Peter Walker
@pegerteg.bsky.social
Occasional music journo, weekday business editor. Embra born and based. Portfolio/blog: pegerteg.com
Nobodies of the world rise up, join together, and oust the ‘assholes’ thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/has-americ...
Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?
Civilizations can carry a surprising number of parasites and live. But there’s a line — Rome crossed it, the Gilded Age toed it, and for the first time in history, we can measure it.
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Tremendous drums and a gorgeous vocal on the new Man Power song: open.spotify.com/track/2Sp3bm...
It's Only Love - Radio Edit
Man Power, Emily Emily · It's Only Love - EP · Song · 2026
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I thought this show had ground me down into an inability to be shocked about US right wing/fundamentalist Christian bullshit - but some of the stories in this episode elicited audible ‘whaaaaaat’s from me…
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver@lastweektonight.com · 6d agoHere’s last night’s story about fetal personhood, how giving rights to fetuses can impact pregnant people, and why Ronald Reagan is the Forrest Gump of societal ills. https://youtu.be/sCSt45rev7w
Exemplary data-crunching and approachable analysis, as ever, from @laurenleek.eu laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur...
Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same
What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.
laurenleek.substack.com
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
Jørgen Heszlein@heszlein.bsky.social · 2w agoNew estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We’ve got it pretty good, when you stop and think. ordinaryabundance.com
Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Promising stuff. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/promisi...
Promising results from first UK trial of psilocybin for depression | King's College London
The first publicly-funded randomised controlled trial in the UK has found that a single dose of psilocybin, the active compound found in 'magic mushrooms', produced significant improvements in depres...
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Great to have Alex Smoke back making club music. alexsmoke.bandcamp.com/album/is-wit...
Is With Us, by Alex Smoke
12 track album
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Here's something practical you can do to support kids in Gaza. 🇵🇸🇮🇪
Tony - Pod Guy - Groves@tonygroves.bsky.social · 3w agoWe’ve just rented a projector so the kids can watch some films over August and we’re trying to source and buy treats and snacks. Ionad Hind Rajab is about more than education. It’s about getting back a little bit of childhood. 👇
Rod Liddle called his ex-wife a “slut and a slattern” in print before marrying a 22-year old Spectator receptionist who he was cautioned by the police after assaulting her when she was 20 weeks pregnant. But he was anti-trans, so these “protectors of women” overlook everything.
Good point, well made @ameliavandergast.bsky.social www.anrfactory.com/the-guilt-tr...
The Guilt Trip: Why Punters Can’t Save Grassroots Venues While Institutional Giants Bleed Them Dry -
The Guilt Trip: Why Punters Can’t Save Grassroots Venues While Institutional Giants Bleed Them Dry News
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As I edit my monthly music, TV and film musings - a newsletter which goes out to a grand total of 48 people - this blog is both brutal and true. Wrote and disseminate because you enjoy it, not to monetise (and have a day job). www.joanwestenberg.com/p/nobody-wan...
Nobody Wants Your Newsletter. You Should Write it Anyway.
The Case for Screaming Into the Void
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My favourite song of that year - one of many sexy synth masterpieces he was responsible for. RIP Kavinsky. youtu.be/-oudxfnyUFE
Kavinsky - Zenith feat. Prudence & Morgan Phalen (Official Audio)
YouTube video by KAVINSKY
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Our discussion on why governments fiddle while the world burns. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQat...
Europe is BURNING - why are politicians not acting?
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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the uk is destroying itself trying to appease nativists we have to just say immigration is good. because it is www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
We Need to Get Off the Defensive About Immigration
Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.
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Did you know a barrister is facing jail just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has kept trials fair since 1670. We can't let it be silenced now. Add your name to defend fair trials👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Sign to protect the right to a fair trial
Imagine being called for jury duty, but advised against using your own common sense. ❗A top barrister is now facing contempt of court proceedings, simply for reminding a jury of their rights. If judg...
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*Shuts down laptop.* I think that's enough internet for today. *Picks up phone* Let's see what the pocket-sized internet is doing.
Of tuna melts and care fatigue. Keep fighting the good fight @swordsjew.bsky.social buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #143: Tuna Melt
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,...
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Great case study of the old web-crushing, malign power of agentic bots and prediction market hackers. stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-...
I, like @seamas.bsky.social, got into journalism too late for the true glory days of editorial freebies, but also haven’t had to buy a pair of socks in well over a decade. freeloader.beehiiv.com/p/freeloader...
FREELOADER #6
Frida? I hardly know 'er!
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As we brace ourselves for the sacrilege of a WC final half-time show, a reminder that Shakira (and her co-writer Ed Sheeran among others) stand to make a lot of money from their "anthem", despite assurances that "all proceeds" would go to charity.
Do it again - josimarfootball.com
Fifa's favourite pop singer Shakira stands to make a small fortune from her new World Cup official anthem despite pledges that all proceeds of "Dai Dai" would go to the Fifa Global Citizen Education F...
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Various things have soured me towards Argentina during the World Cup, but this might be what turns me to an England supporter this evening: www.espn.com/soccer/story...
The Dream Factory: Inside the 'cruel' system behind Argentina's soccer empire
An investigation into Argentina's soccer system that produced the defending World Cup champions found that it is rife with exploitation.
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