Sam Becker
@sambeckermusic.bsky.social
Musician & teacher - as well as music (obviously), also into books, knitting, letters, tea, allotment, nature, yoga, Japan, cats
also on http://instagram.com/becker2333
also on http://instagram.com/becker2333
At an extraordinary gig last night - a celebration of Martin Carthy’s life and songs. A jaw dropping line up and wonderful playing/singing. And in the midst of it all that great but humble man seemed so interested and curious about all the performances; as well as taking part. A special evening.
September 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
At an extraordinary gig last night - a celebration of Martin Carthy’s life and songs. A jaw dropping line up and wonderful playing/singing. And in the midst of it all that great but humble man seemed so interested and curious about all the performances; as well as taking part. A special evening.
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Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today.
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
London’s Trans Pride March Just Shattered Its Turnout Record
Organizers say it was the largest transgender rights march in the world.
www.them.us
September 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today.
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
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good that Keir has broken his silence this morning to ... continue posting on a website run by a man who yesterday addressed a far right rally to call for his overthrow, while not in any way addressing said far right rally
September 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
good that Keir has broken his silence this morning to ... continue posting on a website run by a man who yesterday addressed a far right rally to call for his overthrow, while not in any way addressing said far right rally
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The fascists who marched through London yesterday attacked the police.
They attacked the police, in large numbers, with direct violent intent.
This morning the only newspaper front page that mentions this, in passing, is the Sunday Express.
They attacked the police, in large numbers, with direct violent intent.
This morning the only newspaper front page that mentions this, in passing, is the Sunday Express.
Newspaper headlines: 'Musk wades in' and Mandelson hired 'without proper checks'
The "Unite the Kingdom" rally and fallout from the dismissal of Lord Mandelson lead Sunday's papers.
www.bbc.com
September 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
The fascists who marched through London yesterday attacked the police.
They attacked the police, in large numbers, with direct violent intent.
This morning the only newspaper front page that mentions this, in passing, is the Sunday Express.
They attacked the police, in large numbers, with direct violent intent.
This morning the only newspaper front page that mentions this, in passing, is the Sunday Express.
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STOP APPEASING FASCISTS.
Just sums up everything wrong with this government's approach at the moment, encouraging division rather than finding ways to bring the vast majority together.
Just sums up everything wrong with this government's approach at the moment, encouraging division rather than finding ways to bring the vast majority together.
September 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
STOP APPEASING FASCISTS.
Just sums up everything wrong with this government's approach at the moment, encouraging division rather than finding ways to bring the vast majority together.
Just sums up everything wrong with this government's approach at the moment, encouraging division rather than finding ways to bring the vast majority together.
Be good if the prime minster were to make a statement to this effect
Yes thousands turned out - which is far more than I’d like - but that is dwarfed by the millions that understand real patriotism means loving your country as it actually is, not hating its diversity or trying to exploit its challenges. That’s what our flags actually represent
Police have called for calm after officers were attacked as around 110,000 people joined Tommy Robinson‘s “Unite the Kingdom” rally in central London trib.al/I5OI7Ln
September 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Be good if the prime minster were to make a statement to this effect
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Absolutely horrified and disgusted to see so many people openly attending a fascist rally in our capital.
All reported breathlessly on news channels and in some sections of the media.
Everyone attending is complicit in this country's rapid decline into extremism.
All reported breathlessly on news channels and in some sections of the media.
Everyone attending is complicit in this country's rapid decline into extremism.
Deeply disturbed to see today's 'Unite the Kingdom' march in London with 100,000+ attendees.
This was likely the largest far-right protest in British history and was led by Tommy Robinson and addressed by Elon Musk.
The far right are emboldened like never before. But, here's the good news... 🧵
This was likely the largest far-right protest in British history and was led by Tommy Robinson and addressed by Elon Musk.
The far right are emboldened like never before. But, here's the good news... 🧵
September 14, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Absolutely horrified and disgusted to see so many people openly attending a fascist rally in our capital.
All reported breathlessly on news channels and in some sections of the media.
Everyone attending is complicit in this country's rapid decline into extremism.
All reported breathlessly on news channels and in some sections of the media.
Everyone attending is complicit in this country's rapid decline into extremism.
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Amazing how such small numbers have been identified as the voice of the nation when, for comparison, 100,000 turned out for trans pride last month in London.
"CROWDS wave flags" according to the Daily Mail caption of this picture
August 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Amazing how such small numbers have been identified as the voice of the nation when, for comparison, 100,000 turned out for trans pride last month in London.
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Hey @angelarayner - hands off our allotments! No more sell-offs of these precious green spaces. Take 1 minute to sign our petition today. 👇#HandsOffOurAllotments
August 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Hey @angelarayner - hands off our allotments! No more sell-offs of these precious green spaces. Take 1 minute to sign our petition today. 👇#HandsOffOurAllotments
UK companies are destroying forests and trashing the climate through their global supply chains - and UK law lets them get away with it. We need a new #BizHumanRights law before #COP30 to make them accountable👇
Sign @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition if you agree: foe.uk/lruxt
Sign @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition if you agree: foe.uk/lruxt
Make UK companies accountable for destroying forests and people’s lives
Powerful UK companies are trashing the environment and wrecking the lives of people overseas through their global supply chains. And UK law lets them get away with it.
foe.uk
June 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
UK companies are destroying forests and trashing the climate through their global supply chains - and UK law lets them get away with it. We need a new #BizHumanRights law before #COP30 to make them accountable👇
Sign @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition if you agree: foe.uk/lruxt
Sign @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition if you agree: foe.uk/lruxt
A Friday evening that includes a crumhorn is a good one in my book.
June 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
A Friday evening that includes a crumhorn is a good one in my book.
