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Joshua Sparrow @josha-wah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I recently had the experience of taking a family member to @lighthousebks.bsky.social. The day prior they had expressed sympathy with Ed Sheeran's fence-sitting on the Palestinian genocide. I thought some books might provide answers.

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Joshua Sparrow @josha-wah.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tfw management asks you to clock out for an indefinite period while a plumbing issue is being resolved, then they get pissed off at you for asking whether you'll be put back on paid standby. It's alright. Why would I mind waiting around not getting paid all night?

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Joshua Sparrow @josha-wah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Me to myself while scrolling through Bluesky: "pick your battles, pick your battles, pick your battles..."

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Joshua Sparrow @josha-wah.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

There's a few things I can think of. Firstly, I'd reiterate we should be fostering a culture which allows people to express appropriate uncertainty. So much of the discourse right now appears to assume/ demand an unwarranted level of confidence.

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Joshua Sparrow @josha-wah.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Calling all fans of peer production, radical politics, bookshops and libraries! It's time we made better tools for informing our book distribution efforts. So here's my work so far cataloguing information on radical publishers and texts. Make good use. Lend your knowledge. Share far and wide.

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GitHub - josha-wah/Ism-Ism: An Open Data Catalogue/ Directory for Radical Librarians and Booksellers

An Open Data Catalogue/ Directory for Radical Librarians and Booksellers - josha-wah/Ism-Ism

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Joshua Sparrow @josha-wah.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

This line just took me right out for some reason lol: "Slaves can have slaves. This is America" - Dewey, Malcolm in the Middle

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Joshua Sparrow @josha-wah.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Born too late to own my own home, born just in time to watch an AI-generated sentient vagina clipping her toe nails...

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Joshua Sparrow @josha-wah.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Do you guys think they scheduled Epstein's suicide for August so it didn't conflict with Suicide Prevention Month in September? Just seems like the kind of moral epiphany you might have if you were a monstrous bureaucrat.

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Joshua Sparrow @josha-wah.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

@rechelon.bsky.social On page 258 of your book, you talk of being threatened with a lawsuit on behalf of a "Dunham" Uni student. I'm right in thinking this is a misspelling of "Durham" right? And that this article relates to the leak in question? I'm a resident of Durham so it comes up in convo.

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Durham boys joke about ‘sleeping with the poorest girl’ competition in group chat

The freshers also made misogynistic and racist comments

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Joshua Sparrow @josha-wah.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I hear the local cat café is hiring. Wish me luck boys 🤞

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

As a child I was constantly annoyed at my dad's inability to tolerate crowds and most socializing, even just five other people on the same city block could make him freeze up and twitch. Only very recently did I finally recognize he was having autistic breakdowns and it changes my attitude entirely.

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Joe Rogan is what happens when you give a sentient toe a microphone and steroids

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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

end of last year i wanted to do a retrospective of Kevin Carson's The Desktop Regulatory State a decade on and then Minneapolis happened and i realized i could just gesture toward what was happening as clearly being just one more bit of evidence with regards to the premise of the book

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Networks Versus Hierarchies in Minneapolis’ Struggle Against ICE

For some time, I was thinking about writing a review of Kevin Carson’s book The Desktop Regulatory State, which helped inspire me to become an anarchist back in 2016, to see how it aged in the decade ...

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Joshua Sparrow @josha-wah.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

No matter how bad things get, think of how much worse they would be if The Black Eyed Peas had never released "Where is the Love?" in 2003.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

NEW: Earlier today, DHS Sec Kristi Noem posted a photo of federal agents arresting civil rights attorney and ICE protestor Nekima Levy Armstrong. The White House then posted the same arrest image -- but digitally altered Levy Armstrong's face to depict her sobbing. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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White House Uses AI to Alter Protester's Face So That She's Sobbing, Instead of Looking Brave, During Arrest

The White House published an image on X featuring an AI-altered image of an ICE protester crying during her arrest.

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Joshua Sparrow @josha-wah.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

[5♣] (img: cracking_wall) *All Your Walls* All your walls will crack Shall come tumbling to the ground So the wind foretells No longer the breeze That pleads in gentle whispers Some docile appeal It speaks of a choice To stand in defense of nought Or outlive your fears

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Joshua Sparrow @josha-wah.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Many of the poems in this project are influenced by specific writers or pieces. This one, for instance, is dedicated to @kevincarson1.bsky.social's research on transportation subsidies, particularly due to their role in artificially inflating energy consumption and pollution.

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Joshua Sparrow @josha-wah.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Following yesterday's post introducing The Black Flag Poetical Playing Cards, I thought today I'd share some samples of the poetry itself.

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Joshua Sparrow @josha-wah.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I love it when Facebook partially removes my artwork and Reddit straight up locks my account due to non-sexual cartoon representations of the human body 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

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Joshua Sparrow @josha-wah.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It's roughly a year since I started work on my biggest art project to date: The Black Flag Poetical Playing Cards. There's still a lot to do but I thought I'd start sharing my progress to invite feedback and try and drum up some support.

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Cory Massimino @corymassimino.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Well, my mom's lung surgery did not get all of the cancer. She's figuring out her next steps now. Any well wishes or donations are greatly appreciated. Link below.

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

one of the purely self-interested, selfish even, reasons to not be racist, misogynist, etc is that it makes you stupid and robs you of your dignity bigotry rots your mind, body, and soul, turning you a zombified husk or seething loser

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Joshua Sparrow @josha-wah.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I started a poem about the importance of celebrating the small victories on the course of revolutionary change. Was hoping to add an extra verse before the new year, but this is what I've got so far:

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 10/12/2025

Cory is one of my favorite people in the whole world, and among the top intellectual influences on me and my work. I've never met his mom, but she's responsible for a remarkable son, so help her out.

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Joshua Sparrow @josha-wah.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Ugh, does anyone know if geriatric billionaires are still hiring nubile young boys to pre-chew their food for them? Just trying to make a buck.

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Joshua Sparrow @josha-wah.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

There are many lines that stood out to me while reading "Did The Science Wars Take Place?" (my physical copy is already dog-eared and full of highlighter ink), but I feel this hints at something I've been trying to articulate for a while as an artist.

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Joshua Sparrow @josha-wah.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Gillis operates on such a level I know I'm never likely to fully grasp him on the first read. Yet taking the time over his work has never failed to blow my tiny mind. This book is no exception. It's so useful as to be essential and deeply personal to boot. Read it. Re-read it. Then read it again.

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴󠁭󠁸󠁣󠁨󠁰󠁿 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I really fucking hate all the Memorial Day "died defending our freedom" bullshit. There hasn't been a US war in my lifetime that was about freedom. And even WWII was entered *primarily* for economic and geopolitical reasons, not freedom.

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Center for a Stateless Society @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

"Though the forces of power have always sought to bury our struggle, the words we write and the fragments of memory we pass down to future generations are (and have always been) the seeds from which liberty is grown." c4ss.org/content/60374

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May Day Poetry Feature: Humankind

It’s time for another poetry feature! It’s been a while since the last time we did one of these, so we’d like to start by drawing some attention to the work done in previous years. We always have wond...

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