Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 24/06/2025We are about to see a live demonstration of the hefty job development aid was doing to mask the horrific reality of our broken system. 010
Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Ripples 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. 111
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
Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 17/06/2025I 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. 140
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 · 16/06/2025I love Lush! Saw Miki Berenyi speak at Kite Festival in 2023, she was amazing. 100
Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 16/06/2025pretty 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? 000
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
Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 16/06/2025They 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) 010
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 · 13/06/2025Well that sounds like an awesome turn of events 120
Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Sounds absolutely great. Looking forward to reading! 110
Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Another 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. 010
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 · 11/06/2025Wilted-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. 100
Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 11/06/2025bah, sorry love, that fucking sucks. Hope you can find some grounding things/cat snuggles/something to alleviate. 020
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
Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 11/06/2025All while being lectured on responsible use of public funds as code for “shut up and let us strip the state in peace, you peasants” 010
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 · 10/06/2025In Nassau there is a Dead Cat Road and a Dog Flea Alley - they are as picturesque as their names suggest they would be! 110
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
Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social · 10/06/2025I 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 000
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