#and i WANT that dopamine hit

[lesbian-moon-gf]

some days being sober is easy. then other days it’s like, “you know what would make this sunday really swell? being crossfaded”

#i feel like a kid who wants mcdonalds #we got food (three psychiatric meds) at home #and i WANT that dopamine hit #but my mental health #sober #moon

[squidkid15]

There is no heterosexual explanation for this

#lmk #lego monkie kid #shadowpeach #lmk sun wukong #lmk macaque #lmk season 4 #lmk s4 #lmk s4 spoilers #spoilers #lmk season 4 spoilers #lego monkie kid season 4 #lego monkie kid s4 #lego monkie kid season 4 spoilers #lego monkie kid s4 spoilers #trying to cover all my bases #cuz getting spoiled when you dont want to be sucks #i just needed the dopamine hit immediately

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

consistently amazed by my own ability to Not Do The Things I'd Like To Be Doing, actually

#text #personal #writing #knitting #wf #typing #listen my problem is they're both marathon activities still #i could sprint something but alas i must be a Persistence Predator about it and uh. oof. #i have already typed six pages today but i'm quarter-assing it #finished weaving in most of my ends but. again. quarter-assing. #i want the dopamine hit of Finishing A Thing but i'm on page 58/97 of typing and i have HOURS of knitting left still #so i keep wandering around chipping at things and wondering how it got to be december 9

[uwabbittuwabbit]

i propose that we put our motorcycling guys in the most boring mundane forgettable profession ever as an experiment because then that would truly bring out their insanity i think their irl job already offsets just the sheer wacko crazy hijinks that their minds get up to like we can excuse it as haha he's a rider ofc he would do that :) but in like a fucking office desk job you really have no excuses but also all the excuses for inflicting your funhouse mirror of a brain onto other people just to feel something amplified by the utter mind numbingly non stimulating for the cortices environment that is an office cubicle

#motogp #eternalectics #specifically: #it would be funny if #actually just tag the riders u want to see this and im not talking about the teams taking their kids (the riders) to work #for a day that they made videos for kinda thing #i mean true fucking au where they are just stuck in an office job or whatever. #these guys also really like to work right #well. translated to this...it could be fun #bring ur office aus! describe what would happen... #also like. perfect fucking way to make an au where somehow everyone still knows each other #imagine marc marquez griping about SPREADSHEETS. there is an actual spreadsheet off (NOT whoring himself out mind u) competition that #happens. ppl win money for this. #imagine the only drug they're consigned to is caffeine and the sweet sweet dopamine hit of getting someone to fall for ur mindgames. #they would just be WORSE. is what im saying.

[anattadukkhaannica]

did these in a random notebook I had cause I filled up my actual sketchbook and haven't gotten a replacement yet so sorry for the lines that I either missed or couldn't erase or didn't feel like erasing. I also didn't forget michés tail I just didn't like how messy I drew it so I erased it after scanning

#regretevator #regretevator miche #regretevator poob #regretevator bive #traditional art #Im assuming this counts as traditional cause I drew it on paper with my pencil but I also scanned it. idk you can scream at me if you want #also pls reblog it makes more people see my art and that gives me an inflated sense of self worth #that might be bad but idk I like the dopamine hit I get when I see a notification #anatta.dukkha.annica.arta

[lemongogo]

I PRINTED HIMM

#lkke a dopamine hit #i also printed my elendiras and its drivingme crazy i want to print everythjnf now #i actually have that first pic i drew of her in my phone case HAJEHAHAHAHA #literally no one even knows its a trigun ref so i win #i put a whole bunch of cat stickers all over it too .. peace n luv #millions knives

[rusquared]

bimonthly request to everyone struggling w energy/executive dysfunction/etc but wanting to create things: try origami. im so serious.

#'i hate my art style' -> HAH. there is no style in origami there r only fixed directions #'i struggle with long-term projects' -> a crane is super quick and easy to make and if u get pretty paper it looks like a decorative piece #'i dont want to think too much' -> after the initial cost of watching a tutorial the rest becomes muscle memory for certain designs #'it's too difficult' -> there are varying levels of complexity in designs online and u can easily find simple pieces that still look pretty #and lastly #people find little paper craft gifts adorable #and u get the dopamine hit of 'i made a thing' with a comparably low input cost #this is coming from the bitch who cant draw or write without nearly screaming from how much she hates her lack of skill #origami is accessible to my piece of shit meanie brain

[kenobihater]

i appreciate all interactions with my fics ESPECIALLY comments whether they're short or long, but there's no greater joy than seeing a notif in my inbox from someone sharing their thoughts at length on my silly little stories ❤️

#len's memes #the BEST thing is when i wake up to smthn like that. it's an instant hit of dopamine right upon regaining consciousness #though i DO 100% appreciate any interactions whether it's a hit a kudos or a little '<3' as a comment! don't want to act ungrateful for #those in the least bc they're really sweet and reinvigorating and i love seeing ppl enjoy what i put out into the world #long comments just hit different as i'm sure all creators out there can agree haha #len speaks

[zaacoy]

SOMEONE ELSE ON TWT HAS MADE A TANG OUTFIT IN ANIMAL CROSSING TOO I MADE ONE LIKE A MONTH AGO AND HAVE BEEN WEARING IT SINCE THERE IS SOMEONE ELSE WHO IS THE SAME KIND OF INSANE AS ME YIPPPEEEEE YIPPPPPPEEEEE !!!! !!

