The Time-Traveler

29 White Passing Pan Male Everything is posted from the queue, so thats why I reblogged your 4 month old post. A strange mix of narcissism and self loathing has produced this blog ranging from West Wing and Star Trek, to sadness and desolation. Expect the following as well: Automotive, Science, Comedy, Psychedelics, Books, and plenty of Music.

[donnajosh]

Because it’s something we pass on. Something with a history so we can say, “My father gave this to me. His father gave it to him, and now I’m giving it to you.”

[jagerszaam]

Happy (American) Thanksgiving, everyone!

And now a message that reflects the true meaning of the holiday, as told by our national treasure: Wednesday Addams!

(Images via Paramount Pictures)

[thefinestmuffinsandbagels]

[peace-love-colbert]

The West Wing | 3x8 | The Indians in the Lobby

CJ: How many treaties have we signed with the Munsee Indians? MAGGIE: Six. CJ: How many have we revoked? MAGGIE: Six. CJ: What were the Munsees doing in 1778? MAGGIE: Fighting in George Washington’s army. CJ: And why aren’t you in New York anymore? MAGGIE: Because he marched us to Wisconsin. CJ: And whose land was it in the first place? MAGGIE: Ours.

[donnajosh]

[onceiwashere]

i cant believe its daylight savings time and i havent seen the “hello its me your cousin oskaar from iceland” video on my dash yet you are all slackers

[onceiwashere]

i guess i have to do all the work around here dont i

[televandalist]

[260to120thinspo]

It’s so hard seeing other people live your dreams

[jetsetdreamgirl]

this was my university professor lol she’s great

[chesnaughtlover]

You’re gonna drop info like that and not even tell us what class she taught?

[jetsetdreamgirl]

Journalism.

[surprisebitch]

direct action

[tomhauptman]

Praxis 215

3cr hour+ lab

[duskenpath]

Guys I just realized the last supper was the first murder mystery dinner!!!

[duskenpath]

My Roman Catholic parents did not find this as funny and thought provoking as I did

[onceiwashere]

i cant believe its daylight savings time and i havent seen the “hello its me your cousin oskaar from iceland” video on my dash yet you are all slackers

[onceiwashere]

i guess i have to do all the work around here dont i

[frottinq]

I literally wish being a conservative was as stigmatized as conservatives think it is

[widdleton]

I was gonna reblog but op ur url is shit

[frottinq]

Not as shit as your choice in hills to die on

[artinggrace]

New Steve & Tony pins are available and the theme is 《Avenging Angels》 🌟

Limited quantity so once I sell out, I won’t be restocking! The chain is removable so you can wear the pins separately, or mix & match pieces if you get the United set (both Steve & Tony) All the details are on my store listing!

Each collar pin set comes on an illustrated backing postcard and an exclusive 3″ vinyl sticker for each set (art here!) If you could give an RT on twitter or like/comment on Instagram (to beat the darn algorithms) as well that’d be super appreciated!! thank you so much!

artinggrace.storenvy.com

[sweetschizo-deactivated20190808]

There’s a fine line between “pushing yourself out of your comfort zone” and “pushing yourself into a mental breakdown” and we need to fucking find it and stop encouraging people to do the second in an attempt at making them do the first.

[hugealienpie]

A German pedagogue named Tom Senninger developed this model called the “Learning Zone Model.” Senninger talks about three zones: comfort, learning (or growth), and panic. I think that’s really important because some people do talk like anything “outside your comfort zone” is automatically good and brings growth.

But Senninger knows that you can only stretch so far before you’ve stretched too far. Both experience, personal work, and therapy can help expand the first two zones and shrink the third, but we’ll always have that place where panic and/or pain sets in, and our goal should be to recognize and respect that in ourselves and others, rather than force ourselves or someone else to “push through it.” There is no “through it.” The only thing on the other side of the panic zone is more panic.

[wynx-hates-pedos]

This is super good advice. Learn about your boundaries and demand that people respect them more guys.

[yesterdaysprint]

Drawing by Pierrot, Tatler, England, November 7, 1928

[eroscestlavie]

and let’s take a moment to appreciate the fact that michelangelo had probably never seen a girl naked and when he want to sculpt or paint them his mentality seems to be “wow, everyone likes women….they must be like…..buff dudes. i love buff dudes. women are buff dudes but with little chest lumps and no wiener”

“nailed it.”

[prufrocking-deactivated20170429]

And my personal favorite, Adam and Eve

[i-wanna-be-a-klaine-ship-ranger]

he literally painted adam and steve

[the-evil-twin]

I am in the absolute SHITTIEST mood right now, but this actually made me laugh out loud. 

[fairytaleonfire]

The NYC Met museum had an exhibition where a projection of the Sistine chapel was paired with a bunch of Michelangelo’s sketches.

My friends… EVERYONE KNEW HE WAS GAY. He wasn’t even trying to hide it.

He drew portraits of and for his crushes and boyfriends. He had KNOWN lovers and he definitely had a thing for young brawny men.

Historians: “oh, I’m such a genius, this man is referenced as his favourite. His love must have been a lecherous secret. Dirty, perverted, secretive.”

Michelangelo:

[love-in-mind-palace]

I am laughing so much rn bless this

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

Michelangelo the original “horny on main” artist.

[schmergo]

Discourse: Willy Wonka is Old Testament God

[scopesandskulllties-deactivated]

Explain

[schmergo]

Sings “if you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it,” then kicks people out for eating stuff he told them not to eat

[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. 

[cosmemery]

“American participants are exceptional even within the unusual population of Westerners—outliers among outliers.”

Given the data, they concluded that social scientists could not possibly have picked a worse population from which to draw broad generalizations. Researchers had been doing the equivalent of studying penguins while believing that they were learning insights applicable to all birds.

This is a long read but so worth it