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Sloane Spencer

@sloanespencer.bsky.social

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At least we can still SleepWithRockStars.com. The Gen X sleep podcast OUT NOW. Subscribe/follow on Apple, Spotify, YouTube. CountryFriedRock.com returns. Great music taste. Runner. She/Her Jesus rides beside me He never buys any smokes

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Sloane Spencer @sloanespencer.bsky.social · Jan 31

@nucisspace.bsky.social is a remarkable resource for musicians in Athens, GA, with a mission to prevent suicide. 2025 is their 25th year of saving lives. Happy to be part of their $25 for 25 years campaign. 💙
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25th Anniversary Giving Campaign

Help us grow our monthly recurring donations!

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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 2h

The online abortion pill guide @plancpills.bsky.social has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost. The redesign comes as state officials have threatened investigations and potential lawsuits against the organization.

An Autonomy News exclusive:

Exclusive: Plan C Doubles Down on Abortion Pill Info Amid Political Attacks

The online abortion pill guide has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost.

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Alfred Soto @sotoalfred.bsky.social · 7h

The death of Kirsty MacColl hit hard b/c she had recorded some of the most thrilling music of her life. She would've celebrated a birthday this morning. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2021/10/10/i...

I could leave you but I don’t know how: The best of Kirsty MacColl

When the world learned Kirsty MacColl had died in a boating accident more than twenty years ago, we mourned the snuffing of a singer of warmth and humor, a songwriting of increasingly varied appeti…

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 21h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Christina(Tina) Hendriks @renissance1.bsky.social · 20h

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

So much for the lawsuit

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

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Sloane Spencer @sloanespencer.bsky.social · 20h

Fun fact: I saw Fishbone at the Atlanta Civic Center in 1987, where they were so much better than the headliner, that I had a permanent Major Disagreement with a couple guy friends who were megafans of the main act.

Sloane Spencer @sloanespencer.bsky.social · 20h

Just discovered @fishboneband.bsky.social are here!
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Fishbone - Racist Piece Of Shit (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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James E. Clyburn @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans say “Obamacare doesn’t work.”

That’s ridiculous—the ACA has cut the number of uninsured Americans by 20 million.

Yes, costs are still too high. But if Republicans get their way, average marketplace premiums will double and millions will become uninsured again.

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Kim Grant @kdgmp.bsky.social · 23h

@twangville.bsky.social on Rosie Flores and The Talismen's latest-"She’s opening for Robert Plant this fall and that will undoubtedly raise awareness with some new fans....if you’re not already a Rosie Flores admirer, you will be after 'Impossible Frontiers.'"
twangville.com/2025/10/08/r...

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Sloane Spencer @sloanespencer.bsky.social · 1d

The only one I remember was over in a building kinda across the side entrance road from Lenox. I won a concert poster or something, but I never shopped there.

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Sloane Spencer @sloanespencer.bsky.social · 1d

I have Googled, and it has something to do with settings in your computer a d how you save the file but jumble garble jargon IDK.

Sloane Spencer @sloanespencer.bsky.social · 1d

Gah! Digital hex code color created in Vista differs from same hex code when trying to match a background on a web design page.

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Sloane Spencer @sloanespencer.bsky.social · 2d

Studio legend John Keane is officially retiring and will be selling everything from his epic space on Marketplace in Athens, GA.
(Per his FB post today.)

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Sleep with Rock Stars @sleepwithrockstars.bsky.social · 3d

Linky
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Sleep with Indigo Girls

Podcast Episode · Sleep with Rock Stars · 10/06/2025 · 37m

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Sleep with Rock Stars @sleepwithrockstars.bsky.social · 3d

Linky Dinky Doo
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Sleep with Indigo Girls

YouTube video by Sloane Spencer

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Sleep with Rock Stars @sleepwithrockstars.bsky.social · 3d

Linky dinky
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Sleep with Indigo Girls

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Sloane Spencer @sloanespencer.bsky.social · 2d

We had this book, too. I used to read it to my little brother.

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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight Friends

Josh Johnson Back at Daily Show Anchor Desk Tues–Thurs This Week - LateNighter

Two and a half months after making his Daily Show hosting debut, Josh Johnson is set to return to the anchor desk Tuesday through Thursday of this week—picking up where Jon Stewart leaves off tonight...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, New Yorker

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Fast Women @fastwomen.bsky.social · 3d

Marathon legend Tegla Loroupe will run Sunday’s Chicago Marathon.
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One last marathon run: Tegla Loroupe to take 'her final stride' in Chicago

The Kenyan, now 52, won seven major marathons and is set to make her final competitive appearance in Chicago on 12 October, 14 years after her final marathon in New York.

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Sloane Spencer @sloanespencer.bsky.social · 2d

Maxing out my clipart skills making a new logo. I have zero artistic talent.

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Sloane Spencer @sloanespencer.bsky.social · 2d

Good. Read what you want.

ACLU of South Carolina @aclusc.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Three students and the SC Association of School Librarians are suing SC Education Superintendent Ellen Weaver to challenge her book banning and classroom censorship policies. During Banned Books Week and every week, we’ll show up to defend the freedom to read. www.aclusc.org/en/press-rel...

Students and librarians take S.C. superintendent to court over school censorship rules

COLUMBIA – South Carolina public school librarians and students filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court to block enforcement of the state’s unconstitutional book banning regulation and a

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Sloane Spencer @sloanespencer.bsky.social · 3d

If you don't know Bad Bunny's music, start here with Alt.Latino on the Tiny Desk Concert:
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Behind the scenes of Bad Bunny's Tiny Desk

Podcast Episode · Alt.Latino · 04/09/2025 · 34m

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Sloane Spencer @sloanespencer.bsky.social · 3d

Out now!
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Sleep with Indigo Girls

Podcast Episode · Sleep with Rock Stars · 10/06/2025 · 37m

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WUNC News @wunc.org · 3d

For the past 17 years Kym Register has owned The Pinhook, one of Durham's most esteemed clubs. WUNC music reporter @brianburns.bsky.social recently sat down with Register to talk about the history of the club and what came before it.

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Kym Register and the legacy of The Pinhook

For the past 17 years Kym Register has owned The Pinhook, one of Durham's most esteemed clubs.

www.wunc.org

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Sloane Spencer @sloanespencer.bsky.social · 3d

I work well in creative bursts and total breaks. I need my mundane life in a >2:1 ratio with the energizing parts.