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[AJ @ajdeluxe_]

"He better not kill her" - me watching a show called 'my husband who killed me'

[aves @WNBAPILLED]

the best part of sports is millions of people around the world believing that their superstition is the deciding factor in their teams success

[Mark @markatique]

This app is quite pleasant when your algorithm doesn’t feed you tweets by nonbinary 19 year olds and people they argue with

[cheyenne @cheyeyeyeyey]

Please stop announcing the Northern Lights will be visible if they will not be visible to me.

[Mark @markatique]

@themoderntimes_ Looking at other words here (bodega, favor, sub) this is supposed to be New York, or close. No one "phones" someone else here, so why should the narration use that?

[Mark @markatique]

@themoderntimes_ Multiple English dialects (including my "Standard American") have rules for writing that writers and editors that specialize in that dialect's market look out for. Native speakers are subconsciously sensitive to these rules and a story will ring as not genuine.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a stranger will rename you in a single breath, and you are simply expected to come when called.

I went to eat at a busy restaurant. A young man at the front asked for my name, to mark my place in line. I gave it the weight it has carried for eight hundred years.

"Nobunaga."

He smiled, nodded, and wrote it down with great confidence. Then he read it back to me, to be sure he had honored it correctly.

"Perfect. Banana, party of one."

Banana. He had heard my name, held it a moment, and returned to me something rounder and more cheerful. To refuse the name a host gives is to refuse his welcome. I bowed. I was Banana now.

Then he handed me a small black disc, said it would "light up and buzz" when my table was ready, and turned to the next guest as though he had not just placed a living thing in my hands.

I held it in both palms, the way one holds a small sleeping beast that may wake. I found a place to stand. I waited, ready.

It woke.

It screamed. It flashed red. It leapt and shook in my hands like a captured spirit demanding release. A lesser man would have dropped it. I did not. I gripped it, steady, looked into its blinking lights, and told it, in a low voice, that its time had come. Then I carried it back to the host with both hands, the way one returns a hawk to its master.

He took it without looking and shouted across the entire room.

"BANANA! Party of one, your table's ready!"

A hundred strangers turned. I rose. I crossed that floor as Banana, spine straight, chin level, a man answering to his name. A child pointed at me. I gave the child a small bow. He had recognized me.

All through the meal they kept me. "How's it tasting, Banana?" "More water, Banana?" The check, when it came, said Banana, and thanked me for visiting. By the end the whole staff knew me. They waved as I left. "Night, Banana!"

So tell me honestly.

For eight hundred years my clan answered to one name. Tonight I answered to a fruit, calmed a screaming relic in my bare hands, and ate among people who were glad I came.

When the little disc lights up, is the table truly mine, or am I only keeping it warm for the next Banana?

Because I have already decided to return on Friday, and to ask, very humbly, for the same disc.

[Ersatz @ohficklething]

None of you are self-aware. You are howling narcissists. This woman starts this video off by listing her personality type, attachment style, horoscope, as if borrowed categories add up to a self. You think about yourselves too much and have mistaken it for introspection.

[usul 🐭 @paulatreideez]

happy pride month

[empanada daddy @empanadadaddy23]

Happy pride 🏳️‍🌈

[Mark @markatique]

@kozumekenma Because you’re going to the abs and septum piercing bakery

[Mark @markatique]

I hate this subway ad every time I see it and am glad for pontifex’s words

[Mark @markatique]

@Arbeitologist I mean. Catholics do believe he’s the representative of the Messiah. It’s his title

[James Solomon @SolomonforJC]

Greatest city on earth with a cameo from NYC at the bottom of the frame.

[Mark @markatique]

@BartokianN BLACK?

[Mark @markatique]

@holysmoke It should stay restricted, actually. I’m saying that as a proud former TLM altar boy. Many of its fans are looks over substance types (the substance being serving God in ur neighbor) and it’s a bottomless pit of people trying to out-pure one another. Not a rite worth preserving.

[Mark @markatique]

@QueenMab87 Quite a few of them were in Auschwitz.