Wikipedia Yesterday, we were disappointed to learn that @thenorthface and @LeoBurnett unethically manipulated Wikipedia. They have risked your trust in our mission for a short-lived consumer stunt. 1/ wikimediafoundation.org/2019/05/29/let…
cavanscott Post the first GIF that comes up when you type in your last name. pic.twitter.com/XFRQjFDpvU
@cavanscott Happy enough with that result! pic.twitter.com/DRjeNBN6FJ
@_pigeons_ Sorry, not me.
These Aren’t Your Ordinary Data Centers backblaze.com/blog/these-are… via @rodbauer
@Bristolvor @tinytwink Vampire slayer? French?
@UrsulaWJ Don’t we all?
Tinder, but for people who highlight the same lines in books on their Kindle.
@mikelloydjones @GWRHelp Oddly pointless!
@UrsulaWJ @chubbybannister It’s a reasonable risk on the one at the top of Whiteladies road because the alternative is dying of old age.
floracarr_ Terry Pratchett’s hat and scarf are on an empty chair in the front row of the @GoodOmensPrime world premiere, as promised by @neilhimself
#GoodOmens pic.twitter.com/RKNd5bOxpc
@chubbybannister Gosh. I am starting to wonder how Bristol keeps on having these serious crashes in its zones where all the roads are 20mph limits and traffic’s usually at a standstill anyway…
@PaulAnnett General Admission; not a guess, although the fact you’re asking the question has made me worry more that I’m wrong :D
deadprogrammer I feel that call blocking apps should be able to let me sue the scammers and phone companies that enable them, paying for themselves. twitter.com/cdonnellytx/st…
New @yumhoneyblood album (in fetching green vinyl) going on… pic.twitter.com/jy0fcZhpLX
scalzi Via @EricZorn, it me. pic.twitter.com/exf9f0JEUf
That’s three days on the trot I’ve had to explain to a baffled-looking Just Eat delivery person that no, typically, the ground floor flat would be the one on the ground floor. Also: did takeaway get cheaper, or are my upstairs neighbours rich?
Vortex. pic.twitter.com/DZlfirZYav
_pigeons_ Is there anywhere I can get churros for brunch in Bristol?
Thabang015_ Actors and their stuntmen pic.twitter.com/YgAJtROQoH
@JulianDutton1 @quantick Thank you for not making this a refe— I mean Twitter poll.
I haz eated tootoo much *splode*
holly All I really want from AI is when I Google “am I dying” from the toilet, for it to remind me I ate these pic.twitter.com/IqOS2O6cnP
OnePerfectShot A moment of levity in a grim season, “Once More, With Feeling” is one of the best episodes of the entire run of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Did you hear that they got the mustard out? #BtVS ops.fyi/BuffyOnceMore
@sizemore I just want to have The Mystery of the Upside Down Pipe solved.
@shezza_t The setting does appear to be stuck on “mud”. I’d guess because of the massive tidal range, but I’m no expert. @Avon_Stories might know.
holly I’m so used to unfollowing people for horoscopes that I just nearly ditched someone talking about Libya
robmanuel Wayne Hussey is putting about a theory that JK Rowling based Harry Potter on him - thin evidence but great photo loudersound.com/features/siste… pic.twitter.com/Xg06HpFlet
@porthjess It’s a noisy bugger. And sadly I don’t seem to have the sense of humour to resurrect the @BRISTOL_CHOPPER account at the moment!
gothick Hush up, chopper.
dwiskus Our terms of service made r/vaxxhappened reddit.com/r/vaxxhappened…
Today’s wander. pic.twitter.com/ahTxZTMgiG
@timlichfield Sadly, I’m guessing only if we also agree to sign up for everyone’s newsletter and app notifications.
Scientits Seen on FB - pic from an auction house of ‘Dirty Dancing Taxidermy Rats’ and I would absolutely buy this. pic.twitter.com/kCUPyF6Qeg
@teacherdude 1000 people is pretty low by Greek wedding standards!
