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Paul Ferguson

@paulfson.bsky.social
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Ex-Keswick Cumbrian exile, lost in literature, environment, ecociticism, weird fiction, capitalocene, fiddle, traditional and non-traditional music (often at the same time), and lots of walking & cycling isms and ings

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The multimillionaire Nigel Farage rails against climate action, while gliding from one air-conditioned building to another. He knows that he and his ilk will suffer least. But he is prepared to sacrifice everyone else to the demands of his fossil-fuelled funders. So much for "the man of the people".
A painting which depicts Nero fiddling while Rome burns.
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Zoomed in with my phone - a beautiful Goldfinch in Threlkeld
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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Westfield Oat Milk
Fiddle player
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This is extraordinary music production www.youtube.com/watch?v=AifA...
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Coding Music for Cold Machines (Narrated)
YouTube video by Switch Angel
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The viral success of the Harris Reel number one prompted me to have another go. Dark atmosphere seems to keep happening, even with cheerful tunes www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilwp...
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Harris Number Two
YouTube video by Paul Ferguson
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rK7...
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Board of Peace - Season 1
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Pipe Major Donald Trump (right), a member of the American Expedition to Greenland in Antarctica plays for an indifferent penguin (left)
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Dept for Homeland Security plumb the depths of ignorance with their latest film splicing one of the best moments from Herzog's Antarctica documentary with film of Trump and the US armed forces, foolishly failing to understand the penguin is 'deranged' and headed for certain death
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I never realised 1984 was also a comedy
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The WEF audience gave Trump a standing ovation. That is probably the most depressing thing I've ever seen.
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The Nazis got Leni Riefenstahl and 'Triumph of the Will', we get .... Melania the Movie ... ughhhh
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
People keep saying oh no, America has abandoned 'its longstanding championing of the rule of law, human rights, democracy and the territorial integrity of nation states'. Surely they abandoned all that back in 2003, if not before? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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As Trump menaces Greenland, this much is clear: the free world needs a new plan – and inspired leadership | Gordon Brown
The idea that the liberal rules-based order can survive his presidency now seems complacent. This is a historic moment – and a time to act, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
On top of everything else, this is the good news everyone was hoping for .... Or not
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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Every single thing the Right spewed on Trump should be rammed back down their throats forever. news.sky.com/story/boris-...
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Boris Johnson claims the world would be 'more stable' under Donald Trump
The former prime minister mocked the "global wokerati" for "trembling so violently" at the idea of Trump returning to the White House after he won 51% of the vote at the Iowa caucus on Monday.
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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U.S. Support for UK and Mauritius Agreement on Chagos Archipelago  - United States Department of State
Today, the United States welcomed the historic agreement between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Mauritius on the future of the British Indian Ocean Territory—specifically, the Chagos Archipela...
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
@davidallengreen.bsky.social I'm unable to reply to your earlier post. I wasn't taking anything out on you, merely expressing how those AI music videos annoy me. It wasn't a criticism aimed personally. I only have a tiny following so I'm sure anything I say vanishes into the ether. I love your posts
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The most petty and deeply ignorant letter in the history of international diplomacy has been delivered. No one has ever seen anything like it. Everyone says so, they are all saying it. www.lbc.co.uk/article/trum...
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'I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace,' warns Trump after being refused Nobel Peace Prize | LBC
Donald Trump has sent an extraordinary letter to the Norwegian Prime Minister saying he will focus on “what is good and proper for the United States of America,” after he was not awarded the Nobel pea...
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Nazi Jake Lang went to Minnesota to incite violence by burning a Koran. Nearly got himself murdered but was saved firstly by a black man and then later by a transwoman in a car. You couldn't make it up
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The aliens will save us www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Bank of England ‘must plan for a financial crisis triggered by Aliens’
Financial markets could collapse if the American government confirms the existence of Alien life
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Is this peak MAGA ignorance, or is it possible to reach even higher?
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Look at this. I can only hope Europe stands firm. It's more clear than ever that the UK should never ever have left the EU
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
David Lynch's last recorded words. How has is it that the US produced creative visionaries like this man and yet elevated people like Trump, Vance and Hegseth to high office
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Ken Howery (below) is Trump’s ambassador to Denmark. He: Co-founded PayPal & The Founders Fund w/ Peter Thiel & attended the Jan 2025 inauguration party at Thiel’s mansion. Thiel’s Oct 2024 Hereticon event included a talk titled: “Manifest Destiny: Greenland, Cuba, & the New American Colony” 1/
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
America is in the grip of a fascist coup www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I study fascism. I’ve already fled America.
