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Karla with a K

@karlarchivist.bsky.social
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Archivist in Philly. Library defender. Loves skeeball and soft pretzels. Theater costumer in a previous life. she/her *I immediately block all engagement farming accounts*

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 9h
whenever we get close to seeing a systemic problem with policing, media rushes to frame it as a training problem. however, police culture is at the core of its mistreatment of victims and rape cases. policing is a tool of white supremacy AND *male* supremacy
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 10h
the utter futility of appealing to the same system that demanded it must execute Christa Pike, asking it to produce justice for Jane Doe in the Cornell case…
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 14h
a righteous act
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h
I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 18h
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 22/06/2026
Make stuff. Do your hobbies. Geek out with your weird friends. Practice arts and crafts. Every society that ever burned to the ground left behind only the handicrafts, and every society saved from the brink was saved only by arts. Do not give up the joy of creating.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cornell University treating Gaza protestors more harshly than gang rapists is a real statement of values. It’s almost like violent domination by the powerful is the core belief of leadership.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Dolly Parton Day! For this 9/25, the Bitter Kitten Movie Club is diving deep into "9 to 5," with a podcast talking about its queer influences and liberal polemic and a costume post outlining all of the tropes and motifs you might have missed: tomandlorenzo.com/2026/09/bitt...
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Bitter Kitten Movie Club: 9 to 5 (1980) - Tom + Lorenzo
9 to 5 (1980) Directed by: Colin Higgins Starring: Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Dabney Coleman Costume Designer: Ann Roth Happy Dolly Day,
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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PocketParas 🦕🦴 Twitch Partner VTUBER @pocketparas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The science community has come in and MOLLY WHOPPED DREXEL!! There has been over $30k~ donated, let's GOOOOOOOOOOO!!
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy 9/25 Eve. Don't forget to leave out a plate of chicken and dumplings and a bottle of nail polish or Dolly won't come and visit you tonight
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Karla with a K @karlarchivist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Want to shout out the tailors who work in musical theater and do not get enough credit!
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Karla with a K @karlarchivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You can read this important article via this link: archive.is/202609221243...
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Democrats are well positioned to inherit power thanks to disgust with Trump, but ultimately none of this is about what Dems did in response to Trump. They mostly capitulated and are benefiting from being the other party in a two party system, I don’t have any positive expectations for them.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We have *six days* left until the Academy of Natural Sciences, North America's oldest Natural History museum, is scheduled to close it's doors. Here are *six reasons* why we cannot - and will not- let that happen.
a slide that says 6 days until the doors close -- 6 reasons we can keep them open, save-the-academy.org @savetheacademy
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
last night we had ed sheeran apologizing for saying what’s happening in palestine is bad and at the same time david byrne putting up a huge graphic that says MAKE AMERICA GAY AGAIN and showing footage of ICE brutality to a sold out crowd. you can actually be famous and successful AND give a shit.
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Karla with a K @karlarchivist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I know this issue is minor compared to everything else this stupid thug is doing, but working at the Kennedy Center was one of the highlights of my theater career (and one of my favorite place to go as a DC resident) and I'm just so very sad about it.
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Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Earlier in the year I had the honor of writing a piece on the legendary Bob Mackie for TCM. Mackie's impact on the history of fashion especially in television and film is immeasurable. God speed to a one-of-a-kind visionary. www.tcm.com/articles/598...
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Bob Mackie: Costume Party
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is alarming www.inquirer.com/news/no-ice-...
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Anti-ICE activists question why Philly police showed up at their meeting. The department is investigating.
“I don’t know a reason that would have justified the officer walking into the premises,” a police staff inspector said.
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Karla with a K @karlarchivist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Noooooooo 😭😭😭
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
All of our clothing is made in the exact same situation as 1845, it's just that it is in Bangladesh or Cambodia instead of Pittsburgh or Lowell
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Because there are two Americas*, we are underestimating the amount of psychosocial grief unleashed this past week Michael Wright Cassandra Wilson Dolly Parton Tim Curry Gloria Steinem In basically one week
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the corghoul from cowboy beBOO! 👻 @realqrampage.fightins.online · 02/09/2026
people say Philadelphia is a mean city, but I think it’s actually the kindest city in the world where you can truly find your community idk, Philly’s not bad, just don’t be a pussy lol
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Public libraries nationwide are reaching a breaking point as a result of mounting pressures to censor collections, increased intimidation against library staff, and disruptions to library operations, according to a new report today by PEN America. Read the release: pen.org/press-releas...
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Report: Public Libraries Face 'Existential Threat,' Putting Books, Information and People at Risk
Public libraries nationwide are reaching a breaking point as a result of mounting pressures to censor collections, increased intimidation against library staff, and disruptions to library operations, ...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/08/2026
I will never vote for a Democrat that abandons transgender people. It's a cancer and I'll take the pain of a Republican over losing Democrats as a party and therefore losing our rights for an entire generation with nobody left to fight for us. We cannot reward this at all.
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Karla with a K @karlarchivist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Sad about the loss of Wendell Barry. This poem has a place on our fridge and I read it every morning 😞
“The Peace of Wild Things” poem by Wendell Barry on a refrigerator. The poem is surrounded by magnets including ones for Phoenicia Diner, Gritty, and the Philadelphia Phillies.
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