BUT BUT THE TICKING FROM THIS PARCEL IS SO INTRIGUING twitter.com/iandunt/status…
havi VITAL UPDATE: my road runner porch-buddy used to run away if I wanted a pic but now when he catches a lizard he KNOCKS ON MY DOOR and then parades his catch around and poses, it’s amazing. Who’s a good boy! Mr Meepmeep! 😍 pic.twitter.com/388tpsFmVp
Hush up, chopper.
See also: The Completely Democratic And Very Much the People’s Uncorrupt and Fair Republic of Somewhereia. pic.twitter.com/hYrc5gtxXs
@Dru_Marland Tip: I think you can also get a subscription to any of the Prime Video “channels” for free for a month (cancel on the same day you subscribe and it’ll still carry on until the month is up) including the BFI Player channel, which has many, many good films.
@Dru_Marland Was it good? I’ve not even read the book…
Whenever I see this Muse ad, I wonder if that’s actually Jack O’Neill having his aggression sucked out of his brain by a Ancient headband he started idly fiddling with on a seemingly-routine mission. pic.twitter.com/D6hg9EGvTd
Side by side. pic.twitter.com/H1yyjBKIDm
@rowan_m The Mashked Avenger?
Trails. #bristol pic.twitter.com/jb7cTlWSkU
I mean, I could’ve at least made it to Leigh Woods with a paperback.
Somewhat absurdly found myself reading about Thoreau’s idyllic life by Walden Pond… on a steel bench on Bristol Harbourside on a Kindle Oasis while drinking Coke and eating Tesco beef jerky while motorboats drone past. Oops.
gothick ‘And now, as part of our centuries-old tradition, the Closing of Parliament ceremony concludes with Black Rod chasing an animated effigy of Theresa May around the chamber in an attempt to cast her out. This is accompanied by the hymn “Yackety Sax”.’ #futureengland
rhodri May I be one of the first to wish everyone a very happy Urging Each Other Repeatedly To Go And Vote Day.
BigBoyler Fair appraisal of ‘Fleabag’ here. Criticism is important. twitter.com/joss/status/11…
@IanDunt Yeah: clearly this is crying out for some kind of blockchain solution.
‘And now, as part of our centuries-old tradition, the Closing of Parliament ceremony concludes with Black Rod chasing an animated effigy of Theresa May around the chamber in an attempt to cast her out. This is accompanied by the hymn “Yackety Sax”.’ #futureengland
As a procrastinator, I’m hoping that my 50s will be REALLY healthy, parsimonious and wise. twitter.com/mrmedina/statu…
@chubbybannister Yeah.
stejormur I can only read this in a Cockney gangster accent. Sorry Samsung pic.twitter.com/TKXQb8Abep
garethlpowell From the Guardian Style Guide #WorldGothDay pic.twitter.com/s5RxvYoF4j
WhiteZoey Favourite form of address ever heard in court is now ‘Alright My Judger’
NB: Needs to be pronounced in your best Bristolian to get the full effect.
sam_bambs Theresa May as bottles of Tresemmé. A thread: pic.twitter.com/vEjHEHveSG
You’ll be missed, D Wayne. nme.com/news/music/jak…
@johnroderick I have earworm sympathy. Every time I hear that damn song, I’m transported straight back to being drunk in a bar at Warwick University in 1991, where the jukebox stuck and for 20 minutes we got RED RED WI— RED RED WI— RED RED WI— RED RED WI— RED RED WI— RED RED WI—
@RellyAB Amen.
@Dru_Marland @dangusset “FENTON! I DISTINCTLY SAID ‘HEEL’!”
_pigeons_ I bought @Bingo_Little a fishtank for her birthday, and it was looking super-classy, BUT….! pic.twitter.com/erq6BtK5Mn
tnwhiskeywoman What’s your favorite stuffed dough food? Samosa? Empanada? Beef patty? Dumpling? Ravioli? Is it a pastry? I am intoxicated and want to talk about breads bulging with goodness.
