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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

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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
its ezra klein on jeffrey epstein this past july. he says "I think I should say, before I start this episode, where I am on the Epstein story. If you forced me to give you my best guess, I think this guy had a lot of powerful friends, and that he was a predator and a pedophile, and those sides of his life were mostly separate." (available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-will-sommer.html)
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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they’re just like us FR
its Jake Lacan from the movie “Chinatown”
October 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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been saying for a decade now
it’s Melanie Klein
October 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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October 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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It’s a picture of my father sigmund Freud
October 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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September 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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damn I can't believe he did this
its donald trump going bret easton ellis ... or is it https://x.com/BretEastonEllis/status/275543172568997888?lang=en
September 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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a truly remarkable film
three stills from a dream sequence in "Weapons" (2025). a child runs into a house, josh brolin stares in horror, an AR-15 appears in the clouds above.
September 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Historians say the past is but the imagination of ourselves in the future, all thinking is time travel, and if you practice visualizing your personal legend for yourself, it will manifest - and become who you always already were.
its a wild hed/dek from the NYT: "Wrestling Over Charlie Kirk’s Legacy and the Divide in America Historians say the lessons of this particular time will depend on Americans themselves, and what kind of a nation they want it to be."
September 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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amen! its so important to remember that influential operators working to shape law and deploy state power to purge society of human vermin and sundry undesirables are doing the OPPOSITE of “political violence” and in fact are selflessly noble crusaders striving to end that scourge 🙏
its a promo for a WSJ editorial piece that reads "From @WSJopinion: The sickest aspect of the assassination of Charlie Kirk is that it was everything he warned about, the very thing that motivated his many debates and catapulted him to fame. He talked so as to end political violence, writes @KimStrassel." I'm not linking to this shit, you can find it yourself!
September 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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rarely has such an abundance of words garlanded for so many years what has remained so fundamentally an unchanging and impoverished notion of what the "political" is
it’s Ezra Klein after the shooting of Steve Scalise in 2017 noting how blessed we are to live in a country where politics rarely leads to violence
September 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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3:36 AM
it's the classic painting The Nightmare (1781) by Henry Fuseli. a woman sleeps; a demon sits on her stomach; a horse monster peeps out from behind a curtain
September 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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hell yes
September 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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get behind me satan (take a number)
its my inbox. it has a lot of messages.
September 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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I think RFK Jr looks great actually
it’s the book from Evil Dead
September 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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I'm not sure what NIMBYism means anymore but I think this might be that for child murder
a tweet from hakeem jeffries. it reads: The shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis is horrifying. Praying for the children, families and first responders during this moment of terror and unimaginable grief. Weapons of war have no place in our neighborhoods, streets or schools. a tweet from chuck schumer: I’m horrified by the shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis and closely monitoring the situation. I’m thankful for the first responders on the scene. Students and teachers should not be putting their lives on the line just by going back to school. We must do more to stop gun violence in America.
August 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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rip to the 🐐
young Terence stamp, louche and mystical, in pasolinis teorema older stamp, furious and bloody, in soderberghs The Limey
August 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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oh god its too late: they've already gotten our children.
its jack black in the "minecraft" movie, the latest iteration of a cube-based multimedia IP
July 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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shot, left: Bret Stephens, this week, on the tragedies of war, what is or isn't genocide, fuzzy logics of complicity, etc

chaser, right: Bret Stephens, five years ago, doing literal Clean Wehrmacht mythologizing about Erwin Rommel, in hopes of fomenting war with Iran to boot
its bret stephens latest "No, Israel is not committing genocide in gaza," which you can read here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/opinion/no-israel-is-not-committing-genocide-in-gaza.html a screenshot from that shitty oped. it reads "First, while some pundits and scholars may sincerely believe the genocide charge, it is also used by anti-Zionists and antisemites to equate modern Israel with Nazi Germany. The effect is to license a new wave of Jew hatred, stirring enmity not only for the Israeli government but also for any Jew who supports Israel as a genocide supporter. It’s a tactic Israel haters have pursued for years with inflated or bogus charges of Israeli massacres or war crimes that, on close inspection, weren’t. The genocide charge is more of the same but with deadlier effects. Second, if genocide — a word that was coined only in the 1940s — is to retain its status as a uniquely horrific crime, then the term can’t be promiscuously applied to any military situation we don’t like. Wars are awful enough. But the abuse of the term “genocide” runs the risk of ultimately blinding us to real ones when they unfold." an op-ed by stephens from 2020. you can read that shit here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/opinion/iran-airstrike.html. the headline is "Suleimani Died as He Had Killed: Now the United States must establish a balance of hope and fear in the Middle East." a screenshot from that: "There’s a great deal more of this. And that was just the preamble to his central role in rescuing Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and sustaining Yemen’s Houthi militia in power, goals pursued through policies of unrestricted brutality. As an agent of international mayhem, Suleimani’s peers were Osama bin Laden and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. To think of him as a worthy adversary — an Iranian Erwin Rommel — is wrong. He was an evil man who died as he had killed so many others."
July 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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scientists may never be entirely sure what “obscene jouissance” is but the particles emitted by this are off the charts
its a screenshot of the Trump to Epstein birthday card which you can read here https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796 Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. - WSJ
July 18, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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returning to this from me from early 2019, well before epstein met his, uh. demise, about how the secret horrible truth of things is that the horror has always been entirely out in the wide open all along therevealer.org/suffer-the-c...
an excerpt from the linked essay, which reads: "In June 2016, a California woman filed a lawsuit alleging that, in 1994, when she was 13 years old, Donald Trump raped her at a party at Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan. Trump and Epstein are longtime associates. “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years,” Trump told New York Magazine in 2002. “Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” The woman remained nameless, but announced she was coming forward for a press conference on November 2, the day before the election. She then cancelled her appearance and withdrew her lawsuit, citing threats to her life. Trump (and Epstein) have denied her story. Some twenty women have accused President Trump of sexual misconduct. Several women who participated in a Miss Teen USA pageant Trump owned have also told stories of his walking in to inspect them as they changed in their dressing rooms backstage. “Don’t worry, ladies,” one recalled him saying during an episode in 1997, three years after the alleged child rape at Epstein’s, “I’ve seen it all before.” The girls present in this episode included one as young as fifteen. The dissonance is stupefying. There is no need for tinfoil-hat messageboard speculation or Lovecraftian True-Detective-style secret conspiracies. The exploitation and abuse of minors is right there, as cruel and ghoulish as you could imagine, out in the open. They are everywhere, overwhelming. Any given allegation will be debated endlessly and then forgotten, such that, while all of them may seem entirely plausible, no single one ever seems to rise to the level of being the one that will push opinion (or prosecution) over the edge. No one story seems like it can ever make a difference, precisely because there are so many of them."
July 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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tired: studying the blade
wired:
a youtube clip still of a man in a hoodie in a room full of crystals conjuring a ball of light, it reads JEDI TRAINING PART 26 TENSEGRITY AND CARLOS CASTANEDA, EXPLAINING CARLOS CASTANEDA'S TENSEGRITY EXERCISES
July 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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its a photo of elon and ghislaine at the met gala way back, flanked by a pair of pokemon who I put there (squirtle and charizard)
June 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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ghastly statue with one grey toe, big as a frisco seal, etc, etc, etc
its the scene from the finale of succession where they go for each others eyes
May 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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anyway some us already have mister beast at home
it’s miiissster crooowleyyy
May 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM