Alexanthus [Lex]

Alexanthus [Lex]

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Lex [artist - experimental psychology research] Commissions are PAUSED! • Art • adult sexuality and nsfw art • psychology • whatever I think of, honestly.

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Y'all should know the play by now. They start off with whatever seems the most socially acceptable kink to cry bloody murder over, then it's just a hop and a skip and a jump to everything suddenly being criminalized. Kink content is important. Even the kinks you don't like. Remember that.

Roleplaying incest scenarios in porn will be criminalized in the UK as of next month, 2 years in prison for possession and 5 years for publishing I don’t know what to say that I haven’t said, this is bleak as fuck Any UK ABDL furries should also be extremely weary as this law targets you too

I might go on a posting spree of art soon so it doesn’t get forgotten. I have inklings of a low possibly breaking through after a sudden spur of restlessness and insomnia. Tonight was my last lamotrigine. I can’t get it refilled. My fiancé is leaving in two days. I’ll be alone. I’ll be alone.

Hey my #Ancestry anybodies… what do I do if my tree has suddenly decided my mom is my dad and married my mom so my mom is also my mom. So my tree has my mom with my mom… wasn’t like that before I stopped by to look up something today. #familygeneology #ancestryresearch #help #taphology

I truly loved you. You knew me before the accident and knew every part of me as I put my life back together. You were loved. You’ll never be forgotten. #jumpingspider #regaljumpingspider #petdeath #grief

Deleted an artwork post because an AI mouth-needs-to-meet-concrete gremlin used it for theft. I don’t want to keep watching the life around me crumble. I’m tired. I’m tired and I want to sleep and dream and may it never end because this is a nightmare

My experience tonight after looking at my little backpack of medications and thinking about it. Maybe my #bipolar peeps can relate or maybe I’m just really bad at my health 😅 #medications #disability #mentalillness #humor

The accessibility feature on phones to make your alert rapidly flashing blinding lights is understandable for the people who can’t hear a default alert sound. When you don’t need it, not to sound whiny but some of us don’t want to have a seizure at work.

AND I didn’t go into my bedroom for more than a few seconds after work, didn’t stretch out on the couch, and stayed awake! I am now laying down in bed at 9:17pm. #idiopathichypersomnia

Impromptu psychology lecture: Throwing up is awful. I understand why people hate the idea of vomiting; however, I don’t understand keeping yourself from throwing up. I woke up and wobbled to the toilet. Immediate relief. Less than thirty minutes later I have sudden relaxation wash over me. Listen…

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SO! What’s the takeaway here? I was painfully sick then went to the bathroom to start throwing up and now that pain has ended so I’ve been negatively reinforced to associate vomiting with the cessation of illness. [consideration: adding the action of making myself throw up still ended sickness].

YOU CAN ARGUE in addition… I’m positively reinforced because now I feel better and got to ramble about psychology (something I LOVE)! Ultimately: I’m a weirdo that probably ate too much icecream before bed, threw up, and thought GASP… I want to discuss conditioning stimuli. #psychology #masters

Impromptu psychology lecture: Throwing up is awful. I understand why people hate the idea of vomiting; however, I don’t understand keeping yourself from throwing up. I woke up and wobbled to the toilet. Immediate relief. Less than thirty minutes later I have sudden relaxation wash over me. Listen…

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Now when you heard negative reinforcement you probably thought of something bad happening. That wouldn’t be reinforcing (continuing) but instead punishing (don’t do that anymore). Negative punishment is removing something so you’ll stop (losing your license for driving on red).

Positive punishment ruffles feathers the most. Spanking is a positive punishment. You have added a physical consequence of pain when a behavior occurs. Someone doesn’t want that (added!) pain then don’t do that thing. [let’s recap: if that pain was initially there but ENDS? Negative reinforcement].

Impromptu psychology lecture: Throwing up is awful. I understand why people hate the idea of vomiting; however, I don’t understand keeping yourself from throwing up. I woke up and wobbled to the toilet. Immediate relief. Less than thirty minutes later I have sudden relaxation wash over me. Listen…

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So you should think “is the stimulus being removed when the behavior we want occurs or is a condition (reward consequence) being gained when the behavior occurs?” Negative reinforcement: vomit and now that sickness is gone! Positive: I achieved something now in ADDITION.