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Have they contemplated trying to win over Labour voters?
Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters
Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters
Faction influencing No 10 says government should legislate against DEI in hiring, sentencing and ‘wherever else’
The Labour faction influencing Downing Street’s pitch to Reform UK voters has urged ministers to “root out DEI”.
An article from the Blue Labour campaign group, titled What is to be Done, calls for the government to legislate against diversity, equity and inclusion, echoing the rightwing backlash from Donald Trump and Nigel Farage. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Have they contemplated trying to win over Labour voters?
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Oh, to hell with it. Who wants my Unbound incompetence story! Yay!
May 31, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Oh, to hell with it. Who wants my Unbound incompetence story! Yay!
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“238 authors and agents were collectively owed £657,000 by the failed business and are also unlikely to receive a dividend, along with the nearly 8,000 website customers owed £391,000.”
More detail on Unbound’s debts. This is shocking and shameful.
www.printweek.com/content/news...
More detail on Unbound’s debts. This is shocking and shameful.
www.printweek.com/content/news...
Pre-pack publisher Unbound leaves £2.4m hole in creditors - Printweek
Crowd-funded publisher Unbound, sold in a March pre-pack administration deal to a new company set up by its director and CEO, left an estimated total deficiency for unsecured creditors of £2.4m accord...
www.printweek.com
May 15, 2025 at 10:22 AM
“238 authors and agents were collectively owed £657,000 by the failed business and are also unlikely to receive a dividend, along with the nearly 8,000 website customers owed £391,000.”
More detail on Unbound’s debts. This is shocking and shameful.
www.printweek.com/content/news...
More detail on Unbound’s debts. This is shocking and shameful.
www.printweek.com/content/news...
I’ve supported various books through the publishers ‘unbound’ in the past. This thread explains very clearly why I won’t be doing the same with the replacement company ‘boundless’.
So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS.
Please read and share this thread.
Please read and share this thread.
May 31, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I’ve supported various books through the publishers ‘unbound’ in the past. This thread explains very clearly why I won’t be doing the same with the replacement company ‘boundless’.
Siena exhibition at the national gallery really extraordinary. Wonderful, moving, impressive 14th century art.
May 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Siena exhibition at the national gallery really extraordinary. Wonderful, moving, impressive 14th century art.
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The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
Another record year for the Green Party 👏
859 Councillors on 170 Councils in England & Wales
Now join us to keep Greens growing and to take the fight to Reform join.greenparty.org.uk
859 Councillors on 170 Councils in England & Wales
Now join us to keep Greens growing and to take the fight to Reform join.greenparty.org.uk
May 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
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Motion passed by doctors at the British Medical Association refers to the recent Supreme Court ruling as ‘scientifically illiterate’: ‘sex and gender are complex and multifaceted aspects of the human condition and attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine’.
Passed by the BMA conference today.
Here it is with ALT text.
April 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Motion passed by doctors at the British Medical Association refers to the recent Supreme Court ruling as ‘scientifically illiterate’: ‘sex and gender are complex and multifaceted aspects of the human condition and attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine’.
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If you want to know how serious our decline in the UK, when North Carolina did what the Labour Government and EHRC have done, the then UK Government told LGBT+ people to beware travelling there.
(Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...
(Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...
UK Issues Travel Advisory for North Carolina & Mississippi
www.voanews.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
If you want to know how serious our decline in the UK, when North Carolina did what the Labour Government and EHRC have done, the then UK Government told LGBT+ people to beware travelling there.
(Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...
(Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...
Send a letter on 6th May to celebrate the penny black stamp!
Dear People of the World, Please will you help us with this simple idea to celebrate the 185th anniversary of #PennyBlackDay on 6th May 2025? If you can share this too, that would be amazing! Yours in letter writing and stamps, Dinah 🥳✍️✉️📮
thehandwrittenletterappreciationsociety.org/help-celebra...
thehandwrittenletterappreciationsociety.org/help-celebra...
April 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Send a letter on 6th May to celebrate the penny black stamp!
Do take this opportunity to sample the delightful and meaningful world that Anne creates….
For one week only, my new short story, "The Soul of America", is free to read on my patreon here: patreon.com/posts/123933....
A tale of hope midst the vast waves of despair engulfing us all, it follows a small rat on his way to America, who forges a new friendship in the dark hold of a steamship.
A tale of hope midst the vast waves of despair engulfing us all, it follows a small rat on his way to America, who forges a new friendship in the dark hold of a steamship.
The Soul of America | Anne Louise Avery
Get more from Anne Louise Avery on Patreon
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April 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Do take this opportunity to sample the delightful and meaningful world that Anne creates….
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‘The things Chris Jefferies loved – books, music, theatre, opera, architecture, poetry – were, in the hands of the press, weapons to be used against him. They were evidence.’
@padrig.bsky.social on the ordeal of a former teacher wrongly accused of murder: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@padrig.bsky.social on the ordeal of a former teacher wrongly accused of murder: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Patrick McGuinness · Diary: Defending Mr Jefferies
Much of what was great about Chris Jefferies was used to attack him and destroy his reputation when the media, unimpeded...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
‘The things Chris Jefferies loved – books, music, theatre, opera, architecture, poetry – were, in the hands of the press, weapons to be used against him. They were evidence.’
@padrig.bsky.social on the ordeal of a former teacher wrongly accused of murder: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@padrig.bsky.social on the ordeal of a former teacher wrongly accused of murder: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Arrived home this evening to find one of the cats had scattered rose petals all over my bed. Don’t quite
know what to think.
know what to think.
February 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Arrived home this evening to find one of the cats had scattered rose petals all over my bed. Don’t quite
know what to think.
know what to think.