a tiny finger tracing a line in the infinite

#that’s the whole show in one sentence #no one ever listens to rip

GO, LUKE. RANT, LUKE.

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

reblog to let people know it's ok to bother you with questions and statements

please bother me with questions and statements

I love fringe becuase it's so insane. The science borders on supernatural. Spock plays a mad scientist who fucked around and found out so much that he spends half the series in an alternate dimension or in someone's head. The characters get high on LSD on a regular basis For Science. One of the main characters doesn't exist on five different levels. Every character has an alternate version of themselves that they named via puns. There's so many unsafe and unsanitary science practices. The main character has superpowers sometimes. They're all autistic.

Mamma Mia! (2008) dir. Phyllida Lloyd

TALA ASHE as ZARI TOMAZ in HERE I GO AGAIN

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.

Date: April 23, 2010 || Location: H.G. Wells Home Museum, London

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Absolutely AMAZING response by Watcher imo.

They acknowledged that they made a mistake, made the wider context more clear, and addressed basically all of the criticisms brought forward by the community as far as I know.

THIS is how you respond to backlash, especially this widespread. Take time to collect your thoughts, take the criticism into account, and change your actions going forward.

Great job Watcher 👏

watching older shows is always fun because you’re just watching, having a blast, quality may be a little lower than what you’re used to but that’s fine. then they go “what are they?” “they’re digital cameras. I’ve never seen them this small. you can see the pictures they took on the screen” and the age becomes painfully clear

“isn’t that a… what do you call it?” “global positioning system” another good one

“I’m having his baby! No I’m not, but you should see your faces!”