🎆Frenimals🌃

Animal Rights, Tech, Feminism, pragmatist. WTFs are my own.

[🎆Frenimals🌃 @frenimals]

Divided Partisanship is what makes us vulnerable to foreign influence.
#ObamaPressConference

[aapayés @aapayes]

Cancillería iraní anima con un VIDEO desgarrador a su selección antes del primer encuentro mundialista

[le.hl @0xleegenz]

SpaceX valuation: $2.5 TRILLION
Amazon valuation: $2.560 TRILLION

SpaceX revenue: $18 BILLION
Amazon revenue: $742.78 BILLION

[🎆Frenimals🌃 @frenimals]

There is a fine line between crispy pepitas and burnt pepitas and I am way over that line.

[Nick Allmaier @NickAllmaier]

Just heard a white woman tell her dog “breathe through it” as the dog eyed a squirrel

[Katherine Everitt 💥 @katherineveritt]

What I love about ppl celebrating in the streets is the seizing of the public space by the public

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Somewhere in America, a movie theater. The boy at the concession counter asked me a question about architecture, and called it butter.

"You want that layered?"

Layered. I looked at the popcorn. I looked at him.

"Explain."

"Instead of all the butter on top, I do butter, popcorn, butter, popcorn." He mimed the strata with a flat hand. He had explained this before. He would explain it again. A craftsman, patient with the public.

I was not prepared. In my land, what is given is given; you do not direct the distribution of a blessing. Here, the boy stood ready to construct my popcorn in courses, like a stone wall — foundation, mortar, foundation, mortar — so that no kernel, however deep, would live unblessed.

"The ones at the bottom," I said slowly, "are usually…"

"Dry. Yeah. Not on my watch."

NOT ON MY WATCH. The oath of a sentry, sworn over popcorn. This is who they have guarding the snacks.

"Then layer it," I commanded, "as your conscience demands."

He built it like a man who would be judged by it. Pour, pump, rotate. Pour, pump, rotate. Four stories. A tower of equal blessings.

The film was fine. I do not remember it. What I remember is the eightieth minute, deep in the bucket, past the depth where popcorn hope usually dies — and finding the kernels there as golden as the first.

The bottom of the bucket. As rich as the top. I confess I held one kernel up in the dark and simply looked at it.

Butter on top blesses the surface. Butter in layers blesses the whole nation.

I tipped the boy on the way out. He had already forgotten me. The best masons forget the wall, and begin the next one.

Layered. Always layered. Some words you only need to learn once.

[Tate Frazier @tatefrazier]

Nike still nails these commercials every time

[GL @gldivittorio]

Approximately 80% of NYC is standing in the streets right now

[🎆Frenimals🌃 @frenimals]

NY-style Hotdogs for dinner 🌭 !

[Megan Johnson @megansarahj]

My scottish friend (who lives here) just found some lost Scots at Back Bay Station and guided them to a pub like a German Shepard

[andie (with disco biscuits) @andiehslot]

ALL THE LYFT CARS ARE IN KNICKS JERSEYS

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

New York Knicks Fans have taken over the STREETS #NBAFinals

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

New York is on one right now!

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Football Away Days @FBAwayDays]

This is what the World Cup is all about. ❤️

The single South Korea could have felt slightly intimidated surrounded by Hundreds of Mexican fans. Instead, the Mexicans embraced him, dancing with him and even throwing him in the air…. 🤣

Love it! 🇲🇽🤝🇰🇷

[Roberto Haz @tudimebeto]

Los mexicanos invitando al reportero brasileño a tomar tequila, hacen el ritual del shot, le pegan un bigote falso y después le dice a su mamá que está bien JAJAJAJAJA.

México es el mejor anfitrión del mundo.

[Mina Yoon 🍒 @MissMinaYoon]

The Koreans in Mexico are going to invent binge drinking methods that will advance the craft by decades in mere weeks

[Frank @frankdegods]

this city man