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.
I was there and can absolutely vouch for this. They repeatedly tried to film and photograph us, including children. GB News also showed up and refused to identify themselves when they were asked.
Didn’t ruin a lovely day though! Thanks for a wonderful write-up Sophie!
Didn’t ruin a lovely day though! Thanks for a wonderful write-up Sophie!
"Throughout the afternoon, anti-trans demonstrators ventured over to the pro-trans gathering to antagonise trans people,"
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/equalit...
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/equalit...
November 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I was there and can absolutely vouch for this. They repeatedly tried to film and photograph us, including children. GB News also showed up and refused to identify themselves when they were asked.
Didn’t ruin a lovely day though! Thanks for a wonderful write-up Sophie!
Didn’t ruin a lovely day though! Thanks for a wonderful write-up Sophie!
This is just fantastic journalism.
“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.”
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is just fantastic journalism.
@iwriteok.bsky.social that Thiel graph about the exponential growth of knowledge - maybe not identical but this was a mainstay of Late Great Planet Earth-style end-times obsession in ‘80s and ‘90s Evangelicalism, according to my childhood. Really common “sign” of The End being nigh.
November 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
@iwriteok.bsky.social that Thiel graph about the exponential growth of knowledge - maybe not identical but this was a mainstay of Late Great Planet Earth-style end-times obsession in ‘80s and ‘90s Evangelicalism, according to my childhood. Really common “sign” of The End being nigh.
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"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.
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But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.
November 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.
The transphobes will show up with hate tomorrow, but we’ll show up with joy, love, and pride. Come join us if you’re in Edinburgh - 1pm at the Parliament!
Trans rights and gender-critical rallies are set to face off outside Holyrood tomorrow ⬇️
Opposing rallies to face off at Scottish Parliament over Supreme Court's sex ruling
www.thenational.scot
October 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The transphobes will show up with hate tomorrow, but we’ll show up with joy, love, and pride. Come join us if you’re in Edinburgh - 1pm at the Parliament!
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Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Enter if you dare...🚪
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Enter if you dare...🚪
Tolkien fans taking down the weird tech-bro LOTR misreads are my favourite corner of the internet. I say this as someone with a Tengwar tattoo.
The "hard-men" of Gondor were getting their shit kicked in until they were rescued by foreigners and a girl.
The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.
The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.
October 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Tolkien fans taking down the weird tech-bro LOTR misreads are my favourite corner of the internet. I say this as someone with a Tengwar tattoo.
A demonstration has been scheduled to coincide with & counteract a protest from Women Won’t Wheesht over the Supreme Court’s ruling for single-sex spaces. They demand that this be implemented across all government departments, a policy that we believe is demeaning & dehumanising for trans people.
October 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I tend to assume that anyone who interacts with Spock falls in love with him. If they don’t I lose respect for them.
I'm rewatching classic #StarTrek. I get why people like to ship Spock and Kirk... but surely Spock and McCoy are the ones actually in love with each other...? Yes, they bicker like an old married couple, but whenever things get dangerous, they clearly care for one another extremely deeply...?
October 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I tend to assume that anyone who interacts with Spock falls in love with him. If they don’t I lose respect for them.
This post is what finally got me to sign up for Tidal’s free trial. We have an ND kiddo who is VERY into curating our Spotify playlists so for us it has to be a gradual wean, but for about £3 I imported all 26k tracks from our Spotify account, including playlists. Painless so far!
October 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
This post is what finally got me to sign up for Tidal’s free trial. We have an ND kiddo who is VERY into curating our Spotify playlists so for us it has to be a gradual wean, but for about £3 I imported all 26k tracks from our Spotify account, including playlists. Painless so far!
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There's an old truism that politics can't work if you think the other side is actually evil.
But I don't really know what else to call this
But I don't really know what else to call this
Lam believes her policy would deport all of the proportion in pink - keeping the thin group in black - of the post-2021 legal migrant arrivals. (The draft legislation proposes similar thresholds/rules for all past grants too). She says jar is 3.5m people: an astonishing scale of mass deportations
October 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
There's an old truism that politics can't work if you think the other side is actually evil.
But I don't really know what else to call this
But I don't really know what else to call this
I love how literally everyone today gotta hand it to the Louvre heist crew.
October 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I love how literally everyone today gotta hand it to the Louvre heist crew.
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rules about nighttime “quiet hours” where like it’s considered an offense to disturb people by being loud after 10 pm or whatever should extend through 10 am, and they only don’t because our society thinks anyone still in bed at 7:15 is a morally weak person
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
rules about nighttime “quiet hours” where like it’s considered an offense to disturb people by being loud after 10 pm or whatever should extend through 10 am, and they only don’t because our society thinks anyone still in bed at 7:15 is a morally weak person
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The phrase "trans activist" is goofy because like 95% of the time it's used it refers to a trans person simply existing.
Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist.
Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird
Media: trans activist criticizes media
Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist.
Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird
Media: trans activist criticizes media
October 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The phrase "trans activist" is goofy because like 95% of the time it's used it refers to a trans person simply existing.
Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist.
Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird
Media: trans activist criticizes media
Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist.
Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird
Media: trans activist criticizes media
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I know I say this an awful lot on the podcast but please, please, please email your MP before this atrocious, anti-trans guidance is laid in front of parliament.
🚨This is an emergency🚨
This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.
Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.
Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
October 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I know I say this an awful lot on the podcast but please, please, please email your MP before this atrocious, anti-trans guidance is laid in front of parliament.
This is absolutely perfect. Every word.
Labour whispers “hard choices.”
The Tories shout “more cuts.”
Reform shouts “maths is optional.”
The Bear hears only one thing: snip-snip-snip.
The Tories shout “more cuts.”
Reform shouts “maths is optional.”
The Bear hears only one thing: snip-snip-snip.
The ceaseless snip-snip-snip of a dying state
Fifteen years of cuts have left the UK trying to "efficiency" its way out of a collapse – and somehow still expecting growth to show up as well
eastangliabylines.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
This is absolutely perfect. Every word.
Who's your favorite Jedi? (Wrong answers only)
October 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Who's your favorite Jedi? (Wrong answers only)
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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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MP defends government plans to restrict repeated protests.
October 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
MP defends government plans to restrict repeated protests.
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I was a teacher for 20 years, in primary, secondary & FE. I am now an education academic.
I can confidently say that doing this to trans children is totally immoral & will harm them greatly.
Painting a target on these kids’ backs will cause bullying and will result in trans kids school-refusing.
I can confidently say that doing this to trans children is totally immoral & will harm them greatly.
Painting a target on these kids’ backs will cause bullying and will result in trans kids school-refusing.
Scottish schools must have separate toilets for boys and girls
The Scottish government has issued new guidance following two landmark court rulings.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 5:41 AM
I was a teacher for 20 years, in primary, secondary & FE. I am now an education academic.
I can confidently say that doing this to trans children is totally immoral & will harm them greatly.
Painting a target on these kids’ backs will cause bullying and will result in trans kids school-refusing.
I can confidently say that doing this to trans children is totally immoral & will harm them greatly.
Painting a target on these kids’ backs will cause bullying and will result in trans kids school-refusing.
The thing is, I don’t care if AI does manage to make something “good”. It’s not the point! I’d rather watch the worst student film. I’d rather watch the most rote schlock as long as it’s human.
Werner Herzog voice:
“I’ve seen movies, short films, completely created by artificial intelligence. Story, acting, everything. They look completely dead. They are stories, but they have no soul…They are empty and soulless.”
“I’ve seen movies, short films, completely created by artificial intelligence. Story, acting, everything. They look completely dead. They are stories, but they have no soul…They are empty and soulless.”
Werner Herzog on AI-Generated Movies: 'They Look Completely Dead'
Herzog spoke with Conan O'Brien about the concept of truth and why AI is a
gizmodo.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The thing is, I don’t care if AI does manage to make something “good”. It’s not the point! I’d rather watch the worst student film. I’d rather watch the most rote schlock as long as it’s human.
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Me: forever mad about the FBI’s surveillance, propaganda, violent work to destroy everyone from Du Bois to BLM
Also me: people need to understand what is happening to Comey is bad, big bad.
It’s the both/and. Sometimes I think the hardest work for educators and media is to explain nuance/context
Also me: people need to understand what is happening to Comey is bad, big bad.
It’s the both/and. Sometimes I think the hardest work for educators and media is to explain nuance/context
September 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Me: forever mad about the FBI’s surveillance, propaganda, violent work to destroy everyone from Du Bois to BLM
Also me: people need to understand what is happening to Comey is bad, big bad.
It’s the both/and. Sometimes I think the hardest work for educators and media is to explain nuance/context
Also me: people need to understand what is happening to Comey is bad, big bad.
It’s the both/and. Sometimes I think the hardest work for educators and media is to explain nuance/context
This week Sahar‘s wee boy Ayham needed stitches in his head, but the hospital had no thread. She had to run around to find and buy thread and bring it back to the hospital for her kiddo’s stitches.
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Donate to Help Sahar and her 7 yr old get to safety!, organized by Caroline Corbett
Hi my loves, my name is Caroline Corbett. I’m from the United States, and … Caroline Corbett needs your support for Help Sahar and her 7 yr old get to safety!
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September 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This week Sahar‘s wee boy Ayham needed stitches in his head, but the hospital had no thread. She had to run around to find and buy thread and bring it back to the hospital for her kiddo’s stitches.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-sahar...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-sahar...