I Am The Walrus

paperandinklings: this deserves an oscar

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 15:32:53 -0400

this deserves an oscar

pro-gay: catbountry: wanderingtycho: This is what Kurt Cobain...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 14:33:28 -0400

catbountry:

wanderingtycho:

This is what Kurt Cobain wanted.

He would fucking love this.

WHERE’S THE FULL VERSION OP

jdmsrovia:not to ruin the fun but

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 14:30:40 -0400

jdmsrovia:

not to ruin the fun but

leander-ligo: fictionloverthefirst: leander-ligo: Some of you are so young… You weren’t here for...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 14:26:11 -0400

leander-ligo:

fictionloverthefirst:

leander-ligo:

Some of you are so young… You weren’t here for Dashcon… Mishapocalypse… That fateful day when Pizza was deleted… There is much history you do not know children. Be grateful you’ll never have to live those horrors. Be grateful…

“I like your shoelaces”

How could you repeat that ancient curse?

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Sun, 24 Jun 2018 14:25:50 -0400

throwbackblr: Where will you go? - Somewhere I can live in...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 14:15:47 -0400

throwbackblr:

Where will you go? - Somewhere I can live in peace with my friends. Don’t you see? I have a mission to help pigeons everywhere. Wherever there’s a bird in need of seed, I’ll be there. Wherever there’s a helpless flock suffering some abuse, I’ll be there. Wherever there’s a pigeon with a weak wing or a broken beak, I’ll be there.

lesbiansassemble: me walking into the cinema to see ocean’s 8:

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 14:13:58 -0400

lesbiansassemble:

me walking into the cinema to see ocean’s 8:

iguanamouth:

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 14:00:46 -0400

iguanamouth:

kolbye: hokuto-ju-no-ken: pukicho: bog-dweller-official: pukicho: boob-a-chu: trilllizard420:...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 13:58:27 -0400

kolbye:

hokuto-ju-no-ken:

pukicho:

bog-dweller-official:

pukicho:

boob-a-chu:

trilllizard420:

pukicho:

trilllizard420:

pukicho:

Doctor: $140,000 a year

Furry artist on Patreon: $160,000 a year

i think you’re lowballing the furry art amount tbh

I’m sorry for the inaccuracies, Doctor Yiff

no matter how I respond to this I don’t look good, well played. i walked right into that

Well, furry artists are typically more competent and courteous than your average doctor, so I can see that.

Did you just legitimately tell me that a person who draws wolf ass is more competent than a dude who spent 8+ years in a university to give you your lung transplant?

doctors are bullshit and furry artists perform an infinitely more valuable service to society compared to them

You will die in 7 days

It took doctor’s like 10 years to diagnose what was wrong with me, some insisting I was faking for attention while a furry artist I knew just went “that sounds like crohn’s” after hearing me complain once and ended up being right

Also I can’t go to a doctor and ask them to draw Rouge the Bat wider than she is tall with tits to match, now can I

You could if you weren’t a fucking coward

thatgeeklover: marvelheroes: Michael B. Jordan accepts the award...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 13:54:40 -0400

thatgeeklover:

marvelheroes:

Michael B. Jordan accepts the award onstage at the 2018 MTV Movie And TV Awards on June 16, 2018.

WE GOT THE ERIK AS T’CHALLA’S ANGER TRANSLATOR MOMENT WE NEED

wonderytho: meirl

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 13:53:35 -0400

wonderytho:

meirl

rainaftersnowplease: progenyofworms: busyandtired: chainsawpun...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 13:51:52 -0400

rainaftersnowplease:

progenyofworms:

busyandtired:

chainsawpunk:

im not american, can someone explain what he did?

Reagan was elected in 1980, around the same time that HIV began spreading and turning into a pandemic. Nearly 60,000 cases were reported with more than 27,000 dead before he even mentioned the disease in a major speech, during his second term.

His administration spent years pushing back on requests for funding for treatment and research. It’s impossible to know for certain, but if the disease had been aggressively studied and treated in the early years it might have been contained to a few hundred or few thousand deaths here in the USA.

Also he cut funds for mental health treatment and facilities, turning disabled people out onto the streets, the War on Drugs was cranked up to inner-city warfare, and the fundamentalist Christian “Moral Majority” that was his power base happily watched queers and black people and sex workers and homeless people die alone and scared.

Until Donald Trump was elected, he was the best example of an oblivious wealthy white person riding a wave of bigotry into the White House, and empowering that bigotry to a degree that cost tens of thousands of lives.

TL;DR, he watched us die and didn’t care.

Your yearly reminder that Ronald Reagan’s grave is a gender neutral bathroom.

talesfromthenorsesmouth: lustyloveylady: wilwheaton: wetwareproblem: grison-in-labs: feminismand...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:51:28 -0400

talesfromthenorsesmouth:

lustyloveylady:

wilwheaton:

wetwareproblem:

grison-in-labs:

feminismandmedia:

aka14kgold:

butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway:

redmagus77:

kaylapocalypse:

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…

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.”

“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

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.

“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.”

@half-crazedauthor

It is worth noting that, in fact, the BBC replicated this experiment in 2001 with very different results. Instead of recruiting volunteers for a psychological study of prison life, they advertised the experiment:

“It asked ‘Do you really know yourself’ and asked for men to take part in a social science experiment to be shown on TV. It warned that the research would be a challenge and involve ‘hardship, hunger, solitude, anger’.

In the case of the BBC Prison Experiment, the mock prison did not devolve into the torturous, abusive hellishness of the Stanford Prison Experiment–even though the experimenters very deliberately attempted to create conditions that would destroy cohesion among the prisoners and encourage authoritarian behavior from the guards. Prisoners were told that they might be able to be promoted to guardhood in an effort to keep them divided, shaved upon entry to the prison, and the guards were encouraged to create the rules of the prison and enforce them in any way they saw fit.

