Pete Martin
@petemart1n.bsky.social
Marketing means looking after customers; management means looking after people.
B Corp leader. Longtime adman. Vice chair Marketing Society Scotland. Quite keen on democracy, fairness, the lessons of history and all that. Bowie obsessive.
B Corp leader. Longtime adman. Vice chair Marketing Society Scotland. Quite keen on democracy, fairness, the lessons of history and all that. Bowie obsessive.
If you’ve been in business a while you’ll have met people like Trump. The key thing is they NEVER do any work. They make decisions by diktat and whim. They ‘get shit done’ (literally making things shit) because they don’t do any research or thinking or study or consult with stakeholders.
People are losing their jobs. Prices keep climbing. Measles continues to spread. Bird flu is raging. Veterans are getting fired. The stock market is a roller coaster. Our alliances are being shattered. Ukrainian civilians are getting bombed by Russia.
Donald Trump is golfing.
Donald Trump is golfing.
March 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM
If you’ve been in business a while you’ll have met people like Trump. The key thing is they NEVER do any work. They make decisions by diktat and whim. They ‘get shit done’ (literally making things shit) because they don’t do any research or thinking or study or consult with stakeholders.
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March 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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We must close loopholes that would allow foreign billionaires like Elon Musk to bankroll UK political parties
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/07/g...
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/07/g...
Needs Musk: Minister Pledges Crackdown on 'Dark Money' in British Politics
Keir Starmer's Government looks set to close loopholes that would allow foreign billionaires like Elon Musk to bankroll UK political parties
bylinetimes.com
March 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
We must close loopholes that would allow foreign billionaires like Elon Musk to bankroll UK political parties
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/07/g...
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/07/g...
Why any woman would support a regime like this is beyond me
March 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Why any woman would support a regime like this is beyond me
Been treason for years
At what point does it become treason!
March 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Been treason for years
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Why Trump is in a hurry to help Putin…
Former UK Defence Secretary Sir Ben Wallace, always a sane voice, tells the BBC the Russian economy could collapse in 18 months.
And that the US pulling out of NATO wouldn’t be the end of the world. Europe has the resources and technical skills if necessary to replace US security.
And that the US pulling out of NATO wouldn’t be the end of the world. Europe has the resources and technical skills if necessary to replace US security.
March 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Why Trump is in a hurry to help Putin…
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Why did anyone vote for The Orange One. There’s simply no justification for such grotesque stupidity.
March 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Why did anyone vote for The Orange One. There’s simply no justification for such grotesque stupidity.
Not steering by the venal chart
Which tricked the mass for private gain
We rise to play a greater part
Cohen’s version of FR Scott’s postwar poem - Villanelle for our times - so apt for this moment
youtu.be/CxdDaFoBYXA
Which tricked the mass for private gain
We rise to play a greater part
Cohen’s version of FR Scott’s postwar poem - Villanelle for our times - so apt for this moment
youtu.be/CxdDaFoBYXA
Leonard Cohen - Villanelle for Our Time (Official Audio)
YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO
youtu.be
March 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Not steering by the venal chart
Which tricked the mass for private gain
We rise to play a greater part
Cohen’s version of FR Scott’s postwar poem - Villanelle for our times - so apt for this moment
youtu.be/CxdDaFoBYXA
Which tricked the mass for private gain
We rise to play a greater part
Cohen’s version of FR Scott’s postwar poem - Villanelle for our times - so apt for this moment
youtu.be/CxdDaFoBYXA
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“I want to read a lot more than I do. It annoys me that so many millions of books came out last year and I only read twenty of them.” - Paul McCartney, 1966
March 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“I want to read a lot more than I do. It annoys me that so many millions of books came out last year and I only read twenty of them.” - Paul McCartney, 1966
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Curious that all the places Trump wants to annex would be geographically convenient for a Russian partner in annexation.
March 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Curious that all the places Trump wants to annex would be geographically convenient for a Russian partner in annexation.
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March 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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The second DOGE employee with links to Russia.
It’s almost as if it’s…a pattern?
It’s almost as if it’s…a pattern?
