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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
We are about to see a live demonstration of the hefty job development aid was doing to mask the horrific reality of our broken system.
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Ripples from the catastrophically chaotic closure of USAID are beginning to filter through, and the craven drop in UK funding will see more people die or get just a little bit more desperate.
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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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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I had understood that when born, the baby has very, very low chances of survival. It’s the grimmest grimmest outcome for all concerned. To be clear, a healthy baby born from this abhorrent forced birth on a dead woman would not - in any way - justify her treatment.
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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
I love Lush! Saw Miki Berenyi speak at Kite Festival in 2023, she was amazing.
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
pretty sure babies and baseballs don't have the same properties to ensure that you would just whack the baby and it would act like a baseball. or... is this a transubstantiation question? Is it a REAL baby or the ball is now the Baby of Christ like wine/blood-bread/body?
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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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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
They do a banging vegetarian burger - a big, breaded/deep fried portobello mushroom with cheese in the middle bit. (They are subject to BDS boycotts alongside some other fast food chains lif that’s one of your considerations)
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
In loco parentis m'fkers, see you later
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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
Cat distribution system! It’s the BEST
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Well that sounds like an awesome turn of events
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Sounds absolutely great. Looking forward to reading!
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Another time I was driving in London in my little powder blue Mini (old size) and stopped at a pedestrian crossing in Westminster to let Michael Portillo cross the road. He made eye contact, half waved and then trotted across the road. He’s shorter than I imagined he’d be.
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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
Wilted-will Dropsy? Self-hatred Stasis? Solidarity - there today as well. Arranged the day around a 1pm meeting that was actually at 12 noon (so I missed it). Now I am ashamed for both missing it and wasting a morning (because I couldn't very well START anything with a 1pm meeting). Yay brains.
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
bah, sorry love, that fucking sucks. Hope you can find some grounding things/cat snuggles/something to alleviate.
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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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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
All while being lectured on responsible use of public funds as code for “shut up and let us strip the state in peace, you peasants”
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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
Excellent parenting x
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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
In Nassau there is a Dead Cat Road and a Dog Flea Alley - they are as picturesque as their names suggest they would be!
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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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Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I HEARD this with my soul I think my love of light industrial food production or small scale factory videos is from the little Sesame Street "here's how crayons are made" videos
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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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