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[jasmine @__jasminet]

@heyhitiffany Exactly!! a “showtime” enthusiast 🙂‍↕️

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

In 1977, two American boys discovered that a local ice‑cream chain offered free birthday sundaes by mail, so they invented a fictional child named “Robert Alan Peters” to keep collecting the yearly treat.

They filled out the birthday club form, listed their real home address, and for years received coupons addressed to their imaginary creation. The prank was harmless fun, just kids gaming a promotional system for a few extra sundaes.

But in 1984, everything changed when a letter arrived from the Selective Service System ordering “Robert Alan Peters” to register for the draft. The boys, now older, were stunned: their fake child had somehow entered a federal database.

The incident exposed that the U.S. government had quietly obtained and used the ice‑cream chain’s mailing list without permission, sparking public debate about privacy, data‑sharing, and how easily personal information could be swept into government systems long before the digital age.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The people in this photo aren't friendlier than you. Their apartments are just smaller. So small that Parisians basically gave up on living indoors and moved their living rooms onto the sidewalk. And that was the whole plan.

In the 1850s, a city planner named Baron Haussmann tore apart medieval Paris and rebuilt it. He widened streets into boulevards, capped every building at five stories, and added one rule that explains this entire photo: the ground floor of every building had to be a café, a bakery, or a shop. The apartments above were intentionally tiny. Some were single rooms carved out of old mansions. No garden. Barely any sunlight. A private balcony was something most Parisians would never have.

So the café became home. You ate breakfast there. Held meetings there. Received your mail there. By the late 1700s, Paris already had close to 2,000 of them. In 2002, there were still 1,907. Even now, after years of closures brought that number to about 1,410, the coverage is absurd: a 2020 city study found 94% of Parisians live within a five-minute walk of a bakery. When COVID shut indoor dining in 2020, Paris ripped out parking spaces, turned them into outdoor terraces, and let 9,800 cafés and restaurants keep them permanently.

An American sociologist named Ray Oldenburg wrote a book in 1989 called The Great Good Place. He had a name for spots like the Parisian café: "third places." Not your home, not your office, but the casual in-between spots where you actually get to know people. Cafés, pubs, barbershops, the corner store where the owner knows your name. His whole argument was that American suburbs were built with only two zones, your house and your job, connected by a car. No sidewalk café, no place to bump into a neighbor by accident.

The U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a national health epidemic in 2023. Being alone all the time is as bad for your body as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Half of American adults say they feel lonely. Weekly socializing dropped from 5.5 hours in 2003 to just 4 hours in 2023, and it never bounced back after COVID. Americans between 15 and 29 now spend 45% more time alone than they did in 2010.

The scene in this tweet looks like a personality trait. It is a 170-year-old engineering project that works exactly as designed.

[Sophie Vershbow @svershbow]

"let me ask chat gpt"
me:

[triste 🛷 @tamphopho]

happy new year

[James Rogers III @jamesearl23]

Posting “wow super problematic” under everybody’s Halloween costume and then responding “I will not do the labor of educating you” when they ask for an explanation.

[tweet davidson @andyreed]

Caesar built the entire Roman Empire without Jira

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

homes in dense urban areas should have more closet space

[jasmine @__jasminet]

you go to enough comedy shows and let me tell you. You learn being funny is not a necessary predecessor to pursing a career in comedy

[Keke Palmer @KekePalmer]

ESPECIALLY for the teen vogue party.

[jasmine @__jasminet]

I usually get tired with the will-they-wont-they trope, but I fully would enjoy if they kept the one between janine and gregory going for 72826482 seasons #AbbottElementary 🫶🏿

[yungsquat 🇭🇹 @Nissafitt]

I love seeing babies that can hang

[jasmine @__jasminet]

atp I think Uber should fully lean in and claim non-profit status for the tax breaks

[jasmine @__jasminet]

rita ora is such a funny celebrity to me because why/how is she at the met gala 💀

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Rita Ora on her way to the 2023 #MetGala

[jorjor wel @tinygreenbug]

if you have two unblocked nostrils right now i need you to sit with that for a moment and feel grateful i need you to acknowledge to yourself how grateful you are

[jasmine @__jasminet]

What is the science behind it only raining during the weekend?