Random Dangling Mystery
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An acquaintance of mine once tried to insist that making a loose fist to check your nails was feminine/gay but holding out an open hand to check them was masculine and I think I always knew that kind of shit was dumb but that incident removed all doubt.
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
An acquaintance of mine once tried to insist that making a loose fist to check your nails was feminine/gay but holding out an open hand to check them was masculine and I think I always knew that kind of shit was dumb but that incident removed all doubt.
Right-wingers love this line and spout it thoughtlessly for two reasons:
1. To delegitimize legitimate protest against their leaders and policies. "You'd have to be paid to oppose this", in a similar vein to Insert Conservative Leader Name Derangement Syndrome, "you'd have to be mentally ill".
1. To delegitimize legitimate protest against their leaders and policies. "You'd have to be paid to oppose this", in a similar vein to Insert Conservative Leader Name Derangement Syndrome, "you'd have to be mentally ill".
NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford is doubling down after telling someone in the public gallery to “find a job,” claiming they were a paid, professional protester. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1154308...
globalnews.ca/news/1154308...
Doug Ford doubles down on ‘find a job’ comment after omnibus rental bill passes | Globalnews.ca
As protestors were escorted from the chamber, Ford appeared to shout at one of them to 'find a job' from his seat within the legislature.
globalnews.ca
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Right-wingers love this line and spout it thoughtlessly for two reasons:
1. To delegitimize legitimate protest against their leaders and policies. "You'd have to be paid to oppose this", in a similar vein to Insert Conservative Leader Name Derangement Syndrome, "you'd have to be mentally ill".
1. To delegitimize legitimate protest against their leaders and policies. "You'd have to be paid to oppose this", in a similar vein to Insert Conservative Leader Name Derangement Syndrome, "you'd have to be mentally ill".
Trump Admin I vets will tell you, the real fun* doesn't begin until he starts firing his own appointees.
*"fun" in this context denoting "alarming but also ridiculous horrors"
*"fun" in this context denoting "alarming but also ridiculous horrors"
KASH PATEL ON FIRING WATCH, THIS IS NOT A DRILL, REPEAT KASH PATEL ON FIRING WATCH
President Trump may have had enough of Kash Patel, according to sources
The president is weighing whether to oust the FBI director after scrutiny of Patel's stewardship of bureau resources, including his girlfriend’s security detail and use of a government jet.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Trump Admin I vets will tell you, the real fun* doesn't begin until he starts firing his own appointees.
*"fun" in this context denoting "alarming but also ridiculous horrors"
*"fun" in this context denoting "alarming but also ridiculous horrors"
How does one become an online foreign asset?
Here I am, sharing unpopular opinions on the internet for free like a sucker!
Here I am, sharing unpopular opinions on the internet for free like a sucker!
November 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
How does one become an online foreign asset?
Here I am, sharing unpopular opinions on the internet for free like a sucker!
Here I am, sharing unpopular opinions on the internet for free like a sucker!
The French Legion? Candace out here a step or two from blaming the Knights Templar for offing Kirk.
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The French Legion? Candace out here a step or two from blaming the Knights Templar for offing Kirk.
Ken Burns tells American stories and WWI is barely an American story.
He should go hard and tell the story of American corruption. Big topic, mind you.
He should go hard and tell the story of American corruption. Big topic, mind you.
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Ken Burns tells American stories and WWI is barely an American story.
He should go hard and tell the story of American corruption. Big topic, mind you.
He should go hard and tell the story of American corruption. Big topic, mind you.
This is solid. I'd almost call it consensus except that doesn't exist in Star Wars fandom.
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This is solid. I'd almost call it consensus except that doesn't exist in Star Wars fandom.
One of my longer-term concerns is that even if Trumpism fails, and it seems to be doing so albeit more gradually than preferred, the American Right and its global allies will simply learn the lesson that they must develop and train more competent fascists.
Comey and James cases dismissed. Because Lindsey Halligan.
No legitimate prosecutor would manufacture charges against Trump’s political enemies, and one willing to failed.
