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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Those still in the Labour Party & going along to CLP meetings…look around you at the next one
Who among the bright eyed keen 20-30 somethings do you think will be forced by HQ sometime in 2040s to go on Radio 4 to defend the taking of jewellery as the compassionate way to stop babies drowning?
Who among the bright eyed keen 20-30 somethings do you think will be forced by HQ sometime in 2040s to go on Radio 4 to defend the taking of jewellery as the compassionate way to stop babies drowning?
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Those still in the Labour Party & going along to CLP meetings…look around you at the next one
Who among the bright eyed keen 20-30 somethings do you think will be forced by HQ sometime in 2040s to go on Radio 4 to defend the taking of jewellery as the compassionate way to stop babies drowning?
Who among the bright eyed keen 20-30 somethings do you think will be forced by HQ sometime in 2040s to go on Radio 4 to defend the taking of jewellery as the compassionate way to stop babies drowning?
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Pass the phone… to the 40,000 Young Greens! 📲 💚
We now have the largest youth and student movement in UK politics - AND the biggest Young Greens group in Europe 🥳
This is the generation that’s done waiting. Join us. ⤵️
We now have the largest youth and student movement in UK politics - AND the biggest Young Greens group in Europe 🥳
This is the generation that’s done waiting. Join us. ⤵️
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Pass the phone… to the 40,000 Young Greens! 📲 💚
We now have the largest youth and student movement in UK politics - AND the biggest Young Greens group in Europe 🥳
This is the generation that’s done waiting. Join us. ⤵️
We now have the largest youth and student movement in UK politics - AND the biggest Young Greens group in Europe 🥳
This is the generation that’s done waiting. Join us. ⤵️
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Thinking about how the perfectly sane and humane - and not remotely radical - words coming out of this man’s mouth makes him an outlier in today’s political landscape.
A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Thinking about how the perfectly sane and humane - and not remotely radical - words coming out of this man’s mouth makes him an outlier in today’s political landscape.
It is a disgrace. The worst possible racists in my home town (we’re getting an Army camp of migrants) are loving - they can say all this shit they’ve always wanted to.
Most people already were crossing their fingers and holding their noses voting Labour tho. So I doubt MPs are getting push back.
Most people already were crossing their fingers and holding their noses voting Labour tho. So I doubt MPs are getting push back.
"Polanski was joined by many Labour MPs in opposing the government’s plans, although most of them are thought to be prepared to reluctantly support the measures."
What's the point of being in Labour?
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What's the point of being in Labour?
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Zack Polanski: "This is extreme, this is inhumane and it is a government of cowards."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/a-gove...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/a-gove...
November 18, 2025 at 7:52 AM
It is a disgrace. The worst possible racists in my home town (we’re getting an Army camp of migrants) are loving - they can say all this shit they’ve always wanted to.
Most people already were crossing their fingers and holding their noses voting Labour tho. So I doubt MPs are getting push back.
Most people already were crossing their fingers and holding their noses voting Labour tho. So I doubt MPs are getting push back.
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Think this is going to push a lot, if not most, of voters to the Greens. The right wing appeasement rather than practical improvements show Labour are not a party of serious government. Party before country.
Feel confident in backing the Greens, more moral and genuine with practical solutions.
Feel confident in backing the Greens, more moral and genuine with practical solutions.
A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Think this is going to push a lot, if not most, of voters to the Greens. The right wing appeasement rather than practical improvements show Labour are not a party of serious government. Party before country.
Feel confident in backing the Greens, more moral and genuine with practical solutions.
Feel confident in backing the Greens, more moral and genuine with practical solutions.
Yeah. Here in the UK it most chimes, for me, like an episode of 2000ADs “Future Shock”.
If I had a shitload of money and wished to hasten the arrival of the Kingdom of God I would simply follow the clearly labeled instructions by housing immigrants, freeing prisoners, and so forth
At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.
November 18, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Yeah. Here in the UK it most chimes, for me, like an episode of 2000ADs “Future Shock”.
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This week, we have Bluesky being stupid, Google being evil, Apple being devious, the government being daft about AI. tech bros needing a much wider reading list, and AI dogs. My friends, it has not been a good week in tech.
www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-lin...
www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-lin...
Ten Blue Links “Don’t Be Evil (some conditions apply)” edition
1. This is fine dot gif of the week, part the first Cookie banners are theatre. Consent is supposed to be the point. The European Commission is now workshopping a new ending: “you consented,…
www.ianbetteridge.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This week, we have Bluesky being stupid, Google being evil, Apple being devious, the government being daft about AI. tech bros needing a much wider reading list, and AI dogs. My friends, it has not been a good week in tech.
www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-lin...
www.ianbetteridge.com/ten-blue-lin...
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The Greens don’t believe providing safe refuge for endangered asylum seekers is an “out-of-control” policy.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The Greens don’t believe providing safe refuge for endangered asylum seekers is an “out-of-control” policy.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
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Cruel. Callous. Cowardly.
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Cruel. Callous. Cowardly.
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Is it just people who have an arts background and move into politics that are considered to have failed? Or is it applied equally to all politicians - failed lawyers, failed investment bankers, failed landlords etc.
The right wing approach now is to put me in a box with an incredibly successful politician who just won a stunning victory.
