Darryl Solly

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I went to In-N-Out and ordered a cheeseburger. The cashier, a calm young woman named Destiny, asked me a question I did not expect.

"You want that Animal Style?"

I paused.

I did not know what this meant. But a samurai does not admit he does not know. So I answered with weight.

"...Animal Style."

"Cool. So that's mustard-grilled, extra spread, grilled onions, pickles. Yeah?"

I understood now. This was a sacred permission. For one meal, I was being told to put down my manners at the door. To eat the way a beast eats, without shame. I had waited my whole life for someone to give me this order.

"Yes," I said. "I will become the animal."

Destiny did not blink. "...Okay. You want your fries Animal Style too?"

I stopped. Even the potatoes?

"The potatoes also become animals?"

"I mean, they get cheese and sauce and grilled onions, so..."

"Then yes. Let the potatoes abandon their restraint as well."

"...Got it." She was the calmest woman I have ever met. "3x3, 4x4, or just the one?"

I did not know these numbers, but I knew a challenge when I heard one. "How many must I face?"

"It's, like, how many patties you want."

"How many is the most honorable?"

"...Four is a lot."

"Then four. A warrior does not ask for fewer."

She wrote it down without argument. A 4x4, Animal Style, with animal fries. She warned me once, kindly. "That's gonna be huge." I told her I was counting on it.

It arrived. It was a tower. Cheese and sauce ran down my hands the moment I lifted it. There was no clean way to eat it. There was no dignified way. That was the entire point.

I ate it like a beast. Both hands, no honor, grilled onion on my chin, and I have to be honest with you, it was the best thing I have ever put in my mouth.

For thirty years I have kept my manners at every table in the world.

They handed me a burger and told me to be an animal, and I have never felt so free.

So tell me, America.

The whole country knows the secret menu. What else are you hiding in plain sight?

And "Animal Style." Was I eating the animal, or finally becoming one?

[Gavin Shoebridge @KiwiEV]

Tried making Roger Moore's Creamed Cheese Potatoes. Turned out really good.
Naturally, I'm doing this research so you don't have to and I take no pleasure in it...

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

It only took Alphonso Davies 68 seconds... 🇨🇦⏰

#FIFAWorldCup

[Valuetainment @valuetainment]

NEW: SpaceX ($2.69 trillion) now worth more than Canada ($2.5 trillion).

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

A historic moment: the main tower of the Sagrada Família has finally been completed

The day before, it was consecrated by Pope Leo XIV, marking the 100th anniversary of the death of the great architect Antoni Gaudí.

The 172.5-meter Tower of Jesus Christ has become the tallest part of the church, and the Sagrada Família is now considered the tallest Christian structure in the world.

Construction of the basilica began in 1882. Gaudí died in 1926 without ever seeing his main masterpiece completed.

However, this is still not the final stage: interior work and the main entrance still remain. So the world’s most famous long-term construction project is officially not finished yet.

[ARIatHOME @ARIatTWIT]

knicks in the finals got everyone outside freestyling 🙏🔥

[Western Hockey Scout @Pete___Hughes]

North Dakota would probably beat most Finnish Men’s League Teams. The whole “Smits is playing with Men” means nothing to me.

[The Extreme Music Enthusiast @TheExtremeMusi1]

This is pure class. Enjoy, @Johnny_Marr — sheer brilliance.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Guys it was just a hockey game

[Riley @Ri_S_OB]

LeBron never did that

[Desiree @DesireeAmerica4]

Imagine being in Vegas and hitting rock bottom, getting put in handcuffs, and a street performer instantly turns your arrest into a live freestyle track.

He is literally giving play-by-play commentary with a beat while she gets hauled off. Only in Vegas do you get a custom soundtrack for your downfall.😏

[Juno News @junonewscom]

Atlantic Canada is set to receive its first shipment of Australian liquified natural gas after shipping it 25,000 kilometres across the ocean instead of purchasing Canadian LNG directly from Alberta.
https://t.co/4S8guSMKyl

[sam @sam_d_1995]

incredible things are happening on the Marriott subreddit

[Darryl Solly @Albertascout]

@SensBuzz @ByronMBader Vitali Pinchuk?

[Darryl Solly @Albertascout]

@nickiacoban Where is Bryce Pickford? Has he not improved?

[Ari Meirov @MySportsUpdate]

15 years ago today: Marshawn Lynch delivered one of the most iconic runs in NFL history, ripping through the entire Saints defense in a play that shook the entire stadium.

The Beast Quake will live forever.

[Caroline Di Russo @CaroDiRusso]

As I said earlier, regime change - in Venezuela or elsewhere - is a very serious and consequential thing.

No doubt.

But the satirical commentary following the fall of Maduro has been sensational. The irony. The sizzle. The absolute bangers.

Here are my faves so far.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

The Bionic Women. The Faceoff still gets me every time. Love the transito radio speaker, as the well speaker.

[Darryl Solly @Albertascout]

@NASMahalakshmi @ElonMuskZAB The answer is "R"

[Dr. Dad, PhD 🔄🔼◀️🔽▶️ @GarrettPetersen]

I decided to do a deep dive to figure out what it would take for European voters to change the law to allow them to deport migrants. For instance, say the voters of Italy wanted to deport Syrian terrorists to Syria. What would they need to do, legally to get that outcome? 🧵