Matt Gibson (@gothick)

Hotwells, Bristol

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

November 2018

This Gender Reveal Sparked a 47,000 Acre, $8 Million Wildfire petapixel.com/2018/11/30/thi…

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PeterSokolowski Etymology hiding in plain sight: the circumflex in French shows where ‘s’ in English cognates remains from spellings borrowed before the 18th c:

forêt/forest
fête/feast
prêtre/priest
maître/master
côte/coast
hôpital/hospital
pâté/paste

Just now noticed this one:

prêt/presto

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 6:24 PM, Nov 30th, 2018 via Twitter for iPad)

@marcoarment Feature request: a “like” button for show titles. It wouldn’t need to do anything, just light up a little heart when I pushed it 😀❤️ pic.twitter.com/PFd8dxDDj5

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GeographicalMag A life-long Londoner could walk past hundreds of these fences, and never know they were looking at Second World War stretchers geog.gr/fences pic.twitter.com/GfRh61CIxa

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@jukesie @t_pk Damn it. I’m only a couple of stone down. Need to catch up other people will start being able to tell us all apart :D

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@griffinkate First two things I’d try are a different USB port, and, if it’s a laptop, asking sure the laptop’s plugged in to external power. Oh, and of course, turn it off and on again ;)

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NASAInSight After a ride like that, everything here is so…peaceful. I think I’m gonna like it here. Can’t wait to feel the Sun on my solar panels, my next major milestone later today. Read all about it: go.nasa.gov/2DYCSyi

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RikerGoogling dilithium will it blend

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@kernowco @archidave I bet it’s been reported in the Daily Mail.

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Ah, Cyber Monday. Or “Unsubscribe from the Forgotten Mailing Lists That Didn’t Spam You During the GDPR Frenzy Monday”, as I’m starting to think of it.

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Matey bottles made excellent pretend torpedos. twitter.com/il0vethe80s/st…

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billba Given unlimited financial resources I would buy Fox News and, without warning or explanation, run nothing but news about foxes.

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LWLies RIP Nicolas Roeg - one of the greats. pic.twitter.com/HmHZs0FCbr

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Hayles_Ellis Posted a picture of myself with Ed Milliband on FB from when I did his and Geoff LLoyds podcast and an old work friend was ecstatic as she thought I had met the guy from “Everybody loves Raymond”… pic.twitter.com/rXFhZSx5bu

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philwithadrill Well, this is going on *my* Christmas list, for those quiet moments in the workshop … pic.twitter.com/NxX03MQT1U

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BBCPolitics The most British thing you’ll see today happened in Downing Street this morning, and it involved @Number10cat and a thoughtful police officer

[tap video to expand] pic.twitter.com/patlVNAFQW

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minnano_dougaww 何作ってるんかなーって思ったら…
これはすごいな！！

pic.twitter.com/WVNhIhuPKw

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 8:01 PM, Nov 18th, 2018 via Twitter for iPad)

@mssammaher Oh, *thanks*. Now I can’t unsee it. Yeah, needs moving about 2cm to the right.

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@mssammaher Hey, I can’t help it if they didn’t put their stall up level 😂😇

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The river, a beautiful backdrop, a blocked pavement, roadworks, and someone waiting for a bus that may never arrive. If it had a traffic jam and a hot air balloon it would be the archetypal Bristol photo. pic.twitter.com/4C7jwdACkx

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So glad we won the Cold War and don’t have to queue in the cold all day just for a loaf of bread. pic.twitter.com/Jx5INxSmgh

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Hrm. Currently, about one time in five, the OpenDNS name servers don’t have an A record for en.wikipedia.org. Or perhaps my Mac is just playing up. *Blows dust out of vents* *Gently taps with a rubber mallet*

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heawood THERE IS NO BREXIT DEAL THAT WILL BRING US TOGETHER WE DON’T EVEN LIKE EACH OTHER OR OURSELVES twitter.com/UKLabour/statu…

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@tapbot_paul Only physical? That ain’t too bad. At those prices I’d expect the soul to be ripped from my body.

via Tweetbot for iΟS in reply to tapbot_paul from Bristol

@paulwaugh @anandMenon1 So, when does the podcast go 24-hour rolling?

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hayles Good morning everyone! I wonder what the news is like back home..pic.twitter.com/ob2eLXZ47m7m

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Snaps from today’s wander in Leigh Woods 1/2 pic.twitter.com/2bBK1uaXMQ

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@Dru_Marland Don’t diss the advanced space weapon, or I’ll be forced to open fire. As soon as I find some kind of tuber.

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@parcelforce Hi. I’ve had an attempted delivery but no card was left. What’s the best way of finding out where my parcel is now? Thanks.

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There’s a character called Alexa in this episode of Bones and now my Echo wants to book a meeting with the FBI into my calendar.

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morrick New on Morrick.me — Flickr’s new boss, not the same as the old boss:morrick.me/archives/8288h

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Details from yesterday’s walk with @_pigeons_ in Nightingale Valley and Eastwood Farm. pic.twitter.com/4Xe20hF0XT

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There’s an eBay rabbit hole that would be pretty easy to fall down… pic.twitter.com/UMgfH3ygXb

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