@saltwateritch @iamtheshunt1 @amias Glad they stopped that gif before the complete elephant impression.
AndyGilder So if Boris sees his shadow have we got another four weeks of lockdown?
@amias @saltwateritch Top bit’s a TL Audio Ivory 2 5052. soundonsound.com/reviews/tl-aud….
@iamtheshunt1 @amias @saltwateritch So many twiddlable knobs, so little time…
@psidnell You know, I think you may be right.
200m apart pic.twitter.com/ePCCfcAwCo
Infrastructure pic.twitter.com/QdGlu5NyTZ
Hisstol. pic.twitter.com/KPm7cADRwh
StanCarey Publisher: We need covers that convey the enduring appeal, the undisputed *magnificence*, of these great works of literature.
Designer: Got it.
Reader: WTAF
causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/2020/10/classi…
@dangusset @_pigeons_ (Coming from Hotwells, you get here, follow the sign through the underpass and reach an unsigned fork that seem to lead either back the way you came or just to a gap in the railings at four lanes of fast-moving traffic.)
@dangusset (Yesterday was my fifth or sixth attempt in the last 20 years to figure out how you actually follow this sign to either the park or North Street. You or @_pigeons_ might actually have to help me figure it out at some point…) pic.twitter.com/YqqfLmwiC5
@dangusset That’s the one. I didn’t know it was there until yesterday! Didn’t notice a garage, but I was only on the park side.
@dangusset Very corner of Greville Smyth.
The Underneath. pic.twitter.com/Iz4rSRfdFd
Rainy day. pic.twitter.com/B9qEu6Hb6q
@AndyGilder Saw them at Wembley in 1990, supporting Heart. Seem to remember enjoying it :)
voitechnology Bath and Bristol, let’s Voi! 🇬🇧 voiscooters.com/blog/bath-and-…
psychcomm Well.. that’s Halloween won for somebody. pic.twitter.com/uzARRWK15P
@OpinionatedGeek Just wait until DPD leave you an “It would be a shame if anything happened to it…” card.
ememess Meanwhile on Nextdoor someone has inherited a locked chest from her aunt and has no key and everyone’s talking about chipping in to hire a locksmith. As a professional horror writer I naturally have a take on whether this is a good idea, or NOT, but will they listen to me? No.
@AthanSpod I shall try to force an update later.
unfortunatalie This looks GREAT. twitter.com/TheGeeksCore/s…
All the water’s in the wrong place again. pic.twitter.com/WO4mPnpWgk
@tomasmcguinness I was already doing that.
@porthjess Just what we need, what with the world’s mental health being so rock solid right now.
@dave_ja I’m thinking pillow fort.
@EmmaisaChampion So basically, “HI I’M A NOTIFICATION ABOUT A DEADLY DISEASE THAT TELLS YOU NOTHING USEFUL AND YOU CAN TAKE NO ACTION AT ALL APART FROM BEING MORE ANXIOUS”?
CharlieVivante for my birthday, kanye got me the most thoughtful gift of a lifetime. a hologram of my dad. ✨🤍 it is so lifelike! we watched it over and over, filled with emotion. pic.twitter.com/c4wRCiHSni
What am I meant to do, stay indoors alone *harder*?
This morning, the Covid-19 app has started sending me these notifications. Tapping them doesn’t take me anywhere useful and there’s no information that I can find in the app about what they mean. This doesn’t seem like great design. pic.twitter.com/tVdq2K2KKi
Attempting to hack together a little project that will help with my vague idea of visiting every street within a mile of me. omm.gothick.org.uk
Moth-eaten. pic.twitter.com/8tZcI2C1IE
RussFrushtick In my first-ever piece for @vulture, I take on a demon that’s been haunting me for six years.
vulture.com/2020/10/u2-son…
MattChorley Huge news from The Times style guide.
Hallowe’en becomes Halloween
🎃 pic.twitter.com/f9Kde1jiyw
Serotonin #TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZSCU7DvU/
_BTO Telling apart corvids, like Raven and Crow, can be a tricky business. Thankfully, there’s an ID video to help with that!
youtube.com/watch?v=qi1p0y…
#Autumnwatch @BBCSpringwatch
@porthjess Well, I guess you’d have a soft landing if they judged it wrong…
@SofieHagen So…
I’m holding out for the Tier 1 Plus Pro.
Ashton Avenue Sewage Pumping Station. “Normal for Bristol” :D pic.twitter.com/AaM7LYy8dT
SIMO_paints I love this… and I love Columbo too! newyorker.com/humor/daily-sh…
@hopper_coffee Always!
