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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Peteās Pad
Trying out a different way to disseminate my online musings.
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4 months ago
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Good point, well made
@billmckibben.bsky.social
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Just possibly it's the oil?
A solar panel is the new peace sign
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possibly-its-the-oil?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=438146&post_id=183347121&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1fdtr&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
2 days ago
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An impaling and a beheading seemed fittingly cathartic.
4 days ago
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Just whatās required todayā¦
youtu.be/9S7cVCFUqE8
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Boards of Canada - Some Old Tunes (1985-1996)
YouTube video by three dee melodie
https://youtu.be/9S7cVCFUqE8
5 days ago
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Aaaand finally, all my favourite films from the year twenty twenty five:
peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/best-of-20...
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Best of 2025: Films
All the best movies I watched this year
https://peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/best-of-2025-films
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All my favourite telly from 2025:
peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/best-of-20...
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Best of 2025: TV
All my favourite small screen series'
https://peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/best-of-2025-tv?utm_source=peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=best-of-2025-tv&_bhlid=1bc6fc33fbb02bdd1a45f7b6e9129659eea227ec&last_resource_guid=Post%3A057c1df0-d8fa-4543-aca2-2ce131492d91
6 days ago
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Itās end-of-year list time. First up, mt favourite fifty tracks of 2025:
peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/best-of-20...
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Best of 2025: Music
All my favourite songs from the year just gone
https://peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/best-of-2025-music?utm_source=peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=best-of-2025-music&_bhlid=2925548cdf9534f142ee54f0975a4671071df71e
7 days ago
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Micah
10 days ago
there are many horrible brainworms you can catch online but none of them are as all-encompassing in their destruction of you as a human being as transphobia start down that road and you become incapable of normal human interaction
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Soulwax definitely on with a strong shout for best remixers ever. Purely on the strength of THAT Tame Impala/Justice/Marie Davidson reworkā¦
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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6 Music's Rave Forever - The Art of Remixing: Soulwax - BBC Sounds
A sonic journey through just some of the iconic remixes by the Belgian band Soulwax.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002mcyd?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
10 days ago
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The Replay: Hearts v Hibs. Boxing Day, 2006
Or WWE Edinburgh: Capital Carnage
https://www.nutmegfc.co.uk/p/the-replay-hearts-v-hibs-boxing-day?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2703718&post_id=181431701&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1fdtr&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
11 days ago
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)
13 days ago
Trump went through all the trouble of releasing redacted Epstein Files then uploaded the files but used Acrobat to redact text making it highlightable and now the real files have leaked showing Trump was accused of raping a teenager who was found dead
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Wasnāt aware that if the US Gov isnāt able to use that emergency act to justify its tariffs, itāll have to pay back every penny - and now FS firms are shorting affected companiesā¦
whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-expens...
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The Expensive Emergency Edition
On tariffs, trade policy, and retroactive liabilities.
https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-expensive-emergency-edition?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=7000&post_id=182431029&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1fdtr&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
13 days ago
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Disappointing vote, but still time to make changes - do write to your local MSP to ask them to support a childās right to chooseā¦
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13 days ago
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Genuinely fascinating research - seems like exactly the kind of thing that might be imperilled by the current US administration - and I now really want to have some of these shrooms.
nhmu.utah.edu/articles/exp...
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Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations
Between traditional folklore and modern biology, the wild forest floor and the sterile scientific laboratory, lies the story of the lilliputian mushroom.
https://nhmu.utah.edu/articles/experts-explore-new-mushroom-which-causes-fairytale-hallucinations
14 days ago
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Lovely stuff, as per, from
@danielgraywriter.bsky.social
on an early christmas present for the Tynecastle faithful:
www.nutmegfc.co.uk/p/the-slow-m...
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The Slow Match Report: Hearts 2 Rangers 1
Last Christmas, Hearts gave us a bleak draw with Moldovan minnows. This year, they're streaking ahead of their domestic rivals... even Sir Walter Scott couldn't have made it up
https://www.nutmegfc.co.uk/p/the-slow-match-report-hearts-2-rangers?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=1fdtr&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
15 days ago
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While pitching something recently I was told that to get it published I needed to insert myself into the story - so I feel some vindication in point one of this sensible list:
oliverfranklinwallis.substack.com/p/what-editi...
