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[kosmogrl]

[mabeltanaka]

Parks and Recreation 4.06 "End of the World"

[scoes]

(no drinks in) who wants me

[cozyvu]

via cozyvu

[catgopurr]

Horses of Iceland II by Erin Vest

[ryebreadgf]

face of all time genuinely

[gothredy]

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

William Moore Davis

Dandelions, 1859

[oldpaintings]

Nymphea, c.1890 by Arthur Wardle (English, 1864–1949)

[womanzer]

Britney Spears at 2000s Video Music Awards

[animusrox]

Batman Begins (2005) dir. Christopher Nolan

[alicenthightcwer]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Shrek Edition *:･ﾟ✧

[heedra]

In elementary school, my best friend and I had this game we would play where we were school supplies living inside a child's desk and going on slice-of-life adventures inside it. And I remember that a key component of our school supply society was a sort of religious schism that existed around the purpose and nature of the giant hand that occasionally reached in to grab different citizens, use them, and then return them, because most school supplies considered this an auspicious and enviable moment of being selected for a greater purpose and allowed a glimpse of a vast truth, but pencils considered it a horrible portent of doom because they always got sharpened during it and came back smaller and closer to death. We were third graders btw.

[loveridden1999]

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Quote of the day

[baffledtreesquid]

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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[mothcub]

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[weepingwidar]

Hélène Béland (Canadian, 1949) - Un Capteur de Lumière (Light Catcher) (2012)