beardedjourno This is so sad to watch. One of Bristol’s most beautiful trees, a majestic weeping willow near Temple Meads, is being chopped down this morning. pic.twitter.com/act2fLr62w
Meliden “I will not accept that it’s a highly dangerous road”
From ITN archives. pic.twitter.com/snILgnwvPi
@marklesuk @BonfieldJames I don’t really care much how it plays out, I just want them all to use the same word for the same operation!
@corylus As it’s Word, I’m sure there’s also 300 ad-infested shovelblog articles that claim you can add it as a standard page size, none of which work with your version of Word, too…
@BonfieldJames I actually thought about that while I was posting. “install” seems to be reasonably consistent, but for my seldomest-used package managers I always seem to guess the wrong “upgrade this package” verb first time. It’s like plugging in a sodding USB A connector.
Would all the many and varied package manager developers in the world please get together and decide whether it’s “update” or “upgrade”, please?
Browsing eBay again. Wonder how much time I’d spend walking around Arnos Vale cemetery if I could get there on a direct tram from Hotwells at all, let alone for a penny… pic.twitter.com/JKKTWC41an
JPierreCoyle I don’t see him and Gere having the chemistry but I guess we will never know. pic.twitter.com/FIpGpWos1T
undertheraedar All A roads and motorways in Great Britain, in order, for today’s #30DayMapChallenge remix finale 🎶
My favourite (but also nemesis) is the A9 but I’m also quite fond of the A66, A82, and the A858, if we’re sharing our deepest secrets - yeah the A830 isn’t too bad either! pic.twitter.com/JH4BP5Rq0F
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@stabiloFFC Bit different from Sunday! pic.twitter.com/Njd9on0gRA
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@karnauskas It’s not just me, then.
christhebarker Bod Composition 1 by Wassilly Kandinsky pic.twitter.com/QlEDlLDFXz
@johndunleavy8 Adam Hall’s real name is Elleston Trevor. He also wrote… The Flight of the Phoenix!
@johndunleavy8 Do you know the connection?
I have all sorts of new and interesting #books to read, so of *course* I am reading a book as old as I am that I have read dozens of times before. pic.twitter.com/s3NvoYGT9q
ironicsans #BlackFriday is the day you unsubscribe from all the emails from everyone you bought something from over the year. #CyberMonday is the day they email you again anyway.
@hopper_coffee OH NOES. Good luck with the next thing along!
@chrisphin This is definitely one of those products where you never knew they existed and suddenly you want some.
@HilbilyRunAmok @todddlh @tweethue Ta!
BaytAlFann Artists have been using paper as a form of expression for thousands of years, through paper folding and intricate cutting techniques. Today, artists are redefining the art of paper.
Here are 24 contemporary paper artists inspired by Islamic geometry & pattern
A thread..pic.twitter.com/YNjJO1qye3e3
@grahamspiller @mandapen Sadly, I have the desire for cake but not the fitness regime. Mine’s just a pain au raisin d’etre.
@ememess @OMGegi Clothing recognition system in the cameras over the doors detects wealthier-looking people and ups the prices on the screens before they get close enough to read them.
@todddlh @HilbilyRunAmok @tweethue Glad it’s not just me. Did you get a fix?
@NoContextBrits I believe treason *is* still punishable by death, yes?
Bosh.
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@Kavey Past me was clearly thorough as you are down as Kavey Favelle with the accompanying note “Kavita”, presumably so whatever I searched for I’d find you. Guessing this has probably transferred down the years from something like a Nokia 6110…
Just discovered I still have the number for posting status updates via Twitter’s SMS gateway in my phone contacts. Really must have a clear-out one day…
Daniela_Prugger Seen in a bakery in #Kyiv today pic.twitter.com/hLmWWXfLpW
@DrFrancisYoung @TheSacredIsle I sometimes idly wonder whether Sport & Ski in Coventry still has its CLOSING DOWN SALE on like it did for all the years I lived there.
NoContextBrits The British Empire strikes back. pic.twitter.com/bU2tJrL3je
ToniWindsor I don’t know why there is no Netflix miniseries about this – sit back in awe & read about the greatest aviation disaster that never happened. Are you ready for The Story of Flight BA 009?
