mary🪬

BSU alum. CU Anschutz alum. research chemist.

[Amos Moses @angelpeesyrups]

weed before cider youre meeting the spider. cider before weed time for centipede

[MC Squared @mcsquared34]

“Do I go 2 heaven if my taxes kill kids?”

[erin 🍑 @maizie_star]

idk how to boycott ed sheeran more than i already am but i’ll have to find a way

[Elle @DSMXIII]

dolly’s Q&A section at the end of her book… pls she was a gem

[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 🇺🇸

[paige @BonerWizard]

you laugh but this is the only safe food or drink in the united states of America

[Russell @ATLCWorker]

Organize your Workplace

[Jerms @NotLordJerms]

that before bed motivation be crazy like damn ima change the world tomorrow then you wake up with a change of heart like nah mamdani got it

[𝓛𝓪𝓾𝓻𝓪 ˚.🎀༘⋆ @Laura_arma_ni_]

"How do you know all the work gossip? You don't talk to anyone"
Me all day:

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Here it is, my occasional reminder that balloons don't get up to grandma in heaven. They come back to Earth as trash.

Sometimes stuck in a tree. Sometimes floating in a river. Sometimes wrapped around the neck of an animal.

Keep the celebration of life, but lose the balloon release.

[Ava @noampomsky]

very struck by this tiktok where a divorce attorney said the best heterosexual relationship dynamic is “evil witch devoted henchman”

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

I loan it out in June.

[Nashville Zoo @NashvilleZoo]

On Thursday, we asked our community to stand with Nashville Zoo in protecting the animals, habitats and future of the Zoo from a proposed data center next door.

Please keep sharing and contact your local representatives ➡️ https://t.co/q2ISQnxLBK

[Seth @fiercepatricks]

It’s not just a rainbow, it’s a symbol of pride, hope and security. Happy pride🏳️‍🌈

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Everyone's worried about honeybees, but the American bumblebee has declined by 89% in the last 20 years.

Bombus pensylvanicus was once the most common bumblebee in the southern United States. It's now functionally extinct in eight states (Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Idaho, North Dakota, Wyoming, and Oregon) and down 99% in New York.

The honeybee, the species most "save the bees" campaigns are organized around, is not native to North America. It was brought over by European colonists in the 1600s as livestock for honey production. It is managed, bred, transported across the country in trucks, and is doing fine. Beekeeping is an agricultural industry, not a conservation effort.

The American bumblebee is what we actually have. It pollinates wild plants honeybees can't, including ones with deep flowers and ones that require buzz pollination (a technique honeybees don't perform). Tomatoes, blueberries, eggplants, cranberries, and countless wildflowers depend on it.

The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned to list the species as endangered in 2021. The federal review is now in its fifth year. The species is still not protected.

Three things help.

1. Plant native flowers, the kind bumblebees evolved with (asters, goldenrod, milkweed, native sunflowers, beebalm, mountain mint).

2. Leave standing dead plant stems through winter, that's where queens overwinter.

3. Stop spraying for mosquitoes, those sprays kill every pollinator they touch.

The bees we built an industry to "save" are not the bees that need saving. The ones that do are quietly disappearing while we celebrate the ones that aren't.

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

I am sick and tired of people mocking those who care about the planet. Clean air matters. Living forests matter. Healthy oceans matter. Animals matter. Biodiversity matters. Wanting a livable world for future generations should not be controversial.

[hunter @3gpmh]

i once tried journaling but it looked like i was writing a suicide note