Nic
@nicferrier.bsky.social
I’m an English hacker from a long time ago.
I am trying to help rewild the Internet.
https://weblog.ferrier.me.uk
Emacs help and advice if you ask.
I am trying to help rewild the Internet.
https://weblog.ferrier.me.uk
Emacs help and advice if you ask.
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Nic
@nicferrier.bsky.social
· Apr 18
Statement: We don’t need billionaires anymore and should stop engaging with them.
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The same Deutche Bank that has a "special relationship" with Russia and was also the only bank willing to lend to a broke ass Trump.
February 15, 2026 at 8:25 PM
The same Deutche Bank that has a "special relationship" with Russia and was also the only bank willing to lend to a broke ass Trump.
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We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
February 15, 2026 at 2:51 PM
We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
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When a fart just keeps coming back
February 15, 2026 at 4:51 PM
When a fart just keeps coming back
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Thank you! As far as I can tell, the publishing industry and the press that covers it have said almost nothing about its Epstein connections through Epstein's bespoke literary agent John Brockman. The silence is giving off its own special stink. This was an important part of the Epstein "mystique."
This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets.
We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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February 15, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Thank you! As far as I can tell, the publishing industry and the press that covers it have said almost nothing about its Epstein connections through Epstein's bespoke literary agent John Brockman. The silence is giving off its own special stink. This was an important part of the Epstein "mystique."
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My interview this morning on Sky News.
Questions on NATO, Palestine Action and Starmers authoritarianism.
youtu.be/bTpWvNn78Zg?...
Questions on NATO, Palestine Action and Starmers authoritarianism.
youtu.be/bTpWvNn78Zg?...
Green Party leader Zack Polanski says criticism of Israeli government is a 'moral responsibility'
YouTube video by Sky News
youtu.be
February 15, 2026 at 11:57 AM
My interview this morning on Sky News.
Questions on NATO, Palestine Action and Starmers authoritarianism.
youtu.be/bTpWvNn78Zg?...
Questions on NATO, Palestine Action and Starmers authoritarianism.
youtu.be/bTpWvNn78Zg?...
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NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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Embracing diversity is key.
"Rather than promoting a single solution, such as planting more trees everywhere, we aim to support landscape-level planning that combines open habitats and woody features in ways that sustain diverse bird communities and the ecosystem functions they provide."
"Rather than promoting a single solution, such as planting more trees everywhere, we aim to support landscape-level planning that combines open habitats and woody features in ways that sustain diverse bird communities and the ecosystem functions they provide."
Planting tree belts on wet farmland comes with an overlooked trade-off
A research team has conducted a study to examine how shelterbelts influence bird species diversity and composition in an agricultural wetland landscape on the western coast of central Japan. They dete...
phys.org
February 15, 2026 at 7:36 AM
Embracing diversity is key.
"Rather than promoting a single solution, such as planting more trees everywhere, we aim to support landscape-level planning that combines open habitats and woody features in ways that sustain diverse bird communities and the ecosystem functions they provide."
"Rather than promoting a single solution, such as planting more trees everywhere, we aim to support landscape-level planning that combines open habitats and woody features in ways that sustain diverse bird communities and the ecosystem functions they provide."
I think this is about America but just throwing it out there that I have a strong opinion about this:
No home schooling.
No swearing allegiance to anything in school either: teach everyone respect and tolerance right from the start. But you don’t get to skip that as a parent.
Society demands it
No home schooling.
No swearing allegiance to anything in school either: teach everyone respect and tolerance right from the start. But you don’t get to skip that as a parent.
Society demands it
Any home-schooling parent (sorry, home-educating, they are really pissy about their jargon) who refuses entry to insepctors should be an immediate red flag. Neglect, abuse, indoctrination, children should be registered by the council and inspected regularly. They are so at risk of harm.
February 15, 2026 at 8:10 AM
I think this is about America but just throwing it out there that I have a strong opinion about this:
No home schooling.
No swearing allegiance to anything in school either: teach everyone respect and tolerance right from the start. But you don’t get to skip that as a parent.
Society demands it
No home schooling.
No swearing allegiance to anything in school either: teach everyone respect and tolerance right from the start. But you don’t get to skip that as a parent.
Society demands it
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One of the best interviews so far.
Full of emotion, hope, love and optimism for the future of the country.
Every voter needs to hear what Hannah has to say.
Full of emotion, hope, love and optimism for the future of the country.
Every voter needs to hear what Hannah has to say.
February 11, 2026 at 7:05 PM
One of the best interviews so far.
Full of emotion, hope, love and optimism for the future of the country.
Every voter needs to hear what Hannah has to say.
Full of emotion, hope, love and optimism for the future of the country.
Every voter needs to hear what Hannah has to say.
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This is what we need, politicians that are connected to the communities they represent, politicians that care about the people they represent:
"As a community, they’re a party that we can really look to, to represent us.”
#VoteGreen #VoteForHope
"As a community, they’re a party that we can really look to, to represent us.”
#VoteGreen #VoteForHope
Love this from Russell Tovey.
"I’m really following what the Green Party are doing, and I think we should all get behind them. As a community, they’re a party that we can really look to, to represent us.”
www.attitude.co.uk/culture/russ...
"I’m really following what the Green Party are doing, and I think we should all get behind them. As a community, they’re a party that we can really look to, to represent us.”
www.attitude.co.uk/culture/russ...