@sarahlane There’s a Tumblr that showcases the worst of these! confirmshaming.tumblr.com
saramayspary Hi Twitter. A #journorequest on the back of the news that we’re wasting millions of hours waiting for trains - has your quality of life been impacted by unreliable trains? Are your stress levels raised by regular train chaos? Get in touch if you can chat: sara.spary@huffpost.com
OnePerfectShot Some of these arthouse sci-fi films aren’t very well known. Let’s change that. buff.ly/2LK3JxG
melip0ne Name one thing in this photo pic.twitter.com/zgyE9rL2XP
Lucyvfreeman Photographer fiddling about at the stately home at which my sister works, accosted by smooth manager. “That vase belonged to the Emperor Hadrian. It is priceless. I strongly suggest you stop sticking gaffer tape to it.”
holly This is it, the worst tech bio pic.twitter.com/k1ZRZRkc7t
ElijahBarnsUK Pan, the notorious woodland deity could be a helpful creature but he also had a dark side, in which his magick & terrible cry caused the unreasonable hysteria which many people experience in a dark wood.
From this behaviour came the word we know as … ‘panic’!
#FolkloreThursday pic.twitter.com/omcFMociZV
@LondonQuickNote It’s all right for you Londoners. Everyone knows public transport’s far worse out here in the Styx.
saltwateritch All you bird-loving tweeps are following @corvidresearch, aren’t you?
Well worth it for this sort of loveliness. twitter.com/corvidresearch…
simonindelicate Seems weird to say RIP about a cat. Like, that’s mainly what they do anyway.
@saltwateritch Let’s just hope they remembered to take the little bell off his collar.
DrewCoffman Here’s a video of a guy putting a camera on a sushi conveyer belt. It’s wonderful. Every table has a little story! pic.twitter.com/6mwKsTHJ0e
First they came for the redheads… pic.twitter.com/TsJs1K9gMM
verge Stranger Things’ amazing Lego set takes the Upside Down literally
theverge.com/2019/5/14/1862… pic.twitter.com/79Ec5Vz2Kt
@ianwalker I hear Mordor’s ring goes all the way round, too. We’re stuck with the A4174.
ianwalker How the hell is Bristol in the top places to cycle worldwide?
Bristol is awful, not least because it literally has a motorway disgorging right through the city centre. All cycling in Bristol is in spite of the city, not because of it
Fucking Mordor has better roads than Bristol twitter.com/cyclist/status…
Yoga [with subtitles] is fab. Plus I found my ideal position. pic.twitter.com/FTV2DLklQr
TheNewsQuiz On Thursday this week at 18:30 on @BBCRadio4 you can hear the first of two special programmes celebrating the work of Jeremy Hardy, hosted by Sandi Toksvig. They’ve been made by @DavidTylerPozz and are sure to be wonderful. Do listen in if you can.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
@chubbybannister Also, what was the ranking before the referendum?
grumpwitch Things I have learned about the general public whilst working at the library:
1. A huge number of people under 20 can’t read face clocks, having grown up with only digital one.
2. Many people don’t know how to spell “library.” It’s in our email address. This causes problems
Nobody show Apple this arrow key arrangement. @marcoarment twitter.com/xkcdComic/stat…
mbrennanchina Chinese phone cradle for boosting your phone’s daily step count. Some insurance companies in China allow people who consistently reach a certain daily step count to get discounted health insurance premiums. pic.twitter.com/pJFBSYqdlb
TigNotaro doctors office: hand washing is important.
also doctors office: feel free to let your kid lick this toy for 40 minutes while you wait pic.twitter.com/iZVQXCh71y
@IanDunt The phrase “a welcome release” springs to mind.
@_pigeons_ Aha. And now Labour and the Greens have turned up in the same morning post.
@shezza_t Oh, *that’s* what I’ve been missing this morning.
(Does anyone have a yak that needs shaving?)