KYPBristol Old seamen stand watching the photographer capture a moment in time on Easter Monday 1907. The Merchant Seamen’s Almshouses on King Street still look much the same, at least this side of them - the other half was destroyed in the Blitz.
maps.bristol.gov.uk/kyp/?edition=b… pic.twitter.com/W6SO50yRHo
Hrm.
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I have had a couple of glasses of wine, it’s true. Notwithstanding that, I contend that Major Samantha Carter is the most attractive person in any SF universe. #stargate #sg1 #rewatch #bitpissed
Ah. Two of the four one-way signs at the entrances to the square have been twisted so incoming drivers can’t see them. That probably explains the car going the wrong way. twitter.com/gothick/status… pic.twitter.com/kusDIpuz7N
@dangusset @grahamspiller There *used* to be an un-vandalised sign on each entrance… now there’s a 50/50 chance of a driver not seeing one depending on the entrance they use. Sighpic.twitter.com/EC1xoTig5t5t
@dangusset @grahamspiller Ah. Maybe they just forgot which way it went after they’d been parked there for a few hours!
Is Queen Square still one way? I was surprised by a car going what I think of as the wrong way around it, but at a quick (and by no means thorough) look around I couldn’t see any one way signs..#bristolol
@blakespot @paulrickards @FozzTexx Have you got colours set up in your prompt?
@stabiloFFC Sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of this crispy bacon.
Bosh.
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@RellyAB My first Fairytale of New York this year happened while in the hygienist’s chair. Somewhat spoiled the moment.
Boom.
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andrewhunterm I have just completed a minor household task which I have been putting off for 18 months. It took me 15 minutes. Will I learn from this? I will not.
Every morning I enjoy passing the Planters of the Terran Fereration #blakes7 pic.twitter.com/N2kFn7uCsn
IntrovertProbss Nice try unknown number, I don’t even answer calls from people I know.
@KatharineSimps1 @Mandajascat @TVsCarlKinsella I once watched an episode of House back to back with an episode of Jeeves and Wooster and I’ve never fully recovered.
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@psidnell @ememess I for one have no intention of going to my bookshelf right now and totting up the number of books on procrastination that I haven’t got around to reading.
@NellytheWillow Whole place is pretty amazin. I love the organ. pic.twitter.com/begvMHVsOm
@dangusset Awww. Spent *ages* building that.
@memizon I honestly think AE Waite’s autobiography has one of the best titles ever, so I think I’m going to pick the one single book there that I’ve actually already read :)
@patiencevulture Brocken spectre.
dangusset Child (not shown) and I spent our Sunday afternoon on a walking tour of Avon Gorge caves, tunnels, and the nuclear bunker. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/IWfFuNrgII
At the moment, every time I bring up the app switcher while Docker is running I think it’s the Fail Whale appearing… pic.twitter.com/zxwpR4O4Sq
@theagilmore Thanks! That was amazing and inspirational :)
More Twitter nostalgia. Why yes, I *wonder* how Twitter plays out in a political setting… pic.twitter.com/CN9cuPcupK
d_feldman The copyright strike system is not working and people are having fun with it twitter.com/anally_retende…
CharlieVivante I’ve been reminded that every World Cup I like to round up places that aren’t showing it in Bristol so some of us can get some Godamn peace. A 🧵 as they come and hopefully I won’t fall out with a pub I’ve never even been to because they can’t read like last time.
@ahnlak I don’t recognise him.
Going through old Twitter nostalgia and found my Tweetpic archive from the days before Twitter hosted photos itself. Here I am with my invention the Tweetpad, a paper-based Twitter client for when you want to get away from technology… pic.twitter.com/ok4nFXt3Q3
Heritagelocum Fans of historic pub interiors will be pleased to hear the Kings Head on Victoria Street is open again - and it hasn’t changed. pic.twitter.com/qVmKTS35SK
@AirspeedSwift I think one of my regular expressions may have become self-aware at some point?
benjohnbarnes The whole of stack exchange still runs on 9 web servers. datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/stack-…
Fiddling while Rome burns.
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StorySlug Captain Elon: “With Picard captured and probably being tortured by the Cardassians, we’re going to have to be a little more hardcore. So we’re going to a one-shift rotation, everyone working all the time. Also get rid of the replicators and jettison the warp core.”
@Bristol52 @chubbybannister Boy, did you pick an evening to pick the Twitter app back up…
Urban fade. pic.twitter.com/qMeSOOHzrs
@ArianeSherine Don’t let this be your last ever tweet.
@ememess “Why did you decide to kill your husband?” “Well, he came home one afternoon with a copy of David Allen’s _Getting Things Done_…”
@4r7hr God.
Jeepers.
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PleaseBeGneiss hey i think we’re all heading over to the Arby’s on 35th and Pine Yelp review page if you want to come
joshbloch Sorry to interrupt the fun, but I’m deeply saddened to hear that Fred Brooks has passed away. He was a great man whose impact on our industry is incalculable. I’m forever indebted to him for his support in the fight for the right to reimplement APIs.
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hccabristol Congratulations to @LionCliftonwood whose Sunday lunch has achieved national acclaim!
Booking is now essential
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nukedtoronto I want to meet the person who came up with this fucking cover pic.twitter.com/g6i81krXv3
@AndyRileyish I immediately thought of Tony Hancock, and then did not change my mind.
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longnow In 01950, the average company on the Fortune 500 list had been around for 61 years. By 02019, that figure had fallen to 18 years.
Our Organizational Continuity Project studies long-lived institutions to figure out how to build ones that last: longnow.org/ideas/the-data…
@CharlieVivante I’m trying not to hope. Would be magical if they re-opened a station I could easily walk to from Hotwells and I could get to Portishead on it. But yeah, not planning on it arriving before my retirement.
SevaUT we criticize hollywood for lazy tropes but our two main antagonists right now is a former kgb agent with a penchant for poisoning and an emerald mine heir who wants to live on mars. if these were bond villains they’d be dismissed as caricature
anniierau one time in college a professor spent 90 minutes talking about an example scenario that involved beef and i thought nothing of it until several weeks later when i found out that my classmate had made a minute long compilation of all 125 times he said “beef” in one lecture pic.twitter.com/t5gzgwybp1
Remember kids, if the wind changes..twitter.com/tomwarren/stat…un
@salisbury_matt Did it take you long to choose?
Adam_Karpiak Everyone talks about the effects of burning out at work, but there should be more talk about how intense job search burnout is.
When you’re burnt out while searching it affects everything, from which jobs to apply for to bringing your best self to interviews. Be mindful of this.
@KWargamer Ta! Started getting my graphs on. pic.twitter.com/uLb7wRNcsH
@lilydoughball DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT A DOCTOR
@lilydoughball Lean into it. Lemsip smoothies. Buns with Lemsip icing. Lemsip Old Fashioneds.
@mark_bradshaw @BristolCouncil So is it only open at weekends? Or am I reading the sign wrong? Ta!
@chubbybannister Bah.
@ArianeSherine Sorry; we were all lured into TikTok and now we don’t have the attention span for books, film or relationships.
@chubbybannister I hope it was a horse & cart.
I feel like this talk that traces the modern CSS colours back through X’s rgb.txt might appeal to fellow geeks of a Certain Age… (Via @RecDiffs) youtu.be/HmStJQzclHc
MrJonDePlume “Ello, I wish to register a complaint” pic.twitter.com/G0hlbVmFMK
shutupmikeginn We get it poets: things are like other things
@benjohnbarnes I have not. I’m a long way away from the low level these days.
@danieldurrans @beardedjourno I would probably prefer it if they could move *the entire building* somewhere quieter, but that’s the only move I’ll accept.
@benjohnbarnes There’s a nice interactive visualisation here that I sometimes use as a quick teaching aid: cs.csub.edu/~msarr/visuali… (SQL Server stores its data in b-trees.)
innesmck not 100% sure what the actual destruction of twitter would do to my brain but im worried it’ll be very very funny and i’ll have no-one to tell
itsJeffTiedrich I am officially offering to buy twitter for 44 dollars
@chubbybannister Everything is bloody talking all the time these days. THIS VEHICLE IS TURNING LEFT. THIS VEHICLE IS STANDING STILL BUT BANGING ON ABOUT IT ANYWAY. PREPARE TO GET OFF THE ESCALATOR BECAUSE WE ONCE GOT SUED BY SOMEONE WHO WAS LOOKING AT THEIR PHONE INSTEAD OF WHERE THEY WERE GOING.
Amazon have made it so easy for people without printers to return packages that it’s now significantly harder for an old fart with a printer like me to find a good option…
Boom. #insomnia
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disasterlaster Elon Musk right now is like if Elmer Fudd bought a website of Bugs Bunnies
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@RealDramRob I had to turn off all notifications from it earlier because there’s no other way of stopping it whining about Reels to me.
