megan

look alive, sunshine

[megan @hellomegansmith]

do u ever wanna take ur brain out and blow it out like a gameboy cartridge to see if it'll work better?

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Modern billionaires are just so tacky. Go endow a library. Fund research and get your name on a cancer center. Sponsor an eccentric polymath who’s obsessed with marble. Build a museum. Fund public parks. Back climate research. Create something that outlives your ego.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

A trillionair, yet his name does not appear on a single school, university, library, museum wing, hospital, stadium, arena, airport, or endowed chairs. What a colossal waste of a human lifetime.

[Pleasedontinfringe @noinfringing]

Kinda crazy that the most patriotic thing that has happened this year for the 250th is having people from all over the world discover how great America is.

[bug girl @buggirl]

in nature if a monkey hoarded 1 trillion bananas the other monkeys would beat that monkey to death and take his bananas

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen.

I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify.

In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.

"Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully.

"Honey, that's what it looks like."

The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it."

I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it.

I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South.

It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent.

"Well?" the waitress asked.

"I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed."

"Everybody does, hon."

Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it.

Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating.

I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden.

It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.

[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.

[dıya ⋆｡˚˙✧ 𐙚 @__tls123]

literally every project hail mary poster... theyre all so mesmerising

[RudeOnion💀 @RudeOnion]

Europeans visiting the US: "Hey this is so cool! I'm having a great time! You guys are so nice! And free refills are AMAZING!"

Americans:

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

The vibes are insane. Driving through the great state of Louisiana on our way to New Orleans. It’s crazy how diverse this country is, every day the scenery looks different.

[Skylar Skye @SkylarSkye3]

Everyone told me Americans were unfriendly but they hold doors open, stop when you’re crossing the road, say hello in the street etc

Why do people assume Americans aren’t like this

[project hail randy !! 💫 @gracephm]

part of what makes project hail mary so appealing to me is that there isn't an evil you have to defeat. the astrophages are the main problem but they aren't evil. they aren't aware of the harm they're causing. the movie makes them look beautiful. its so cool

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen

[megan @hellomegansmith]

one time I wrote about how my family took a trip out west and I ran out in the snow barefoot on top of the rocky mountains (absolutely no idea what the prompt was) and I got in ,, so

[Anand Sanwal @asanwal]

The 4 types of college essays

[megan @hellomegansmith]

got ANOTHER job and unlocked a whole new cast of characters
idk what season im on anymore

[megan @hellomegansmith]

me wondering why the stop sign is backwards as if it isnt called Backrooms 🤡🤡🤡

[megan @hellomegansmith]

me thinking Backrooms won't be majorly 1st person pov and I won't get motion sick 🤡🤡🤡

[Tatiana Walk-Morris @Tati_WM]

For the love of God, bring back fact-checkers. Bring back copy editors. Bring back public editors. Bring back standards. Everybody tighten TF up.

[K ⭐️ @imthespecialk]

Your 20s are meant to have fun and your 30s too, your 40s, 50s and so on, we’re meant to live a full life regardless of age (:

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

“Just so you know, agriculture uses more water than data centres and golf courses combined.”

Yes, but we have to eat. We don’t have to use AI or play golf. This is a useless argument.