Matt Gibson (@gothick)

Hotwells, Bristol

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January 2017

ITCTOOLS Don’t try this at home! How NOT to use a pallet jack… pic.twitter.com/FgWPBzyJXs

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@CharlieEsq_ I had no idea that was a thing until you just said that.

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stuvlog Does @Deliveroo send someone round half way through your meal to ask you if everything is alright when you have a mouthful?

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magicroundabout “Alternative features”. Nice one Medium. pic.twitter.com/7eN4xrdVNk

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How does iOS 10’s lock screen do such a good job of predicting which of the screens you *won’t* want to be on when sliding up from bottom?

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@imyke I just turned 44. I can sympathise.

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AnOrangeSNES Totally unrelated headlines, probably pic.twitter.com/Nd0ZN6uL4w

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“We attack the Mayor with houmous.”

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Anyone heading for College Green who hasn’t left home yet: consider wellies!

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Think I may have found the right place. pic.twitter.com/Ae9AQR0cEr

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What’s with all the sirens, ?

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gracepetrie I’m not stuck, YOU’RE stuck pic.twitter.com/LIPauDEXPt

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@saltwateritch Your unexpected chocolate bar would indeed bring this boy to the yard.

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@AndyVenn1 Oh, well, if it came from the same place as mine, I just had it fixed! :D pic.twitter.com/5Xbwg9a0uP

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Odd little spam flurry this morning. pic.twitter.com/l0Np0fMXXR

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In domestic news, I can finally declare my calathea healthy again. Turns out using distilled water really does work. pic.twitter.com/UPDD18ePFm

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@archidave So it fits in perfectly with the next two pedestrian bridges…

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@sean_robbins Well, I suppose. But “unmarried” doesn’t just mean “this newspaper doesn’t like gay people” any more…

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Well, I suppose it makes a change to see “unmarried” used as a slur against a *male* politician… twitter.com/danagould/stat…

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Castaignede Oh hell. I got my results and tax return mixed up, and now I owe @BillOddie £1,300

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@AthanSpod No, but oddly I think that worked in its favour, compared to the UK TV version. I was doing less unfavourable comparing!

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(That is, I think I’d love Bart more if I’d not been spoiled rather by Arby and Helena…)

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Rather enjoying the new Dirk Gently. Though I think my standards for scary assassins have been raised by Neil Maskell and Tatiana Maslany.

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@AndyCouncil I mean, I’d have realised if it was there before, because it’s bigger than my fridge-freezer.

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@AndyCouncil Pretty sure it just materialised in the kitchen one morning.

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“Are you, or have you ever been, rude about the President on Twitter?” twitter.com/waxeditorial/s…

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@AndyCouncil No, but I’ve got the implausibly enormous mug.

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@amahnke Wild guess: “stop worrying about footling technical stuff and get talking about something you love”?

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@guriben At least XML has comments as standard.

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@psidnell I think electrocuting myself will be something of a last resort. Oh! You meant for the radio.

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@C_J_Fox Have turned off the bathroom radio. Don’t have the remote for the bedroom radio. Am performing emergency de-bathing procedure.

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@psidnell It’s all on FM, so the four radios are perfectly in sync. Not something Alexa can do.

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In a beautiful, warm bubble bath but have mistimed things and am stuck with David Beckham on Desert Island Discs.

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@C_J_Fox I watched a certain epidode of _Black Books_ last night, which makes this even better.

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Beautifully-voiced continuity announcer is genuinely into , isn’t he?

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@guriben Why do you think I’m using it as a monitor stand? PS: XSLT rocks! :)

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@tyronem …it was truly ass-backwards: I wrote the RSS feed by hand, and then used XSL to generate the blog pages from it!

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@tyronem It was popular enough for a while. I probably wouldn’t learn it now! My first handmade blog was generated with XSL…

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According to my recently-recalibrated crowd size calculator, those pictures show there are 8 billion protesters at .

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@skeddy Oh—that’s the other thing: use a tripod; then you can copy and paste the dust removal from one shot to the next :D

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@skeddy (Also, how’s your camera’s self-cleaning? Check the manual—some work better if the camera’s pointed downwards during cleaning…)

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@tyronem I read that one from cover to cover when I first got interested in XML/XSL. Was definitely worth it, in hindsight.

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@skeddy I also had my sensor professionally cleaned once, at Calumet. Think they do a while-you-wait or next-day service, maybe. Bit pricey.

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@skeddy Cool. Can you actually see them in normal photos? A handful of small dust spots are pretty normal, and you’ll never get them all.

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@skeddy Yeah. Doesn’t *have* to be a long exposure, but deffo need a small aperture (f/16+), so it just tends to be long if you’re indoors!

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Don’t stress too hard about minor imperfections on your lens’s front element. Here’s a “dust spot” I just added and..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…UN

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@skeddy Almost certainly not. See my next tweet in a minute or so :D

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@skeddy (Oh, also: use your lowest ISO. Doesn’t matter if it’s a 10-second exposure.)

