Lots and lots of Braves and Outer Space/Rocket stuff. 5% theology, 5% politics. 100% idiocy.
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Milky Way galaxy with a bright planet Venus rising through the hazy red airglow of Earth's atmosphere, above scattered purple lightning flashes. Two stormy worlds shining among endless stars!
I'm at the game. Can confirm it's the 7th level of hell. I just sweated out 7 pounds. But go Vols!!! #GBO
Dolly was everything that is right in this world. She will be sorely missed.
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 🇺🇸
Want to know why #Braves fans are all angry, and I mean every single one of us is angry? This right here. AA absolutely took a shit on the field this trade season. Desperately needed starting pitching and got bupkis.
LET'S GOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Committed to our future. ✔️
Mauricio Pochettino and @ussoccer have agreed on a new contract to continue as the #USMNT head coach through 2030! 🇺🇸
📝: ussoc.cr/MP2030
Thank you!! She's 100% right. Pulisic should've played the Gold Cup. All the other big name players also play club ball and still play the tournaments. He's been a huge disappointment for the US. He gets the DB Cooper award for that disappearing act during the World Cup as well.
This is super cool. NASA sent a spacecraft to attach itself to a telescope which is slowly losing altitude in order to raise its orbit so we can keep using it. I hope this works!
Congratulations, Katalyst Space and Northrop Grumman, on a successful launch! Now Katalyst's LINK will undergo several weeks of commissioning before rendezvousing with our Swift observatory to attempt an orbital boost. More here: go.nasa.gov/44NZ20s
ALT In this illustration, the LINK spacecraft from Katalyst Space attaches to NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory in preparation to gradually lift Swift back to its original altitude. LINK, a silver rectangular spacecraft with large blue solar arrays on either side, uses three robotic arms to attach to Swift, a gold spacecraft with shorter black solar arrays. Three blue thrusters fire at the bottom of LINK. Swift has a more cylindrical body with a rectangular projection at the front. The left half of the background is taken up by a view of Earth, and the blackness of space fills the right. This image is watermarked with “Artist’s concept” and “Credit: Katalyst Space.”
Batman is easily in my top 5 of all time. Love this movie!!!