Tugged at a loose thread in my web server setup and three days later I’m along as far as figuring out why my fpm pools aren’t working in the seventeenth Vagrant box along…
jlsinc Oh boy pic.twitter.com/BMX8M9oUwq
@REWearmouth @Ed_Miliband Hang on, are we saying that Brokenshire might also have a fancier kitchen with *even more ovens* in it?
Classics. “Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and pract… amzn.eu/7LX57wM
@stevemarvell There’s some nice alliums around the corner; I’m not desperate enough to start with the ferns yet.
girlonetrack Always thought the founder of Richer Sounds was a mensch, and turns out yes he really is. This is how you treat your workers, what a good bloke. theguardian.com/business/2019/…
Just keep unfurling. pic.twitter.com/klDuk0Bkg9
@meemalee What has two thumbs and matching mugs? pic.twitter.com/NOqnomvjNs
@fourfoot The Silence of Bugsy Malone, in which an FBI agent hunts a precocious gang of murdering children who slay adults with splurge guns so they can stand on each others’ shoulders while wearing an adult skin to sneak into films.
The only image that that should spring to mind when the authorities describe a hacker as “an advanced cyber actor”. pic.twitter.com/cWVt9HEMKr
BBC News - WhatsApp discovers ‘targeted’ surveillance attack bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
It feels like they’ve not been talking my language for quite some time… twitter.com/nationcymru/st…
@_pigeons_ Just got my first one. Lib Dems, by post addressed to me specifically.
@WeirdBristol Nothing from here. Nice moon, though. pic.twitter.com/YItRXosYV7
@timmaughan Feels quite Jagged Orbit out there to me at the mo 😟
timmaughan nice profile of Brunner, one of my biggest teenage influences, sometimes still feel like I’m re-writing SHOCKWAVE RIDER today bbc.com/culture/story/…
@benjohnbarnes Tiny observatory. Or possibly a toll-house.
disappoptimism My boy showed me something he made at pre school and now I fear soon I will wake up in a Wickerman being sacrificed to the Dark Gods of the woods pic.twitter.com/QhO8SbHtyn
My hangover, my carnivorous plant and I are debugging my Chef setup. Gentle technical work is a great way of getting through a hangover day. (I am using a Vagrant box; not touching the live server while I’m hanging!) pic.twitter.com/vykZjfGTPP
@saltwateritch @_pigeons_ I thought political parties had access to the full register?
@saltwateritch @_pigeons_ I’d guess the electoral register?
@GreatDismal Could be worse. pic.twitter.com/NfABqEZnoB
@_pigeons_ Nothing so far.
zacman85 New blog post: A Conspiracy To Kill IE6 blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-t…
@SiDawson Luckily I got some more sleep. And some porridge. And coffee. And water. And drugs. And now I’m feeling fairly human!
Ooof. 4:34am. The hangover has already kicked in.
TimInTheIce Tomorrow marks 18 years since Douglas Adams passed away. People who follow me know that my friend Jess and I have a standing date where we meet somewhere in the world at noon and order six pints of beer (and quickly please, the world’s about to end)
We haven’t missed a year. pic.twitter.com/O9HOnjwme7
The lounge is a bit messy this morning, but the light is lovely. pic.twitter.com/piPiOq3er1
@KamillaHannibal I also feel like this quite often. Sometimes I delete the app from my phone for a while; the increase in friction seems to reduce my usage and helps. But other than a time machine to better Twitter times I’m not sure there’s a real cure.
mcclure111 Left: The Onion, 2015
Right: The New York Times, 2019 pic.twitter.com/R2Cw9EIOzv
ice_lenor There is a lot of support for young women in Tech, and that’s awesome.
But I also want to give a shout out to women who have been in Tech for a long time.
Please RT if you’ve been in Tech for 5+ years! And please list your achievements in a reply. You’re awesome! 👩💻
Ah, Morrissey, that odd whiff of corruption that rolls out when you open the fridge door. You can never quite work out what’s gone off, and it all smelled fine earlier…
jessicacrets Just saw the new HBO Watchmen trailer and Alan Moore must be rolling in his grave right now.