Authoritarian abuses don’t work without capable personnel. Or much deeper corruption of the courts, which they don’t have.
No legitimate prosecutor would manufacture charges against Trump’s political enemies, and one willing to failed.
Authoritarian abuses don’t work without capable personnel. Or much deeper corruption of the courts, which they don’t have.
NEWS: The criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James are gone. A federal judge ruled that the appointment of Lindsey Halligan as the lead prosecutor was illegal.
DOJ could try again, but there are other headwinds.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
DOJ could try again, but there are other headwinds.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
One of my longer-term concerns is that even if Trumpism fails, and it seems to be doing so albeit more gradually than preferred, the American Right and its global allies will simply learn the lesson that they must develop and train more competent fascists.
Look, just because I'm not using all of these power bars right now doesn't mean I won't use them at some point in the future.
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Look, just because I'm not using all of these power bars right now doesn't mean I won't use them at some point in the future.
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Hear me out, but though Wuthering Heights is probably the peak work of art that people treat as "romantic" even though it's kind of fucked up and wrong to do so, an Emerald Fennel-directed adaptation while very unlikely to be good has some *major* demented freakshow potential.
Margot Robbie e Jacob Elordi são destaque em pôster inédito de "Wuthering Heights", nova adaptação para as telonas da obra clássica de Emily Brontë - dirigida por Emerald Fennell - que estreia dia 12 de fevereiro nos cinemas brasileiros via Warner.💥🎥
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Hear me out, but though Wuthering Heights is probably the peak work of art that people treat as "romantic" even though it's kind of fucked up and wrong to do so, an Emerald Fennel-directed adaptation while very unlikely to be good has some *major* demented freakshow potential.
Jimmy Vance can take off, eh
November 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Jimmy Vance can take off, eh
Face-Eating Leopard Party is one of the posts of our time, but it's a funny observation, not any sort of explanatory paradigm.
The baffling part is how many people were giving him the benefit of the doubt in January and now don't approve. They got new information and changed their mind. But he was already president before! How did you not already know he sucks??
Presidential approval polling average approaching Hungry Ms. Pac Man Territory.
November 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Face-Eating Leopard Party is one of the posts of our time, but it's a funny observation, not any sort of explanatory paradigm.
Who's who in the group chat
November 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Who's who in the group chat
Pages, George, where are the pages?
(Not that I give a fuck but presumably someone out there does.)
(Not that I give a fuck but presumably someone out there does.)
George R.R. Martin confirms there are 'Game of Thrones' sequel projects in the works ⚔️
(via Los7Reinos)
(via Los7Reinos)
November 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Pages, George, where are the pages?
(Not that I give a fuck but presumably someone out there does.)
(Not that I give a fuck but presumably someone out there does.)
He's got an odd way of expressing that, what with saying that he does.
But all right, if the mean lady whose job it is to lie to the public says that he doesn't mean it, I'm sure there's nothing to worry about.
But all right, if the mean lady whose job it is to lie to the public says that he doesn't mean it, I'm sure there's nothing to worry about.
*LEAVITT: TRUMP DOES NOT WANT TO EXECUTE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
November 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
He's got an odd way of expressing that, what with saying that he does.
But all right, if the mean lady whose job it is to lie to the public says that he doesn't mean it, I'm sure there's nothing to worry about.
But all right, if the mean lady whose job it is to lie to the public says that he doesn't mean it, I'm sure there's nothing to worry about.
CONSERVATIVE: The Lamestream Media is so biased that it won't tell you the hidden, forbidden truth!
LIBERAL: Does that truth happen to be all of the things that party-line conservatives have believed in and enacted as policies for 200 years?
CONSERVATIVE: Yes, but now we have new words for them!
LIBERAL: Does that truth happen to be all of the things that party-line conservatives have believed in and enacted as policies for 200 years?
CONSERVATIVE: Yes, but now we have new words for them!
November 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
CONSERVATIVE: The Lamestream Media is so biased that it won't tell you the hidden, forbidden truth!
LIBERAL: Does that truth happen to be all of the things that party-line conservatives have believed in and enacted as policies for 200 years?