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@skeddy Spots on sensor will show up really obviously. Do you use Lightroom?

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@skeddy What UV filter do we mean? The actual sensor surface?

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@skeddy Set lens to manual focus, small aperture (f/16 or higher.) Snap something big and white (I typically use a ceiling) with lens…

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Ah, the Hotwells Piper in fine form. I guess it must be a regular Burns Night party at Hope Chapel; I’m starting to expect him now.

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Wasn’t that monument meant to go in the other way round? twitter.com/leoaw/status/8…

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Easter eggs are in the shops, then.

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Navigating the Harbourside Market & resisting the urge to club to death the giant snails crawling four-abreast in front of you.

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@chubbybannister Yeah. You can buy kintsugi repair kits now. Wish I’d known the last time I’d broken a decorative bowl!

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John Hurt. He played everyone. Everyone. And we believed them all.

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There’s a sad, sad lack of sexy vampire versions of you wearing short skirts, though.

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Basically, Trump’s president, everything’s a disaster, and you lot all have goatees and wear a darker uniform than on my normal Twitter.

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I use mute filters and other tricks in Tweetbot. Opening Twitter’s official client is like stepping into the terrifying Dark Universe.

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While working out the Tesco thing is unlikely to improve my local “convenience” store, found out SPAR’s original na..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…h2

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@davidcaolo I’m thinking he’s more a comic-relief Ferengi who accidentally becomes Grand Nagus in one of those farcical DS9 eps.

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@peroty Won’t that just naturally occur?

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doodlewhale Well this has cheered me up. Someone has invented a car for a goldfish that can be driven around by its position in..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…uC

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Twitter We’re introducing a new way for you to discover what’s happening on Twitter, with Explore.

blog.twitter.com/2017/explore

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@mergesort @CastIrony …it seems to have been replaced by “Explore”, which is indeed a much more likely name if you’re looking for Search.

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@mergesort @CastIrony No, that’s me being an idiot. There’s no “Moments” tab for me any more.

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@mergesort @CastIrony Woah! I now have no “Mentions” and things are indeed clearer. pic.twitter.com/KpSKAC1Y9G

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@meemalee I can hear it in my mind. Pan pipes and all.

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“Alexa, play the [sadly imaginary] playlist of music for sleeping that *doesn’t have any bloody pan pipes in it*.”

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@CastIrony I eventually found it under “Moments”. I guess they *really* want you to visit that pointless tab.

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@Kavey Just spag bol. Big batch cooking & mostly freezing.

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Leech I’m not a robot.. pic.twitter.com/6hHkhkmoWN

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AdamBienkov Labour whip Thangam Debbonaire tells me she won’t follow her own whip and will vote against Article 50. uk.businessinsider.com/labour-leader-…

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jenboseph I am a professional comedy writer so I can tell you that Richard Spencer getting punched isn’t funny until it happens three times.

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@ChuckWendig So, er, how does one subscribe to Terrific Mounds? Asking for a friend.

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@sblackmoore As one of the whitest people on the planet, I wholeheartedly agree.

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I love it when a recipe calls for 125ml of wine. pic.twitter.com/ldsRpBzCmp

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@C_J_Fox Gosh. I think @floyduk is doing one of those at the moment, too. Teensy bit intimidating, from what I remember…

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@Phooto Might try that at some point. Just custom earplugs for now.

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Just had moulds taken of the insides of my ears. So that was a bit odd. pic.twitter.com/fuollZKvki

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standupmaths Just received my biannual email from university IT demanding I change my password. I got to reply with this: ncsc.gov.uk/articles/probl…

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Contemplating Burns Night leftovers. Presumably deep-fried haggis, neeps & tatties sandwich is the way to go?

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I dunno… It’s like whenever I sit in the lounge, it feels like there’s someone looking over my shoulderspic.twitter.com/zQJgu16VTu6VTu

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@antimitch (The Aldi one wasn’t bad. But if I’d noticed it was Burns Night *before* I went shopping I might have tried other places!)

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@antimitch Nah, I’d hoped to find somewhere else on North Street—thought Rare might do them, but it’s half-day closing, damn it!

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This man saw my camera and asked me to take his photo. He told me to mark it “Bristol Homeless”…twitter.com/i/web/status/8…Od

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eclecticeden Spotted on Facebook. Very well played. pic.twitter.com/DyobJNwK2I

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Have to be an Aldi haggis, then!

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@spyou Please don’t. It would only hasten my already-rapidly-approaching death from lack of self-control.

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AlasdairStuart FXRant: The Death Star and the Final Trench Run. This is GREAT. Kudos to @io9 for the find fxrant.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/the-de…

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@LaaLaa_Cam ! I had a mattress with memoryfoam built in before, and it didn’t do that… We’ll see! (Maybe my draughty old flat helps… :D)

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In home news, I have a new memoryfoam mattress topper. If you don’t hear from me for three days, it’s worked.