That was a perfect time to go grab a @hopper_coffee, then 😂 pic.twitter.com/wUHMfsTnuu
jonty Whoever registered the company name with valid XSS injection and caused @CompaniesHouse to sent this email: I will buy you a drink pic.twitter.com/HlcUbbJgr6
@thekarleighshow Move house to get a room I could use as an office.
@jukesie If you can manage it, I’d definitely try to forgive yourself this one.
@floyduk Yes, except the final destination is somewhere north of Barking.
DigitalJonathan As a mark of ongoing respect for the late, great Lou Reed, I have his initials inscribed on my headphones. pic.twitter.com/X1LNjoaIba
@mattcassinelli @rodemics Had this PSA-1 here for years and it’s been perfectly fine. Never had a different one to compare it to, mind. pic.twitter.com/IJYhA3Hiao
Fooling around with @LeafletJS and @openstreetmap. pic.twitter.com/QAu6u1Ldix
MarcDavenant Two boys and a Chopper bike in the mining village of Holmewood, Derbyshire in 1973 by Don McPhee. The houses were later boarded up. pic.twitter.com/iirxRiu6JD
Now to see if I can blow a fragment of Oldbury-on-Severn roughly the area of Wales off the 6D’s sensor…
@benjohnbarnes I couldn’t possibly part with the Dior, darling.
@jennifermjones @JaeKay I’m pretty sure the modern equivalent is Kickstarter. Sure I saw a project for a miraculous instant sock dryer on there the other day.
It’s a good job I don’t have kids to feed, because the family heirloom pearl necklace actually kinda suits me. pic.twitter.com/MVAxmyfcmR
(And also because it’s a Lotus-branded string of synthetic pearls so would probably fetch about £25 on eBay if I were lucky…)
davey “Why don’t working class parents just sell their pearls?” isn’t something I expected to read today, but there we are. pic.twitter.com/1cKcnhG6mL
doctorow The rise and rise of terms of service is a genuinely astonishing cultural dysfunction. Think of what a bizarre pretense we all engage in, that anyone, ever, has read these sprawling garbage novellas of impenetrable legalese.
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@seh @unfortunatalie My place has been here since 1763. Guess there may have been a few things to stay indoors and hide from over the years…
MarieAnnUK Someone didn’t waste their time during lockdown. 👍🏅🏆 pic.twitter.com/4UWBOWp02M
@_pigeons_ From here for about five minutes you get some Cally action, them running around inside the (fully-operational) nuclear power plant, plenty of Federation redcoats, and a bit of Vila’s lockpicking skills… youtube.com/watch?v=K2LKi1…
…but the surrounding landscape was also pretty impressive, especially the walk down the side of the Severn. pic.twitter.com/mcuunrGAxX
You can see it behind Avon, Blake and Vila in this signed photo I’ve got, shot on second day of filming for Time Squad (thanks to @MakingBlakes7 for confirming that a few years back…) pic.twitter.com/UVMj1K3WA9
Mostly we went to satisfy my eccentric desire to see a Blake’s 7 location, the Oldbury-on-Severn nuclear power station. pic.twitter.com/UiytuzQTbz
Went exploring Oldbury-on-Severn with @Avon_Stories and @Bingo_Little today. I think this was the point we realised the weather was about to change a tad. pic.twitter.com/mR4KmGuK5T
Avon_Stories Oldbury (ex) nuclear power station (@gothick’s Blake’s 7 pilgrimage) pic.twitter.com/RnPp91djPF
@djelibeybi_meg Might be 😀
In Oldbury-on-Severn. For some reason. pic.twitter.com/torHn6jXDg
MelvinofYork Is it just me or does it feel like 2020 is running out of ideas pic.twitter.com/lPOKVNP6tO
@dangusset @Avon_Stories @theunderfall I did also think that when I walked past them earlier on this week, but they’re probably a bit damp by now.
Introducing my autumn collection. pic.twitter.com/dXwisrLdh5
@RoddyJenkins @RadioKate One thing I found helpful is that there’s often a crossword discussion forum to be found somewhere these days so you can learn from other solvers (e.g. times-xwd-times.livejournal.com, fifteensquared.net, bigdave44.com)
@RoddyJenkins @RadioKate The Times has a “Quick Cryptic” which is a bit more gentle, but yeah, it can be hard to get started. (At least the online version does; don’t know about the actual paper version.)
@daycoder Ah well. I don’t know much about other types because this is the only one I’ve had for about five years now.
@RadioKate I was defeated by The Times this morning, for the second Saturday in a row. Bah!
@daycoder Does it have to be colour? I love my £100 Brother laser printer.
