Sean M Stokes

Moffitt CGSO fellow. Aspiring surgeon poet, photographer, chef, artist. Life is a sport. Play hard, have fun #MakeItCount

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Matt Jones @KySportsRadio]

How can you not love this. Go Aaron Rai

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

"Beauty is the archenemy of mediocrity."

— Dietrich von Hildebrand

[Carlos A. Rodríguez @CarlosHappyNPO]

I live in Bad Bunny’s hometown.

We shop where he worked as a bagger.

We deliver lunches in the community he was raised.

Members of his family have been volunteers at our non-profit.

And from here, we can tell the world: he is generous, he is genuine, he is talented, he is us.

[eisha 🍒 @meishato]

Epstein files: Silence.
ICE executing citizens: Silence.
Trump’s racist posts: Silence.
Halftime show: Outrage.

Maga, y’all really are such an embarrassment to the human race

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

So apparently white Americans in Minneapolis are putting Mexican flags on their cars so ICE agents waste time pulling them over. They call it ICE fishing. 🤣😂

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

This agent knows he's just witnessed a murder, pulls up his mask, and runs away to hide.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Having armed, masked federal agents roam the streets and threaten American citizens that they're being put into a "database" and are being deemed a "domestic terrorist" for the crime of videotaping them should disgust everyone.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

Appears to be a video of ICE killing a man on the street.

[Syed A. Ahmad @SyedAAhmad5]

That world of surgery no longer exists. And that’s a good thing.

[Penn State Football @PennStateFball]

Love these guys.🤍

[Ben Jones @Ben_Jones88]

This is really the only answer

[Matt Finkes @MattFinkes]

You guys act like you discovered some mystical CFB formula that is "great for the fans". You took one of the biggest brands in the game in OSU, with one of the largest alumni & fan bases that routinely leads viewership no matter the timeslot & jam them at noon every week.

And you screwed over what has become a great CFB environment in Penn State White out, which they traditionally do against big opponents & killed that.

It's a money grab forced on the Big Ten by the worst commissioner in its history in Kevin Warren plain and simple. Stop carrying the water for the all mighty $$ Joel.

[Joel Haas @Joel_Haas1]

Quinshon Judkins’ incomplete pass vs. Tyler Warren’s fumble.

Spot the difference.

[Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) @speechboy71]

The flip side is that Trump ran an awful campaign. He gave a terrible RNC speech, his VP was deeply unpopular, he lost the debate, he had no ground game to speak of, he offended key demographic groups ... and none of it mattered.

[Ryan Burge 📊 @ryanburge]

For some reason, I have been thinking about this moment a lot today.

It's from John McCain in 2008 at a town hall.

The woman begins to espouse conspiracy theories about Barack Obama's nationality.

He immediately shuts it down.

"No ma'am. He's a decent family man."

[Ron Barbosa MD FACS @rbarbosa91]

Operations take whatever length of time they take, and none of people asking how much longer you’ll be are going to be there afterward to manage postoperative complications or explain to the patient what went wrong.

[Jonathan Zager, MD @jzager99]

Proud to be the first site in US to offer Hepzato PHP commercial use. @DelcathSystems Now FDA approved after a successful ph III trial @MoffittNews will be performing 5 PHPs in January alone. We’re at the loading docks making sure the delivery came in safe :)

[Sean M Stokes @SM_Stokes]

1. Unlocked - Bassnectar ft. Rye Rye & Jamalski. https://t.co/CUpjIBL8Ew #TOPTEN2023

[Sean M Stokes @SM_Stokes]

It's that time. "Top Ten" 2023. My favorite songs of the year. Rules: 1. Released in 2023 or late 2022. 2. I liked it. 3. I added it to my ever-growing eras playlist. First..an honorable mention since it was Taylor's year (and prolly best video of list) https://t.co/wKQxfdxADU

[Sean M Stokes @SM_Stokes]

T2. All - GROUPLOVE. https://t.co/1mGW5Cz7HG #TOPTEN2023