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Erica Packington

@ericajanemp.bsky.social
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Feminist atheist pelagic-brained handwaver It depends / context matters / look for the helpers / find my simple / trust the process Current state: fucking hell, tho

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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
International development is a hugely over-evaluated sector. I read a stat that UK government wide spending on aid/int dev is evaluated 10 times more than any other government expenditure.
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
“I’m very clear in my own mind that Iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. That is the greatest threat to stability in the region.” Is it tho. Is it tho Kier? No other regional threat you can think of? No one … doing anything at all? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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US request to UK over Iran would have raised legal questions, ex-adviser says
Peter Ricketts says US likely to have decided it was better not to ask, after minister says no request was made
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Yes? What would you actually say no to? Doesn’t all of that sound good tho
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Good god. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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US request to UK over Iran would have raised legal questions, ex-adviser says
Peter Ricketts says US likely to have decided it was better not to ask, after minister says no request was made
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Evil Genius who uses her powers for good.
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Lady DEADtera, Wee Ghostie Edition 👻🍁😷 @ladylettera32.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Also an excellent book exploring the good and bad sides of shame. Ex: Shaming children for not having lunch money = bad, but shaming politicians for cutting funding for school lunch programs = good AND useful www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...
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The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humili…
A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive…
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Thanks to NPR for explaining that due to the ancient, mysterious culture of Persia, Iranians "don't like to be attacked" npr.org/2025/06/16/n...
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
critters and bugs need us to change our behaviours globally, but here's some easy stuff you can do to help www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Insects are dying: here are 25 easy and effective ways you can help protect them
From turning out the lights to letting leaves rot, these small steps can create big changes at home or in the wild
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
OK.... I mean, yes, good but also, what the hell, why were they there in the first place and also in what kind of batshit world does ANYONE have a trade show for industrial scale murder www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Israeli stands at Paris airshow are shut down ‘by order of French government’
Four booths are hidden from view, prompting fury from Israel’s defence ministry and visiting US Republicans
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
ICE throws gas at protesters who immediately cone it then use boards to help fan the gas back at ICE.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 15/06/2025
Another good reminder from today is that to win this we all need to get used to cooperating with people we sometimes find highly annoying
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Editor: You finish that writeup of Trump birthday parade? Journalist: sure did boss, real fuckin bootlicking just like you asked
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Marty Hades 🔥💀 @smartypantsmarty.com · 13/06/2025
More of this tone please 😏
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I asked Jools Holland for directions in Richmond, Surrey one evening. They were appalling and we stayed lost.
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❄︎ ☃︎ @moxiest.art · 11/06/2025
leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I mean, there is perfection and then there is dieworkwear gently schooling someone while educating us all in really interesting history, while staying within his particular, relatively niche focus.
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Matthew Gyamtso (Jee) @freedomforall.net · 10/06/2025
The basic fact that austerity became embedded Tory dogma, and the maths behind it accepted by Reeves, despite the math proving the opposite, is a fundamental problem we have yet to solve - despite the rest of the world solving it more than ten years ago.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Here we go “Breaking News: Southern Baptists voted to call for the reversal of the #SCOTUS ruling that legalized same-sex marriage, spurred by the end of Roe v. Wade” #LGBTQ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.
Reporter: How did the Israelis treat you, we saw them giving sandwiches?
Greta Thunberg: They probably have posted lots of PR stunts, they did an illegal act by kidnapping us in international waters but that’s not the real story here. The real story is the genocide in Gaza and systematic starvation.
Reporter: Are you worried about the others?
Greta: Yes…I’m calling for everyone who can to mobilize to demand their immediate release and, of course, to demand not only humanitarian aid being let into Gaza but also a ceasefire and most importantly an end to the occupation, an end to the systemic oppression and violence that Palestinians are facing on an everyday basis.
Reporter: “Why do you think so many countries and governments around the world are just ignoring what’s happening in Gaza?”
Greta Thunberg: “Because of racism.”
