Matt Gibson (@gothick)

Hotwells, Bristol

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

September 2019

youngvulgarian a very good afternoon from me and this shower/toilet arrangement, which I believe is the bleakest I have experienced in my five years of party conferences pic.twitter.com/Mh5XwbCLBm

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 10:18 PM, Sep 29th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

@chubbybannister <sleaze accent=”mockney”>What do *you* fink, darlin’?</sleaze>

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seldo Did you know that for 200 years we’ve known that spiders can fly but haven’t really understood how they did that and we finally worked it out and the answer is “they ride the earth’s magnetic fields at will”??? Nature is fucking awesome. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 8:15 AM, Sep 29th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

@invalidname Usually happens just after those “all staff” company briefings. Typically the will to live returns within a day or two.

via Twitter Web App in reply to invalidname

Can’t work out if that was distant thunder or someone rolling a heavy suitcase down my road.

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@primevideouk Hey, your Monk season eight episode 13 (billed as Mr Monk and the Best Man) is actually episode 14 (Mr Monk and the Badge). Ep 14 is in there twice! Mr Monk would not approve 😀

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RellyAB YOU CAN DO THAT?
Fuck, this changes everything twitter.com/PageSix/status…

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 3:43 PM, Sep 28th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

@chubbybannister Sigh. The nice local Building Society we use has decided to consolidate all its Bristol branches there. 😢

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Peculiar Best-ever snow globe, bought in Castle Dracula (Bran Castle) in Transylvania. pic.twitter.com/c5dvout8Y6

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 7:40 AM, Sep 28th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

@The_CallUp @Hadrians_Gate Watched it for the first time recently. That Rooney part really is the kazoo solo in an otherwise beautiful symphony.

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AstroKatie Right now, in the center of the Sun, there’s a nuclear reaction converting hydrogen to helium, producing neutrinos, photons, & positrons. A neutrino from this reaction will pass through you just over eight minutes from now. The photons won’t arrive for at least 100,000 years.

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 10:14 PM, Sep 27th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

@tomkatsumi “Computing. This time it’s PERSONAL.”

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@boagworld CUT TO: An error message telling you your UK phone number is in an invalid format.

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@tomkatsumi GIF: The AI’s raincoat falls open, revealing two Clippys, one standing on the other’s shoulders.

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@meemalee Hell yeah. The giant Twiglet was my favourite.

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dangusset Hipster pizza places:
1. You do not need to say you use Fior Di Latte, just saying mozzarella is fine.
2. You do not need to feed your menu through a dirty photocopier 20 times before scanning it to stick an image of it online.

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 10:34 AM, Sep 26th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

@dangusset “And for the finishing touch, we asked local mechanic Jupiter Peabody to restore an Italian-made 1950s Ditto machine to add an authentic feel to our website…”

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@_pigeons_ You should be so lucky. My guess is they’ll skip the wine bar and jump straight to “hipster beard salon and oxygen boutique.”

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ME: I’d quite like brighter bulbs.
PHILIPS HUE: Strip lights!
ME: Brighter light bulbs?
HUE: £500 ceiling light!
ME: Brighter bulbs?
HUE: Outdoor pedestal light!
ME: Brighter bul—
HUE: Smart plug!
ME: Bright—
HUE: BLUETOOTH!

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MattFnWallace Your cyberpunk name is basically just your name because I mean look around at this shit

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 11:07 AM, Sep 25th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

@Dru_Marland @panistroglodyte I spotted that on the East Bristol Brewery Trail a couple of years back :) pic.twitter.com/0HQLZEFgs0

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cybergibbons The BBC asked us to look into a range of IoT products.

One of them was a Pineworld lock, from Amazon.

