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
Them: You don’t see those heralds of the Approaching End Times with sandwich boards in towns any more do you? Y’know, ‘THE END IS NIGH’ and, ‘IT IS LATER THAN YOU THINK’? Me:
At uni, I went to a lecture by Germaine Greer with the title, 'Twin Peaks & Hamlet'. It was mind-expanding. This was the theme: What people didn't get about Hamlet at the time – it was not an immediate popular hit – was the *whole point of it*. And it was also what David Lynch did in Twin Peaks...
The r/Argentina subreddit is quite spicy this morning. Also: Javier Milei announcing a public holiday in either celebration or gratitude, either today or tomorrow, but not being clear, depending on how people feel when the team plane lands. 🤡 Be ready. Posts autotranslate for non-Spanish speakers.
Gabby: What was your highlight of the half time show? Wayne Rooney: When it finished. I thought it was crap. 10/10 punditry. No notes.
That halftime show was the most rictus flinch-inducing spectacle of cheese-encrusted, pucker-souled, clown-makeup-caked, cavity-riddled, corporate backslapping, breathmints and PowerPoint, faux-entertainment I’ve ever seen.
Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"
19thnews@19thnews.org · 4w agoTrials found that Carevix — a portmanteau of “care” and “cervix" — reduced pain during IUD insertion by up to 73 percent and bleeding by 78 percent, compared to the tenaculum.
"Telemecus is for fools, but that's the way I like it baby! I don't want to live forever!"
Also that Odyssey photo is giving massive Ace of Spades.
Matt Potter@mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 4w agoIs it The Odyssey
I imagine the author is thrilled to have their critically lauded personal and scholarly examination of Homer described as "a primer to Christopher Nolan's film" lol
Conventional wisdom says rooftop solar meets **exisiting** electricity demand. What if rooftop solar actually **increases** electricity demand, improving living standards and driving economic growth? This is exactly what our new analysis of Pakistan's solar boom shows. Let's dig in.. 🧵
This will sell out.. Sunday.. Sept 27th Hosting this @c20society.bsky.social event about Listing, Love and hate for Brutalism.. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/bru...
Brutal(ism) Love and Hate | Southbank Centre
southbankcentre.co.uk
Being a woman rocks because if you use AI you’re stupid and if you don’t use AI you’re dumb
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last mo.Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻♂️
ICYMI: Whenever you hear claims of a supposed "millionaire tax exodus" from the UK, remember: 1) these reports invariably originate in marketing material from wealth firms eager to drum up offshore investment business. 2) the claim is demonstrably false. taxjustice.net/press/millio...
A Brit in the semis of Wimbledon, England still in the World Cup and Nigel Farage spending the summer arguing with a bin. Oh this happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea
Farage's vanity election, to try & push the reset button on his dodgy 5 million donation. BinFace is satirical but is also actually running. He's not wrong about saving money, not £380K but still a lot. "Limit set for the constituency in 2024, when Mr Farage was voted in as the MP, was £237,422"
Reform UK cannot pay for £200,000 Clacton by-election, Government says as it confirms move would be illegal | LBC
Nigel Farage's party offered to foot the bill for the election after he confirmed he will stand down as an MP and run again due to an ongoing row over his finances
lbc.co.uk
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4w agoIn case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.
"Are you ok, babe? You've hardly touched your Keir Starmer Walther PPK"
Chris McKeon@cjmckeon.bsky.social · 4w agoToday's best bit of news from Nato - Erdogan gave the other leaders each a revolver engraved with their name and a box of live rounds. But Starmer has had to leave his in Turkey to be decommissioned because, while Erdogan gave him a note waiving export controls, it's illegal to import into the UK.
At this point you could just mute Trump’s mic & play, I dunno, the Shipping Forecast, or episodes of Adventure Time backwards, or the sounds of people chewing celery while he speaks, and you’d have as much fucking clue about American foreign policy, the world, or what’s happening now, as he does.
NEW - Greens won’t stand in Clacton. So it is Nigel Farage versus Count Binface.
Nigel Farage's brilliant by election wheeze is horribly backfiring on him. Currently fewer prospective candidates than guests at a Toby Young stag night
Green Party also not standing. Farage hoisted by his own Dunning Kruger