This is Pure Cope Exhibit A
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This is Pure Cope Exhibit A
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Is it just people who have an arts background and move into politics that are considered to have failed? Or is it applied equally to all politicians - failed lawyers, failed investment bankers, failed landlords etc.
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Will they be yanking out their Gold teeth? This is too appalling for words👇
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Will they be yanking out their Gold teeth? This is too appalling for words👇
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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This is the great thing about Emacs, you can make new tools so fast... I needed a search tool for OpenSSL pod doc. I could have tried to build man pages ... but instead:
weblog.ferrier.me.uk/f/home/OpenS...
I'm sorry, I don't have syntax highlighting on emacslisp!
weblog.ferrier.me.uk/f/home/OpenS...
I'm sorry, I don't have syntax highlighting on emacslisp!
OpenSSL pod doc
OpenSSL source distribution comes with pod documentation that can be turned into HTML or man files or whatever.
weblog.ferrier.me.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
This is the great thing about Emacs, you can make new tools so fast... I needed a search tool for OpenSSL pod doc. I could have tried to build man pages ... but instead:
weblog.ferrier.me.uk/f/home/OpenS...
I'm sorry, I don't have syntax highlighting on emacslisp!
weblog.ferrier.me.uk/f/home/OpenS...
I'm sorry, I don't have syntax highlighting on emacslisp!
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Added to that: Green policies have a chance of working. Blaming all our woes on immigrants and disabled people is not going to change a £10bn a year deficit.
If you ARE a racist maybe keep voting Labour or even better Reform.
But if you’re not the Green have more chance of fixing things.
If you ARE a racist maybe keep voting Labour or even better Reform.
But if you’re not the Green have more chance of fixing things.
If you feel like you voted for Labour and got Reform, time to join @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Green Party.
Don’t be taken in by the right wing smears, today’s Green Party is passionate, intelligent, and honest. They have consistently impressed me.
Don’t be taken in by the right wing smears, today’s Green Party is passionate, intelligent, and honest. They have consistently impressed me.
“on article 8 of the ECHR in particular the right to family life ..we want to constrain in legislation the way that that is applied in immigration cases” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells Sky’s Trevor Philips
Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government
Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government
November 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Added to that: Green policies have a chance of working. Blaming all our woes on immigrants and disabled people is not going to change a £10bn a year deficit.
If you ARE a racist maybe keep voting Labour or even better Reform.
But if you’re not the Green have more chance of fixing things.
If you ARE a racist maybe keep voting Labour or even better Reform.
But if you’re not the Green have more chance of fixing things.
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NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Sacha Judd's #ffconf talk was one full of nostalgia for me. Fandom was my first online community 💗 and it's such a rich subculture of the internet. Was fab hearing all about @archiveofourown.org and many other incarnations of online fandom spaces being talked about at a web conf! @ffconf.org
thank you #ffconf you are such a great crowd. here’s the text and slides to the talk (it’s a directors cut bc it has 20 mins more than the original version!) 1/2 www.sachajudd.com/the-good-int...
The Good Internet – Director’s Cut - What you love matters
How to escape the algorithmic doom loops and reclaim our digital lives
www.sachajudd.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Sacha Judd's #ffconf talk was one full of nostalgia for me. Fandom was my first online community 💗 and it's such a rich subculture of the internet. Was fab hearing all about @archiveofourown.org and many other incarnations of online fandom spaces being talked about at a web conf! @ffconf.org
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thank you #ffconf you are such a great crowd. here’s the text and slides to the talk (it’s a directors cut bc it has 20 mins more than the original version!) 1/2 www.sachajudd.com/the-good-int...
The Good Internet – Director’s Cut - What you love matters
How to escape the algorithmic doom loops and reclaim our digital lives
www.sachajudd.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
thank you #ffconf you are such a great crowd. here’s the text and slides to the talk (it’s a directors cut bc it has 20 mins more than the original version!) 1/2 www.sachajudd.com/the-good-int...
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The campaign starts here! Stewart Lee for DG…
Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
November 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The campaign starts here! Stewart Lee for DG…
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Tommy Robinson openly celebrating Labour's new asylum seekers policy should tell everyone exactly how far right Labour are now.
Labour, Reform and Tories are all the same. Right wing parties only interested in making money for their donors.
Do not vote Labour.
Labour, Reform and Tories are all the same. Right wing parties only interested in making money for their donors.
Do not vote Labour.
The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Tommy Robinson openly celebrating Labour's new asylum seekers policy should tell everyone exactly how far right Labour are now.
Labour, Reform and Tories are all the same. Right wing parties only interested in making money for their donors.
Do not vote Labour.
Labour, Reform and Tories are all the same. Right wing parties only interested in making money for their donors.
Do not vote Labour.
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The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
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Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
November 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
This week’s column by Stewart Lee
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
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Questioning whether to do a stream today or not.
I’m stuck on a boring problem. I’m a bit tired and I’m comfy on the sofa with that cat.
I’m stuck on a boring problem. I’m a bit tired and I’m comfy on the sofa with that cat.
November 16, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Questioning whether to do a stream today or not.
I’m stuck on a boring problem. I’m a bit tired and I’m comfy on the sofa with that cat.
I’m stuck on a boring problem. I’m a bit tired and I’m comfy on the sofa with that cat.