Matt Potter
@mattpotteruk.bsky.social
Journalist, author, magpie, scriptwriter, nerd. Washington Post, BBC, etc. Nonfic books incl WE ARE ALL TARGETS & OUTLAWS INC. Science, languages, virology, art, illicit networks, deviance, cyber, psychology, weird, prehistory, subculture. ND. He/Him
Yeah, I’m the same - it’s metric here but with a lot of stuff signalled in both, and with draft beer in pubs in pints and road signs in miles. So I’m metric-first with everything, except in my case it’s not weights, but miles before kms! Weird. 😁
December 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Yeah, I’m the same - it’s metric here but with a lot of stuff signalled in both, and with draft beer in pubs in pints and road signs in miles. So I’m metric-first with everything, except in my case it’s not weights, but miles before kms! Weird. 😁
"He's a big lad for his age. I reckon at least one and a half Peebles. He'll be more than a Cujo by the time he's 17."
December 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"He's a big lad for his age. I reckon at least one and a half Peebles. He'll be more than a Cujo by the time he's 17."
Such a small, clear memory, I can even recall the exact faces of strangers around me.
Gently lit up from the front, like figures in a painting by Wright of Derby.
The play was brilliant, huge in scope. Very unlike Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. And that looming context came rushing in.
Gently lit up from the front, like figures in a painting by Wright of Derby.
The play was brilliant, huge in scope. Very unlike Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. And that looming context came rushing in.
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Such a small, clear memory, I can even recall the exact faces of strangers around me.
Gently lit up from the front, like figures in a painting by Wright of Derby.
The play was brilliant, huge in scope. Very unlike Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. And that looming context came rushing in.
Gently lit up from the front, like figures in a painting by Wright of Derby.
The play was brilliant, huge in scope. Very unlike Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. And that looming context came rushing in.
At one point, I turned my head, to look at everyone else around me. There was something weird in the context, with Covid coming. There were a lot of older people there. All around me, people’s faces, looking grim as they watched.
I wondered how many of them would come out of what was approaching.
I wondered how many of them would come out of what was approaching.
November 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
At one point, I turned my head, to look at everyone else around me. There was something weird in the context, with Covid coming. There were a lot of older people there. All around me, people’s faces, looking grim as they watched.
I wondered how many of them would come out of what was approaching.
I wondered how many of them would come out of what was approaching.