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10/06/2025
No matter what a peaceful protestor may intend, it’s police who decide when to use violence and whom to use it against—and nothing we saw this weekend indicates their violence was confined to those who were not “peaceful.” trib.al/BCcOzgs
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The Los Angeles Protests Are an Act of Self-Defense
Residents of L.A. aren’t merely protesting ICE; they’re attempting to protect their communities from ICE’s raids.
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Yep. I vote Green because I've come to treat voting like transport options: jumping on the bus that gets me closest to where I want to be, rather than hoping for a golden palanquin to deliver me exactly there. For me, they get most things mostly right.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
" I also believe that those of us who are older, whiter, safer from the threats of state violence do not have the moral ground to lecture the younger, browner and blacker, more directly impacted demographic on what they should and should not do." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
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Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
🔥 “You’re on the wrong side of history. You should be standing here with us… you took an oath to the constitution, not the fascists in the White House— he’s laughing at you… You’re tough behind your masks & fatigues, but how do you feel on the inside?” 🇺🇸
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Look at the writer. LOOK. AT. THE. WRITER
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
there are reasons to think that it will get much much better extremely quickly and rapidly leave the errors behind. there are reasons to think that the idiotic errors are intrinsic to the way it is made and can never be eliminated. anyone who says they *know* which of those is true is lying.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"Here it's also useful to make a distinction between property damage (which protesters in the USA in our era have done from time to time) and harming living beings (which is largely something done by law enforcement in these demonstrations)."
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Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
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Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
dude you won't believe it. that violently insecure mad king? he had a falling out with that super annoying failed jester he made grand vizier
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Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
word of the day
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Thank you for the stern scolding but it’s actually possible to both enjoy two malignant rich fucks viciously falling out and understand it doesn’t fix every problem immediately.
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Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Expect to see Musk dropping in children-armour on his next public outing.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/06/2025
MERZ: Tomorrow is the D Day anniversary, when the Americans ended a war in Europe TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 05/06/2025
Remember folks, women are too emotional to be president.
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 05/06/2025
This is a big day for couples that are one super online person and one normal
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
emotion wheel starting with "joy, fear, anger" in the center and then lapsing into gibberish
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
He’s a bloody fascist. Stop. Just stop.
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Women who "discover" that actually birthing is fucking hard, has social consequences due to patriarchy etc only *after they themselves have given birth* is 100% the equivalent of "as a father of daughters I now realise that women are people"
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
an effective and delicious tactic I employ often. Works for chocolatine, pain au raisin, tresse, suisse, toutes les tartalettes...
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Even if "white British" will be a minority in the UK in 40 years - so what? Seriously, so what? What is so terrible about that? Make people spell out their horrors. Make them spell out the things they are supposedly not allowed to say. Make them own it.
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Eva Montemaggi @evamontemaggi.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Happy Bicycle Day! Switching urban mobility to cycling means healthier people, huge savings for the health budget, and fewer road deaths and injuries, but we need good cycling infrastructure. We need uninterrupted cycle paths separate from traffic.
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
well, fuck Guess Trump wasn't as much as a vaccine as we all had hoped. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Poland presidential election 2025: rightwing candidate Karol Nawrocki wins, official results show – live
Nawrocki’s victory over Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski is a blow to Donald Tusk’s pro-EU Polish government
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Lee Knox Ostertag @leeknoxostertag.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
kind of obsessed with 2025 pride merch...I'm calling it cowardcore.
abercrombie and fitch 'pride mid rise jorts' which are literally just jorts with a rainbow tag inside the pant.abercrombie & fitch 'pride long sleeved striped button up shirt' that is...a green and white striped shirt. hello am I going crazy.beige terrycloth shorts from target. nothing about them indicates pride except that they are listed as such on the website.levi's 'pride icon' skirt which is literally just a short dark denim skirt. nothing to indicate 'pride' except that there is one image of a male model wearing it which technically you could do with any item of clothing but go off I guess
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Holy shit look at the SIZE of him
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
An atrocity is committed by someone with pale skin and blue eyes The Passive Voice wakes, stretches, does 50 situps, eats a hearty breakfast. It is going to be another busy day.
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