Pete Fraser
@petefrasermusic.bsky.social
London-Born Saxophonist and Composer living in Stockholm.
“One of the better fried-egg accounts on this website”
“One of the better fried-egg accounts on this website”
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Who amongst us didn't sing Hitler youth songs and tell Jewish children they should go to the gas chamber?
Oh that's right, none of us did that, my mistake
Oh that's right, none of us did that, my mistake
December 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Who amongst us didn't sing Hitler youth songs and tell Jewish children they should go to the gas chamber?
Oh that's right, none of us did that, my mistake
Oh that's right, none of us did that, my mistake
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So we've gone from "he never said anything Nazi" to "well he might have said something Nazi but not in a hurtful way" to "well okay he probably did say something Nazi in a hurtful way, but didn't we all?"
December 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
So we've gone from "he never said anything Nazi" to "well he might have said something Nazi but not in a hurtful way" to "well okay he probably did say something Nazi in a hurtful way, but didn't we all?"
This is famously, famously the opposite of the truth in the USA. The are many years of evidence to show this.
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
This is famously, famously the opposite of the truth in the USA. The are many years of evidence to show this.
Slightly tipsy and I’m going to brine a chicken. Go Tuesday.
December 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Slightly tipsy and I’m going to brine a chicken. Go Tuesday.
Also, nobody said he was ‘himmler the fifth’ - they accused him of having been racist and not really changed.
These people are always inventing something to argue against that doesn’t exist in reality.
These people are always inventing something to argue against that doesn’t exist in reality.
One admission of personal interest he neglects to mention is that he's a failed UKIP parliamentary candidate, so may have more than the passing acquaintance with Farage suggested here.
December 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Also, nobody said he was ‘himmler the fifth’ - they accused him of having been racist and not really changed.
These people are always inventing something to argue against that doesn’t exist in reality.
These people are always inventing something to argue against that doesn’t exist in reality.
Every time I see some shill helping to flog a useless, toxic thing that nobody wants to the world, it’s Jimmy Fallon.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Every time I see some shill helping to flog a useless, toxic thing that nobody wants to the world, it’s Jimmy Fallon.
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Young Republicans are looking for Trump to “be their Franco” but don’t you dare call them fascists.
December 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Young Republicans are looking for Trump to “be their Franco” but don’t you dare call them fascists.
Happy PRS figures day to those who celebrate.
Not much up not much down for me, which I should be grateful for I think.
Not much up not much down for me, which I should be grateful for I think.
December 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Happy PRS figures day to those who celebrate.
Not much up not much down for me, which I should be grateful for I think.
Not much up not much down for me, which I should be grateful for I think.
Only ten minutes into the new @ifbookspod.bsky.social and have laughed out loud several times already.
Spoiler alert: Elon Musk is a compulsive liar with a sketchy background.
podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/i...
Spoiler alert: Elon Musk is a compulsive liar with a sketchy background.
podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/i...
Elon Musk
Poddavsnitt · If Books Could Kill · 2025-12-09 · 1 tim 28 min
podcasts.apple.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Only ten minutes into the new @ifbookspod.bsky.social and have laughed out loud several times already.
Spoiler alert: Elon Musk is a compulsive liar with a sketchy background.
podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/i...
Spoiler alert: Elon Musk is a compulsive liar with a sketchy background.
podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/i...
I feel really sorry for the professional editors who had to work on this.
Assuming it was combed through frame for frame, even having to decide what to do with all the chaotically illogical backgrounds alone must’ve been so depressing. And the facial expressions.
Assuming it was combed through frame for frame, even having to decide what to do with all the chaotically illogical backgrounds alone must’ve been so depressing. And the facial expressions.
McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas ad
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
December 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I feel really sorry for the professional editors who had to work on this.
Assuming it was combed through frame for frame, even having to decide what to do with all the chaotically illogical backgrounds alone must’ve been so depressing. And the facial expressions.
Assuming it was combed through frame for frame, even having to decide what to do with all the chaotically illogical backgrounds alone must’ve been so depressing. And the facial expressions.
I still see people, British people who actually exist, defending this government sometimes.
www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-mk...
www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-mk...
Far-right MKs sport noose-shaped pins at hearing on controversial death penalty bill | The Times of Israel
www.timesofisrael.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I still see people, British people who actually exist, defending this government sometimes.
www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-mk...
www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-mk...