#hi exploding on tmblr out of the blue at 4 am because I can hi hello :3c #The post came up on my tl and I got hit with a brick of dopamine we are one in the same #Too nervous to reply to them showing them my own grr I want to so bad but Interacting hard graahhfhfgj #So I'm rambling about it here instead :3 probably will delete this later!! #silly sleep deprived excited zaacoy post feel free to ignore #Update for anyone who's read this far: arms and wrists are healing!! My hands are uncontrollably shaky so I can't draw yet but- #they should be good to go for sketches in a day or two #Might try again tmrw idk I'll see #bahdsghashh bye!!!

[myfriendtheghost]

goodnight to my favorite dork

#I… think I will cry myself to sleep 😌 #also I have $150 worth of clothes I want to buy right now but I can’t afford #but I get a bonus on the 9th #so I guessss I can afford it then but I do not want to wait #I need my dopamine hit life is BLEAK

[27-royal-teas]

heyyyyy yall sorry I haven’t posted a fic in like. a while. school has picked up and I have rehearsals for dance and the musical and show choir and basically im ALWAYS busy, and I impulsively joined this songwriting competition thing and the song is due in like five days and I haven’t even started writing it, and when I have free time I dont really have energy to do anything other than scroll tumblr so i promise I will put out a fic. at some point. when I write one. but it may be a while just warning ya

#I know I don’t owe anyone anything but it feels like i have to deserve my place in this fandom by contributing #and uh #im just. busy. and very very tired #toby speaks #also I like the dopamine hit of comments and unfortunately the only way to get comments is to write more fic #and im in the process of writing several different multichaptered fics that haven’t gone anywhere really #it’s discouraging because I want to write something that people think is genuinely REALLY GOOD and i can’t ever get my word count #over 6k #which is kinda embarrassing #I guess i just get bored #but i wanna write longer fic at some point I just never have the time/motivation

[bunnyb34r]

Having to explain to my mom that 5min crafts is a content farm/what that is. That sure they have some genuine hacks, but a lot are genuinely dangerous and bad

It's like I'm not trying to be the parent, but I've been on the internet daily since I was 9 years old and you respectively have only been on it for maybe 8 years? Consistently? And only on Facebook. Like man the shit I have seen has aged me a lot more mentally than I care to admit.

It's so hard too bc I know I should like a know it all/conspiracy freak when I tell her not to get a reddit bc she's gonna get sucked into a WS cult and get radicalized, or when I tell her Facebook reels is the same as tiktok. Which she has continuously forbade me to have since it came out (bc evil chinese company. It's okay when it's an evil American company though). That she needs to be careful and not just believe whatever she sees, but it's like for once I DO know more and I DO need to be the adult.

Like I remember having so many fucking talks to get her out of that SAVE THE CHILDREN shit and debunking the wayfair shit, and the Hillary Clinton shit, and all this shit. I constantly am telling her "nope that's antisemitism in disguise, heres why" ab stupid theories and shit and why they're harmful and it's like I want to fucking scream

Idk where I was going with this but like god I'm tired

#and she gets mad when im 'parenting' her and its like well then fucking use your brain!!! think before you share shit! ask questions!!!! #had to explain that the reason jfk had a diff coffin on air force one wasn't like a body swap but bc the first casket wasnt secured right #and the man was LEAKING in the fucking casket and they had to get a clean easier to transport one #that it was his family that didnt want it open not the gov like the man had half a fucking head at that point!! what did you expect?! #and then shes like well how do YOU know all this shit. how do you know YOURE right and Its like bc i check my sources?? bc i know how to?? #bc i actually use my brain and dont sit in a digital echo chamber validating what i want to hear #thankfully we dont actually get fox in our house somehow (god probably) and we dont have cable so she cant watch fox & friends #but Facebook is it's own fucking up hill battle and it's like go back to playing 1010! and shit on your phone instead #and she stays on Facebook for that dopamine hit and its like i know you have adhd and your dr doesnt believe you but for godsake #i stg she's the reason my body hair is still turning white. it initially stated bc my dad was causing us so much fucking stress and then #it lessened a bit but now im finding more and more like my body is eating the pigment sgdgdgdgd #im gonna go gray by 35 i stg i have ONE white hair on my head and have gotten several on every part of my body like eyebrows and armpits ect #the funniest is leg hair like oh okay go grandpa #ANYWAYS im tired and i guess i needed to get this out #marquilla

