Guess the Adam & Eve’s going to be flats, then… rightmove.co.uk/properties/902…
@aajuk I’m afraid I’ve never eaten a pretzel in Bristol!
I have just verified that it fits inside me though. Recommended, as of corse is the most excellent coffee. twitter.com/hopper_coffee/…
bkjwordplay If Batman truly wants to be of help, I’d appreciate if he’d spend a bit more time eating mosquitoes.
tesseralis ever think about how modern web development is pretty much “we got Microsoft Word to play DOOM” on an industry-wide scale
End of the road. pic.twitter.com/xSS3SgnJzi
doeeyedlettuce Legal support for the Bristol protesters if anyone wants to donate. gofundme.com/f/killthebill-…
Well that didn’t last long. pic.twitter.com/ADt7F0MW5L
yayitsrob TOTE BOAT AFLOAT, OPENING BLOATED TRADE MOAT twitter.com/business/statu…
@AmyOztan This may be the first time I’ve seen “pushing the envelope” used literally.
The Hidden Source - St John’s Conduit. A 1970s documentary featuring great footage of Bristol, tracing the Carmelite water pipe that runs from Brandon Hill under Park Street. youtu.be/ONZvptymaGo via @YouTube
DreamsOfHam elect me as mayor, and I will ensure we do this to all our buildings, at varying speeds and for no reason at all twitter.com/splattne/statu…
Pooles Wharf Court #sakura pic.twitter.com/U3ChUJ7vsz
Excellent flat white from @coffeeundrpress on Park Street earlier. Cheers! #bristol #coffee pic.twitter.com/s7PclNVF5d
KaseyKlimes Everyone talks about “burnout” as something that happens when you work too much.
I see it far more in people who work a normal amount on things they know don’t matter.
@stillawake Great, isn’t it? As a bonus, here’s the photo I *meant* to post, which does actually feature the roofers :) pic.twitter.com/oITmxRvJdX
The Florist (and Vincenzo’s roofers!) #jody pic.twitter.com/2KqV5poSHv
Hello, Marvin. #deamze pic.twitter.com/0QfIPK8ALp
@thisisrjg @angelbelsey @BenGrabham @bohaynowell I had to go through my last car insurance claim with a northern call centre who had never heard of the dealership chain where my damaged car was being stored. “No, no, they really *are* called Dick Lovett. Honest.”
shaunthesheep UK fans: the Flock wanted to remind you to “spring forwards” tonight. Clocks go forwards an hour! ⏰👉 pic.twitter.com/dzhyp1KZga
There once was a cruiser called Shadow
Who sought to block Avon’s fierce outflow
Though as you see from this tweet
He’s a mere twenty feet
So now he’s just stuck on a plateau pic.twitter.com/3jBLg7kGC9
In Fading Light. pic.twitter.com/yxhg0DMMPX
@MrGreenGus In the end all I could see was some nice flowers.
Exodus. pic.twitter.com/j9aJnyVZmE
I think I can see a human figure in the random patterns on this wall, but it might just be my imagination… pic.twitter.com/tHFJEnxMqd
Brandon Daffodils. pic.twitter.com/iykZ8Lrv43
@pjakobs I had that on tape :)
Looking down. pic.twitter.com/DEu9L0AVw0
@shezza_t It’s amazing. Installed on World Suicide Prevention Day last year by an unknown artist, from what I remember. pic.twitter.com/KMsCI7iUQd
When you’re old enough to know why the logo and the number go together. pic.twitter.com/3geTPwVoHZ
Presumably this is a bar graph of predicted average Suez transit time this year. twitter.com/desdelboy/stat…
@chubbybannister The transition is definitely a work of art all by itself.
quephird Dammit… my sink is blocked and I have a pile of dishes to do too pic.twitter.com/YXpYmjcZoa
Boy and bear. pic.twitter.com/EqwHss64S8
smolrobots Bigbot is Stuck. pic.twitter.com/CJbD0ibdKQ
Okay, so I know it’s a Banksy, but I didn’t realise it was there *before* the loading bay was put in! Anyone know when that happened? (“before” image: bristol-street-art.co.uk/gallery/photo/…) pic.twitter.com/VVmbRlA66M
@iphonefool I’ll see if I can nominate you once they approve my application.
