Erica Brooks

@ebrooks.bsky.social

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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.

Tuxedo cat smiling at the camera. She’s lying on the photographer’s arm.
Nick Stahl, Katie Holmes, and James Marsden in a screenshot from Disturbing Behavior (1998). Subtitle reads, “Toxic Jock Syndrome.”
Robert P. George's Dec. 7 op-ed, "There are valid debates among conservatives. This isn't one.," argued that conservatives should stop promoting "white supremacy, antisemitism, eugenics, the subjugation of women, and other forms of ideological extremism and bigotry." You know what this means. It means it's too late. Telling conservatives to stop being bigots is admitting they re bigots. And I'm pretty sure a professor of jurisprudence telling them to cut it out isn't going to work. Hey, you guys — stop being bigots! Oh, okay. I served in the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations and would like to believe conservatism wasn't always thus, but I'm beginning to wonder. Was the virus from which today's bigotry sprang lying dormant in us back then, like chickenpox leading to shingles? The moral herpes virus? Was it like a recessive gene long buried in our ancestral DNA that suddenly got switched on and has become dominant? Are these new conservatives in fact our descendants? Were we always secretly like this but were pretending we weren't? I'm hoping these new conservatives are mutants, but I'm not so sure about that anymore. Bruce Carnes, Fairfax
Moya from Farscape
Elderly white hangdog-looking Republican senator from Idaho standing at a podium. Glimpses of empty seats behind him and a few people mingling in the back of the room.
Looking down on a green plaid duvet, a fluffy tuxedo cat stretched out asleep between two ridges that are actually my legs. Farther down the bed is a second fluffy tuxedo cat curled up in a circle asleep.
In the foreground, a fluffy tuxedo cat lies on her back on a green plaid duvet. She’s craning her head up to look at the camera. In the background, another fluffy tuxedo cat sits in a hallway, looking in at his sister.
Closeup on a fluffy tuxedo cat curled up on a grey blanket, one white paw showing off its pads
Two fluffy tuxedo cats, one taller and fluffier, one smaller and more gremlin-like, sit on a table and stare down the camera, ready to start more trouble.
Closeup of a tuxedo cat glancing up at the camera, plotting her next move.
Painting of a scene from Midsummer Night’s Dream where Titania fawns over Nick Bottom, who has the head of a donkey.
Screenshot of a Bluesky timeline. Adam Serwer posts: Every Star Wars post on Instagram about the acolyte is swarming with angry racists whining about the diversity of the cast of a show they have not seen. Choam Nomsky replies: many such cases. Below them on the timeline, Frankie Huang posts: What recent news story or public discourse should I use as inspiration for another amusingly violent fairytale?
Screen shot of living ship Moya from Farscape. The bestest girl.