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Pete Fraser

@petefrasermusic.bsky.social

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London-Born Saxophonist and Composer living in Stockholm. “One of the better fried-egg accounts on this website”

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · Aug 5

So, I’m kind of tentatively branching out into podcast production, so here’s my pitch -

Obviously there are too many podcasts in the world, but as someone who listens to a lot of them, my great issue is that - even among some of the prominent ones - the production values often aren’t very high.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 29m

Only a few hundred pounds away by rail!

Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 1h

Jesus that’s steep.

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Johan Ernestam @jernestam.bsky.social · 15h

Är inte så ofta jag blir särdeles upprörd över politiska prioriteringar nu för tiden, men den här kombon är genuint stötande. Regeringen strösslar pengar över lokala flygplatser, men ger inte SJ en spänn för att fortsätta med nattåg till Tyskland. Bra av @olaspannar.bsky.social att lyfta fram det.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 1h

Beautiful place!

Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 1h

Liten rek för idag, för de som är sugna. OTROLIGA musiker, trevlig lokal, och 200kr på dörren. Bargain.

stockholmjazz.se/artist/matte...

Mattebo/Adami Quintet

Sebastian Mattebo och Hampus Adami tillhör den nya generationens högintressanta musiker, här i ett projekt som tar sin utgångspunkt från Bob Brookmeyers 50- och 60-talsrepertoar med en egen spin!

stockholmjazz.se

Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 1h

All the defences I’ve seen have been ‘you have to change the situation from within’ which, given the contract they signed (and who got booted off the bill for breaching it) makes no sense at all.

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Liam Wong @liamwong.com · 9h

Tokyo

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 2h

Monmouth! Go early, there’s a permaqueue!

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 2h

Go for a medium roast first, and then see whether you think it feels too dark or light.

If you go to a place and buy the beans in person, you might well get to try a few too.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 2h

Anyway, she’s currently being blocked by about fifty people per minute according to clearsky. It always, always pays to be a bit more… normal?

Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 2h

You see it again and again online, sometimes from people who have actual reputations to uphold, and it never gets any less fascinating.

The *total* inability to go ‘oh silly me, my bad’.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 2h

Really good example of Poster’s Disease - outwardly seems like a right-on account but is actually just addicted to numbers. Provably so: shutting people out who are pointing out the lie, and just posting through it.

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 3h

this person posted an AI video (the reporter has three arms, for a start) and then turned off comments when people pointed it out, so i have to insist everybody block them. block this account right now and i'll give you a thumbs up in your mind

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 7h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 2h

Other way round for me: if I was to buy coffee as good as what I keep at home it would be REALLY expensive (and not available near where I live).

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 4h

I still find it hard to believe that a party which has dominated British politics for centuries is dying. And the most extraordinary thing is that one charlatan, who has never held significant power nor any kind of vision, is destroying it.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 2h

I’m following the advice of all those right wing columnists and trying to be more organised at taking a coffee out with me rather than buying one. It won’t save me enough to buy a house, but I’m putting 27kr in an account each time I’d have bought one and it’s going to be… lots.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 2h

Totally this. I know all reporting gets weaponised but some kind of approval process seems really necessary where quite serious perhaps even illegal violations are so commonplace.

Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 11h

Different I suspect. That was so specifically brutal cause it was caused by lending. But I’m no expert. God knows.

Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 11h

Get ready for a 2008 again. Seems fairly locked in now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "AI is based on information. I hope they're right about information. I don't know. You've gotta make a lot of money to-- there's gotta be a lot of information out there, but that seems to be pretty hot. We're leading the world on information on AI."

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 12h

Remember that immediately post January 6th it was all contrition and condemnation. There’s no way this holds, I promise.

Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 12h

He’s going to talk about this on a daily basis for like a decade now, and it’s going to change to make it that it was really him who won. A well trodden path.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 12h

It’s always the rub - they’re the only reason we know anything, and yet they’re inconsistent in reporting everything.

Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 12h

Trouble it’s now nigh on impossible to google whether he did or didn’t say this, or whether I’ve misremembered, so even for someone who fairly closely follows the news, everything is a little foggy.

Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 12h

Didn’t Trump already say on the record that he approved of the shutdown cause it meant they could lay off public sector workers? That should be the headline, let alone not mentioned in the article.

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

White House announces federal worker layoffs as shutdown nears third week

AFL-CIO vows to take issue to court as AFSCME union leader warns of ‘devastating effects’ for Americans

www.theguardian.com

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 13h

Going through a fully unashamed 1990s jazz pop phase at the moment. Hometime listening.

open.spotify.com/album/7ocjym...

Hard Groove

open.spotify.com

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 13h

I’m super into the idea. We shall see if I am still after November.