Sparkles

Phish phan, NPR junkie, mover & shaker, love that Mama Earth!

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Europeans discovering America is some of the best content of the internet right now:

[Sparkles @TASDEVL]

This is wild...
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[Sparkles @TASDEVL]

Interesting debate as the landscape of America changes. Take a look at what is happening in Mali right now. Just look. Will what is happening in Mali right now happen in America?

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

The Muslim bloc voting and mass pressure comes to the USA.

Muslims, Muslim mayor, Muslim politicians and Muslim lawyers, team up and use the American constitution against them, to be able to mass slaughter animals by the sword, in their gardens.

[JamBase @JamBase]

🎣 Phish never said it out loud this time. They just did it. 9 nights, 161 songs, no repeats.

Read David "DaveO" Onigman's recap of Phish's historic @SphereVegas finale + setlist, The Skinny + videos 👇

https://t.co/3OsHwpiuqe

[Sparkles @TASDEVL]

I'm not able to make Phish at Sphere but these two are going to love it!

[Scarlet Begonias @begonias713]

Vegas baby! #phish #sphere

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@j_smith22627 @boston25 You don't know her story in that regard... so rude for you to make that comment.

[Dittie @DittiePE]

$580,000,000 in oil futures moved 16 minutes before Trump announced a pause in Iran strikes.

Not after. Before.

The BBC just documented five separate instances of massive, suspiciously timed trades preceding Trump’s biggest market-moving announcements — oil futures, the tariff pause, Maduro’s capture, Iran ceasefire bets.

The platforms where anonymous accounts cashed in? Polymarket and Kalshi. Donald Trump Jr. sits on Polymarket’s advisory board and is a strategic advisor to Kalshi.

There’s even a law against this. The STOCK Act (2012) explicitly covers executive branch officials. Zero prosecutions in 14 years.

Oh, and the DOJ unit created after Watergate to prosecute exactly this kind of corruption? Trump cut it from 36 lawyers to 2 and stripped its authority to file new cases.

[Sparkles @TASDEVL]

Wow...

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

That’s a lot of illegal immigrants

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@JOKAQARMY1 I was rooting for the dogs lol

[Ken Mahan @WeathermanMahan]

Northern Lights alert! 🚨 A coronal mass ejection is heading towards Earth. Chance for aurora for Northern #NewEngland. Not so much for #Boston.

When? Wed. PM, mostly clear skies. After 8 p.m. & try using the phone camera!

#nhwx #vtwx #mawx #mewx

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[Sparkles @TASDEVL]

@RobertKennedyJr @HHSGov @EPA Please help to eliminate Rodenticides! https://t.co/qkMnRJRGmH

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@GBH @MauraHealey LET'S BAN RODENTICIDES!
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[Sparkles @TASDEVL]

@DonaldTrump any chance you can do something Mr. President, sir?

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

REMINDER: “your energy bill within 12 months will be cut in half. I’ll have your energy bill down within 12 months, throughout the country."

It's been 13 months.
Electricity is UP over 11%.

Promise everything.
Deliver NOTHING.

[Shawn Farash @Shawn_Farash]

TRUMP CALLS OUT BAD BUNNY!

[ⱤɆ₳Ⱡ ฿Ɇ₦ @AtRealBen]

Classic 😭😭😭

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"Someone kept calling the radio station requesting the same song. For 114 days straight.
I'm a DJ at K-Rock 98.3. Overnight shift. Midnight to 6 a.m. Mostly lonely truckers and insomniacs listening.
Around 1:15 a.m. every single night, same number calls. Same request, "November Rain" by Guns N' Roses. Eight-minute guitar solo version.

First week, I played it. Thought maybe someone really loved that song.
Second week, I started screening the calls. "We just played that yesterday, how about something else?"
"November Rain, please."
"We have a no-repeat policy"
Click. They'd hang up.

But they'd call back the next night. 1:15 a.m. exactly. "November Rain."
This went on for months. My coworkers thought it was hilarious. Started a betting pool on when the caller would give up.
They never did.

Day 47, "Look, buddy, what's the deal with this song?"
Long silence. Then, "Just play it. Please."
The voice sounded older. Male. Tired.
I played it.

Day 82, My manager told me to block the number. "It's harassment."
I didn't block it.

Day 91, I answered. Before they could speak, I said, "It's queued up. Playing at 1:30."
"Thank you," they whispered.

Day 114, The call came. But different voice. Younger. Female.
"This is about the November Rain requests," she said. "My grandfather passed away this morning. He won't be calling anymore."
My stomach dropped.
"He had dementia," she continued. "Couldn't remember much. But he remembered that song. Said it was playing when he proposed to my grandmother in 1992. At some restaurant. She died five years ago. The song was the only piece of her he could still hold onto."
She was crying. "He'd get confused at night. Agitated. The only thing that calmed him was that song. So I'd call you. Every night. He'd sit next to me, listening on the radio, and for eight minutes he'd remember her. He'd smile. Then forget again. But for those eight minutes....."
I couldn't speak.
"Thank you for playing it," she said. "Even when you were annoyed. Even when your manager wanted you to stop. Those eight minutes were everything to him."
She hung up.

I sat in that booth. Played "November Rain" at 1:15 a.m. Nobody requested it. I just played it.
Did it again the next night.
And every night since.

Some listeners complained. "Why do you keep playing the same song?"
I never explained. Just said, "Station policy."

But truckers started calling in. Said they pulled over during that 1:15 a.m. slot. Listened to the whole eight minutes. Some knew why. Most didn't.

One guy said, "I don't even like that song. But something about hearing it at 1:15 every night..... feels like church. Like we're all stopping together. For something."
They were right.

It's been six months. I still play it. Every single night. 1:15 a.m.
Some things aren't about what you like. They're about what someone needed. Once. When nothing else worked.

That song's not mine anymore. It belongs to an old man who forgot everything except how to love his wife.
And now it belongs to everyone driving lonely highways at 1:15 a.m., looking for a reason to keep going.
Eight minutes. Every night.
That's my church now."

Let this story reach more hearts....
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By Mary Nelson

[Sparkles @TASDEVL]

Get prepared people!

[HustleBitch @HustleBitch_]

🚨🚨 THEY’RE QUIETLY ADMITTING IT NOW: A “ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME” STORM IS ABOUT TO HIT HALF THE U.S. - AND IT COULD TURN CATASTROPHIC

"This is gonna be one of those storms you probably remember for much of your life."

Matt Randolph, a renowned energy expert and Forbes energy contributor, breaks down a forecast that was dismissed all week… until every major model converged.

He says this isn’t “just a snowstorm.”
It’s an infrastructure event: below-zero temperatures, heavy snow, and an ice zone calling for up to THREE INCHES OF ICE.

“There’s gonna be loss of life.”
“The grid’s gonna fail. Refineries are gonna shut down.
Water systems are gonna shut down.”

Then the part most people aren’t hearing:

“If you’re in the affected area, you should plan to be without power for at least a week, maybe a month.”

At that level, roads turn to glass and emergency services won’t be able to reach you. No ambulances. No fire trucks. No emergency services will be able to help.

Randolph compares it to Texas 2021 and says this could be colder, wider, and harder to recover from.

Where are you located, and are you actually prepared to be without power for 7–30 days?

[Sparkles @TASDEVL]

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[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

That time when the Empire State Building synched their lights to the Grateful Dead’s "U.S. Blues"

RIP Bob Weir 🌹⚡️💀

[Sparkles @TASDEVL]

@Axaxia88 Always flip a shark over, belly up. It puts them in a stupor so you can easily remove hooks.