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colorschemez squirrelly pale lilac
unperceivable purplish
dignifying maroon pic.twitter.com/OdGCmy7dsG

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I may have liberated this from a certain bridge in Bristol. pic.twitter.com/GTC0foZt8D

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thedailymash Sexy posh girls unveil bullshit fad diet thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/s… pic.twitter.com/UjCCf7UwjR

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@ArianeSherine That’s a Panama. The sinister hit-man in the episode of Father Brown I watched last night had one ju..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…o4

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chinnyhill10 The finest behind the scenes TV photo ever taken. The cast of Allo Allo and Doctor Who mingle during a fire alarm a..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…Do

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@paulawhite_uk Thanks! Yes, it was the colours that drew me in.

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Not something one normally sees over the Cumberland Basin. ift.tt/2jJK8Bn pic.twitter.com/eKZeJmOE1N

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@ToM_BaL That’d be nice, but I can’t see them taking the scaffold down if they’re not finished…

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A mother cone guarding its two baby conelets in their natural environment, the Metrobus wo..ift.tt/2j5fqAClpic.twitter.com/qw4FRO7QZbZb

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The scaffolding’s coming off! I guess they spent the extra three months workshopping until they found the world’s d..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…62

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ESYudkowsky Starfleet UX designers learned that if they didn’t make some bridge consoles explode, captains would ignore damage until the shields failed.

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@tyronem With hindsight, I’d’ve started in 2015.

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@chubbybannister Bugger! Overslept. Yes, Grace died in the famous fire.

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Jacqueimo Richard Spencer stars in Grange Hill (idea via @EbenMarks) pic.twitter.com/MQwj49K3pM

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No Man’s Grace. Oh yeah. Especially that soufflé. pic.twitter.com/AthkpFs7NR

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@KinetaHill Don’t tell my street’s mayor that.

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Today I’m 44. How nice of everyone to have got me the end of the world for my birthday :D

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neilhimself I was grateful for the comma. pic.twitter.com/J6BQlWzYJW

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cybermango Someone goes on /r/AskUK and asks in all seriousness if the UK is allowed pineapple. Commenters do not disappoint 🍍 reddit.com/r/AskUK/commen…

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Today I walked 18,700 steps, apparently. *Lies down*

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Beer, book and candle. Not quite sure what I’m exorcising. ift.tt/2jsNUip pic.twitter.com/ng9W6FHkay

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@ememess @FFF182 Our local museum’s stuffed golden pheasant is at least in for a runner-up prize. pic.twitter.com/WiM97qSAfL

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70Ceeks he doesn’t have a desk at the winter white house pic.twitter.com/LNfn2aE2Ce

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@rem Yes. As with all voice stuff, I’m gradually learning what I might as well just type! Still, it’s better than anything else I’ve used.

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@rem Works for me with “la la land original motion picture soundtrack”, on a UK Echo. Gets it wrong if I omit “picture”?

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@porthjess Cool, ta. (The parents are looking to buy one.)

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Anyone had good/bad experiences with the HP Envy laptop series?

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@talkie_tim Nothing so posh. Someone wished me happy birthday on there.

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@porthjess They must’ve read that Hotwells article in the Guardian, about how cool Cliftonwood is.

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@liveindetail I imagine it suffers the fate of many groundbreaking series: everything since has copied it so much it’ll feel very dated.

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@liveindetail I loved Moonlighting, but I think I may just hope it comes up on Netflix at some point.

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@liveindetail I seem to remember there’s a “best of” single DVD so you can take a taster and find out.

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Woah. Apparently Google+ is still A Thing. Who else had forgotten?

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Christ, this is a glitzy, tedious wank-fest.

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photographique Still have one of these desks available to go to a good home for FREE. Get in touch if you are interested: contact@..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…w0

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rebecca_roache Possible solution pic.twitter.com/f1W8RxOOEH

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@ChuckWendig I’ll take Patrick Macnee for all of the above.

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That thing where you recognise an actor and *know* that he’s the unexpected murderer because you wouldn’t waste *him* as a police sergeant.

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dotMudge Great ‘what if?’ series.

Some hit too close to home… pic.twitter.com/GYkmijfviZ

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@ToM_BaL (Or for fun, do it yourself, if black & white! Folk House has a darkroom and runs good courses :D)

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@ToM_BaL London Camera Exchange and Photographique. I think I’ve been told one of the ADSAs does it, too.

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They should probably replace this with a better loaf. pic.twitter.com/jwrRE9VWtm

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Eight years ago today: one of the most iconic uses of Twitter for news. twitter.com/jkrums/status/… pic.twitter.com/dg7w05xbGU

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Miranda. I thought the pantomime evil would have finished last week.

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Wow, an actual flounce. That’s been a long time.

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@Cookwitch Indeed. Up to date with Phryne, too 😀

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@Cookwitch I think I may have already seen all of those, due to my Avengers-induced Diana Rigg fixation.

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@ttscoff Perhaps I’ve just missed the improvement because it’s been so gradual!

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