#behavioralism

[illustrioussanguine]

PSINKTOBER: DAY 12: REMOTE

In 1953, the CIA began hundreds of experiments with little oversight on military agents, civilians, and non-citizens to try and figure out mind control. With the cooperation of prominent psychologists, they dosed victims with hallucinogens, tortured them physically and mentally, and disabled or killed many of them. The experiments ended 20 years later.

The theory of psychic driving suggests that the doctor must destroy a patient’s mind, traditionally with psychoactive compounds and electroshock, before they can create a new, healthy mind for them, using repetitive sensory overload.

Ole Ivar Lovaas believed you could force autistics to be normal, gays to be straight, and trans people to be cis by torturing them with “screams and slaps” (and electroshock) before creating a new personality using rewards and incentives.

They didn’t cure anyone, and they couldn’t remote-control them, but they killed plenty.

[catchymemes]

[great-and-small]

A manatee rescue that I follow responded to a call about a female manatee with two calves because one of her babies had been injured by a boat strike. The entire family was temporarily relocated from the wild into a wildlife rehab facility for the injured male calf to undergo treatment. While there, vets noted the female calf was significantly larger than the little injured male. They did genetic testing and determined that big sister calf actually wasn’t related to the other two manatees at all! She was in fact an orphan calf that the adult manatee had found and taken in to care for right alongside her own little one.

Wild to think this manatee calf was literally adopted and nobody would have ever known if it weren’t for random coincidence and human curiosity. Every animal that you cross paths with in life has a fascinating personal story that you’ll only ever catch a glimpse of (and that’s if you’re lucky).

[orcinus-veterinarius]

Woman at the zoo: Why do they look so sad? 😔

Sign literally 10 feet away:

[ottosbigtop]

I think we as a society should bring back brotps. I think we should be weirder about characters being friends the same way people are weird about ships. Make those two characters who interacted once or twice besties. Make it difficult for them to get rid of each other even if they want to. Go nuts

[draconym]

At a festival. Small child is lying on the ground nearby with a large rock on their chest yelling MORE WEIGHT!!! GIVE ME MORE WEIGHT!!!

[valtsv]

always remember the Final Girl Code:

- do it alone

- do it scared

- do it with a knife in your hand if you have to

[alienthegreenalien]

the new 7 cardinal sins are mommy blogging, making mukbang videos, advertising a book by listing its tropes only, clickbait, making musical biopics, manosphere podcasts, and commenting "mommy? sorry" on a random person's picture

[livingisboring]

[craftingcreatures]

So I was watching a video on ptarmigans and it was mentioned that they dig burrows in the snow for shelter and protection. Which, cool! Burrowing bird! Then they showed this picture and

It's perfect

[brickcollector]

He is so orange

[disgustedlyscattereddd]

headphones aren't enough. i need the song to stab me in the chest

[a-book-of-creatures]

My sense of humor is broken, I saw this in a geology presentation and started laughing

[texaschainsawmascara]

[abzania]

My favorite thing about Deadpool and Wolverine isn't their toxic dynamic, but how they somehow manage to make each other BETTER rather than WORSE like you'd expect. It feels like a "I wanna make him worse" situation, but somehow, they equal out and end up domestic boyfriends with a nice life, friends, and a new family.