Karina Turnbull

PLAY it Forward 🔊🔊🔊

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

My Big was eating treats until the very end and on massively powerful pain meds. He slipped away happy and with his dignity and love.

Tumors were growing into his nerves and his heart had enlarged.

He was a very very good boy ❤️

[#Days Of Wild @HoldOn2YourWigs]

#PrinceOnThisDay

On the morning of October 5, 2016, the day before Prince’s @PaisleyPark was due to open to the public, Al Roker walked the halls of a place almost no outsider had ever seen.
@prince had died that April of an accidental painkiller overdose. The white compound in Chanhassen, Minnesota — studio, stage, and home since the late 1980s — had stayed sealed. Prince’s estate had announced that the complex would become a museum, with daily tours set to begin Thursday, October 6. NBC’s Today was invited in first. Roker’s tour, aired that Wednesday morning, was the first television look inside.

The rooms had been left much as Prince left them. In Studio A, handwritten notes still sat on the music stands. Keyboards and guitars were in place in the control room, still marked with his symbol. Roker reported that Prince had been working there on a jazz album not yet released. Outside the studio, an Influence Hallway carried a mural of the artists Prince counted as his own.
The Purple Rain room held the film script, a guitar, wardrobe, and one of the motorcycles from the movie. The album had spent 24 weeks at No. 1 and sold more than 20 million copies; the room also displayed Prince’s Academy Award for the film and his 2004 Grammy for Musicology. Archivist Angie Marchese told Roker that Prince had every garment custom-made and had saved nearly all of them — about 6,000 pieces, each with matching shoes. The Purple Rain outfits were cut for a 22½-inch waist. “We do have an amazing inventory because Prince saved everything,” she said. Finding mannequins small enough was the harder job.

Prince’s private living quarters were not part of the public tour. What visitors would see, the family said, was what he had already arranged. Sisters Sharon and Norrine Nelson walked the exhibits with Roker. Sharon said he had planned the museum himself: “Everything is strategically placed. And when the fans come in they’ll see that it is.” Norrine called it “truly Prince. He thought all this through. He had a vision and he finished it.”

Later that morning, in a live interview, younger sister Tyka Nelson said she wanted guests to feel as if they had seen him up close — not from a seat, but almost face to face.

The opening itself was already in doubt. The night before, on October 3, the Chanhassen City Council had voted 3–2 to table the rezoning that would let Paisley Park operate as a museum, citing traffic, parking, and public safety. Planners had projected as many as 2,000 visitors a day. On October 4 the city granted a temporary permit for three dates only: October 6, October 8, and October 14, with guests shuttled from off-site parking. Ticket holders for other early dates were offered refunds or rebooking. A full vote was pushed to on or before December 20.

Roker’s broadcast still went out as planned, the day before those limited tours began. For a few hours on national television, the private compound was no longer private: notes on the stands, a motorcycle under museum lights, and a wardrobe Prince had never thrown away.

[bArON3121 @Baron3121]

if U and eye were alone
in a quiet place
this 1 thing eye swear
eye'd make U lick
the tears right off my face
cuz U put each 1 of them there

indifference

looking 4ward 2 hearing a proper STUDIO version

#PRINCE #PRINCE4EVER #3RDEYEGIRL

[Jos Quinten @TaranQ]

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Nethanyahu activated the Hannibal directive on October 7th.

- copwatch tube 3

[Kushz @Kushz75]

Listen when they tell you what they’re doing - Data Centers

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

THIS IS CRAZY

[bArON3121 @Baron3121]

let the rain come down
17 days / something in the water (does not compute)
the acoustic set on the Musicology Tour was a true highlight and ultimately inspired the piano & a microphone tour

#PRINCE #NPG #NPGMC #MUSICOLOGY #PRINCE4EVER

[Karina Turnbull @iwimana]

Demand business that’s fair to people and planet. ✊🌍 #DoItFair https://t.co/VJfTthbBEo

[FEAR NO MORE @SHEEPSLIVE]

ARE YOU
SICK OF
SOCIETIES NORMS?

[O.G. @GRReynolds3]

Prince Live At Montreax: Night 3

[Master Yoga @DasBob_rasiert]

Is this video antiseptic or simply the truth?

[Dyslexic_aDve @Dyslexic_aDve_]

Prince.

I miss this man. 💜

[Karina Turnbull @iwimana]

PETA exposed New Zealand shearers beating, stomping on, and throwing sheep – urge brands like Helly Hansen and to drop wool now #NZSheepAbuse https://t.co/oIpAlPINHy

[Anambra 1st son @UchePOkoye]

Nothing is really new under the surface of the earth, as time changes things remain the same only in different ways.

[Ivor Cummins @FatEmperor]

Pure Gold and how I feel - watch to end of this super short clip! #AInonsense 😄

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Dr. MYRIAM FRANCOIS @MyriamFrancoisC

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

In 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise. Imagine if we had listened to him them.

No time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate

[Variety @Variety]

Macklemore is speaking out after being dropped from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour, seemingly placing blame on New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, saying that the billionaire rallied other stadium owners to ban him from performing at their venues:

“Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years.... I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened [in Gaza]... Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues....

Ed was in a fucked up position. He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before. He told me that the words 'Free Palestine' and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn't get past his public facing, 'I don't take sides'....

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed. Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation....

I didn't need 10 shows from Ed. I needed 2. Two chances to stand in front of 90,000 people and say the words that somehow became too dangerous to say. Free Palestine. But if those words cost me the stage, while turning the conversation back to Palestine, then it was the most successful tour I've ever been on.”

https://t.co/ff6jdXCfa1

[The Washington Sun @washingtonsun]

Welcome to The Washington Sun.
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[Paisley Park @PaisleyPark]

39 years of Paisley Park. 💜

A place built from dreams, filled with music, and loved by the Purple Fam around the world. Here’s to many more years of magic. ☔️