Donna Spencer ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‰

Donna Spencer ๐Ÿ”„๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‰

@donnaspencer.bsky.social

Language, music, lefty politics and theology, Appalachia, road trips, cocktails, pie, and yarn. Knoxville, Tennessee. she/her

669 Followers 642 Following 254 Posts Joined Sep 2023
4 hours ago
An abstract stained glass window, largely blue with some green, red, andbyellow

At a little Baptist church in Kentucky where my uncle is singing in a choir concert
#40DaysofGoodShit
#Lent

1 0 0 0
1 day ago

The mayor in Jaws is the same mayor in Jaws II

Itโ€™s so important to vote in your local elections

16 6 1 1
1 day ago

Enjoy Scotland! I got to go last year and I'm still scheming about how I could live there.

0 0 1 0
1 day ago

Grateful for your safe return.

0 0 0 0
1 day ago
A small plant with three light-purple blooms grows in the gap between pavement and a stone curb

This scrappy little beauty growing out of the curb.
#40DaysofGoodShit
#Lent

1 1 0 0
1 day ago
it just feels so horrible
we feel powerless
we've tried fighting, 
we've tried surrendering
we've tried ignoring
we've tried building
israel doesn't let you exist
that's it, our choice is fast death 
or faster death

From a friend in Beirut this morning, who in the last few days has seen several Israel missile strikes within walking distance of their home.

1,620 624 13 12
4 days ago
A bright yellow dandelion in a patch of grass

How can anything this pretty be a weed?
#40DaysofGoodShit
#lent

1 0 0 0
4 days ago

In Victorian slang, a "Muffin Walloper" was an unmarried woman who liked meeting up with her friends to gossip over tea & cakes. I feel that one in my soul.

22 1 0 0
5 days ago
Close-up of spring buds on a small redbud branch

My little redbud starting to blossom
#40DaysofGoodShit
#lent

8 2 0 0
1 week ago

I could not stop myself from flipping it off and that was just a picture

0 0 0 0
1 week ago

Iโ€™m in Tennessee so Iโ€™ve modified the bottom right square to read โ€œtires, arenaโ€

0 0 0 0
1 week ago
Alice Gerrard plays guitar and sings on a small stage between a fiddle and a mandolin player, with a single mic

The incredible Alice Gerrard (91 years old!) kicking off a weekend celebration of women in old-time music at the @wdvx.bsky.social Blue Plate Special
#40DaysofGoodShit
#lent

1 0 0 0
1 week ago

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

7,341 2,310 182 51
1 week ago
A lacy blue scarf hangs from a doorframe

Iโ€™ve done very little lace, but Janina Kallieโ€™s Open Skies scarf was a joy to make #ShowUsYourKnits ๐Ÿงถ

12 0 0 0
1 week ago

Not gonna share the video of Republican US Senator Tim Sheehy breaking a protesting Marine's hand, but you can find it on @charlotteclymer.bsky.social's timeline.

I'll just say that in a functional country, Sheehy would be expelled by the Senate.

Democratic Senators should publicly push for that.

4,387 1,267 32 69
1 week ago
A sidewalk in a residential neighborhood with hundreds of pale yellow daffodils blooming beside it

So many daffodils
#40DaysofGoodShit
#Lent

3 0 0 0
1 week ago

Friends, read this thread and then go get this book. It'll break your heart, and as Mary Oliver wrote,

"...by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world."

22 4 1 0
1 week ago
Full moon with a few clouds in a dark sky

My grammy used to say, โ€œChildren, think about me when you see a full moon.โ€
#40DaysofGoodShit
#Lent

4 0 1 0
1 week ago

Iโ€™m glad to see even mainstream media calling this war a war instead of its PR name Operation Epic Fury, which sounds like something my brother and his friends would have come up with playing with their GI Joes.

2 0 0 0
1 week ago
A tree with a gnarled trunk in a park setting with brick buildings in the background

Lunchtime walk brought me to this gorgeous tree
#40DaysofGoodShit
#lent

2 0 0 0
1 week ago

Thanks!

0 0 0 0
1 week ago

A beautiful weekend hosting an old friendโ€”cocktails, dinner, a museum exhibition, a movie, just hanging out.
#40DaysofGoodShit
#lent

2 0 0 0
1 week ago

Beautiful! What is it? I donโ€™t know much about flowers.

0 0 1 0
2 weeks ago
Joy Harjo, dressed in a black shirt and pants, speaks at a microphone with one hand raised

Day 9
Hearing Joy Harjo, exactly the kind of strong, wise voice we need right now
#40DaysofGoodShit
#lent

1 0 0 0
2 weeks ago

Day 8
The news of an upcoming new album from the Highwomen
#40DaysofGoodShit
#lent

2 0 0 0
2 weeks ago

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails.

it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

7,305 2,547 62 117
2 weeks ago

Never forget this: The forces undermining our democracy, rigging our economy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win.

4,207 1,382 113 54
2 weeks ago
A colorful fused glass panel with trees flowers, and a stream, all embellished with little trinkets and bits of costume jewelry.

Day 7
"The Return of Spring" by the amazing artist (and writer and gardener and thinker and human) Cindy Dubliak.
#40DaysofGoodShit
#lent

3 0 1 0
2 weeks ago
An electric fake wood stove glows inside a brick fireplace.

Day 6
A fake wood stove on a cold night
#40DaysofGoodShit
#lent

0 0 0 0
2 weeks ago

Loving someone with addiction is such a hard assignment. Arms around you.

1 0 0 0