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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 19h

fuck BDUs fuck ACUS fuck (hic) MCCUUs fuck Us in general, cause (hic) cause we're partnering (hic) with the makersh of those (hic) "Big Johnson Athletics" and "Co-Ed Naked Volleyball" T-shirts from the (hic) 90s to prodoosh (hic) the most coolest, lethalest uniformsh you guys have ever (hic) seen

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 21h

a homeopathic cure for Posting Sickness: sign up for Quora digest. first thing in the AM you get an email with a subject heading so abysmally stupid and try-hard offensive (IE, "new neighbors = gay, HELP!!!") you no longer feel any need to engage with the fact that people are assholes online

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 22h

I don't think states should kill people in the first place. and I definitely think that if the state in all its might and grandeur tries to kill you and fails it should not be allowed a second chance. immoral madness

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

so I guess if you buy high speed micro sd cards online its like almost certain that theyre gonna be counterfeit now?

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Jonathan @curecanti.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On weaponized abjection and the dystopian vision of tech’s aging failsons.

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160: Very Special Boys feat. Adrian Daub

Podcast Episode · Ordinary Unhappiness · September 26 · 1h 52m

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is a wonderful conversation and the Very Special Boys framing explains SO MUCH about the techbros and their ilk.

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

personally I think its awesome that tech rhetoric has gone from "we will not only give you whatever you need, but fulfill desires you don't even know you had" to "fuck you buy this shit you don't want also there goes your job"

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Patrick Osgood @patrickosgood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What the arrestees fail to have recognized - silly them - is the UK government has allowed US bomber refueling and supply at Fairford only for a “specific and limited defensive purpose”. It’s all a big misunderstanding, you see - this had been lawyered and everything

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

tired: years of psychoanalysis to understand your own desires wired: an agentic AI that can totally do that, bro hired: an AI that neurotically sabotages you for you, thereby robbing you of even the enjoyment of your symptom s-tier: zero-human-in-the-loop fully automated misery

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

fuck the latest about whatever peter thiel "thinks." and fuck whatever we're now being to told buy/buy into about what AI "thinks." instead check out our @UnhappinessPod conversation with @adriandaub.bsky.social, author of What Tech Calls Thinking, and its sequel, What Tech Calls Governing

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Ordinary Unhappiness @unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 What is wrong with our tech overlords? How did Silicon Valley's promises of progress and uplift flip into the sneering celebration of dominance? The great @adriandaub.bsky.social returns to unpack the current political and libidinal economy of Big Tech www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

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Episode 160: Very Special Boys feat. Adrian Daub | Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick welcome back returning guest Adrian Daub. The occasion is Adrian’s latest book, What Tech Calls Governing. A follow-up to h

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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Patriarchy is not only a system in which men dominate women; it is a grammar that teaches people how to see the world. As our podcast of the week details, the concept makes hierarchy and injustice appear as natural. With Robin Dembroff on @unhappinesspod.bsky.social buff.ly/d0tahRS

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

im the president and im building an awesome base for army men in my room

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Comic strip showing a stand-up comedian under the title "The Ones Who Bomb In Omegas"

He is saying "Hooboy, I should not have brought up the child. This is a tough room, but not the worst room in the city. Am I right?"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

reading karen horney is alternately delightful and a gut punch; so glad we could explore some of her work on the latest @unhappinesspod.bsky.social

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Ordinary Unhappiness @unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🚨NEW PATREON EPISODE🚨 Summer may be over, but our Narcissism series continues! We take up the work of the brilliant Karen Horney, who rejected Freud's sexism and libido theory in favor of thinking about the self, the family, US cultural norms, and more. www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

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Episode 159: Karen Horney: Narcissism, Part 7 | Ordinary Unhappiness

The Ordinary Unhappiness journey through the landscape of modern narcissism continues – and arrives in the United States! In this episode, A

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

still buzzing from our @unhappinesspod.bsky.social conversation with Robin Dembroff, whose book "Real Men On Top" is just fantastic too CC @academic.oup.com global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Ordinary Unhappiness @unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Can anyone ever be a "real man"? Why are conversations about "the crisis of masculinity" so repetitive and shallow? Robin Dembroff explains how fantasies of manhood function and how patriarchy harms everybody - including men themselves. www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

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Episode 158: On the Impossibility of Being a Real Man feat. Robin Dembroff | Ordinary Unhappiness

What does it mean to talk about “patriarchy” in the present? What are the origins of the term, its uses, and its limits? How has it impacted

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

prediction: no matter what happens in the midterms somebody is going to make a fortune helping elderly americans receive their $5000 trump checks. they've been held up in escrow, you see, but can be released if you simply give this nice young person on the phone your bank account info today!

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This was a really good episode of a consistently great show.

