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Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill
@cagraham.bsky.social
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Historian and author of Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church.

A Clodhopper from North Carolina, forced to live on the mountain of conceit, Richmond, Va.

Museums are not neutral.
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Post something random of you’ll have an awful December
A mask of a man with exaggerated features on a wall above an aquatic creature whose name I can remember at the moment but it has a greenish shell and a stinger, both by an artist named Todd whose last name I can’t remember but he has a studio in downtown Richmond.
November 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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A small black and white dog who is a killer who would love nothing more than to eat my hands for thanksgiving.
November 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Newspaper sketch of a large domesticated turkey named Bronze Pete visiting his smaller wild cousins.
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Groom themselves and they're indistinguishable from William Walker
Engraving of a man in suit and high collar. It's the filibusterer William Walker.
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Roughly the same angle.

I like this building because it has a Francis Asbury plaque on it.
Streetview image of a brick tobacco factory turned into apartments. Close up of a brick building with a door, a window, and an unloved plaque commemorating Francis Asbury.
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Photograph of a beardless Abraham Lincoln, having enough of your shit, demanding that you get your goddam story straight about a location on the US Mexico border.
November 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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This is from my last exhibit. Wonder if anyone visiting today is making the connection.
A history exhibit on a green wall with imagers of fugitives from slavery being recaptured, two portraits of men, and a poster cautioning "colored people" about kidnappers in the area.
November 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Dan Quinn'll give him a run for his money in the backward-hat-suburban-dad-riding-mower game.
Dan Quinn, coach of the Washington Commanders, with gray goatee and busted nose wearing a black ball cap backwards.
November 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Same band, after they discovered lsd. Seriously.
The Dillards, a wacked out country rock outfit in the 1970s, who were actually really good.
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Repost with an iconic fictional(ish) band.
The Darlings bluegrass band from the Andy Griffith Show, missing Charlene.
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Hang on, when did reading become so performative?
Newspaper engraving of a Black United States soldier holding aloft a torch that is lighting up a cabin full of freedom seekers while reading the Emancipation Proclamation. Honestly, did he have to be so obvious about it?
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Vonnegut
November 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Laney is her government name but I call her Little D or Lil’Growler exclusively
November 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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A nubbin bug worms its way into the Federation's highest echelons, through her mouth. Picard and Riker resist the infiltration with phasers. The main nubbin bug conspirator gets liquidated by Picard and Riker's phaser blasts.
November 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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lol pretty much
October 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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That time I made a Loki costume for Lil'Growler here and she was LIVID.
a small black dog livid about having to wear a dumb horned headdress for halloween.
October 31, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Don't tell that guy about this
Viennetta ice cream cake: an elite dessert that poor people shouldn't get, because they're poor.
October 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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October 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Damn @lukeoneil47.bsky.social this is not helping with my existential anxiety right now (complimentary).
Book cover with title “we had it coming and other fictions” by Luke O’Neil with a grainy color photograph of a mom and two youngins on a rocky beach that reminds me of my own childhood
October 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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though right now, it's these two...
Al Swearengen and Seth Bullock from Deadwood
October 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Also...
October 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
Statler & Waldorf from the Muppet Show
October 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Seen on Saturday
Man with a protest sign that says "Only Jesus is King"
October 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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research this morning
Blondie cartoon from the Florence (S.C.) Morning News, June 2, 1965. Four panels: First, Dagwood, Jr reads a book and says "Pop, it says in my history book there was a Bumstead in the Revolutionary War"; second, Dagwood says, "Of course--haven't I always told you the Bumstead name is rich in tradition?"; third, Jr. says "but this Bumstead was shot for firing a cannon at his own men"; fourth, an exasperated Dagwood says "well anyway... he got his name in the book!"
October 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM