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Alan Stedman

@alanjstedman.bsky.social

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You will find me around the middle of the room. Outward looking because if you are not you get isolated and stop learning NHS for many years before retiring. Read a lot, listen a lot. Dovestones Reservoir ⬆️ I don't have access to DMs so don't bother!

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · Nov 14

If you want me to follow you I need to see a bit in your timeline to have an idea of who you are and what you're about please

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 59m

Autocorrect 🤦🏼‍♂️

Tunings not timings! 🤬🤬🤬

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 59m

Hypnotic. Birdland is one thing but some of the stuff he did with Joni Mitchell was astonishing

Hejira and Don Juan's Wreckless Daughter are magic and if you want to hear him 'live' as it were, then Shadows and Light is the place to be with the added bonus of Pat Metheny!

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 1h

Famous unique tuners include Joni Mitchell whose guitar technician (and other duties) Joel Bernstein kept abreast of the many timings she used

More here

acousticguitar.com/the-guitar-t...

The Guitar-Tuning Odyssey of Joni Mitchell

The melodies and harmonies of Joni Mitchell's music rarely unfold in ways that our ears have come to expect. Here's a look at her guitar tuning Odyssey.

acousticguitar.com

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 1h

Reform are going to need resuscitation if this carries on. All this backsliding will lead to them backing into the Tory party!

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 2h

Been with them 3 years and never needed to talk to anyone because everything works as it should!

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 3h

Said very similar in response to Henry's post earlier. It's always their version of free speech

The biggest culprit of all is J D Vance. Always banging on about free speech needed elsewhere in the world whilst stomping on it at home

Cognitive dissonance writ large!

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 4h

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 5h

In the name of 'free speech'

Sarcasm intended

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 5h

That will be their version of 'free speech' where only what they say is right (sic)

See also JD Vance

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 5h

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 6h

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 6h

Exclusion I believe

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 7h

So it now appears the woman Farage and Gill were so close to has a direct link not only to Putin’s “Man in Ukraine” Medvedchuk, but his predecessor as President, Medvedev

These are top Russian agents.

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 6h

I see that more and more Trump's apparatchiks are adopting the Wild West technique of shoot first...and ask questions later - although Trump's lot don't reflect on their errors tbf

And yes I know it wasn't completely lawless in the Wild West, but you know, Trump et al build their life around myths!

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 6h

Ahhh, seen your profile.

X refugee...and all the bad habits that I left there to avoid

Do you talk down to everyone or is it just a way of life for you?

Now run along

Don't bother to reply to my polite reply to your sarky response to my post. You're barred

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 6h

Extremely ironic!

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 6h

@jowolff.bsky.social

You might like this.

Entirey possible that you have seen already of course

Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 2d

stop thinking right now

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 6h

This especially applies to foreseeable errors which imo simply dropping the logo bottom right every time is one

Sure, individuals like ice skaters learn from errors - i.e. falling over and that's a good way to learn. Businesses should learn from errors, but not foreseeable ones - that's inefficient

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 6h

You seem not to have heard of the work of W Edwards Demming. Businesses improve if they focus on quality at all levels in their organisation and subsequently reduce costs. It should be internally driven not rely on others to tell them their errors and inefficiencies

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 7h

This deserves a much wider audience

Worth five minutes of your day

Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 22h

I need a Tommy Flowers Was Robbed t-shirt. Great piece!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies

The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...

www.theguardian.com

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 7h

Indeed, a must read

Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 8h

Good section on that in his autobiography. He showed another guitarist (from memory Ike Turner, but might have been someone else) and they were at first befuddled then wild about it's possibilities

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 8h

At a guess, it's automated, but that's no excuse of course

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 16h

"To be a Republican in 2025 represents a clear public confession that you either don't know the difference between good and evil and you're so morally empty that you can't be bothered to begin to try, or that you do know the difference, and you prefer evil." Great essay from @juliusgoat.bsky.social

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 10h

Always the plan, just needed a confected opportunity

At some point this is going to explode and I suspect that the push back will be bigger than they expect. Not convinced that the military will follow Hegseth into the trenches (metaphorical: Hegseth is a wuss)

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump ‘looking at all options’ amid threats to invoke Insurrection Act, Vance says

Vice-president calls crime ‘out of control’ in US cities as Trump faces legal battles for use of federal forces

www.theguardian.com

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