Dan

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

You CANNOT rage against the machine if you’re asking it to summarise your emails for you.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a warehouse store. A fully roasted chicken costs five dollars, the raw chicken beside it costs seven, and I stood between them like a man between two truths.

Golden. Hot. Seasoned. Spinning in glory under the lights, in a line of its brothers. Four dollars and ninety-nine cents.

I checked the raw birds. Seven dollars. Pale. Cold. You must do everything yourself.

This is not commerce. Commerce does not move backward. Somewhere in this building, mathematics lies defeated.

I asked the man at the counter. "How is the cooked bird cheaper than the raw bird?"

"Been five bucks forever. They keep it that way."

"But the store loses."

"Yep. On purpose."

On purpose. I held my receipt with both hands.

In my land, a lord who lowered the price of rice in a hard winter was remembered for generations. They built him a small shrine. This store does it every day, with chicken, and tells no one.

A woman behind me grew tired of my reverence. "It's just a chicken, sir."

It is not just a chicken. It is a wound the merchant takes on purpose, so that anyone, on any day, with five dollars, eats like a lord. The bird is the message. The price is the vow.

I will confess: I bought two. I did not need two. The second was not hunger. It was gratitude, and it was delicious.

Some prices are not prices. They are promises.

I return every week now. I take one bird. I bow toward the deli, briefly, so as not to alarm the staff. They have begun nodding back.

The vow holds. The bird turns. Five dollars.

Long may it spin.

[Jaylen Brown @FCHWPO]

This the shit I be talking about

[Dan Greenberg @StoolGreenie]

I'd bet my life this guy wrote it

[he professed and confessed to be a dëmin @ocksportello]

Anthony Davis in washington may be what finally gets this country universal healthcare

[Tony Pesta @Tony_Pesta]

James Harden telling Giannis how to demand a trade

[John Karalis 🇬🇷 @John_Karalis]

Joe Mazzulla was asked by a Sports Illustrated Kids reporter, who is a child, about how he pushes his players but keeps the game fun. His answer was incredible.

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

Oklahoma vs Indiana.

David Stern rn:

[memes.xlsx @ExcelHumor]

me when my excel formula works as intended

[MavsMuse @MavsMuse]

Boy Mahomes sure is struggling in the championship, perhaps they should trade him in the dead of night and call him fat on the way out

[Kevin Durant @KDTrey5]

I know this may be a reach but this comment is by far the craziest shit I’ve seen this week

[Frank Gorman @CelticsParquet]

The Celtics are undefeated since they began earning with meat.

[Kristaps Porzingis @kporzee]

sometimes cant translate latvian expressions 💀

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

Putting a bay leaf in a recipe even though idk what the fuck it does

[. @JuanSotoHater]

tomorrow i hate watch like no one has ever hate watched before

[Boston Celtics @celtics]

Can’t let an opportunity go by without wishing people a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays 😏

[ana 🪉 is mad most of the time @chancellorsoh]

good to see hoztok be chill again