mackenzie

schools kill artists

[Katerina Dimitratos @KDimitratos]

Europeans experiencing America for the World Cup is my favorite

[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.

[Josh @JoshMTV]

Lieutenant General Russell l. Honoré is a living legend, mf stood on business for the city of New Orleans during Katrina 💯

[Del @TheCartelDel]

I just looked up hers and Angel Reese's salary - $80k a year??? How are they earning less than a Target store manager???? Tf

[AV8 QST @qvests]

DOUBLE CHEEKED UP ON A FRIDAY AFTERNOON #TysonPaul

[Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminlee]

Just horrible…

[New Rockstars @NewRockstars]

Me after watching Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

[katia @thealcchemy]

zendaya seeing how coachella was making no noise this year

[paige holt @ohmypaige]

Always filling up the silent shared lyfts with the sounds of my cracking and creaking joints and bones.

[!i @diegofye]

u wouldn’t get it

[vids that go hard @vidsthatgohard]

The accuracy of the kick still impresses me ☠️

[waliu @idek_tb]

Me looking at my mom talk shit bout me at a family event for some adult clout

[𝓗𝓪𝓻𝓿𝓮𝔂 @EdgeOfUnravel]

Joel in the last of us when he needed more supplies

[Xiao at 99% lesbian power @velsmells]

Of strawberries and rabbits... #TheLastOfUs

[Taylor Owen @taylorgraysen]

The Last of Us writers room for episode three (contains spoilers) #TheLastOfUs

[birdy | president of ben solo’s alive club @radicalreylo]

“because anyone else would’ve been electrocuted or blown up by one of my traps…hehehehehe” #TheLastOfUs

[portgas d. egg @heartpopz]

The entire movie had me cackling but https://t.co/gptB7vUv3X

[kd 💌 @fromkdwithluv]

no way yall got the whole movie on here

[Dan Zack @plannerdanzack]

@henryzcohen Your point is excellent and 100% spot on! I might say it this way instead, though: “America built thousands of non-car dependent cities, destroyed all but one, it became the center of our cultural and financial aspirations, and than we proceeded to never make one again.”