Seems legit. pic.twitter.com/ZCc4WquZv8
@Bristolvor @dangusset We weren’t quite. But it was a very low tide and it’s the furthest I’ve been down the slipway. pic.twitter.com/nZJimu9hB1
5tevieM everytime you try and go on a website pic.twitter.com/vzTXGKzuON
imranchaudhri in 1995, while interning at apple, i bought a NeXT cube for $150 at stanford surplus
while designing mac os X with steve, he liked to tell us how the NeXT was better
so i started bringing in my cube to win arguments by showing him that things weren’t as good as he remembered
@penfriendrocks *Sighs in Management Information Developer*
jckarter “malloc”, from the French “mal LOC”, or “bad line of code”
There are many here among us. pic.twitter.com/tJ39YZ4QqZ
hannahnicklin The absolute sound of delight I emitted when I realised not only does this place mat fit on my coffee table, but… pic.twitter.com/762VBEXH0c
beardedjourno YoBikes are no longer available in Bristol. The dock-less hire scheme launched in 2017 but has been beset by problems. I am attempting to speak to the company but it could be tricky as their website has been deleted. pic.twitter.com/BsOs7F9GvH
briscoepark Photos about loneliness pic.twitter.com/jkxdysW1Ld
Just bought a ticket to a gig in 2022. Hopefully future me will still be into the band by then…
On the down-low. pic.twitter.com/BZgQZK6Yqv
Memories. pic.twitter.com/3ccC0DI8A4
@HarringtonBear Thanks!
Wavefront pic.twitter.com/eODEpiT1nX
Basin colours. pic.twitter.com/ekVWcLzCEI
@iamtheshunt1 I think it’s the second one I’ve seen, but I might be wrong. (also: there’s been a bloke doing something to the tarmac of the school playground opposite me with a gas burner for about two weeks so I keep getting false alarms! 🔥)
@wood5y Sounds about right.
BLOON. pic.twitter.com/ex630534Zk
@domwakeling Yes indeedy.
You can have any colour ink as long as it’s black. pic.twitter.com/MQOfkATHnv
Holy crap. I’d forgotten that baby David Sylvian looks like this but still manages to sound like Grand Old David Sylvian the World Weary youtube.com/watch?v=KF_hIn… twitter.com/paulclammer/st…
Ooooh. Love a bit of Japan, me. And there’s a tenuous connection to my recent musical crush on Life Without Buildings, too, I suppose. twitter.com/Tim_Burgess/st…
Bought another postcard. pic.twitter.com/UjR7rEISLP
dhewlett This is the best “coming soon” trailer ever! I cannot wait to see this little beast in action…on freakin’ Mars!!!! twitter.com/nasapersevere/…
@David_on_a_bike “The Albion Dry Dock fills from the Floating Harbour and drains into the adjacent river thus obviating the need for pumps to help empty and fill the dry dock.” maritimejournal.com/news101/marine…
Bit less danger of that right now. Not that I’m demeaning the Apple, but it’s no MV Dumra. pic.twitter.com/GYYhTkAIGa
@chubbybannister It’s not like I’m from once of the noble professions, like plumbing. In a hundred years someone’s going to read my census return and say, “why the fuck was that even a job?”
The harbourside by the Grain Barge is a bit rippled by all the tree roots. Just found out it was once rippled by something a bit bigger… museums.bristol.gov.uk/details.php?ir… pic.twitter.com/7Mboqe9eID
Vestige. pic.twitter.com/E68oopJU2Q
@tsunimee Just general stuff about you and your household and work. Took about five minutes.
@chubbybannister I have never typed so wearily as when I tried to enter the description of my job.
BrydieLK We’re having a weather event called a “rain bomb” in Sydney and a woman just passed us clearly doing a morning after walk. Bodycon dress, carrying her heels, no raincoat, no umbrella, drenched from tip to toe, smiling to herself. A vision. An icon. I would follow her into war.
I have censused.
When will the pandemic be truly over and done with? One day after webcam manufacturers finally start releasing good products.