@benjohnbarnes Well, it is NaNoWriMo month. That delete key’s just a menace. Get typing.
Polished. pic.twitter.com/bEwyCL5tsg
@daycoder Has your device recently done anything that might have offended your device?
@RealDramRob Yup; they’ve got an electricals bin.
TristanCorkPost Currently a 2½ mile queue of vehicle traffic in South Bristol, starting both from Long Ashton & Rownham Hill all the way to Bedminster Bridge
Because of this: bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-n… pic.twitter.com/ft5TpZNuTO
@GrammarTable 3. Your very writing is beautiful.
@tothemax2050 It will depend entirely on my mood. pic.twitter.com/R4k3Gt7chq
@Kavey Couldn’t quite get there.
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ZirconsForever A couple of weeks ago we had an icebreaker during my graduate seminar and the question was “What is your irrational fear?” My answer was “hammerhead sharks”. And today in class I walked in and saw this: pic.twitter.com/xUWcZrgqSr
ememess Musk will his confused tech-boy best to fuck Twitter up… but I’m staying. I have neither the time nor the energy to build this depth and richness of community and information sources again elsewhere - even if there was a likely candidate. If this ship goes down, I’ll go with it.
Is there a UK registered charity in the specific area of “people struggling with their fuel bills”?
CaseyNewton Tweeps are just hanging out in Slack saying nice things to each other until their access is cut off. I’ve never seen anything like it.
Some really incredible people leaving Twitter tonight. We are all worse off without them there
@Glassworks18 @HutchinsonDave Trying to figure out if The Violet Vengeance is Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes, or HP Lovecraft.
HutchinsonDave Roses are red,
Violets bring vengeance, pic.twitter.com/sPwo4Y0Pfo
#libraryporn at Stourhead. pic.twitter.com/OfrLSedi77
Tree of the Temple of Apollo ;D pic.twitter.com/btmv1Ztzf5
Temple of Apollo pic.twitter.com/a2lkfnSKCG
fcampbellhowes If you ever find it difficult to say no to things, please feel free to use this letter from George Bernard Shaw to my step-grandfather as a template. pic.twitter.com/GAOpY124Ui
fotofacade One for #throwbackthursday: a few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. pic.twitter.com/qMKnJ9yuhy
benjohnbarnes Please help me. When something is describes as “too granular” it means the pieces (grains) are:
@Locallearning @KYPBristol Thanks! Vector-digitising the map was something of a labour of love :)
@bendavis_86 Well, I just had to swim home, if that counts?
@BrentO Sharepoint.
@SocialBeastie @CharlieVivante Very much hoping not over here. *Hefts moobs à la Les Dawson*
@chubbybannister The opposite!
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@chubbybannister Woah.
Happy enough with that.
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To give you an idea of the scale of the 1914 Exhibition site, here’s a postcard, also from Bristol Archives, showing the impact it had on the Bristol environment. archives.bristol.gov.uk/records/43207/…. @KYPBristol of course has others… maps.bristol.gov.uk/kyp/?edition=b… pic.twitter.com/N9ie8ldwOr
I’d also like to say that I’m most fascinated by some of the parts of the exhibition that may or may not have happened (it was a provisional plan, after all.) Oh to have visited the Tubs of Joy or the House of Nonsense (now the site of the Paxton Drive flats!) #bristol
You’ll also find a few images tagged on the map. These show some postcards I’ve collected of images of the Exhibition (and Clifton Bridge Station) since it first piqued my interest.
Kudos also to the original 1914 draughtsperson and surveyor who made a characterful plan of a giant site that, when overlayed with no adjustment at all on the modern world, lines up extraordinarily well with modern landmarks. I was impressed.
Thanks @bristolarchives for giving me permission to photograph their original plan, digitise it (it took a while!), reorient it northwards and overlay it on modern @openstreetmap mapping Enormous thanks also Clive Burlton, author of _Bristol’s Lost City_ bristolbooks.org/shop/bristols-…
I’m fascinated by the 1914 #Bristol International Exhibition, the great “White City” that lives on in the name of the local White City Allotments. I made a website that shows you @bristolarchives’ plan of the Exhibition in a modern context: exhibition.gothick.org.uk #history pic.twitter.com/ItCwHPOP6Z