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carla joy bergman (she/they) you'll find me dwelling in the impossible... always anti-empire & pro autonomy 📚 joyful militancy; Trust Kids! etc. 🐦‍⬛ CAW: https://www.cawshinythings.com new pod: @thestartrekpod.bsky.social other works: joyfulcarla.com

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · Jan 30

🐦‍⬛ CAW is a worker-run anarchist journal of art, culture & all the shiny things we can find! 💫

❤️‍🔥 THANKS to everyone who supported us! we are excited to share more shiny things with y'all -- we'll be fully launching in the coming weeks! follow: @caw-shinythings.bsky.social

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CAW Journal

a worker-run anarchist platform of art, culture, and all the shiny things we can find!

www.cawshinythings.com

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 49m

true! luckily i was at home , alone!

disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 17h

beautifully said!!! love it.

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 18h

On this day in 1763, due in part to Pontiac's resistance, the King of Britain issued the Royal Proclamation placing certain limits on westward colonial expansion in North America. This enraged proto-Americans and was one of the causes of the American Revolution (freedom to colonize more quickly).

Royal Proclamation of 1763 - Wikipedia

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 19h

snot crying through yoga.

yeah that's my day.

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CAW @caw-shinythings.bsky.social · 21h

dither, a trifle by Shuli Branson

what if we
or if we

www.cawshinythings.com/dither/

dither

a trifle

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 1d

We are not going to convert them, if at all it will be much further in the process of abolition, but we can and must celebrate and increase their demoralization. Not rehabilitation or a change of heart, instead act with the confidence they are too upset and disoriented to fight for their man

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 1d

Vicky does a lot of great mutual aid work. I'm chipping in $50, who will match me?

Screenshot of a $50 payment to Vicky on venmo.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 1d

And if youve been on the fence, now would be a great time to subscribe to CAW! Especially since im actually gonna have the time and space to put more and more up there!
Venmo: Vicky-surge
Cash App: $VickySurge1312
Cawshinythings.com

CAW Journal

a worker-run anarchist platform of art, culture, and all the shiny things we can find!

Cawshinythings.com

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CAW @caw-shinythings.bsky.social · 2d

THIS IS SO GOOD! TBT, Agony Letter with Shuli, who invited the beautiful @deanspade.bsky.social to help respond to a letter from someone who had a terrible experience with an accountability process....

CW: Letter includes brief mention of suicidal ideation.

www.cawshinythings.com/the-breakup-...

The Breakup Theory, Agony Letter: The Thing That Cracks Us Open

For this episode, I invited the beautiful Dean Spade to respond to a listener letter with me from someone who had a terrible experience with an accountability process and over the years this has cause...

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 4d

the journey of departure begins early.

a worksheet. text from worksheet says: My Favorite thing to do at school is.... and in printing in the space with blank lines it says: "leaving"

and then there's a drawing of a car with a person in it driving away.

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 4d

the opposite of despair is not hope (or even action in the activist sense of the word) but connection.

bcz when we truly feel like we belong and are part of something, that is what has the potential to cure despair... then the rest follows............

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AK Press @akpress.org · 5d

Did you know that AK Press has audiobooks? You can buy and download them directly from our website, or you can find them on whatever platform you normally use (unless that's Spotify, sorry not sorry). Check out our audiobook releases here: www.akpress.org/audiobooks.h...

Six square audiobook covers (A Continuous Struggle, Dismantling the Master's Clock, We Will Not Cancel Us, Fables and Spells, Inversion, and Joyful Militancy) are presented against a black background. Above them are a white pair of headphones and white block text reading "Audiobooks Available Now!"

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 5d

TODAY! 🎶
on #BandcampFriday artists get all the funds, so today's a good day to head on over to bandcamp and support your friends/ and or artists you love!

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 5d

When war and genocide goes on for literal years, it can be easy to forget the lives that people lived before this horror started. Alaa @mamatwins.bsky.social has been trying to imagine rebuilding her life as an architect.

Your help are an investment in rebuild a woman and an architect

My name is Alaa, and I hold a Master’s degree in Architecture.

chuffed.org

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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 6d

Solidarity with the the #SumudFlotilla: end the siege, feed the starving and end the genocide

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CAW @caw-shinythings.bsky.social · 7d

Listen to Vicky talk with friends about her fabulous new book + more! And she also drops a hint about shiny caw merch coming soon!!! ✨

Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 7d

With my book in pre-order, I've started talking about the IP regime, Disney, fascism, and how the company helped build the current moment. There's a conversation with the incredible @ellaguro.bsky.social in Tank Magazine and an appearance on It Could Happen Here pod!

Talking to My Friends

Hello my precious murder, As you may or may not know, my book, The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World has entered pre-order! You can order it through my Bookshop store here or anywhere else pre-orders are sold, although going to your local bookshop

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 8d

oh yeah i did a song kinda about this with @timeraps.bsky.social

thisistime.bandcamp.com/track/joy-in...

Joy Interrupted (feat. carla joy / prod. Time), by Time

from the album Depressed Joy

thisistime.bandcamp.com

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 8d

these days, it's anxiety running through them all, providing the beats and breaks. 🕺

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 8d

i danced with and between joy-sad-despair-rage-fear-hope-frustrated all before 9 am this morning!

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 8d

you're not a bad/undisciplined person if you don't feel hope/happy rn! fuck this boring trend of moralizing & controlling how folks feel moment to moment.
we're ALWAYS in motion, never static! those who say they are, are cosplaying life.

As Rilke says, no feeling is final... keep dancing!

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 9d

yo! let's do this! (hint so-called-canada)

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 9d

Random, but I’m still looking for stable employment (research/analysis/writing/teaching) and I’m happy to send along my CV in English/French. Job has to be in the UK, Canada or online.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 9d

I am not saying you have to send me every video or meme related to Sisko or DS9 but I am saying that you should

Oisín Murphy-Goreless @bikesnbukes.bsky.social · 11d

@ayoub.bsky.social ICYMI, essential Kira content. I cannot take credit for finding it. That was @beaucoupkevin.com. (This time with the TikTok properly embedded)

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 11d

for the hive-mind-heart ❤️‍🔥

I am looking to connect with a theory-mentor who is also a deprofessional in some ways... no big ask, right?

but if you know someone/ or you are that person and you're like, yes me!! please, dm me! thx

disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 11d

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

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disaster joy (mostly not on here atm) @joyfulcarla.bsky.social · 13d

real talk. in our home alone the vibe is off the charts.

Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 14d

I dunno if it were me I would not make every neurodivergent person in the English speaking world hyper fixated on destroying me and guaranteeing my downfall but you know do you boss

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