On Feb. 14, 1990, spacecraft Voyager I, ever outward bound & then somewhere past Saturn, turned its camera around & snapped a photo of the place from whence it came: later immortalized by Carl Sagan as "a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
12:00 PM - Feb 14, 2024
Seems fitting 2 re-share this today. It's one of my favorite poems by Ijeoma Umebinyuo. It's a source of motivation on those days when the battery is low, when dark clouds hover, when pain wants to swallow whole & things are lost in the fog. I read this & I start...
#Spoutories #start
#Spoutories #start
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Spoutories (CLOSED) @SpoutoriesToday’s #Spoutories prompt is #start (word or inspiration)08:56 AM - Jan 01, 2024
Make a new post including the two hashtags. Write a one-spout story for the prompt.
Keep it clean as per Spoutible rules.
There are no time limits on previous prompts; use or re-use as you like.
Have fun!
02:56 PM - Jan 01, 2024
I like this. Imagine turning cemeteries into knowledge repositories!
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Alberto Pastor @albertopastor"There are at least 18 headstones around the world engraved with a cherished family recipe. The graves stretch across religions, borders, and decades. But they all honor the love and memories behind every batch of bread, cobbler, cheese dip, and more."
💀🪦🍲 #RecipeGravestones #Halloween #Food02:24 PM - Oct 31, 2023
03:13 PM - Oct 31, 2023
In honor of Grace Slick's (Jefferson Airplane) 84th (!!) birthday: https://www.youtube.com/wa... #spoutingclassics
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love (Official Audio) - YouTube
Official audio for "Somebody to Love" by Jefferson AirplaneListen to Jefferson Airplane: https://JeffersonAirplane.lnk.to/listenYDSubscribe to the official J...
04:24 PM - Oct 30, 2023
#spoutingclassics #affairsoftheheart
Leaving you with an exquisite artist.
Here’s #tracychapman ✨🎸
#babycaniholdyou ✨❤️
#sweetdreams 💤
Leaving you with an exquisite artist.
Here’s #tracychapman ✨🎸
#babycaniholdyou ✨❤️
#sweetdreams 💤
Tracy Chapman - Baby Can I Hold You (Live) - YouTube
Tracy Chapman performs "Baby Can I Hold You"http://vevo.ly/n7svzZ
10:57 PM - Oct 18, 2023
Brilliant. Simply brilliant. (If you do YT, look for his live performance of this on Austin City Limits. The violinist is his wife, and the woman in this song.)
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Professor Kyle @blackcatprose#SpoutingClassics #AffairsOfTheHeart
So girl leave your boots by the bed, we ain't leavin' this room
'Til someone needs medical help or the magnolias bloom
It's cold in this house and I ain't goin' out to chop wood
So cover me up and know you're enough to use me for good11:42 PM - Oct 18, 2023![Video]()
Cover Me Up - YouTube
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesCover Me Up · Jason IsbellSoutheastern℗ 2013 Southeastern RecordsReleased on: 2013-06-11Music Publisher: Fame ...
12:33 AM - Oct 19, 2023
"What if your markers of success were how well you slept at night? How many books you have read? How easily you laughed? How much time you spent storytelling , feeling warm of the arms and homes of people you adore.”
~Emmie Rae
~Emmie Rae
09:24 AM - Oct 18, 2023
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09:07 AM - Oct 18, 2023
❤️🎶🎵🎶🎵
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SpoutingClassics™️ @SpoutingClassicsThis spout was removed because the account associated with it was suspended.08:59 PM - Oct 17, 2023
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Mrs. Robinson (From "The Graduate" Soundtrack) - YouTube
Provided to YouTube by ColumbiaMrs. Robinson (From "The Graduate" Soundtrack) · Simon & GarfunkelBookends℗ Originally released 1968. All rights reserved by C...
06:36 PM - Oct 15, 2023
On my short list of great songs.
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Dave @opusworks12:47 PM - Oct 14, 2023![Video]()
Santana - Black Magic Woman (Official Audio) - YouTube
"Black Magic Woman" by SantanaListen to Carlos Santana: https://Santana.lnk.to/listen_YDSubscribe to the official Carlos Santana YouTube page: https://Santan...
