Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 24/06/2025International 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. 110
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...theguardian.comUS request to UK over Iran would have raised legal questions, ex-adviser saysPeter Ricketts says US likely to have decided it was better not to ask, after minister says no request was made 030
Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Yes? What would you actually say no to? Doesn’t all of that sound good tho 010
Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Good god. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...theguardian.comUS request to UK over Iran would have raised legal questions, ex-adviser saysPeter Ricketts says US likely to have decided it was better not to ask, after minister says no request was made 011
Reposted by Erica PackingtonLady DEADtera, Wee Ghostie Edition 👻🍁😷 @ladylettera32.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Also 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...goodreads.comThe Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humili…A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive… 04217
Reposted by Erica Packington☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Thanks 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... 18375541280
Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 17/06/2025critters and bugs need us to change our behaviours globally, but here's some easy stuff you can do to help www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comInsects are dying: here are 25 easy and effective ways you can help protect themFrom turning out the lights to letting leaves rot, these small steps can create big changes at home or in the wild 010
Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 16/06/2025OK.... 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...theguardian.comIsraeli 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 010
Reposted by Erica PackingtonLorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 16/06/2025ICE throws gas at protesters who immediately cone it then use boards to help fan the gas back at ICE. 829180234333
Reposted by Erica PackingtonIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 15/06/2025Another good reminder from today is that to win this we all need to get used to cooperating with people we sometimes find highly annoying 594593754
Reposted by Erica PackingtonJamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Editor: You finish that writeup of Trump birthday parade? Journalist: sure did boss, real fuckin bootlicking just like you asked 227949
Reposted by Erica PackingtonMarty Hades 🔥💀 @smartypantsmarty.com · 13/06/2025More of this tone please 😏 222084669
Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025I asked Jools Holland for directions in Richmond, Surrey one evening. They were appalling and we stayed lost. 120
Reposted by Erica Packington-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❄︎ ☃︎ @moxiest.art · 11/06/2025leftists: 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 89322509746
Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 11/06/2025I 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. 021
Reposted by Erica PackingtonMatthew Gyamtso (Jee) @freedomforall.net · 10/06/2025The 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. 021
Reposted by Erica Packington@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Here 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... 52717
Reposted by Erica PackingtonRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 11/06/2025This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need. 70117904378
Reposted by Erica PackingtonThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10/06/2025No 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/BCcOzgstrib.alThe Los Angeles Protests Are an Act of Self-DefenseResidents of L.A. aren’t merely protesting ICE; they’re attempting to protect their communities from ICE’s raids. 612141
Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Yep. 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. 030
Reposted by Erica PackingtonRebecca 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...meditationsinanemergency.comSome Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of ViolenceI 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... 15530166
Reposted by Erica PackingtonThe 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?” 🇺🇸 22770592298
Reposted by Erica PackingtonNaomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 09/06/2025there 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. 4457
Reposted by Erica PackingtonRebecca 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)."meditationsinanemergency.comSome Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of ViolenceI 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... 18924306
Reposted by Erica PackingtonAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/06/2025“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism” 6865390215546
Reposted by Erica PackingtonEvan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 05/06/2025dude 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 172835586
Reposted by Erica PackingtonMaksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · 06/06/2025word of the day 319349
Reposted by Erica PackingtonMike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Thank 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. 423403456
Reposted by Erica PackingtonAlexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025The 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. 218244864027
Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Expect to see Musk dropping in children-armour on his next public outing. 000
Reposted by Erica PackingtonAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/06/2025MERZ: 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 1381127203253
Reposted by Erica PackingtonKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 05/06/2025Remember folks, women are too emotional to be president. 353024604
Reposted by Erica PackingtonNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 05/06/2025This is a big day for couples that are one super online person and one normal 82937345
Reposted by Erica Packingtoncait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 05/06/2025a 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 23951491321
Reposted by Erica PackingtonPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 05/06/2025He’s a bloody fascist. Stop. Just stop. 3305
Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Women 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" 151
Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 04/06/2025an effective and delicious tactic I employ often. Works for chocolatine, pain au raisin, tresse, suisse, toutes les tartalettes... 000
Reposted by Erica PackingtonMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Even 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. 2285282878
Reposted by Erica PackingtonEva Montemaggi @evamontemaggi.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Happy 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. 12410
Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 02/06/2025well, fuck Guess Trump wasn't as much as a vaccine as we all had hoped. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...theguardian.comPoland presidential election 2025: rightwing candidate Karol Nawrocki wins, official results show – liveNawrocki’s victory over Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski is a blow to Donald Tusk’s pro-EU Polish government 010
Reposted by Erica PackingtonLee Knox Ostertag @leeknoxostertag.bsky.social · 30/05/2025kind of obsessed with 2025 pride merch...I'm calling it cowardcore. 24890732795
Reposted by Erica PackingtonIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 30/05/2025An 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. 418040