What’s with all the noise in Hotwells? #bristol
@Kavey HAIKU BUTTERFAT
Kavey For my birthday I’m fundraising again for the @TrusselTrust.
I’ve chosen them because rising energy prices are just one more factor driving people into poverty.
Any amount is appreciated, however small.
Thank you.
facebook.com/donate/4153625…
RonAmadeo lol. The self-fulfilling prophecy is complete.
Nobody bought Stadia because they assumed Google would kill it, and Google is forced to kill Stadia because it’s unpopular.
Google’s reputation for killing services killed a service,. I’m not sure how the company ever fixes that.
@4r7hr Are they, by any chance, experiencing an unusually high volume of calls right now?
@camfassett My best moment was analysing medical insurance claims and realising just how many spelling variations of “diarrhoea” and “haemorrhoids” were in my data.
@dangusset I missed the Wordle craze at the time but now I do it whenever someone else’s result pops up in my timeline :)
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KimmyMonte my glass coffin company “remains to be seen” is not doing as well as i thought it would.
AashViswanathan “Who blew up the pipeline?” If you like this sort of drama every morning, consider becoming a Data Engineer
@WeirdBristol @SaveRedlandLibr That almost but not entirely makes up for Canynge “Square” having an entire side missing.
@sbrandmusic @bendavis_86 Or the opposite, where you get a voice so boring you can’t tell if it’s actually a speech synthesiser droning out something you could have skim-read for the good bit in five seconds.
unmutualwebsite Today marks the 55th anniversary of the first UK screening of The Prisoner episode ‘Arrival’. A work of true genius, the TV landscape was forever changed. #theprisoner #itc #genius pic.twitter.com/7BinvlkrW4
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bufferingcast Season7, Episode 22 “Chosen” is now live.
Our hearts have never been more full. Thank you for six beautiful, immeasurable years.
We love you. ♥️
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📸:@KristaSchlueterrpic.twitter.com/fE4hNiplMww
David3141593 Pack arbitrary shellcode into an executable that always has the same MD5 hash:
github.com/DavidBuchanan3… pic.twitter.com/tdQwxA1ALT
@TimLees2 As I remember Ben Elton observing in the eighties: they’ll both fuck it up; it just determines whether you spend the money you don’t have on hospitals or tax cuts.
incunabula The Tripitaka Koreana - carved on 81258 woodblocks in the 13th century - is the most successful large data transfer over time yet achieved by humankind. 52 million characters of information, transmitted over nearly 8 centuries with zero data loss - an unequalled achievement. 1/ pic.twitter.com/TaNkmlldhA
GraceSlick_JA I wrote White Rabbit on a red upright piano that cost me about $50. It had eight or 10 keys missing, but that was OK because I could hear in my head the notes that weren’t there.
ImIronSam @BruceReuters Quantum leap episode where Sam Beckett jumps into Ed Miliband and has to eat a Bacon Sandwich to avoid all this mess.
@Kavey See also: “it was a brilliant book but the cover was bent on arrival. One star.”
@4r7hr Did someone drop a glass on it? It’s either that or a bullet made of ice or maybe I’ve been reading too much Agatha Christie.
@monaswitchhat @notetodemerzel @LittleMammith @JosephPolitano Except that by then every spam will be AI generated and deepfaked so well it’ll look just like it really *is* their grandkid on the video call who needs the money sent urgently…
@adamgasson It’s an interesting little book in places. Central Library has a copy. I read it as part of one of my weird walking projects. omm.gothick.org.uk/wanders/168
@adamgasson Indeed! I first heard about it in this tiny bit at the end of Colin Maggs’ _Bristol Port Railway & Pier_ book. pic.twitter.com/Fi4cXXwDjw
@adamgasson There was also a plan to join up the Hotwells stop of the Port & Pier with Temple Meads via underground tunnel—emerging right in the middle of Albermarle Row!maps.bristol.gov.uk/kyp/?edition=b…A
@chubbybannister In a minute.
