Luke

Patron Saint of random STILL WE RISE #MFAM #Dubnation #GSW #FTTB #SFGiants 707 The Yay. Est 1997

[Luke @Banthrall]

This a spiritual experience.

[Luke @Banthrall]

I just went 82-0, think you can go 82-0? https://t.co/xEOTgvJoCu #NBA #82and0

[Luke @Banthrall]

I just went 82-0, think you can go 82-0? https://t.co/aLuhVqhAjd #NBA #82and0

[Luke @Banthrall]

“You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
— C.S. Lewis

[Josiah Johnson @KingJosiah54]

Ohtani: “Yall gonna let me bat?”

Blue Jays:

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

Shohei Ohtani has officially put together the greatest athletic performance of our lifetime.

6 shutout innings, 10 strikeouts & 3 HRs

We’re watching the greatest baseball player of all-time

[Jacob @RobertDeGiorno1]

Probably the most sublime scene in a nature documentary ever.

[Luke @Banthrall]

I'm gonna pray for you, Fred, get well soon, big dog

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

“They're either trying to convince me that the palestinian people are all terrorists & they all deserve to Di€ or in the same breath will tell me that they're actually human shields & they deserve to Di€.....”

—American actor Mark Ruffalo

[Alaric The Barbarian @0xAlaric]

The public reception of Jiri Prochazka is a perfect example of why we don’t deserve, and don’t produce, greatness. Read the comments below and you will see the problem. There is a Czech warrior-mystic madman who believes himself to be a samurai; he fights in the biggest gladiatorial arena in the world. Everything about him is completely genuine — this is legitimately who he is and how he views the world. He trains in the forest by meditating in frozen lakes, striking trees, climbing rocks. He genuinely believes in the power of ritual magic and esoteric tradition. His style of choice is unique and old, nothing like what the rest of the sport pursues. When he fights, it is with reckless abandon — a strategy of “leave it up to the gods,” centered around creating moments of pure 50/50 chaos such that his “spiritual superiority” can shine through in these violent gambles. Despite this insane, “nonsensical” strategy he has only lost to one man in ten years. All others he has knocked out or choked out, including legends of the sport and countless highly-dangerous men. He actually *is* what he presents as — his essence is his face — there is complete honesty with the crowd. Yet how does the public receive him? They infantilize him, speaking of him as autistic or underdeveloped or foolish. “The only reason one might be so eccentric is social malformation, retardation” — this is our belief. Greatness is “auto-nerfed” by this lens; he is treated as a child and a moron by the masses and the media. This is why we do not (and can not) have Alcibiades, or Fawcett, or even Elagabalus. We are structurally incapable of imagining that someone may “unironically” engage with the world, because none of us “unironically” exist. Everything is either a “bit” or a symptom of some disorder. Any small shimmer of genuine expression, even when paired with true prowess and accomplishment, negates one’s “image,” flattening it into a craven trope or insult. Real engagement must be held at arm’s length, nervously laughed at and othered. We prevent greatness by smothering this genuine existence in the cradle — crabs in a bucket tearing down any small example of earnest life to the same level of ironic sludge as the rest. You can be the indisputable second-best LHW fighter in the world with a 10-year finishing streak and people will still treat you like a child autist if you don’t kneel at the altar of ironic autohumiliation. This is our crisis. This is hell, and we are its stewards.

[IzzyBn Art @IzzybnArt]

Another #batman animation 🦇🐛

[Isaiah Rodgers Sr. @rodgers_isaiah]

Game day!!!

[Acyn @Acyn]

Obama: I think George W. Bush believed that. I believe that the people I ran against—John McCain, I know, believed it. Mitt Romney believed it. So what I’m describing is not a Democratic value or a Republican value. It is an American value. And I think at moments like this, when tensions are high, part of the president’s job is to pull people together.

[Luke @Banthrall]

If I'm the Cincinnati Bengals, I'm doing everything in my power to trade for Jameis Winston. He would throw for 4k with Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins. #NFL #WhoDey📷

[Luke @Banthrall]

@kevinwildes when brou gets him to fall for the same bit over and over again

[Luke @Banthrall]

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

— J.R.R. Tolkien

[Luke @Banthrall]

LFG Fred

[NFL @NFL]

49ers waive K Jake Moody. (via @tompelissero)

[Luke @Banthrall]

@crystalscuor Truly amazing we kept him

[Luke @Banthrall]

@getnickwright @getnickwright what size are these?