Kelly Anne Blount

I'm thrilled to announce that Sony Pictures Television and Komixx Entertainment will be producing CAPTURED, my YA psychological thriller. It's first on their slate of new projects, which includes @Fallzswimmer's novel, My Life With the Walter Boys! Article below! @SPTV @komixx twitter.com/Variety/status…

Los Angeles, 15-year-old Clara Daly from California, was travelling with her mom. A flight attendant asked if anyone knew sign language. Clara, who had studied ASL for about a year, volunteered. The passenger was 64-year-old Tim Cook, who is deaf and blind, flying alone. Clara knelt in the aisle and fingerspelled into his hand to communicate. She helped him order water, check the time, and speak with the crew. For the rest of the long flight, she stayed with him, chatting until landing and bringing comfort to his journey.

Every Honeycrisp apple is a clone of a single tree planted at the University of Minnesota in 1962. Every one. Apple seeds are random. Plant a Honeycrisp seed and the new tree produces a small, sour apple that’s usually inedible. So apple growers do something old and clever. They cut a small branch off the original Honeycrisp tree, slot it into a slit in a young apple sapling, wrap the joint, and wait. The branch fuses to its new host and starts producing Honeycrisps. About 20 million Honeycrisp trees exist worldwide, every one a piece of that 1962 tree on different roots. Same goes for Gala, Fuji, Pink Lady, Granny Smith. Every Granny Smith on Earth traces back to a seedling found in 1868 by a woman named Maria Ann Smith in Australia. She’d thrown French crab apple cores onto her compost heap, one of them sprouted, and the apples it bore were unusually tart and good for cooking. That one tree is the ancestor of every Granny Smith in every grocery store on the planet. Wine has the bigger story. In the 1860s, a tiny aphid called phylloxera caught a boat from America to France, hidden in some grapevine cuttings. It eats grape roots. French vines had no defense and started dying everywhere. Within 15 years, French wine production crashed from about 11 billion bottles a year to 3 billion. The blight then tore through Italy, Spain, and Germany, and European wine was on the edge of collapse. The rescue came from Missouri and Texas. American grapevines had grown up with phylloxera and were immune to it. So growers chopped French grape varieties off at the trunk and joined them to American roots. Above the soil: still French grapes. Below the soil: aphid-proof American root. It worked. Today, almost every bottle of French, Italian, Spanish, Australian, and Californian wine you’ve ever drunk sits on top of an American root. The technique is ancient. Chinese farmers were grafting trees by 1000 BCE. A Greek medical text from 424 BCE describes it casually, like it was already old news. It works because plants don’t have a rejection system the way animals do. Cut two branches. Match the green layers just under the bark. Wrap them tight. In a few weeks the plumbing has fused into a single plant. A Syracuse University art professor named Sam Van Aken has spent 18 years building a single tree that grows 40 different fruits: peaches, plums, apricots, cherries, nectarines, almonds. In spring it blossoms in pink, white, and crimson all at once. He’s made more than a dozen. They sell for up to $30,000 each. Without grafting, there would be no commercial apple industry, no global wine industry, and most of the heirloom fruits humans have bred over the centuries would have gone extinct. One clean cut, and you’ve kept entire species alive.

feetz 🐾

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! ❤️ Thank you, teachers, for making learning so much fun!! Love, Elmo ✏️ ❤️

Happy Earth Day, everybody! Let’s get outside and play! 🌍☀️

"Not flat, we checked" -- NASA

I just found out that Anne Hathaway optioned the rights to a book about a modern tradwife influencer who wakes up in 1855 and has to live the life that she’s been selling to her followers online. I am SCREAMING

Swim class: "He's silly!" the little girl says, pointing at my kid. "I want to play with him." "Be gentle," says her grandmother. "I saw on Sesame Street," and she jumps beside my spinning son. There's an autistic, nonverbal Muppet. Don't tell me representation doesn't matter.

Let us remember, men only reached the moon because of the tireless work of a segregated black woman who performed math none of them could. She was also born in WV and attended West Virginia University, where a scholarship program exists for other black students in STEM named after her. Katherine Johnson did this in a time when just getting an education as a black woman was far more difficult then it ever needed to be. May you look at every NASA rocket and think of her. She earned it.

Me training for whatever tf April finna bring

Happy birthday, Mister Rogers. 💙🌈✨

Robert Mueller has died. Statement from the Family of Robert S. Mueller III “With deep sadness, we are sharing the news that Bob passed away last night. His family asks that their privacy be respected.”

Ex-Blockbuster employee here. And I mean it with 100% sincerity that the world would be a better place if we shut down all streaming services, re-opened Blockbusters and video stores worldwide, and shoved people back out into the world to find and enjoy their entertainment.

Congratulations to our friend @michaelb4jordan for winning Best Actor at the 2026 Oscars! 🌟 All of us on Sesame Street are so proud of you! 🏆💛💚

Remember to be kind to yourself and others! 💛💚

Remember, Elmo loves you today and everyday! ❤️

Losing an hour of time/sleep on International Women's Day feels like the most on brand thing this world has to offer.

feel like anyone complaining about this being too on the nose is calling the kettle black. obviously it wasn’t meant for you if you have basic understanding of feminism. you know who doesnt? little girls and older woman who, for one reason or another, have not heard it this way

Happy International Women’s Day