Glassworks18 The local library is subtly subversive. pic.twitter.com/u6hsdbaMgE
PodsidePete So I like to buy old electrical devices and try to get them running again. I recently made two purchases. One, an elderly fan from the 50-60s. I was able to get working. And I purchased….the BOXpic.twitter.com/vzhH41BMFTFT
The Cowboy Junkies’ _Music is the Drug_ podcast is excellent all round, but the episode _1979_ that goes into their British influences is amazing if you’re a fan from this side of the Atlantic. …yjunkiesmusicisthedrug.buzzsprout.com/551557/1136174…
@BlueTapesUK EVERYTHING
@Castillocub @Bristolvor Took me a good few weeks!
@chubbybannister We have that plus the samba band that’s been going since 9ish. The bonus of the times I actually did the run is that at least you got to run away from them sometimes..
@DoodleForFood It’s in Devon, so probably quite a long way to come for a small (but perfectly-formed) museum! museumofwitchcraftandmagic.co.uk
KevlinHenney Just a reminder that all bug prioritisation schemes in practice degenerate to three scheduling categories: do it now, do it later, never do it.
If you have a numbered system with many priority levels, what you actually have is a bureaucratic system of denial.
@Bristolvor Hope so. Lamb bhuna; not done it before.
@Bristolvor Well I’m cooking a curry, so for balance you should get sausage beans and chips delivered. pic.twitter.com/ZfUoMVjDVz
@DoodleForFood …and maybe this snap of a bit of their witch’s room might inspire? pic.twitter.com/bJ7vNkiFvl
@DoodleForFood This glass walking stick was the thing that I remembered most from my visit to the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic earlier on this year… museumofwitchcraftandmagic.co.uk/object/glass-w…
@4r7hr I saw the theme early but didn’t have most of the right G.K. for it to help me much!
@seldo It’s the same people who think that et cetera is abbreviated as “ect”.
Fab find on Corn Street, too. Seems to be a day of books for me. #computing #history pic.twitter.com/yoI4IKGsGp
@WeirdBristol Made me happy to see. Confirmed that they’re brand new in; they were on the desk to have the labels pasted in the front!
Spotted in the wild—looks like fresh additions to Bristol Library!@WeirdBristollpic.twitter.com/1YH4oGr26dd
gossipbabies Working at any office is like “Ok we’re transitioning to Salarya, but payroll is still in Bullfrog—did you see my Noosecock post? Submit your timecard on Fireplayce then jizz me on Smackdog . Do NOT upload to Crackerz without Yammer approval
When I was transferred to @BritishGas after Bristol Energy died, they changed my supply address to one that simply doesn’t exist. I’ve been trying to get them to fix it for six months now. What next? Is this a breach of data protection regs? @ICOnews
KYPBristol The drama of the @brunelsbridge recorded very shortly after its 1864 opening. Spectators pose for the photographer who also captures the Hotwells railway station still in construction at the bottom of the Gorge on the Clifton side.
maps.bristol.gov.uk/kyp/?edition=b… pic.twitter.com/k4OSe0LZpk
AniaMags soup is a charade we all participate in in the endless quest to eat more bread
SarahJ_Berry After five months of living here, I’m starting to feel like Bristol is a better place to be a cyclist than a pedestrian.
@chelsiewrath I didn’t actually like Paris, Texas that much as a film but it was astoundingly good to look at.
@WeirdBristol About here, I’d say :D pic.twitter.com/3bGXJurxDK
CFrankpitt Ok #bristol - does anyone that regularly commutes on foot/bike/Voi between Temple Meads & Queen Square fancy clubbing together for a zip wire to get us over the water whilst Redcliffe Bridge is closed??! Two days in and the long detour is already breaking me… 😬
@4r7hr I just learned control-Z. I feel quite optimistic about the past.
@SimonLandmine Got lucky.
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MalwareTechBlog Ok guys you’ve convinced me TikTok is spyware. I’m uninstalling it now so China can’t get my personal data which is is only accessible by a ride share company that was hacked by a child, and a cell provider that was hacked by a child, and Twitter which was hacked by a child
BristolCouncil 🚧 Redcliffe Bridge is fully closing from today (20 September).
This means pedestrians and cyclists will need to join general traffic in following the diversion across Bristol Bridge.
It’s expected to reopen in November following repairs.
