Bob Hutton
@herecomesdrbob.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History, Appalachian Studies, and Divisive Concepts
Author of BLOODY BREATHITT from @KENTUCKYPRESS
I like to steal, gamble, and rob.
Author of BLOODY BREATHITT from @KENTUCKYPRESS
I like to steal, gamble, and rob.
Probably the case with most cities (mind you, if you count only what's in the city limits). Pretty crazy though.
amusing chart. it turns out New York City built more housing units in the 1920s than in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s put together www.nyc.gov/content/plan...
November 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Probably the case with most cities (mind you, if you count only what's in the city limits). Pretty crazy though.
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if you told 17 year old me how thoroughly, world-historically vindicated ICP would be within a couple decades...
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
if you told 17 year old me how thoroughly, world-historically vindicated ICP would be within a couple decades...
Memphis really is affordable.
November 12, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Memphis really is affordable.
The very (I assume) hurried make-up job meant to transform Donna Reed into the alternate reality Pottertown spinster librarian in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE.
What’s your all time favorite Hollywood Homely fail? When a woman is meant to be unattractive but she’s gorgeous. Thinking of how Safety Not Guaranteed has a key moment where a man’s ex is in the script old and no longer attractive and she’s a knockout who the movie still plays as old.
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The very (I assume) hurried make-up job meant to transform Donna Reed into the alternate reality Pottertown spinster librarian in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE.
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I bet some of my non existent money that Trump ranting about the filibuster became a real threat behind the scenes and the Dems can't have the filibuster going away
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I bet some of my non existent money that Trump ranting about the filibuster became a real threat behind the scenes and the Dems can't have the filibuster going away
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If you enjoy “Death by Lightning” on @Netflix.com, you should read @candicemillard.bsky.social’s “Destiny of the Republic,” C.W. Goodyear’s “President Garfield,” Kenneth Ackerman’s “Dark Horse,” and, if I may be so bold…my own “The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880.”
The Last Lincoln Republican
Of all the great “what if” scenarios in American history, the aftermath of the presidential election of 1880 stands out as one of the most tantal...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
If you enjoy “Death by Lightning” on @Netflix.com, you should read @candicemillard.bsky.social’s “Destiny of the Republic,” C.W. Goodyear’s “President Garfield,” Kenneth Ackerman’s “Dark Horse,” and, if I may be so bold…my own “The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880.”
Thanks to Meredith and Tony for including me in this outstanding collection.
In 2019, Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll published “Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy” in which dozens of authors and creative artists presented a retort to the shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region
Snag a copy today at WVU's Mountaineer Week Craft Fair
Snag a copy today at WVU's Mountaineer Week Craft Fair
November 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Thanks to Meredith and Tony for including me in this outstanding collection.
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When this is all over and Target has happy commercials with multicultural couples, tech comes back hand in hand, and the big media orgs start talking about how they're the smol bean guarantors of democracy don't forget. Don't give them an inch.
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
When this is all over and Target has happy commercials with multicultural couples, tech comes back hand in hand, and the big media orgs start talking about how they're the smol bean guarantors of democracy don't forget. Don't give them an inch.
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My company food allowance is £50 per day. Realised I can buy a couple of homeless people a sizeable meal whenever I travel and consume fewer calories at the same time. Makes me feel great and have had some great chats with real people. Do it if you can.
November 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
My company food allowance is £50 per day. Realised I can buy a couple of homeless people a sizeable meal whenever I travel and consume fewer calories at the same time. Makes me feel great and have had some great chats with real people. Do it if you can.
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I don't care if I am the last person on earth to refuse to use AI, but I am disabling this satanic technology from every operation I use.
Without human thought, what possible reason do we have to live?
Without human thought, what possible reason do we have to live?
November 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I don't care if I am the last person on earth to refuse to use AI, but I am disabling this satanic technology from every operation I use.
Without human thought, what possible reason do we have to live?
Without human thought, what possible reason do we have to live?
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It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
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Hagar the Shitstirrer
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Hagar the Shitstirrer
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Thomas Stockett on Birmingham's Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor, April 1962.
November 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Thomas Stockett on Birmingham's Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor, April 1962.
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Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this.
But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!
But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this.
But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!
But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!
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Daily Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald dump
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Daily Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald dump
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When things settle down I’d love to see Adams and Sliwa in a production of Sunshine Boys
November 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
When things settle down I’d love to see Adams and Sliwa in a production of Sunshine Boys
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Enthusiasm level update: the woman handing out Cuomo flyers on the corner said “you can just throw it away if you want”
November 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Enthusiasm level update: the woman handing out Cuomo flyers on the corner said “you can just throw it away if you want”
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"Dress for the job you want, not the job you have"
Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.
October 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"Dress for the job you want, not the job you have"
Gorgeous cartoon, especially when the 1stperson shot of the fiery jackolantern being thrown.
Mary Blair's concept art for Disney's Sleepy Hollow adaptation.
November 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Gorgeous cartoon, especially when the 1stperson shot of the fiery jackolantern being thrown.
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I faked dementia to get into a nursing home; I was widowed in my 70's and living with my son and his family who meant well but are very annoying; no one can believe how much my dementia has levelled out now and that I can use an I phone and laptop etc.
October 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I faked dementia to get into a nursing home; I was widowed in my 70's and living with my son and his family who meant well but are very annoying; no one can believe how much my dementia has levelled out now and that I can use an I phone and laptop etc.
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The old world is dying.
The new world struggles to be born…
The new world struggles to be born…
October 31, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The old world is dying.
The new world struggles to be born…
The new world struggles to be born…
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I'm so tired of major newspapers casting academics who make *maybe* slightly more than average while working their asses off as out-of-touch elites just because they talk about the fucked up shit this country has done
October 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I'm so tired of major newspapers casting academics who make *maybe* slightly more than average while working their asses off as out-of-touch elites just because they talk about the fucked up shit this country has done
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The 1925 recordings captured the Appalachian sound for the first time—and they‘re still influencing artists today.
#MusicSky
#MusicSky
A Remastered Album and New Festival Pay Tribute to the Pivotal Asheville Sessions
The 1925 recordings captured the Appalachian sound for the first time—and they‘re still influencing artists today
gardenandgun.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The 1925 recordings captured the Appalachian sound for the first time—and they‘re still influencing artists today.
#MusicSky
#MusicSky
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A reminder that facts are stubborn things. Appalachian Power is lowering rates in their VA subsidiary because of renewable-driven savings and raising rates in WV because of mandates to burn coal. wvpublic.org/story/energy...
Citing Renewables, Appalachian Power To Lower Virginia Bills - West Virginia Public Broadcasting
That’s in contrast to the company’s April filing in West Virginia, which asked regulators to charge customers $5 more a month to pay for fuel expenses.
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October 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A reminder that facts are stubborn things. Appalachian Power is lowering rates in their VA subsidiary because of renewable-driven savings and raising rates in WV because of mandates to burn coal. wvpublic.org/story/energy...
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BREAKING: Two men have been arrested in connection with the heist of France's crown jewels from the Louvre Museum in Paris.
October 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
BREAKING: Two men have been arrested in connection with the heist of France's crown jewels from the Louvre Museum in Paris.