Kenz 🫧

:)

[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.

[AlwaysAshley @AshleyAlready]

No I can’t meet you for a drink, I’m busy monitoring this monkey situation.

[Kenz 🫧 @kenziemfoster]

@dumbass_21 OMG A HOTTIE

[bug girl @buggirl]

“nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” ohhh someone has never had a crab rangoon or perhaps 20 crab rangoons in one sitting

[Shawn Mendes @ShawnMendes]

Its gunna be really cool if im still doing music 10 years from now to watch videos from this year.

[Atlanta Braves @Braves]

CATCH OF THE SEASON!

#BravesCountry

[Chili's Grill & Bar @Chilis]

ATTENTION CHILI’S $6 MARGARITA OF THE MONTH COMES WITH A GUMMY SHARK IN IT AND I CANNOT FIGURE OUT HOW TO TURN OFF CAPS LOCK

[AT @BaseballWRLD_]

Austin Riley just became the first player in MLB history to dive into a pool in the middle of a play

[Alec Waldeck @acwald93]

You don’t say…

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

An MLB cameraman can't see the cat at all, but he can perfectly determine the cat's current location just by looking at the crowd.
He's so professional!

[sj🤖↑% @sheridan7jean]

this scene will forever BLOW my mind. zendaya popped the absolute fuck off it’s insane

[B.Roll.Benny @brollbenny]

Oh....did you want some Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Halftime show???

[Empire State Building Observation Deck @EmpireStateBldg]

Not me. Hope this helps.

[Kenz 🫧 @kenziemfoster]

the blue bird

[The X Subscription @Subscriptions]

Which one suits you best?

[vladdy @gaylenhurts]

quite possibly the gag of the century

[MLB @MLB]

Blooper remains entirely unhinged 💀

(via @blooperbraves)

[Atlanta Braves @Braves]

#DigDeepATL

[FanDuel Sports Network South @FanDuelSN_SO]

“Knowing this could be the last game that I pitch this season, I just wanted to do everything I could to leave everything out there and try to win.”

An emotional Max Fried comments on tonight's game🔊

[Kevin McAlpin @KevinMcAlpin]

Fried, if he thought about this being his last home start at Truist Park: "Id be lying if it didn't cross my mind that it's definitely a possibility. I hope I have many more, deep into the playoffs. Walking off & hearing that, it was emotional. Extremely thankful, very grateful"