Aesthetic Trash

superchat:

superchat:

there was a great study a few years that went into the whole “ppl online are bigger jerks than irl cuz theres a virtual wall and no repercussions” and the researchers were expecting to see that be the case but it turns out that people who were really angry or argumentative online were also found to just be assholes in person and people who were pretty patient and nice online were found to be patient and nice in real person as well

and it just debunked that whole cynical idea that people will naturally be mean if theres no punishment for it

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the researchers found that being online didnt make people more hostile, but that being online allowed already hostile people to dominate forum conversations, and the less aggressive people were much less likely to reply or engage, ending in just the aggressive people bickering at eachother

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viralfrog:

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hbmmaster:

(guy who only has a hammer) getting a lot of “nail” vibes from this

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ur-daily-motivation:

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idontmindifuforgetme:

idontmindifuforgetme:

“she’s aging so well!!” and the woman they’re referring to is like 27. touch grass

Can’t make this stuff up anymore but I just saw someone dissing on a female celebrity by going “she’s 29 but she’s still living like she’s 23… so jealous” bc she posted a silly photo where she’s posing??? What 😭😭😭

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flipchild:

Didn’t pay my dark bill so the power company shut my lights on

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specialagentartemis:

mxworthing:

grison-in-space:

specialagentartemis:

someone convince me that downloading PDFs is not actually the same thing as working on my dissertation

I just came out here to have a good time

“A student [downloads] hundreds of pages of [PDFs] and takes them home, and the manual labor he exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the [PDFs] exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neocapitalism of information, happens to many.”

-Umberto Eco (in How to Write a Thesis, originally discussing photocopies)

indeed it does Umberto Eco 😔

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minicy:

I love talking to kids about disability bc

1. they often just Get It, and

2. they have 0 concept of disability as a tragedy or something pitiable.

I’ve watched kids get into an argument with a teacher bc they thought wheelchairs were cool. I told a kid that I can’t stand for too long sometimes and they replied, “That’s okay, I can’t do cartwheels sometimes, but I just do other stuff then. You can sit down with me if you want”. Today a girl asked me what the headphones on a classmate’s desk were for and I told her that headphones are important for some kids because noises bother them, and she said she wished she had headphones at home, because her baby brothers make a lot of noise and it makes it hard to think. The idea that different people could use tools at different times is intuitive and simple and when accessibility aids are explained neutrally, kids don’t see them as bad or unfortunate, they’re just things that are useful.

Even mental disability!! In Kindergarten the other day one of the kids asked me why his table partner got stickers when nobody else did. I started off by saying, “Well, when you do your work well, it feels good, right? That’s your brain giving you a reward,” and the kid just right away went, “Oh, and the stickers are like his reward?” YES! You are 5 and have a better grasp on ADHD than most adults! Kids blow me away every day.

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1cecxla:

greenmossloveisreal1998iloveyou:

[gets a new mutual] i look forward to working with you

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