i rly dont

[thrusticus]

[strayhopes]

It’s been said before but if public libraries weren’t a fact of society and were proposed today they would be roundly rejected as pie in the sky communism

[kbrock9146]

“FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE???????? FREE BOOKS?!?!?!?!?!?! For….. POOR people????? That’s socialism!!!!! You’re a communist!!!!!! How DARE you suggest that we supply reading material to the POORS. I mean, are we even sure that they can read?? And how would we know that they would bring the books back? They would probably sell them to get drugs. Those people…. always trying to get drugs from the inner city. That’s what these libraries are, I tell you: a way for the poors to get drugs. They always use these ENTITLEMENTS and we, the rich people, are left holding the bag. I won’t stand for it. I won’t let these people read free books. A line has to be drawn somewhere.”

[ruinedchildhood]

[galacticjerk]

why tf do I get so emotional at night. who is this night bitch?? she needs to go to sleep.

[bepeu-deactivated20171202]

you ever been so stressed that youre calm

[quadriceps-deactivated20171230]

[hustlerose]

STOP MAKING BAD DECISIONS AT 3AM

JUST GO TO BED

[hustlerose]

shut the fuck up bitch

[hustlerose]

oh wait this is my post

[thisisalltrue]

San Francisco, Sept 2017

[queergraffiti]

a “one way” street sign modified to say “gone gay”

[glitterysouldinosaur-blog]

1995 Gay Olympics sketch from the mid-1990s Australian comedy show Big Girls Blouse.

[onlytwitterpics]

[pandadad]

[noorshirazie]

i enjoyed the chase, the feeling of wind through my hair, craving something i may never have within my grasp. but i won you over, did i not? the novelty of you has run dry, like a faucet that was left on for too long. i am over all of it— the restless nights, the days that blended into each other; i am over you.

Noor Shirazie, the end is now. (via noorshirazie)

[kushandwizdom]

Maturing is realizing how many things don’t require your comment.

Rachel Wolchin (via kushandwizdom)

[acid-caliban]

Graffiti from a dilapidated strain stop.

[queergraffiti]

“I, Richard do not love Lenora anymore because I’m gay now”

[noorshirazie]

i take my words back, every syllable wrongly given to you. they were meant for someone who would cradle them with gentleness.

you are not that someone.

[elletanacope]

“My mother tells me I’m a bird, but when she says I’m a bird she means the whole world is my cage”

- Sabrina Benaim

“First Date”

9.3.17

[buttonpoetry]

Get your copy of Sabrina’s incredible debut book today.

[thatadult]

The Stanford prison experiment tapes were so stupid when I watched them in AP psych and so stupid when I watch this film about them. Literally they could’ve all sat and played cards and got $15 a day to tell ghost stories all day and be best friends. But masculinity and whiteness and power created this violent irrationality that positioned young ass men to be met with brutality and trauma and disrespect even when it was obviously taken too far. and it makes no sense. If someone put me in a room with Black girls and said I would get paid $90 a day (that’s the equivalent apparently) to be a prison guard, do you know how fast I’d be sitting with them and learning about them and exchanging Instagrams and like.. sleeping.. like what the fuck was the point of any of that…

[kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201]

My psych teacher introduced us to this study and literally before she showed us was like “don’t ever confuse a study based on one type of person (white men/boys) to be an example of an Everyman situation. There is strong evidence that if this was recreated with diversity, or even just with girls, that the results would have been drastically different. This is an example of bias and sexism in the medical research community.”

[redmagus77]

“Other, more subtle factors also shaped the experiment. It’s often said that the study participants were ordinary guys—and they were, indeed, determined to be “normal” and healthy by a battery of tests. But they were also a self-selected group who responded to a newspaper advertisement seeking volunteers for “a psychological study of prison life.” In a 2007 study, the psychologists Thomas Carnahan and Sam McFarland asked whether that wording itself may have stacked the odds. They recreated the original ad, and then ran a separate ad omitting the phrase “prison life.” They found that the people who responded to the two ads scored differently on a set of psychological tests. Those who thought that they would be participating in a prison study had significantly higher levels of aggressiveness, authoritarianism, Machiavellianism, narcissism, and social dominance, and they scored lower on measures of empathy and altruism.” http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/the-real-lesson-of-the-stanford-prison-experiment

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

The thing about this study is that whether or not it’s generalizable to the public is debatable at best.

But it’s certainly generalizable to the population of people who tend to be drawn to prison system and law enforcement jobs because that’s exactly the demographics that tend to show up in those positions.