I honestly think the current abhorrent state of society can be in no small part attributed to the uptick in news outlets publishing “opinion” pieces (which are *not* journalism) in order to make it acceptable to share their true feelings about topics without accountability.
Love Mamdani because he continuously raises the bar, even when it comes to our sacred tradition of making New Jersey look like absolute shit. Thank you @NYCMayor 💙🧡
Netanyahu diverted his plane from New York to New Jersey due to fears that New York Mayor Zahran Mamdani might issue an order for him to leave the airport immediately or face arrest
This is funny because he doesn’t need to be doing all this in front of a crowd of people who obviously dgaf that he isn’t outspoken about the genocide in Palestine.
#EdSheeran tears up at his first show amid the controversy surrounding Macklemore’s removal, thanking fans for their support: “I will never stop doing this.”
I’d praise white male billionaires for human decency all day long if they did half the shit Dolly Parton did but in this regard mediocrity is apparently one of their foundational character traits.
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.
“There really is a whole other world out there” and it’s just people 15 years older using their disposable income to enjoy the concert of an artist they like. Y’all need to get out more.
cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night:
connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests.
every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid's soccer game that afternoon, one kid's upcoming birthday, some news, etc.
If I was Messi’s teammates I’d be so pissed off because he’s made it damn near impossible for anyone to believe Argentina actually deserves to win. (But also it’s Argentina so my guess is they dgaf as long as they win 🫠) #allezlesbleus
Getting married later in life (aka not at 25) is amazing, couldn’t love it more! Exceeeeept for when it comes time to put together your wedding registry and the chrome @KitchenAid_UK Artisan stand mixer that you’ve dreamt of for at least a decade is no longer being produced.