Erica Brooks
@ebrooks.bsky.social
Middle-aged white cishet lady trying not to be a jerk. American in Scotland. Really honestly nobody. She/her. #ActuallyAutistic. Profile pic by Camilo Aguire.
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you gotta laugh at stuff or you’ll cry
December 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
you gotta laugh at stuff or you’ll cry
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I was going to try to say…something about the year behind us and the year ahead but I couldn’t think of anything better than this post I have thought of often over the past challenging year.
January 1, 2026 at 1:07 AM
I was going to try to say…something about the year behind us and the year ahead but I couldn’t think of anything better than this post I have thought of often over the past challenging year.
AAAAHHHHHHHH 🥰
December 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
AAAAHHHHHHHH 🥰
I was walking with my then-small child in Edinburgh, and I let the kiddo spit on the Heart of Midlothian, as is tradition. This caused a roar of delight from a Spanish-language walking tour nearby. From the guide’s proud gestures, I believe we had just illustrated his point at the perfect moment.
Please quote this with stories of your minor interactions with non-celebrities, e.g. “I once accidentally bumped into a man in the Wellingborough branch of Holland & Barrett”
December 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I was walking with my then-small child in Edinburgh, and I let the kiddo spit on the Heart of Midlothian, as is tradition. This caused a roar of delight from a Spanish-language walking tour nearby. From the guide’s proud gestures, I believe we had just illustrated his point at the perfect moment.
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Either my citizenship is the same as yours, or what's the fucking point
Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.
December 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Either my citizenship is the same as yours, or what's the fucking point
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Again,
December 29, 2025 at 3:55 AM
If the one I’m currently reading counts, all the mains are currently college students. If we’re going with last completed, I’m either a spaceship AI or a werewolf space pirate.
Well, now I'm an English professor...
December 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
If the one I’m currently reading counts, all the mains are currently college students. If we’re going with last completed, I’m either a spaceship AI or a werewolf space pirate.
This combined with this Government’s extraordinary attacks on the right to protest is especially chilling. They really have everything they need here to exercise absolute control over the population.
We commissioned lengthy legal advice on the history, effect and legitimacy of provisions which made it easier to remove the contingent citizenship held by large numbers of Black and Brown people. goodlawproject.org/nationality-...
The Nationality and Borders Bill is racist - we want Government to think again | Good Law Project
Today, we are publishing advice about the extension to the powers to strip Britons of their citizenship in the Nationality and Borders Bill. The advice was commissioned from some of the country’s lead...
goodlawproject.org
December 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This combined with this Government’s extraordinary attacks on the right to protest is especially chilling. They really have everything they need here to exercise absolute control over the population.
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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Appreciate shares, can't really type these anymore.
Six families & a camp. Six? Seven? medical emergencies, including three children, not including a newborn who needs good nutrition amidst widespread hunger.
Click “weekly” on anything, it helps.
Six families & a camp. Six? Seven? medical emergencies, including three children, not including a newborn who needs good nutrition amidst widespread hunger.
Click “weekly” on anything, it helps.
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...
chuffed.org
December 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Appreciate shares, can't really type these anymore.
Six families & a camp. Six? Seven? medical emergencies, including three children, not including a newborn who needs good nutrition amidst widespread hunger.
Click “weekly” on anything, it helps.
Six families & a camp. Six? Seven? medical emergencies, including three children, not including a newborn who needs good nutrition amidst widespread hunger.
Click “weekly” on anything, it helps.
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You need to read this story.
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
You need to read this story.
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Bluesky working hard on Christmas to mark as spam a newborn baby in the Holy Lands
Oh this tiny baby ❤️❤️❤️
December 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Bluesky working hard on Christmas to mark as spam a newborn baby in the Holy Lands
Genuinely how is this not an “are we the baddies” moment for everyone involved, from the cops on up to the PM.
🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'
December 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Genuinely how is this not an “are we the baddies” moment for everyone involved, from the cops on up to the PM.
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I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for
December 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for
Gonna be thinking about this for a while.
Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Gonna be thinking about this for a while.
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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Teenager me: everyone in charge is so stupid
Young adult me: politics corporations and science are incredibly complex topics that require thorough research and discussion and we shouldnt jump to conclusions
Me now: everyone in charge is so stupid
Young adult me: politics corporations and science are incredibly complex topics that require thorough research and discussion and we shouldnt jump to conclusions
Me now: everyone in charge is so stupid
December 18, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Teenager me: everyone in charge is so stupid
Young adult me: politics corporations and science are incredibly complex topics that require thorough research and discussion and we shouldnt jump to conclusions
Me now: everyone in charge is so stupid
Young adult me: politics corporations and science are incredibly complex topics that require thorough research and discussion and we shouldnt jump to conclusions
Me now: everyone in charge is so stupid
Remarkable reporting and writing.
NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Remarkable reporting and writing.
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Some humanity amidst all THIS *gestures around with arm* ♥️
"Look for me in the trees.
I will be there in the trees."
A letter worth reading? ✅️🤍
(Sent into The Irish Times)
I will be there in the trees."
A letter worth reading? ✅️🤍
(Sent into The Irish Times)
December 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Some humanity amidst all THIS *gestures around with arm* ♥️
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The comorbidity of neo-Nazism and transphobia isn't just a kind of "one bad belief leads to all bad beliefs". At its core, it's the same belief: belief in a rigid societal order where your station at birth determines your future, your role, and how you must labor.
A belief in biodestiny, in short.
A belief in biodestiny, in short.
Today, I examine how the boundaries of the Nation are co-constituted by race, disability, and sexuality, but also---notably---gender and control over reproduction.
And ask everyone to stop saying transfeminism is 'imperialist'. For fuck's sake.
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/understand...
And ask everyone to stop saying transfeminism is 'imperialist'. For fuck's sake.
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/understand...
December 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
The comorbidity of neo-Nazism and transphobia isn't just a kind of "one bad belief leads to all bad beliefs". At its core, it's the same belief: belief in a rigid societal order where your station at birth determines your future, your role, and how you must labor.
A belief in biodestiny, in short.
A belief in biodestiny, in short.
Guys, get in on this, it is SO GOOD.
Yo! 👋
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Dive into our wild world of Neo Tokyo and meet our cast of bounty hunters, yakuza crime lords and high tech low lifes
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Did you know that the first digital volume of our award-winning cyberpunk comic series Killtopia is now FREE to all?
Dive into our wild world of Neo Tokyo and meet our cast of bounty hunters, yakuza crime lords and high tech low lifes
Link below👇
December 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Guys, get in on this, it is SO GOOD.
Used to work at a campground in the Santa Cruz mountains, and one night I surprised a whole family of raccoons in the trash cans behind the cafeteria. Well, I was surprised. They just kind of stared at me, peeking out with trash can lids for hats.
What's your most memorable experience with a wild animal, whether on purpose or by accident?
December 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Used to work at a campground in the Santa Cruz mountains, and one night I surprised a whole family of raccoons in the trash cans behind the cafeteria. Well, I was surprised. They just kind of stared at me, peeking out with trash can lids for hats.
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Reposting the sign for my own benefit
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Reposting the sign for my own benefit
I can’t stop thinking about Luke Kemp’s Goliath’s Curse. There is nothing more destabilising than wealth inequality, and the more top-heavy we get, the more fragile we are. Only now instead of just one region it’ll be the whole world that falls.
There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing.
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I can’t stop thinking about Luke Kemp’s Goliath’s Curse. There is nothing more destabilising than wealth inequality, and the more top-heavy we get, the more fragile we are. Only now instead of just one region it’ll be the whole world that falls.