@CuriousUkTelly Number 73. youtube.com/watch?v=Ny7tBg…
WeirdBristol When the Clifton Suspension Bridge officially opened on the 8th of December, 1864, 21 year old #Bristol 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 the bridge. pic.twitter.com/kemxbldSRF
TechnicallyRon Took Doug to the pub for the first time today and managed to take my favourite series of photos ever. pic.twitter.com/UeT7wAvYih
And that concludes my harbourside walk with the theme of “looking up.”
Red light. #bristol pic.twitter.com/o3t4yY6j5J
Sun Set Great Britain #bristol pic.twitter.com/Jt7R1UhLfo
Looking up pic.twitter.com/OEzwbe8mj8
La demi lune #bristol #moon pic.twitter.com/B1meAR6J4Q
Mary Rose #bristol pic.twitter.com/YJgGXbvQXh
@Avon_Stories This getaway route sounds like it was carefully chosen by someone with detailed knowledge of the harbourside, river and Colliter’s Brook area. 👀 bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-n…
@RellyAB This is the kind of thing I’m hoping to discover for myself at some point.
@unfortunatalie I first saw it in my twenties, I think. Still love that ending.
Where is Jessica Hyde?
@delightfulrepas @lickedspoon This is often done slightly sneakily with a “web beacon” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_beacon — each email has a picture loaded from the sender’s web server with a unique link, so the sender can tell you’re reading the mail when a request for that particular image hits their server.
catandgirlcomic Give me that old-fashioned formless void pic.twitter.com/NyKZIGz5Me
Midway @C4Utopia re-watch. Still bloody brilliant.
@ovationchris I was just thinking that!
A great selection from diarists who sometimes simply couldn’t be arsed. futilitycloset.com/2020/10/20/nev…
dont4getthesun Manchester in the rain. 📷 Simon Buckley instagram.com/notquitelight pic.twitter.com/lhUtQpGK93
brianftang Pretty extraordinary - Tom Lehrer, aged 92, has decided to put all his lyrics and sheet music into the public domain, before he passes away. tomlehrersongs.com
@siracusa I’m guessing that one always lies, and one always speaks the truth.
EricaFails I just want an elaborate escape room where you play as Bertram Wooster trying to extricate himself from Madeline Basset. Jeeves is on holiday and you can only phone him three times for clues. It lasts a weekend. twitter.com/MrCamW/status/…
ayushguptaaa Doctor: Your body has ran out of magnesium.
Me: 0mg
Speaking of which: Saturday Sessions: Julien Baker performs “Televangelist” youtu.be/gNd7t-C11wQ via @YouTube
I shall enjoy singing along with @julienrbaker’s _Televangelist_ even more now I know the word is as old as I am…
Affluenza, autoerotic asphyxiation, crumple zone, detox, diskette, fact-check, hyperdrive, magstripe, quango, refusenik, sea monkey, soccer mom, space cadet, super-spreader, televangelist, video game. (via @hayles) twitter.com/MerriamWebster…
Ocado substituted a different brand of organic spinach and my robot vacuum is pushing my smart scale around the bathroom. I’ve not had first-world problems this bad since the time that swan spat in my salsa.
I was feeling a bit forlorn when starting today’s work-from-home session, but now I have @yumhoneyblood on shuffle and things are looking up.
porthjess Morning Bristol, you beautiful thing. ♥️ pic.twitter.com/sGhAt5lXk6
VolleyBaws If only we could have seen this coming pic.twitter.com/YHOUbdFWaI
HartsBakery Competition Time!
Win a Breakfast Box & Coffee for two, courtesy of Hart’s Bakery & @extractcoffee coffee
We’ve teamed up with @extractcoffee to offer one winner a Breakfast Box, featuring pastries, a fresh loaf of sourdough bread, homemade jam & 2 bags of @extractcoffee pic.twitter.com/tRIYvPIArV
@unfortunatalie I did used to consistently get out of the side I tend to sleep on (maybe to unconsciously avoid “getting out of the wrong side of bed”) even though it’s the other side from my en suite. These days I just roll out of whatever side’s easiest.
rjstelling (My birthday 🥳 wish) If I get 1000 likes to this Tweet I’m going to Crowdfund PHYSICAL calculators from Apple software history…
I’m the wrong side of 40 to put off my weird dreams any longer. pic.twitter.com/Tz7fHX70ei
RealTomH Can’t believe they’ve just put an area equivalent to the size of Wales under lockdown.
ThePlanetaryGuy Just like bullseyeing womp rats in a T-16 back home twitter.com/airport_girl/s…
Tilda Swinton. Gary Oldman. twitter.com/racheldelahaye…
@porthjess Knackered kippers.
