Dr. Dopamine

Science side of tumblr and silly memes

[escuerzoresucitado]

[thestoryofaslut]

about fucking time

[fluffylandshark]

Reblog to give the prev person some dopamine.

[hellenhighwater]

My brother had lost the right to mock my deeply unwise vending machine purchase because he's spending his weekend driving to Iowa to buy a 1954 Cadillac limousine.

He doesn't have an explanation for this other than the fact that it's cool. And honestly, that's a pretty compelling argument

[hellenhighwater]

Oh good, he's named it.

[hellenhighwater]

He got her and she's gargantuan

[hellenhighwater]

THE BIG is home!!

[hellenhighwater]

Update: brother says: tell your internet people- I’ve been making the car shiny and it is COOL.

He's correct. This is excellent.

[hellenhighwater]

I left my brother unattended he traded the little corvair next to THE BIG for this thing. I think he's building an armada

He is casting spell of car repair on it, I think.

[hellenhighwater]

Brother has been left unattended and has gotten himself a 1970 Cadillac DeVille.

And now it just needs a plate!

Other options are LONNNG and LOMMMG.

it should definitely be

LOMG

LONNNG

LOMMMG

Remaining time: 14 hours 2 minutes

[3000s]

straight women will try to reassure you about their homophobic boyfriends the same way dog owners are always going "oh he's friendly" with their visibly agitated dog

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[thesevenumbrellas]

🦕

[thesevenumbrellas]

🌳………. 🦕

[thesevenumbrellas]

🌳……. 🦕

[thesevenumbrellas]

🌳… 🦕

[thesevenumbrellas]

🌳 🦕

Yum

[soldierofsirens]

🌳🦕 🦖

[soldierofsirens]

🌳🦕 🦖

[soldierofsirens]

🌳🦕 🦖

[thesevenumbrellas]

[xenosmorch]

[xenosmorch]

[xenosmorch]

they’re girlfriends :)

[kristonkwastaken]

☄️ 🌳 🦕🦖

[alexaloraetheris]

Romeo and Juliet looks different than I remember.

[asundergrowth]

[nyxiemeow]

[windoftime]

[drarry]

Imagine being the gays at a pride event in 2004 living their lives when someone grabs the microphone and announces to the room that Ronald Reagan was pronounced dead. Can you even imagine the hype, the celebration, the pure elation

[drarry]

This is the Pride Month that It will happen. I feel it in my gay bones

[broken-horn-of-equius]

[lesbianshepard]

one of the funnier incidents of me assuming someone knew a meme irl was when a new coworker was talking about some woman who got arrested for tax fraud and I went "God forbid women do anything" and he got scared and thought I was accusing him of being sexist, so he started apologizing and saying how tax fraud isn't even bad, actually.

[lesbianshepard]

very funny seeing people tag this with various fictional characters who are nothing like the actual guy who this story is about. None of these fictional men seem like they would have an encyclopedic knowledge of NASCAR!

[beardedmrbean]

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real: Nature.com

I'm a bit frightened for the time when someone less ethical than the person that did this decides to repeat the experiment but leave out the part where they come in later and announce that it was fake and people wind up diagnosed with the fake condition and all kinds of wacky hi jinks ensues.

[100493503004422]

I don't want a Career I want to Fuck Around

[dreamfarer]

And not find out. I cannot stress enough how much I do not want to find out.

[afloweroutofstone]

For the record, I enjoy your blog, and I love your work. However, it consistently baffles me that you are a serious person with an important job that consistently posts on tumblr dot com. Thank you for your work regardless.

Thank you lol. Tumblr is the least-bad social media website, and it's just separated enough from all of the others to allow me space for talking shit and having fun without having my full name and job title attached to every statement. Obviously I'm not all that anonymous on here any more, but I like having a separation between real life and social media, and that separation is gone from most other major sites.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[jabberding0]

The chanclafone (Papua New Guinea)

[vampyre-lesbian]

matthew lillard just shared this on his instagram, he’s such an icon 🏳️‍🌈

[overclassy]

[best-of-inspirobot]

[tearlessrain]

this is in perfect iambic meter and sounds like the first line of a weird poem

[tearlessrain]

Rule #2

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you see one on the street,

For decorum is essential when a lobster you must greet.

You may comment on the weather, compliment his choice of hat,

But crustaceans like their space if one should stop them for a chat.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you’re strolling down the coast,

Simply nod and give a greeting, or a handshake at the most,

For a lobster’s first priority is formal social graces,

And one seemes over-familiar if a lobster one embraces.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you meet one in the sea,

For a lobster’s spines and chitin make it difficult, you see,

And he might become self-conscious if you bring that fact to light,

So don’t ever hug a lobster, simply put, it’s impolite.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

someone will love you.

love you softly. love you wholly. love you passionately. love you hopefully. love you compassionately. love you excitedly. love you vigorously. love you genuinely. love you unconditionally. love you fearlessly.