Locallearning We’ve added more to the @KYPBristol Stories and Walks layer including walks around the harbour and the blaise estate as well as #storymaps we’ve produced during lockdown like this #census related story of a Montpelier street
tinyurl.com/cbkbfjsk
Just hit my hundredth wander (and four hundredth kilometre!) of my “One Mile Matt” project. omm.gothick.org.uk
@patchyclouds At least you can’t see through the floor. Nearly had a heart attack the first time I looked down at my feet when standing on the Ghyston’s Cave balcony. pic.twitter.com/c3eoLmO2xS
I’m not sure I’ve ever realised that when I’m walking up this ramp entrance to the library that I’m also hanging in midair… pic.twitter.com/4TVZK0hbAs
Balmoral sundown. pic.twitter.com/wRvu5EYsqZ
TristanCorkPost Legal e-scooters gather in vast herds on the plains of Bedminster for the annual migration into the swamps of Ashton.
There’s safety in numbers against small hunting packs of privately-owned, predatory e-scooters & the now-endangered but still dangerous, carnivorous YoBike. pic.twitter.com/ppVGX5qeoX
@Setapp Say, searching in Setapp doesn’t seem to work for me any more, even searching for an app I could see in the main window before I started typing my search. Any ideas? Thanks! (v. 2.9.3) pic.twitter.com/9MKF4BRpux
@philjardine01 Bombed, I believe. (But I’m no historian, just interested.) childrenshomes.org.uk/BristolClifton… pic.twitter.com/VDb1VtZxGR
LMBD1418 A priest, a pastor and a rabbit walked in to blood donation clinic.
The nursed asked the rabbit: “What is your blood type?”
“I am probably a type O” said the rabbit.
And here’s a nice Loxton drawing of all of them. flickr.com/photos/bristol… pic.twitter.com/hSoFNP3tq9
The two other school buildings in the 1930s picture are the Clifton Industrial School: childrenshomes.org.uk/BristolClifton…
Mardyke c. 1930 vs. today; image from the Tarring Collection/@KYPBristol maps.bristol.gov.uk/kyp/?edition=b… In the modern picture the colourful modern flats top right are in School Road; in the 1930s picture you can see the Clifton National School there. pic.twitter.com/cpLdzWX49C
Isn’t that *your* job, Time Machine? pic.twitter.com/tk3MN0LNv8
@rankamateur Lazarus Mouse is the antihero in the noir thriller I’m writing.
@beardedjourno There’s a coincidence! Walked past this just last night. pic.twitter.com/1vFWkijooC
beardedjourno A year-long programme of events will celebrate film pioneer William Friese-Greene bristol247.com/culture/film/c…
tomgauld ‘Newly Discovered Numbers’
(this drawing and others are for sale here: tomgauld.com/art-for-sale) pic.twitter.com/UuAswSgMRw
KYPBristol ‘Please drive quietly’, reads the notice attached to the lamp post on Upper Maudlin St. Almost unrecognisable now the 1912 King Edward VII Memorial building of the BRI has a monumental presence in this early 1930s photo.
maps.bristol.gov.uk/kyp/?edition=b… pic.twitter.com/8dzw19yaQu
MooseAllain What a lovely view - the Exe, trees, mist…
Sorry, I should apologise for posting my Exe/tree/mist views on herepic.twitter.com/UOKR9bCi7O7O
@Juggzy Funny you should say that, given what arrived in the post today. pic.twitter.com/IhKHVw5lDy
Cheeky. #cafesigns pic.twitter.com/Oy0uqr0DyB
DrAndrewThaler Holy mola. Spain’s high child mortality rate for coronavirus was likely a software error caused by storing ages as two-digits. 100+ year olds were marked as toddlers. twitter.com/mianrey/status…
@SternishOwl Thanks!
Nightsilt. pic.twitter.com/cWBE0yuAeH
‘fini evenin’. pic.twitter.com/3yc0B8pypw
@bathsaints @beardedjourno Nice!
Hashtag albumcover pic.twitter.com/yWz8uahgEt
@iamtheshunt1 Thank you. So nice to be able to get out for a walk after work and it be light enough to take a photo!
