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Erica Brooks

@ebrooks.bsky.social

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 · 2w ago

Just finished this one and WHEW. I mean tbh I wanted to scream at the very premise of signing up for solitude and discovering precisely one (1) other person is there, so I should have known this would keep crawling right under my skin. Is “autistic horror” a genre?

Rhiannon Grist | HOME SICK out now! 🪓🐑@rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 9mo ago

After a violent incident at work, Tamsin makes a fresh start in a cottage far from her old life. But the solitary cottage is actually a semi-detached, with only a thin wall between her & a total stranger. Preorder: geni.us/homesick Goodreads: tinyurl.com/3mdv69dp Storygraph: tinyurl.com/6j5n5xyx

The cover for HOME SICK on a gradient pink background with half a sheep's head. The cover features two sheep heads looking to the viewer, one with black shark-like eyes. The title of the book is in a pointed, thick font, swirling and dominant. Around the book text reads "This house isn't haunted. She is."
D A V I E M O O@daviemoo.bsky.social · 4w ago

Little known to many, on the 10th June, the government released the interim report on ADHD and neurodiversity services in the UK. It came out to very little fanfare. Why? Because it doesn't match the government & the press narrative on "an epidemic of neurodiversity diagnoses".

Jo VanEvery@jovanevery.bsky.social · last mo.

If you are unaware of just how serious recent changes to guidance for schools re trans kids is, read this thread. It is horrific. Stop worrying about what Reform would do if elected and start seeing clearly what this Labour government is already doing. 😡😢

Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · last mo.

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

Bo Thompson@gaudipern.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thomas Paine is my favorite founding father. He was famously abolitionist and one of the earliest voices to point out the hypocrisy of fighting for independence while keeping slaves. He also firmly believed that keeping any friendship which required compromising your morals made you a bad person.

The Rude Pundit@rudepundit.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow. The parliament or the people of 1688, or of any other period, had no more right to dispose of the people of the present day, or to bind or to controul them in any shape whatever, than the parliament or the people of the present day have to dispose of, bind or controul those who are to live a hundred or a thousand years hence. Every generation is, and must be, competent to all the purposes which its occasions require. It is the living, and not the dead, that are to be accommodated.
alexis simpson@amutepiggy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

crazy to me that rich people have been so successful in perpetuating the lie that the poor are stealing from everyone. they don't have any money. the rich people are the ones with the money! that's who stole the money

Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh@rtie.org · 2mo ago

Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh applauds the City of Edinburgh Council for voting, by an overwhelming majority, to condemn the transphobic new guidance from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. Zoe Harding delivered a blistering speech on our behalf: rtie.org/2026/06/25/e...

Edinburgh Council condemn transphobic EHRC guidance

Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh applauds the City of Edinburgh Council for voting today, by an overwhelming majority, to condemn the transphobic new guidance from the Equalities and Human Rights…

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Kit Colliver@presentlyincorrect.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Edinburgh Council condemn EHRC guidance, passed 34 to 19. Thanks to excellent drafting by @alexstaniforth.bsky.social and four powerful deputations from @rtie.org @scottishtrans.bsky.social @transpridescotland.bsky.social and the Education Institute Scot democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/documents/s1...

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Alex Staniforth@alexstaniforth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Edinburgh council just agreed to condemn the proposed EHRC Guidance as discriminatory against trans people, unworkable and potentially incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.

Ballot Box Scotland@ballotbox.scot · 2mo ago

For many LGBT folk like me, and especially trans folk, Keir Starmer will be remembered in the same way as Margaret Thatcher: with deep contempt for having overseen a deeply hostile, queerphobic government, which rolled back human rights and set society back by at least a decade. Good riddance.

Caroline Dodds Pennock@carolinepennock.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.

Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Update: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS. These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st). Forced medical detransition. This country is a danger to trans children & young people.

Caroline Dodds Pennock@carolinepennock.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THIS. Do I worry about the effects of social media on my 11-year-old? Obviously yes. Do I think she should be banned from it any more than young men falling into the manosphere on Reddit, middle-aged ladies being dragged into transphobia on Mumsnet, or pensioners radicalised by Facebook? 100% no.

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Erica Brooks@ebrooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Omg the memories in these responses. Cheezburger. Cracked. Homestar Runner. The feminist blogosphere. Oooh Kate Harding’s old site! For the ”mordantly obese”!

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · 3mo ago

as we grieve the slop-ification of Google, I want to know everyone's favorite fun niche sites from Back When The Internet Was Good. what did you visit every day on your coffee break at work? we were a big Homestar Runner household, and I also loved Cake Wrecks and Animals Talking In All Caps