Sam Ferguson
@samkferguson.bsky.social
Writing TV & Film at ???. Rep: @katiebattcock01 @CBTheatreFilmTV
Brit List 2023
Ex-Development Executive at Motive Pictures
Artem Volkov of @podsontour
He / Him
Brit List 2023
Ex-Development Executive at Motive Pictures
Artem Volkov of @podsontour
He / Him
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Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
This makes me feel insane.
Global copyright and IP laws were largely led by Disney and their infamous desire to maintain an iron grip on their creations. They have been litigious and ruthless in enforcing rules to protect their IP for over 100 years.
And now - fuck it. Go nuts. Who cares? WTF??
Global copyright and IP laws were largely led by Disney and their infamous desire to maintain an iron grip on their creations. They have been litigious and ruthless in enforcing rules to protect their IP for over 100 years.
And now - fuck it. Go nuts. Who cares? WTF??
Not surprised, of course. But still. Steal from the creators who made your company what it is at a large enough scale, and you reward the thieves with wealth the likes of which none of us will ever see.
openai.com/index/disney...
openai.com/index/disney...
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach landmark agreement to bring beloved characters from across Disney’s brands to Sora
Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.
openai.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This makes me feel insane.
Global copyright and IP laws were largely led by Disney and their infamous desire to maintain an iron grip on their creations. They have been litigious and ruthless in enforcing rules to protect their IP for over 100 years.
And now - fuck it. Go nuts. Who cares? WTF??
Global copyright and IP laws were largely led by Disney and their infamous desire to maintain an iron grip on their creations. They have been litigious and ruthless in enforcing rules to protect their IP for over 100 years.
And now - fuck it. Go nuts. Who cares? WTF??
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it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying
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They aren't going to stop until it's impossible for trans people to exist in the UK. In public, in private, anywhere.
Help fight the fascists, please chuck some money at things like this.
Join me and @GoodLawProject and fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision: goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
Help fight the fascists, please chuck some money at things like this.
Join me and @GoodLawProject and fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision: goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
goodlawproject.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
They aren't going to stop until it's impossible for trans people to exist in the UK. In public, in private, anywhere.
Help fight the fascists, please chuck some money at things like this.
Join me and @GoodLawProject and fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision: goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
Help fight the fascists, please chuck some money at things like this.
Join me and @GoodLawProject and fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision: goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
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Having been a Brownie, Guide and young leader, and then had a Brownie daughter, I’ve always been proud of Girlguiding’s inclusivity. So I’m devastated to hear that they’ve decided to exclude trans girls from the organisation. Sign here to protest (and appeal directly if you have contact with them).
Allow transgender women and girls back into GirlGuiding UK
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
c.org
December 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Having been a Brownie, Guide and young leader, and then had a Brownie daughter, I’ve always been proud of Girlguiding’s inclusivity. So I’m devastated to hear that they’ve decided to exclude trans girls from the organisation. Sign here to protest (and appeal directly if you have contact with them).
This is just fucking cowardice. You can't claim to be supportive of trans women and then ban them because of fear of legal action.
Why not just update the WI constitution? I've taken the time to read it, and it would be a simple act to update the membership language to include trans women.
Why not just update the WI constitution? I've taken the time to read it, and it would be a simple act to update the membership language to include trans women.
The article explicitly notes WI had had a trans-inclusive policy *since the 1970s*!
December 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
This is just fucking cowardice. You can't claim to be supportive of trans women and then ban them because of fear of legal action.
Why not just update the WI constitution? I've taken the time to read it, and it would be a simple act to update the membership language to include trans women.
Why not just update the WI constitution? I've taken the time to read it, and it would be a simple act to update the membership language to include trans women.
It's almost like the Telegraph has no fucking idea what they're talking about, but like to lash out at literally anything they don't understand.
Same article a year apart claiming DnD is about to die, but two different metrics showing the financial success of DnD has never been stronger... idiots.
Same article a year apart claiming DnD is about to die, but two different metrics showing the financial success of DnD has never been stronger... idiots.
November 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
It's almost like the Telegraph has no fucking idea what they're talking about, but like to lash out at literally anything they don't understand.