On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains his recent move to Canada and calls the Trump administration’s takeover of the US government a “coup.”
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Please read this. The UK political & media establishment is asleep at the wheel. We have made ourselves wholly dependent on a Trump ally for our national security at the exact moment Trump is threatening to invade a NATO ally open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
‘If our national security rests on US technology, we have no national security’
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
A truly blood-curdling interview with Kristi Noem. The only emotion she lets slip is anger edition.cnn.com/2026/01/11/p...
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DHS Secretary Noem defends her statements made hours after deadly ICE shooting | CNN Politics
CNN’s Jake Tapper speaks with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to break down the timeline of events before and after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis,...
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Hahaha, it took them long enough! Film of the decade in my book
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
An excellent read
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br00t4c @br00t4c.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
‘Cancel your tickets’: Calls grow to boycott US-hosted FIFA World Cup over Trump admin www.rawstory.com/world-cup-26...
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‘Cancel your tickets’: Calls grow to boycott US-hosted FIFA World Cup over Trump admin
With the 2026 FIFA World Cup set to be hosted in the United States this summer, calls have grown for a global boycott and ticket cancellations in protest of the Trump administration and its increasing...
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Mandelson says on the one hand that he had no idea Epstein was a serial abuser, even after he was convicted of an offence and on the other says Trump is gracious, no fool, and is working for the greater good. Right,
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
This scary. The rise of Trumpism in the UK is a huge worry
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
On the gamble underpinning Trump's lunatic trajectory in Venezuela: 'moving to exploit Venezuela’s oil reserves would be a risky economic gambit – and a bet that the emerging global electric vehicle revolution will stall'. www.chathamhouse.org/2026/01/pres...
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US control of Venezuela’s oil may not be the bonanza that Trump expects
Robust long-term oil demand is needed to justify significant investment, but is called into question by the growing popularity of electric vehicles.
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The end of the American century? Will the next era be Chinese? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘A colossal own goal’: Trump’s exit from global climate treaties will have little effect outside US
For much of the last 30 years, the rest of the world has been forced to persevere with climate action in the face of US intransigence
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
This is very good and says what I imagine most people who will see this already think. It's good to see it written down though, it really is.
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The entire country should get behind the BBC. Trump isn't suing a corporation, he's suing us. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
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BBC vows to defend itself in $10bn Donald Trump lawsuit
President claims broadcaster ‘intentionally, maliciously and deceptively’ edited 6 January speech before Capitol attack
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 15/12/2025
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
If I beat a man with a stick it will stop the man with the stick beating him
Headline from newspaper: starmer urges Europe's leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right.
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Ten years with Price of My Pig, www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxa8...
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Price of My Pig playing The Blencathra Reel (Paul Ferguson) at Halton MIll
YouTube video by Paul Ferguson
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Excellent article www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Clougha cloudage
Clouds, a barren hillside, in the foreground some stones arranged to form a shelter, in the distance the plains of north Lancashire reach towards Cheshire
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 15/11/2025
"Many people arrested after January 6 said the only reason they rioted was because of what Trump said," says Lewis Goodall. “Yet, if you listen to all of this, the conclusion is that the sin of that day is a 10 second edit on a BBC programme" www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/insi...
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Inside the BBC bias allegations | The News Agents
The News Agents, all of whom spent years working for the BBC, discuss the “existential moment” facing their former employer, with top-level resignations after allegations of systemic bias in its…
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
What would it sound like if you combined dub step with arabic trip hop, irish fiddle and balkan folk music in 15/8 time? www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCqn...
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Bucimis Dubba Hop Step Version
YouTube video by Paul Ferguson
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Tried to do justice to Charlie Lennon's tune, but instead created a travesty soundcloud.com/paulfergz-1/...
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The Many Houses of Hamil
This tune is taking some strange turns
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Paul Ferguson @paulfson.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Once again, Zack says what everyone is thinking but no other politician dare even whisper
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