Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 5hRonaldo is very humble, a million times more humble than any other person. 020
Reposted by Random Dangling MysteryBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 18/04/2026The political history of the U.S. since the 1970s is basically that thing where a species' predator disappears and the species overpopulates and destroys the whole habitat. If centrists really wanted a "Normal" right, their top priority would be to bring back the left 162073355
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 5h*my face settles into its most serious arrangement* Transformers is car culture propaganda. 0140
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 6h"I don't want to see people living in the street but I also don't want shelters built." Great talk, thank you for your thoughts, very productive. 000
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 6hstatic.klipy.comSimpsons Mr. Burns: 20 Takes, Best OneALT: Simpsons Mr. Burns: 20 Takes, Best One 030
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 7hMy man looks like he parks in a bike lane to pick up from Firehouse Subs. 000
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 7hMy man looks like The Nostalgia Critic but with no gravitas or dignity or hat. 100
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 7hMy man looks like he's only ever worn sunglasses on the back of his neck. Indoors. 100
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 7hMy man looks like he takes a first date on a police ridealong. 100
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 7hMy man looks like he learned to smile from the photos of missing kids on milk cartons. 100
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 7hMy man looks like a realtor who can't pass the licensing test so he becomes an undertaker instead. 100
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 7hMy man looks like an egg going through a midlife crisis. 110
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 7hMy man Bradford² out there looking like Pitbull if he'd never seen the sun. 100
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 8hThis is really good. I saw this tour last week in Toronto and am still grappling with how great and singular it was. 000
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 8hI think growing up with Peak Simpsons and getting old while it drags on endlessly in zombie form naturally gives one a more philosophical long view on this sort of thing, it's very true 020
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 9hLindsay Ellis, who is a fine critic even if I don't always agree with her takes, said in her Hobbit Quadrilogy video essays that those movies being bad diminished the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and I'm sorry, I couldn't disagree more, that was a wildly wrong take. 110
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 9hI do really question the "Subsequent Bad Thing ruins Prior Good Thing" style of criticism, though. I get that it's frustrating when a story starts well and ends poorly but still. The first four seasons of Game of Thrones are still there, they're still really good! 110
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 9hYes, I got that from the post, no worries. BB's male fanbase seemed worth a mention, still, but it tends to be a different flavor of dude, true. [Better Call Saul is better anyway ;) ] 010
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 9hI saw some later episodes and they weren't *bad* per se, but I lost interest in A Handmaid's Tale very quickly once they had finished adapting the book. 230
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 9hLol, yeah. Dexter was fine as a procedural potboiler for a bit but I don't think Heroes was ever good either 030
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 9hBreaking Bad? Even that had some grumbling about the final episodes, I recall 100
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 9hHeroes and Dexter *might* be exceptions but yeah, the good parts don't just disappear when there's a bad part 130
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 10hIt's his stepfather's surname. Can't recall how old he was but his mom told him that he could keep his old name if he preferred but he said, "No, mother, I shall be Bradford Bradford!" 110
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 10hTangential but my favourite BrabBrad detail is that his full name is Bradford Bradford and it was his choice to go by that 110
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 23hMaybe it's good ol' British ironic understatement but the implication that the worst thing that would happen under Nazi domination would have been that they'd have to learn German is, well, it's not too good 020
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is so good that I pumped my fist. So good that I whooped. So good that I forgave his ridiculous silver Goku haircut. 000
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It's also extremely funny that this kid is pumping up this mega-masculine powerhouse of a Jesus and when it comes time to give him a height, he's like, "uhhh, 5'11"!" 000
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026When I think about Christ my Lord and Saviour who did suffer and die to take away the sins of the world and redeem our sinful souls and deliver us from evil, I say unto you of the beloved Son of God: "Talk about testosterone. Like a mustang." 100
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Let's test it out, one condition at a time 010
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026(Or they've never been more accurate to how people actually consume music but the implications of that are grim af so it's easier to blame the chart criteria itself) 000
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Thích Quảng Đức lit himself on fire to protest the corrupt colonial-capitalist-friendly government of Ngô Đình Diệm and its persecution of Buddhists. I suppose it was some common enemy with Communist North Vietnam but he was a religious cleric, famously not Communists' favourite folks. 000
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is political history minutae and clearly not the reason people mistake Rage's politics but you gotta admit that a bunch of Communists putting the self-immolation of a Vietnamese Buddhist monk on their album cover is a bit of a mixed message. 100
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If they're picking up the bill, I'll think about it. 010
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026One thing to do in reply to the ideological bubble or lack of exposure argument is to make the interlocutor be specific. What conservative ideas do you think I'm ignorant of and why are they valuable additions to our politics and society and economy and culture? Tell me what you think they are. 111
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I do think it's kind of cope for both left and right to just class political disagreements under brainwashing or ignorance or even mental deficiency when the truth is that different people just see the world differently because that's harder to reckon with but that's what it is. 111
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'd like to give conservatives the courtesy of acknowledging that they're approaching liberal/leftist ideas in the same way and honestly disagreeing but current conservative orthodoxy is so infused with lies and propaganda and blinding bigotry that it isn't accurate to say that, sorry to say. 122
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is it, as succinctly stated as I've ever seen it done. We're not isolated from conservatives and stuck in a bubble whixh prevents exposure to their ideas. We know what they believe. We disagree and therefore reject those beliefs. Simple as. 172
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Finally and less positively, there's a detail where the Ohioan subjects of the piece hear a Haitian say something in a strange and unintelligible foreign language and obviously it's French and I'm sorry but some Americans are degenerate yokels who have no right to hold themselves superior to anyone 000
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026An important bulwark in your own heart and mind is to fight cynicism and nihilism. They can be tempting in the face of malevolent opponents and craven and collaborationist "allies". But they are the weapons of the enemy. The foundations of their view of the world. Believe that it can be better. 100
Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A maddening thing about conservative views is that everyone knows on some level that they're wrong. People lie about holding them or characterize them differently because they know how bad they make them look. Media obfuscates them for the same reason. But they persist. It's heartbreakingly cynical. 110