We only had a day; I went for the quickest and most realistic attack. pic.twitter.com/QUKFQUyChO

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 2:33 PM, Sep 24th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

BonniePuns Hahaaaaa who did this pic.twitter.com/L0m4euJVc4

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 11:54 AM, Sep 24th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

EwaSR Lady Hale looks like the kind of sweet old lady who’d make you tea and offer you a biscuit and then sits down to tell you about all her assassination missions she did for the resistance during the war in occupied France

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 11:38 AM, Sep 24th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

@UPSHelp Hey, did you know your My Choice sign up process is failing at the first hurdle? pic.twitter.com/mWVmUFTVZk

via Tweetbot for Mac

Having gone down a rabbit-hole from a Siouxsie & the Banshees cover version, I am now catching up with Jefferson Airplane. youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr…

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HugdiSpencer How it feels to browse websites in 2019… pic.twitter.com/LeBN2K26RA

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 5:03 PM, Sep 22nd, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

TwoSetViolin Pachelbel’s Canon in C(hicken) pic.twitter.com/YlPczVYLQQ

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 4:57 PM, Sep 22nd, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

apowerfulbird octopus: [gun in each hand]

cat: you’re one short buddy

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 8:39 PM, Sep 21st, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

@MakingBlakes7 That was a goodie. I remember Games/Sand the best, and I do like those two as a combo.

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I wonder how many people follow this one, even if they know it… twitter.com/HighwayCodeGB/…

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@dangusset Saving myself £100 on a new subwoofer by replacing the blown transistors myself. Really shouldn’t have played the Nephilim so loud! 😅

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@AnchoriteAirmed @ScootchCat @holly It’s not often I look at an account and think, “no, that *must* be a human, because Markov chain generator bots have much better communication skills.”

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anitathetweeter Lenny Henry just introduced himself at this media conference with: “Hello, I’m Justin Trudeau” pic.twitter.com/09zwQiRHDz

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 11:47 AM, Sep 20th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

Damn! Updating to Safari 13.0 has made the spacebar stop moving to the next article along in Fever. Maybe it’s time to complete my long circle back to @NetNewsWire :D

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@Dru_Marland Over here in a more urban setting, the local jackdaws are making such a fuss around the chimney of the school opposite that I think it’s possible that one of them just fell into it and the rest are all now pointing and laughing.

via Twitter Web App in reply to Dru_Marland

drewscanlon Hi Internet! I’m Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at BikingWhiteGuy.com pic.twitter.com/VaFbgOKrV2

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 7:09 PM, Sep 19th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

Plus, of course, they’re fifty quid a pack, and thus the market is so flooded with cheap fakes that it’s tough to buy them from Amazon with any confidence.

via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to gothick

Buying a toothbrush in 1999: Hard or soft bristles? Buying a toothbrush in 2019: Sigh. pic.twitter.com/Q6HE5SxrRb

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@Argos_Online Since your site came back up, it’s been impossible to reach as just “argos.co.uk“—needs argos.co.ukh” with the “www”. Used to work fine as either…

via Tweetbot for Mac in reply to Argos_Online

Your quest is to transfer an application from one Google Play account to another. You are in a maze of twisty console pages, all looking alike.

You have been eaten by a grue.

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@mippy There’s a clear dividing line between people who have established an identity and personality—with a real name or not—and people who joined Twitter last week with the name TRUMPBREXITAN9293748 who do nothing but retweet and hate-reply. “Anonymous” is a scattergun epithet 🙁

via Twitter Web App in reply to mippy

Madeley Christ, no-one tell the DWP. twitter.com/Newsweek/statu…

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 7:47 PM, Sep 16th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

@ahnlak Almost a perfect example of the left hand not knowing what the right hand’s doing…

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@shezza_t Especially once the renovations on the place as a whole are over and I don’t have a bunch of scaffolding darkening my courtyard!

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@ahnlak They’re the right way around for me?

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Before and after. Quite a satisfying bit of weekend work. pic.twitter.com/d6K6eKLGgf

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allenholub Public service announcement:

Dear programmers,

NOT LETTING ME CUT/PASTE A PASSWORD MAKES MY ACCOUNT *****LESS***** SECURE. There is a circle of hell reserved for you if you don’t allow paste into a password field.

Regards,
Your Customers

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 9:57 AM, Sep 14th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

MarkDiStef We’ve spoken to a lot of people who spread panic with the “grab bags” tweets. The story is 2,000 words.

