MattPotter / is on Nostr

#Journalist Washington Post/BBC/Time/Literary Review, #screenwriter, innovation/creative showpony @ Dentsu/ author ‘We Are All Targets: How renegade hackers invented cyberwar & unleashed an age of global chaos’ (Hachette) & ‘Outlaws Inc’ (PanMacmillan). #London. He/Him, #ADHD. #language #science #creativity #history #tech #gothic #literature #astro #music #art #myth #subculture #palaeontology #infosec #weirdness #geopolitics #psychology #NAFO. Bit bohemian, all magpie. mattpotter@protonmail.com

Last Notes

2024-08-26 13:59:17

Me, watching Lord of the Rings this bank holiday and glitching when Sam talks about eating a potato (brought to Europe in 1589).
#lordoftherings #anachronism #lotr #dinosaurs #memes #historical #potato #tolkien #jrtolkien #movies
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2024-05-25 20:22:59

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 Hey, thanks Doc - I really appreciate it! It has to be someone with a virology footprint, though. Many thanks man!

2024-05-24 19:20:11

Lovely Mastodon peeps! Do I know any virologists here?
(Or are there any who *don’t* know me yet, but would be up for chatting briefly? It’s background for a project, and I would be really grateful, and of course credit you.)
Thank you!
#virology #virologist #virologists #virus #LoveVirology #

2024-02-05 22:13:15

A 639-year-long piece of music being played in a cathedral in Germany has just changed a chord for the first time in 2 years - after letting that previous single chord drone out day and night - as crowds gather in anticipation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68209691
#music #johncage #asslowaspossible #doesitdoom #avantgarde #installation #experimentalmusic #halberstadt #doom #drone
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2024-01-19 21:47:35

Holy shit I love this research paper
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1
#anthropology #anthro #academia #academicresearch #longevity
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2023-12-28 17:09:10

My teenage sons have expressed a wish for us to watch “some really old classic movies together.” What did you have in mind, I ask? Fritz Lang’s Metropolis? Chaplin’s Modern Times?
Reader, they were referring to Shutter Island and Memento.
#movies #dead #fml #films #earlycinema #cinema #movie #film #memento #shutterisland
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2023-12-27 14:12:29

Watching users of the r/LSD subreddit reacting as they discover unfamiliar, textured things while tripping their wigs off is one of the purest & most wholesome pastimes in the universe. ☺️
#lsd #wholesome #reddit #romanesco #broccoli #tripping #acid #psychedelic #pure
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2023-12-22 18:46:07

If you’re trying not to drink alcohol this Christmas, but worried you’ll find it hard around friends and parties, don’t stress.
I don’t drink, haven’t for years. Good news? It’s lovely!
Here are 6 things you can do to make this week SO MUCH EASIER than you think…
1) People will insist. They say, ‘Ah come on!’ Try to wear you down.
They are worried. If you aren’t drinking, will make you less ‘festive’ for THEM?
So turn it round for them…
#alcohol #drink #christmas #alcoholfree #teetotal
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2023-11-25 17:23:40

Reconnecting with Deep Time and stillness, at the remaining earthworks of an Iron Age hill fort at Pulpit Hill, in the Chiltern hills of Buckinghamshire. When the white noise & demands on attention become too much, feeling the passing of time over earth that was once so urgent and strategic, now overgrown with beech trees and carpets of leaves and moss, can help me come back to life again.
#ironage #ancienthistory #prehistory #earthworks #hillfort #ancientbritain #chilterns #ironagebritain
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2023-11-11 15:22:28

I’ve said this before, but we’re living in a conceptual golden age in music. One of my favourite bands of the moment is @greenlungband, and this is the package you get with their new album, ‘This Heathen Land: A Journey into Occult Albion’. A map, a workbook full of scribbles, a cover that pays tribute to mid-20th century books out on Penguin and its imprints, and a whole concept introduced in the first seconds…
#albumcover #albumcovers #occult #greenlung #GraphicDesign #conceptual #music
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2023-10-29 19:29:39

Stonehenge under gales & a lowering sky today, sheep grazing on it. Prehistory is more important than ever at times when the roar & clamour of now seems to drown us. To stand with the megaliths and barrows, their cultural urgency in Neolithic Britain dissolved into monumental uncertainty, relic & grazing status, is to understand the absurd futility of lines on maps.
#stonehenge #salisburyplain #neolithic #deeptime #prehistory #prehistoric #stoneage #overvieweffect #ozymandias #megalithic
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2023-08-05 16:10:15

You lovely Mastodon people have NO IDEA how grateful I am for your posts here.
One of my joys in early-to-mid-era Twitter was the way it gave me antennae on the world - stuff I normally wouldn’t see, I saw. It made me so much more aware of others’ inner lives, perspectives. Waking up to see successive waves of timezones posting was amazing - like a timelapse of Earth’s minds sparking.
Mastodon is all of that, without the interference. And it’s beautiful. ❤️
#mastodon #twitter #gratitude