Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 8hHe's just purposely doing this so that the toadies jostling for his favour and to inherit his political legacy have to mimic his increasingly preposterous stances. 100
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Big Beautiful Ballroom will be sovereign Canadian territory and we'll turn it into a curling rink. 010
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Rush is mid and their politics have always been suspect but I would love to hear Geddy Lee explain why he thinks Toronto is changing for the worse and strongly suspect his honest reasons would not save him from a cancelation. 140
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This seems like a fair and measured description, but why don't we take a quick look at the history of football just to see if there's anything else that oh no oh god what the hell how many dead and then with the oh no no no no 010
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 29/09/2026American rock from about 1998 to the indie rock boomlet in the mid-2000s was fucking grim in more ways than one. You want to understand how rock died as a mass-popularity chart entity, you start and probably end there. 100
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There's also still a puritan censoriousness to American public life, often expressed as "not in front of my kids", that prevents the airing of and grappling with serious adult issues. Can't talk about abortion and SA and trans people in front of the kids so they just can't be talked about. 110
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A lot of conservatives and establishment centrists tried to claim or at least defang the Chernobyl miniseries as anti-communist messaging because it depicted that sort of late-Soviet state decay and inertia but of course the subtext was that this was now an American problem as well. 152
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Can one actually "choose" Texas, or is human agency but a desultory and meaningless illusion in a vast, cruel, and unfeeling universe? 000
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The discourse over this has focused on whether one is "with it" or hopelessly out of touch, and has ventured into politics as well. But an under-discussed angle is "The charts appear to be broken". 141
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Remember when both Benioff and Weiss *and* Rian Johnson were each "set" to make a trilogy of Star Wars films? 000
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Yeah, like, sorry to country music fans, but you can have comfortably skipped the genre at any point in the last 50 or 60 years and not lose anything in terms of popular cultural knowledge. It is niche, non-essential, and chronically and even purposely behind the times. 120
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The hyper-specificity that is often cited as a notably praiseworthy feature of Taylor Swift's lyrics is a neat trick and also a necessary shortcut to relatability. She's gotta zoom right in close because in the wider picture she's a megawealthy one-percenter. 110
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Lovely bird, the Norwegian Blue. Beautiful plumage, innit? 110
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The tensions of a cosmopolitan empire with a parochial population grow ever more strained and frayed. 000
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026To repeat my take on these voter surveys, I do think that at least some Republican/Trump voters made their choice for The Bad Reasons but realize that would make them look like nasty bigots, so they grab at some bullshit and look like morons instead, which is preferable to looking like bigots. 020
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I wonder if Trump has ever busted Mike Lee's chops about his ancestor being hung for slaughtering women and children. That's the kind of thing he likes to do! 010
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"Cleveland!" is a very funny song title. 000
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Whose quote was that, something to the effect of "if you believe certain historians, the British instituted slavery specifically so they could abolish it"? 131
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The conservative media apparatus with its propaganda carpet-bombing makes it practically impossible to separate what conservatives believe and how many believe it from what that propaganda claims about their belief and numbers. The feedback loop is so tight, there's no discernible beginning. 121
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Mesa Your Humble Servant: Jar Jar Binks and the Colonial Subaltern 010
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Something I have been saying is that it will shock you how much Trump loyalists, Republicans, and conservatives in general will act like Trump never happened or at least that they had nothing to do with it. It may not be as soon as this year but once he's gone, they'll pretend they never liked him. 281
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026To be absolutely clear, the dangerous and untenable situation Afrikaners are somehow "refugees" from is "Not getting to do apartheid on an overwhelming black majority anymore". The most racist American federal government in history, and oh my brother is that ever saying something. 0189
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Conservatives are so funny when they're trying to be serious and so not funny when they're trying to be funny. 000
