If you think RHPS is behind a paywall (because googles will have you believe that), reminder that Internet Archive is working to preserve all the things from government stats and silly memes to Dr Frankenfurter #timcurry archive.org/details/ROCK...

ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW 1975

1H 39M STARRING TIM CURRY AND SUSAN SARANDON

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4 days ago The Pentagon fired the editor in chief of Stars and Stripes. Yesterday they broke the story of Elsie Dominguez, a civilian engineer who was raped repeatedly by the Captain of a Navy ship she was on. They keep trying to silence the press & quash the truth. Elsie’s story must be told:

Lawsuit over sexual assault aboard Navy transport ship dismissed as worker’s comp issue

The order handed down this month closed an attempt by a civilian engineer to get justice for an assault she said threw her life into shambles.

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So now I’ll be crying over Dolly while doing the Time Warp all day. 💔💔 Tim Curry

if you're in line to donate money to the Imagination Library, please stay in line

So Mayer@suchmayer.northsky.social · 5d ago

There are so many donations happening right now that the site has crashed.

Bec I was crying at work I ended up breaking the news to an entire Bio class getting a library tour...and the fact that they all gasped, knew who she was, and immediately got sad proves Dolly did things right. She crossed generations/so many other lines. Sad for us but happy you're with Carl Dean💔

re: the scope of this law, this is so much worse than I even thought it was and I already thought it was really bad

Feathers McGraw@feathersmcgraw.bsky.social · 6d ago

ALL Arkansans. It covers Friends of Libraries' booksales, Little Free Libraries, gifts to your friends and families in the privacy of your home. Independence County immediately pulled all comics and Manga for review. Right now you need to show ID to check out graphic novels.

My feed is (rightfully) upset about wild horses news coming from this administration. And while I will not defend the actions (or anything ever from this admin) I’d like to point y’all this great podcast sharing the complicated layers of wild horses. www.boisestatepublicradio.org/podcast/must...

Mustang

For $125 you can get a wild horse from the Bureau of Land Management and try and train it. That’s what I did this spring. Bua’a (“friend” in Paiute) is a three-year-old mustang from the Beatys Butte w...

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“I probably know more about books than anybody in the county” 🤔 SUMNER COUNTY’s far-right county commission just appointed Don Scruggs, who proudly posts the Confederate flag (and says it has nothing to do with slavery)… to their library board. Full: www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...

I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+

The company that killed bookstores is now killing books, literally.

404 Media@404media.co · 2w ago

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

This is an absolute travesty. Northwestern has, probably, the 2nd best library collection for African History/Studies in the USA (behind Yale and ahead of MSU, UCLA, etc). A self-inflicted wound that is absolutely, 100% unnecessary given the massive wealth of Northwestern--north of $15 billion.

SCOOP: Northwestern moves to close Program of African Studies

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Among many other changes, Cullman County Public Library (AL) has completely removed their young adult section in the public library. This is as a result of the Alabama laws related to book appropriateness. www.cullmantribune.com/2026/08/11/c...

Cullman County Public Library Board meeting notes: Aug. 6  - The Cullman Tribune

Cullman County Public Library Board meeting notes: Aug. 6  - The Cullman Tribune - Featured

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50 years of strip-mining on Black Mesa has reshaped the water, the land, and the people living on Navajo & Hopi lands. 45 billion gallons of Navajo groundwater pumped out. 12,000+ Navajos forcibly relocated. Reclamation so "shoddy" they reseeded the desert with Midwest grass.

Mark your calendars if you're so inclined... www.boisestate.edu/news/2026/08...

Idaho Center for the Book selects two ‘Great Reads’ for 2026 National Book Festival

The Idaho Center for the Book announced the two Great Reads books that will represent...

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Employing new tactics, ICE arrested more people in July than in any previous month of the Trump administration. via @stateline.org www.newsfromthestates.com/article/new-...

With new tactics, ICE reaches new high in monthly arrests

Federal immigration agents are employing new tactics — from arresting academics at airports to setting up a checkpoint at a popular creek in a National Forest — to boost their arrest numbers, leading…

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Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?

If you need some joy, the treadmill video turns 20. Oh the hours spent on YouTube before socials… and I was obsessed with OKGO m.youtube.com/watch?v=dTAA...

OK Go - Here It Goes Again (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by OKGoVEVO

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Strap in folks. There's a lot of season left. www.nifc.gov/nicc-files/p...

A fast-moving wildfire has destroyed about 230 homes in an Indigenous community in western Canada.

Wildfire destroys about 230 homes in western Canadian Indigenous community, officials say

A fast-moving wildfire has destroyed about 230 homes in an Indigenous community in western Canada. The chief of the Okanagan Indian Band says the Bradley Creek wildfire devastated much of the reserve near Vernon, about 440 kilometers northeast of Vancouver.

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This is also relevant in terms of the Spokane fires arrest/announcement. This person may be guilty but while we still have some semblance of a (biased and corrupt) judicial system, it needs to be stated that this is just the arrest stage, and sometimes they're wrong! This is not a conviction. 🧵in OG

audie verde@audieverde.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I've seen an uptick in sharing mugshots (tonight - greenbelt case, but many other incidents as well lately). Murder is wrong. Hurting people is wrong. Also, our police and justice system are corrupt AF and sharing mugshots is during that innocent until proven guilty phase is also wrong.1/

When we don't adequately fund public universities, and instead force students to take out loans, what we as a society are really doing is borrowing money from the younger generation—their hard-earned future income—to fund a necessary project that benefits us all: building an educated society.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 4w ago

1. This is bullsh*t & an epically stupid policy completely detached from any empirical evidence: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 2. We could simply avoid this entire issue by <all together now> Funding. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

This week on The Roots: Our Editorial Intern Zoe Beketova shares what it took to reveal what it looks like to get sick and age inside the carceral system. Join us every Sunday as we discuss one of the week's top news stories: newsletter.thexylom.com/archive/what...

What It Takes to Report on America's Elderly Prison Healthcare Crisis

Our Editorial Intern shares what it took to reveal what it looks like to get sick and age inside the carceral system

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Applying to fed jobs has always had some coded patriotic themes but this is a new level. TLDR: how will you make US more efficient and what’s your fave presidential order these days??

In case anyone else is burnt out and also cannot take the break they actually need here's some advice my therapist gave me today that I'm sharing here jic: -wear comfortable clothes, & only pack comfortable clothes for trips -take at least two 15min breaks a day of silence, no screens or sounds

This is a hill I will die on. I have very few hills I can control, but using capitalist terms for library patrons, even when I have been mandated, I have never ever done.

Matthew Noe@noethematt.bsky.social · last mo.

I die a little more inside every time I see a librarian refer to their community members as customers.

urban planners love to ask people to comment on a particular road design or proposal etc but they should be asking people what kind of day they enjoy having, how they want to spend their time, what brings them joy because that’s what the design of the city decides

bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.

As Israeli government officials rush to blame Mayor Mamdani for a horrible antisemitic attack yesterday, remember: after the far deadlier 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, the Israeli government rushed to absolve Trump of any responsibility, despite most American Jews blaming him for it.

Me yesterday afternoon: wonder where I’ll run away to this weekend to camp and hike?? - Me this afternoon: apparently I am now running in the Ironman. - Send gentle breezes and good vibes y’all. I am now attempting an off the couch Ironman (just the run part!)