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[sberlin @sberlin_]

I am sadly one of those girls

[K A C E Y @KaceyMusgraves]

Baby, don’t even play 🩷

[bald ann dowd @ali_sivi]

protein zoloft

[Supriya Ganesh @SupriyaGanesh]

HELLOOOOOO @JoeBiden @BarackObama @MichelleObama @ZohranKMamdani

[Dionne NYC @missglamorous]

OMG I know she sick

[MJ @just_drmj]

I’m legit preparing to do life without romance.

[Jalen Brunson @jalenbrunson1]

Damn my bad yall, I was talking about love island

[Kait Devir @DevirKaitlin]

New York or Nowhere. 📸 photos by me

[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.

[sberlin @sberlin_]

RT @pumptinis: summer house casting learning about west and amanda #summerhouse

[erika @yeeeerika]

let's join the cicadas this summer and scream

[mike @avadanielsbf]

NO AI!

[Michael @Socdem_Michael]

Is Texas going to do the meme?

[adam patla @apat10]

It’s always wild to me that Josh Peck detonates the bomb in Oppenheimer

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

He did this without cutting any social services, btw.

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

Fun Fact: The war in Iran costs us more in one hour than this program costs in a year.

[Sophia Benoit @1followernodad]

really really hoping that in a year i dont remember the hantavirus cruise ship’s name

[LizaMinnelliOutlives @LiZaOutlives]

Liza Minnelli has outlived Spirit Airlines. All flights have been canceled, and customer service — not helpful in the best of times — is no longer available.

[dhwani @dhwanisaraiya_]

keep it up gang

[Sci-Fi Archives @SciFiArchives]

Sunset on Earth from space, captured by NASA

[ash ⚔︎ @ashl3af]

watching reality tv is deeper and more anthropological when i do it