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@pegerteg

Occasional music journo, weekday business editor. Embra born and based. Portfolio/blog: pegerteg.com

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Radio 1's Essential Mix - Octo Octa - BBC Sounds Octo Octa takes over the Essential Mx with two hours of house, breaks and rave.

Well that was a lot of fun.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

11.03.2026 09:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth None of them through the Strait of Hormuz

I love cars, I thought I was going to be a car designer, I still find them beautiful and exhilarating.

But I choose to drive an EV because the internal combustion engine and what goes into it makes me feel queasy.

Read this and tell me you feel otherwise.

billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...

06.03.2026 23:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Flying Lotus - 'BIG MAMA' [EP]
Flying Lotus - 'BIG MAMA' [EP] YouTube video by Flying Lotus

This is most definitely my jam.

youtu.be/sdPDN1fqb5E

06.03.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Would appear to be a quick pre-pack and sale, much like BrewDogs’

06.03.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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A soft-landing manual for the second gilded age By the summer of 1945, West Berlin had been reduced to rubble. Allied bombing, the Soviet ground assault and Hitler's insistence on GΓΆtterdΓ€mmerung had destroyed roughly a third of the city's building...

Of hope and hard work, universal basic income and a social safety net to counter the doomerism/boosterism of the AI age:

www.joanwestenberg.com/a-soft-landi...

04.03.2026 20:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Meta Ray-Bans are a Cybertruck you wear on your face.
www.garbageday.email/p/meta-ray-b...

04.03.2026 18:57 πŸ‘ 235 πŸ” 77 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 6
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Yearning for the Apocalypse As chaos and violence break out across the Middle East in a war led by the US with Israel as junior partner, I wanted to revisit my research on Christian...

Another thing I hadn’t fully appreciated about this new war - and America’s evangelical support for Israel…

buttondown.com/theswordandt...

04.03.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Desalination Edition On risk, humanitarian crisis, and H20.

Good point, well made Colin Nagy, on how this war could be as much about water as it is oil.

whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-desali...

04.03.2026 16:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Stupid Bitches

I loved Lullaby, so was full of anticipation for Grace Ives’ new one.

Happy to say it has surpassed expectations.

open.spotify.com/album/7eWy1i...

04.03.2026 08:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
If This Dam Fails, It Pollutes Half of Europe.
If This Dam Fails, It Pollutes Half of Europe. YouTube video by What On Earth Is This?

Really didn’t need something new to worry about today, but here we are - and this is an absolute shocker of an environmental catastrophe…

youtu.be/oIR8vd-bi8I

03.03.2026 23:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete Jimmy Iovine just called the Death of Spotify. He might be right.

Going to start building up my CD collection again.

joelgouveia.substack.com/p/the-death-...

03.03.2026 08:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s fine ladz, I never wanted my Β£200 back anyway.

www.thebusinessdesk.com/scotland/new...

02.03.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thaaaaaaats, bluesky

01.03.2026 20:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, just had to get this one out of my system.

01.03.2026 20:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Yellowjackets’ Burnley’s
Warren Kole Zian Fleming

01.03.2026 20:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

01.03.2026 14:15 πŸ‘ 11790 πŸ” 3832 πŸ’¬ 146 πŸ“Œ 177
DJ Hype | Roll The Beats
DJ Hype | Roll The Beats YouTube video by Suburban Base

Feeling t for tremendous

youtu.be/JNo9NR3F7KA

01.03.2026 14:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Hunt for Dark Breakfast With a theoretical model of breakfast, can we derive the existence of β€œdark breakfasts,” breakfasts that we know must exist, but have never observed?

Important breafast-based research from @moultano.bsky.social - with potentially catastrophic implications.

moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/t...

01.03.2026 13:28 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pete's Pad: February Small prophets and big bangers

To distract from *the horrors* I’ve done another recommendations blog; should you need some happier things to view/hear…

peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/pete-s-pad...

28.02.2026 23:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m with you on not quite understanding the hype around Fred, but fair play to him for using it to get Bangalter out of retirement and behind the decks again…

28.02.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Just been down a rabbit hole on this brilliant lady.

My sister was cremated there via a Humanist ceremony, so hats off to her specifically for opening the place up to all/non faiths

28.02.2026 20:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

27.02.2026 08:29 πŸ‘ 3338 πŸ” 1004 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 49
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

28.02.2026 07:19 πŸ‘ 23681 πŸ” 7117 πŸ’¬ 734 πŸ“Œ 405

βœŠπŸΌπŸ’ŠβœŠπŸΌ

27.02.2026 21:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
We need to talk about naked mole rats - The Oatmeal This is a comic about naked mole rats, aka tube goblins.

He’s only gone and done it again…

theoatmeal.com/comics/naked...

27.02.2026 00:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Larry David Agreed to Interview His Daughter Cazzie. She Had Other Ideas. Cazzie David's new book, "Delusions," explores the anxieties of young adulthood. Who better to interview her about it than her famously anxious dad?

Best interview I’ve read in a while.

www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/cazz...

25.02.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Donald Trump killed two of my constituents. He is a liar and should be ashamed of himself.

25.02.2026 04:59 πŸ‘ 16542 πŸ” 3296 πŸ’¬ 422 πŸ“Œ 197
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Oz Katerji on X: "Fuck it, in commemoration of the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, here is my feature length documentary filmed during the opening weeks of the war, uploaded completely free on Twitter. Will keep this online for the next 48 hours, feel free to share! https://t.co/uUyV7aMSYu" / X Fuck it, in commemoration of the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, here is my feature length documentary filmed during the opening weeks of the war, uploaded completely free on Twitter. Will keep this online for the next 48 hours, feel free to share! https://t.co/uUyV7aMSYu

I know everyone rightly hates Twitter, and they are right to, but if you want to watch my feature length documentary on the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, filmed in Kyiv during the first weeks of the war, I have uploaded it here entirely free for the next 48 hours.
x.com/OzKaterji/st...

24.02.2026 16:55 πŸ‘ 147 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 8

I miss the winter olympics

23.02.2026 10:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"If you build superintelligence, it's going to be in charge, not us."

AI expert Anthony Aguirre says trying to stay in control when faced with superintelligence would be like a classroom of kindergartners trying to be in charge of themselves when Musk, Obama or Putin walks in.

22.02.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0