Jennifer Nelson
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CNN @cnn.com · 27/08/2026
Former leaders of the National Archives are urging a federal appeals court to reject the Trump administration's effort to ignore the Presidential Records Act, a decades old law that requires presidents save all official records from their time in office. cnn.it/46oZwej
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Tyson @lscpunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry was not the 80-year-old Home Alone 2 cast member we were asking for.
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Two of Miss Piggy's most iconic co-stars gone, this world is trash.
Dolly Parton in a great jean jacket and Miss Piggy in a purple satin top and white boa and cowboy hat. What more do you need?Miss Piggy as Benjamina Gunn and Tim Curry as Long John Silver in _Muppet Treasure Island_
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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"It's given a lot of people permission to be themselves, to not dream it, be it, which is the motto of the movie, really. I would like to be remembered for that." Farewell to Tim Curry (1946-2026) #RIP
Tim in costume as Dr. Frank-N-Furter
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In the Philly exurbs, a 22-year-old college student out drinking tried to go to a friend's house for the night and pounded on the wrong door, where they called police An Upper Pottsgrove cop showed up and immediately shot and killed him Police are out-of-control www.inquirer.com/crime/glenwo...
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A Lower Pottsgrove man knocked on the wrong door. A cop killed him, thinking he was a burglar.
Glenwood Pysher IV walked to the wrong home while out celebrating a friend's birthday, his family said. The home's owner, thinking he was trying to break in, called the police.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I guess I'll add that Dolly Parton is up there with Fred Rogers in terms of truly achieving what I think a Christian living their faith in public life should be like.
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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
How dare you smear Dolly Parton as "neutral in the culture wars"? There's nothing neutral about her Imagination Library, her support for LGBTQ+ people, her fierce devotion to Black communities in Nashville, her vaccine funding, her nondiscriminatory love for all, &&&. She just refused their games.
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Ross Johnson @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Farewell to Dolly, an artist, an icon, a legend, a sister, a daughter, and a mother to millions. We won't see her like on this earth again and we were all richer for breathing air at the same time she did.
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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The bookstore crawl day is winding down and I’m already hearing from bookseller friends about record sales, inventory running out, and outrageous turn outs. Thanks for showing up today, friends. Love to be a book person in Philadelphia.
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Karla with a K @karlarchivist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
She learned how to fight in stage combat class! Theater teaches you life skills!!
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I emailed a library asking for a small but annoying favour, and they did me a big favour and it's provided absolutely crucial data for a new project and publication, and slopAI could never and yay for humans, and librarians and archivists in particular.
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Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns.
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Karla with a K @karlarchivist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is the good stuff🔥
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Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/08/2026
exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!
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optimisticsoap.bsky.social @optimisticsoap.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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?
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zeet (irrigation engineer) @zeet.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This is an amazing descriptor
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