Aaron

[Aaron @allenambition]

Stacey King’s memory deserves the Harry Caray treatment in the city. What a hurtful loss

[Sun-Times Sports @suntimes_sports]

The Sun-Times Sports cover, featuring Stacey King, who shockingly died at age 59.

https://t.co/IHj7oieY0d

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I see your profile picture. That’s Johnny Cash. My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668 amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did. Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them.

That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving.

You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.

[Aaron @allenambition]

This man Misiorowski is throwing 100+mph in the 6th inning. Goodness

[soli @solisolsoli]

The New American Gothic, 2017, by Criselda Vasquez

[vampire workday @imbobswaget]

sisqo talking about his inspiration for writing the thong song simply one of the best things i’ve ever heard

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

To break this down:

The rule the person stated below is not even the correct "rule." The "rule," if there's even a rule, is that your socks should match your trousers. Barring that, they should be navy.

Where does this "rule" come from? It comes from the first half of the 20th century, when much of Western male dress was shaped by the ruling class, who, at the time, still wore tailored clothing. By ruling class, I mean groups such as British aristocrats, Italian industrialists, and American WASPs who could trace their lineage back to the Mayflower.

For people in this group, proper sock choice fell into one of two categories. The first is that the socks should match the trousers: gray trousers with gray socks, tan trousers with tan socks, etc. Alternatively, navy socks were always considered correct with everything except black trousers, which required black socks.

Of course, some people broke this rule in cheeky ways, such as wearing pale lemon yellow socks with khaki chinos to add a bit of unexpected color. But the aforementioned two pairings constituted the general "rule."

When people state this as a "rule," they are trying to universalize something that was once subjective. In other words, they are trying to add a certain logic to something once practiced by the ruling class. So we invent a certain logic to this practice, such as saying wearing socks that match your trousers elongates your leg line. While this may be true (even if not for the navy sock), what we're really trying to do is make a cultural practice seem rational and scientific. This can be insidious when it applies to the practices and habits of the ruling class, because you are framing a subjective cultural practice as logically superior.

But regardless, it's no longer the case that British aristocrats, Italian industrialists, and American WASPs (Old Money) dictate the proper ways of dressing and speaking for everyone. There are plenty of groups that dress in ways that are either opposed to these groups (e.g., punks) or have nothing to do with them (e.g., avant-garde). Many of these groups possess cultural capital, which gives their style an "aura."

Therefore, you can't universalize this rule without first stating the context. Are you trying to dress like Prince Charles in 1980? Or Sid Vicious? If the latter, then the idea of matching socks to trousers makes no sense, as that's not how socks were worn in that particular group.

There's an entire cottage industry online of people proclaiming certain "style rules." "Men shouldn't wear shorts." "Here's how shirts should fit." "Here are the best color combinations." If you absorb all this advice, you end up with a very generic aesthetic, similar to how video game designers dress characters in The Sims.

IMO, if you want to figure out how to wear socks, you should identify a certain segment of culture that inspires you, whether historical or contemporary, and learn the language of that aesthetic.

About fifteen years ago, talking about this stuff was easier online because people were segmented into style communities — classic tailoring, workwear, streetwear, avant-garde — each group huddled around certain forums and blogs. These communities gave the discussions context. If you were in a community obsessed with how to dress like a 1960s Ivy League student, then no one would have to spell out the intention, as it was assumed. This made discussing the "rules" easier.

But on Twitter, there is no consensus. Therefore, it's not reasonable to proclaim things like "wear this sock with these shoes" or "this is how all pants should fit." Everything depends on how you want to dress.

[Zito @_Zeets]

I know people react badly to it because they don’t want to feel judged or condescended to, but there’s no defense for the low literacy rate here. It’s not an individual problem, it’s a complete dismantling of the national project. Now being literate is framed as pretentious.

[Ethan Hannaford @echann7]

Many have said that they’ll know if Jordan Walker has truly changed based on how he responds to slumps.

He is 9 for his last 18 following a stretch where he had previously gone 2 for 17 with 8 strikeouts. #STLCards

[Matt Royer @royermattw]

Ashley St. Clair confirmed the WH runs group chats telling these accounts what to post. Within minutes of shots fired tonight, before there was any news of casualties and before the President said this exact talking point, this was the chat in real time.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Visualizing James Jamerson’s legendary bassline on “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” (credit to Vulfpeck)

[Aaron @allenambition]

The scammers in Florence are some of the worst you’ll ever meet. Real life low-effort slop scams. The friendship bracelet hustle is an insult to the game man pack it up

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

Scammer gives tourist a "present," then demands money for it and gets punched

[Lossapardo @lossapardo]

When I paint a silhouette

Acrylic on canvas

[ML Corvidelle @Corvidelle]

@USA_Polling

[Joequant @joequant]

So the big thing that is going to come out of this is that the US is losing militarily to Iran and Russia, and would probably lose to China. The problem was that the defense budget was just a racket to make people rich and was never set up to fight a 21st century war.

[leopard print bussy @bigsnugga]

i really dont think folks understand the petrodollar is not going to survive this war. and when the petrodollar dies, so does america. like boy u thought u was broke before?

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

A @SuperBowl Sunday Fact…

If a football field were a timeline of cosmic history, cavemen to now spans the thickness of a blade of grass in the end zone.

[Joe @JoePostingg]

In retrospect 9/11 kind of one shotted US civilization

[The Rock Promo @TheRockPromo]

These idiots...

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

Did you know🚨: A civilization 2,000 light-years away looking at Earth today would see the Roman Empire.