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Resistance Is Fertile

@thestartrekpod.bsky.social

Your friendly anarcha-trekkie podcast with carla joy bergman and @ayoub.bsky.social. Support and get perks here: https://www.patreon.com/resistanceisfertile

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · yesterday

Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…

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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · yesterday

The day that Ray Bradbury died I was on book tour and that night I read "There Will Come Soft Rains" to my audience instead of the usual reading.

Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

Molly @mhuzzell.bsky.social · 2d ago

I enjoyed this episode of "Who is your favourite Star Trek captain and why is it Sisko?"

Resistance Is Fertile@thestartrekpod.bsky.social · 3mo ago

hey we are back! and delighting in relationship anarchy across all spacetime! www.cawshinythings.com/an-anarcho-t...

Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d ago

Welp, I had to write it myself

Anti-Blackrooms

Backrooms is a total representation of white anxiety, a fully formed nightmare about the very existence of visual incongruity, a demonstration that for many Americans disruption of the normal, visual ...

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Vicky ACAB@vickyacab.bsky.social · 5d ago

Has... has anyone talked about how horrifically antiblack Backrooms is?

elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 7d ago

Just finished Starfleet Academy. Loved it. Expect an episode of @thestartrekpod.bsky.social soon-ish on Starfleet Academy + Discovery Oh, and the best bit? It’ll be with @chanda.blacksky.app !

Star Trek Starfleet Academy

Alt: Nahla saying “well, that’s a design flaw!”

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elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 2w ago

Been enjoying Starfleet Academy. Pretty wholesome

Resistance Is Fertile @thestartrekpod.bsky.social · last wk.

🖖 a joyous nerdout alert! 🖖 We have a solid plan to record a bunch of new shows in the coming weeks & months! we (@ayoub.bsky.social & carla) love Star Trek & resistance & are very excited to get back into this project! pls follow us! and if you can, pls support us www.patreon.com/resistanceis...

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · last wk.

Sisko: You're Damned Right! (Deep Space Nine)

Alt: Sisko: You're Damned Right! (Deep Space Nine)

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Resistance Is Fertile@thestartrekpod.bsky.social · last wk.

Resistance Is Fertile @thestartrekpod.bsky.social · last wk.

Get more from Resistance is Fertile on Patreon

Get more from Resistance is Fertile on Patreon. Become a member for just £3/month. A podcast by carla joy bergman (Grounded Futures, Trust Kids!, Radiant…

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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · last wk.

Picard resistance tip: Occasionally there are times when you must draw a line and refuse to budge.

elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just watched S1E8 of Starfleet Academy and it was incredibly moving. This is absolutely worthy of original Trek in its depth. What a waste that the executives are too short-signed to understand what they have on their hands. Starfleet Academy should have multiple seasons instead of just 2.

Resistance Is Fertile @thestartrekpod.bsky.social · 2w ago

nerd alert: potential episode .... 🖖

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 2w ago

Been enjoying Starfleet Academy. Pretty wholesome

Eli Meyerhoff @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social · 2w ago

I love Trust Kids!, too, so much that I wrote one of the blurbs for the book. BTW, an author of a great essay in that book, Toby Rollo, just announced his forthcoming book that gives a history of childhood in the US: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/838633...

A History of Childhood in the United States by Toby Rollo | Penguin Random House Canada

This book blows the lid off the sentimental mythology about protecting children and exposes the dark underbelly of adult ambition for the last four hundred years

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 2w ago

Children are the group of human beings whose rights are most likely to be consistently violated Will always be grateful to get the book “Trust Kids!” by my friend and fellow trekkie carla joy bergman before I myself became a dad

elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 2w ago

There are now 3 spots left so please book asap if you’re interested! (I previously said 3 but it was actually 4 so now it’s 3 as 1 person booked their spot and I’m good at maths)

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · last mo.

