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Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 9h

This is basically the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence…

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 21d

Everyone could use a reminder that the idea behind our system of government is that we cede some of our power to it in exchange for it working on our behalf. When it stops doing that it becomes illegitimate and must be changed. The idea that the people can "betray" a government organ is perverse

David Noll @david.noll.org · 21d

In response to California passing a law limiting law enforcement officers' ability to conceal their identities, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California contends that police are not subject to democratic control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 12h

I live in the neighborhood where Patrick Henry uttered these words so yeah, it resonates

Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 1d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 16h

Almost daily reminders why I cancelled my sub. "allegations" He said it! "Dems see a pattern of inflicting pain..." Anyone with two eyes to see can see that, not just Dems.

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Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah but if you're name is Thurl Ravenscroft, you get a free pass on most things.

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Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 17h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

HVAC is broken, again.

(My first entry was for historians, this one is for museum curators and collections managers)

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 17h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

She burned their letters.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 18h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 17h

I certainly don't have the connections he's looking for, but Silly Genius is hands down my favorite Richmond muralist, and we have a bunch of good ones in this town. Check him out.

Tokyo Toni Morrison @sillygenius.bsky.social · 1d

still tryna find my way into the Black art circle of this app. plug me in, y’all

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Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 17h

Weird seeing your own writing quoted becuase in my case I was using an authorial voice to express how proslavery Christians imagined themselves and stripped out of context that makes it sound like *I* am endorsing that view which I am very much not.

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Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 17h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

In the 1890 Census

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 17h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

She burned their letters.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 18h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 1d

Seems to have had that name before 1935 so I suspect not.

Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 1d

Yooo 3.5 miles from my house

Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 1d

Gay Avenue Pump Station

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Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 1d

p.s. Palmetto Day aka Carolina Day: the anniversary of the surprise victory of SC troops and militia over a British attempt to capture Charles Town just a week before Declaration of Independence. A worthy anniversary, indeed, and a convenient one if you don't want folks thinking about independence.

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Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday read abt how Early Republic SCn's downplayed Independence Day so enslaved people wouldn't get any ideas & played up Palmetto Day (June 28) instead. It's still this way (My exhibit opens June 28 for a reason).

This whiteness was intentional and will remain so until we face this fact.

Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 1d

Gettysburg Is Still White America's Greatest Civil War Battle 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Gettysburg Is Still White America's Greatest Civil War Battle

A new movie is being filmed in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania this weekend about the famous battle.

open.substack.com

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 2d

every political reporter knows that the jay jones text are on the tame end of how politicians talk in private, not to mention tamer than how trump and his associates talk in public

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Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 2d

I will once my Soros check clears

Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 2d

www.reddit.com/r/NFCEastMem...

Meme war between the NFL’s finest

Share your memes, talk shit, and respect thy fellow NFC East memer.

www.reddit.com

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Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 3d

black and white photograph of the OG sideburns, Ambrose Burnside

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Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, awesome. I'M OUT, Y'ALL. See you never. Peace!

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 3d

whoa

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Mike O'Brien @obrien.page · 3d

Super easy to use the mapgl package and @oldinsurancemaps.net to compare 1886 Richmond, VA to today in #rstats. The site of Gallego Mills, the ruins of which became an iconic photo after the fall of Richmond in the American Civil War, is now an office building and freeway.

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William Peter MacMason @wpmacmason.bsky.social · 4d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 4d

Julie de Graag, Moonlight, woodcut, 1920.

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Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve got 1.5 yrs left as a RevWar guy so if you can have this ready for my inevitable return to CivilWarLand I think it would be a fine welcome home 🙏 very much looking forward to this one.

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Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 4d

Bahama, North Carolina

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill @cagraham.bsky.social · 4d

The day of/after the Montgomery Boat Brawl on Twitter was probably the funniest and best thing that I've ever experienced as an American alive at this point in time. I really felt a part of something greater than me for a minute.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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