Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield

@patblanchfield.bsky.social

US culture, violence, politics, psychoanalysis | associate faculty @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social | fellow @rooseveltinstitute.org | co-host @unhappinesspod.bsky.social podcast | columnist @nplusonemag.com ~ 2 niche 2 live 2 on brand 2 die ~

I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.

we see a horrible truth play out at so many levels and so many stages - on social media, in political rhetoric, in the geography of harder borders and proliferating zones of slaughter: suffering does not necessarily ennoble, even the most grievous losses do not ipso facto yield solidarity

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 5d ago

New levels of unhinged from Fred Guttenberg, saying to David Hogg: "You exist because of what happened in Parkland and to Jaime." What?

Fred Guttenberg
@fred_guttenberg 3h
Just wow. @davidhogg111, how awful and wrong.
You exist because of what happened in Parkland and to Jaime. You had the chance to truly be against hate in all of its forms. You chose differently. Making this comparison is pure evil.
Donie O'Sullivan O
@donie • 5h
David Hogg, progressive organizer and Parkland shooting survivor, compares AIPAC's political influence to that of the NRA. It's a comparison AIPAC forcefully rejects.
@davidhogg111

I think the last time this camera was in my bag for serious was this project with @patblanchfield.bsky.social Had a Nikon D700 on one shoulder & this little guy with a 40mm Voigtlander on the other. I really want to put it through its paces again. www.simkobednarskiphoto.com/condition-ye...

Frontsight firearms training - Evan Simko-Bednarski's portfolio - Evan Simko-Bednarski's Portfolio

Website of photographer Evan Simko-Bednarski

simkobednarskiphoto.com

it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy

Man goes to see the Cyclops. Says he's depressed. He wants to get back to his wife and home, but he keeps running into fatal predicaments along the way. Cyclops says, "Prognosis is simple. Nobody can help you." Man starts crying. Says, "But Cyclops, I *am* Nobody"

a million americans died! we didn't have a vaccine ready, this shit was passing the brain blood barrier. it infuriates me so much we abused the hell out of the essential workers who worked like dogs during this, at the expense of their own health, and not a hazard dime spared in compensation.

the lockdowns were such a limited thing in scope, for a limited amount of time, but its the greatest horror on earth for these people that they had to consider another lower class of people and their existence for even a few weeks vs their routine luxurious sociopathy. signed, an essential worker.

Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield@patblanchfield.bsky.social · 4d ago

unsurprisingly to yet again expend this level of agita and venom about fauci, early reactions to COVID online, etc, rather than ever mourn or really confront how we live in a society that can and will easily normalize preventable mass death in the name of efficiency and profit

"No," he said, "millions. One Jewish life, it's 10 million [Palestinians]." Challenged on the racism of his statement, he did not deny it. "Yes, I know," he replied. "But this is the truth, because God chose us [and] because of this you are jealous." This man is a lawyer. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Israeli West Bank settler tells BBC attacks on Palestinians are justified as revenge

Settler violence against Palestinians is on the rise in the West Bank, as settlements and outposts expand.

bbc.com