val 🇲🇲🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @valwu

In America I was taken to a warehouse called Costco. At the door, a woman checked my friend's membership card. At last, I thought. A checkpoint. A travel pass. Finally, this country has proper gate protocol. Inside, the ceiling was so high that weather felt possible. They sell mayonnaise in containers I would describe as architectural. Forty-eight eggs at once. Trousers next to televisions next to a kayak. Old women stood at small stations, handing out free food on toothpicks. I asked my friend when the festival ends. He said, "It's Tuesday." The festival does not end. The festival is the store. Then he bought me a hot dog and a soda. It cost one dollar and fifty cents. I assumed I misheard. I checked the receipt. One dollar. Fifty cents. The price has not changed since 1985. I was alive in 1985. Everything I have purchased since then has betrayed me at least once. Gasoline. Rent. Rice. All of them broke their word. The hot dog did not. I asked how this is possible, and I received a story I did not believe until I confirmed it. The founder, before he stepped down, told the next chief what would happen if he ever raised the price of the hot dog. He said, and this is recorded history: "If you raise the price, I will kill you." Scholars believe he was joking. The price has not moved in forty years. I leave the conclusion to you. At the exit, a man checked our receipt and drew one line across it with a highlighter. A seal. A magistrate's signature, approving safe passage. I bowed to him slightly. He said, "Have a good one," which I now understand can refer to a day, a life, or a hot dog, depending on need. In my country, we honor merchants who keep the same price for generations. There is a shop in Kyoto four hundred years old. We treat it as a national treasure. Costco is forty years old and sells tires. Give it time. Empires fell. Currencies died. The hot dog holds. A nation is its promises. I paid one dollar and fifty cents. The promise held.

siento q he vivido 30 vidas desde q pasó esto

Pop Base @PopBase

2 days ago

One year ago today, the Coldplay couple made their on-screen debut.

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unironically yes golf courses are evil

djcows @djcows

2 days ago

we must stop the evil golf courses from drinking our water

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Spain-Argentina is the first World Cup “Colonizer vs Colonized” match that makes me say “well, let’s consider the nuances”

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Ethical hating>>>

Ben Cohen @YoBenCohen

3 days ago

It’s time to make your own ice cream bars at home! Let me show you how to make a Ben & Jerry’s bar at home! They’re delicious and will satisfy your cravings for an ice cream bar, all while you boycott Magnum. #freebenandjerrys

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In Texas they told me to stop at Buc-ee's for gas. I have been to shrines. I have stood in temples that took two hundred years to build. I was not prepared for the gas station. There were one hundred and twenty fuel pumps. I counted them because I did not believe them. A man beside me was filling a truck the size of my first apartment, and he was not filling it because it was empty. He was filling it because he was here, and here is where a man fills things. Inside was a hall so vast I lost the horizon. A wall of jerky. A wall of fudge I did not know the country produced. A brisket sandwich handed to me by a man in a beaver costume. And I want to be clear, the beaver is not a mascot. The beaver is a saint. The people speak of him the way my grandmother spoke of the mountain behind her house. And the bathrooms. I had been warned about the bathrooms and I had dismissed the warning as the pride of a loud people. I was wrong to dismiss it. The bathrooms are famous across the whole state and they have earned it. I have slept in worse hotels. I nearly bowed upon entering. A janitor was polishing the floor with the devotion of a man tending a garden he loved, and when I thanked him he said "welcome in," which I have since learned is what Texas says instead of hello, and also instead of I am glad you exist. I went in for gas. I was inside for ninety minutes. I came out with fudge, a shirt printed with a joke I do not fully understand, forty dollars of jerky, and a feeling I can only describe as having been to church. I did not need any of it. I needed all of it. I have walked through the great cathedrals of the old world. I lit no candle there. I lit no candle at Buc-ee's either. But I did fill the truck. And I understand now that in Texas, this is the same thing.

So NYC is legit just puppies and rainbows now?

Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver

2 days ago

🚨 Zohran Mamdani launches pilot program offering parents free babysitting during a night out.

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I like the suit on this guy. You can see how a slightly longer jacket, combined with an extended shoulder line and higher rise pants, produces a more classically masculine silhouette.

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A Shot @ashotmagazine

3 days ago

Elliot Page and his girlfriend Julia Shiplett at ‘THE ODYSSEY’ premiere.

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We're losing SF to self important losers trying to simultaneously destroy the ecosystem and create skynet.

Alex Toussaint @alextoussss

3 days ago

Extremely excited to announce our first air-to-air kill of a flying moth by an autonomous micro-drone. This is a big step towards completely eradicating mosquitoes.

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“Nobody is coming to save you” but your day literally gets better after you consume art made by other people. You hang w friends & you’re no longer suicidal, even if just for a few minutes. They’re lying to you about the significance of community. People are saving you EVERYDAY!

Problem: Too many mosquitoes Ecologist: We could create shelters for bats, a natural predator of the mosquito! Engineer: Me and the boys at Lockheed Martin devised an insect murder drone, it's totally impractical and could probably maim someone but hey we killed a moth with it

Alex Toussaint @alextoussss

3 days ago

Extremely excited to announce our first air-to-air kill of a flying moth by an autonomous micro-drone. This is a big step towards completely eradicating mosquitoes.

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Stevo, however, is trans dude coded

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Ash Stabbath @ashstabbath

3 days ago

Matthew Lillard was so Trans Lesbian One Month into Transition coded in Hackers

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