@beardedjourno I do like a turret. Especially a fairly random one on an otherwise relatively modest house. This is my favourite Bristol example, I think. google.com/maps/@51.45643…
beardedjourno My one ambition in life is to live in a house with a turret pic.twitter.com/7LS0RowroI
Dockside clock tower. #bristol pic.twitter.com/Bqr4Yj7bSk
cstross Random thought for the day:
If you genderflipped “Lord of the Rings”, then that bit when the middle-aged Frodo put on her ring and became invisible to everyone would *clearly* be a metaphor for marriage.
nikeshshukla Today’s Brown Baby podcast is with the amazing @emmy_the_great. We recorded at the end of last year. We talked about being parents, touring with a newborn and reading on the bog. podfollow.com/brown-baby-pod… pic.twitter.com/jhBNnsxSzj
Pandamoanimum Dolly Parton as umbrellas.
(Aka Brolly Parton)
A thread. pic.twitter.com/HBsmeoQSwr
Not going to lie, I sort of love it that bluetooth tube pre-amps exist. pic.twitter.com/fc4BBV5o1d
I’m not convinced I’d like to contract a Snape. pic.twitter.com/w4RO4Zdmix
hackerb0t Feds Spending Tech Money on Floppy Disks and COBOL, Report Says: nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…
@psidnell More than one!
Damn it. Recent macOS update appears to have broken the ability to swipe between desktops during a drag operation :(
Looking back. pic.twitter.com/bHy4XDoIp8
Looking up. pic.twitter.com/vkXVVJzsF1
Monarchy (as viewed by David Icke, presumably.) pic.twitter.com/57qMNcLFwT
“Bloody paparazzi. Can’t even go for a stroll in the woods…” #corvid pic.twitter.com/HIKnTKHsRN
@ahnlak Time can fly in the Merchants Arms :)
From this morning’s walk. pic.twitter.com/S3tjLDNI3g
The Merchants Arms, c.1912 and this morning. archives.bristol.gov.uk/records/43207/… #bristol #hotwells pic.twitter.com/cUoG64VmhK
“The new swing bridge at Cumberland Basin” (Merchants Road Bridge): 1930s versus this morning. Historical image: Bristol Archives/The Vaughan Collection archives.bristol.gov.uk/records/43207/… pic.twitter.com/J7AtaKtv7j
@sowerbyandluff *Wonders idly if Thesaurus Walrus sat here once* pic.twitter.com/SoOPJRCWiX
I have just found out that the “wideawake” style of hat is called that because its fabric doesn’t have a nap, and my respect for the ways of mid-19th-century milliners has definitely increased. pic.twitter.com/djT3St6o8n
A tableful of hail. pic.twitter.com/NG5CgfSmsQ
Curled up on my sofa reading Angela Carter as the hail storms down outside.
@4r7hr Christ, last week’s was hard enough.
That’s quite some hail. #bristol
BristolFerry Missed us?
Stay tuned.. pic.twitter.com/gG1LU6RDYs
@chubbybannister *hug* I did that last weekend. Feel a lot better this weekend.
@Dru_Marland One thing I’ve always liked: people are so attached to the correct spelling of “Albemarle” that they still sometimes sabotage the upstart street signs that have been put in since the “Albermarle” got keyed into the council records and got stuck there.
To be fair, it does get a listing, but a mere Grade II: historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-li… What I always wonder is if all the existing houses shuffled their door numbers down by one when this parvenu arrived fifty years later…
We fixed a line of code in our web browser, so please stand by for a 2.5GB download followed by two hours of installing and rebooting.
Fizzygrrl Help Twitter plz help
i found a bird dead, floating in the water bin we leave out for our raccoons and it was in there 20+ minutes
the kids begged me to save it
so i put wrapped it up and put it in my shirt for fast warming
an hour later
guys help my tits resurrected a bird
hilliatfields Why did they call it Covid road map & not the road to demask us?
@HelloPalendrome They don’t seem to have bothered, though!
