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Where order goes to die and your earbuds plot against you.
means To twist or knot things together into a confused, hard-to-separate mess — or the mess itself.
from From Middle English 'tangilen,' likely borrowed from a Scandinavian source — compare dialectal Swedish 'taggla,' to disarrange or entangle. It first meant getting caught in seaweed or loose threads before broadening to any snarled chaos, physical or social.
physicsKnots form spontaneously in agitated strings, proven by science
botanyTangle is a real Scottish name for kelp
mathKnot theory is a serious field studying tangles
oddsLonger cords tangle exponentially more, lab-confirmed