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john m @murden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is fascinating. I think more density would help all of my favorite things about this city. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a809...

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Comparing Richmond's Population Over Time

Many of our neighborhoods are 40% less dense than they were in 1950. What happened?

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Chris Graham, Beardo Weirdo @cagraham.bsky.social · 5h

As someone who studies Confederates and other southern white supremacists.... YES!

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Chris Graham, Beardo Weirdo @cagraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(Don't really do this often... but today seems like the day...) My book, the racial history of one congregation in Richmond, Virginia and how history and memory works and stops working over time... can still be had...

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Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause - UVA Press

Winner of the AASLH Leadership in History AwardFaith, Race, and the Lost Cause is a new history of Richmond’s famous St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, atte

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Chris Graham, Beardo Weirdo @cagraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Going through this exact same thing right now in my current museum and all I can say is 🤐🤐🤐

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Chris Graham, Beardo Weirdo @cagraham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Here it is this afternoon. I couldn’t get the same angle because of that truck, but I was able to get the old phone booth.

A boarded up building with white sides and red trim that used to be a neighborhood grocery store. Next to it is an old phone booth.

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 03/10/2026

"Along the US's southeastern coast, Gullah Geechee communities preserve a distinct culture and language rooted in West Africa that is spoken nowhere else on Earth." www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

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The American coast that refused to let African culture die

Along the US's South-eastern coast, Gullah Geechee communities preserve a distinct culture and language rooted in West Africa that is spoken nowhere else on Earth.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 02/10/2026

Legitimately fucking insane. I hate hate heresy hunting but this is heresy

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Chris Graham, Beardo Weirdo @cagraham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

…and now that I’ve read her acknowledgements, I’m extra-looking forward to reading @civilwarmemory.bsky.social new one.

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Chris Graham, Beardo Weirdo @cagraham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Speaking of South Carolina, it goes unmentioned because it doesn’t matter to the story, but the wife of one of the victims in this spree was a first cousin of John C. Calhoun.

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Chris Graham, Beardo Weirdo @cagraham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wonder what Professor Grandjean would make of William Cunningham’s Bloody Scout in 1781 South Carolina, because that seems to fit her description of what a “rampage killing” is.

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Chris Graham, Beardo Weirdo @cagraham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is an incredible bit of research and writing. Couldn’t put it down, and gasped a number of times. Of particular interest to me because my direct ancestors were among the flood of immigrants into south central Kentucky at the time of this spree. Wonder what they knew.

Book with red cover and white lettering, reads “Kingdom of Devils: A Tale of Murder in the Shadow of the American Revolution,” by Katherine Grandjean

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 01/10/2026

ATTN: Richmonders of Bluesky! I'm organizing with a group of neighbors to shut down E. Broad St. on Halloween to keep East End trick-or-treaters safe from reckless drivers. The city requires off-duty cops, insurance, barricades, etc., so we're raising money to cover the costs. Chip in if you can!

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Donate to Support BooFest on Broad!, organized by Katie Amrhein

BooFest on Broad is a new Halloween tradition here in Church Hill. A group of your Church … Katie Amrhein needs your support for Support BooFest on Broad!

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh, that kind of Christianity

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John Fea @johnfea1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Released yesterday. Get your copy today!

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Chris Graham, Beardo Weirdo @cagraham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Does broth work well for lumbugaroo of the eggsac? I use a mustard poultice which works fine and don’t want to change.

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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So it seems, rather than is?

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Eddie S. Glaude @esglaude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Chris Graham, Beardo Weirdo @cagraham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

in the future, this is what virtue signaling will look like

Medieval painting at RISD showing two dudes blowing on horns and another holding a banner and all have that strange upturned angle to their heads that you see on 15th century paintings.

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Chris Graham, Beardo Weirdo @cagraham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I just had the very uncomfortable experience of seeing this in person and so you get to see it now

Square button with photograph of Al Gore eating Tipper’s face at the 2000 Democratic Convention, with the words “the kiss” in hot pink script, like its actual passion, which is just weird on like eight different levels.

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Chris Graham, Beardo Weirdo @cagraham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The one I take arrives at 1am or leaves at 3:30am & is NEVER on time. Wifi barely works & electrical outlets (on a six hour trip) are rare. That's disheartening, but at least I can move to an empty cafe car and sit in a booth and read a book while watching a sunset with a bottle of wine. Sweet.

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Nicoletta Penguin @nicoguin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I learned about this earlier in the year from @djinnandtonic.bsky.social who had both some amazing posts about Minnesota people using similar tactics against ICE and has shirts via www.etsy.com/shop/WideAwa.... They inspired one of my favorite protest posters.

@djinnandtonic.bsky.social-inspired protest sign of the Boston anti-man hunting league sign with ICE at the center instead of SH (slave hunter). It's a bright green circle with magenta letters: ICE in the center, surrounded by 6 letters representing people who have different roles in stopping a kidnapping, one who tries to talk the kidnapper down, 5 to grab the kidnapper if that doesn't work, and an outer circle of 12 people who create a commotion so that the kidnapper can be removed from the situation).

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Chris Graham, Beardo Weirdo @cagraham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When I jumped to RevWarLand early last year and started paying better attention to the claims about royal overreach in the Declaration of Independence.... whoo boy.

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Chris Graham, Beardo Weirdo @cagraham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My last exhibit at my former museum worked hard to make this point... and I'm not there and not really on speaking terms with them... so I often wonder how it is landing among visitors these days.

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Chris Graham, Beardo Weirdo @cagraham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Also, Jackson was a dogmatic weirdo and mercurial tactician (he f'ed up occasionally) who constantly frustrated his subordinates. These retrospective hagiographic assessment of his character issued much later are just... not good history.

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Chris Graham, Beardo Weirdo @cagraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Can't believe my team went 2 and out on the season.

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Chris Graham, Beardo Weirdo @cagraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I like this but my better half prefers Willie Nelson's Stardust. (I'd also throw in any Garcia/Grisman into this mix)

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Drive-By Truckers - First Air Of Autumn (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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Chris Graham, Beardo Weirdo @cagraham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Logging off the zoom meeting

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Chris Graham, Beardo Weirdo @cagraham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Dad was at Parris Island when fundraising was happening for this and his company was voluntold to empty their pockets and wallets into the fund. He was a Marine for 21 years and was always proud of this and I SWEAR TO MF’N GOD….

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Chris Graham, Beardo Weirdo @cagraham.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

No man, it’s worse: this dude is a farb. He wants to be able to do US but doesn’t want to buy two pairs of pants because he can wear blue pants as a CS and just say they’re captured. That’s not how it worked. (And I guarantee he’s not wearing English AC pants…)

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