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What editing magazine stories taught me about writing
An incomplete list, on occasion of going freelance again.
https://oliverfranklinwallis.substack.com/p/what-editing-magazine-stories-has
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Signs and portents
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Rob Delaney
19 days ago
ā¤ļøššµšø ššššš: Buy āLullabyā by Together for Palestine for Ā£1.98 *right now* to make it the UK Christmas # 1. All profits go to Palestinian-led aid orgs. Together for Palestine are: Nai Barghouti, Brian Eno, Neneh Cherry, Celeste, Mabel & more. Please buy it & repost this! xx
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It looks like Glasgowās beloved Arches are going to be turned into bowling alleys, so I wrote something about their history, current travails and what the future might hold.
www.thebusinessdesk.com/scotland/new...
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Plan to turn Glasgow venue into bowling alley deemed 'cultural vandalism' - Scotland
Potential plans to turn a popular Glasgow music and events venue into a bowling alley have met with criticism from resident DJs, clubbers and industry...
https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/scotland/news/80-plan-to-turn-glasgow-venue-into-bowling-alley-deemed-cultural-vandalism
19 days ago
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Highest 2 Lowest is a decent enough Spike Lee joint, as they come. But why is the original music so consistently, melodramatically, Hallmark movie terrible?
19 days ago
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I always forget the name of this series, so posting this more as an easy way to remember for next time. Anyway, one of the finest drama/thrillers on the BBC in the last few decades - definitely deserving of a repeat. And what a hauntingly-beautiful theme:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt4R...
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Emily Barker and The Red Clay Halo - Pause (The Shadow Line Full Re-Edit)
YouTube video by Hence Forth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt4R_n8ZWQM
20 days ago
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Tim Onion
22 days ago
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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I had never heard of this incident before - but then maybe that was deliberate. Anyway, a fascinating tale:
www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2...
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The strange fate of Flight 2069
How do you measure the cost of a disaster that didnāt happen?
https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2025/12/the-strange-fate-of-flight-2069?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
22 days ago
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Cheap solar is one of the few things thatās making me positive about the future right now - another great story out of Africa:
climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarp...
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Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa
Or: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past
https://climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happening?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
26 days ago
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Save Radio Scotlandās music shows from cancellation:
c.org/hk6Zr8cLzY
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Sign the Petition
Save The Iain Anderson Show ā Reverse the BBC Radio Scotland decision
https://c.org/hk6Zr8cLzY
27 days ago
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This might be the best thing Cliveās ever written On the long-stay ward at St Thomasā. My son was born there, so I know the place well and his description is šÆ Also the point about overhearing everything from neighbouring beds and piecing together people
britishchaos.substack.com/p/the-observ...
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The Observation Ward
Remembering a real-world purgatory in the heart of the city
https://britishchaos.substack.com/p/the-observation-ward
27 days ago
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Yāall heard the one ābout bird cowboy?
youtu.be/E0VDIx0VkaE
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bird cowboyās song
YouTube video by Mummy Joe
https://youtu.be/E0VDIx0VkaE
27 days ago
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Rose Ruane
30 days ago
Martin Parr has died & this grimmest gloomiest greyest, Sundayest of Sundays is the perfect day to watch Signs of the Times. All four extraordinary episodes are full of pathos, beauty & humour, life & love stories told through relationships with interiors & objects
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Signs of the Times - That Little Bit Different
Terry and Sue quite like Austrian blinds but feel they're common. And just why do Ray and Jane change their three-piece suite twice a year? (1992)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p03rfx32
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Good review of a great album.
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30 days ago
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Here here - I hereby join
@kendragaylord.bsky.social
and the Bring Back Doors in hotel bathrooms campaignā¦
youtu.be/QFPGUTyo9Yk
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What happened to bathroom doors?
YouTube video by Kendra Gaylord
https://youtu.be/QFPGUTyo9Yk
about 1 month ago
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Just a whole load of tiny, beautiful things:
www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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Photographing the Microscopic: Winners of Nikon Small World 2025
Some of the incredible winning and honored images from this yearāsĀ photomicrography competition, selected from nearly 2,000 entries. See if you can guess what each image is showing before reading the ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/archive/2025/10/photographing-microscopic-winners-nikon-small-world-2025/684520/?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZzporSIVtM2K0FMmHIUgDp0
about 1 month ago
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Dimbleby unleashed: enjoyed the first part of this doc asking what the point of our royals is
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC One - What's the Monarchy For?
David Dimbleby takes a personal look at the role of the monarchy and its future.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n21h
about 1 month ago
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The best end-of-year list. Thanks
@tomwhitwell.bsky.social
medium.com/@tomwhitwell...
