that one girl

[Clue Heywood @ClueHeywood]

This game is ugly. It’s 2 a.m. at the Buffet in Tucson ugly.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen.

I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify.

In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.

"Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully.

"Honey, that's what it looks like."

The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it."

I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it.

I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South.

It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent.

"Well?" the waitress asked.

"I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed."

"Everybody does, hon."

Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it.

Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating.

I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden.

It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.

[that one girl @Lorisadventure]

I haven’t liked the Spurs since their rivalry with the Suns began in the 90’s. But, I have a feeling they are going to win it all.

[Justin Brannan @JustinBrannan]

Guys, we need to win tonight because it's getting out of control.

[that one girl @Lorisadventure]

One I don’t see recommended often is The Phantom Tollbooth. I loved it as a child.

[Bibliophile 🎀 @CodingIncloud_]

I’m starting a classic literature collection for my kids. Has anyone with elementary school-aged kids introduced them to classics? If so, what would you recommend?

[Chef Joe Gera 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇹 @redhotnerd]

Ok, so, you’re out of your mind. We had Olestra, the Atkins Diet, the South Beach Diet, sodium substitutes (potassium chloride), the Ronco Rotisserie, The George Foreman Grill (fat reducing grilling machine), Slim-Fast ffs! McDonald’s replaced their fry oil with vegetable oil in the 90’s, & a bunch of other stuff:
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[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Call it “soft as fuck” if you want but one thing the World Cup always seems to do, almost as soon as it begins, is remind you that you’ll likely enjoy your life a LOT more if you welcome people in and try to have a laugh rather than being consistently aggy.

[that one girl @Lorisadventure]

She was born in 1990, btw. And, she’s very mistaken. The amount of toxicity we faced around food at the time was staggering.

[Candace D. @DiaryofaSickGrl]

One of my favorite parts about the 90s is we just ate whatever food we wanted. Food was food. No one argued about what food was bad and what food was healthy. We just minded our business in general. At least that’s how I remember it

[priscilla (alt) @seashell_luvr]

many people are not good, just neutered, give someone an ounce of power or audacity and see how they use it

[CimónAlisa🕯 @thecimonalisa]

i've read this so many times over the past few weeks because i just appreciate when a stranger gets me

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

This is the America I believe in

[that one girl @Lorisadventure]

Christian Nationalism works for men, even if they’re not religious.

[Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl]

Even in blue states, nonreligious wealthy men are looking for tradwives. Beautiful young women who want to be a housewife w/o a career. These men could afford to outsource housework & childcare...but instead they want a submissive servant as a wife.
https://t.co/pmHjNyZjFw

[x - foxonabox @foxonabox_]

Penn State got a post-season ban, vacated wins, scholarship reduction, fired everybody, and the perpetrator went to prison.

Cody Campbell is a dumbass.

[that one girl @Lorisadventure]

I’m sorry, but being an atheist and seeing women continue to be harmed in the name of an imaginary friend is wild.

[Grant R. Castleberry @grcastleberry]

The national media seeks to shame the SBC for expressing our faithful, historic Christian convictions in Orlando.

But far be it from us to seek the world’s favor. In Paul’s terms, “The world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.”

[that one girl @Lorisadventure]

22 wasted minutes where all they needed to say was, “We’d rather win football games than do the right thing”.

[Texas Tech Red Raiders @TechAthletics]

A message to the Texas Tech community from our leadership.

[Megan K. Stack @Megankstack]

Amazing quote from Stephen Miller's high school classmate in this new Jazeera documentary on him:

"Having grown up with him, it makes you realize that it isn't the smartest person you went to high school with who's running the country. It's the most shameless person."

[that one girl @Lorisadventure]

This is why you can never trust conservative MAGA women. Every decision is weighed against the wishes and authority of the men in their lives. And, they will always side with the men. Always.

[Jamison Daniel @AntiquarianMuse]

That's why you deprive them of sex education. They get pregnant at 16, before they get any ideas about college. Then they have to marry the 25-year-old youth pastor, and submit to his "authority."

[that one girl @Lorisadventure]

I’d rather give up my life than give up my vote.

[Jamison Daniel @AntiquarianMuse]

That's why you deprive them of sex education. They get pregnant at 16, before they get any ideas about college. Then they have to marry the 25-year-old youth pastor, and submit to his "authority."

[Kim W. Chafee @RevKimWChafee]

Wives absolutely leave their abusive husbands because of their love (and need to protect) their children. This is exactly what has occurred, and is occurring within Southern Baptist churches. Women (and the men who love them) are leaving the church in droves, because it is abusive to God's daughters. They are finding churches that more appropriately follow the teachings of Christ and Christianity.

Btw, if you know Beth at all, you know that "hate" is the furthest emotion from her heart.

[Jedi @dhe3g]

Seven hours. All children.

[that one girl @Lorisadventure]

If you had told me at 18 in 1992 that someday this would be our reality I wouldn’t have believed you.

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

Does anyone have any more information on these lizard people that Donald Trump was meeting with at the White House today?