It’s important to note that one of the very first things the experimenters noted was that the guards were, at the very outset, uneasy about the status differences between themselves and the prisoners and conscious of their power.

Because food–both quantity and quality–were very salient and powerful status treatment differences in the prison, there was almost immediately a showdown over food. (Prisoners were fed much, much smaller and worse-tasting food than the guards, and indeed prisoners were made to serve the guards their meals and watch them eat in part so everyone would be aware of these status issues.)

The guards almost immediately felt guilty and attempted to share their sausages with the prisoners by giving them the guards’ leftovers… and the prisoners immediately go “not until we consult with the other prisoners,” and then collectively decide to refuse absolutely to take small rewards from guards in lieu of the right to good food.

Guards tried repeatedly throughout the study to get prisoners to see them as basically equal, bar the circumstances of their current positions; prisoners instead repeatedly pointed out the actual circumstances of their current situation placed them at very different power levels indeed and insisted that guards actually change the system in order to make the conditions fair and equal. In general, prisoners quickly and collectively exploited the guards’ shame at the unequal conditions in order to receive fair treatment.

At this point, out of curiosity, the experimenters introduced a new prisoner into the system, one who had been trained as a trades unionist…

….and this unionist prisoner quickly chose to approach a disaffected guard, empathize with his unhappiness, and turn the blame for the situation at the unequal and unfair conditions set in the prison. Those conditions, of course, were set not by the guards–they were set by the experimenters. The very first thing, then, that this unionist does is build bridges to unify all the people in the prison.

Prisoners steal the guards’ keys; guards choose instead of “cracking down” or punishing the prisoners to ask politely for the prisoners to help them find the keys, and cheerfully accept them when provided. This gives prisoners leverage for a negotiation, which is then deftly picked up by the experienced negotiator (although not without some pushback from another charismatic and decisive prisoner).

Here’s what the negotiator had to say:

Negotiations begin. pDM outlines the forum proposal. One of the Guards points out that the Prisoners are asking to be rewarded for stealing the keys. pDM responds by outlining a stark choice. Certainly the Guards can refuse to accept his plan, but the alternative is a return to conflict: “It’ll not be the keys tomorrow, it’ll be something else. It’s a game. All I’m saying is that there is a way to resolve that game”.

pDM is confident. He knows he speaks for the Prisoners. The Guards, even in their own mess, are despondent. They know that they can’t handle the Prisoners. And so they accept the new order. Even if they have given up much of their power, at least this system might work and offer them some respite:

gTM: I’m in high spirits after that.
gBG: It actually went alright. This geezer is alright. We can all deal
with him.

At this point, experimenters withdrew the negotiator to see what would happen to the egalitarian vision he set out. As it turned out, the prisoners peacefully overthrew the rule of guards (by, effectively, mounting a sitdown protest in the guard’s sanctuary) and decided instead to organize an egalitarian commune for the remainder of the experiment.

so OP’s really not that far off the mark!

So literally the only thing the Stanford experiment proved is “all cops are bastards,” and the followup demonstrated that, in the absence of bastards, socialism works?

I know you saw this wall of text and scrolled right past it, but I’m sharing it because this is so interesting and raises issues that we don’t think about enough. A lot of you are the same age as my kids, and you’re going to be in charge of the world that I’m an old man in, and I really hope you’ll study and learn from things like this.

So what I’m saying is, I know it’s a long read, but go read it, anyway. You’ll gain emotional and intellectual experience points.

@cthehatman

Just to add the BBC study was carried out by Alex Haslam and Steve Reicher, who have done some very neat stuff in Social Psychology in general.

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Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:44:20 -0400

peanutscratch: Young man, The world will soon be destroyed, I said young man, Prepare to scream at...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:43:03 -0400

peanutscratch:

Young man,
The world will soon be destroyed,
I said young man,
Prepare to scream at the void

twinkletwinkleyoulittlefuck: thepreciousthing: adire-adire: victorysunshine: goldfish-kisses: gee...

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:38:48 -0400

twinkletwinkleyoulittlefuck:

thepreciousthing:

adire-adire:

victorysunshine:

goldfish-kisses:

geek-in-a-box:

martiemcfly:

WHY ARENT THERE ADULT-SIZED PLAYGROUNDS

LIKE EVERYTHING IS THE SAME AS A KIDS PLAYGROUND

BUT BIGGER

WHY DO WE NOT HAVE THOSE

theme parks. just. theme parks.

but u have to pay for theme parks

that’s the adult part

son of a bitch

ladies and gentlemen, behold

the St. Louis City Museum:

Playground for adults and children.

They even serve alcohol.

I know where we’re going guys

chillxmami: Ask a dude why he like you & he like “idk you just different” lying ass, just shut...

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:36:49 -0400

chillxmami:

Ask a dude why he like you & he like “idk you just different” lying ass, just shut up.

lmaonade:i’m so sorry for being a customer, i want to leave you alone but sometimes i have to buy...

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:36:29 -0400

lmaonade:

i’m so sorry for being a customer, i want to leave you alone but sometimes i have to buy things or eat. please understand i use self checkout whenever i can

coolcatgroup: itjustgotdarkinhere: coolcatgroup: Here’s my cat patiently waiting for me to throw...

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:28:44 -0400

coolcatgroup:

itjustgotdarkinhere:

coolcatgroup:

Here’s my cat patiently waiting for me to throw her toy after she brought it to me

Now here is her reaction when I ask her if “she’s ready” before I throw it. She knows what it means.

She’s ready guys

THROW IT ALREADY

NYOOM

rosepetalemoji:

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:26:39 -0400

rosepetalemoji: