Matt Gibson (@gothick)

Hotwells, Bristol

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

September 2017

@ToniMcLellan @biz @monteiro @jack “If I turn the Klan away, they’ll just hold their weekly meeting in a different bar…”

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Mitch Benn: Don’t F**k Up The Sequel To Blade Runner (SWEARY) patreon.com/posts/dont-f-k…

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I say I say I say… Matt, did you take any photos of the ? I’m a frayed knot! twitter.com/i/web/status/9…iw9R

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VisitBristol It’s Docks Heritage Weekend, check out the events happening at Underfall Yard, M Shed and the SS Great Britain:..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…QI

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PulpLibrarian Happy 50th birthday to The Prisoner, first broadcast today in 1967

Here’s Jack Kirby’s artwork from the never-publ..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…J9

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@DrHairbear I’m sure it’s still worth trying, if you happen to very much like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups dissolved..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…ID

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“Forgive me for not trusting an electronic device during an apocalyptic storm.” I do love Ichabod’s relationships with tech.

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Bleh. This tastes like drinking a can of artificial vanilla flavouring. 2/10. pic.twitter.com/rI0s1rvj5C

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@claytoncubitt I only started spelling it right when there was an actual bureau in my living room.

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I wonder how long it’ll be before Bristol is just alternating burger joints and sourdough pizza places. And Broadmead.

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@MakingBlakes7 😢😢😢 Nooooooooooooo! Will threats help at all? If you stop I’m going to refer to it as “The Great British Blake Off”.

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StarTrek to the crew that introduced us to No.1, the mischievous Q, tea Early Grey hot, & taught us to Mak..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Ej

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lauraewaddell 140 character twitter vs 280 character twitter pic.twitter.com/6FHyHgGSxQ

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watsoncomedian Seems to get earlier every year, National Poetry Day. M and S had sonnets on the shelves in July.

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@Bristolvor I was going to buy something sensible, then I walked round the back of the lot at Economy Saab in Shirehampton and fell in love.

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kennethn Super excited about the move to 280 characters!

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CONFIDENTIALITY. This tweet is intended only for the use of t..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…sW

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Despite—or perhaps because of—the fact that it was entirely preposterous, I do sometimes wish I still had the ol’ btwitter.com/i/web/status/9…Lq5w

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Nobody needs a reason to diss the Enterprise music other than the Enterprise music. twitter.com/stillawake/sta…

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@chrisash I would say it’s a great car! Mine was a 1988 900 T16S :)

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The credit sequence for the new Star Trek is beautiful. And the music didn’t “do an Enterprise”, either ;)..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…0r

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@_pigeons_ @Swishrelic 720 should be fine. That’s still quite a lot of pixels.

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@_pigeons_ @Swishrelic Sorry, 50, I meant. One of the lower resolution but higher frame rate options lower down the list.

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@_pigeons_ @Swishrelic …upping to 30 frames per second and see if that makes any difference.

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@_pigeons_ @Swishrelic …next time we meet, remind me to bring my MacBook and we can see the same video looks chop..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Te

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@_pigeons_ @Swishrelic I know very little about video. I can lend you a faster card if you want to try and see if i..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…eN

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@teabass This is perfectly healthy and well-founded and will probably save your arse one day. Computers are awful. Save early, save often.

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megpickard Join Twitter, they said. See 140ch descriptions of what other people had for lunch, they said….

And now this.

🤔 twitter.com/tomcoates/stat…

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@_pigeons_ @jenscer Can you pick me up a new bed while you’re there?

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📷 Every New Moon. New Moon Tapas, Clifton Village. Great little sign. tmblr.co/ZD7hNx2QM9pr4

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@claireellent *Mumbles through avocado-flecked beard* Worth it.

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@Sirius7dk Tell you what, if the food’s this good, I might. 😆

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@labfoo Interesting. Mind you, these looked like straightforward police Eurocopters, but maybe they were just showing solidarity :D

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Not one but two helicopters hovering over Clifton. Unusual.

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GaryDelaney This Cinderella reboot is shit. twitter.com/cheshirepolice…

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michaelhogan In none-more-Guardian news, today’s food section features a recipe for “porcini, kale and smoked water lasagne”. Sm..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…4o

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Great first line. Now all you need to do is write the rest of the novel. twitter.com/rougeit/status…

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@Cookwitch @chris_coltrane Shouldn’t you be shouting that reply at some grass seed?

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chris_coltrane You see the best headline in the world, but then you notice the best picture caption in the world. pic.twitter.com/MGL12SZ8E3

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Ah, Galaxie 500, how do I love thee? Let me count the chords.

Oh, there’s two.

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swear_trek leaving work on a Friday like pic.twitter.com/CyyfgYZbu6

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@AthanSpod It looks hard to stop them earlier without potentially leaving false-positive users floundering, but I’l..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…vg

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@AthanSpod Ah, no, I was misremembering where my code is running. I’m detecting them at registration, but sadly *af..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…zJ

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I haven’t “got” a single one of these “you’ve heard of ‘elf on a shef’” piss-takes yet.

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When you ask an agency to make a change to a contract. pic.twitter.com/Tt3THjTW6s

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@AthanSpod But sadly, no, the design of phpBB seems to make it much easier to deal with them post-activation, thoug..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…3c

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@AthanSpod (Given the number of spammers versus the number of genuine users whose reg. emails have bounced—two, I t.twitter.com/i/web/status/9…cx8

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@AthanSpod That’s odd, given that they shouldn’t be able to get to registration stage without clicking the verification link in the email…

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Work is progressing on my the next stage of my phpBB Akismet plugin: detecting spammers before they even try spammi..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…th

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@chelspipp @SarahGPerry Thank you. Embarrassingly for someone called “Gibson” I was having trouble remembering the..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Qb

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randombrexit Debbie Mcgee Brexit

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@antimitch @lilydoughball @Shonette This has always been my thought, too. But I never found out :D Looks surprising..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Pv

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hannahrosewoods Bros of academia: sometimes it’s not psychogeography. You are literally just going for a walk.

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@macworld I thought Nokia had pulled the Steel HR because of the condensation problem?

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Oooh, John Noble reappears in Sleepy Hollow. Just as well, as he’s the reason I’ve started watching it :)

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Thread of the century. Assuming we last that long. twitter.com/brainmage/stat…

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ISmellLovely Smocked salmon is a rare Whitechapel delicacy pic.twitter.com/ArFHaEtUmP

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@wordsfromluke Likewise! Sorry I was zombiefied at first! On the plus side, nothing needed doing at the dentist 😁

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randombrexit Hummus Brexit

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MarshallJulius Grate bit of street art 🎃 pic.twitter.com/IpEICm16UE

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@ChristinaMcMc It will make more sense next time you hear the song, promise :D

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@ChristinaMcMc It’s a fantastic song. Did you know it was about Frankenstein’s monster?

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Beathhigh But who will win this duel…? twitter.com/edinburghpaper…

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Childhood memories evoked by crosswords #93547: The _Why Don’t You?_ theme tune. youtu.be/3FQktsKvXcg via @YouTube

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Morning ritual sacrifice of coffee beans as an appeal for release to the god Hypnos. ift.tt/2f6TaXn pic.twitter.com/xtbeYoVAnS

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paul_arnold This is terrific.

Warren Buffett wins $1M bet made a decade ago that the S&P 500 index would outperform hedge funds aei.org/publication/wa…

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JElvisWeinstein This photo looks like a lost Pink Floyd album cover. pic.twitter.com/z8UmrtFdAA

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JosephScrimshaw Ikea’s display toilets reminding us the importance of an educated populace to the survival of democracy pic.twitter.com/ZXuKWoeOCx

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 3:57 PM, Sep 18th, 2017 via Twitter Web Client)

paraicodonnell — Doctor, doctor, I’m suffering from amnesia, Tourette’s syndrome and aphasia.
— When did the symptoms appear?
— I can’t fucking November.

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First Times Jumbo Cryptic I’ve managed to get through… ift.tt/2yhNLoN pic.twitter.com/qk5xH3w6Z5

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@hayles There’s always a small chance. What was her number?

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@hayles Hardly any. Wasn’t really feeling it today :(

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Perfect running weather for the . Good luck all!

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They don’t seem to have caught anything yet. pic.twitter.com/A8cUqsaYPP

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ScienceDante When launched, we saw it on the news; when it got to Saturn we saw it on our PCs; when it ended, we saw it..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…X7

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@startrekcbs “The media could not be played”. Sigh.

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I don’t use that little Canon 40mm pancake often enough. pic.twitter.com/Oq1XOjfpbN

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Given the weather, I’m surprised Thor wasn’t involved. pic.twitter.com/zZY3Ll6PXt

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BigSportGB This is Olympic skier Andri Ragettli’s training routine…

Incredible! 😯

pic.twitter.com/UYwPoWIyTi

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Sudden downpour on the way home. Luckily just as I was passing the Buttery. ift.tt/2jpkTYt pic.twitter.com/vlmBdICV4X

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Spy_Stations 4625 kHz ZHUOZ GIPER 39 11 (Special purpose message)
numbers-stations.com/database/sites…

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MakingBlakes7 Current mood…
…need…more…coffee… pic.twitter.com/qhszAqjEXO

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@MandinaM It’s surprising how many times I can come up with a decent photo-of-the-day without leaving the house. But possibly not healthy!

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bristol247 BREAKING NEWS: A wheely bin has been blown over as unleashes its hell on Hotwells. pic.twitter.com/ReIBtmPubh

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@stroughtonsmith Are they slowly going to dial the version number backwards? :)

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@doctorow …this time last year we were probably hoping they *wouldn’t* use it.

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@charlesarthur @jaggeree Let’s see them chase *that* demo video with a poo emoji gag.

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@neilhimself I imagine the temptation to *start* being sarcastic must be quite strong right now.

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sigridellis I can’t be the only person thinking this is EXACTLY the cyberpunk dystopia I was promised. I mean, seriously:

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Is this everyone else’s Daily Deal, too, or did my Echo just overhear me swearing while I swept the lounge yesterda..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…0b

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@Ihnatko Still a fine phone, but I’m really hoping for an upgrade at some point…

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@reedreeder @soffes It seems a little more RTD Doctor Who than Blade Runner. I’m not sure which one I’d feel safer in…

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@benthompson Craig’s evil twin reset it while he wasn’t looking.

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“My hangover was so bad I couldn’t unlock my iPhone X…”

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RikerGoogling can my transporter clone unlock my combadge x with face id

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@paipoldubai @AppleSupport Same here on the Apple TV 3. (Now watching in YouTube app on Fire TV!) pic.twitter.com/UglOHFEgFU

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@Phooto I tried quite a few times, including rebooting. Watching Sleepy Hollow on the Fire TV instead now!

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@Phooto It doesn’t have to be something local. Maybe if you disconnected and retried you’d be the unlucky one.

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@guriben Nothing I do makes that mantelpiece look not-dusty. *sigh*

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@Phooto Well bully for you. I and my 50mbps fibre are looking at an error message.

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@RogerWCheng My new band’s name will be “Unfortunate Ellipsis”.

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PKMBook Charlotte Gainsbourg announces first album in seven years | Dazed ow.ly/i6mk30f4owh

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tomgauld ‘Useful abbreviations for the time-pressed online reader’ (for @guardianreview) pic.twitter.com/Kr9dGbobrg

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Mikel_Jollett The dog is the real hero here pic.twitter.com/ExVTAEa0L1

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BristolBites Latest on Bites: Dynasty Chinese restaurant to close this September ift.tt/2w05JyG pic.twitter.com/stV1rUaUzt

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GaryDelaney I don’t mind a gritty reboot, I just hope they haven’t got rid of that lovely song. pic.twitter.com/BQGipixa4J

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 7:00 PM, Sep 11th, 2017 via Twitter Web Client)

neilhimself The internet was made for this. 10 SOLID HOURS of Yakkety Sax. Turn your whole day into a Benny Hill sketch: youtube.com/watch?v=JlbBIp…

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@UrsulaWJ Yes, but not enough that I wouldn’t get the Buffy box-set signed.

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My imagination will only see Alyson Hannigan in a pink fluffy sweater. pic.twitter.com/geJATya5nj

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morrick No, I won’t read your 36-part tweetstorm. Write a fucking blog post.

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As usual, the Doctor has everything under control. pic.twitter.com/EsbYcPBf0X

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@MsJenAllison I think once you’ve finally figured out how to do the stuff you want a kind of Stockholm Syndrome kicks in.

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HamillHimself 3 days ago a tweet asked me if I was a wolves fan-I”liked”it thinking they meant the animal-Now they’re my favorite..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…YM

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Really must’ve overdone it the other evening. Actually had a kale craving. ift.tt/2vYK2yS pic.twitter.com/PecsjSunYn

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goulcher This guy is an actual magician pic.twitter.com/TO7s6mbeP8

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cstross Men, reminder: if you base your courtship behaviour on a RomCom, you’ll end up with a restraining order, not a girl. twitter.com/arrroberts/sta…

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TheNational Fuck you, Karl twitter.com/newsweek/statu…

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For some reason, I don’t feel too bright this morning. What? Oh. This afternoon, then. Shush.

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Yesterday’s cheeky G&T (sorbet. With apple crumble ice cream.) ift.tt/2gRQAZs pic.twitter.com/RI2DHsADmQ

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Dru_Marland I’ll be at the Benjamin Perry Boathouse on Redcliffe Quay today with other Bristol book people and our books pic.twitter.com/r7jcJq6dqm

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WHY ARE THERE CHRISTMAS CRACKERS IN SEPTEMBER. ift.tt/2wOMIfD pic.twitter.com/Qnx5OHcZBu

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@uliwitness Such is often the way. “Hey, we can do it *much* better now!” *Eight years pass* “Oh. Shit. I guess we..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…ZK

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mattleys TBH I’d prefer an exclusive unreleased Boston song, recorded live in Smiths
twitter.com/guardian/statu…

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SimonLandmine For all of us who’ve ever mused on planning a heist while queuing in the bank …
(Or who’ve played too many RPGs.)
99percentinvisible.org/episode/breaki…

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zachlieberman Quick test of recording sound in space and playing back by moving through it (video has audio !) pic.twitter.com/GdZcK3rj1L

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@chubbybannister So far that seems to be how it’s working. You can easily drag stuff around in the list, I’ve just..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…aq

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@chubbybannister (Though I’m sure you can fiddle with the order later, I really couldn’t be arsed after the hassle..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…AY

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@chubbybannister You’re very welcome. My tip: don’t just add them in the LoveFilm order. My incoming list is now al..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…kS

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