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Sam Becker

@sambeckermusic.bsky.social
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Musician & teacher - as well as music (obviously), also into books, knitting, letters, tea, allotment, nature, yoga, Japan, cats also on instagram.com/becker2333

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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Data centres are springing up everywhere, using massive amounts of energy and water. I’ve signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition calling for a pause on new data centres until the government gets a grip on the situation. Will you join me? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/put...
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Stop data centres draining our precious resources
Add my name Data centres are springing up all over the UK – using massive amounts of electricity and, in many cases, huge amounts of water. The UK is already facing water shortages, high energy demand...
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A great delight! I sometimes feel being an adult is a state of being constantly reminded (and slightly surprised) that hanging out with people can be fun.
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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
You know what doesn't get its support unceremoniously pulled by a tech company? Fuckin' books, brother
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
And why is the US military still able to use UK bases? Why is Palantir - a US spy tech company - so embedded into our vital infrastructure? And why do we have a Labour Govenrment who absolutely cower at the idea of speaking out against the criminal President?
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Never read them but one of my nieces reported back to me that they just weren’t that good.
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
House where I lived as a teenager came up for sale a few years ago. Siblings and I looked at agents photos - completely unrecognisable!
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Win with the progressive majority!. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/wi...
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Win with the progressive majority!
There is a progressive majority in Britain. That's not a theory. A fact. Most people want the same things. A society that is fairer. A democracy that works. A planet that survives us. We might hav...
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Yep.
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Unhappiness in the Kirkdale family is not good. I hope this is something that blows over. Pint soon?
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Excellent. I often enjoy a coffee after visiting the shop and was bemused to find the one I usually go to down the road closed last time I came.
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
He once told me I was the best page turner he’d ever had!
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I have yet to knit you one. This must be remedied.
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Same. And I have visited my great-uncle’s grave in France!
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Yes so am I! Planning to go week on Sunday.
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
@rolandbates.bsky.social see this? www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘A hunger for wild, physical sensation’: Alan Hollinghurst on painter and writer Denton Welch who died tragically young
When the young painter was left severely injured after being knocked off his bike, he began to write – with astonishing vividness. As his paintings go on show, novelist Alan Hollinghurst celebrates th...
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I was going to write some light-hearted but reassuring comment here but you know what fuck the person that made that comment and know that I adore you. Sometimes you just have to tell a mate that.
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I get this all the time. And the second sentence is actually correct - I can’t possibly read them all - but I relish the attempt.
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THIS ACCOUNT IS MOVING @xtaldave.xtaldave.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025
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. www.them.us/story/london-trans-prid…
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London’s Trans Pride March Just Shattered Its Turnout Record
Organizers say it was the largest transgender rights march in the world.
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Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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
A post this morning from Keir Starmer on Elon Musk's X in which he welcomes American financial investment into the UK and makes no comment on other matters
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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.
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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.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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.
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Be good if the prime minster were to make a statement to this effect
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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.
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
All good options, in my opinion.
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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
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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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 06/08/2025
Hey @angelarayner - hands off our allotments! No more sell-offs of these precious green spaces. Take 1 minute to sign our petition today. 👇#HandsOffOurAllotments
Picture of Angela Rayner superimposed over a green colour washed image of an allotment. With a small 'We Own It' logo in the bottom left corner. The main text reads: Angela Rayner hands off our allotments
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Expected this - I have three outstanding book pledges - as I’ve been emailing boundless for the last two months with no one bothering to respond. So angry on behalf of all the authors and readers.
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Yes I broadly agree. It’s telling that she says the article is misleading rather than false.
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I veer towards the facts in the observer article and the Raynor defence seems somewhat shifty…but I’m willing to accept that some aspects aren’t clear cut. She still comes out of it looking bad.
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
One suspects the truth is somewhere in the messy middle ground between the two accounts.
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Very odd - I was sure I had bought the book but I’ve just dug around in my library and can’t find it. Maybe I didn’t or it is just hiding in shame somewhere.
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Agreed. I bought the book because I wanted to read about the walking. Not so interested in the illness-to-wellness memoir aspect.
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Just read the article. I have the book but not yet read it. Wonder whether I will now or just read it with awareness of the deceit…all rather uncomfortable.
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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
foe.uk
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.
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
A Friday evening that includes a crumhorn is a good one in my book.
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Great! I look forward to discussing when I’m next in.
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Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Have they contemplated trying to win over Labour voters?
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Oh, to hell with it. Who wants my Unbound incompetence story! Yay!
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Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache! @pressfuturist.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
“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...
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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...
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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’.
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I contributed to a handful of unbound titles over the years. So dismayed to see how the authors and readers have been treated. Not touching boundless with a barge pole after all of this. Sorry for all your stress and upset. It’s infuriating.
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Do get to it - quite amazing; some beautiful Madonnas, powerful depictions of the passion, wonderfully expressive details. I was engrossed. And the très heures is in the last room - the most beautiful book - I nearly gasped out loud when I saw it was there.
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Have you been yet @rolandbates.bsky.social ?
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Siena exhibition at the national gallery really extraordinary. Wonderful, moving, impressive 14th century art.
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
media.tenor.com
a group of trash cans are sitting on the side of a road .
ALT: a group of trash cans are sitting on the side of a road .
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I used to know one of them. More details when I’m next in…
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Sam Becker @sambeckermusic.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I enjoyed olden days Foyles. Always an adventure.
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