South entrance lock. Surprised that even the kayak polo teams that play here have a low enough draft not to run aground. Or possibly “asilt” would be the word. pic.twitter.com/SairrcMBUJ
Pay & Display pic.twitter.com/AwXgqSPH6r
Empty basin. pic.twitter.com/UWDT6jESVm
Numbers 2-9 Albermarle Row are a Grade II* listed Georgian Terrace. Nobody talks about Number 1 Albermarle Row. Poor Number 1. pic.twitter.com/p6LSOd9EZ3
JulianDutton1 My annual reminder that sublime actor Jim Broadbent has the wonderful hobby of carving life-size wooden figures adorned with real human hair. I’m presuming that during lockdown he’s made enough to populate Bridlington. pic.twitter.com/XsjYhbcjnD
All of a sudden I can’t type a space character into YouTube’s search bar in Safari. Odd.
Are these cranes around the back of the A Bond, or something else? archives.bristol.gov.uk/records/43207/… pic.twitter.com/5nIWJkC0Y2
@martr101 @theunderfall Yup. In fact, I think they used to part-own it? I noticed there’s an information board down by the Campbell Buoy outside the gate these days. pic.twitter.com/dvooR9HQUe
(Info courtesy Maurice Fells’ _The A-Z of Curious Bristol_, hand-delivered by the author on Sunday—turns out he has quicker checkout-to-delivery than Amazon Prime if you happen to live around the corner 😂 )
The Britannia Buildings, Hotwell Road. It was once P&A Campbell’s local headquarters, and was named after one of their paddle steamers. There are some pictures of the PS Britannia (launched May, 1896) here: paddlesteamers.org/musings/megora… pic.twitter.com/hmIiZOVwF9
@Taysh83 @flexibits Also seeing this — just had to quit and restart to see the dock icon change from a 7 to an 8 (v3.3.6, macOS 11.2.2)
Guess that tree grew a bit. (Holy Trinity, #hotwells. 1920s image from the Vaughan collection: archives.bristol.gov.uk/records/43207/…) pic.twitter.com/DajxEoIt8G
MrCrystalMighty A while back I saw a tweet that said something like “if you read books obsessively when you were a kid and now spend all your time scrolling Twitter you just found a more efficient way to disassociate” - I think about that tweet a lot.
binkiemma It’s funny how I’ve always done the same job @TrinityBristol but since my job title has been CEO my LinkedIn requests/messages have exploded.
Babes, I’m a glorified ex-church caretaker, don’t get too excited 😆
@jukesie Have you got the latest Big Sur updates? I think the last two may have been related to MacBook charging. (Not sure whether they’d have harmed or helped, mind!)
@stillawake :) Thanks. Maybe one day…
Spring pic.twitter.com/wHf3mZOZwi
@MarkTaylorFood @CharlieVivante AMAZING.
@CharlieVivante @MarkTaylorFood Sadly my Cafe Signs project doesn’t go back that far :)
@CharlieVivante @MarkTaylorFood I have the feeling it might have turned into the Thali Cafe. York Road?
@dangusset I saw one the size of a helicopter gunship this week.
delroth_ Unexpected side effects of using a Sony branded camera strap: pic.twitter.com/VkCUto0uhw
emmahaslett My husband is a lighting electrician and I just found out his group text is called Watts App.
FinalBullet Pundits on the radio right now repeatedly referring to Musk as “Elon”, like he’s Kylie or Madonna. Can we respectfully agree to knock this off and refer to him by his name please, Space Noel Edmunds
@daycoder I once worked from a specification that was a screen capture image of an Excel spreadsheet that had been pasted into a word document. Sigh.
@dyqik @popey @basic70 @RachelTrue Westward Ho! Isn’t that far from me… They also live in Rose Cottage, which has no street number :)
@popey @basic70 @RachelTrue One of my regular test users is called Dave Null 😀. I also like to throw in one with a name like “Sqn. Ldr. Chloë Jane van der Meer-O’Malley” to see how many things I can break at once.
YesSirHumphrey The public doesn’t know anything about wasting government money. We’re the experts!
