Peter Walker
@pegerteg.bsky.social
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Occasional music journo, weekday business editor. Embra born and based. Portfolio/blog: pegerteg.com
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Pete’s Pad
Trying out a different way to disseminate my online musings.
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9 months ago
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Yus.
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Slightly taking the edge off how it ended by remembering just how patter-tastic this season in Scotland was…
oldfirmfacts1.medium.com/the-2025-26-...
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The 2025/26 Alternative Scottish Football Awards
Hello and welcome to the ninth annual Alternative Scottish Football Awards.
https://oldfirmfacts1.medium.com/the-2025-26-alternative-scottish-football-awards-7fbb97f5258b
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Harsh but fair.
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1 day ago
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Been saying…
onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/the-banali...
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đźź§ The banality of the video podcast
Everyone is talking in the same studios into the same mics
https://onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/the-banality-of-the-video-podcast?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
1 day ago
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www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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John Lanchester · Squillions: Where’s all the cash?
If it were an industry, money laundering would be the third biggest business in the world, behind commercial property...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n09/john-lanchester/squillions
1 day ago
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Nice bit of data vis on data tracking:
sinceyouarrived.world/taken?utm_so...
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taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
2 days ago
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Stay classy Celtic - dreadful in defeat, worse in victory…
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2 days ago
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General Boles
2 days ago
Madam I guarantee you will be within 20ft of a nonce throughout the entire march
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Early candidate for dancefloor heater of the summer…
manoletough.bandcamp.com/album/real-y...
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Real, You Know?!, by Mano Le Tough
1 track album
https://manoletough.bandcamp.com/album/real-you-know
4 days ago
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Stuart Braithwaite
4 days ago
There are very few people in politics or public life as profoundly unimpressive as Keir Starmer. Unfortunately for us Wes Streeting is definitely one of them.
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FFS Motherwell.
5 days ago
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A great yarn, brilliantly told.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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The man who blew up a nuclear power station and disappeared
The long read: In December 1982, South African Rodney Wilkinson walked four bombs into Koeberg power station – the crown jewel of the apartheid state – pulled the pins and then left on his bicycle. Ho...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/05/the-man-who-blew-up-a-nuclear-power-station-koeberg-south-africa
7 days ago
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A long and rambling essay for sure, but one with some interesting perspectives and conclusions about the meaning of travel in 2026.
fugitivemargins.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
7 days ago
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Some good did happen yesterday amid all the Reform rubbish…
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9 days ago
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Tom Usher
9 days ago
We just need to keep placating and humanising racists a little bit more and then I'm sure politics will get good for everyone
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Casting Clem Fandango as Geoff Linton is inspired - completing the Matt Berry circle.
11 days ago
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We are so back
youtu.be/74NluS3jzTo
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Boards of Canada - Introit / Prophecy At 1420 MHz
YouTube video by Boards of Canada
https://youtu.be/74NluS3jzTo
11 days ago
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17 days ago
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Doubling up on my Friday 🔥 this week, as I can’t overlook the second EP by my man MFÒ:
thirdlandscapes.bandcamp.com/album/marine...
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Marine Layer EP, by MFĂ’
4 track album
https://thirdlandscapes.bandcamp.com/album/marine-layer-ep
17 days ago
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There’s a lot to like about that new Octo Octa album, but so far this is my favourite track - and this week’s Friday 🔥
octoocta.bandcamp.com/track/keep-p...
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Keep Pressing On, by Octo Octa
from the album Sigils For Survival
https://octoocta.bandcamp.com/track/keep-pressing-on
17 days ago
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All the best things (and a few bopters) I saw during the last month:
peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/pete-s-pad...
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Pete's Pad: April
Contemplating one's mortality
https://peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/pete-s-pad-april-cd07
18 days ago
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The popularity of this thing never ceases to baffle me.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Is this really the best tourist attraction in the world?
The Royal Yacht Britannia in Edinburgh awarded the 'Best of the Best Things to Do' award by Tripadvisor.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9pzve4ydeo
18 days ago
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More football games like this please
#psgbay
20 days ago
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Philippe Auclair
22 days ago
Chelsea and Man City in the FA Cup final. No other English clubs have systematically ignored, bent or broken the rules like both have done. In terms of trophies won, no other English clubs have been as successful over the past decade and a half either. The moral of the story - is that there is none.
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Finally got round to writing something fairly comprehensive about
#AI
Tailored to the Scottish business audience, but hopefully insightful enough for everyone Avoiding booster/doomerism and not straying into bubble burst or global annihilation prediction…
www.thebusinessdesk.com/scotland/new...
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How to separate AI hype from reality
We go deep into the ubiquitous cover-all tech term to see what and where Scottish businesses are adopting.
https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/scotland/news/2843-how-to-separate-ai-hype-from-reality
23 days ago
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Joe Scaramanga
25 days ago
There isn't a bucket of popcorn big enough to enjoy while this plays out.