Same article a year apart claiming DnD is about to die, but two different metrics showing the financial success of DnD has never been stronger... idiots.
Same article a year apart claiming DnD is about to die, but two different metrics showing the financial success of DnD has never been stronger... idiots.
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Just noticed that Channel 4 has Anna and the Apocalypse available for free. It's the Scottish Christmas zombie musical comedy you didn't know you needed. It's seriously fun.
youtu.be/dfWIfwKJ7vA?...
youtu.be/dfWIfwKJ7vA?...
ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE Official Trailer (2018)
YouTube video by Orion Pictures
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Just noticed that Channel 4 has Anna and the Apocalypse available for free. It's the Scottish Christmas zombie musical comedy you didn't know you needed. It's seriously fun.
youtu.be/dfWIfwKJ7vA?...
youtu.be/dfWIfwKJ7vA?...
THAT'S MY MAYOR (he's not, but hey, a guy can dream)
Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?”
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."
November 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
THAT'S MY MAYOR (he's not, but hey, a guy can dream)
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It needs to be said more often that the world is a better, more beautiful and more enriching place BECAUSE trans people are a part of it.
November 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
It needs to be said more often that the world is a better, more beautiful and more enriching place BECAUSE trans people are a part of it.
Co. Signed.
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Co. Signed.
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The more you look into the Prescott memo, the worse it gets
The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The more you look into the Prescott memo, the worse it gets
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Can’t stand Wes bloody Streeting.
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Can’t stand Wes bloody Streeting.
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Incredible summary of the problem with all the various LLM’s out there.
The funniest thing about how absolute dogshit journalists are at their job, is that when you see a chatbot regurgitate strange sounding phrases the *only way it could do so* is by having stolen them from somewhere.
Searching for those weird phrases, yields the source the chatbot stole.
Searching for those weird phrases, yields the source the chatbot stole.
Google Gemini doesn’t appear to be doing too well:
‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’
‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’
November 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Incredible summary of the problem with all the various LLM’s out there.
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The only reason we should even consider the pundit class any more is to tell them they're wrong, and what's the value in that?
The entire pundit class has convinced people for so long that their “analysis” was somehow necessary and valuable when in reality it was just a con game to manufacture consent for bias-confirming “strategies” that only benefited the capitalist class and guaranteed pundits career security.
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The only reason we should even consider the pundit class any more is to tell them they're wrong, and what's the value in that?
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Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
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Piers Morgan is as angry about Glamour honouring trans women as he was about Eastenders showing two men kissing in 1989 and for exactly the same reason.
October 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Piers Morgan is as angry about Glamour honouring trans women as he was about Eastenders showing two men kissing in 1989 and for exactly the same reason.
The Diplomat is top tier TV. Watching the West Wing these days feels hopelessly naive and a relic of a lost era, but watching The Diplomat makes me feel how I felt back then... clever people trying to save the day, no matter what. Plus the bad guys are SMART which is so much more fun than reality...
October 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The Diplomat is top tier TV. Watching the West Wing these days feels hopelessly naive and a relic of a lost era, but watching The Diplomat makes me feel how I felt back then... clever people trying to save the day, no matter what. Plus the bad guys are SMART which is so much more fun than reality...
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Look, it was obviously Lupin.
October 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Look, it was obviously Lupin.
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📣 Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds need your help!
🏊♀️ 🏊🏊♂️
They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat.
Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
🏊♀️ 🏊🏊♂️
They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat.
Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
October 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
📣 Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds need your help!
🏊♀️ 🏊🏊♂️
They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat.
Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
🏊♀️ 🏊🏊♂️
They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat.
Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
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I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents.
I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights.
sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…
I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights.
sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…
September 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents.
I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights.
sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…
I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights.
sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…
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4Screenwriting is open for applications to the 2026 cohort. Polish that script and send it in - still genuinely one of the best writing schemes in the UK and can launch careers overnight. #scriptwriting
September 22, 2025 at 7:42 AM
4Screenwriting is open for applications to the 2026 cohort. Polish that script and send it in - still genuinely one of the best writing schemes in the UK and can launch careers overnight. #scriptwriting
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