[k-phoenix]

hello! i would love to hear the rant about PET scans :3

Holy shit so okay I'm in the train for the next 20 minutes, and I _know_ that's not enough time to get into all of it, but I could rant about this for hours, so. Maybe we cap this at 20 minutes. [20 minutes later] Okay so I wrote a huge wall of very boring text that barely started getting into it, so let me provide way less detail, actually:

It is massively expensive. A PET scanner costs a lot. And it's not a one time purchase, and then you can do scans, no, you wish. You also need some very expensive equipment to create radioactive tracers (which are what is used to do a PET scan) on site, because that stuff needs to be created fresh (under an hour) before every scan. To create the tracers is ALSO incredibly expensive. A single PET scan costs multiple thousands.

This also means that PET research makes use of as few participants as possible. A study with 15 participants is considered big. You simply cannot infer from 15 participants to the whole population. This also means that, statistically, it is highly likely that you don't find an effect even though it exists - meaning if your PET study looks for the effect of A on B, it is highly likely that it will find that A has no effect on B even though it does - simply because you didn't have enough participants (if this explanation doesn't make sense, let me know, and I can explain in detail)

This, together means, that an absolutely absurd amount of money is used for research that, by design, will not find results, because to find results, they would need more participants and even more money.

Because scientific publishing is a shitshow at the moment, research that doesn't find results very rarely gets published, especially not if you can't even be sure whether the result is right. So absurd amounts of money put into research that doesn't even get published.

And I haven't even talked about the results they did find and issues with them. Don't ask me to explain those. Don't tempt me to put hours into writing a multiple page essay that nobody will read.

So, in conclusion: PET is an absolutely amazing feat of engineering that is magnificent in detecting cancer and with it we could learn so. Much. More about the brain and how it works. But to do that, a lot of the basic organisation of how we do science would first need to change. Many labs would have to collaborate and be okay with making the collected data openly available, so appropriate sample sizes (=numbers of participants in a study) can even be achieved (Here's a paper on that). That probably won't happen, though.

Now, obligatory note: one of the professors who taught me about PET is a man who wrote an extremely controversial paper about exactly this stuff, despite also using PET in his research. If you like niche drama in science, look into this paper and all the articles that are responding to it.

#answers #thank you so much for the question!!! #i tried to not go into too much detail and still make sense but let me know if I should explain something better! #don't get me wrong. PET is amazing. we could learn so much with it #but also. i could not do PET research with good conscience because currently it is a waste of a shitton of money #god I wish though. it is such an absolutely cool method. #like - you can look at fucking dopamine. straight up. not just at brain activity but the actual neurotransmitters!!! #that's cool as hell!!!!! #I fucking dream of that being possible and also FEASIBLE #damn reading over this after I hit post and reading 'let me provide WAY less detail actually' and then a long ass post #me @myself: damn man you gotta take your adhd medication #also if you click one of the last two links. I know my profs name is very... unfortunate. #please don't mention his full name in my notes though. i don't want him to google his name and find my tumblr or something #personal #neuroscience

[asirensrage]

Sigh. To no one's surprise...I want to break my own rules/deal lol.

#i am so tired and i am over it #lol #i want that dopamine hit of posting a new fic #unless no one sees and reacts to it... lol

[jasntodds]

I got my Funkos today 😭

#the way my desk is becoming a funko display #i wanted the nightwing one too but money lmao #i love having adult money and spending it on things that give me a little dopamine hit when i look at them #red hood #robin #gotham knights #jason todd #tim drake #funko pops #kaylee talks

[tinkkles]

I love the choices in baldurs gate I love that there's not a "default good" and "default evil" path I love not knowing who to trust I love being tempted from all directions I love characters who are complex and want to do immense good while also being given the opportunity to feed their darkest impulses I love watching characters struggle and having the agency to struggle alongside them like it's all so goddamn refreshing

#BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK #I LOVE BEING FORCED TO MAKE DECISIONS WHERE I DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE RAMIFICATIONS WILL BE. I LOVE MAKING MISTAKES #like deadass people are joking about being willing to kick children for the dopamine hit of 'astarion approves' #but it makes me so happy when i say something and it pops up 'astarion 👎' but the conversation continues as like a real argument #with like a complex character with their own struggles and problems who is having an emotional reaction to the coversation yk #like it rarely feels like a 'oh this is the right dialogue choice if i want this outcome' it just feels so much more human wagh #and not just for the romance plots like it feels like this FOR MAJOR PLOT POINTS!!! I LOVE NOT KNOWING THE RIGHT WAY TO ACHIEVE WHAT I WANT #baldurs gate 3