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[. @D_CH0SEN1]

Let that person be you

[sizzurp @coughsyrupzzz]

First thing I do when I wake up is hit the vape I don't even check if my legs work

[Dom @KnowerOfBans]

6 years of Trump in charge and we finally get a taste of corruption in our favor

[L @Iewdawg]

every 3AM world cup game

[jacob @thesoggyblanket]

they’re saying it’s the last 4th of July ever

[Anubis @eduantao]

Como me sinto quando estou assistindo a um filme romântico e os protagonistas não ficam juntos porque a lição é aprender a deixar ir

[The Spoon Bender @CallMeDestry]

Not an exaggeration when I say this perspective is literally life changing

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.

The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.

Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.

Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.

Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.

These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.

So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.

114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.

[shakes @shakes______]

How it feels randomly get sentimental while hanging out with friends

[drew @ImNotOwned]

You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American.

[اقرأ @ghoulhag]

This has genuinely saved me from workplace humiliation

[️sof @sodazerosugar]

realizing something is out of my control

[ASPCA @ASPCA]

Let's go K(nicks)ITTENS! 🏀Our New York City Kitten Nursery's residents decided to go all out to root for their favorite hometown team during finals. You could say that our kittens are fed, our nursery is their comfy bed, all of them strive to thrive, Knicks in five!

[Vincenzo @HeHateV]

The Internet is sleeping on the Japanese in Nashville but they’re having a time too

[Arthur Boreman (yes, that Arthur Boreman) @ArthurBoreman]

Brits in England: “This is the worst world cup ever!”

Germans driving a Mustang through Georgia with the top down to a game: “🎶AND I’M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN, WHERE AT LEAST I KNOW I’M FREE!!!🎶”

[miya @miyarah_]

yo volviendo a dormir porque aún falta 45 segundos para que suene la alarma