carlos who is terrible at giving head bc he keeps popping up to ask how he’s doing

Practice @ AO 2026 | Canon R3 + EF 70-200mm f/2.8

Jannik Sinner and team look on from the tunnel as Carlos Alcaraz practices

Practice @ AO 2026 | Canon R3 + EF 70-200mm f/2.8

Practice @ AO 2026 | Canon R3 + EF 70-200mm f/2.8

Why does he look about fourteen here 😭

He’s absolutely a menace to his coach😭 Bullying his papa in public with this devil angel smile lmao

He looks so good in the practice kits I'm blowing up Nike HQ

i don’t know how to explain to my non-jewish audience what it means that two torah scrolls were destroyed in an arson attack but what i can tell you is that during the los angeles wildfires, three staff at the synagogue in pasadena made 4+ trips each back into the building to rescue torah scrolls while the fire was close enough that ashes were falling in the parking lot.

what i can tell you is that we have a holiday once a year where we hold the scrolls and hug them and dance around them. what i can tell you is that they are written with love by hand by trained scribes who take exquisite care to make sure each word, each letter, is perfect. when we read from them we do not touch the parchment directly so that it won’t be harmed by the oils from our fingers.

we make beautiful clothing for our torah scrolls, embroidered cloth coverings and shining worked metal crowns to sit atop them or carved wooden cases plated with gold and silver. the torah is to us the words of the living God, the tree of life, the record of who are and where we’re going, and the torah scroll is our most holy ritual object.

the torah scroll never touches the floor. if it is dropped accidentally, everyone in the room must fast for forty days in mourning. the desecration of a torah scroll is the utmost level of desecration that can be done to a jewish community, short of killing its members. nazis burnt and destroyed torah scrolls as part of their campaign of terror against the jewish people even before widescale mass deportations began. in ancient times, the romans wrapped the rabbis who led our community in torah scrolls when they burnt them at the stake.

this past shabbat, in the middle of the night, a synagogue in jackson, mississippi was intentionally set on fire. the library was burnt to ashes and five torah scrolls were damaged, with two of them completely destroyed.

i don’t know how many books were burnt, how many jewish holy texts and how many stories of jewish life and philosophy and love and resilience flew up with the smoke. i do know that the library was where the congregation had shabbat services and torah and talmud study. it was a sacred space. this is not the first time that people who hate us have destroyed our sacred spaces and our holy texts and our torah scrolls in order to terrorize us. i dearly wish it was the last.

Unlike the little goyish King James Bible on the nightstand, the only time a Sefer Torah (scroll) is ever in a private home is when it is brought into a house of mourning for a shiva minyan so that those who are bereaved over having lost a loved one do not have to make the trip to shul during the week of Shiva.

While the book versions of the Torah exist (printed on paper available from ArtScroll or Koren publishers for ex) those do not carry the same level of holiness and cannot be used ceremonially the way that a Sefer Torah can.

Despite the many many many interpretations of Halacha (Jewish law) and our many sects from Reform to Haredi, and from every corner of the Diaspora (Mizrahi, Sephardi, Ashkenazi) - the Sefer Torah is identical. The number of parchment sheets the line and letter spacing, the column breaks. They are identical. The only thing that gives us insight into a particular Sefer’s “identity” is how we dress it. Is it in a solid clamshell case common in parts of the Middle East? Is it covered in a simple velvet wimple like most European communities? The silver and embroidery can signify the community has some level of wealth (to create a Sefer Torah is a multi thousand dollar act), but in reality any adornments the Yad (pointer) the Rimonim (the silver covers on the scroll tops) all are made as beautiful as possible to show our love of the Torah and its place of vital import in the lives of every Jew observant or not.

Meantime the Times can’t even bring them selves to say the attack was antisemetic. Instead it was “FBI says suspect chose the building because of its association with Jews” 🫩

Apolitically killing bandits and savages in my video game with no messages

THEY HAVE GENUINELY LOST THEIR MINDSNSIZJSSJ

my bf and I have the same fucking brain

Quiplash is the greatest game ever made because it allows for things like this and you can’t change my mind.

question was how to get kicked out of hogwarts

Legs freshly shaven… strawberry and cream polo… daughter…🥹🥰🍓🍦

imagination (1963) - harold ordway rugg

"chekhovs cat / schrödingers razor / occams gun"

Chekov's Cat: if you see a cat in the first act, it will probably be relevant later. (example: Alien)

Shrodinger's razor: an unopened box may or may not contain the solution to the story; there's no way to know without opening it. (example: Monk)

Occam's gun: the simplest way to kill off a character is to shoot them. (example: Bambi)

i have been cracking up at this for the past 3 minutes

Chekov's Box: If there is a container introduced in the opening act, it will be opened later.

Schrodinger's Gun: Treat every gun as if it's loaded unless you've checked it yourself.

Occam's Cat: If you hear strange noises at night, it's probably a cat.

his practice kit being miles better than the bs he’ll have to wear during official matches </3

photos by @.ittakestennis

Practice @ AO 2026 | Canon R3 + EF 70-200mm f/2.8

Jannik Sinner and team look on from the tunnel as Carlos Alcaraz practices

Practice @ AO 2026 | Canon R3 + EF 70-200mm f/2.8