Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 30/09/2025@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social very large screen on piersfield terrace is flashing/flickering and could be dangerous to/trigger some passersby. 000
Reposted by Simone FerracinaThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/09/2025Breaking News: The EPA moved to stop requiring polluters to report their emissions of greenhouse gases. The proposal would end a key tool the government uses to track carbon dioxide, methane and other gases that are driving climate change.nyti.msE.P.A. to Stop Collecting Emissions Data From PollutersThe data, from thousands of coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities, is the country’s most comprehensive way to track greenhouse gases. 47233163
Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 01/09/2025www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...theguardian.comIsrael committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime sayInternational Association of Genocide Scholars resolution backed by 86% of members who voted 021
Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 01/08/2025www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...washingtonpost.com60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began. 030
Reposted by Simone FerracinaNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 30/07/2025NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. The Washington Post has just published every single known name. A seminal moment. 5526841519
Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Republicans re-designate gas as ‘green’ to allow fossil fuel firms to compete for clean energy funding. All forms of reality and shame replaced by the ‘right-wing thrill and sense of exhilaration’ (Butler) attained by the ability to be openly dishonest and irrational. 1179
Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 01/07/2025And they won’t ever be held to account for the immense violence (hunger; sickness) caused by it. 010
Reposted by Simone FerracinaEmily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 29/06/2025The new Senate bill doesn’t just gut renewables. It includes massive giveaways to the fossil fuel industry. It exempts oil and gas drillers from paying corporate taxes. It gives coal companies a tax credit for burning more coal. It uses your tax dollars to subsidize climate destruction.heated.worldThe Senate is about to destroy clean energy to give tax cuts to billionairesThe bill could pass within the next 24 hours. 15464286
Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 28/06/2025“This thing called killing innocent people – it's been normalized. We were constantly told there are no noncombatants in Gaza, and apparently that message sank in among the troops." “No one stops to ask why dozens of civilians looking for food are being killed every day.” archive.ph/3LjoWarchive.ph 042
Reposted by Simone FerracinaRTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 25/06/2025Children in Gaza dying of thirst after trucks carrying water blocked - UNICEFrte.ieChildren in Gaza are dying of thirst, says UNICEFUNICEF has warned that while the world's attention is focused elsewhere, the situation in Gaza is "at the worst it has ever been" with the Palestinian territory hitting "rock bottom". 16207215
Reposted by Simone FerracinaZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 25/06/2025In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City. 1559672929271
Reposted by Simone FerracinaJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Trump’s attacks on Iran were based on vibes, not new intel, two administration officials tell Rolling Stone. “There is no intel,” one of the sources says. “The intelligence assessments have not really changed.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... 1171446571
Reposted by Simone FerracinaRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Millions of acres worth of public land would be put up for sale in the Senate version of Trump’s big, ugly bill. It’s a massive privatization of a public good that everyone gets to enjoy – all to finance tax cuts that predominantly flow to the super-rich.wilderness.org250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR billThe bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in t 1141490700
Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Judith Butler: “Ok, there are two genders: fascists and anti-fascists.” Brilliant. Via @avaitsopoulou.bsky.social 081
Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Thanks for this—brilliant! And I was unwittingly staring at it the whole time…’albume’ means ‘egg white’ in Italian… 020
Reposted by Simone FerracinaJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 24/05/2025In a few short weeks, the Supreme Court may very well find in favor of a man who is suing to stop PrEP coverage for millions because he objects to theoretical possibility that someone he employs could one day access PrEP via insurance, and this "encourages and facilitates homosexual behavior." 541348458
Reposted by Simone FerracinaAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20/05/202514,000 babies are at risk of dying in the next 48 hours in Gaza if aid doesn’t reach them, warns Tom Fletcher, the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs – a figure he called “utterly chilling.” 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/x26ghx 18532403
Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 11/05/2025David Farrier‘s new book, Nature‘s Genius: Evolution‘s Lessons for a Changing Planet, sounds amazing. I am also really pleased to have my work on exaptive design featured in the second chapter (The Living City), and to share his pages with so many other friends and collaborators. Highly recommended! 040
Reposted by Simone FerracinaIka Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 29/04/2025This is very good actionable advice for non-transphobes in the UK (I think all I can do is give $ so I will):ucucommons.orgTake action now against the Supreme Court ruling and for trans rightsBy UCU Commons A core value of UCU Commons is equality and dignity for everyone; but particularly for transgender and nonbinary people whose rights and wellbeing have faced increasing attacks over … 13922