CONSERVATIVE: Yes, but now we have new words for them!
LIBERAL: Does that truth happen to be all of the things that party-line conservatives have believed in and enacted as policies for 200 years?
CONSERVATIVE: Yes, but now we have new words for them!
When the steak is cooked medium rare and there's no ketchup.
This has escalated
November 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
When the steak is cooked medium rare and there's no ketchup.
No heroes, no gods.
I want to lay down a few markers here for folks as the clock starts ticking down to the release of the Epstein Files.
1) You are going to learn about a lot more disgusting and sickening things people said, joked about and maybe even did. You will likely be disappointed in someone you had admired
1) You are going to learn about a lot more disgusting and sickening things people said, joked about and maybe even did. You will likely be disappointed in someone you had admired
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
No heroes, no gods.
The real capstone I'd put on this thread is that I've found the right-wing fervor over the supposed social engineering of 15-minute cities so ironic because the only reason any of them think that is because they are the subjects of the most successful project of social engineering in human history.
Stancil has no core theory of political/social/economic ideology which is why he thinks and posts things like this but also one of my core conceptions of those elements of North American life is that suburbanization has been so forcefully pushed on people that they can't conceive of an alternative.
Right, this is true, but the OVERWHELMING evidence of the past 100 years of American life is that vastly more people want space and a car than a smaller unit and a car-free lifestyle. This is mostly why the suburban share of US population has grown relentlessly for the entire 20th and 21st century
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The real capstone I'd put on this thread is that I've found the right-wing fervor over the supposed social engineering of 15-minute cities so ironic because the only reason any of them think that is because they are the subjects of the most successful project of social engineering in human history.
Stancil has no core theory of political/social/economic ideology which is why he thinks and posts things like this but also one of my core conceptions of those elements of North American life is that suburbanization has been so forcefully pushed on people that they can't conceive of an alternative.
Right, this is true, but the OVERWHELMING evidence of the past 100 years of American life is that vastly more people want space and a car than a smaller unit and a car-free lifestyle. This is mostly why the suburban share of US population has grown relentlessly for the entire 20th and 21st century
Some people put a premium on space in my experience, others put a premium on not having to have a car and not being isolated out in the suburbs
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Stancil has no core theory of political/social/economic ideology which is why he thinks and posts things like this but also one of my core conceptions of those elements of North American life is that suburbanization has been so forcefully pushed on people that they can't conceive of an alternative.
Possibly this is answered in the article that I can't read atm, but would the patient also not be told which they were getting until they got the bill?
Because that sounds like the kind of scam Danielle Smith's private health care grifter backers have dreamed of for years.
Because that sounds like the kind of scam Danielle Smith's private health care grifter backers have dreamed of for years.
Per @carrietait.bsky.social, under the province's proposal Alberta doctors will be allowed to toggle between public and private at will, not telling the government what services they intend to provide or under what circumstances they intend to provide public or private care.
November 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Possibly this is answered in the article that I can't read atm, but would the patient also not be told which they were getting until they got the bill?
Because that sounds like the kind of scam Danielle Smith's private health care grifter backers have dreamed of for years.
Because that sounds like the kind of scam Danielle Smith's private health care grifter backers have dreamed of for years.
Johnny Cash's "The One on the Right is on the Left" is entirely vindicated on this point.
Of all the bands I would have expected to include a leftwing guy, a rightwing guy, and a Matt Yglesias style centrist, System of a Down would have ranked very low
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Johnny Cash's "The One on the Right is on the Left" is entirely vindicated on this point.
I don't want Fop, goddammit, I'm a Dapper Dan man!
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I don't want Fop, goddammit, I'm a Dapper Dan man!
I'm old enough to remember "Bush Derangement Syndrome" from the 2000s. When they go back to that parched well again, you know that they've really got nothing.
“NBC's Seth Meyers is suffering from an incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). He was viewed last night in an uncontrollable rage…”
November 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I'm old enough to remember "Bush Derangement Syndrome" from the 2000s. When they go back to that parched well again, you know that they've really got nothing.