Matt Gibson (@gothick)

Hotwells, Bristol

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

May 2018

A few snaps from Saturday’s walk around Arnos Vale with @_pigeons_ (Leidolf Lordomat rangefinder/Kodak 400TX.) pic.twitter.com/0m4pgWvULS

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This is from months ago, but it seems a very appropriate shot to come back from the lab today :D pic.twitter.com/epnmE5COAc

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@talkie_tim Think this roll of film I just had developed might’ve been in the camera a while..pic.twitter.com/dlPE2xfCF2F2

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TideLineArt I love to think that the Thames foreshore is like a giant collage, made up from historical bits and pieces from London’s past. Here’s a little selection of pottery and pipes washed out with the tide collected in Greenwich yesterday pic.twitter.com/dyINRUg4Gc

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chr1sa Cover of @TIME this week, made of swarming @intel drones
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@archidave “The fat one balances the two skinny ones.”

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@malvernrunner I am a manly hunter-gatherer (of Amazon boxes, normally.)

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A little bit of Bristol thunder, as heard in my lounge this morning..soundcloud.com/gothick_matt/t…HS

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scottywrotem Jedward Woodward. pic.twitter.com/TbxxeWB78y

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We may have a winner in the prestigious “Most Awful HTML Colour” award. twitter.com/everycolorbot/…

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There’s usually a camera on the table. pic.twitter.com/USrx4QQ28B

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jonnohopkins me deleting GDPR emails pic.twitter.com/UMyAluyAue

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schwartz_ben Julie d’Aubigny, famed fencer & opera singer. She roamed France, teaching fencing and winning fights, & broke the Paris ban on duels thrice in one night, when she fought & defeated three noblemen at once after they took issue with her kissing a woman at a ball.
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MStewartAtwell Oh god what is it really pic.twitter.com/AEg49KiiE0

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@mathowie @cabel Pretty sure that bookshelf rises up to reveal the Cray Y-MP underneath.

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GDPR (EU) 2019/847: regulation of never-ending opt-out emails caused by GDPR (EU) 2016/679.

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@stillawake “All hands to the tiller”? Isn’t that something you really wouldn’t want?

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Avon_Stories The sound of the stream in Paradise Bottom, Leigh Woods - walking on Sunday with @gothick
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@psidnell Bet you didn’t know Hammerite came in Space Grey.

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ScarredForLife2 Being a kid in a 70s public information film was like being a Redshirt in Star Trek. pic.twitter.com/SYcWhdbWRv

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Continuing today’s earworm-themed chores… ift.tt/2IFWZQs pic.twitter.com/UYfFCh8YxG

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At the car wash! Boo-boo-doo-doo, boo-boo-doo-doo… @Avon_Stories ift.tt/2kgZxtW pic.twitter.com/9EeO4l2RDc

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@tyronem I’m enjoying the Nokia HR Steel watch, but I don’t know how the capabilities compare to the Fitbit.

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deadprogrammer Also fun: CT scanner spinning without a cover on youtube.com/watch?v=2CWpZK…

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Shouting “Alexa, pause!” and then realising you’re playing an LP.

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mutablejoe He’s making a list
He’s checking it twice
He’s gonna find out who’s naughty or nice
Santa Claus is in contravention of article 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679

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gaffneyc Periodic reminder that we can see your MailChimp list names when we unsubscribe..pic.twitter.com/GEftFXRMvSvS

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HetanShah Tell your fave Indian wedding caterer they only need to send half their usual team twitter.com/bbcworldservic…

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WeirdBristol When the Clifton Suspension Bridge officially opened on the 8th of December, 1864, 21 year old barmaid Mary Griffiths broke through the crowd of 100,000 people to sprint across it before anyone else, making her the first member of the public to ever cross @brunelsbridge pic.twitter.com/3ue14aNimx

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@jsnell I think you can claim this vintage camera if you come to the charity shop in person ;) pic.twitter.com/nN0B8PwzPO

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Chores first, then treats. Chores first, then treats. ift.tt/2IR6gZr pic.twitter.com/3E396fzf2h

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In a minute I’m going to be cleaning glitter off my rubber duck. ift.tt/2ItpogH pic.twitter.com/Q0qgAjHbMA

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Rivettian Already a big fan of the new lord mayor of Sheffield based on his inaugural portrait alone. pic.twitter.com/Nlfer8IkZs

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archidave Tree I.D. pls people? pic.twitter.com/fFBjFp1yq4

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qikipedia On July 17, 1969 — the day after Apollo 11 had been successfully launched — The New York Times published a correction to an article from 1920 criticising the idea that a rocket could function in a vacuumpic.twitter.com/MDp5mfOo2F2F

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seecurity We’ll publish critical vulnerabilities in PGP/GPG and S/MIME email encryption on 2018-05-15 07:00 UTC. They might reveal the plaintext of encrypted emails, including encrypted emails sent in the past. 1/4

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tapbot_paul Ironic Tweet of the Day. twitter.com/Favstar_Bot/st…

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They’re a fetching shade of pastel blue and quite diminutive, but apparently 5 kilos is still 5 kilos. ift.tt/2jTJKB9 pic.twitter.com/nFr1dHZaxb

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Thanks to @_pigeons_ and @RobGMacfarlane for drawing my attention to the word “Maeinschein” :D twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane… pic.twitter.com/D3em0Tq7GC

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@_pigeons_ Was that word earlier “maeinschein”?

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@Ana1007 Yup. Her Maj. With her finest cheeky smile. Not something I expect to see before breakfast.

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Something a little less contemporary to follow Station 11. ift.tt/2KfSX1w pic.twitter.com/SGN6HLGStw

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Every morning, my walk to work involves a double-take. ift.tt/2I6ECYR pic.twitter.com/7LlkO7ZAl9

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cpmcgonagle Just received an email from a wealthy Nigerian Prince. He told me that he doesn’t have any fortune to share with me at the moment but he would appreciate if I could let him know before May 25th if I wish to continue receiving emails.

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rupertg A fun evening’s entertainment is to find a pub near a bank’s IT HQ, find the customers with the haunted, desperate eyes, and ask them how ‘the migration’ is going. Doesn’t matter which bank or what migration. twitter.com/Bankofisland/s…

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@ovationchris Tanglewood dreadnought. I can never remember the model number :D

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doctorow An excerpt from “Bullshit Jobs,” David Graeber’s forthcoming book about the rise of useless work
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dandouglas EVERY COMPANY: we’d like to promote “mental health in the workplace”
ME: how about employing more ppl so the ppl employed are less pressured and paying them more to offset the stress of spiralling living costs and also giving ppl perm contracts
EVERY COMPANY: lol no not like that

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Avon_Stories You all know I’m obsessed with the Avon mud banked up around the very start of the Floating Harbour… Walking with @gothick, just before the rain started
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@shezza_t It’s rather coddled by the sunken courtyard. Works well there.

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Bike Share Oversupply in China: Huge Piles of Abandoned and Broken Bicycles - via @TheAtlPhoto theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/… via @TheAtlantic

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ememess Next time around, I want to be a bookstore cat. (Aardvark Books, San Francisco) pic.twitter.com/pkQoOEblVl

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