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Ordinary Unhappiness @unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

between conferences this weekend, so we're unlocking Narcissism #2: we go back to ancient Greece and Rome, explore versions of the story of Narcissus and his doomed encounter with Echo, and talk desire, frustration, family transgression, and more! ordinaryunhappiness.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

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UNLOCKED: 149: Myth, Fate, and Desire: Narcissism, Part 2 - Ordinary Unhappiness

Unlocked Patreon episode. Support Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon to get access to all the exclusive episodes. patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby, Patrick, and Dan dig into the realms of myth and fab...

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

❤️ I've got stuff coming via Nation and n+1 anon! also: roosevelt whitepapers!!!!

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

an ouroboric nightmare of gun violence, borderless and lawless militarism, compound trauma, and imperial blowback? there has to be a better way - we simply have to do it all, harder!

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

you could say a lot about this: IE, this is what states do when every term in "legitimate monopoly on violence" is a joke; it will guarantees more of the same, from all corners, sooner rather than later, and that's part of the plan; its classic Death Drive Double Down, etc but also: its fucking evil

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

a squad of soldiers shooting a soldier in a wheelchair, paralyzed because he got shot mid-rampage carrying out a mass shooting on a military base thats now had two, live-streamed, not DIY and swiftly censored the way mass shooters sometimes do it, but by the state and celebrated as a spectacle

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"The simple truth is that America is founded upon bloodshed, and that as a people, our business has always been killing each other and ourselves." (A dark insight from Patrick 10 yrs ago that now could plausibly be a statement of patriotic intent from Pete Hegseth...)

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

For some reason I keep thinking of @patblanchfield.bsky.social's various insights about the U.S. and the death drive. For instance, from 2016: themarginaliareview.com/freud-americ...

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Freud and the American Death Drive by Patrick Blanchfield | The Marginalia Review of Books

If ever a person could kill a joke, it was Sigmund Freud. “Here is an American anecdote: ‘Two not particularly scrupulous businessmen had

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orangedoorhinge @orangedoorhinge.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I got a great deal on this house because they used to manufacture Legitimacy here and it seeped into the walls.

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

nobody is talking about this but if you have the will, adequate ventilation, and access to a variety of household cleaners and OTC pharmaceuticals you can actually manufacture Legitimacy pretty much anywhere

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

waking the elder gods and the shambling monsters responsible for dyatlov pass incident with a throbbing uts uts uts uts

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

wild how that story has literally 100% disappeared from the internet

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I agree with Brad Pitt, Atlas Shrugged should be a six hour movie, and he should right get on that as soon as he Quentin Tarantino finally complete their quest to find Hitler's pistol

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

old enough to remember "Legend. I can't decide who I like more, Lula or Bolsonaro. Seriously, they both seem like great guys who have far-different views but truly love their country. Hope the future is bright for Brazil."

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

a lot of people are asking questions already answered by my right talon!!!!

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don't think I've made this point on this platform before it's no coincidence IMO that so much fash faux nostalgia AI slop is indistinguishable from the most gonzo dystopian "what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war, this is the sixth Reich" parodies, IE:

its charlie kirk rting an obviously AI image of a 4th of july parade saying "this is what we're fighting for." indeed.

its the roswell level from wolfenstein new order. if you haven't played it, it's really something. before going into the cafe, make sure to explore the whole level, sticking around to listen to the npc dialogue in full. fucking dead on.

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

but he's sure left behind a lot of Fallen Soldiers! I bet he doesn't even recycle them!!

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

hallo schatz my reich und I have been watching you from across ze bar and I must say we like your style even more than I like this tasty schnapps und milkenshake

its gunther from the ss or whatever his name is, as appearing in the wolfenstein "roswell" level, which incidentally captures the AI aesthetic perfectly

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

those are legal now, its the rules based international new order (purge rules)

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

they're calling the new doctrine, wait for it, the ... be @ it dudes

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

sorry not sorry to all the meek losers out there - it's the geek who will inherit the earth! and move over, ye poor, AKA the soon-to-be optimized/liquidated - it turns out the one thing we shall always have are rich assholes

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the best part about living in anticipation of inevitable AI parousia is that unlike the early christians you don't have to do communism or help actually existing needy people - instead you can just accumulate obscene wealth for grandiose purposes of helping hypothetical generations of future ones!

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

someone keeps signing me up for quora digests no matter how often I unsubscribe and let me say, with apologies to, well, multiple buddhist traditions, while you may be my perfect teacher, if I meet you on the road, I'm gonna do to you what you're supposed do to buddha in such situations

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Antigone @antigoneinthebes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

People don’t realize how serious the situation is.

A graph showing number of Germanies over time. Losing one on October 3rd 1990 means by projection we are only decades before reaching -1 Germany in 2072

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Ordinary Unhappiness @unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🚨NEW PATREON EPISODE🚨 Narcissism, Tinseltown, Lacan, and more! Abby and Dan give Billy Wilder's 1950 classic Sunset Boulevard the Wild Analysis treatment! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

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Episode 161: Wild Analysis: Sunset Boulevard | Ordinary Unhappiness

“No one leaves a star – that’s what makes one a star!” In the latest installment of Wild Analysis, Abby and Dan discuss Billy Wilder’s class

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this here's a man's man's man's military. french 75s? fuck those frog cowards. pimms cups? for the altos on the HMS pinafore, maybe. goddammit soldier you'll take your modafinil and jatenzo with your breakfast gin ration neat or my name isn't peter "no more weird gender bullshit" hegseth

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

you can even out your drink with a lot of uppers for a long time but real heads know: the booze always wins

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ushed to be, you yelled "kill" with every push-push, pushup. but in this mansh military, your drill instructor, he's gonna, he's gonna have you do mandatory "pewdiepie moments" yeah, everyt-t-t-ime, yeah get some, amirite, yeshsir

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

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

"There is a clear inconsistency here between the detailed and convincing account given by the local farmer who sounded the alarm when she saw the masked and hooded men near the vans and the claim by Donald Trump that "we have had these men under view for a long time"." 9/11 II: A Field in England

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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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