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This statement appears to be untrue for 95-99% of British people convicted and imprisoned abroad
I would be interested to see the statistics per country per year behind this statement
“We, the UK, take back our citizens if they’re convicted of criminal offences overseas. It’s only reasonable to expect other countries to do the same thing"
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
“We, the UK, take back our citizens if they’re convicted of criminal offences overseas. It’s only reasonable to expect other countries to do the same thing"
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
All criminals with dual nationality must be deported, say Tories
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime
www.thetimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
This statement appears to be untrue for 95-99% of British people convicted and imprisoned abroad
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these are so clearly only controlled by humans it’s astounding how much everyone gives elon musk for lying to everyone all the time about everything
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 9, 2025 at 6:02 AM
these are so clearly only controlled by humans it’s astounding how much everyone gives elon musk for lying to everyone all the time about everything
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One of the best pieces of flash fiction I've ever read - and just left lying in the road.
#flashfiction #writingcommunity
#flashfiction #writingcommunity
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
One of the best pieces of flash fiction I've ever read - and just left lying in the road.
#flashfiction #writingcommunity
#flashfiction #writingcommunity
I made a really, really good spaghetti and meatballs today and man, it sorted me right out.
December 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I made a really, really good spaghetti and meatballs today and man, it sorted me right out.
I have a joke about Cerberus. It’s a shaggy dog story.
I have a joke about Oedipus, but it’s a real motherfucker
I have a joke about Ozymandias, King of Kings, but it has not aged well
December 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I have a joke about Cerberus. It’s a shaggy dog story.
People who talk about what a promising politician Wes Streeting is (mostly journalists) remind me very much of people who talked about what a promising politician Michael Gove was (also mostly journalists.)
December 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
People who talk about what a promising politician Wes Streeting is (mostly journalists) remind me very much of people who talked about what a promising politician Michael Gove was (also mostly journalists.)
Not as a result of Brexit, but as a result of the results of Brexit, you understand.
🧐 NBER study may have overestimated Brexit hit, apparently, because "a good deal of this effect will have been due not so much to Brexit as such, but the long period of uncertainty after the vote". 🤣
But that uncertainty was a predictable product of Brexit. Why should it be discounted? ~AA
But that uncertainty was a predictable product of Brexit. Why should it be discounted? ~AA
December 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Not as a result of Brexit, but as a result of the results of Brexit, you understand.
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Yeah, I just had to dig through the BBC liveblog, past analysis about her "partial victory", to find the bit that explains NHS Fife has been found to have mishandled some aspects of her complaint, but the actual complaint hasn't been upheld at all.
It’s maddening that I just heard this tribunal decision covered on BBC News, which led with “Sandie Peggie wins her case,” expanded with “Sandie Peggie secures a partial victory,” then only on listening further did it become clear she actually lost on most of the substantive points she was pursuing.
Decision in the Sandie Peggie case.
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
December 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Yeah, I just had to dig through the BBC liveblog, past analysis about her "partial victory", to find the bit that explains NHS Fife has been found to have mishandled some aspects of her complaint, but the actual complaint hasn't been upheld at all.
Almost all prominent transphobes appear to be right wing reactionaries who are the last to realise it.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Almost all prominent transphobes appear to be right wing reactionaries who are the last to realise it.
He of course didn’t say anything of the sort, but the Independent lost any such shame long ago.
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
www.independent.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
He of course didn’t say anything of the sort, but the Independent lost any such shame long ago.
Since he made his wife an independent multimillionaire, she seems to have lost her aversion to going to public functions with him.
Trump's bandaged hand last night at the Kennedy Center Honors gala
(photos via Getty and by Allison Robbert and Brendan Smialowski)
(photos via Getty and by Allison Robbert and Brendan Smialowski)
December 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Since he made his wife an independent multimillionaire, she seems to have lost her aversion to going to public functions with him.
I don’t think it would happen any more that a right wing newspaper columnist would so openly play upon the idea that they were a professional troll. They take themselves far more seriously re the ideas today.
Hello, I need the worst Christmas special you have. No that's too bad
December 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I don’t think it would happen any more that a right wing newspaper columnist would so openly play upon the idea that they were a professional troll. They take themselves far more seriously re the ideas today.
Just saw my first fairly mainstream (but still independent) journalist refer to Trump, without qualification, as ‘a Nazi’.
December 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Just saw my first fairly mainstream (but still independent) journalist refer to Trump, without qualification, as ‘a Nazi’.
Fascinating listen here - a study of class, misogyny, denial, all the old British chestnuts which still hang around so much today.
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today we return to our series about epoch-making trials with the case of the book they tried & failed to ban. In 1960 Penguin Books was prosecuted over its plans to produce a cheap, unexpurgated edition of DH Lawrence’s 'Lady Chatterley’s Lover.'
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today we return to our series about epoch-making trials with the case of the book they tried & failed to ban. In 1960 Penguin Books was prosecuted over its plans to produce a cheap, unexpurgated edition of DH Lawrence’s 'Lady Chatterley’s Lover.'
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Fascinating listen here - a study of class, misogyny, denial, all the old British chestnuts which still hang around so much today.