Tuomas Grannas

Kirjoitan unohtumisen pelossa.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It’s hard to imagine many people having a bigger impact than Dolly Parton. Born in a one-room cabin, she earned 11 Grammys and an Emmy, built a business empire, helped millions of kids learn to read, and — as if that wasn’t enough — helped accelerate the research that led to the Moderna COVID vaccine. What a life. Michelle and I are thinking of Dolly’s family and her many, many fans.

[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.

[Tuomas Grannas @TuomasGrannas]

@theneedledrop God, it's all just so fucking pathetic.

[Tuomas Grannas @TuomasGrannas]

@tommyjb1967 On kyllä jylhää näkymää! Ei ihme, että kyseiset kalliot inspiroivat yhden maailman hienoimpien biisien synnyn. https://t.co/FNTYWafVgS

[TaglesTopGuy 🇻🇦 @TaglesTopGuy]

Quantifying Christianity with material consumption is the most American possible thing to do

[Tuomas Grannas @TuomasGrannas]

@RollingStone Happened to hear La Grange on the radio today, still a golden song. R.I.P.

[Outbreak Updates @outbreakupdates]

Civilization occasionally becomes prosperous enough to mistake the disappearance of a problem for proof that the solution was unnecessary.

The invoice usually arrives later.

[Mariia Kramarenko @KramarenkoMari3]

When Western lefties laugh at the idea of Ukraine being a post-colonial nation, it just proves their entire worldview is broken.
To them, imperialism only counts if a Western power sails across an ocean to conquer someone. Because russia is an overland empire and Ukraine sits right next door, centuries of russian colonization get brushed off as "shared history" or "brotherly unity."
If your anti-imperialism stops at the coastline, your anti-imperialism is a fraud.
Overland empires use the exact same colonial toolkit as maritime ones:
Resource Extraction - stripping Ukraine to feed the metropole in Moscow.
Cultural Erasure - outlawing the language and executing an entire generation of poets and intellectuals (the Executed Renaissance).
Demographic Engineering - starving millions in the Holodomor and replacing them with ethnic russians.
Ukraine knows the real cost of totalitarian empire better than anyone. It suffered the absolute worst of both Soviet Communist terror and Nazi invasion. That’s why modern Ukraine legally banned both Communist and Nazi regimes and their symbols.
While Western lefties romanticize hammer-and-sickles from their unbombed apartments, Ukraine actually lived through the mass graves and starvation those symbols represent. Laughing off Ukraine's post-colonial reality while Ukrainians are fighting for their lives against their former metropole right now is beyond absurd. It completely strips the mask off their fake anti-imperialism.

[sam @sam_d_1995]

cannot think of a stronger bear signal than the “they offer raw milk” LARP

if the founders of the company are too stupid to understand that raw milk comes with safety risk and zero upside, how can I possibly trust them to build a fucking nuclear reactor

[Caleb @Calebej37]

“they hold bible studies, offer raw milk, love fast cars + have a cigar lounge”

Is there a way to short this company

[Tuomas Grannas @TuomasGrannas]

@PurgeGamers Hell yeah man, I copped your bundle instantly!

[Y'alldabaoth @FadedAfRuatha]

I am going to reduce my drug use by moving to Drug City with my close personal friend Mr. Drugs

[Tuomas Grannas @TuomasGrannas]

@ShamsCharania WHAT THE FUCK

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Bryce Dallas Howard has shared a video of the late Sam Neill singing “Blackbird” with Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern.

“Sam had an immense passion for life. Generous with his wine, his stories, his time. One of the most unassumingly attractive and magnetic people I've ever met.”

[Sam Neill @TwoPaddocks]

Yes, I know things can look a little glum at present. But , for now cheer up. From us.

[Jurassic World @JurassicWorld]

Rest in peace, Sam Neill. Thank you for bringing Dr. Grant to life.

[maddy catgirlprostate @catgirlprostate]

It's so scary to think we have to find somewhere to store the dangerous waste like a desert or underground or something, which is a major problem unlike with fossil fuels where we safely store the waste in the atmosphere and our lungs

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm

[yoshimi battles video game addiction @nise_yoshimi]

We're moving towards the ideal future where companies don't actually make or do anything, you just pay them as a sort of token of appreciation for their cool logo and handsome shareholders