cal!

how did i get here // 25 🦋 // appalachian state alum

[nini @rasmalaipagluu]

technicality

[Ash @H1TWOM4N]

Been thinking about this comment for 3 days

[Fat Slag @Andrewisliv111d]

Dolly just visited me I’m shaking

[Matt Macauley @VisualAlgebra]

My 7-year-old daughter heard me say that Dolly Parton died, and got visibly very sad. I was surprised she even knew that name.

“You know Dolly Parton?”

In the sweetest timid voice, she replied:

“Well, I don’t _know_ know her. But she sent me books.”

🥹😢😭

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

My son just aged out of my health insurance.

Two choices for him.

Pay over $1,400 a month for COBRA

or

Pay over $400 a month on the Health Marketplace, which is actually the least expensive plan there.

Apparently, I'm going to be paying for his cell phone forever to help him out.

The system is not set up to help young adults succeed.

Housing unaffordable. School is unaffordable and Healthcare unaffordable and you have the guy in the White House more concerned about gold for his ballroom and blue paint for the reflecting pool.
#DemsUnited

[Cuck Liddell @c0ck_l3snar]

I took her to my river and I creeked it

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Millions

[Sydney @sydneyelainexo]

so called free thinkers when a new box appears

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

Americans realizing thier gov has been illegally taxing their groceries for over a year and pedophile billionaires are getting the refund instead of them

[cal! @airsigngoddess]

when are they gonna let phoebe bridgers do the Super Bowl

[Sav @SavLovesSwift]

I’ve felt so icky sharing Instagram stories lately. It feels so performative. No less because every single other person is sharing the exact same stories. It just feels like an empty action, I don’t know. I’m not in the business of giving someone a pat on the back for sharing a story. I care about what you’re actually doing with your wealth, how you treat people, and how you vote. Yes, informing people matters, but it’s not indicative of whether or not you are a good person. You don’t get to check a box and call it a day.

[𓆝𓆜𓆞𓆢 @epykur_xyz]

@thoka_2

[Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, CCMS @DrPlantel]

RFK Jr seriously needs to keep his mouth shut. You don’t get to tell women to “just breastfeed” in a country with no national paid leave, no guaranteed paid pumping breaks at work, no affordable childcare, and workplaces that barely accommodate lactating parents. Breastfeeding isn’t just a choice, it’s a system dependent behavior. If you want to promote it, you’d better start with the systems that make it possible.

[We Draw Cats 🐾 @WeAssessCats]

she was a fairy 🧚

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

A marriage counselor once told my wife the problem was “communication.”

$200 an hour.

12 sessions.

She learned to “use I statements.”

I learned to “validate her feelings.”

We were still miserable.

You know what fixed my marriage?

I stopped talking.

Started doing.

Woke up before her.

Made the coffee.

Didn’t announce it.

Handled the dishes.

Didn’t ask for credit.

Took the kids so she could rest.

Didn’t call it “babysitting.”

Three weeks.

No conversations about our problems.

No processing.

No therapy homework.

Just a man who finally acted like he gave a damn.

She didn’t say anything at first.

Then one morning she looked at me like she hadn’t looked at me in years.

Not with love.

With surprise.

She’d forgotten I could show up.

The counselor told us to talk more.

What we needed was for me to shut up and move.

Most marriages don’t die from lack of words.

They die from lack of action.

Your wife doesn’t need another conversation.

She needs to see you in the kitchen at 5 AM.
Not because she asked.

Because you finally woke up.

[n @myloversprayer]

2 months left in the year… time flies when ur smoking a lot of weed and trying not to actively kys

[selinam @bennynotblanco]

I just know bugs rent these out for weddings

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

[cal! @airsigngoddess]

@SouthwestAir wanna tell me why my flight left late and i almost missed my connecting flight due to not enough overhead space and we had to wait for 4 people to voluntarily check their bags when this is what it looks like on the plane right before takeoff?