Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield
@patblanchfield.bsky.social
US culture, violence, politics, psychoanalysis | associate faculty at the brooklyn institute of social research | co-host @unhappinesspod.bsky.social podcast
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 How do perception and language shape subjectivity? What makes an experience ineffable? And can LSD offer new prospects for treating MDD and GAD? We're joined by @dankarlin.com of MindMed to talk new research trials, neurobiology, and more! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
121: LSD: Subjectivity, Ineffability, and Mental Health feat. Dan Karlin - Ordinary Unhappiness
Abby and Patrick continue their series on psychedelics via an in-depth interview with Dr. Dan Karlin. Karlin is a psychiatrist and Chief Medical Officer at MindMed, where he oversees clinical trials u...
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we could've spent another two hours on this - easy. karlin was so brilliant and generous, and we went in so many directions. @counterfactual.bsky.social and I have been talking about this @unhappinesspod.bsky.social conversation nonstop since bsky.app/profile/unha...
we're continuing my favorite of Freud's Case Studies over at
@unhappinesspod.bsky.social. it's been a delightful time - check it out!
@unhappinesspod.bsky.social. it's been a delightful time - check it out!
🚨NEW STANDARD EDITION🚨 We continue the case of Elisabeth von R, talking family dynamics, short-circuits of care, parentification, tragic losses, gendered social roles, and more. Plus: what does it mean for a psychic "blow to fall"?
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122: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 8: Studies on Hysteria, Part VIII: The Blow That Falls: Fräulein Elisabeth von R Continued Teaser - Ordinary Unhappiness
Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby and Patrick resume Freud’s case history of Elisabeth von R. The...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
we're continuing my favorite of Freud's Case Studies over at
@unhappinesspod.bsky.social. it's been a delightful time - check it out!
@unhappinesspod.bsky.social. it's been a delightful time - check it out!
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
how can the president demand the extrajudicial killing of elected representatives? does he not know about our norms?
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
how can the president demand the extrajudicial killing of elected representatives? does he not know about our norms?
you don’t actually want Half Life 3. you’re yearning for an impossible taste of the hope and excitement of youth now that your own life is quite likely more than half over by now
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
you don’t actually want Half Life 3. you’re yearning for an impossible taste of the hope and excitement of youth now that your own life is quite likely more than half over by now
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Modern redundancy is having multiple single points of failure.
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Modern redundancy is having multiple single points of failure.
at least the fundamentals of our information infrastructure are strong
November 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
at least the fundamentals of our information infrastructure are strong
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It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
sure why not
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. cbsn.ws/4oRZ8Nm
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
sure why not
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🚨UNLOCKED🚨 We spoke with the great
@sarahlovescali.bsky.social about climate grief, her experience of ayahuasca therapy in the Peruvian Amazon, our expectations for psychedelics, our fantasies of transformative experiences, and what we can learn from plants!
@sarahlovescali.bsky.social about climate grief, her experience of ayahuasca therapy in the Peruvian Amazon, our expectations for psychedelics, our fantasies of transformative experiences, and what we can learn from plants!
UNLOCKED: 103: Ayahuasca and Climate Grief feat. Sarah Miller - Ordinary Unhappiness
Unlocked Patreon episode. Support Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon to get access to all the exclusive episodes. patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby and Patrick are joined by one of their favorite write...
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November 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🚨UNLOCKED🚨 We spoke with the great
@sarahlovescali.bsky.social about climate grief, her experience of ayahuasca therapy in the Peruvian Amazon, our expectations for psychedelics, our fantasies of transformative experiences, and what we can learn from plants!
@sarahlovescali.bsky.social about climate grief, her experience of ayahuasca therapy in the Peruvian Amazon, our expectations for psychedelics, our fantasies of transformative experiences, and what we can learn from plants!
où sont les sex monsters et leurs smokey backrooms d'antan
November 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
où sont les sex monsters et leurs smokey backrooms d'antan
backlash predictions seem premature TBH
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
backlash predictions seem premature TBH
the fantasy of an apocalypse wherein what was hidden will be revealed and justice finally rendered feels so quaint in a world where nothing was hidden to begin with and demons just thrive and thrive
November 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
the fantasy of an apocalypse wherein what was hidden will be revealed and justice finally rendered feels so quaint in a world where nothing was hidden to begin with and demons just thrive and thrive
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Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
can the party of dennis hastert recover from this latest blow
November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
can the party of dennis hastert recover from this latest blow
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Something everyone needs to know about @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Alice Wong was her commitment to Palestine. Just a year ago, she & I wrote a letter in @literaryhub.bsky.social defending six Palestinian journalists. Sadly, Alice now joins two of them on the other side: Anas al-Sharif & Hossam Shabat
November 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Something everyone needs to know about @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Alice Wong was her commitment to Palestine. Just a year ago, she & I wrote a letter in @literaryhub.bsky.social defending six Palestinian journalists. Sadly, Alice now joins two of them on the other side: Anas al-Sharif & Hossam Shabat
woke to news of the passing of both Leslie Lee and Alice Wong. grievous, gutting losses
November 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
woke to news of the passing of both Leslie Lee and Alice Wong. grievous, gutting losses
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"I'm honored to be your ancestor" - Alice Wong
Thank you, Alice.
Thank you, Alice.
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
"I'm honored to be your ancestor" - Alice Wong
Thank you, Alice.
Thank you, Alice.
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NEW: I wrote about the secret history of Santacon, which began its life as a weird little art prank attended by a bunch of my friends. Now, a new documentary explores its absurd, anarchic, hysterical early years: www.motherjones.com/media/2025/1...
The secret history of Santacon, America’s most hated Christmas Party
A new documentary explores the booze-soaked and vomit-slicked gathering's radical roots.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
NEW: I wrote about the secret history of Santacon, which began its life as a weird little art prank attended by a bunch of my friends. Now, a new documentary explores its absurd, anarchic, hysterical early years: www.motherjones.com/media/2025/1...
Mephistopheles appears. He offers you a deal: you can be as good at emails as Noam Chomsky, inbox zero twice daily, but also you have to be a character reference and write recs for Jeffrey Epstein
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Mephistopheles appears. He offers you a deal: you can be as good at emails as Noam Chomsky, inbox zero twice daily, but also you have to be a character reference and write recs for Jeffrey Epstein
SOAP you and your Team of Operators must plant seven (7) black candles on the beach of Little Saint James in the shape of an Elder Sign to prevent ISIS Spetsnaz from raising R'lyeh. spending CoD Coins (available in the Battle Pass Store) will increase your time limit
November 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
SOAP you and your Team of Operators must plant seven (7) black candles on the beach of Little Saint James in the shape of an Elder Sign to prevent ISIS Spetsnaz from raising R'lyeh. spending CoD Coins (available in the Battle Pass Store) will increase your time limit
as what’s left of the academy finally implodes it’s; so important to rehash the merits of Judith Butlers prose from the 1990s,
November 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
as what’s left of the academy finally implodes it’s; so important to rehash the merits of Judith Butlers prose from the 1990s,
Burger King in Yellow
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Burger King in Yellow
nobody is talking about this but what if Jeffrey Epstein was actually the only human being in the history of late capitalism to achieve work life balance
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
nobody is talking about this but what if Jeffrey Epstein was actually the only human being in the history of late capitalism to achieve work life balance
neither here nor there but when he was president of harvard larry summers would autograph dollar bills for students who visited him during office hours
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
neither here nor there but when he was president of harvard larry summers would autograph dollar bills for students who visited him during office hours