Matt Gibson (@gothick)

Hotwells, Bristol

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @gothick ever

December 2016

@jukesie Thank you. I might have to get that one printed out and see how it looks big.

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A somewhat subdued year for me, but my annual photo-of-the-month roundup tradition continues. gothick.org.uk/2016/12/31/fav…

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@UrsulaWJ You’re travelling at the wrong time. If you kill them during the leap second this evening there’s all sorts of loopholes…

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Herring1967 I will never forget year I was a guest at Jools Holland’s Hootenanny. + then spent real New Year’s Eve alone watching myself have fun on TV.

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Someone has been parking a car in a large space, “helped” by someone shouting from the pavement, outside my window, for about an hour now.

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roqueandrolle My new favourite update from the Gardaí 😹 pic.twitter.com/zB3VSFScLM

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everycolorbot 0xb413f2 pic.twitter.com/fyhsMqtn8j

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@EffBeeee I don’t think a light coating of alcohol has ever put me off anything :D

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@shauninman Thank you for Fever and your support over the years! Good luck with the new priorities.

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Is someone blowing things up, south of the river?

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@charwarz I’m sure most people will take it as read ;)

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@hayles I got the box set for Christmas! 🎄 🎁

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Flickr. (I know this because it happened last week. “So, it’s like Instagram, then?” “Er, welll…”twitter.com/ThatEricAlper/…TI

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“So, er, what’s the WiFi password?”

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A skull and crossbones and the eye of Horus. The tattooist was young but experienced. pic.twitter.com/BeoVU8zfUc

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newsthump NEWS! Rogue One release sees Peter Cushing declared fit for work by DWP bit.ly/2hZojzi pic.twitter.com/AvcpJYWvt4

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@talithahg Your unconscious is Rickrolling you. This is extreme.

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@Phooto Yur. Though this is just a plain old mode switch, so it’s entirely for tidiness here.

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Plaiting is sometimes a handy skill for electronics. pic.twitter.com/56h6mm5S3S

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@Kavey Is that the reason the rest of the house is unconscious?

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@mhoulden I don’t like almonds. But I do have bacon in. Maybe I’ll try a roast breakfast tomorrow ;)

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Mmmm. Roasted mini-sprouts. Very more-ish. May regret this tomorrow.

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@_pigeons_ What’s that? I couldn’t hear you over this pile of sprouts.

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@prettygreentea Finally getting on with the new Ben Aaronovich.

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@_pigeons_ I have saved enough for bubble & squeak tomorrow :)

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That’s pretty tricky with that accent, Hans.

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I have wine, a meal involving sprouts, and Die Hard on Netflix. Sorted.

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@benorgan Oh! No, not coincidence. I thought I put my address in, too. Ah well. ;)

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That’s the in-between days sorted, then. pic.twitter.com/xuyC4IXZHH

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@chubbybannister I shall grab the podcast version and tidy along with it later ;)

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britishgaming Take me down to the Parallax City where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

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@rhodri @mhoulden DON’T TOUCH THE BALL MARCUS. IT’S A TRAP.

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Having a little Christmas @Kilchoman05.

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LucyCKinch Christmas goals. pic.twitter.com/qwMKeeOEbx

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Briefly turned the telly on to download Christmas schedule and look for Die Hard. Now still in pyjamas watching Wallace and Gromit.

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@ememess My house is your house. Pick us up some mini pork pies and a bottle of own-brand Baileys.

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tryingbrevity @gothick “I will explain non-linear time to you aliens through the metaphor of baseball.”

Audience: Could you perhaps reverse that?

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alicialutes GENERAL, we are ALL ROOTING FOR YOU. pic.twitter.com/zt3V3imSpT

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Christ. The DS9 one doesn’t even have a subplot.

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Generic US SF TV Episodes #462: The One That’s Inexplicably About Baseball That All The Non-US Viewers Just Fast-Forward Through, Sighing.

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@Shonette Mentally inventing a social media “will fine-dine at the drop of a hat” group who will swoop on these opportunities like raptors.

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@thekarleighshow I actually think I like sprouts, but I only seem to buy them in late December.

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@OpinionatedGeek I think that’s where they were in Woolies!

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@OpinionatedGeek Ah. The only other places I ever bought them were Amazon, Maplin, and (RIP) Woolworths. Hope you find some!

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@jukesie @chubbybannister it’s important to pay attention to the four major Christmas food groups. pic.twitter.com/JMvqyuLPBx

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@OpinionatedGeek When I had a fuse box that had fuses, I got them aplenty in the local ironmongers.

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@chubbybannister I know the feeling. *Pours another sherry regardless*

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Love the way the fridge in @TincanCoffeeCo’s new Clare St. branch is made up as a Citroen H van :D pic.twitter.com/m7AXdcjAtV

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@ahnlak If you get a chance to try Millionaire—Wild Beer’s salted caramel stout—I suggest you do.

