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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I challenge the BBC to hire me as the showrunner: I whose only familiarity with the characters or the storyline is having played the pinball game a lot and almost certainly being better at it than anyone you know

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bailey 2.0 @spentgladiator1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

got to the venue super late but @themountaingoats.bsky.social played a great show tonight. honored to see a second performance this year

a signed copy of the “days” vinyl and devil house by john darnielle

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I feel like this must have been done at some point, response poems are a storied tradition, but anyway I wrote "Margaret, Bringing Fresh Flowers" today and thought I'd share

Uncle Gerard, do you remember how,
when I was a kid, you found me crying
and I told you it didn't seem fair how all the nice leaves
had to die in the winter when I loved them so much;
and you told me, well, it gets worse from here,
and besides, it's not really the leaves,
you're a smart kid, they'll be back next spring,
but in the meantime you're right of course,
all kinds of things are going to die
and die and die and die and die and die,
your whole life, and it doesn't get easier,
it gets harder, because eventually you realize
all those dead hands go down pointing a finger at you,
and that's actually why you're sad, see,
because in a sense you're next,
even if it takes a while for next to get here?
And do you remember
how I said, Jesus Uncle Gerry,
can't a person be sad for a tree sometimes,
just sad about a tree?
Well, anyway,
you were probably right,
and you know this already,
because I tell you this every time I come here
but I suspect it's harder to remember things
where you are now
so I'm telling you again,
just in case.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

there’s more to his work than this but one thing about Roy Montgomery’s art is that no one has ever understood the 3rd Velvet Underground album on a deeper and more connected level than him

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bailey 2.0 @spentgladiator1.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

here is almost every single argumentative fallacy in this video

* opens with being aggressive to detractors calling them “fucking stupid” and spends entire video insulting them (ad hominem)
* says all critics are “going out of their way to misrepresent the show/viv” (hasty generalization)
* calls arguments claiming the show fetishizes sexual assault “vapid and deranged” (red herring)
* says rosie owning alastor “cant be racist because everyone in hell is evil” (circular argument)
* excuses rosie owning alastor because “alastor is evil” and “alastor owns husk” (red herring)
* says critics’ evidence is bad because “even politicians couldn’t stretch this far” (moral equivalence)
* calls alastor a “slave owner in his own right” (circular argument)

* begs audience to explain how vox could be white because he’s a shark tv (red herring)
* vaguely mentions voodoo symbolism and says “case could be made that that’s offensive” then says “i dont know about it so ill leave smarter people to discuss it” (aka typically peoples larger issue with the show’s racism)
* “once alastor is in hell he no longer appears as a person of color/no longer practices any religion” aka therefore racism is not practically applied to him (circular argument)
* “alastor knew what he was getting into” therefore he set himself up for being owned/a slave (post hoc ergo propter hoc)
* “We dont know what [race] rosie is” (red herring)

* “you cant have limited information and make a sweeping conclusion about something” directly after using limited information to make a sweeping conclusion about rosie
* claims calling a (possibly) nonwhite/nonhuman character racist for drawing equivalences between rosie owning alastor and real life slavery is the real problem (moral equivalence)
* says critics “materialized an issue out of thin air for the sake of pursuing personal vindication” (hasty generalization + ad hominem)
* says “art cant make you uncomfortable, it must coddle you for the soft little thing you are” as a mocking statement/doesn’t address the issues presented (straw man)
* okay i cant do this the rest of the video is just going around and around in circles

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bailey 2.0 @spentgladiator1.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

john darnielle looking at me during the song that saved my life Whattt does he knowwwww

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bailey 2.0 @spentgladiator1.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

barricades for @themountaingoats.bsky.social because the world’s pieces are falling into place

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bailey 2.0 @spentgladiator1.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

JOHN DARNIELLE JUST SAID HI TO ME AND GAVE ME A FIST BUMP IM NEVER GOING TO RECOVER. GOD BLESS THE MOUNTAIN GOATS.

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bailey 2.0 @spentgladiator1.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

JOHN DARNIELLE JUST CAME BY AND FISTBUMPED PEOPLE IN LINE AND SAID HI

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Free him. Free Charles Emancipation Cheese.

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 23/07/2025

15 years ago today, One Direction was formed on X Factor.

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bailey 2.0 @spentgladiator1.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

DO NOT EVER LISTEN TO THIS SONG IF YOU WANT TO PROTECT YOUR WELLBEING open.spotify.com/track/4QLYLK...

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Euthanasia

Will Wood · "In case I make it," · Song · 2022

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bailey 2.0 @spentgladiator1.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

the awfully underrepresented part of grief i was never told about was how much it physically hurts. it’s like a hole has been carved into my entire soul and being

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bailey 2.0 @spentgladiator1.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

i dont think i can handle a new tyler album so soon. its like he knew i needed something in my life

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is lonely and pronounced ooheesawdee

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bailey 2.0 @spentgladiator1.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

tutorial on how not to go manic. quick and easy route no cheats

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

what's up fellow kids. check out this digital realm

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Take all your big plans And break 'em This is bound to be a while Your body is a religious cult Your body is a cult, I'll pay my dues Your body is a religious cult

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bailey 2.0 @spentgladiator1.bsky.social · 10/07/2025