More: orlo.uk/YrDVT pic.twitter.com/1slfjSFoFG
@stillawake The stinkiest car was a giant Bentley. I’d guess they’d just pay the £30; it probably cost them that in petrol to crawl the length of Hopechapel Hill.
@KimCasey1971 @outonbluesix Another Luna fan in the house!
@outonbluesix My least-remembered trio are probably Luna en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_(TV_…, Dead Earnest: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Erne… and The Gaffer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gaffe… though I do sometimes come across someone who at least remembers one of them…
@stillawake It’s absolutely rammed in Hotwells. I was wondering how many of the cars would have been kept out by the clean air zone; the air is foul out there right now.
@4r7hr I felt like I might have got there in the end, on a good day.
shirleybar The funeral for Queen Elizabeth might appear a tad overdone to some but I’ll remind you that Italian Catholics have a TV station dedicated to observing the corpse of Padre Pio who died in 1968. pic.twitter.com/YHqLnKOltV
@4r7hr I threw in the towel due to being constrained by my work lunch hour + difficulty level.
Redcliffe bridge is closed to pedestrians & cyclists again if that changes anyone else’s route this morning! #bristol
@benjohnbarnes Hmm. Applied Rashomon…
jonty IMPORTANT UNICODE NOTICE:
The character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated in version 15.0.0.
Because it doesn’t have enough eyes. It needs to have three more eyes. pic.twitter.com/R37gIgjFBP
@dangusset @davidcinema Funnily enough, just watching Bull to get a little fix of Neil Maskell.
@davidcinema Life Is Beautiful.
ArianeSherine Kids, if you’ve ever wondered what a Sunday in the 1980s was like, today is the closest we’ve come to it since.
@scalzi Yup. I got into Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood through a random interest in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. So glad I did!
@patiencevulture I thought I wouldn’t be the only one wondering. I guessed they were using the Royal Cable Ties of State.
ultrabrilliant When Huw Edwards gets home, do you reckon he can’t stop narrating. “The fridge there, of course… a great thing for keeping liquid cold, as it has done for many years. The milk, a favourite of her late majesty, now… into my tea. A real atmosphere in the kitchen here tonight.”
Teszelszky #Earlymodern #books and manuscripts, well, a complete #library discovered in a hidden room in the tower of a Lutheran fortified church in #Transylvania! @onslies @groenewortels 1/ pic.twitter.com/VxXk0yE2hm
Sneakers
WarGames
Star Wars
Die Hard
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory twitter.com/bergopolis/sta…
Joannechocolat I can’t help wondering what kind of fabulous novel the late, great Iain Banks would have made of The Queue…
Dinfire Interpretive ringtone dance. Some of these are great. pic.twitter.com/A01G2huNqD
@alandownie @FogBugzTeam Yup, got one here, too. Extremely weird. #fogbugz
@4r7hr Still holding out over here.
@The_X_Stitcher Sun Comes Up, It’s Tuesday Morning by the Cowboy Junkies springs to mind.
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@cesca_peacock I am currently finding that most of the odd books I’m ordering from the Bristol and Somerset reserve stores have been recently special-ordered by someone else and I would like to know if we’re bitter enemies or star-cross’d lovers.
To be fair, they are the 19th century equivalent of inkjet printers, and I’m sure we’ve all been there…
@WeirdBristol I have descended that very ramp and had a swim in there…
@walshythebolshy @KnutCrosswords Oooh, yes, read that last year after seeing a plaque to her up the road from me. Great stuff.
__apf__ why do only rappers get cool professional names? i want to review recent product quality metrics with Vitamin-C++ and Miz ASSCII. Lil Ovaflow shows up 7min late but brings everyone coffee
@KnutCrosswords Pretty sure I learned that word from the cruciverbalist’s favourite novel, _She_…
@FrankMcG I’ll tell my boss once I’ve figured out how to send an email in this Lotus Notes thing…
samwcyo It’s been a little over 3 weeks since Google randomly sent me $249,999 and I still haven’t heard anything on the support ticket. Is there any way we could get in touch @Google?