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52 things I learned in 2025
This year I stopped being a consultant, started a tiny company, sold hundreds of little modular synths, hosted two incredible events, andā¦
https://medium.com/@tomwhitwell/52-things-i-learned-in-2025-edeca7e3fdd8
about 1 month ago
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Good points, well made
@jasonkpargin.bsky.social
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about 1 month ago
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Carole Cadwalladr
about 1 month ago
Iām so happy to see this. The lack of journalistic solidarity & collective action over the killing of journalists in Gaza has been distressing. Will
@nujofficial.bsky.social
step up & follow this lead?
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Smooth Dunk
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iām setting you free. iām releasing you from the discourse
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Just unearthed this piece I wrote a decade ago when The Arches was first closed:
pegerteg.onfabrik.com/blog/in-prai...
I canāt believe weāre about to lose the place a second time.
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In Praise Of: The Arches
The Arches is no more.
https://pegerteg.onfabrik.com/blog/in-praise-of-the-arches
about 1 month ago
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I'm Amy
about 1 month ago
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it's it's a wonderful life season. i love this movie to shreds. it is one of the great socialist films made by a staunch anti-communist. one of my favorite scripts. and david lynch talking about it is lynch at his most emotional.
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David Lynch watching It's a Wonderful Life
YouTube video by These Toe Thumbs
https://youtu.be/9DCnIvLmKdA?si=mXBriw9Q99KF6g8V
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šØ new blog post šØ Have a gander here and sign up if you like:
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Pete's Pad: November
Nearly there...
https://peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/pete-s-pad-november?utm_source=peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=pete-s-pad-november&_bhlid=f0085128083a3cb7c18d9dcbd89d524bcaf3534f
about 1 month ago
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Simple, poignant; perfect. Always take a wee moment when I pass this.
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about 1 month ago
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Katie Mack
about 1 month ago
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You donāt have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you donāt think theyāll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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Why Are All Pop Star Interviews Like That?
Thoughts on Jake Shane and the stanification of media
https://open.substack.com/pub/genzero/p/why-are-all-pop-star-interviews-like?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
about 1 month ago
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AJ š¦ ššāā¬š©µ
about 1 month ago
Did you buy a house in 1970? Did it cost you £5,000? Is it now worth £2.5m? You did fuck all to earn that wealth. Stop complaining about being taxed on it.
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Inertia means that Iām still on Spotify - is there a reasonably easy way to port playlists to a marginally more ethical alternative? Anyway, Iāve made another set of songs: the theme this time being things I didnāt know the name of, but liked enough to track down.
open.spotify.com/playlist/3ZR...
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Shazam
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ZREDfBgVaCM6beJppCnv5?si=d4iCYTDATVi9tLDD_e-pOQ&pi=dQY8BLVbTKucy
about 1 month ago
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Heather Brooke
6 months ago
The way we view pets is a symptom of how we view nature - that we are separate and superior to it and nature exists only to serve us. As if nature and natural beings donāt have their own autonomous desires. New Substack on the ethics of owning animals.
heatherbrooke.substack.com/p/pets-as-sl...
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Back to someoneās house for the afters, miraculously you get handed the aux to get the tunes going - whatās your go to? For that perfect mix of obscurity points and warm house goodness, this is my pick:
youtu.be/bXBBZDg-iJQ
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Subway - DBO [2010]
YouTube video by Xovo GonzƔlez (Filter.Eater)
https://youtu.be/bXBBZDg-iJQ
about 1 month ago
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Funtime kitchen disco mix from
@mixmag.net
alum Philly D on
@brixtonradiolive.bsky.social
- certainly powered the creation of this eveningās spag bolā¦
www.mixcloud.com/brixtonradio...
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Phil D Presents - Holey Unoriginal 06.11.25
https://www.mixcloud.com/brixtonradiolive/phil-d-presents-holey-unoriginal-061125/
about 1 month ago
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New Nathan Fake is exactly what I needed today.
nathanfake.bandcamp.com/album/bialys...
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Bialystock, by Nathan Fake
2 track album
https://nathanfake.bandcamp.com/album/bialystock
about 1 month ago
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Explains a lot - Iād never really thought about how not being able to conjure mental images affects reading, remembering and relationshipsā¦
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Some People Canāt See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound
Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traitsāhow we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/03/some-people-cant-see-mental-images-the-consequences-are-profound
about 1 month ago
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The Onion
about 1 month ago
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Macās āThe Chainā Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life
https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
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EdTech platform proliferation has gone too far.
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about 1 month ago
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