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2025-09-23

Quote of the day

I’m seeing a lot of people saying this post changed their brain chemistry, and as a neuroscientist I wanted to say yes!!! Yes it does!

Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.

If you have a mental illness/disorder that affects dopamine, you might feel that you don’t want to do the things that you like. You do still like them. You will appreciate having done them.

Let your likes guide you.

(If you want to read more, here’s one experimental paper about it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5171207/ This theory called the incentive-sensitization theory was originally created to explain behaviors in addiction but can be applied elsewhere as well)

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psych

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tofupixel

a lot can change

made in aseprite

Prints // Merch // Tip Jar // Digital Store // Free Stuff

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#birds

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found some triangles in the wild

fairycosmos

i really don’t have the time to be the way i am

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bilf (book i'd like to finish)

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the term "vegetable oil" feels threateningly nonspecific. which fucking Vegetables mate

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愛犬 - sigma dp2 -

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i may have a mood disorder

owomon

kedreeva

There's something so good about the wild type.

ambiguouspersonhood

What are those cool spiky feathers?? (Sorry I know nothing about these cool gals!)

kedreeva

You've been!! BAMBOOZLED!!

Those are actually not spiky feathers at all! They sure do look like it, though, and that's likely the point- if I were a raptor looking down upon a pincushion, I would think twice about grabbing it with my bare feet.

However, it's a ruse! Just a marking on a feather