MrLovenstein Secret Panel HERE 🌞 tapas.io/episode/2080763 pic.twitter.com/6Tssq972GI
BBCLookNorth ‘Street photography made me love my city again’ bbc.in/30jdSeo
A better look at the Terrett Memorial Hall, which would’ve been just north of Entrance Lock, appropriate for a seamen’s mission (from the Loxton collection flickr.com/photos/bristol…) pic.twitter.com/sEe0IItC1K
Remembering how Dunscombe’s on St Augustine’s Parade were my opticians when I first moved to Bristol. They must’ve been there a while. Last Street View image with them in is 2008, I think. google.com/maps/@51.45286…
I’m trying to limit my impulse purchases of random Hotwells memorabilia. Honest. #bristol pic.twitter.com/huhvWwvkCZ
Batsphinx This remains the greatest sign I have ever borne witness to. pic.twitter.com/B4hEK6moUc
@KYPBristol She looks like one of those indomitably cheery grans who turn out to have crewed an ack ack gun emplacement during the war.
KYPBristol A lovely image of 1970s Bedminster from the Lewis collection. This chap stands outside his house at 37 The Nursery with North St in the background. Strong narrative in this one. Is that his wife returning from a shopping mission? Who were they?
maps.bristol.gov.uk/kyp/?edition=b… pic.twitter.com/cdvZpTml7e
5tevieM when you’re trying to print something pic.twitter.com/pcAiFTlQTD
Think this is the only photo I’ve ever taken of a paddle steamer near the Hotwells landing stage. Not under her own steam, though; this is the @PSMedwayQueen being towed out of Bristol after her hull was refitted by David Abels in Albion Dock in 2013. medwayqueen.co.uk/rebuilding-the… pic.twitter.com/OeffKAgWXi
Bristolians might recognise the Lockside cafe in the most famous British televisual exploration of the thought experiment of the Ship of Theseus. youtube.com/watch?v=56yN2z… twitter.com/sla_shalafi/st…
That’s quite a lot of photos. pic.twitter.com/jIBkswANSx
MittenDAmour I have a decent bottle of pinot noir in the house but it’s that time of the month and pinot just doesn’t pair well with codeine.
Need a white wine for that.
Looking back towards where the photographer would have stood, roughly facing them, this is the landing stage today. #hotwells pic.twitter.com/ul4mJ42Uhe
Bought a post card. pic.twitter.com/7eFfJu41kC
@penfriendrocks A category that also includes Ryvita.
@word_geek *Snigger*
thorgnyr Foreign friends.
There’s a possibility that there will be an volcanic eruption right next door to Reykjavík.
The good news: It’ll really rather likely be small and safe as can be. No worries.
The bad news: It’s called Sundhnjúkagígaröð í Þráinsskjaldarhrauni.
@unamccormack Had the jab at 1:30pm Saturday, thought I’d got away with no symptoms at all, woke up very feverish 2:30am-ish Sunday, felt a bit weird all day after that, but been fine since.
He seems to be craning his neck. pic.twitter.com/1PdjFyp7Db
New Jackson Pollock down on the Plimsoll Bridge. pic.twitter.com/MhN3u0WNpb
RikerGoogling tribble jerky
Interesting bit of Hotwells history on eBay: the Terrett Memorial Hall would have been just about where the defunct fountain in Cumberland Piazza is now. ebay.co.uk/itm/Temperance…
Sir, that is not how you cut trees. pic.twitter.com/3W0rDS1em6
sarah_edo What I say: I get sad if I don’t code enough, it calms me
What I mean: There is a rage burning inside me and coding both allows me to embrace that rage and control it
atlasobscura On the edge of Elizabeth City, NC sits a large, silvery dome. While it might look like a futuristic laboratory, this building is actually one of the few remaining structures built during WWII to manufacture the U.S Navy’s blimps. #sponsored #VisitECity atlasobscura.com/places/weeksvi…
One for @Avon_Stories. pic.twitter.com/1d8XtldHLo
@doeeyedlettuce I rarely get sugared out (which is why I’m glad I live at the opposite end of the harbour!) I will try to make it last, though.
It’s not often you see a Ford Consul Capri that’s in better nick than the car in front of it these days. pic.twitter.com/A56q1C2L5V
@doeeyedlettuce I shall put it on my list 😀
Vauxhall Bridge. #bristol pic.twitter.com/cFb4Ubm3Eh
And this is why, on my day off, I extend my lunchtime walk to go all the way around the harbourside. Mokoko are pretty much diametrically opposite me. pic.twitter.com/NsPgn7I9vA
@dangusset To quote Lieutenant Columbo: “I don’t even like being this tall.”