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scorpioattackb7 Great shot of Paul Darrow and Gareth Thomas having a chat between takes. pic.twitter.com/53v8Y8jcUu

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Possibly the saddest moment of Blake’s 7. twitter.com/scorpioattackb…

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@KBowBristol Wow! I’ve been being patriotic all month without knowing it 😀

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@stubbornella No matter what you do, there’s always something. Sometimes TWO YEARS LATER.

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@scorpioattackb7 Personal trivia: the Warwick Uni SF Society was once ejected from the Arts Centre bar for a full-volume “Maximum Power!”

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Ah, so the railway tracks may be being (temporarily) covered because the Chocolate Path is falling into the river..twitter.com/rbrwr/status/8…jP

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@rbrwr “Urged to take care”? Well, I wasn’t planning on jumping up and down…

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iFixit How ugly is 0/10 repairability? It looks like this: ifixit.com/Teardown/AirPo… pic.twitter.com/1axfOUywuD

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@porthjess It may be just me jumping to conclusions (see @archidave) But I can never work out what the actual plans are from the websites.

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@archidave They’re temporarily burying the rail tracks!? It didn’t seem an unreasonable conclusion to jump to that this was decommissioning.

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End of the line. Shame, I used to like being passed by the occasional steam train on the Chocolate Path. pic.twitter.com/c8s9XfVqhW

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@skeddy @hayles Do not impugn the name of Ivan. He DELIVERED.

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@dcorsetto “This year, to save me from tears, I’m packing the rope and duct tape…”

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So here it is, Merry Christmas… (Thank you, Ivan!) pic.twitter.com/nXZYzDpGgM

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@skeddy @hayles He seems to have the look of a man determined to deliver a parcel on time no matter what, which works for me.

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travelwestEng Cabot Circus Carpark CLOSED due to car fire. Emergency services on site. Caution as smoke obscuring visability BE

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IndoorHeroes VFX Director: “This is fine” pic.twitter.com/IAehDv9jGS

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@C_J_Fox My original polycarbonate MacBook is still running fine somewhere in a cottage in Somerset, too…

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@C_J_Fox That would be a problem in any world.

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It’s an Ultraglide with DURILIUM Technology! I really do live in TEH FUTURES. pic.twitter.com/JbtB9V8R8W

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Aww. Lionel Blue. The only Thought for the Day contributor that didn’t have me rushing for the “off” switch on the radio.

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@becskr I’d either keep them or photograph them and keep them digitally. Nostalgia is something that can bring joy, after all…

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JonnyGeller My favourite description of how writing works, by Raymond Chandler, in a letter to his editor. pic.twitter.com/zpkkq91bdS

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MarkTaylorFood Good to see the new @TincanCoffeeCo open in Clare Street - more good coffee in central Bristol pic.twitter.com/BRrPqALrUU

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@drwave And the true sadness, for me, is that she can’t fucking swear.

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@aedison Except in Universe 26138B, for REASONS.

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Why does Apple Mail suddenly think half my legit email is spam? Including… All mail from Appleoh

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@sowerbyandluff Cheers! *Raises a glass of Aldi’s finest cream sherry*

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Cheeky pickled onion.

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@hatsandbikes Oh! So it is. That’s quite a change from the entire rest of the day!

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I imagine it’ll only be a year or two before it re-opens now.

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Gosh. The clingfilm’s coming off Ashton Avenue Bridge at last! pic.twitter.com/9cSK0R77HQ

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platinumjones When your friends see how drunk you are at the office Christmas party and put you in a taxi twitter.com/pontifex/statu…

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I’m sure it can’t have been the beard that put Amber off. pic.twitter.com/qEBFjjdW2W

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Possibly the scariest thing about the Yahoo breach is that a company that big were using unsalted MD5 for passwords in 2013.

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@MittenDAmour They’ve been trying to sell me another replacement light bulb for my oven for weeks now.

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ChuckWendig No, “unpresidented” is what we wish YOU were. pic.twitter.com/gIQZIllWJh

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@Nose_in_a_book I can’t help but think that there’s not much intersection between fake news believers and Chrome extension installers, mind…

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Please will someone buy me this Davenport for Christmas? dreweatts.com/cms/pages/lot/…

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iCloud photo sync: perfectly timed so it happens *just* as you’ve given up and emailed yourself the picture.

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Looks like someone’s getting a real treat from their office’s secret Santa! ift.tt/2gT8vgb pic.twitter.com/ewZzGtTtO7

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Oooh. @IFTTT just added UK support for Alexa. *rolls up sleeves*

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chrisphin I know this is 100% standard, but it doesn’t make it any less baffling, disheartening and disenfranchising. twitter.com/britishgaming/…

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travelwestEng City Centre traffic flow is changing in early 2017. Watch the new @MetroBusTW video to see how it will work youtube.com/watch?v=VEd5b_…

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Lucyvfreeman I’m on the tube with a transvestite, two Hasidic Jews and the guy from a reality show. If there’s a murder this’ll be a hell of a whodunnit

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alexhern Chris Grayling: Cycle lanes “cause too much of a problem for road users”.
Chris Grayling: *doors a cyclist*..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…JR

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@capoapp @smugsw Just a heads-up: am getting this on checking for update—presuming it’s not just me?pic.twitter.com/mHerv03z4WW

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JamesMelville Bloody hell. Jamiroquai has let himself go. pic.twitter.com/M2GLb8bHlU

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Is Wikipedia the only remaining popular site that serves mobile pages at a separate URL?