(I know he’s not dead, I just assume that’s where he goes to unwind)
BBCNews Australia’s A$50 note misspells responsibility bbc.in/2VpFleb
WeirdBristol And here’s the fountain as it looked back then. pic.twitter.com/9rsseGZoP3
Is it me, or is this the tweet you briefly see in the background of the opening scene of an apocalypse movie? twitter.com/henriettari/st…
joeutichi That @ManMadeMoon and I have been cooking something up… thehdroom.com/bluray/moon-4k…
@_Masterseye Gawd but I love her voice. One of my cheer-myself-up tricks is to sing along to Ophelia on repeat 😀
AnneLouiseAvery Franz Marc’s (1880-1916) foxes from the early 1910s, painted only a few years before he was killed at the Battle of Verdun. “Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life.” pic.twitter.com/Ei3pZWlBtK
nlyonne My sensible purse 🤷🏻♀️🐇 twitter.com/nichorelllos/s…
@RamonWrites There may be some lightning headed your way in a minute.
@RamonWrites Are you, by any chance, not in Bristol at the moment?
@porthjess My shock has been softened somewhat by the cute way it goes *flash* *bang* *primary school children excitedly screaming* round my way :D
Woah.
@headfirstonly Disfordance!
@justinpie I’d maybe go for “wrongteraction”?
Hrm. Peripheral synesthesia? twitter.com/justinpie/stat…
justinpie Is there a term for when a modern brain assumes something interacts differently, like touching a non-touch screen or waving your hands under a sink with handles?
WeHaveMECO Hey space nerds, I built a Mac app just for you. It’s called Downlink, and it puts real-time imagery from GOES-East, GOES-West, and Himawari-8 right on your desktop.
mainenginecutoff.com/blog/2019/05/d… twitter.com/acolangelo/sta…
everycolorbot 0x6261a4 pic.twitter.com/znnWzw7rQw
@chubbybannister Congrats!
sdw It’s almost like making joyless, brutalist user interfaces is a bad idea. twitter.com/stroughtonsmit…
brian_bilston MY DUVET: A LOVE POEM
Duvet,
you are so groovet,
I’d like to stay under you
all of Tuesdet.
helenpidd How can it be fair that a 5-mile bus journey in London costs £1.50 and is almost six quid elsewhere in England? Our investigation into a crazily fragmented private free-for-all in desperate need of reform theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/m…
verge Microsoft Solitaire has been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame theverge.com/2019/5/6/18530… pic.twitter.com/44SMRiFCjb
OnePerfectShot We’re all a bunch of monsters who deserve subjugation. bit.ly/2RxLbbE
Really need to work out some kind of handicapping system for crosswords. 32 minutes for the Times Cryptic would be some kind of personal best if I could take into account the four pints of Guinness I had last night…
@sjcartersmith I am hungover and jealous.
Okay, that was a fucking fantastic @petedoherty gig #Bristol. Loved the new Putas numbers, plus a great version of You’re My Waterloo. Plus huskies on stage! 💓
At the Academy, awaiting Peter D. Support excellent so far. Book on his appearance running at:
10pm: 7/1
11pm: 5/1
Gone midnight: 1/3
Eaten by giant hedgehog: evens
nicolaz 19th C technology as erasure. twitter.com/waldojaquith/s…
petedoherty Thank you Dublin x
Next stop for Peter & The Puta Madres, Bristol!
