My beautiful daughter made her first holy communion yesterday. All the staff in #KolbeSchool and the Priest made it such a special occasion. #RettSyndromeAwareness

Oh Gary 😂😂

In 1958, a divorced single mom got fired from her secretary job for being a bad typist. 21 years later, she sold her side hustle for $47.5 million. And her teenage helper would go on to help invent MTV. Her name was Bette Nesmith Graham. Before she became a millionaire inventor, she was a struggling single mother in Dallas with no college degree and very few options. She married young during WWII. By 22, she was divorced, raising a son alone, and trying to survive on secretary jobs. She eventually became an executive secretary at Texas Bank & Trust. There was just one problem: She was a terrible typist. The bank had recently installed new IBM electric typewriters that made correcting mistakes almost impossible. One typo could mean retyping an entire page. Her son later remembered watching her sit at the kitchen table in “tears of panic,” terrified she’d lose her job. But Bette had another skill. She painted holiday window displays at the bank for extra money. One day, while painting over a mistake on a window, she had a realization: “An artist never erases mistakes. They paint over them.” That night, she went home and mixed a white liquid in her kitchen blender using tempera paint. She poured it into a nail polish bottle. The next morning, she used it to cover typing errors. It worked. For five years, her boss never noticed. Other secretaries did. Soon, women from offices across the city were asking for bottles. Bette started making batches at home with help from her teenage son, Michael, and his friends. She called the product “Mistake Out.” Then came the twist. In 1958, she accidentally typed the name of her side business onto a company letter. Her boss fired her immediately. It became the best thing that ever happened to her. She renamed the product Liquid Paper and focused on it full-time. Orders exploded. By the late 1960s, she was selling over a million bottles a year. By the 1970s, 25 million bottles annually. Then she did something even more unusual: She built one of the most progressive workplaces in America. Her company offered: • child care • continuing education • leadership roles for women • jobs for disabled workers • integrated staffing This was decades before most corporations even considered those ideas. In 1979, with failing health, Bette sold Liquid Paper to Gillette for $47.5 million. Six months later, she died at age 56. Half her fortune went to women-focused charities. The other half went to her son. That son was Michael Nesmith. Yes the same Michael Nesmith from The Monkees. And with the money from Liquid Paper royalties, he funded a small experimental cable TV project called PopClips. It featured short films set to music. PopClips became the direct prototype for MTV. So one woman’s “typing mistake” helped create: • a multimillion-dollar company • one of America’s most progressive workplaces • and the blueprint for the modern music video era Bette Graham proved something her old boss never understood: The mistake wasn’t the failure. It was the opportunity.

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room. She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill. Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final. Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat. Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped. She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won. By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million. One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

Rainbow aligned with the Poolbeg Chimneys from Clontarf this evening 🌈 a shot I had been chasing for a while and it finally happened today.

The day before the exams ! Prayers for all students 🙏🏼

Wonderful ☘️

Beautiful 😍

Happy Bank Holiday Twitter Friends 🥂

This is amazing, what a daddy and son moment 🥰🥰🥰 can also feel the pure sweat from mama 😂🫣

Former President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins and his dog Misneach who wanted attention during an interview

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Thank you so much @QueenOfTheCraic for recording this, I heard the wonderful @DecPierce stop and pay tribute to the wonderful @AMLaCassePhoto in tonight’s #blockrockinbeats - he’d have been so happy & so moved by that ❤️ Lads let’s get #ForAlan 🫶🏻 trending for him tonight ❤️

❤️ let’s do it guys #ForAlan @AMLaCassePhoto

The fundraiser for Alan's @AMLaCassePhoto family has just reached €15,000! Thank you all so very much for the generosity and kindness you've shown to honour Alan and to help his family after his passing. 🙏

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Life's too short. Eat the cake Drink the wine Smile at a stranger Laugh out loud Dance in the rain Go on holiday Tell them you love them Wear what you want Listen to the waves More importantly be fucking kind to everyone, you don't know what they are going through.

Alan's funeral is taking place this Thursday. I have an idea that I hope you all will like. On Thursday morning, how about we all share some of our favourite photography and tag @AMLaCassePhoto Does that sound like a good idea to remember him? 💜📸

Had a little technical prob trying to post the #365in2023 collaborative poem in one...so unfortunately its this, but im sure you get the gist. Its written in several perspectives, but there's no denying 'feel' and the loveliness to accompany @OMGitsagirl2015 beautiful photograph.