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New town every hour

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Findlay, Ohio
Pop: 48,469

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Findlay,_Ohio

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December 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM

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Postcard From The Past

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Rather a lot of dereliction.

December 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM

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New town every hour

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Asheville, North Carolina
Pop: 312,507

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asheville,_North_Carolina

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December 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM

Amy

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Fun with word clouds

Word cloud, largest word is “reds.” Surprising, I know.

Zoomed in and circled to emphasize the proximity of “reds,” “shit,” “baseball game”

December 3, 2025 at 4:03 AM

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Grace Hill

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Why is WV so poor? Well, part of it is that the corporations got good at economic extraction, keeping miners in debt peonage with scrip into the 1950s. Tough to build long term economic security when you have to buy from the company store. Even today, a third of Clay County students are homeless.

Angelo @mrangelof.bsky.social · 7d

And a piece of Coal Scrip.

This piece if brass scrip was minted for J.W. Hanson & Son in 1951. In Queen Shoals, W.VA. This was for a mine community in Clay Co. Only a little east of Clendenin, WV.

A brass coin with the letter H cut out of its center. The text around the edge reads, “J.W Hanson & Son” “Queen Shoals, W. VA.”

“Payable in merchandise only” “not transferable” “1951”

November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM

Amy

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Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times

James McMurtry
Nickel Creek
Avett Brothers
Jason Isbell
Billy Joel

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8d

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times

R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots

Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 8d

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —

NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello

November 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM

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"smokey stevenson"

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this man is roughly 36 years old

Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson shown on his 1970 O-Pee-Chee baseball card. Sparky famously went gray at a young age and looked a good 15-20 years older than he really was at any given point. Dude could manage some, though

November 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM

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Appalachian Sol

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Old cook books. 😂😂😂

November 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM

Amy

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So I guess this book isn’t *completely* useless

Cbusguy @cbusguy.bsky.social · 11d

www.cbsnews.com/news/drugs-h...

Drugs soaked into pages of "Hillbilly Elegy" were snuck into Ohio prison

An Ohio man has been sentenced to more than ten years behind bars for sneaking drugs into an Ohio prison by spraying them into pages of Vice President Vance's memoir "Hillbilly Elegy."

www.cbsnews.com

November 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM

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New town every hour

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Meadowbrook, Alabama
Pop: 9,387

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadowbrook,_Alabama

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November 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM

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Woo

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November 24, 2025 at 5:35 AM

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Amanda Lane Cumming

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I'd somehow never noticed this in Lou Piniella's biography before, but this made me laugh. Perfect Lou content.

Lou's All-Red-Ass Team

CATCHER: RICK DEMPSEY-Got his red-ass start with the Yankees with the Pfister Hotel fight with Bill Sudakis in Milwaukee in 1974, then was greatly influenced by Earl Weaver in Baltimore in the art of ballbreaking.

FIRST BASE: DAVID SEGUI-He got the red-ass from both sides of the plate. Set records for throwing helmets when I had him in Seattle
from '98 to '99.

SECOND BASE: BRET BOONE-Booney makes two of my all-time teams. Not only was he a productive hitter and elite second baseman, but when he didn't come through at times, the whole dugout heard about it.

SHORTSTOP: RICK BURLESON-There was a reason they called him the Rooster. Prided himself on his fiery intensity.

THIRD BASE: CHRIS SABO-He made me laugh with his tirades. Very unpredictable. You never knew when he was going to go off at some- thing.

RIGHT FIELD: PAUL O'NEILL-He reminded me a lot of myself, but he was more talented. When it came to being a red-ass, he could do
it all.

CENTER FIELD: MILTON BRADLEY-This was one red-ass I didn't find funny. Had a perpetual chip on his shoulder. Thought everyone was out to get him and set records everywhere he went for ill-conceived
clubhouse tirades.

LEFT FIELD: LOU PINIELLA-Can't leave myself off this team. I'm quite proud of it.

DESIGNATED HITTER: ALEX JOHNSON-Boy, could he hit, but had ma- jor temper issues-fights with managers, coaches, teammates, sportswriters-that got him traded five times and sold once.

RIGHT-HANDED PITCHER: CARLOS ZAMBRANO-He could be captain of this team. Seemed like he was good for at least two meltdowns a year with the Cubs. He could pitch, but he was really exasperating.

LEFT-HANDED PITCHER: TED LILLY-Don't be fooled by the choirboy face. He had quite a temper if things didn't go his way on the mound and wasn't averse to taking it out on a watercooler or two.

CLOSER: ROB DIBBLE-See: our clubhouse wrestling match in 1992.

November 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM

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New town every hour

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Milford, Ohio
Pop: 6,855

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milford,_Ohio

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November 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening

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Look at what we've lost

Trey Stokes @treystokes.bsky.social · 15d

The first official US coin was the Fugio cent, rumored to have been designed by Ben Franklin.

Instead of "In God We Trust" (which wasn't put on coins until the Civil War) it said Mind Your Business.

November 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM

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New town every hour

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Bellevue, Kentucky
Pop: 5,721

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellevue,_Kentucky

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November 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM

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Historical Marker Ahead

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For today’s Trans Day of Remembrance we go to the only U.S. National Cemetery with an LGBTQ+ memorial for those who fought and died for a country that didn’t always want them to do that, or want them at all. A sad update from below is the trans military ban is back. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · Nov 25

The only National Cemetery with an LGBTQ+ memorial is Abraham Lincoln in Elwood, Ill. We’ll never know how many died in action — the military ban on gay, lesbian and bisexual members, instituted in 1982, was lifted in 2011, and on transgender members in 2021 www.militaryonesource.mil/relationship...

Entry to the Memorial Walk at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Illinois. A statue of Lincoln is at the beginning of the walk.

The memorial to LGBTQ+ military members at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood, Illinois. It reads:

“…with liberty and justice for all.”

Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people have served honorably and admirably in America's armed forces. In their memory and in appreciation of their selfless service and sacrifice.

Erected 2015 by Chicago Chapter American Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER).

Close-up of LGBTQ+ veterans memorial in Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood, Illinois. It reads:

“…with liberty and justice for all.”

Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people have served honorably and admirably in America's armed forces. In their memory and in appreciation of their selfless service and sacrifice.

Erected 2015 by Chicago Chapter American Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER).

The LGBTQ+ veterans’ memorial on the Memorial Walk, Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood, Illinois.

November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM

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Phil K

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The perfect side dish for any proper Thanksgiving meal is bourbon.

November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM

Amy

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Normally I just repost the ones I’ve been to, but this time I feel the need to add that the Greyhound bus I was on got stuck in the snow here. Cannot recommend.

New town every hour @townsusa.bsky.social · 16d

Rainelle, West Virginia
Pop: 1,520

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainelle,_West_Virginia

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