Gareth Potter
@garethpotter
I mostly write code. Occasional photographer. GitHub:
“What are you looking at?” 26 July 2026. #photography #wildlife #safari #africa #tanzania #internationalcatday
It’s very sad but I was so pleased when I saw my first Tibetan one I took a photo.
It is at once familiar and yet very foreign. I first visited in 2009 and found the British relics fascinating. There were still coins with the Queen’s head on circulating. But the scaffolding is all made of bamboo and you turn a corner and find a beautiful Chinese temple next to a skyscraper.
You can see the shadow of the camera unit mounted on top of the car at various points. But the council clearly have added a new “Unsuitable for motor vehicles” sign *and* post at some point after 2011 at the Wendover end.
As an alternative to American negging, may I suggest Chinese social media posts glorying in our fine food. “M&S Rice Pudding: overseas students must try this masterful product.”
It’s very smart, isn’t it. I went on the day it opened; I assume the area around the eastern exit has changed quite a bit now.
Was wondering what the fuck was wrong with Nottingham for a moment.
Social media is ruining tourism for the rest of us, part 94. China now takes this to another level: in Yunnan, you can’t move for the number of people in costume posing for semi-pro photographers.
People even seem to go up it when there can’t be much to see at the top. I’m also wondering how they take photos. If I were to go up - which I wouldn’t - I would not be letting go to take a photo.
As if the cultural imperialism warning signs weren’t flashing brightly enough, this piece is - of course - illustrated with a photo of an American toilet sign.
Denning’s Due Process of Law in simplified Chinese translation an unlikely find in the Oriental Bookshop in Kunming.
Probably shouldn’t have waited almost 30 years to see Oasis for the first time.
At work I mostly use a Turkish F-layout Apple USB keyboard, an excellent aid to touch typing. Don’t look down, etc.
Current keyboard at home, connected via an adapter to an M1 MacBook Pro.
When I got back to Kings Cross that evening I went out and took some photos. It was so strange to see it so empty. It is good to see it now, busy, lively, recovered. 7/7
Twenty years on. I was lucky that day, but I often reflect how easily it could have been me on that Piccadilly Line train. The mind is funny, especially so two decades after the fact, but maybe I dawdled on the way to the station. 1/
Pleasing to see at least one of the newer Imperial units being adopted in the US customary system.
This is where Japanese and Chinese are great, of course: the word is also “rock oil”, but it is understandable by anyone with basic literacy (for a Sinitic definition of basic), not just those who studied Latin or Greek.