Blake Galey

[Red ❤️‍🔥 @imJustRed]

“One piece has no filler”

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I needed to move a sofa.

I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"

I did not know anybody with a truck.

He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.

"You gotta know somebody with a truck."

I asked how one acquires such a person.

He said, "You just do."

This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.

He said, "Ask Kevin."

I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.

I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.

Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.

Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.

I had not asked for a second man.

The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.

They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.

I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.

I asked what I owed them.

Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."

That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.

Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.

We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.

Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."

I still think about that.

Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.

"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."

He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.

Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.

I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.

Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.

I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."

I have a guy.

I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.

He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."

I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.

[100 @yh_me2]

they’re making a day when things can be better and they’re calling it tomorrow

[سماح | 🧚🏾‍♀️samah @samah_fadil]

unbelievably pathetic aura from this guy - reminds me of the fat guy from superbad

[Swag Jockey Fern @GrantMa25066011]

*taps sign again*

[Blake Galey @BlakeEdGaley]

@terriblemel No

[squeaky fromme the block @averpee]

A few decades ago we had Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, and Big Pussy. Now we have no Jobs, no Cash, and no Pussy.

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

“I don’t ever believe exclusion is the answer, I just don’t.”

Cool. So does she think Olympians shouldn't be excluded from Paralympics? 18 year olds shouldn't be excluded from 12u? Heavyweights shouldn't be excluded from featherweights?

Categories exist solely to exclude.

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

I'm not voting for anyone who thinks the wrong side won the Cold War or cheers for the Intifada like it's the World Cup.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Alex Garland wanted the Elden Ring movie so badly he wrote a 160-page script, plus 40 pages of visuals, entirely on spec. Then he flew to Japan to pitch Hidetaka Miyazaki in person. No studio sent him. He had no rights. He just showed up with 200 pages.

Video game adaptations usually start with a studio optioning the IP and handing it to a director who never played the game. Fans can smell it in the first trailer. This one started with the director spending months writing for free, then begging for permission.

A24 broke its own model to back him. Their previous budget records were Marty Supreme at $90M and The Smashing Machine at around $70M. Elden Ring came in well over $100 million, the most expensive film in the studio's history, shot across 100 days in the UK and Iceland on native IMAX cameras. Real Welsh castles stood in for the Lands Between.

The source material can carry the bet. The game has shipped over 30 million copies, built on a mythology George R.R. Martin wrote for FromSoftware. Kit Connor, Cailee Spaeny, Ben Whishaw, Nick Offerman, and Jonathan Pryce lead the cast.

Every adaptation director claims to love the source material. Garland wrote 200 pages and bought his own plane ticket before anyone gave him the rights.

[Blake Galey @BlakeEdGaley]

@Templarpilled Its a woman, they’re fucked.

[Landeur 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Landeur]

This is peak citizen journalism btw.

Stay safe, mate.

[DOGHEAD @DeadlockSilver]

They have genuine masters of music in the deadlock studio but theyre only allowed to make 50 second clips or they will be executed

[bansky @bansky___]

800 años para echarlos.

12 horas para entrar.

[Salva Ortega @_SalvaOrtega]

Soy de Ceuta, y lo que estamos viviendo ahora mismo es una auténtica invasión, por favor, necesitamos la difusión de todos para que declaren emergencia nacional. Por ahora ha sido solicitada por el gobierno de Ceuta y ha sido rechazada.

[I Am Leah @Bossy_Leah]

Who beheaded them? Who beheaded the Haitian women in Haiti? Come on. You got this.

[Emperor of Mankind @Neoth69]

Hang people or shut the fuck up about it.

[Blake Galey @BlakeEdGaley]

@Z3RO_GRAVITY_ Zuko beat azula. Full stop.

Zuko beat azula, yes she was not at full strength at the time, but if the matchup is even close then there is no way I can believe that azula beats AS aang.

Aang beat Zuko handily over and over without AS.

[RodeoProfessor @RodeoProfessor]

These posts drive me insane because I basically have to deprogram students from this utter nonsense every fall. Oil and gas extraction in national forests has been a completely legal use in our National Forests for over a century, and even back to the pre Forest Service days of the 1890s. The ability to balance extraction with recreation is part of the DNA of the Forest Service and a uniquely American conservation institution, we should be incredibly proud of this.

The National Forests are managed under a multiple use mandate, and when this occurs there are extensive federal laws and regulations along side site specific environmental reviews targeted at wildlife, water, ecosystems, etc. I’d make the argument that this type of extraction is more sustainable and tightly regulated here than anywhere else in the world. What makes American National Forests such an innovative system in the conservation world is the requirement that we manage for recreation (hunting, camping, fishing) alongside sustainable yields of resources in the same forest. It’s actually incredible.