Lijer 🏴

I'm just here to rage against the dying of the light

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop.

I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls.

Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A man near me is eating a cold sandwich while wearing a jacket. In summer. Indoors.

In Japan we would simply turn it down. Americans do not turn it down. And now I understand them better than they understand themselves.

This cold is not an accident. This cold is a gift.

The owner has built, inside his shop, a second season. He invites you in from the brutal heat and hands you the one thing the sun has denied you all day: a reason to be cold. To endure it is to be tempered. You walk in soft and sweating. You walk out sharp and clear, a slightly stronger person than you were.

So I did not complain. I removed my outer layer and offered it to the woman at the next table, who was hugging herself. She said, "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you." She was not fine. Her lips were blue. But she, too, understood the training. She would not break first. I respected her deeply.

The owner asked if everything was okay.

"It is perfect," I said, through my teeth, which were chattering. "Thank you for the winter."

He said, "...I can turn the AC down if you want?"

I told him no. A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter.

I stayed two hours. I ordered a hot coffee to survive. Then a second one, to hold. By the end I could no longer feel my hands, but my spirit had never been clearer.

So now, on the hottest days, I seek out the coldest rooms. I sit. I shiver. I sharpen.

And when I finally step back out into the summer heat, and it wraps around me like a warm bath, I feel it.

Reborn.

A man who has survived the winter, in August, indoors, for the price of a sandwich.

[Lijer 🏴 @Eligolas1]

@HartOkechu717 @Dianexis No thanks, I prefer @smcroasters

[Lijer 🏴 @Eligolas1]

@RobinBlitz Oh my server just crashed and hasn’t recovered so you’re probably not missing anything

[Lijer 🏴 @Eligolas1]

@TheFamilyPlayz @RobinBlitz @RobertsSpaceInd @CloudImperium @NicouLenny I have this same “ErrValidationFailed” error as well. Pretty disappointing

[Lijer 🏴 @Eligolas1]

Chris Brown did nothing wrong

[Disclose.tv @disclosetv]

JUST IN - Music icon Rihanna has enlisted Elon Musk’s transgender child to model in the latest campaign for a lingerie brand – DailyMail

[Lijer 🏴 @Eligolas1]

@AnthropicDualiT @kkinemation Oh fair point! Must have felt rather transformative for them 😂

[Lijer 🏴 @Eligolas1]

Faggot behavior

[Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain]

Hey @MassieforKY what’s going on here?

[Lijer 🏴 @Eligolas1]

@willchamberlain @MassieforKY Since we’re demanding that people explain pictures with all seriousness, care to comment on this?

[Lijer 🏴 @Eligolas1]

@BudLightSadness

[Old Media @oldmedia]

Akira pencil test (1988)

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Your tax dollars are paying for the USDA to parody a porn site. They should delete the tweet and the URL.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@WhiteHouse Can you arrest Epstein’s co-conspirators instead of riffing on a porn site ?

[DⒶVE vs GOLIATH @davevsgoliath1]

@EdGallrein You are AIPAC’s c*m dumpster.

[Scott Horton @scotthortonshow]

He should be made to.

[Bark @barkmeta]

Let me explain what just happened 👇

5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.

5 minutes…

These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.

There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.

Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.

American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.

This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.

This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.

You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.

Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.

The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

[Lijer 🏴 @Eligolas1]

@LearnToToad