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

tomorrow's anniversary will for many of us be even more overwhelming than usual; for some, it may simply be bewildering. wherever you might be, we at @unhappinesspod.bsky.social put together this episode to give you some tools for processing and talking about it www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

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Episode 156: 9/11: Chosen Traumas and Time Collapse | Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick bring a psychoanalytic lens to bear on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. As they

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Ordinary Unhappiness @unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

🚨PATREON-ONLY EP🚨 from liminality to the uncanny to creepypastas to COVID to AI and the sheer terror of interiority itself, we give "Backrooms" the Wild Analysis treatment! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

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Episode 157: Wild Analysis: Backrooms | Ordinary Unhappiness

Episode 157: Wild Analysis: Backrooms by Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon. Join Ordinary Unhappiness's community for exclusive content and updates.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

i have used 1password probably since their first version and now i have to move everything including my passkeys what a mess

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

taylor sheridans "lioness": a show about a toxic workplace where everybody would benefit from mindfulness trainings and some hr modules addressing "work/life balance"

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Ordinary Unhappiness @unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨Did 9/11 really "change everything"? Why do some events become history, and how do we know when that's happening? How do "chosen traumas" work as political touchstones, weaponize logics of identity, and even warp time itself? www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

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Episode 156: 9/11: Chosen Traumas and Time Collapse | Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick bring a psychoanalytic lens to bear on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. As they

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

for the latest @unhappinesspod.bsky.social, we scoured the archives and dredged up memories personal and collective, famous and forgotten, to reckon with what happened on 9/11/2001, what that event came to mean, and how that's still shaping the world we live in today www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

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Episode 156: 9/11: Chosen Traumas and Time Collapse | Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick bring a psychoanalytic lens to bear on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. As they

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

new @unhappinesspod.bsky.social Summer of Narcissism content! we read and break down one of Freud's single most difficult papers so you don't have to

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Ordinary Unhappiness @unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

🚨NEW PATREON-ONLY EP 🚨 When is narcissism normal - and maybe even necessary? We read Freud's paper, On Narcissism (1914). Dated and reprehensible in some respects, prescient and humane in others, it's classic Freud, and still provocative today. www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

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Episode 155: Freud’s “On Narcissism”: Narcissism, Part 6 | Ordinary Unhappiness

The Summer of Narcissism brings Abby, Patrick, and Dan to Freud’s landmark 1914 essay, “On Narcissism: An Introduction.” While the sexologis

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 18/08/2026

Oh he just tweeted it out

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

a series where a jack reacher style modern ronin drifts from place to place, getting involved in situations, trying to help, and making them dramatically worse. its called, wait for it, yo himbo

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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Here’s one place to start This goes back to the mid 1990s, where there is already someone writing about how The Atlantic users, “thoughtful”, dulcet prose to launder the worst impulses imaginable

JSTOR Citation for article in Transition

Charles Sugnet, “For Polite Reactionaries,” Transition No. 69 (1996), pp. 14-34

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

RE: The Atlantic, a few months after this issue a guy in El Paso went on a rampage targeting people he thought looked "Mexican"; he shot 45 and killed 23. when I read some journalists lines from his manifesto and Frum's essay and asked them who wrote which, they couldn't tell, I couldn't blame them

its a cover image of an april 2019 atlantic mag. a neon light bulb american flag signals no vacancy like a roadside motel. under the flag is a headline for david frum's cover story "How much immigration is too much?"

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You'd have to be quite dim to look at the recent output of Kathleen Stock et al and think that they're centre-left types with some "valid concerns" about gender identity. There's a consistently harsh and reactionary view of human experience which turns people into "problems"

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Pete Hegseth’s obsession with testosterone reveals the anxieties he harbors about himself and the military he leads. theintercept.com/2026/07/25/p...

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Pete Hegseth’s Crisis of Masculinity

The secretary of war’s obsession with testosterone reveals the anxieties he harbors about himself and the military he leads.

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I've lived long enough to see bill hicks "love the war hate the troops" become a 100% earnest party line

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Ａ．Ｄｅｇｅｎ　Ａｒｔ @adegenart.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

10 beautiful postcards is now on steam! store.steampowered.com/app/4916370/...

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Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

even Peter Singer has been forced to say “more Mali, less Mars.” As I found myself exploring here. www.chronicle.com/article/drow...

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Opinion | How a Thought Experiment Changed the World

Peter Singer and the roots of effective altruism.

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i’ll allow it @fractalontology.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I am the ONLY celebrant of reducing evil tendencies that I know of, but also I haven’t looked and for that matter refuse to, also hey have you met my friend, the heinous financier of incomprehensible evil

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

OTOH this is a crazy ghoulish way to promote your latest book OTOH my man does have to face the constant uphill SEO battle of being the guy who even jeffrey epstein thought was a tedious asshole

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

People often try to say that he isn't representative of the government, but Ben-Gvir is the national security minister. www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-ml-...

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Israel's Ben-Gvir Advocates Killing '30 To 40' Palestinians In Gaza A Night

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's extremist national security minister made the comments while speaking with a former Israeli hostage.

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