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“America ain’t shit cause the white man’s got a god complex” —Being There

@campaignist1 @facetedcarapace I’ll never forget an episode of the great British bake off where they acted surprised when people combined the two in a pastry

@facetedcarapace For years, British people reacted to the idea of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich the way the rest of the world reacts to British food, and it never ceased to make my blood boil. Apparently they’re a little more used to it now.

Peanut butter is the other thing that seems insane the rest of the world isn't also obsessed with.

@SomeLeftyTroll @facetedcarapace You are doing the Lord’s work

@facetedcarapace One of my favorite things when I was working with people coming over from Europe was introducing them to Reeses. Also when I moved to Korea introducing friends and women I was dating to reeses and other peanut butter and chocolate treats.

@FourBeats265635 @drummyt @facetedcarapace I’ve had Asian cold noodles that have it mixed in with Szechuan spice and it’s delightful

@drummyt @facetedcarapace Im only familiar with the savory dishes but do they use it as a dessert food/flavor/ingredient in the way that America does?

@facetedcarapace Was just in a Mexican grocery store last week buying food for my family on vacation and I snagged the lone jar of peanut butter in the store lol it is truly our Vegemite

@DrJenGunter Delta has Lawrence of Arabia and it’s great on a long flight!

It is a tragedy that United got rid of my comfort movie, Pride and Prejudice. I watched my other airplane comfort movie, Crazy Rich Asians on the outbound leg. Maybe I should do Devil wears Prada? What is your airplane comfort movie?

@kgelner @Birdyword That and peanut butter!

@Birdyword Yeah I guess root beer is America's haggis.

I think it's telling that with all of its global cultural influence, power and financial prowess, America could not convince anyone in the rest of the world to drink root beer

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

During the ‘25 federal layoffs, the field of aquatic invasive inspectors was absolutely hammered. Lake Mead, AIS people in Yellowstone, and Great Lakes were given the axe or forced to end their season a month early. Quagga mussels are probably the biggest threat to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and yet you rarely hear of them. They’re at the bottom rung of the food chain, so they filter all the phytoplankton (plant plankton) from the water. This starves zooplankton (animal plankton), which is the primary food source for native Yellowstone cutthroat trout. Because their filtering is so effective, excess sunlight in the water column raises temps and harms trout while also increasing algal blooms. They stink up the beach so bad and make it so your kids can’t run around barefoot. They clog all water intake pipes, boat engines, and so on and basically can’t be removed once they’re here. AIS inspection staff who work the Park Service are paid around $17 an hour, and the cost of a quagga invasion is in the hundreds of millions. When these guys were laid off, they pulled people off the invasive lake trout program to deal with boat inspections. You can either invest in the things you love or let them go to shit, and it’s a choice.

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason theatlantic.com/culture/2026/0…

@For_Film_Fans I love everything except for the bookshelf placement above the bed. Ouch 🤕

Faye Dunaway's New York apartment in 1970.

Unless the courts intervene, the Kennedy Center will shut down this July for two years, as part of a roughly $250 million renovation. In the lead-up, there’s been a wave of layoffs and a controversial rebranding under President Trump’s allies. Josef Palermo was among those laid off and wrote a firsthand account in The Atlantic titled “What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center.” @GeoffRBennett speaks to Palermo for more.

no but why does it feel like everyone's forgotten this? 😭😭 [attached image depicts the few minutes of life shared by all eight billion extant human souls as the various precambrian inhabitants of a single thermal vent]

@VeinRichard That’s AI, but I want to believe

flamingo's tongue seasoned with silphium of cyrene

@VeinRichard That’s a meal that would be described in a restaurant scene in American Psycho

building the pyramids took some serious gumption, which, as it happens, wasn't even invented until the 18th century

it's pretty clear that god's dad is telling him to wrap things up and come downstairs for dinner

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the homie with pendulous breasts

@alliharvard Can’t sleep, baby will eat me

A bedroom in the home of Vidal Sassoon, 1978

@S_Fitzpatrick @TheAtlantic