_pigeons_ 2 threads of Bristol walks from today:
Super-high tide….. twitter.com/avon_stories/s…
Gotta love a corvid. vm.tiktok.com/ZSx9k97M/
@jukesie Was it about a Baltimore PI?
@matt_fwyalchen Ta😀
Avon_Stories Clouds of silt from the highest tide point earlier pic.twitter.com/SyvpxTafRP
qntm ME: Hi, I’d like to buy some RAM with a non-embarrassing name? RAM that lets me retain some self-respect while I buy it. You got any RAM that doesn’t sound stupid
RAM MANUFACTURERS: pic.twitter.com/1mmB3hH3BP
Drowned daisies in Cumberland Basin. pic.twitter.com/jYIfOVyXB8
Cumberland ‘crete pic.twitter.com/L06h1i9AuK
Panorama. pic.twitter.com/jqo6XtBlTO
Joined @Avon_Stories and @Bingo_Little for the spring tide this morning. It was quite high. #bristol pic.twitter.com/LRyFvrwxl7
Avon_Stories Oooh! @gothick just spotted cormorants sitting on the top of the floodlights pic.twitter.com/jrrSyJx177
@unfortunatalie I did at least manage the walk (by dint of it being pre-arranged and involving other people) but I’ve felt exactly like that since I got back in at about 10:30. Sigh.
jackfifield The closure of Queen Square to through-traffic at the turn of the century was a ridiculous experiment causing traffic chaos and all the traders to leave the now desolate city – as these letters in the Bristol Post predicted. Time to reopen to cars and get back to the 21st centurpic.twitter.com/SYiqX6FMx2x2
@SlimiHendrix @chris_j1010 @ReynaerdeJames I would watch this Netflix series.
t0m_deSilv4 4 years ago I was doing trollies at Sainsburys on a Monday night. I left, worked hard and got a degree from the University of Sheffield. Now I’m doing trollies at Waitrose on a Friday night. Never give up 💫💯💎🛒 pic.twitter.com/ikCevoDVCy
Jenn Schiffer, Engineer/Artist - XOXO Festival (2016) youtu.be/wewAC5X_CZ8 via @YouTube 😂
HrishiHirway A request to anyone who has enjoyed Song Exploder on Netflix: it would be especially great if you watched *all four* of the episodes. Not just because I think they’re all interesting and worth watching, but also because it matters a lot in determining the fate of the show! 🙏🏾
One last shot from the round-the-harbour wander. WET PAINT pic.twitter.com/UOAjjsfsYs
@bexxi Thanks! Bit lucky, I was at full stretch with the camera over my head to snap over the top of the gunwale…
@ovationchris It’s probably bad luck, or something…
Facilities. pic.twitter.com/pIkpORh2MJ
Nah, just put it in rice, mate. #bristol #shipwreck #shadow pic.twitter.com/3iblJAO9Wa
A congeries of graf. pic.twitter.com/Zm9o9hK0HE
Bottled water pic.twitter.com/3MB3PBWerO
Spring tide. pic.twitter.com/9KPFHL0dbE
HASH TAG BANDNAME twitter.com/Avon_Stories/s…
I was snapping Holy Trinity’s spire mostly as a silent tribute to the currently-silent bell, but I managed to snap it at exactly 10:10, pleasingly, that being the traditional time used in watch and clock photography… petapixel.com/2013/06/27/why… pic.twitter.com/x3BG94AgVm
@richard_littler Everything by John Brunner, and I also second “The Death of Grass”
Ten minutes. pic.twitter.com/Wq6LYaRtkg
Portway pash. If you don’t have a macro lens, pick a bloody enormous flower, that’s what I say. pic.twitter.com/z7gTaSoDfV
@ChristinaMcMc @alicej_t It’s an odd one. Sometimes it seems like a terrible waste of time, other it seems very theraputic. There’s not much making me laugh right now, but TikTok can manage it.
crk5 Vulture hitches ride on selfie stick pic.twitter.com/PFng1qsUT3
mrjimBob March is really dragging on this year.
Behold! Ye ridiculously long-leggèd manne of ye harbourside! pic.twitter.com/Sm6KkSeq2Q
TravisinaB7 #Blakes7
is one of the specialist subjects on Mastermind on BBC2, Monday 19th Oct at 7.30pm
Who fancies a Tweet-along?
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
@HorizonBlakes7 pic.twitter.com/JL3r4ShyrN
Tiers for Fears.
