Dakota

Antifascist | Democracy enjoyer | 28

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

New cat alert! A call from a wildlife sanctuary about a "weird cat" has led to the first new cat species discovered in over 100 years in Bolivia’s Yungas forest ecoregion. Learn more about this feline surprise: https://t.co/crffXvPqH4

[j.b. exte @jbexte]

sometimes i worry that i only drink mexican beers to impress mexicans. then i take a sip of mexican beer and realize that the only mexican im trying to impress is the mexican deep inside myself. the inner mexican that all white boys have. gracias for reading

[platinum sombrero IQ 73 @platinombrero]

I should be a Democratic Party consultant

[Trevor Kelly @tk3lly5]

I’m hammered drunk. Just threw Tim Duncan highlights on. Time to teach my girlfriend who the big fundamental is

[USA Reject @sadreturns]

this used to be a site where people shared their thoughts

[julia @juumelo_]

my body keeps telling me to stop drinking beers but I’m not gonna listen to a retard

[Bruce “Moose” Bradford @Mooseman0012]

New coworker is a 10/10 with over 10x more ig followers than me. In a public setting we would never speak. But this battle is being fought on my turf. This is no Hail Mary. This is 40 hrs/week of grind it out, physical, F you football. Relentless. Undaunted. We take no prisoners.

[phlip @MrPerfectPhilip]

Apparently, you’re not supposed to comment “nightmare blunt rotation” on your ex’s Instagram with a picture of her husband and new baby

[Justin Whang 🐙 @JustinWhang]

Dude casually asking for a 20 year relationship

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Georgia I entered a Chick-fil-A drive-thru line of forty cars.

I turned off my engine. I prepared to wait the way my ancestors waited out a siege.

Six minutes later I was holding chicken.

I do not know what happened to the other thirty-nine cars. The line moved like water that had somewhere to be.

A young woman walked between the cars taking orders on a small tablet, on foot, in the sun, smiling like the sun was her idea.

I said thank you.

She said, "My pleasure."

I did not think about it then. I should have.

At the window I thanked the young man for the food.

"My pleasure."

I thanked him for the sauce.

"My pleasure."

I thanked him for thanking me—

"My pleasure."

I want to be clear about what was happening.

This was a duel.

In Japan I trained in courtesy for forty years. Bowing angles. Seasonal greetings. The correct depth of apology for seventeen distinct situations.

I was a white belt in that drive-thru.

I escalated. I used my most formal English. I thanked him on behalf of my entire family line.

He said, "My pleasure," and gave me extra sauce.

Extra sauce. Unprovoked. A counterattack.

I returned the next day to reclaim my honor.

It was Sunday. The restaurant was closed.

All of them were closed. In the entire country. They close every Sunday, and they have closed every Sunday since the beginning, because the founder made a promise, and the promise did not expire when he did.

I stood in the empty parking lot and understood I had lost twice.

Once to a teenager with sauce.

Once to a man I will never meet, who kept his word so long it became a building.

In my country we say a samurai's word is his life.

I had never seen a restaurant say it back.

I returned Monday. I ordered. And this time I said it first, before she could.

"My pleasure."

She smiled and said, "It sure is."

America, I surrender.

It was my pleasure.

[Leandro Trossard @LTrossard]

To all the Arsenal fans, thank you for everything, from the bottom of my heart.

Once a Gunner, always a Gunner.

Leo

[ًً39 @Dec41_]

Thank you Leo

[0.005 Seconds (3/694) @seconds_0]

I feel like I've never been on the receiving side of blatant corruption and abuse of power. This is thrilling

[Kraut @The_Davos_Man]

I think pigs will learn to fly before anyone in Congo cheers for Belgium.

[Alabi @the_Lawrenz]

Funny how they became besties because they both hate that guy 🤣🤣🤣

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🇺🇸 Folarin Balogun will be eligible to face Belgium, after FIFA opted to hand him a suspended one-game ban under Article 27.

The red card stands, but he’s free to play — as @MelissaMOrtiz reported.