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hi. mostly I draw and keep to myself but I also like piano and working in a restaurant. here's some art I guess.

[narwhalsarefalling]

fun fact

im weirdly knowlagable in the history of soda i dont even drink soda why do i know so much about it

[narwhalsarefalling]

coke and pepsi taste different because coke was invent before refrigeration so it was designed to be drunk warm, while pepsi was designed after refrigeration was invented so it was designed to be drunk cold. as a result the tastes are different but if you drink pepsi cold and coke warm theyll taste the same.

[yoon-ity]

Why the fuck do you know this

[narwhalsarefalling]

i honestly have no idea

coke’s recipe was originally green but the designers made it brown so it looked more like tea

[squirrelstone]

Had they never seen green tea?

[narwhalsarefalling]

i dont even know if green tea was invented in 1886 but they wanted to make the public more open to eating the fizzy drink

[gostaks]

Green tea was invented in the 13th century and made up 22% of the tea thrown off the ship in the Boston Tea Party 

[narwhalsarefalling]

alan i know about soda not green tea

[writingpromptsforkate]

The villain gives their customary “join me and we can be great” speech. The hero accepts.

[couriers-mile]

“Join me, and we could rule the world together! Hell, the UNIVERSE! Why, with my vision and your raw power, we could–”

“Okay.”

“… I’m… sorry?”

“Well I mean you should be, you’ve been acting like an ass this whole time, but whatever, okay. I’ll join you.”

“You– wha?”

“Well I already can’t use my powers to rescue a kitten from a tree without being eyeball deep in Should Supers Be Government Regulated discourse. And selective media coverage that makes me look like a prick. And have you seen the memes? I’m done.”

“I–”

“And I got a tooth knocked out in a fight last week but I don’t get dental coverage for this gig. Or, you know. Income of any kind, livable or not. But you own a multi-billion dollar evil corporation so I assume there’s benefits?”

“Yes. There’s… yes.”

“So whatever, I’m in. Evil’s my middle name, or something. What’s our plan?”

“…”

“Do you… what, do you not have a plan?”

“Honestly no, I really didn’t think you’d be on board, I– I’m not sure how to proceed from here.”

“Talk it out over drinks on you?”

“… deal.”

[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. 

[sharkpilot]

My roommate and I are really sick and we look like shit, but we were hungry so we ordered pizza. But we didn’t want anyone to see us, so we asked them over the phone if we can leave the money on the door and they can just drop off the pizza. The guy said sure.

So we decided to leave a nice little note

and we hung it above the door bell. I hope they like it!

[sharkpilot]

oMGGGG

[jakebumlick]

pizza cares

[usy-is-my-love-child]

Pizza understands

[stilljustkim]

pizza spelt its own name wrong

[imots]

[phasered]

every time i see a sitcom with white families and the teenager is just like ‘see you later mom im staying at a friends house tonight!’ and they walk out i just. if i wanted to stay over at a friend’s house i had to ask 17 months in advance after a 4-generation background check of my friend’s family, on a full moon during mercury retrograde preferably during the year of the dog after making a blood sacrifice and even then my odds were like 50/50

[ifdragonscouldtalk]

I wish more people knew what an abusive relationship looked like – not a physically abusive one, but a mentally and emotionally abusive one. Because most of the time, it doesn’t look like violence. It looks like quiet unrest, someone changing, complaints about the same aspect of the relationship over and over. And I wish more people knew it looked like this because half the time the people in the relationship don’t realize it’s happening. And sometimes its two people abusing each other and themselves, and neither realizing it. These relationships start out happy. The abuse doesn’t just suddenly happen. It’s people changing. And it’s dangerous.

[catgirlnips]

[black-to-the-bones-deactivated2]

Dropping knowledge.

This thread is eye-opening.

[mxlabradorite]

Maryland: Not just Old Bay seasoning, apparently.

[dedalvs]

Aww, this is disappointing. I always liked Maryland’s flag. :( Maybe it’s time for a redesign.

[iamtheduskwanderer]

Um what are you talking about this flag is ugly inside and out. (I respect your opinion tho)

[ethiopienne]

yoooooo

[misandry-mermaid]

Here’s some more:

You interrupted me, I’m not finished talking

You’re making me uncomfortable

Leave me alone

Don’t talk to me like that

[blackfemalescientist]

1. You repeated my idea 2. You’re in my space 4. No, I won’t do that for you 5. I am aware of that

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

And for when people aren’t listening to you say all of these

1) Stop ignoring what I’m saying

[ex0skeletal]

I posted art with penises growing out of a tree and that didn’t get flagged as NSFW but a post with actual photos of trees did.

[bisexualwatson]

“why are you using men’s body wash” maybe I wanna smell like a fuckin pine tree idk why are you gendering soaps

[thatattoozone-deactivated201710]

@ yao_atf

[marciaillust]

daily life of a digital artist:

is that a not coloured spot or a stain on my monitor

I didn’t save for at least 2 hours god is real

my playlist ended 1,5 h ago I’ve been drawing in silence this whole time

‘ “asdf11.png” already exists. Do you want to overwrite? ‘

I resized this very part of a picture but now it looks too small so let’s ctrl+z ohMYGOD IT’S SO B I G

this idea seemed cooler yesterday at 3 am

I want to pee but right now I’m doing so well and if I go I will leavE THE ZONE

opacity 67% or 68% I can’t decide

well this pic looks nice //*flips it horizontally*// I regret having eyes

where the fuck is my pen

[steel-dragon]

traditional artist:

I can’t find the right color, why do I not have the exact color I need

Oh hey, let’s share this online! *Spends next 5 minutes trying to take a good picture of it/scan it in*

IT SMUDGED DAMN IT

I have ink all over my hands and it’s not coming off

Do not make a mistake lining it, do not make a mistak- FUCK

My eraser has been obliterated by mistakes

I SPILLED *insert drink/food item here* ALL OVER MY DRAWING

My sketchbook fell apart/ripped again

where the fuck is my pen

[balloonemies-blog]

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[socialpsychopathblr]

Artist: Naomi Butterfield

[thebestoftumbling]