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
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.
Reposted by Matt Potter
Fungi collections in many museums are deteriorating and need sequencing. Fast and cheap sequencing technologies exist, but because they are not as accurate at first try as much more $$$$ slower technologies, many curators have not agreed to take the small samples needed to verify DNA.
November 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Fungi collections in many museums are deteriorating and need sequencing. Fast and cheap sequencing technologies exist, but because they are not as accurate at first try as much more $$$$ slower technologies, many curators have not agreed to take the small samples needed to verify DNA.