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Erica Brooks

@ebrooks.bsky.social

582 followers 2.1K following 555 posts

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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Erica Brooks @ebrooks.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This is Leia. 🥰

Tuxedo cat smiling at the camera. She’s lying on the photographer’s arm.

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Erica Brooks @ebrooks.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Share the last movie you watched

Nick Stahl, Katie Holmes, and James Marsden in a screenshot from Disturbing Behavior (1998). Subtitle reads, “Toxic Jock Syndrome.”

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Erica Brooks @ebrooks.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

This lil moment of self-awareness, oof.

Robert P. George's Dec. 7 op-ed, "There are valid debates among conservatives. This isn't one.," argued that conservatives should stop promoting "white supremacy, antisemitism, eugenics, the subjugation of women, and other forms of ideological extremism and bigotry."
You know what this means. It means it's too late.
Telling conservatives to stop being bigots is admitting they re bigots. And I'm pretty sure a professor of jurisprudence telling them to cut it out isn't going to work. Hey, you guys — stop being bigots! Oh, okay.
I served in the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations and would like to believe conservatism wasn't always thus, but I'm beginning to wonder. Was the virus from which today's bigotry sprang lying dormant in us back then, like chickenpox leading to shingles? The moral herpes virus? Was it like a recessive gene long buried in our ancestral DNA that suddenly got switched on and has become dominant?
Are these new conservatives in fact our descendants?
Were we always secretly like this but were pretending we weren't? I'm hoping these new conservatives are mutants, but I'm not so sure about that anymore.
Bruce Carnes, Fairfax

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Erica Brooks @ebrooks.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Introduce yourself with four spaceships.

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Erica Brooks @ebrooks.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The comedy of the smash-cut to this guy at the end of Booker’s history-making speech.

Elderly white hangdog-looking Republican senator from Idaho standing at a podium. Glimpses of empty seats behind him and a few people mingling in the back of the room.

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Erica Brooks @ebrooks.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

My POV at this very moment.

Looking down on a green plaid duvet, a fluffy tuxedo cat stretched out asleep between two ridges that are actually my legs. Farther down the bed is a second fluffy tuxedo cat curled up in a circle asleep.

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Erica Brooks @ebrooks.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Post-zoomies crash

In the foreground, a fluffy tuxedo cat lies on her back on a green plaid duvet. She’s craning her head up to look at the camera. In the background, another fluffy tuxedo cat sits in a hallway, looking in at his sister.

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Erica Brooks @ebrooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

I’m pretty sure I still qualify as a Johnny-come-lately, but it’s fun to see this place start approaching a kind of event horizon.

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Erica Brooks @ebrooks.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Luke would like to offer a toebeans salute 🐾

Closeup on a fluffy tuxedo cat curled up on a grey blanket, one white paw showing off its pads

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Erica Brooks @ebrooks.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

Happy International Cat Day! Don’t let the classy tuxes fool you, these two live for chaos.

Two fluffy tuxedo cats, one taller and fluffier, one smaller and more gremlin-like, sit on a table and stare down the camera, ready to start more trouble.

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Erica Brooks @ebrooks.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

I see a lot of no-thoughts-just-vibes cats but I want to shout out my gremlin who is absolutely bursting with plans, schemes, intentions, I think probably activity flowcharts…

Closeup of a tuxedo cat glancing up at the camera, plotting her next move.

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Erica Brooks @ebrooks.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

Counterpoint

Painting of a scene from Midsummer Night’s Dream where Titania fawns over Nick Bottom, who has the head of a donkey.

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Erica Brooks @ebrooks.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

This is how I saw your post, seems apt!

Screenshot of a Bluesky timeline.
Adam Serwer posts: Every Star Wars post on Instagram about the acolyte is swarming with angry racists whining about the diversity of the cast of a show they have not seen.
Choam Nomsky replies: many such cases.
Below them on the timeline, Frankie Huang posts: What recent news story or public discourse should I use as inspiration for another amusingly violent fairytale?

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Erica Brooks @ebrooks.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

Drop a ship that’s not from Star Wars or Star Trek.

Screen shot of living ship Moya from Farscape. The bestest girl.

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