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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brian-goldstone.bsky.social
One more thing: people are homeless because they have been deprived of housing.

You solve homelessness with homes.
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brian-goldstone.bsky.social
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.bsky.social
We should have none in a rich country. It is indicative of how we will allow people to be treated.
brian-goldstone.bsky.social
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.
patblanchfield.bsky.social
I’m in tier one global because I used expedient means (wallhacks)
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theophite.bsky.social
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
jfruh.bsky.social
”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???
patblanchfield.bsky.social
fuck yes turns out my FAMAS skins and wallhacks have gained value after all
patblanchfield.bsky.social
amen to all that! real question: is the CS2 engine still used or is the CS:GO one now how it all plays
patblanchfield.bsky.social
all the unproductive olds will now run on hamster wheels to generate power
patblanchfield.bsky.social
like the dwarves of moriah, we mined for crypto - too deep
patblanchfield.bsky.social
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
patblanchfield.bsky.social
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.com
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)

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davidjroth.bsky.social
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.
patblanchfield.bsky.social
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
patblanchfield.bsky.social
oh shit jacques and geoffrey have entered the house hell yes
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fractalontology.bsky.social
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”
patblanchfield.bsky.social
RFK Jr: We're doing MAHA by reversing every American circumcision one at a time

Reporter: Wait -

RFK Jr: [gesturing at his van] I have two coolers full of foreskins in there

Reporter: How - wait -

RFK Jr: Scientists won't tell you this but you can just rehydrate them using nonpolar water
patblanchfield.bsky.social
sometimes castration anxiety is just castration anxiety
patblanchfield.bsky.social
the old joke about the guy trying to join the cia applies here
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snowden.st
Yeah, this was in Dallas in the late 90s, but we had 4 armed men come in with real unloaded guns, and take a few of us aside. Said they were here to kill believers, and asked if we were believers. After we all said "Yes", they unmasked themselves as dads from church.