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Whenever I hear that maxim to the effect of "to defeat a bully, hit them back, they can't take it and will back off", I just think, "This person just told us that they've never been bullied." 210
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Paddy Considine popping back into frame is an all-timer gag but that's Hot Fuzz, baby, that movie is fucking stacked. 120
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Very good list, though I've never seen or even heard of Too Old to Die Young (hmm) and of course Thrones lost the plot so badly in the late stages that I can't in good conscience place it in a top ten. Slide Better Call Saul in there instead? Yeah. 100
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Here's what I, a born-and-raised Albertan, have to say about this narrative of "western alienation": If Ottawa or the Laurentian elites or whatever faraway demonizable boogeyman has been mistreating Alberta for as long as it's been in Confederation, how has Alberta dealt with it? 110
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This poll is a solid object lesson on the neutralizing of legal paths to political accountability. The (much more popular) legal paths to solve the Trump Problem are foreclosed on through partisanship, and so (many fewer but still lots of) libs yearn for the comfort of a military junta coup. 010
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Do we think Democrats will do what should be done to the people responsible for this? If you do, I envy your confidence. 000
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I would say that people will be shocked by what comes out about the camps but that assumes that the Dems won't keep them open and continue ICE policies and cover up the atrocities if they gain power and that's a pretty big assumption. 100
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Lorenz is probably a special case, but though it might seem like a bad time to pivot to the right as MAGA collapses, grifters like her may believe that they're getting ahead of a wipeout of pro-Trump influencers as he goes down and takes them with him. A vacuum opens for the opportunistic. 100
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 21/09/2026That was the public-facing argument but the point of streaming was to circumvent and eventually break the power of film and TV production unions and the benefits provided to their members. 000
Reposted by Random Dangling MysteryRandom Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 19/08/2026It's a pretty good bit for the US Department of Defense under Pete Hegseth to be like, "We're the Department of WAR again, full of warful warriors!" And then immediately go out to start and lose a war with the likelihood of a truly epochal global power shift spiraling off from it. Good material imho 001
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A coworker once let slip that he hated hippies and the '60s counterculture so for the rest of the day every time we saw him, we'd start singing "If you're going to San Francisco..." 011
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Conservatives in 2016: Don't eat soy, it will turn you GAY! Conservatives in 2026: Have you given soy a try? Not bad! Eat soy for President Daddy. 000
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My historically accurate version of The Odyssey did not dominate the box office as I hoped.static.klipy.comZhakk Harn: Guess Who's Back RaccoonALT: Zhakk Harn: Guess Who's Back Raccoon 030
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A cousin of mine back in Alberta was big into antivaxx (ostensibly from the left but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) and posted about chemtrails on Facebook constantly, until she got into politics and ran for office and then wiped her whole FB history. 000
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Okay, so the "even bigger mandate" line is well off-base, but I think even engaged, anti-Trump liberal Americans don't appreciate that "well, I didn't vote for him" doesn't get them entirely off the hook. Trump once was unfortunate, Trump twice was a deep and troubling systemic failure. 111
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 17/09/2026But don't call it apartheid, that's unfair and inflammatory and also somehow antisemitic. 140
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A third of a gopher would only arouse my appetite without beddin' 'er back down. 010
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 17/09/2026An important feature of Crime Hysteria is that only Certain People, You Know The Ones can be sources of crime. Even if they're literally breaking the laws they're supposed to uphold and enforce, police cannot be criminals. Neither can the wealthy. 110
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Good little thread on the stifling unfreedom of small-town conservative authoritarianism. It's very familiar to me though churches were fortunately less of a power base in my town. The conservative valourization of small-town life and demonization of cities is propaganda, not reality. 021
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I am going to win this contest and get up on stage in the stadium and play "Rhapsody in Blue" on kazoo for 45 minutes. 130
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I'm wondering a little if this stuff sustains or is another Brief Splash. Remember when every celebrity was like "white supremacy is OVER" in the wake of George Floyd's murder? Then whoops, guess it wasn't, actually. Watch this space, is all I'm saying. 000
Reposted by Random Dangling MysteryIreland Simpsons Fans @iresimpsonsfans.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The Be Sharps have withdrawn as a support act for Ed Sheeran's tour. 012835