📷 @cristinamassei pic.twitter.com/y84Ll7kIsy
And some contemplation on the way home featuring @_pigeons_. pic.twitter.com/KvyKbzX5BN
A few hints of Spike Open @_SpikeIsland #bristol pic.twitter.com/jKWN3LIxru
As you do. #bristol10k pic.twitter.com/HT1nCdjQuQ
Coldwar_Steve Shitehawks pic.twitter.com/B6qqQhSuEr
BryceElder Please enjoy this novelty item I bought in a Golders Green charity shop. pic.twitter.com/gHh88YmPnQ
Oh, of course. The loud drumming in Hotwells will be #Bristol10k supporters. Happy running, everyone! 🥁 🏃♂️ 🥁
rapturebird Love to be out with a group of people and realising the extent of my isolation (now and historically) because following a group conversation is exhausting and physically impossible
I often feel depressed, but then I listen to Fields of the Nephilim’s _Psychonaut_, and it turns out that feeling like a depressed eldritch demigod is an improvement. twitter.com/mcelhearn/stat…
And Brooklyn Nine-Nine illustrates how I have felt in many an open-plan office. youtu.be/icUViErHTKI?t=…
Rainmaker1973 A compilation of robots falling down at the DARPA robotics challenge buff.ly/2MsVsiz pic.twitter.com/mauxtfLibV
aparnapkin an introvert at a networking event twitter.com/nn930310/statu…
@chubbybannister Ah. Glad I turned around at Mokoko.
@Dru_Marland @UrsulaWJ Presumably Chris Grayling has a personal herd of scapephants.
@Dru_Marland @UrsulaWJ Oh, is *that* what they do there? I’d always assumed the horses were playing badminton.
@UrsulaWJ Could be. I wish I knew just enough about sport to be able to avoid it properly!
Flat-bottomed clouds, you make the rockin’ world go round..#bristolopic.twitter.com/SPjgcTVoInIn
Time flies by (when you’re the driver of a train.) #bristol pic.twitter.com/9J2VlYht9p
@basil_gg Whether it was or not, it may be the answer…
Why does town seem to be full of arsehats?
Sun lounge. pic.twitter.com/xJeepdagWm
xkcdComic Heists And Escapes xkcd.com/2145/ m.xkcd.com/2145/ pic.twitter.com/hEdj9joyLS
Canon Made Its New Entry-Level DSLRs Incompatible with 3rd-Party Flashes petapixel.com/2019/05/03/can…
SplendidSpoon If you ain’t down with fractals, I feel bad for you, son
I’ve got 99 problems, and 99 smaller problems inside of each one
hels “The man, 38, and his pregnant wife, 37, are thought to have fallen ill after hunting and eating contaminated marmot in Mongolia” 😨😱😳 twitter.com/dailymirror/st…
@AndyCarolan And right there on the “frequently bought together” Amazon but for the Beyers is a Fiio E10K headphone amplifier, so yeah, I’d guess they do require the extra oomph. pic.twitter.com/4F35yCjh5l
@AndyCarolan Yeah, that’s what I meant. Big, high-impedance headphones often need more of a driver. But if you use the laptop around and about a headphone preamp is just more to carry.
@AndyCarolan Big headphones?
@dangusset Well, let’s face it, you’d want a quick getaway after.
dangusset Mattress and lone high heel on roof of Gloucester Road Co-op possible contender for Bristol’s bleakest fuck. pic.twitter.com/bTcfhPdgGD
OnePerfectShot THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985)
Cinematography by Thomas Del Ruth
Directed by John Hughes
Explore more shots in our database: ops.fyi/ShotsDB pic.twitter.com/vxdLFsrNig
@boagworld Do you think the Pope would’ve commissioned a portrait version from Michaelangelo if he was doing it these days?
“I bet you’re all wondering how I got here…” twitter.com/hayles/status/…
@tomcoates Wait until you start adding, “Hang on. Didn’t I have that thought yesterday, too?”
Classic_picx 30 years ago today (2/5/1989) - The Stone Roses released their self-titled debut album. pic.twitter.com/1Dkl3LPqEB
rstevens Moe = Bartender
Marge = Bart Tender
Sideshow Bob = Bart Ender
holly Never has the first page of a book paid off my enthusiasm as well as this does (amzn.to/2XUIvDz) pic.twitter.com/SKXrzQP6VM