”

[adhd-community]

Just revisiting this to point put that they did give me an extension. I handed in the assessment, did pretty well on it, and the professor I most respected in the university (who ran the class) never said a word about it to me.

It turns out they didn’t care at all about the extended deadline, just that I was trying and that I gave them a heads up when I needed help.

Remember to ask for help when you need it, even if it makes you feel a little silly. Ask early if you can so that the people you’re asking have time to think about a response/plan of action, but if you find yourself stressing out 24hours out from a deadline still just ask.

This has been one of the hardest and most important things I have learnt over the last 10 years.

Ask for help. Ask early. Even if it’s scary.

You are not a burden.

You are not dumb.

You are not expected to already just “know” everything.

Needing help does not make you weak and asking for help makes you incredibly strong.

[flavoracle]

A few points here that bear repeating:

“Ask for help.”

“Ask early.”

“Even if it’s scary.”

And finally, and perhaps most importantly…

“Needing help does not make you weak and asking for help makes you incredibly strong.”

[adayintheshell]

I wish I had someone to talk to

[tastefullyoffensive]

[chipsprites]

thank you

[xenosmorch]

[swan2swan]

What don’t have what now

[echo-lucariorpblog]

Bees don’t have lungs

[swan2swan]

you can’t just not have lungs

[teaboot]

Evidently you can, provided you’re a bee

[cardaughter]

[boneyardchamp]

Your professor will not be happy with you if he says the Stanford Prison Experiment shows human nature and you say it shows the nature of white middle class college-aged boys.

Like he will not be happy at all.

[cannon-fannon]

For real though. That experiment. Scary shit.

[hollowedskin]

This reminds me of a discussion that I read once which said Lord of the Flies would have turned out a hell of a lot differently if it was a private school of young girls (who are expected to be responsible and selfless instead), or a public school where the children weren’t all from an inherently entitled, emotionally stunted social class (studies have shown that people in lower socioeconomic classes show more compassion for others). Or that the same premise with children raised in a different culture than the toxic and opressive British Empire and it’s emphasis on social hierarchy and personal wealth and status. And that what we perceive as the unchangable truth deep inside humanity because of things like Lord of the Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment, is just the base truths about what happens when you remove any accountabilty controlling one social group with an overwhelming sense of entitlement and an inability to feel compassion.

[lady-feral]

I will always reblog this.

[shinykari]

I just wanna say that the Lord of the Flies was explicitly written about high-class private school boys to make this exact point. Golding wrote Lord of the Flies partially to refute an earlier novel about this same subject: The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne. Golding thought it was absolutely absurd that a bunch of privileged little shits would set up some sort of utopia, so his book shows them NOT doing that.

[roscoerackham]

This is also generally true about most psychological experiments.

There’s an experiment called “The Ultimatum Game”. It goes something like this.

Subject A is given an amount of money (Say, $100).

Subject A must offer Subject B some percentage of that money.

If Subject B accepts Subject A’s offer, both get the agreed upon amount of money. If Subject B refuses, no one gets any money.

The most common result was believed to be that people favored 50/50 splits. Anything too low was rejected; people wanted fairness. This was believed to be universal.

And then a researcher went to Peru to do the experiment with members of the indigenous Machiguenga population, and was baffled to find that the results were totally different.

Because, to the Machiguenga, refusing any amount of free money (even an unfair amount) was considered crazy.

So the researcher took his work on the road (to 14 other ‘small scale’ societies and tribes) , and to his shock found the results varied wildly depending on where the test was done. 

In fact, the “universal” result? Was an outlier. 

And that’s the problem. 96% percent of test subjects for psychological research come from 12% of the population. Stuff that we consider to be universal facts of human nature… even things like optical illusions, just… aren’t.

 You can read an article about it here.  But the crux of it is that psychology is plagued with confirmation bias, and people are shaped more by their environment than we realize. 

[anichanchu]

@luvnstuff

[powerfulwizard]

man some dudes really act like going through one break up is a traumatic enough event to mistreat everyone in their lives for years… get over it fucker!!

[catparazzi]

an ex of mine insisted he couldn’t go to grocery store with me because he used to do that with his ex-girlfriend

[arcticlibelle]

What now

[killowave]

[brattylikestoeat]

I didn’t think anyone remember this 😂

[i-am-a-fish]

everyone who reads this post will get some big spicy joy within 24 large minutes (hours)

[draconym]

Me: trying to silently opening a candy bar

My parrot: watching me intently as he raises his foot to his beak to pantomime the act of eating a candy bar while making distressingly realistic chewing noises and not breaking eye contact

[draconym]

I genuinely think this is an attempt on his part to participate in a social activity with me, but it always comes off exactly as judgmental as it would feel if a human roommate were doing it.

[outofcontextarthur]