El :)

the silliest goose

[El :) @ellmakel]

Play checkers while they’re all playing chess :)

[mikka @possiblymikka]

packed week

[Charlie James @malecowgirl]

the emergency room has quietly started going by the emergency department and no one wants to talk about it

[nothing burger @soopsoopdodo]

when u realise u were fucking annoying in front of a group of people https://t.co/KltV8X3SAR

[Devan Kaney @Devan_Kaney]

Very excited to watch my favorite athlete Erling Haaland, who I just learned existed about 3 weeks ago.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I went to In-N-Out and ordered a cheeseburger. The cashier, a calm young woman named Destiny, asked me a question I did not expect.

"You want that Animal Style?"

I paused.

I did not know what this meant. But a samurai does not admit he does not know. So I answered with weight.

"...Animal Style."

"Cool. So that's mustard-grilled, extra spread, grilled onions, pickles. Yeah?"

I understood now. This was a sacred permission. For one meal, I was being told to put down my manners at the door. To eat the way a beast eats, without shame. I had waited my whole life for someone to give me this order.

"Yes," I said. "I will become the animal."

Destiny did not blink. "...Okay. You want your fries Animal Style too?"

I stopped. Even the potatoes?

"The potatoes also become animals?"

"I mean, they get cheese and sauce and grilled onions, so..."

"Then yes. Let the potatoes abandon their restraint as well."

"...Got it." She was the calmest woman I have ever met. "3x3, 4x4, or just the one?"

I did not know these numbers, but I knew a challenge when I heard one. "How many must I face?"

"It's, like, how many patties you want."

"How many is the most honorable?"

"...Four is a lot."

"Then four. A warrior does not ask for fewer."

She wrote it down without argument. A 4x4, Animal Style, with animal fries. She warned me once, kindly. "That's gonna be huge." I told her I was counting on it.

It arrived. It was a tower. Cheese and sauce ran down my hands the moment I lifted it. There was no clean way to eat it. There was no dignified way. That was the entire point.

I ate it like a beast. Both hands, no honor, grilled onion on my chin, and I have to be honest with you, it was the best thing I have ever put in my mouth.

For thirty years I have kept my manners at every table in the world.

They handed me a burger and told me to be an animal, and I have never felt so free.

So tell me, America.

The whole country knows the secret menu. What else are you hiding in plain sight?

And "Animal Style." Was I eating the animal, or finally becoming one?

[RK @RyanKoenigsberg]

Science

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Spike Lee was paraded through Fort Greene in Brooklyn like he was the pope.

[Tevin @YourBudTevin]

It’s sick to see how many Europeans came over here to actually enjoy US culture. Saw a guy look at a Bucee’s gas station the same way I’d look at Stonehenge

[Demon Realms @Demon_Realms]

If you've ever dated a grad student it's kind of humiliating. You have to be like "good luck with your exam honey :)" and you're both 27

[soli @solisolsoli]

Alien visitor by Carrie Liao

[silly e. badu @2grindonmybelt]

said i didn’t feel good at work and both my coworkers went “awwww”

[alice @lacedheartgrl]

i yearn for coastal new england the same way white guys yearn for japan

[Klonopin Centaur @facetedcarapace]

Why did we let the Mormons have such a beautiful state. They deserve Kansas not Utah

[Rob @jezfrompeepshow]

how it felt when my mom would say unlock your ipod touch and give it to me in middle school

[cat 🐴 @calemakarma]

everyone thinking about the olympics. why don’t you focus on playing for your beautiful country of colorado

[irl buttercup @indiehamlet]

he's so goated cuz a man should always be more obsessed with his gf than his gf with him.

[AT @ILYASLESTAT @heatedsrivalry]

i bet. I BET.

[Skookie☆ @SkookieOnline]

When they’re mean to Glep in smiling friends