Reposted by Simone FerracinaMary Annaïse Heglar @maryannaise.bsky.social · 26/03/2025“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.” ― Toni Morrison 93105482240
Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Congratulations to the brilliant Mari Helland, whose work—developed in the MArch programme at ESALA, in the ‘Architecture as Support Structure’ studio run by @sepikar.bsky.social and Naomi De Barr—was just awarded the RSA New Contemporaries Medal for Architecture! 050
Reposted by Simone FerracinaTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Decent people thank Ukraine. 220142812214
Reposted by Simone FerracinaDonald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone. 435229875723
Reposted by Simone FerracinaSenator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 23/02/2025Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story. 5851864710041
Reposted by Simone FerracinaNational Pride Service @prideservice.bsky.social · 17/02/2025The National Park Service is misremembering #Stonewall. We're here to help correct their mistakes! All of the original content for the Stonewall National Monument has been republished at realstonewall.com #trans #queer #LGBWithTheT #translivesmatterrealstonewall.comThe Real Stonewall MonumentThe correct and original content for the Stonewall National Monument website that the National Park Service doesn't want you to see. 1193105
Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Every day we fall a little deeper into end-of-humanity levels of obscenity. Let’s not normalise racism, homophobia, transphobia, and the lack of any decency or nuance. This is not who we are.theguardian.comTrump says Palestinians have ‘no alternative’ but to leave GazaPresident in effect endorses ethnic cleansing of territory before hosting meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu 040
Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Mind boggling how the interest of pesticides manufacturers—a single company, in this case—are prioritised over people and land. Agricultural fumigants that are poisonous, toxic, and carcinogenic should simply be banned. Imagining ‘safe’ levels and thresholds of use/absorption is ecocidal and racist. 091
Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 03/12/2024You can currently get my book Ecologies of Inception: Design Potentials on a Warming Planet on the Routledge site with a 25% discount.routledge.comEcologies of Inception: Design Potentials on a Warming PlanetResponding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission and environmental collapse, Ecologies of Inception re-thinks potentiality—an object’s ability to chang... 090
Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Last week, I caught-up with Lionel Devlieger and found out about this amazing retrospective of Rotor’s work, which includes an installation with films by Bêka & Lemoine. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to see it, but anyone living close to Brussels definitely should!!bozar.beRotor through the lens of Bêka & Lemoine | Bozar BrusselsThe collective is celebrating its 20th anniversary at Bozar with the French-Italian video artists and a series of films on the metaphysics of repurposing. 050
Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Good article by Duncan Baker-Brown. Any involvement in the NEOM projects (responsible for thousands of deaths and displacements) is simply unjustifiable from an ethical standpoint. 060
Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Wonderful to have this short essay on dispositions, affordances, and the ability to be otherwise on the @berlinergazette.bsky.social, available for free and in both English and German. Thanks Krystian for the invitation! 092
Reposted by Simone FerracinaBG | berlinergazette.de @berlinergazette.bsky.social · 25/11/2024What might a conceptual and methodological design toolkit look like that addresses the durational + anthropocenic materiality of the 21C, radically prioritizing practices of maintenance, reuse, care + co-option? @simoneferracina.bsky.social explores this question. berlinergazette.de/dispositions...berlinergazette.deDispositions, Affordances, and Being Otherwise: How to Reclaim and Unlock Environmental Potentials · BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DEWhat might a conceptual and methodological design toolkit look like that addresses the durational and anthropocenic materiality of the third millennium, radically prioritizing practices of maintenance... 031
Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Hello! I’m on here too. Please add me. :) 110
Reposted by Simone Ferracinadubravka @dubravka.bsky.social · 23/11/2024grateful for the invitation by @placesjournal.bsky.social to contribute to their field notes on repair. emilio distretti and I tried to offer a starting point from which to think what repair means in the ongoing afterlife of genocide placesjournal.org/article/fiel... 0113
Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Welcome to BlueSky to the wonderful Moa Carlsson @moacarlsson.bsky.social! 220
Reposted by Simone FerracinaDr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...leeds.ac.ukGazan Humanitarian ScholarshipWe offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK). 1812991403
Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 21/11/2024I’m including here a few fragments of the text. I hope that some of you will find it enjoyable and/or useful! 110
Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 21/11/2024My article ‘Yet’ for Vesper: Journal of Architecture, Arts & Theory is now available in open access. In it, I briefly discuss the semantic fluctuations of the adverb ‘yet’ in relation to dispositions, the built environment, repurposing, the difference between use and utilisation, and pollution.iuav.it 160
Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 19/11/2024A few useful starter packs on architecture/landscape architecture/built environment: 160
Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 19/11/2024These are helpful, Bruno. Would it be ok to add me, please? 110