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Simone Ferracina

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Senior Lecturer in Architectural Ecologies + MArch Programme Director, University of Edinburgh. BOOK: Ecologies of Inception: Design Potentials on a Warming Planet. Anti-fascist. https://linktr.ee/simoneferracina

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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · Nov 25

Wonderful 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!

BG | berlinergazette.de @berlinergazette.bsky.social · Nov 25

What 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...

Dispositions, Affordances, and Being Otherwise: How to Reclaim and Unlock Environmental Potentials · BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DE

What 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...

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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · 9d

@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social very large screen on piersfield terrace is flashing/flickering and could be dangerous to/trigger some passersby.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27d

Breaking 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.

E.P.A. to Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters

The 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.

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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · Sep 1

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say

International Association of Genocide Scholars resolution backed by 86% of members who voted

www.theguardian.com

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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · Jul 31

www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

60,000 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.

www.washingtonpost.com

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jul 30

NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

The Washington Post has just published every single known name.

A seminal moment.

The WaPa headline says: 60,000 Gazans were killed. 18,500 of them were children. These are some of their names.

Then follows an enormous list of small print names

Thousands of small print names interspersed with some photos of some of the child victims

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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · Jul 31

RIP Bob Wilson

Scene with two man dancing on chairs in Einstein on the Beach

Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · Jul 15

Republicans 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.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Jul 14

Red states, defying reality, are reclassifying gas as a “green” fuel

[from our @climatedesk.org partners, @grist.org]

Red states, defying reality, are reclassifying gas as a “green” fuel

The designation, pushed by right-wing think tank ALEC, allows fossil fuel firms to compete for clean energy funding.

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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · Jul 1

And they won’t ever be held to account for the immense violence (hunger; sickness) caused by it.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · Jul 1

Republican Senators have passed a bill that will have literally deadly consequences for sick & disabled people, & will lead to sickness & disability for many others, on the first day of disability pride month. (I know they don't care).

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · Jun 29

The 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.

The Senate is about to destroy clean energy to give tax cuts to billionaires

The bill could pass within the next 24 hours.

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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · Jun 28

“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/3LjoW

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · Jun 25

Children in Gaza dying of thirst after trucks carrying water blocked - UNICEF

Children in Gaza are dying of thirst, says UNICEF

UNICEF 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".

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jun 25

In 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.

Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jun 22

Trump’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...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jun 20

Millions 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.

250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR bill

The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in t

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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · Jun 1

Judith Butler: “Ok, there are two genders: fascists and anti-fascists.” Brilliant. Via @avaitsopoulou.bsky.social

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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · Jun 1

Thanks for this—brilliant! And I was unwittingly staring at it the whole time…’albume’ means ‘egg white’ in Italian…

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · May 24

In 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."

B. The Present Controversy
1. Respondents are four individuals and two small
businesses who object to Congress’s directive that
health insurance issuers and group health plans gener-
ally must cover preventive services without cost shar-
ing. App., infra, 7a. Five of the six respondents “do not
currently participate in the health care market.” Id. at
62a; see D. Ct. Doc. 111-1, ¶ 5 (Jan. 6, 2023); D. Ct. Doc.
111-2, ¶¶ 5-6 (Jan. 6, 2023); D. Ct. Doc. 111-3, ¶ 5 (Jan.
6, 2023). Those respondents nonetheless object to the
ACA’s requirement that issuers and plans cover preex-
posure prophylaxis (PrEP) medications, which the Task
Force has assigned an “A” rating based on their effec-
tiveness at preventing HIV infection in certain at-risk
individuals. See D. Ct. Doc. 14, at 8, 10-11 (July 20,
2020). Those respondents state that PrEP medications
“encourage and facilitate homosexual behavior,” which
conflicts with their religious beliefs. Id. at 8.

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Braidwood Management is the only respondent that
currently participates in the health insurance market.
App., infra, 55a. Braidwood offers coverage to its ap-
proximately 70 employees through a self-insured plan.
Ibid. Its owner wishes to exclude from that plan “cov-
erage of preventive care such as * * * PrEP drugs”
because he “objects to coverage of those services on re-
ligious grounds.” Ibid. Braidwood does not allege, how-
ever, that any of its employees have ever sought cover-
age for PrEP medications.
2. Respondents filed this suit in the United States
District Court for the Northern District of Texas. As
relevant here, respondents contend that the Task
Force’s structure violates the Appointments Clause,
U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, because, in their view,
Task Force members are principal officers of the
United States who have not been appointed by the Pres-
ident with the advice and consent of the Senate. App.,
infra, 8a. Respondents’ operative complaint seeks in-
junctive and declaratory relief but does not seek vaca-
tur under Section 706(2) of the Administrative Proce-
dure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. 706(2). D. Ct. Doc. 14, at 13-
18. After this suit was filed, the Secretary ratified all
Task Force “A” and “B” recommendations then cur-
rently in effect. D. Ct. Doc. 65, at 6.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · May 20

14,000 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

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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · May 11

David 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!

Image of the cover of David Farrier’s book

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · Apr 29

This is very good actionable advice for non-transphobes in the UK (I think all I can do is give $ so I will):

Take action now against the Supreme Court ruling and for trans rights

By 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 …

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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · Apr 29

This looks brilliant!

Fernando Domínguez Rubio @fdrubio1977.bsky.social · Apr 29

Today is publication date for our Fragilities volume!

"At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics"

It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓

Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair

An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.At a time w

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Mary Annaïse Heglar @maryannaise.bsky.social · Mar 26

“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

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Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social · Mar 22

Congratulations 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!

Photograph of ceramic architectural models of material harvest map

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Feb 28

Decent people thank Ukraine.

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Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · Feb 28

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

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