Matt Gibson (@gothick)

Hotwells, Bristol

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

October 26th, 2020

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

via Twitter for iPad (retweeted on 1:48 PM, Oct 26th, 2020 via Twitter Web App)

Now to see if I can blow a fragment of Oldbury-on-Severn roughly the area of Wales off the 6D’s sensor…

via Twitter Web App

@benjohnbarnes I couldn’t possibly part with the Dior, darling.

via Twitter Web App in reply to benjohnbarnes

@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.

via Twitter Web App in reply to jennifermjones

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

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(And also because it’s a Lotus-branded string of synthetic pearls so would probably fetch about £25 on eBay if I were lucky…)

via Twitter Web App in reply to gothick

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

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 1:00 PM, Oct 26th, 2020 via Twitter Web App)

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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via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 12:44 PM, Oct 26th, 2020 via Twitter for iPhone)