Mornin’. pic.twitter.com/MQxnVfvttz
MooseAllain “All loaves matter”
Wheat supremacist
@tyronem On the plus side, you did just remind me that I fancied rewatching The Matrix this week.
Oooh, it’s the new shiny from @Beathhigh… pic.twitter.com/SXeSs7wYrx
@Bristolvor Much as the stationer was lovely to browse, and dream of being able to afford such expensive pencils, I feel a bakery might actually get more money from me.
Avon_Stories It is changing moment by moment pic.twitter.com/s4kRafqerC
No, Windows, I don’t want to turn on Sticky Keys; I want you to respond soon enough that I don’t get impatient.
Ah, yes, Draconia Five, most bureaucratic planet of the entire Draconis cluster. pic.twitter.com/m8GxC84fSC
Blind curve pic.twitter.com/lzWYLaRx2b
@RuthWareWriter @danielle_peel @BrandonTozzo Yes, I think the vast number of polling stations is probably the key. Been voting since 1992 in various parts of England and never been out of walking distance from my polling station.
babyscrambles just seen someone refer to the pandemic as the panny d and it’s ruined my fucking week before it’s even hit 12 on monday
LLW902 bath tubs should be sized so people over 5’8” can relax with both their knees and back underwater, why are tubs still manufactured for the napoleonic era
@mcelhearn @Illuminations I’d say it probably faded away as a cultural icon in my youth (I’m 47, so 14 years behind Robert Smith) so it’s not surprising it’s slipped under your radar.
@mcelhearn @Illuminations I’ve always assumed it was. Play for Today was a very well-known show.
craigmod Did you know you can make QR code that will connect someone to a wifi network and input the password automatically? It’s the single best use of QRs I’ve ever seen. And yet, I never see it in use.
qifi.org
djbaskin Visited a house where each scuff mark has its own plaque. What’s the story behind your favorite scrape? 👀 pic.twitter.com/MgKUa4XXTH
Sea Mills. pic.twitter.com/Bpp5OlzSLg
Whooosh. pic.twitter.com/VB1e60R7bk
Flotsam. pic.twitter.com/5rbgFwTWPT
*Waves at namesake* pic.twitter.com/E7EBZmjMgF
Ouchie. Sore feet. pic.twitter.com/XosRIZudF0
Sundowner. pic.twitter.com/L7XFLZ05Mo
Through. pic.twitter.com/Ev2fp5pSo2
Yo flatlay. pic.twitter.com/ueI68ZJnqi
Emergency spider. At the start of this evening’s wander with @Avon_Stories. pic.twitter.com/wpyXOqYBcQ
Avon_Stories Avon, evening pic.twitter.com/f7GL99UFpm
Strewth but the Times puzzle is hard today. Still a couple to go… #cruciverbalist
Unexplained Ghost crabs can move 100 body-lengths per second! Fastest crustacean in the world pic.twitter.com/qc3623c2hF
@christianrt Thanks!
Scott1Gray Okay, so Caitlin Blackwood who played Amelia Pond is now the same age that adult Amy Pond was in The Eleventh Hour.
(Look, old Doctor Who fans *always* feel old. It’s about time young Doctor Who fans starting suffering too.) pic.twitter.com/1i9vYDgV8z
for_every_helen Okay, look, this is why I am so upset by #TheWatch adaptation. I think I read my first #Discworld book a couple of decades ago, as a young teenager. I’d never read anything like it in my life. After that I went to the library every week & meticulously hunted for them, over years.
Rust Never Sleeps #underfallyard #bristol pic.twitter.com/rMTOPrw7j1
SEND BEER #bristol pic.twitter.com/BtSPqX5NxX
Morning row. #bristol pic.twitter.com/34pZ6OHl25
Hotwells Hideout tmblr.co/ZD7hNxZ3rDOCua… #cafesigns
Bristol. Where I have no idea if that person is simply doing a cosplay I don’t recognise, or if they’re genuinely an off-duty steam train conductress.
Okay, Mrs Beeton has a recipe for a literal toast sandwich and I may have to try this. futilitycloset.com/2020/10/08/fig…
RellyAB ORC BONK ORC BONK ORC BONK twitter.com/ComicBook/stat…
@psidnell Can you breathe again yet?
@CharlieVivante “You’re gonna need a bigger ark.”
In other news, I just walked up the Zig Zag and I would now like to take the rest of the week off, please. pic.twitter.com/58Xlf7KJCg
“Hello, is that the AA?” pic.twitter.com/9s0XTwQ9OQ
Gosh. That’s some rakish parking, even for the Portway. #bristol #riveravon pic.twitter.com/eurITp8ARL