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John Ferrier

@suvartula.bsky.social

He/him. Retired UK civil servant.

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Eventually I found it a comfort that reality had become worse.

27.11.2025 09:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

One hopes they have not been using the Sorting Hat.

08.11.2025 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Dick Gaughan - John MacLean March
YouTube video by cobrolchain2 Dick Gaughan - John MacLean March

John Maclean (1879–1923), socialist & Red Clydesider, was born #OTD, 24 August

Listen to Hamish Henderson’s β€œThe John Maclean March”, sung by Dick Gaughan (1972)
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24.08.2025 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Ed tech is bottom of the barrel for enshittification (in part because of how university procurement works). Canvas was all in on β€œpredictive 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

20.07.2025 08:56 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This has been a big worry, effectively removing many journalists from our environment. You'd have to really want to do this to have any chance of making a go of it, and even then finding the right platform is clearly often a hard process to navigate.

10.07.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So looking forward to it!
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17.05.2025 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What an appalling sequence of assaults on your psyche.

14.05.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As if I couldn't love Edwyn more. And yes, the Sparks story is brilliant. Support The Quietus!

16.03.2025 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What a difficult loss. May you both find all the comforts.

01.03.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Your cohabitants on the list seem quite entertaining company!

28.01.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Certainly by the late '70s this was the nomenclature in use, Ben.

27.01.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post from Hans Henrik Bruun (hhbrun.bsky.social) reading β€œTo claim that a person has deeper insights into how ecosystems work due to their skin colour or ethnic origin is fundamentally racist”

Post from Hans Henrik Bruun (hhbrun.bsky.social) reading β€œTo claim that a person has deeper insights into how ecosystems work due to their skin colour or ethnic origin is fundamentally racist”

Post from Hans Henrik Bruun (hhbrun.bsky.social) β€œI see new ecology papers about "indigenous knowledge" coming out al the time. And I wonder why so many academics seem to prefer wokeness over science.”

Post from Hans Henrik Bruun (hhbrun.bsky.social) β€œI see new ecology papers about "indigenous knowledge" coming out al the time. And I wonder why so many academics seem to prefer wokeness over science.”

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?

12.01.2025 08:51 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Unaware of that earlier usage, I had thought the word's arrival in these new structures was indicative of something like Doge meme language.

30.12.2024 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The thing is, there is generally a known, stable, finite number of monkeys.

27.12.2024 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
3 books in a boxed set; volume 1 features a beautiful Black woman with a shaved head, against a blue background featuring a spaceship and a planet.

3 books in a boxed set; volume 1 features a beautiful Black woman with a shaved head, against a blue background featuring a spaceship and a planet.

#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 πŸ’™πŸ“š πŸŒˆπŸ“šπŸͺ

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26.12.2024 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

(From experience as well) Yes, I think we very much need to be getting that right, and making the policy choices to enable it - rather than trying primarily to obviate it.

24.11.2024 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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