(it’s OK if you don’t want it back…) pic.twitter.com/t6f7v5erli
@jennylandreth I just spent ten minutes finding the bit of the book where I first heard this in the 1990s—Aikido master Koichi Tohei’s _Ki in Daily Life_.pic.twitter.com/xjjuscu4Htt
Heather_v My new design policy pic.twitter.com/duxgsrRNmg
upyoursginaford Waitrose to shut on Monday for the funeral. You know what this means, right…?
Going to be some absolutely BANGING yellow sticker action there on Sunday. Set a reminder.
@4r7hr Whizzed through the G. and the T. in 15 minutes each today. 🔥
@chubbybannister Jeepers.
@chubbybannister Why can I imagine this as an incidental Half Man Half Biscuit lyric?
itsnashflynn my son has recently informed me the ‘wall people’ who ‘always have their eyes open’ don’t like us anymore. just curious if anyone is free tonight to help me move out
@AstroKatie I think William Gibson nailed it with his apocalypse in the Jackpot trilogy. twitter.com/greatdismal/st…
@dcorsetto Wow!
@simonindelicate She goes to a different school.
@dcorsetto The only thing I remember about the only Twinkie I ever ate was that it was surprisingly not vegetarian because it was made with beef fat. That was in the 1990s though…
brislordmayor The historic proclamation carriage for todays ceremony to proclaim King Charles III in Bristol. Please join us at 13:00, College Green pic.twitter.com/dVPxStuV6a
@mikemwilson I saved this from a magazine this month because it struck such a nerve. pic.twitter.com/gSBUnpJrLz
@bellatrixrod Charisma/sense of humour are fun and make an ability to gather followers believable. Then having internally consistent morals/boundaries. Lecter wouldn’t eat you if he thought it would be *rude*.
@wyrdsystems To experience the full range, watch it back-to-back with _Leon_!
@wyrdsystems Honestly think Oldman absolutely nailed it. So much emotion with such little movement; felt like a fitting tribute to Alec Guinness.
@seldo Tried _This is How You Lose the Time War_?
@Bristolvor Soon sort that out. pic.twitter.com/KahiMg51SL
@SObooknerd Adam Hall. Nobody else does the thriller style better, for me. The Quiller books are rather dated now, but the rhythm still pounds out from the prose and the character sketches are quick and artful and I’ll re-read one at the drop of a hat.
@RSykes0 @David_on_a_bike It didn’t seem to be closed to pedestrians for very long at all; I work just the other side of it and only got caught out once, I think. (What I’d really like is a webcam I could check before I set out in the mornings to see if I needed to change my route!)
GreatDismal I was as involved as my health over the past couple of years would allow, but that really wasn’t very much, so I consider myself fortunate indeed. One thing I managed to do, though, was stress the importance, to me, of having Lowbeer be played by a trans actor twitter.com/andrewbusey/st…
@ReallyMighty *cries in OA*
@memorialdevice You know, I don’t actually think I’ve read-read this since the 1980s. Might be time.
@B_Grady @scout_ian @SheffInterFC It’s like polo, only the horses are allowed to tackle.
mrnickharvey Well, that was unexpected.
[sound up]
#AccessionCouncil #KingCharlesIII pic.twitter.com/epHMgh6Ijf
@politicalhackuk @almurray He’s learned from that time the Pope signed the wrong bit of the form and accidentally excommunicated Lithuania.
KnutCrosswords Joyful song broadcast as Gove knighted (3,4,3,4)
@daycoder That episode of Song Exploder introduced me to Wolf Alice and I’m enormously glad it did. They were the last gig I went to and it was great.
GarethWild As Charles will be Charles III, can we start a campaign for the Royal Mail to be renamed C3PO?
georgemporter OK so you’re old, but are you “Installed Borland C++ compiler off of fifty 3.5” floppy disks” old?
@TheKingAdRob @ShriramKMurthi @georgemporter I swear that having started with nothing but examples in the ZX81 manual and volatile RAM is still shaping some of my daily existence.
@georgemporter Oh yeah. And later on, I didn’t have enough spare floppies to do Slackware in one go, so I made at least two trips to and from campus during the install :D
@hugenuge @KYPBristol As it used to look (Samuel Loxton, ca. 1910) pic.twitter.com/DunPOjM9Yj
@martr101 I love the way the “alternative route” on the consultation map for me was basically “piss off back to Hotwells and think of another route for yourself.”
