#funny textbooks

[sleepy-bebby]

[juststuffshere]

this came to me in a dream

[another-whump-sideblog]

I'm getting whumperflies from my textbook's chapter on behaviorism. The cold, calculated way it talks about behaviors completely separate from the person doing them and the emphasis on reinforcement and punishment are just so very whumpy. Generally it uses attention as an example of reinforcement, which leads to stuff like "it's effective to avoid eye contact and conversation while restraining a patient so that misbehaving isn't unintentionally reinforced through attention." Like that's one of the whumpiest things I've ever read and it's in a psychology textbook. Imagine a whumper just completely ceasing any eye contact or conversation while Whumpee is being punished because attention is a reinforcer

Behaviorism is so fucked up

[hartlesshart]

8/14

how we got here -> Page 1

and now for a jolly good time -> Page 9

I am pleased to announced this madness will have an end. It just might be mad until the very end.

On a serious note: A really huge warm thank you to everyone who has been following along and reacting (there's been fanart even?!!? *cries*) This silly thing has been so fun to work on and I can't wait to work on the next part.

[gardeniacat]

a picture from a history text book that looks like a shitpost

[mbrainspaz]

Learning Web Design by Jennifer Niederst Robbins, 4th ed, p. 461

[souldagger]

ninefox gambit by yoon ha lee... INCREDIBLE BOOK but everyone who told me this was hard scifi was lying thru their teeth

[xoxomyseriesxoxo]

ULTIMATE SHIPS CHALLENGE → [08/10] First Meetings ↳ “Finding the right person might take longer than–”

[misforgotten2]

The first fountain pen in space.

Exploring Science Four  By Walter A. Thurber - 1960

[bendablefool]

My favorite TF2 headcannon is that, at any moment, Medic is either a reserved, prudish, no-nonsense, probably homophobic ex-medical professional or the fucking craziest, fruitiest, most unhinged mad scientist you’ve ever seen.

[phoenixcatch7]

Literally all I want right now is a mdzs anime (donghua?) watching the series fic that reaches the start of the sun shot campaign PURELY so the juniors can see their kind and mischievous trophy husband Wei ying suddenly hair down tits out feeding his torturer his own fingers and proceeding to rack up the highest kill count of pretty much everyone while lwj looks ready to cry. I want them to know who the yiling patriarch is.

[qifreyism]

two guys who gave each other their first handjob vs two girls who didn’t know they could like girls

[vigilskeep]

HELLO please please elaborate on dreadful stepdad astarion

i think other people have spoken more eloquently on the matter than i ever could but personally i believe having your tav stumble into astarion wanting things to be real and then have to decide when exactly to bring up the existence of their dozen children is so deeply funny it’s almost an obligation

[fl0tketz]

i love when math notation aligns in beautiful ways

on one hand, C(K) is the standard shorthand for ‘the space of continuous functions mapping from an arbitrary set K to the real numbers’ and F is the standard shorthand for ‘a particular group of the aforementioned functions, fulfilling a particular condition’, and F is obviously a subset of C(K), hence the symbol between them

on the other hand, FUCK is a beautiful name for a set of continuous functions

[moomoocowmaid]

I absolutely hate textbooks, so I read them aloud in the shittiest British voice ever—for my sanity, of course

[deus-ex-mona]

i miss her…