Russell Tovey joins the Green Party after being 'let down' by Labour government (EXCLUSIVE)
Russell Tovey spoke highly of Green Party leader Zack Polanski at the 2026 Attitude 101 charity lunch, admitting the UK deserves better.
www.attitude.co.uk
February 14, 2026 at 5:40 PM
This is what we need, politicians that are connected to the communities they represent, politicians that care about the people they represent:
"As a community, they’re a party that we can really look to, to represent us.”
#VoteGreen #VoteForHope
"As a community, they’re a party that we can really look to, to represent us.”
#VoteGreen #VoteForHope
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Makes sense that the same people who tone-police those who call what we're living through by its actual name - and think themselves sophisticates and realists for so doing - are "reassured" by the mere <tone> of a speech that advertises its ill intent toward our multicultural European democracy.
Rubio's #Munich speech was met with a 'sigh of relief' in Europe: grateful for reassurance of partnership. THIS IS BAFFLING when you examine the white Christian nationalist undertones of his speech
See here for the full speech: www.state.gov/releases/202...
See here for the full speech: www.state.gov/releases/202...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference - United States Department of State
SECRETARY RUBIO: Thank you very much. We gather here today as members of a historic alliance, an alliance that saved and changed the world. When this conference began in 1963, it was in a nation – ...
www.state.gov
February 14, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Makes sense that the same people who tone-police those who call what we're living through by its actual name - and think themselves sophisticates and realists for so doing - are "reassured" by the mere <tone> of a speech that advertises its ill intent toward our multicultural European democracy.
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I've said it before but I feel it bears repeating: the rise of chatGPT and similar systems is largely due to two things:
1) the decline of approachable computers and learning material
2) the failure of researchers and developers to address pragmatics and practicality
1) the decline of approachable computers and learning material
2) the failure of researchers and developers to address pragmatics and practicality
February 14, 2026 at 5:12 PM
I've said it before but I feel it bears repeating: the rise of chatGPT and similar systems is largely due to two things:
1) the decline of approachable computers and learning material
2) the failure of researchers and developers to address pragmatics and practicality
1) the decline of approachable computers and learning material
2) the failure of researchers and developers to address pragmatics and practicality
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It's so easy to feel dispirited by or just spend time complaining about Big Tech power.
So I'm really happy to see PAIRS being used as a forum to share lessons from successful strategies for public interest resistance. Looking forward to this presentation!
www.pairs.site/Resisting-Bi...
So I'm really happy to see PAIRS being used as a forum to share lessons from successful strategies for public interest resistance. Looking forward to this presentation!
www.pairs.site/Resisting-Bi...
February 14, 2026 at 11:48 AM
It's so easy to feel dispirited by or just spend time complaining about Big Tech power.
So I'm really happy to see PAIRS being used as a forum to share lessons from successful strategies for public interest resistance. Looking forward to this presentation!
www.pairs.site/Resisting-Bi...
So I'm really happy to see PAIRS being used as a forum to share lessons from successful strategies for public interest resistance. Looking forward to this presentation!
www.pairs.site/Resisting-Bi...
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Thinking that a range of Jacques Lacan themed Valentine’s cards could be a real money spinner? 🤔
February 14, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Thinking that a range of Jacques Lacan themed Valentine’s cards could be a real money spinner? 🤔
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February 14, 2026 at 7:03 AM
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Active hope looks like this.
If we lose respect for the people behind the opinions they hold, whatever they are, then we forfeit the right to knock on their door. It’s a universal truth.
#ZackIsRight
#HeadsUpUK
If we lose respect for the people behind the opinions they hold, whatever they are, then we forfeit the right to knock on their door. It’s a universal truth.
#ZackIsRight
#HeadsUpUK
Just because we have utter contempt for Nigel Farage and Matt Goodwin, does not mean we should have contempt for people who might consider voting for them says @zackpolanski.bsky.social 👏
February 13, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Active hope looks like this.
If we lose respect for the people behind the opinions they hold, whatever they are, then we forfeit the right to knock on their door. It’s a universal truth.
#ZackIsRight
#HeadsUpUK
If we lose respect for the people behind the opinions they hold, whatever they are, then we forfeit the right to knock on their door. It’s a universal truth.
#ZackIsRight
#HeadsUpUK
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"... as soon as you shift the frame to, these are politicians who've been bought & paid for by oil & gas, arms trade companies, private healthcare companies, gambling companies, their behaviour makes absolute sense"
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on Labour. Spot on.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on Labour. Spot on.
February 13, 2026 at 8:43 AM
"... as soon as you shift the frame to, these are politicians who've been bought & paid for by oil & gas, arms trade companies, private healthcare companies, gambling companies, their behaviour makes absolute sense"
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on Labour. Spot on.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on Labour. Spot on.
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Zack Polanski gives me something I haven't felt in ages; hope. I feel hopeful whenever I hear him speak. Perhaps this is the future and perhaps we are not that doomed after all.
A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful.
Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
February 13, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Zack Polanski gives me something I haven't felt in ages; hope. I feel hopeful whenever I hear him speak. Perhaps this is the future and perhaps we are not that doomed after all.
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Even the lego knows.
February 13, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Even the lego knows.
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
Gutting. People need to get it and switch.
There were 36 votes between the Green Party and Reform.
36 votes.
Reform are absolutely stoppable - and the Green Party can win with our message to lower bills, protect the NHS and rebuild public services.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
36 votes.
Reform are absolutely stoppable - and the Green Party can win with our message to lower bills, protect the NHS and rebuild public services.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
February 13, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Gutting. People need to get it and switch.