I've made some modifications to the syllabus of my Lebanon history and politics class to reflect the ongoing war. Registrations are still open for the August class thefirethesetimes.com/lebanonclass/

CAW @caw-shinythings.bsky.social · last mo.

a brick of militant joy (cards) coming soon on CAW! Drawing from the book, Joyful Militancy, these 88 cards offer quotes, nudges, quips and reminders to help us tune into our collective capacities more ❤️‍🔥🧱🎴

a photo of a box of cards laying amidst purple teasels. the box is brown with a Teasel on the right of it, and above and along the side the words say: MILITANT JOY CARDS
bergman & Montgomery. AND, below that in a black circle with white text it reads: An 88-card deck & guidebook to support collective transformation and autonomy

CAW @caw-shinythings.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hi! @danisavestheworld.bsky.social has shared a new Art Under Empire, featuring the wonderful Alyssa Rose Rumrill! ❤️‍🔥 check it out ➡️ www.cawshinythings.com/art-under-em...

Art Under Empire: Alyssa Rose Rumrill

The Art Under Empire series explores the importance of staying engaged with our artistic/creative endeavors in these precarious times, and why art matters now more than ever! Each featured radical cre...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 3w ago

Ummmmm www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set. That feels like a betrayal | Mohamed Sleiman Labat

The decision to shoot in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, where the Indigenous people can’t tell their stories without fear of imprisonment, helps erase our own brutal journey

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 3w ago

Despite what some adults seem to think, teenagers are fully human.

Earl Grey Memes Club @earlgreymemes.club · 2mo ago

original comic by Earl in three panels using a scene from TNG "The Pegasus"; first panel, Vice Admiral Blackwell is communicating with Picard on a viewscreen, peering behind Picard with a judgy look on her face, with caption: You're rewatching... Enterprise? second panel, Picard is glancing back at a projector screen behind him in Ten Forward (edited over the Picard Day banner) which is playing the Star Trek: Enterprise introduction, showing the first shot with the view of Earth from space and the title card, with caption: Oh, uh... Yes it's, uh...; third panel, the projector is now showing a frame where the Earth is morphing into a line drawing of a globe, still with the Enterprise title card, and Picard has a big toothy smile on his face, with caption: It's for the memes

Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Star Trek The Animated Series scene. Close up on a Vulcan, with pointy ears and eyebrows wearing normal Vulcan clothes not a uniform or anything. In the background is some kind of stone or tan wall and a blue plant. Or maybe a blue abstract piece of art. It's wavy and shapey and kind of geometric in its design. Ok, back to our main guy here, he's looking serious and the caption reads, "You constantly display your emotions."

elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I can’t wait

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m very excited for this! On a summer evening in 1972, a pivotal generation of Harlem Renaissance legends gathered at Duke Ellington’s townhouse. The trailer for “Once Upon a Time in Harlem” is out:

Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Counselor Troi and Riker are standing in personal quarters and talking. The room is nicely decorated and homey feeling. Various plants and vases and furniture surround. (Including a Horga'hn, the sacred carved fertility statue from a pleasure planet!)
Pic 1 with Riker speaking, caption reads "What's wrong?"
Pic 2 with Troi replying reads, "Everything."

Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Star Trek Voyager scene. Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01, stands in a Voyager room but hard to specify where, I think maybe the galley/dining room. I'm sure someone in the comments will know for sure. Anyways she's wearing her purple uniform with her lil dolphin shaped borgs metal piece above her eye and is speaking intently, as always. Closed caption reads, "Resume your disorder."

Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. We're close in on Data in personal quarters. He is crouching down next to a bed, leaning in and looking at an orange cat who is laying and looking back at him. No caption.

Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Picard management tip: Be realistic about your project timelines. Romulus wasn't built in a day.

Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Deep Space Nine scene. We're on planet somewhere, Dax is shown in uniform in a room with mosquitoe type tenting/curtains behind. In front of her is a person in civilian clothes, potato sack type shirt and robe. He's bald with visible purple veins on the neck and across the noggin, probably an alien. He's speaking and over the course of 2 pictures sits down at a table. Behind are others in a line waiting to enter the area. Closed caption reads, "I cancelled my death for you. I was really looking forward to it."

CAW @caw-shinythings.bsky.social · 2mo ago

also in this post are writings from the last writing circle, and a poem and prose piece about the goddess witch Hekate by carla and Dani!

CAW@caw-shinythings.bsky.social · 2mo ago

✨ @danisavestheworld.bsky.social & @joyfulcarla.bsky.social are hosting a witchy writing circle for Solstice! become the witch you wish to see in the world -- read more here: www.cawshinythings.com/a-witchy-sum...