New DOGE Staffer Has Ties to a Sanctioned Russian Oligarch — Rolling Stone
Sam Corcos, a new member of Elon Musk’s DOGE team, reportedly showed up at the IRS demanding detailed info about American taxpayers to hunt for fraud
apple.news
March 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The second DOGE employee with links to Russia.
It’s almost as if it’s…a pattern?
It’s almost as if it’s…a pattern?
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Back in 2023, Elon Musk infamously posted and reposted a meme falsely claiming Republicans hadn't changed their views in the last decade, while Democrats had moved left.
An FT study confirms that was a lie: Democrats are typical for Western democracies, and MAGA and Musk are _nearly off the chart_.
An FT study confirms that was a lie: Democrats are typical for Western democracies, and MAGA and Musk are _nearly off the chart_.
March 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Back in 2023, Elon Musk infamously posted and reposted a meme falsely claiming Republicans hadn't changed their views in the last decade, while Democrats had moved left.
An FT study confirms that was a lie: Democrats are typical for Western democracies, and MAGA and Musk are _nearly off the chart_.
An FT study confirms that was a lie: Democrats are typical for Western democracies, and MAGA and Musk are _nearly off the chart_.
He wants to end the war by bombing the shit out of Ukraine - Trump ‘logic’
Shocking & shameful from Trump. Is there not a single journalist in the White House with the courage to step up and point out Zelenskyy is the democratically elected leader of a sovereign country who is bravely standing against the illegal invasion of Ukraine by a murderous dictator?
March 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
He wants to end the war by bombing the shit out of Ukraine - Trump ‘logic’
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Trump is a Russian asset, exhibit 5,432,789
March 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Trump is a Russian asset, exhibit 5,432,789
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The military removed photos of the B-29 bomber “Enola Gay,” which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan, because it contains the word “gay,” and violates new anti-DEI rules.
Will Trump demand the Flintstones be taken off the air because "gay" is in the theme song?
#ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
Will Trump demand the Flintstones be taken off the air because "gay" is in the theme song?
#ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
March 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The military removed photos of the B-29 bomber “Enola Gay,” which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan, because it contains the word “gay,” and violates new anti-DEI rules.
Will Trump demand the Flintstones be taken off the air because "gay" is in the theme song?
#ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
Will Trump demand the Flintstones be taken off the air because "gay" is in the theme song?
#ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
And the scaredest
Sen. Kennedy wins the prize for DUMBEST fucking U.S. senator. 🏆
Sen. Kennedy on Fox: "I'm worried about the tariffs ... if this starts causing inflation, we're gonna have to recalibrate"
March 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
And the scaredest
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If I could just ask the Tesla community and the Elon stans to do one thing… just watch this video where Elon pretends to be an expert in something and is dissected like a frog by actual experts… & consider what that reveals about Musk’s personality.
youtu.be/FmEe3eUPWq4?...
youtu.be/FmEe3eUPWq4?...
Elon Musk is Lying About Being Good at Video Games
YouTube video by Quin69TV
youtu.be
March 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
If I could just ask the Tesla community and the Elon stans to do one thing… just watch this video where Elon pretends to be an expert in something and is dissected like a frog by actual experts… & consider what that reveals about Musk’s personality.
youtu.be/FmEe3eUPWq4?...
youtu.be/FmEe3eUPWq4?...
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Ernest Hemingway wrote this in 1935…
March 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Ernest Hemingway wrote this in 1935…
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David Bowie released his ‘Young Americans’ album 50 years ago today, on 7th March 1975.
March 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
David Bowie released his ‘Young Americans’ album 50 years ago today, on 7th March 1975.
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Your Friday Philosophy:
"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few." | David Hume, Edinburgh, 1711 -1776:
"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few." | David Hume, Edinburgh, 1711 -1776:
March 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Your Friday Philosophy:
"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few." | David Hume, Edinburgh, 1711 -1776:
"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few." | David Hume, Edinburgh, 1711 -1776:
She’s amazing
AOC says Republicans are "very sensitive" and "their feelings are very easily hurt," which is why they censured Al Green today. The condescending tone of her calling them snowflakes is just great. 🤣
March 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
She’s amazing