Pippin Bianco

09/16/2026

🇺🇸✈️ A SIMPLE GLOBAL ENTRY UPDATE

If you use Global Entry, here’s the update without the alarming headlines: your Global Entry membership has not changed, and you do not need to reapply.

As of September 15, 2026, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has replaced the former Global Entry Mobile and Trusted Traveler Programs apps with one official app: Trusted Traveler.

The new app simply brings the main mobile services together in one place. Global Entry members can use it to report their arrival at participating U.S. airports, manage membership information and access services for Global Entry, NEXUS, SENTRI and FAST.

Applications and renewals continue through CBP’s official Trusted Traveler Programs enrollment system; when necessary, the app directs you to the appropriate official website.

If you used one of the previous apps, download Trusted Traveler, sign in with your existing credentials and make sure the developer is U.S. Customs and Border Protection before entering personal information.

That’s really the story: same Global Entry, new app. That’s it. 🇺🇸✈️🐾

Pippin has reviewed the situation and believes humans may now proceed to the airport without creating an international incident. 😂

InternationalTravel

09/16/2026

THE WANNA-BE VALIDATED SYNDROME

Welcome to the Great Internet Narcissist Safari, where self-appointed psychological experts claim to know what complete strangers secretly think, why they apologize, why they remain silent, why they seek therapy, why they avoid it, what their childhood did to them and what sinister motive hides behind apparently ordinary behavior.

Disagreement becomes gaslighting, affection becomes love bombing, silence becomes punishment, an apology becomes manipulation, confidence becomes grandiosity, insecurity becomes covert narcissism and a boundary becomes control; eventually every possible human response becomes evidence for the prosecution, which is wonderfully convenient because acquittal has disappeared from the procedure.

Welcome to the latest Internet witch hunt, where psychological vocabulary has become social currency and certainty attracts more validation than knowledge. The algorithm naturally prefers “7 SIGNS YOUR PARTNER IS A NARCISSIST!” to the less exciting: “I have never examined your partner, I have heard one side of the story, and perhaps a TikTok video is insufficient for diagnosing a personality disorder.”

The irony becomes particularly delicious when people obsessed with exposing narcissistic attention-seeking perform daily before thousands of strangers while counting followers, likes, shares and validation. Does that make them narcissists?

One might be tempted to recommend psychiatric evaluation for some of the more enthusiastic witch hunters.

Resist the temptation. That is precisely the point.

We have never examined them either, and diagnosing strangers from their Internet behavior would merely make us honorary members of the same circus.

Question the claims, demand evidence, challenge the certainty and laugh at the absurdity; just resist humanity’s ancient temptation to answer one witch hunt by starting another.

The Internet already has enough psychiatrists who graduated from TikTok University.

Perhaps it needs more people capable of saying three profoundly unfashionable words:

“I don’t know.”

08/29/2026

Multiple personalities? Apparently Pippin has decided one identity is insufficient.

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) was once called Multiple Personality Disorder, although the phenomenon is considerably more complex than having several little people renting apartments inside one brain.

DID involves disruptions in identity, memory and continuity of experience associated with dissociation. It is a serious and frequently misunderstood condition—not the fashionable habit of announcing on Instagram that your ex is a narcissist and your boss has three personalities because he cancelled lunch.

Hypnosis has an interesting history in dissociative disorders. People with strong dissociative capacities may also show substantial hypnotic responsiveness, and carefully conducted hypnotic work can sometimes assist stabilization, emotional regulation and integration. It is not magic. Suggestive or incompetent work can also distort recollection or encourage confabulation. Competence matters.

Having different sides of yourself, however, does not mean you have DID. The surgeon in the operating room, terrified passenger during turbulence, seducer at dinner and furious driver in traffic may all inhabit the same psychologically healthy human being.

Then we have social media.

Half my feed becomes a motivational speaker before breakfast, geopolitical analyst by lunch, psychiatrist by four, billionaire entrepreneur by six and Buddhist monk immediately after posting the Lamborghini.

So perhaps social media really is populated by multiples.

Just not the kind described in the DSM.

Pippin, meanwhile, appears remarkably integrated.

He simply prefers PIPPIN BIANCO!!

08/29/2026

MY NAME IS BOND… JAMES BOND.
My name is Bianco… PIPPIN BIANCO.

Multiple personalities? Apparently Pippin has decided one identity is insufficient.

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) was once called Multiple Personality Disorder, although the phenomenon is considerably more complex than having several little people renting apartments inside one brain.

DID involves disruptions in identity, memory and continuity of experience associated with dissociation. It is a serious and frequently misunderstood condition—not the fashionable habit of announcing on Instagram that your ex is a narcissist and your boss has three personalities because he cancelled lunch.

Hypnosis has an interesting history in dissociative disorders. People with strong dissociative capacities may also show substantial hypnotic responsiveness, and carefully conducted hypnotic work can sometimes assist stabilization, emotional regulation and integration. It is not magic. Suggestive or incompetent work can also distort recollection or encourage confabulation. Competence matters.

Having different sides of yourself, however, does not mean you have DID. The surgeon in the operating room, terrified passenger during turbulence, seducer at dinner and furious driver in traffic may all inhabit the same psychologically healthy human being.

Then we have social media.

Half my feed becomes a motivational speaker before breakfast, geopolitical analyst by lunch, psychiatrist by four, billionaire entrepreneur by six and Buddhist monk immediately after posting the Lamborghini.

So perhaps social media really is populated by multiples.

Just not the kind described in the DSM.

Pippin, meanwhile, appears remarkably integrated.

He simply prefers PIPPIN BIANCO!!

08/29/2026

Pippin is listening to this foolish woman

07/11/2025