John Ferrier
suvartula.bsky.social
John Ferrier
@suvartula.bsky.social
He/him. Retired UK civil servant.
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Censorship today is quiet: institutions hesitate, teachers are pressured, events disappear.

This year, I was banned from speaking at a primary school about Section 28. In 2025(!)
December 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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John Maclean (1879–1923), socialist & Red Clydesider, was born #OTD, 24 August

Listen to Hamish Henderson’s “The John Maclean March”, sung by Dick Gaughan (1972)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uAs...
Dick Gaughan - John MacLean March
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August 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Ed tech is bottom of the barrel for enshittification (in part because of how university procurement works). Canvas was all in on “predictive analytics” a while back, to offer graders predictions on student outcomes based on…racism. Then its Zoom interface became a surveillance tool. Color me shocked
Out of curiosity I wanted to know how the massive LMS Instructure (company that runs Canvas) is using the massive amounts of data it collects on students.

Oh.
(This article is nominally not a press release?)
www.forbes.com/sites/rayrav...
July 20, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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So looking forward to it!
☕️🌴🦂🌸
May 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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As if I couldn't love Edwyn more. And yes, the Sparks story is brilliant. Support The Quietus!
March 16, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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These are extremely problematic (and fundamentally misleading) dog whistle hot takes from someone who has a professorship in ecology at a major European university. If he’s your colleague, maybe have a word? & if you’re choosing reviewers for grants or papers… is he a fair judge?
January 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The thing is, there is generally a known, stable, finite number of monkeys.
My New Year resolutions:
December 27, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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#Hopepunk #sapphic #spaceopera What happens after rebel guerillas fight a fascist empire...but cannot win? A trilogy of novellas about choosing hope, recovery, building community, and working towards a new life on the utopian planet Refuge. #cozy #specfic #sf 💙📚 🌈📚🪐

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December 26, 2024 at 4:22 PM