Positive would be getting a compliment or a chocolate. It would also be a rewarded consequence socially. Push a button when it’s blue and gain a treat. Negative on the other hand is put batteries into your smoke alarm and the beeping stops. It’s a form of intelligence we overlook.

Impromptu psychology lecture: Throwing up is awful. I understand why people hate the idea of vomiting; however, I don’t understand keeping yourself from throwing up. I woke up and wobbled to the toilet. Immediate relief. Less than thirty minutes later I have sudden relaxation wash over me. Listen…

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Operant is more so seeing a red light and stopping your car means not getting hit by another car (yay!) and going on green means getting to go where you want to (yay!!). In turn, you associate red with stop and green with good.

Now you might wonder about the use of negative reinforcement vs positive reinforcement. Your assumption is to think negative being a bad thing and positive meaning a good thing, but that is false. Positive (adding, plus +) and negative (removing, minus -) is in response to the stimulus.

Impromptu psychology lecture: Throwing up is awful. I understand why people hate the idea of vomiting; however, I don’t understand keeping yourself from throwing up. I woke up and wobbled to the toilet. Immediate relief. Less than thirty minutes later I have sudden relaxation wash over me. Listen…

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Operant also relies on “consequences.” No, by the way, consequences are NOT always bad. Consequences are literally a “sequence” that occurs alongside (con-) an action. Consequences are typically called rewards in these cases. I digress.

Classic: unrelated stimulus (bell, hospital room, a car, seeing someone bleeding) triggers an involuntary (reflex/sudden onset) of a behavior or bodily response (drooling, flinching, vomiting, yanking your hand away). Operant: stimulus (a scenario) teaches a person to react specifically by choice.

Impromptu psychology lecture: Throwing up is awful. I understand why people hate the idea of vomiting; however, I don’t understand keeping yourself from throwing up. I woke up and wobbled to the toilet. Immediate relief. Less than thirty minutes later I have sudden relaxation wash over me. Listen…

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Classical vs operant differs based on involuntary behaviors versus voluntary actions. Classical nausea/vomiting conditioning would be “learning” to throw up (instinctively before thinking) when exposed to a certain food or environment. That’s how most people experience it.

Operant conditioning would more so tend to be related to eating disorders as eating/feeling negative > induce manually > feeling relief (a beneficial experience) therefore reinforcing. I would argue otherwise in my case when I begin to feel bad I tend to literally think “I should go throw this up.”

Impromptu psychology lecture: Throwing up is awful. I understand why people hate the idea of vomiting; however, I don’t understand keeping yourself from throwing up. I woke up and wobbled to the toilet. Immediate relief. Less than thirty minutes later I have sudden relaxation wash over me. Listen…

I guess operant conditioning works on me. Awful condition/sick (the stimulus) > action (vomit) > sickness immediately ends (remove sickness/stimulus). Negative reinforcement. Hurrah, benefit. Conditioned to repeat natural instinct of vomiting as a beneficial relief to painful nausea.

You might say isn’t that classical conditioning not operant? Perhaps. In my case, however, I don’t seem to natural vomit unless I permit myself to. Maybe it’s because my uvula is half gone from necrosis after intubation. Either way, I voluntarily have to begin the gagging/motion to induce it.

Successfully created a tiny hat. Did not make the octopus I was trying to make. First time doing a circle. I cannot comprehend patterns not tutorials. I’m learning it by logic and trial and error.

Thanks #Apple ❤️ I totally didn’t need to make that doctor’s appointment! I had many alarms and turned off all your stupid features before the new update. What did you fuck up this time because sure as hell Kickstart My Heart was not blaring at 7am like it used to.

“It’s anonymous” my ass when you can list every detail of my possessions and animals it’s not anonymous. What if they find something sketchy? Are they snitching? Are they opening things like drawers and recording documents that may be made visible while cleaning?

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com

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