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26 days ago
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It’s a Komputercast kind of day…
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Com Truise - Komputer Cast Vol. 1
YouTube video by Mouteg
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5TmiMGpvFFQ
27 days ago
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e.w. niedermeyer
29 days ago
not the vicar of christ with another absolute banger of a post
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So utterly infuriating. We must never forget this genocide, just like we must never forget the holocaust.
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29 days ago
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The new one from
@midlandsound.bsky.social
is Friday 🔥 (still trying to make this a thing)
midlandsound.bandcamp.com/track/in-the...
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In The Mood For Love, by Midland
track by Midland
https://midlandsound.bandcamp.com/track/in-the-mood-for-love
about 1 month ago
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BOARDS OF CANADA
about 1 month ago
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A loooooong read, but an important one. Really getting into the weeds of why Sam Altman is not the man who should be leading the drive towards AGI.
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https://archive.ph/8FFpH
about 1 month ago
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TIL: Dr Seuss was a rotter.
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The Tragedy of Mrs. Dr. Seuss
Ted Geisel was a great artist and a lousy husband
https://downtownbrown.substack.com/p/the-tragedy-of-mrs-dr-seuss?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
about 1 month ago
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The new guy is shite, but when the old guy is Orban; then this still feels like a win.
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about 1 month ago
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Good point, well made - on increasingly accepted Islamophobia.
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-pernicious...
about 1 month ago
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A shocking, but not surprising, state of affairs.
www.cjr.org/feature/who-...
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Who is left to cover Lebanon?
A nation that helped shape modern war reporting is now treated as peripheral. In the wake of journalist killings, the consequences are clear not only for members of the press, but for how the story of Lebanon is being told.
https://www.cjr.org/feature/who-is-left-to-cover-lebanon.php?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
about 1 month ago
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Futurism
about 1 month ago
This is catastrophic.
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Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.
https://trib.al/ZUxtkmx
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That new
@machinedrum.bsky.social
track is a delight.
machinedrum.bandcamp.com/track/no-1-k...
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NO 1 KNEW, by Machinedrum
track by Machinedrum
https://machinedrum.bandcamp.com/track/no-1-knew
about 1 month ago
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Superb stuff - ta for the tip off
@joemuggs.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Essay - Cornerstones - Flint - BBC Sounds
Alan Garner sparks with flint, the stone that has enabled human civilisation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b09kqg6l
about 1 month ago
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The good news (🤞🏼) I needed today.
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about 1 month ago
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Eric Haywood
about 1 month ago
The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted
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Bluesky likes books, right? Top shelf material at my parents house:
about 1 month ago
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This transport debacle had passed me by - something we’re truly world class at. Great history lesson, as ever, by
@threadinburgh.scot
:
threadinburgh.scot/2026/04/01/d...
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Dead CERT: the thread about Edinburgh’s disastrous dalliances with guided busways
April Fools’ Day marks a suitable 30th birthday for the City of Edinburgh Council, a body which upon its establishment found itself in charge of a scheme promising a cheap and easy transport …
https://threadinburgh.scot/2026/04/01/dead-cert-the-thread-about-edinburghs-disastrous-dalliances-with-guided-busways/
about 2 months ago
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Squeaking in before the deadline is my March roundup:
peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/pete-s-pad...
Featuring the obligatory manosphere discourse, a contemporaneous review of Project Hail Mary and some first quarter music recommendations.
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Pete's Pad: March
Grappling with an excess of masculinity
https://peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/pete-s-pad-march-561e
about 2 months ago
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Project Hail Mary was a delight. Full review and much more besides coming later this evening here:
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Pete’s Pad
Trying out a different way to disseminate my online musings.
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about 2 months ago
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For some reason Soupy Norman came to mind just now and so the last half hour has been finding what’s left of it on YouTube. I wrote a piece a while back on some of the more obscure comedy gems - and wonder now how hard it would be to track them down in full…
pegerteg.onfabrik.com/blog/in-prai...
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In Praise Of: Overlooked Comedy Classics
Some comedy doesn't get the credit it deserves - here are a few very funny things you may not have heard of.
https://pegerteg.onfabrik.com/blog/in-praise-of-overlooked-comedy-classics
about 2 months ago
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Beyond Partridge levels of divorced dad behaviour - you have to admire it.
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about 2 months ago
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Good point, well made - on what Bryan Johnson’s DMT epiphany really means, for him and those seeking solace in optimisation.
psychedelicsociety.org.uk/read/optimis...
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Are we optimising ourselves into emptiness? Reflections on Bryan Johnson — The Psychedelic Society
This week, Bryan Johnson, a man whose entire philosophy is called "Don't Die" took the substance most reliably described as simulating death. He livestreamed it. He called it his best longevity hack. ...
https://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/read/optimising-ourselves-into-emptiness-reflections-on-bryan-johnson
about 2 months ago
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