Matt Gibson (@gothick)

Hotwells, Bristol

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

October 2018

JacquelinePye @gothick Yes. Cousin of the person in the organic egg factory who attaches a feather to one egg in each box.

via Twitter for iPad (retweeted on 5:02 PM, Oct 28th, 2018 via Twitter Lite)

Imagine how much money gets made by the guy who invented the machine that lops a half-inch off one leg of every cafe table before they ship.

via Twitter Lite

New Experiment Reveals Just How Disturbingly Clever Crows Really Are via @IFLScience: iflscience.com/plants-and-ani…

via Twitter Web Client

@jonmbutterworth @getpaulhere @BBCRadio4 @Baddiel The LGM signal will turn out to be, “Hang on, Paul. Can you go back a page?”

via Twitter Lite in reply to jonmbutterworth

bijanstephen i’ve never seen a clearer explanation of plato’s cave pic.twitter.com/R8EIgpdLIx

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 1:25 PM, Oct 24th, 2018 via Twitter Web Client)

Okwonga Arsene Wenger, my God, the swag! He looks like a master assassin who’s reluctantly come out of retirement to kill John Wick. pic.twitter.com/i266HUqiSn

via Twitter Lite (retweeted on 10:12 PM, Oct 21st, 2018 via Twitter Lite)

MakingBlakes7 CLASSIC DIALOGUE:

VILA: What about you?

AVON: What about me?

VILA: Why don’t you go?

AVON: You are expendable.

VILA: And you’re not?

AVON: No, I am not. I am not expendable, I’m not stupid, and I’m not going.

pic.twitter.com/H2FcNqRO6c

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 6:12 PM, Oct 21st, 2018 via Twitter Web Client)

bendavis_86 Woah, here she comes,
Watch out boy, she’ll singe your pants,
Woah here she comes,
She’s a pic.twitter.com/x49GafE70r

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 12:38 PM, Oct 21st, 2018 via Tweetbot for iΟS)

@EmmaisaChampion The pavement outside must be uneven. It’s the only explanation.

via Tweetbot for iΟS in reply to EmmaisaChampion from Bristol

trevolafoam My personal favourite from today. pic.twitter.com/ofszZ66cc5

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 6:17 PM, Oct 20th, 2018 via Tweetbot for iΟS)

@RottenTomatoes Hi! I get a “too many redirections” error trying to look up Better Off Dead. Any tips? Ta! rottentomatoes.com/m/1002213-bett…

via Tweetbot for Mac

Brexit transition period to be extended until all Leave voters have died - bit.ly/2EwNaqJ via @newsthump

via Twitter Web Client

@CharlieVivante Every cloud has a… worse cloud that take longer to cook and then you wondered why you bothered?

via Tweetbot for iΟS in reply to CharlieVivante from Bristol

@liveindetail Seem some odd reports involving deliveroo people down there …

via Tweetbot for iΟS in reply to liveindetail from Bristol

mollycrabapple Most infantile dystopia pic.twitter.com/yY5kwcedMg

via Twitter Lite (retweeted on 10:54 AM, Oct 18th, 2018 via Twitter Web Client)

Carefully side-stepping discussion of the fact it’s an obvious euphemism. 😅 twitter.com/BBCNews/status…

via Twitter Web Client

The self-inflicted blipverts of fast-forward TV.

via Tweetbot for iΟS from Bristol

dyfl If you missed it: today it was confirmed that Facebook massively & knowingly inflated its video-view statistics, which had the DIRECT consequence of 90% of media orgs firing writers in favor of expensive video producers, who also got fired when it turned out video was worthless twitter.com/jason_kint/sta…

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 3:03 PM, Oct 17th, 2018 via Tweetbot for iΟS)

stevenleemyers If you were one of 677,775 people who followed, retweeted or liked @Pamela_Moore13, @TEN_GOP or some 50,000 accounts in 2016, you fell for a Russian intelligence operation, Twitter says. blog.twitter.com/official/en_us…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 3:01 PM, Oct 17th, 2018 via Tweetbot for iΟS)

Beautiful, and you can really see why they’re called lepidoptera. Lepid- (scale) plus pteron (wing). Macro Photos of Butterfly Wings Made by Combining 2,100 Separate Shots petapixel.com/2018/10/16/mac…

via Twitter Web Client

@ChuckWendig @SamSykesSwears @MykeCole I had to double-check to make sure this wasn’t a direct quote from Jim Morrison.

via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to ChuckWendig

AlexVarga_ @Georgie_Sull @OHayes1 @HighwaysEAST @BBCOxford Dash cam footage moments before it happened. Hope this is useful. pic.twitter.com/oknQWBcZj4

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 12:11 AM, Oct 16th, 2018 via Twitter for iPad)

JimWatsonOttawa Funny exchange at an apartment today while canvassing

Me: knock
Voter: thank God you’re here
Me: really? Why?
Voter: yes because you’re here to fix my tv
Me : no I’m the mayor of ottawa
Voter: well that’s no use to me

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 12:03 AM, Oct 16th, 2018 via Twitter for iPad)

BBCSteveR What do you get if you cross the Doctor Who theme tune with Russian classical music? I tried…and here’s the result. @bbcdoctorwho @BBCOne pic.twitter.com/H3BPzGrzms

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 10:19 PM, Oct 13th, 2018 via Tweetbot for iΟS)

