Jon Byrne

Expensive holes to bury things

[Jon Byrne @Johnnyjonbyrne]

@Retromania4ever Dave

[Jon Byrne @Johnnyjonbyrne]

@Osinttechnical Whatevs we’re all bored of mouthy yanks now

[Stevie Ricketts ❤️💙 @ChosenMad]

When people like me who were raving, dancing and in my case, DJ’ing in clubs, say the scene is gone.
This is what I meant.
Great lights, undoubtedly awesome sound etc.
But the beat drops and nothing, just a load of mobile phones.
It’s fucking heartbreaking

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The doctor who delivered Dolly Parton in a one-room Tennessee cabin in 1946 was paid with a sack of cornmeal. Her father farmed other people's land and could not read or write. Eighty years later, the reading program she built in his name has mailed more than 300 million books.

She wrote "I Will Always Love You" on the same afternoon she wrote "Jolene," as a goodbye to Porter Wagoner, and released it in 1974. Elvis wanted it. The night before the session, Colonel Tom Parker called and said Presley would only record it if they got half the publishing, meaning half of everything the song ever earned. She had been in Nashville ten years by then. She said no, and cried all night. Whitney Houston cut her version in 1992, held number one for fourteen weeks, and Forbes later put Parton's royalties from it near $10 million. She put some of that money into an office complex in Nashville and called the place the house that Whitney built.

Dollywood opened in Pigeon Forge in 1986 because she wanted paychecks in the county she came from. Around 4,000 people work there now. Three million visitors come every year. The University of Tennessee put its economic impact at $1.8 billion, and it is the largest employer in Sevier County. Since 2022 the company has paid tuition, fees, and books in full for every worker from their first day, seasonal hires included.

Wildfires tore through those mountains in November 2016, killing fourteen people and destroying more than 2,400 buildings. Her foundation was handing out money within 48 hours. Every family that lost a home got $1,000 a month for six months, regardless of income. The final check was $5,000. Total delivered: $8.9 million.

In April 2020 she sent $1 million to Vanderbilt for coronavirus research. When Moderna's vaccine results ran in the New England Journal of Medicine that November, her fund appeared in the footnotes.

Carl Dean, her husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025. The note she wrote to fans afterward ended with the same five words she wrote for Porter Wagoner back in 1974. She died in Nashville today. Her family asked that instead of flowers, people give to the Imagination Library, which still mails 3.4 million books a month to children who will never get to meet her.

[Jon Byrne @Johnnyjonbyrne]

@kwoade Such a great pictures. Barking for the sheer doggy hell of it

[Dolly Parton @DollyParton]

A message from the family of Dolly Parton.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Can someone please show this to Trump? It might finally finish him.

[Mark @Mr1000CR]

1979 Ford Capri 3.0 S leaving the show last week

[Jon Byrne @Johnnyjonbyrne]

@Mr1000CR Nice. I had a Black S reg that had a strange habit of blowing core plugs out every five minutes. And getting stolen

[Jon Byrne @Johnnyjonbyrne]

@ClarksonsFarm1 Mine. Because it’s, well, mine

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library was the best contribution to child literacy ever made by a celebrity. Our paths crossed once, in the 90s, backstage at a talk show, and I was completely tongue-tied and starstruck. RIP Dolly. You were a complete, irreplaceable one-off.

[Jon Byrne @Johnnyjonbyrne]

@Acyn I’ve seen cardboard boxes with more charisma then Vance

[German Shepherd Dad 🇺🇸 & 🔥 @FlagAndFire]

I’m pretty sure Rosie has better balance than half the people who own surfboards.

She gets out there like she’s been doing this her whole life. Wait until she’s riding that board on her own.

Dogs really can do just about anything.

[Jon Byrne @Johnnyjonbyrne]

@FrancisWegner So just to get this straight, they’re objecting to somebody who is against pedophiles? So these wholesome Americans are FOR pedos ? Hmmm ok

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

Hunter Biden: "My dad at 81 years old secretly got on a military aircraft, went to Ukraine, took a train for 16 hours to Kyiv as the first President of the United States to go into an active war zone.
Donald Trump fits his fat ass into a food cart truck and brings his work wife with him instead of the guy that carries the nuclear codes."

[The English Oak Project @TheKentAcorn]

And the beat goes on

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

Azovstal. Mariupol. 2022.

Of all the women in this photo, only one survived — the woman on the far left.

The others were killed defending Mariupol.

A cake. A single candle. A few smiles in the darkness of Azovstal. At that moment, none of them knew who would live to see another year.

Remember their faces.

They are not statistics. They were people who defended their city until the end. 🇺🇦

[Jon Byrne @Johnnyjonbyrne]

@Acyn @NotHoodlum Well that’s easy, it’s because he’s a fucking idiot

[Jon Byrne @Johnnyjonbyrne]

@Jacxdad3376 That is chuffing awesome 🤩

[Jon Byrne @Johnnyjonbyrne]

@vitt2tsnoc It’s literally not a wave if it’s fecking constant. This is the new reality