we're continuing my favorite of Freud's Case Studies over at @unhappinesspod.bsky.social. it's been a delightful time - check it out!

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?

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

Modern redundancy is having multiple single points of failure.

at least the fundamentals of our information infrastructure are strong

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.

sure why not

🚨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!

où sont les sex monsters et leurs smokey backrooms d'antan

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

Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.

can the party of dennis hastert recover from this latest blow

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

"I'm honored to be your ancestor" - Alice Wong Thank you, Alice.

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

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,

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

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

I asked chatgpt to write a poem for me and it said "you must change your life" and so I asked grok to change my life for me and now finally I can go about my days fulfilled, at peace, happy, and otherwise fully authentic and totally optimized

oh so its illegal for an outspoken fan of sexual assault to do sex crimes with his good friend jeffrey epstein, is it?

resharing for Reasons www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

99% of societies give up on inventing God just before spending the trillion dollars that does it

check it out

no matter how disappointed you may be in the democratic party you will never be as disappointed as the democratic party is in you for expecting anything of them at all

it's all fun and games until someone threatens our moderate senators' precious vacation travel

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...

🚨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...

market is up 300% this year on news that openai is partnering with openquantum to fucking put monkeys on teh crypto chain or something who the fuck knows

this so powerful

Oh my GOD. The song that Rudy Giuliani used in his anti-Zohran post is fucking AI-generated. It's a song called "September 11, 2001" and it's from some AI slop factory called The Experience. You need to hear how bad this song is. music.apple.com/cz/album/sep...

"Will Quantum be bigger than AI?" sure absolutely why not who gives a fuck

🚨NEW WILD ANALYSIS🚨 Abby (@counterfactual.bsky.social) and Dan watch "The Substance "(2024). From sexual difference to gendered expectations, from the male gaze to femininity as self-surveillance, it's a psychoanalytic body horror Halloween spectacular! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

This isn't conspiracy theory. It's not hyperbole. It's a plain fact—visible right now, in real time—that hunger, homelessness, and economic precarity aren't just allowed to happen. They're actively inflicted.

Just so we're clear: This administration's blatant, unapologetic choice to deny food to 42 million people—to have the money sitting there and say, "No, we'll let them go hungry"—is simply a more overt display of why homelessness and poverty keep worsening in this country. Because it's *decided.*

they’re just like us FR

Folks like @patblanchfield.bsky.social have been saying for years that this was coming.

people keep asking for more Lacan, and so it was a double (triple?) pleasure to be able to deliver via this excellent @unhappinesspod.bsky.social conversation with the great Nick Peim and Nick Stock (@89stock.bsky.social). as Lacan commanded: Enjoy!

tired: a year unfolding per financial quarters, the gregorian calendar, b'ak'tun, etc wired: an endless now of shitty immanence alternately accelerated and slowed by ever-moving windows of climate-change-exacerbated allergies, COVID infections, the flu, general sickness unto death, etc

Old Soviet joke: Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three? One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals

"It's absolutely illegal." - you can absolutely feel the impotence through the screen.

been saying for a decade now

"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA" * article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window

guysh Im sho saw-ry, everythink was shpinning when I got this tatt-tat-tatoo, I thawt [hic] it was g-going, the other [hic] other direckshun, y'know, the ainsheent shine of- of-of peeeaace