I’m wrapping up this #ACAB week of picture-posts (though alas, we’re far from abolishing police, so keep up the spirit on the streets) with an image that connects to my post yesterday, focusing on the joy sparked by #AllCatsAreBeautiful. Who doesn’t love a good cat photo or video, even if the felines in question are just being their purr-fectly disobedient selves without a cop in sight? Because who doesn’t also love a good photo or video of joy-filled mockery being directed at the police?

This particular sticker, spotted on the stolen, commodified, and surveilled streets of Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal in summer 2025, celebrates one such moment. It turns a (in)famous photo of a cop right after being doused in pink paint by a protester during a riotous anti-NATO demonstration in that same city in November 2024 into a delightful #AllCanvasesAreBeautiful portrait. Its queerly bright colors, sense of stopping a cop in their tracks with mere paint, and repeated “ACAB” applause can’t help but bring pleasure to passersby. No doubt many of those who saw this sticker fondly remembered that day, whether as participant, or after seeing the original photo in a newspaper or on social media. Thanks to decades of now-multigenerational resistance in Montreal to everything from colonialism to capitalism to cops, and “thanks” to the city dramatically increasing its police budget and its willingness to engage in murder-by-police of late, that pleasure (at the police’s expense) is only exacerbated. Meaning what I appreciate about such public displays of #FTP as this is that they at once bring a needed smile to our faces and serve as DIY historical monuments to our own, hard-won (and sometimes humorously so) victories.

All to say, 7 days of #Fuck12 isn’t nearly enough. Yet may it serve as inspiration to keep going, whether organizing with your neighbors to kick cops off your block, to carving out larger autonomous police-no-go zones, to experimenting with ways to keep each other safer without the need of any kinds of police, to abandoning the notion that “peace police” are at all necessary at the next march, to filling up walls with your own creations.

This little gremlin hasn't enough with his cat grass, but he has to eat my plants 😼

#Fariña #catsofmastodon #allcatsarebeautiful #PlantBased

I would never, ever (ever) equate “joy” with “cops.” Exactly the opposite! Yet never say never, right?

In scrolling through my thousands of still-unused photos of street art from over many time periods and many geographies—often taken while prowling alleys—it hit me that there is indeed joy in the #AllCatsAreBeautiful genre related to cops.

This feline form of #ACAB street art—of which I realized tonight, I have a hefty amount of photos “capturing” kitties who snarl at cops and purr at anarchists—seems to me to point toward the joy of a world without police. In thinking of cats raises a smile of comradely recognition at their ungovernability, for one. But more prefiguratively, it conjures images of playful abandon, abundant cuteness, cuddly tenderness, scrappy inventiveness (oh the things a cat can create from a simple cardboard box!), and lots of other warm-and-fuzzy feelings—the kinds that exude joy, yes, and also aid us in imagining how sweet life should and could be. (Who hasn’t asserted at one point or another, “If I’m reincarnated, I hope I come back as a cat!)

Plus cats, contrary to popular perceptions, are loyal and stick side by side with their human friends, thus they would never, ever (ever) talk to the police (they might yowl at them or loudly scratch the door, but refuse to open it, if the cops come knocking).

So here’s a small sampler of some street cats, as seen in Pittsburgh, Vienna, and Athens.

The world is pretty damn shitty—like the messiest of litter boxes. So it’s worth finding all the tiniest of joys, creeping quietly toward us on cat paws.

Which cat suits my t-shirt best?

#allcatsarebeautiful #catsofmastodon #Fariña

Thor loves da brushies.

Happy Thorsday!

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