12:59 PM - Oct 14, 2023
Today’s #CreatureFeature is Kitti’s hog-nose bat, the world’s smallest mammal. At a length of a little over an inch and weighing 2 grams (approximately the same as a paperclip), it is also known as the bumblebee bat. This mini flittermouse is found in the caves of Thailand and Myanmar.
03:31 PM - Oct 13, 2023
In honor of PAUL SIMON's 82nd birthday, here is what I suspect is a #deepcut for anyone not around in 1966.
#spoutingclassics
https://www.youtube.com/wa...
#spoutingclassics
https://www.youtube.com/wa...
For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her - YouTube
Provided to YouTube by Columbia/LegacyFor Emily, Whenever I May Find Her · Simon & GarfunkelParsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme℗ Originally released 1966. All ...
11:08 AM - Oct 13, 2023
#mouthypolitics101
"The direness of the wastewater situation across the Black Belt has been well documented for more than a decade. In 2017, a UN poverty official toured the region and remarked that he’d never seen anything like it in the First World."
https://www.motherjones.co...
"The direness of the wastewater situation across the Black Belt has been well documented for more than a decade. In 2017, a UN poverty official toured the region and remarked that he’d never seen anything like it in the First World."
https://www.motherjones.co...
12:53 PM - Oct 12, 2023
Happy 75th birthday to Jackson Browne, who's been part of my soundtrack since 1972.
https://www.youtube.com/wa...
https://www.youtube.com/wa...
Jackson Browne For America - YouTube
Jackson Browne performing his song For America live. As if I really didn't understandThat I was just another part of their planI went off looking for the pr...
07:51 PM - Oct 09, 2023
To put this in context: This is like if the NYTimes published an editorial in Sept. 2001 blaming Bush for 911. As someone who is (just) old enough to remember, that would have been utterly unthinkable.
This speaks volumes about how deeply loathed Netanyahu and his policies actually are in Israel.
This speaks volumes about how deeply loathed Netanyahu and his policies actually are in Israel.
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Patsy @PatsyBaloneyDean Obeidallah:
WOW. Haaretz which is the NY Times of Israel says Netanyahu bears responsibility for the war because he "completely failed to identify the dangers he was consciously leading Israel into when establishing a government of annexation and dispossession"06:31 PM - Oct 08, 2023
11:12 PM - Oct 08, 2023
BREAKING: Democratic Senator Cory Booker (CoryBooker on x) was visiting Israel during the Hamas attack. He sought refuge in a bomb shelter as Hamas rockets began hitting Israel, has been able to escape, is now safe, and just provided an update.
(via Simon Ateba simonateba on x)
(via Simon Ateba simonateba on x)
08:54 PM - Oct 08, 2023
Bobby Gentry - Ode to Billy Joe - YouTube
Bobby Gentry - Ode to Billy Joe
12:44 PM - Jun 03, 2023
Happy 78th to John Fogerty. Thank you especially for this song from 1970, which captured perfectly the angst of the era.
"Good men through the ages,
Tryin' to find the sun;
And I wonder, still I wonder,
Who'll stop the rain."
"Good men through the ages,
Tryin' to find the sun;
And I wonder, still I wonder,
Who'll stop the rain."
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Who'll Stop The Rain - YouTube
Creedence Clearwater Revival Who'll Stop The RainCosmo's FactoryLyrics:Long as I remember The rain been comin' down.Clouds of myst'ry pourin' Confusion on th...
01:42 PM - May 28, 2023
FRONTLINE
Together, the Thomases have left an indelible mark on America — in the legal realm and in conservative politics. But what has fueled their rise and expanded influence, and what have been the consequences?
#SupremeCourt #ClarenceThomas #GinniThomas
Together, the Thomases have left an indelible mark on America — in the legal realm and in conservative politics. But what has fueled their rise and expanded influence, and what have been the consequences?
#SupremeCourt #ClarenceThomas #GinniThomas
Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court (full documentary) | FRONTLINE - YouTube
As controversy erupts around Clarence and Ginni Thomas, this two-hour documentary special tells the inside story of their path to power. This journalism is m...
10:44 PM - May 09, 2023
Bill Bramhall BillBramhall
Editorial cartoonist at New York Daily News
Editorial cartoonist at New York Daily News
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"If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it." Zora Neale Hurston
01:00 PM - May 08, 2023
8 counts of manslaughter; 10 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. $3.6M bond. 8 dead, 10 injured.
01:24 PM - May 08, 2023