Really hope Neil Gaiman hasn’t killed off the Queen in this season of the British monarchy. It would show he has no familiarity with the source material.
Hrm. Bristol Cathedral bell continuously tolling. Do they know something I don’t?
wpduk Apologies for the fault affecting #BS3 #Bristol and surrounding areas. We’re estimating to have the power restored by 17:30. Siân
kimquindlen A man in McDonald’s just ordered an apple pie and the cashier said “would you like to do two apple pies instead” while giving no reasoning or context and the man said “yes.” I demand all conversations moving forward to be this way. Efficient, goal-oriented, apple pie adjacent.
looksunfamiliar What ‘adult’ books and magazines were you insatiably curious about as a youngster? Steamy novels, complex science fiction, saucy humour, lurid crime encyclopedias.. anything labelled ‘explicit content’ basically. Let’s hear about them!
timworthington.org/2020/02/26/loo… pic.twitter.com/al9O35PMui
@looksunfamiliar As an early teenager I basically accidentally read Jackie Collins’ _Lovers and Gamblers_, which I seem to remember as an eye-opener. That and the “red triangle” Channel 4 films, especially Montenegro! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_trian…
@RealDramRob Criminal Minds.
@ahnlak “Alexa! Order me an emergency st—D’oh!”
@ahnlak I’d have to *stretch*, though.
Never mind, I’ll just sit in the dark.
@ahnlak “Brain the size of a planet and he asks me to set a timer for the air fryer…”
@hayles I ALWAYS say please and thank you. #notmyfault
@morrick Only people old enough to have paid their mortgages off and started to need reading glasses can afford the bloody things.
Come to think of it, I did tweet about emergent AI nightmares earlier today. Sorry, my bad. #alexadown twitter.com/hayles/status/…
Hrm. #alexa seems to be down, at least for me.
@cgpgrey @imyke I honestly don’t know if you’d have got through Moretex if this thread had existed first.
An emergent AI horror story… twitter.com/supercomposite…
@salisbury_matt Nah, you know too much about disaster recovery and consistency.
@thearclegends I always think of the character Basil Exposition in Austin Powers whenever I notice something like that clunking its way onto the page.
@barb_avon Every now and again—perhaps twice a year—I still have to write my signature, and it’s getting increasingly hard to remember how to do it. I imagine by the time those kids grow up signatures will be a quaint and unnecessary relic.
@chubbybannister Pulled that right out of the hat! A rather more linear progression for moi.
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@bboreham @timmisiak @ericlaw This might be the role I’ve been looking for all my life. Love putting on that deerstalker and tracking something down.
@dangusset Nice. I had another of my last-minute inspirations.
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@4r7hr @thespacepal Felt to me like they’d done something weird because of the Maskarade and forgotten to turn something back on. My guess would be that they’ll sort it tomorrow.
@daveinrusholme @guardian Glad it’s not just me, at least…
@dangusset Last-second inspiration.
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IanMartin In all this coverage of poor Bristol Zoo, is ANYONE going to mention Johnny Morris and Animal Magic? Is it just too much to remember literally the only zoo in Britain with TALKING ANIMALS? Oh, I suppose talking animals are old hat these days what with bloody TikTok and YouTube an
@planning4pubs @David_on_a_bike @SRLTraffic @BristolCouncil @Sustrans @Heritagelocum Here’s an amazing snap of it post-1970s renovation, from @KYPBristol :) maps.bristol.gov.uk/kyp/?edition=b… pic.twitter.com/UCN8Qfm70E
@planning4pubs @David_on_a_bike @SRLTraffic @BristolCouncil @Sustrans @Heritagelocum It’s the old Bristol Tramways clock, I think.
Mantia *This* was software. pic.twitter.com/U7F2mnS1a4
theantoniagold What’s a line from a book that really stuck with you?
No titles. No authors. No character names.
Line/scene/quote only.
@theantoniagold “I have often had the fancy that there is some one myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.”
When you suddenly realise it’s gone Wednesday and you haven’t checked to make sure Tosh made it out of the caravan #shetland
@dangusset J. F. C.
@dangusset I would love to know what that rapidly-deleted tweet was!