Here’s what we found:

buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/… pic.twitter.com/XO70kTzQ0C

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 5:13 PM, Sep 12th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

beardedjourno Hi @BristolLibDems. I don’t mind you printing my photo on this flyer, but I do mind that you didn’t ask permission. Shall we agree that you donate £150 to a Bristol homeless charity instead of me sending you an invoice for unauthorised usage? pic.twitter.com/QZOaWS4DiX

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 5:09 PM, Sep 12th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

@psidnell Because it’s the biggest workspace I’ve got!

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@Seej500 Plan: we ask DPD to deliver Brexit.

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CalumSSherwood I absolutely stan this woman from Sunderland interviewed in 1980 for a local news segment about gay people. An ally! 🏳️‍🌈 pic.twitter.com/UcMDaAWtqF

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 5:47 PM, Sep 10th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

*Mops brow* Okay, 6-foot wide fence panel is now a 4-foot wide fence panel. Not a terrible job for a first time… pic.twitter.com/PybonVrnAu

via Twitter Web App in reply to gothick

Laying out my lounge for woodworking makes me feel a little like Dexter. But my lounge is four times the size of my garden, so it makes more sense to resize fence panels indoors… pic.twitter.com/g2iegluyDK

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ElijahBarnsUK Mornin’ 🦇 pic.twitter.com/fRQdrCF5i7

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 9:43 AM, Sep 10th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

MakingBlakes7 The Liberator.

pic.twitter.com/5GzeJq623t

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 7:57 PM, Sep 9th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

@Cookwitch I’m guessing the junction came first.

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quellist1 Narrator: Sadly, Piers Morgan did not actually explode. twitter.com/Independent/st…

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 9:41 AM, Sep 9th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

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@atpfm If we do get colours, do you trust Apple to make them so they don’t flake off? I’m unimpressed with my first non-Space Gray iPhone… pic.twitter.com/55N1jR5ouK

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As I approach 47, I wonder whether the reason old people’s minds are hard to change is because they just can’t be arsed to read youngsters’ political arguments, which these days consist entirely of third-generation JPEG copies of pictures of text in a small font.

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@chubbybannister @basil_gg I would never have got that answer, even with the right numbering…

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galacticdad oh god oh fuck pic.twitter.com/527UOFaCcu

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 5:39 PM, Sep 7th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

RealDMitchell “On second thoughts, let’s not call it Kodak.” twitter.com/robnitm/status…

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 4:42 PM, Sep 7th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

Pinboard Riot police waiting for walk signal is peak Hong Kong pic.twitter.com/hQ6vlttWL1

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 6:36 PM, Sep 6th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

PulpLibrarian John Bulmer was a pioneer of British colour photojournalism, and documented the changing face of the North of England in the ’60s and ’70s.

Let’s take a look at some of his work… pic.twitter.com/5Ks7E7nzEA

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 6:25 PM, Sep 6th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

@jlandpcustserv Nope. Called to ask where he was twice, twice got told they’d call him up and ask him to ring me. Nothing. And this was the first appointment available when I called up on 13th August!

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Still waiting in for my “morning” visit from a @jlandpcustserv Added Care washing machine engineer…

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Remember those heady days when you could reliably drag and drop pictures on a Mac?

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Either the guy painting our windows starts very early, or a giant lark has killed him and is wearing his skin. Got to say, at twenty past seven I was rather hoping for the latter…

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ICHIcreator I made a musical installation called TOBOGAN GAKKI at end of the road festival. It’s inspired by a children’s toy from Czech Republic and made from things I found in skips or washed up on the coast, and bits of recycled toys pic.twitter.com/JzzPQ5eR9i

via Twitter for iPad (retweeted on 1:55 PM, Sep 5th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

@WorksWithWords Well, I imagine that being forced to study it in school could put you off it for life, so…

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@tweethue Are the Hue servers having problems? Can’t even get the iOS Hue app open past the splash screen at the moment.

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mrchrisaddison Xenophobe’s Paradox. twitter.com/RemainiacsCast…

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 8:33 AM, Sep 4th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

@jfjdavey @Dru_Marland One of the few redeeming features of working in Swindon was a local cafe who did a knockout brie & mango chutney w/ black pepper baguette. *mouth waters*

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