@invalidname “Bank Accounts”? “Ferret Porn”? “Firefly Season 2”?

via Tweetbot for iΟS in reply to invalidname from Bristol

Twitter Sexy Edit Button twitter.com/SummerRay/stat…

via Twitter Lite (retweeted on 10:08 PM, Oct 13th, 2018 via Tweetbot for iΟS)

Well. If you like your SF/horror, have Netflix, and haven’t seen Annihilation yet, I’d recommend it.

via Tweetbot for iΟS from Bristol

robsmallshire Instructions: Insert USB memory stick (yellow) through whirling blades of death. pic.twitter.com/owl4MoqG1S

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 1:29 PM, Oct 13th, 2018 via Twitter Web Client)

robsmallshire I have entered the world of firmware updates for lawnmowers.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 1:29 PM, Oct 13th, 2018 via Twitter Web Client)

WeeMissBea I put rosemary oil on myself today because I love the smell & it perks me up, but then someone in the office keeps asking if “anyone else can smell a roast chicken?”. I’ve told him not to be silly and that he’s probably having a stroke.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 1:27 PM, Oct 13th, 2018 via Twitter Web Client)

M_Z_Harrison Absolutely dreadful news – myxomatosis has jumped to hares, it’s now been confirmed. If you find a dead hare other than roadkill please photograph it and send the pics and exact location to researchers at UEA: d.bell@uea.ac.upic.twitter.com/q1i6GPLW4C4C

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 10:09 AM, Oct 13th, 2018 via Tweetbot for iΟS)

ChuckWendig So, here’s a thing that has happened – I just got fired from Marvel. Taken off issues 4 and 5 of SHADOW OF VADER, and taken off an as-yet-unannounced SW book.

This might be a long thread, so apologies in advance.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:17 PM, Oct 12th, 2018 via Twitter Web Client)

@David_Heb On the plus side, Book at Bedtime has been running since long before most people had telly.

via Tweetbot for iΟS in reply to David_Heb from Bristol

NASA The Soyuz capsule has landed back on Earth carrying two crew members. Search and rescue teams are in contact with the crew and are en route to the landing location. Live updates: nasa.gov/live pic.twitter.com/G3IuAztH6O

via SnappyTV.com (retweeted on 10:24 AM, Oct 11th, 2018 via Tweetbot for iΟS)

NASASpaceflight Soyuz is touching down in an area that will take 90 minutes for rescue crews to reach the capsule. No word on the status of the two crewmembers. They do train for these off course landings.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:19 AM, Oct 11th, 2018 via Twitter for iPad)

@JannerTM @corylus @chrisdc77 Also, post-Brexit, you can use it in the oil lamps. Don’t get the extra-virgin and the normal confused, though; it’d be a waste to burn the good stuff.

via Twitter Web Client in reply to JannerTM

MakingBlakes7 GARETH THOMAS: I would have said “Morning Doctor”, and he would have said, “Morning Blake” and that would have been it. But they wouldn’t go for it. No sense of humour!

pic.twitter.com/RaNfsfQd8c

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 8:07 PM, Oct 10th, 2018 via Tweetbot for iΟS)

@Kavey @stevemarvell Works fine here. What does it do for you?

via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to Kavey

@Kavey It is not. You can see a one-page site with all the sentences at uniquesentence.com though.

via Tweetbot for iΟS in reply to Kavey from Bristol

BillGates The modern toilet was invented in 1775 and we promptly stopped innovating…until today.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 7:10 AM, Oct 10th, 2018 via Twitter Web Client)

Avon_Stories On Friday, @gothick drove @Bingo_Little & me to Brean, for a daytrip on the beach, on Brean Down, a long rocky outcrop in the Bristol Channel, with a Napoleonic Wars/WWII fort on the end. I have a long thread of 35mm photos of the day over here:
twitter.com/_pigeons_/stat…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 12:21 AM, Oct 10th, 2018 via Twitter Lite)

verge Microsoft pulls Windows 10 October 2018 Update after reports of documents being deleted theverge.com/2018/10/6/1794… pic.twitter.com/9CI6yCqZBu

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 8:36 AM, Oct 9th, 2018 via Twitter Web Client)

@naderman @tomdale I have had the best dreams in years this last fortnight, and apparently it’s the magnesium in this stuff doing the trick. I may need to cut down on the coffee, too! pic.twitter.com/VKnARG7Rn6

via Twitter for iPad in reply to naderman

Helicopter seems to be circling endlessly tonight.

via Tweetbot for Mac

Nigel would’ve organised a Christmas jail-break dressed as a pantomime cow by now.

via Twitter Lite

It says a lot about humanity that our solution for “shorts don’t have pockets” is cellular-data-enabled smart watches.

via Tweetbot for Mac

There’s that @_pigeons_, communing with nature. pic.twitter.com/XHeRuHrFIO

via Tweetbot for Mac

@OpinionatedGeek 📎 I see you’re composing a diatribe on Twitter. Would you like some help with that?

via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to OpinionatedGeek

PickardJE cartoon from Banx of the @FT pic.twitter.com/TCDPfTkioV

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 7:53 AM, Oct 3rd, 2018 via Tweetbot for Mac)

onlinephotog The Remarkable Persistence of 24x36 dlvr.it/QlxcBV

via dlvr.it (retweeted on 7:16 AM, Oct 2nd, 2018 via Twitter Web Client)