Papillon

Mon dessin ne représentait pas un chapeau. Il représentait un serpent boa qui digérait un éléphant.

[Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber]

Whats strange about soccer: It employs absurd mathematical precision to police offsides, a rule that mostly matters in spirit rather than in strict application. (You just don't want cherrypicking) But its extremely casual about timekeeping, whose literal application matters a ton

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

Brian Sweeney's voicemail to his wife Julie (Jules) from flight 175 on 9/11.

"Jules, this is Brian. Listen, I'm on an airplane that's been hijacked. If things don't go well, and it's not looking good, I just want you to know I absolutely love you. I want you to do good, go have good times. Same to my parents and everybody, and I just totally love you, and I'll see you when you get there. Bye, babe. I hope I call you."

Life is so full of tragedy. Be kind. Take nothing for granted ❤️

[J.D. Greear @jdgreear]

I’m really enjoying the World Cup, but the injury play acting… holding your ankle and acting like you’ve been shot in the head and dramatic rolls 10 yards across the field drives me crazy. And I already have to watch Duke basketball.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I HAVE FUCKING HAD IT!!!!!

ALL THE LEFTISTS FREAKING OUT ABOUT THE REFLECTING POOL...

...DID NOT HELP ONE SINGLE BIT WHEN HURRICANE HELENE SWEPT THROUGH WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND FORCED PEOPLE INTO TENTS!

NONE OF THEM CAME AND HELPED!!!!

BUT THEY ALL SHOW UP FOR ALGAE??!!!!

[PAULO @pauloostead]

@internetarchiva Take me back 😭

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

"Reading Rainbow" made its debut on PBS on July 11th, 1983, and quickly became a beloved staple of children's television, inspiring an entire generation of young viewers to open a book and let their imaginations run wild.

[Nostalgia @NostalgiaYZ]

Why did everyone have this faucet growing up? 😭

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[Jackie Singh @HackingButLegal]

WATCH: Emmy-winning reporter and KWQC TV6 morning anchor Dustin Nolan was visibly emotional as he announced on-air Friday that he’s quitting both the station and the news industry. He said the newsroom owed viewers “more than trends or sanitized news”

#quadcities #IApol

[Mickey Blowtorch @MickeyBlowtorch]

I miss the good ol’ days when an R rated horror movie pretty much guaranteed tits and bush.

[Bill @BillWiIdin]

The hardest pill for Americans to swallow is that our food supply is actively poisoning us. Half the ingredients allowed in our snacks are literally banned in Europe for causing health issues.

[Xander @xandertilock]

North Carolina baseball will be playing in the CWS Championship Series starting Saturday. The only team to beat the Tar Heels twice in a row this year?

Virginia. The Cavaliers took the first two games of a March series in Chapel Hill.

[Lucas Ferreira @Lucasjay16]

College baseball is the purest version of sport remaining in this country and it isn’t particularly close

[Papii🥤 @ammalusty]

Back in my day you could go to Walmart at 2:00am and buy a shotgun and a live lobster

[Mark Hemingway @Heminator]

The NYT is having trouble reconciling that the things people like most about America aren't always the things coastal elites value.

I'm sorry but if you think Buc-ee's and Bass Pro Shops are anything but a modern marvel, you're way out of touch.

[O.W. Root @owroot]

Old photos like this from undeveloped Florida and California are some of the most disorienting and magical ones to me. I look at them and I really feel time, feel how different the one I inhabit is and how different that other world was.

Empty.

[Heidi @HeidiBriones]

I remember being obsessed with new music in the '90s and thinking it was just a teenager thing. But no, music was actually that good then.

[Disaffected @DisaffectedPod]

I *hate* what "Covid" did to "normal standards" for businesses. 6 years on, and the change is permanent. Everyone thinks it's "just normal, you know?" now like nothing is different.

Where I live in New England, *all* 24 hour stores are no longer 24 hours. Not Walmart. Not the grocery. Not a single one of the eight or so convenience/gas stores. At least four used to stay open. None do now.

The restaurants on Main St in a tourist town? 9 pm closing on Fridays and Saturdays.

The entire town, and the surrounding area, closes down at 9 pm. Even on weekends. Even with tourists in town.

The one grocery store in town? Used to close at midnight. Then it went back to 11 pm with hand drawn signs "sorry no staffing heart emoji". Then 10.

Now it's down to 9 pm. Now that's normal. Even on Friday or Saturday.

"Covid", somehow, I don't understand how it could still be this way, is the demarcator line. Somehow, 6 years later, businesses are still struggling to find staff. No business I've patronized has been fully staffed in six years-I'm serious.

What is going on? How did all these people, who still exist and still have bills to pay, manage to find a way to not work, and they're still paying their bills?

Better hope you never actually need anything in an emergency.

-J

[Transfer Portal @NCAAPortal]

One more time in my life I want to be as excited as a 7 year old headed to a hotel pool