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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield

@patblanchfield.bsky.social

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US culture, violence, politics, psychoanalysis | associate faculty at the brooklyn institute of social research | co-host @unhappinesspod.bsky.social podcast ~ 2 niche 2 live 2 on brand 2 die ~

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 2d

even as I hope desperately for this to be a lasting ceasefire I cannot but reel at thinking what the near, mid, and longterm consequences will be for Gazans, especially in light of our @unhappinesspod.bsky.social conversation with Dr. Jess Ghannam a year and a half ago now

51: Psychoanalysis and Gaza feat. Jess Ghannam - Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick welcome Palestinian psychoanalyst and psychologist Dr. Jess Ghannam to talk about his twenty-five years of work doing empirical research and carrying out public health initiatives in ...

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 4h

just let out an audible sigh, what a beautiful place!

Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 4h

unrelated but following you immediately because of your banner pic of the bridge that brings my BP down ten points every time I cross going north

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 4h

while I agree they may have pioneered amphetamine psychosis I firmly believe its something all peoples everywhere can unlock

Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 4h

people online are constantly saying shit like "the average person is now post-literate and returning to medieval peasant mindset" while neglecting the corollary, namely that our elite aristos are once again scrying for angels, summoning demons, distilling elixirs of eternal life, etc.

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 5h

sorry sorry but I keep thinking about the story (read: lie) Mike Lindell tells about how all the crack dealers in his area got together and made a pact behind his back to cut him off because they were worried about him wasting his potential. TL;DR, at the end of the day, we all just want to be loved

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 5h

don't worry folks, I've been decocting sundry elemental salts in an OG instapot for ten years straight and am now just moments away from distilling a VC philosopher's stone that will allow us to transmute BPA plastics into endless heaps of Rubidium, Yttrium, Scandium, etc

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 5h

say what you will about the lies of free market meritocracy buts its kinda charmingly reassuring that late capitalism's most successful and powerful symptoms can only ever get as uninteresting when they crack as the rest of us

- me, generously, right before I get mauled to death by robot dogs

Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 5h

Peter Thiel, veins abulge, sweat-soaked, molars ground to powder: Lo, the Seals are Open, Greta is the Beast,

Shadow People: bro, chill

Thiel: Saints Girard and Schmitt, bless my Crusade!

Shadow People: uh ok this is awkward but we love you and so [unwrinkling a crumped letter] "Dear Peter, your

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

One more thing: people are homeless because they have been deprived of housing.

You solve homelessness with homes.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.

And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

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Robin-DeBowler @robin-debowler.bsky.social · 23h

We should have none in a rich country. It is indicative of how we will allow people to be treated.

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 23h

I’m in tier one global because I used expedient means (wallhacks)

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23h

i've got over 70k kills in the "meeting buddha on the road" minigame. it's tough at first but once you master the spin kick you can get the hammer you need to break the wheel of samsara pretty quick

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 1d

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 1d

if anyone is on this it’s youtube.com/@slingshotch...

JoergSprave

This channel is all about launchers. Most of them are powered by rubber, a fascinating material that converts muscle energy into kinetic energy! But we also present bladed weapons and launchers powe...

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 1d

fuck yes turns out my FAMAS skins and wallhacks have gained value after all

Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 1d

amen to all that! real question: is the CS2 engine still used or is the CS:GO one now how it all plays

Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 1d

all the unproductive olds will now run on hamster wheels to generate power

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 1d

like the dwarves of moriah, we mined for crypto - too deep

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 1d

is this AI bubble bad? well heres a ghiblified pic of some adorbs kiddos in tattered peacoats and newsie hats building forts out of stacks of now-worthless gpus

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 1d

every single data center in the United States suddenly starts generating the same, single piece of data, printed out dot-matrix style:

ur fucked

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 3d

Harvard economist Jason Furman estimates that investments in data centers and information-processing software accounted for 92% of US GDP growth in H1 2025 (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

This went up last Friday around The Appointed Time, albeit not at Defector. I really liked the movie, and appreciated the opportunity to write some descriptive language about 1970s Gene Hackman movies.

Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a super thoughtful take on "One Battle After Another" from @davidjroth.bsky.social ... he puts it in the context of 1970s thrillers whose style informed the film. Then he identifies what makes it different. And maybe more hopeful. Only on @flaminghydra.com! flaminghydra.com/winning-isnt...

Winning Isn’t Everything

It will be clear that I am not offering a self-care tip by the time you finish reading this sentence, but when things started getting dark for me around the beginning of this year I started watching m...

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 1d

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 1d

we're all having fun here but worth reiterating that this guy basically wants to liquidate people he deems Lebensunwertes Leben and the fact that he should simply just go to therapy does not mitigate his being fucking evil

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 1d

oh shit jacques and geoffrey have entered the house hell yes

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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 1d

from circumfession —

“…the audacity of this stroke about which she will alas, never know anything… and which, piercing the night replies to my question: I have a pain in my mother, as though she were speaking for me, both in my direction and in my place”

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