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CNBC BREAKING: Yahoo discloses hack that may affect “more than one billion user accounts”, “likely distinct” from hack disclosed on Sept 22, 2016

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@bexxi @richardjfoster I’m starting to think it’s the best option over here, too!

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doctorow The Post Office Tower London: The ultimate in British sci-fi architecture early 60s
danismm.tumblr.com/post/154367312… pic.twitter.com/QvMSdBZyd4

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@nineweeks @_pigeons_ Not that we saw :( We found some in Bordeaux Quay but they had flies on which but us off!

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So few places in seem to do mince pies! Sitting with @_pigeons_ in @wshed idly wondering if @HartsBakery deliver tiny batches.

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@Harkaway You appear to be describing Hudson Hawk, so I guess I’m in :D

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TheRegister Busted Microsoft software update blamed for breaking Brits’ DHCP reg.cx/2ryJ

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@porthjess I was idly thinking about watching some Father Ted tonight. You appear to have sealed my fate.

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My “entirely impressed” face from earlier. @_pigeons_ pic.twitter.com/MfGcSdHx6z

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Unusually for me, I have the correct whisky for the glass this evening. @Bunnahabhain pic.twitter.com/Amns7mkaqs

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Fuck sake Apple. I just want to run some programs on my computer. pic.twitter.com/ws3X0Ajsn6

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workergnome Going through old papers my dad gave me, I found his map of the internet as of May 1973.

The entire internet. pic.twitter.com/0krvYoRGav

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For the true Amazon UK experience, rename your car “The Yodelmobile” and drop the shopping in your wheelie bin when..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…5t

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@Bristolvor Yup. Or at least I was. It’s been a very long time since I’ve seen any of it. Of all things, I’m probably closest to Blake’s 7.

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@Bristolvor I did Voyager (including most of the later eps for the first time) earlier this year. Have to try and cope with DS9 now.

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@jdriscoll Ah! No, it doesn’t. Sorry, I was expecting the brokenness to be a bit more obvious.

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loveitloveit Armed police on the streets of Newcastle, ‘to make us feel safe’. We don’t do this in the UK. I feel sick. facebook.com/northumbriapol…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:23 PM, Dec 10th, 2016 via Tweetbot for Mac)

@jdriscoll I just plugged my Logitech mouse into a Sierra iMac to give it a try and the scroll wheel works fine.

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AlasdairStuart This is my spoiler-rific look at the first seven episodes of Dirk Gently. It hits Netflix very soon and is a weird..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…nh

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@AlasdairStuart God, yes. I imagine how good it could have been if consistent, and weep.

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anyabike Every time I hear Jacob Rees Mogg talking about the “metropolitan élite” I’m gonna post this picture pic.twitter.com/gmyzpEMKdd

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@porthjess You overslept. It’s May. Don’t worry; you didn’t miss much.

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@mhoulden Did you just invent the Cornish pasty?

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@Kavey No idea why you can’t see the photo—it’s just a photo—but it’s a Facebook ad for some stuff call “Huel”.

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For some reason, I imagine this “food” is named after the noise you make after eating it. pic.twitter.com/napFzpZ57D

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aidanhorner We’ve reached peak leak independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

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@benjohnbarnes On the other hand, it means John Lewis can’t get their vans down my road :D

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LivEchonews BREAKING: Serial troll Joshua Bonehill-Paine, 24, jailed for the maximum of two
years for harassing Labour MP Luciana Berger

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Pressure washing is *so* satisfying. pic.twitter.com/zqTxt0WcMN

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@ahnlak It’s a nice theory, but if you relied on it I don’t think you’d live to publish your findings.

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@beccamagnus This is one of the few times I wish I still lived in Gants Hill 😄🧀

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…but as a pedestrian, prepare to dive out of the way, because most drivers don’t seem to have read this bittwitter.com/HighwayCodeGB/…JT

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susie_dent ‘Gigglemug’: a century-old word for someone who is unnecessarily cheerful, especially in the morning.

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hondanhon Day 6 of iPhone 7+. Was charging iPhone. Went to plug in headphones to listen to music. Instead contemplated thinness of phone, in silence.

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 9:00 PM, Dec 7th, 2016 via Tweetbot for iΟS)

@scorpioattackb7 I had one of those mechanical digital clock radios at the front. I think I saw one in Space: 1999, too!

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@SimonLandmine Yeah, so have I. That’s why I take a test shot before I leave the house.

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VictoriaMia Sir Mix-a-Lot likes big butts and cannot lie.
Sir Mix-a-Lot’s brother hates big butts and cannot tell the truth.
You may ask one question.

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@C_J_Fox I try to. It’s a creativity exercise/self-therapy; “morning pages” as described by Julia Cameron in _The Artist’s Way_.

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No. 9457 in my “has the camera got a card in?” series. pic.twitter.com/UVhhaUi5wi

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