hannoir I know Paperchase is in dire financial straights but 3 for 2 on Valentine’s cards is tapping into a very niche market pic.twitter.com/6qmujGnoSq
clare_eliza In ‘sentences that would make your nan’s head explode’: I can’t update my car because I live on a hill pic.twitter.com/X0Jte5QYdG
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jojohwaffle Save Bristol Harbour community from Reckless City Council, give us our Democratic process. - Sign the Petition! chng.it/sRGfnzJR via @UKChange
ASPolice This Saturday, from 6pm, @ASPControlRoom will bring you real-time updates on 999 and 101 calls received. Head on over to their page on the night to join the action βοΈ π§ π
#ASPLive
orlo.uk/H2YZn pic.twitter.com/sPSq9jOyuE
InternetHippo They taught AI how to talk like a corporate middle manager and thought this meant the AI was conscious instead of realizing that corporate middle managers aren’t
bristol247 Bristol Boaters Community Association chair Mandy Sharman says that our city’s boat dwelling community could be “swept aside” if “shocking” fees are approved by cabinet today bristol247.com/opinion/your-sβ¦
@WillardFoxton I’ve had that exact awfulness recently. Them and Ocado, surprisingly, who also follow this dark pattern.
WillardFoxton I’m not even joking when I say it should be against the law to require you to ring up to cancel a subscription you can buy online.
@looksunfamiliar “I AM NOT A GOTH!”
@LRoundels @Si_Hart Was just thinking about both of them while watching The Creature from the Pit earlier today…
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In which the Fourth Doctor illustrates my approach to learning a new backend framework. (The Creature from the Pit, 1979) pic.twitter.com/ksuLo76Kso
@OnAmbridge Thanks! Didn’t know *how* I was going to get my kitchen cleaned without entertainment! :D
@OnAmbridge Erm. I seem to be hearing two completely different audio tracks superimposed in today’s podcast…
IQ_Adventures Colossal Cave is live on Steam! I hope all who get it enjoy it… a team of really great folks, led by our fearless ringmaster @caboken put together something really fun & special. It was my honor to work alongside everyone on team #ColossalCave pic.twitter.com/IQiSceOBPc
@ahnlak I’m reasonably happy with it. Got a few more to look through later, when I’ve not just walked 12k…
@RodneyMarshall1 Oh well if you must INSIST that I rewatch it IMMEDIATELY..pic.twitter.com/kUHmgYtq2323
@HenriettaRI Sounds orrotating.
@Ben_Aaronovitch If Peter ever gets bored of the Asbo… pic.twitter.com/0YZ97N7pC9
@dduane Paddington Bear Hard Stare. Works every time.
Twitterrific Today marks the end of an era. Sadly, we’ve been forced to pull Twitterrific from both the iOS and Mac App Stores.
Twitter’s unexplained revocation of our API access has left the app with no path forward. Please read our blog for more informationπ blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/twitteβ¦
RobBryher /@AniST: “There has been no consultation, no engagement and no equalities impact assessment on what it means for those whose lives depend on the harbour.”
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@corylus @Gingeybites I once sailed under Pero’s Bridge on a @BristolFerry boat as a saxophonist busked above me and a Bristol Balloons balloon floated past. It’s nice to see that Peak Bristol may return again…
@jenivescomedian Amen.
@RichlyEvocative Oh, hell yeah. See also “well, I took the time to collect a complete set of them…”
@morrick Jesus, the replies to this are terrifying.
LukesBeard I asked Midjourney to make a Dieter Rams designed Ebike. I did not disappoint. pic.twitter.com/tA3tsfUdEE
smolrobots 1803) Specialinterestbot. Are you a person who is very interested in one very specific thing? That’s okay! But not everyone wants to hear about it, which can be difficult. So here is a robot that wants nothing more than to listen intently to you talking about the thing. pic.twitter.com/OZbPgTI5TE
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@HenriettaRI @MarkBould3 Seconded. Sounds fascinating. The anti-Teela Brown gene..
@martr101 @NickHowes13 The Society of Merchant Venturers’ water pumping engine house, never put into operation, I believe. b-i-a-s.org.uk/wp-content/uplβ¦
@NickHowes13 The remnant, Berkeley Square, about a year ago. pic.twitter.com/mIxWTLoqIr
NickHowes13 It’s 1851, 170 years ago and the brand-new replica Bristol civic high Cross has just been built at the apex of college greenοΏΌ. pic.twitter.com/8ihJcqlhRg
@dangusset Hrm. This does not bode well for my lunchtime plan tomorrow.
dangusset Royal Mail - International Incident Bulletin
Bugger
Didn’t know about this until I waited in line at the Post Office at lunchtime only to be told they are not taking any international mail at the moment personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/deβ¦
@hxcprogrammer @CubicleApril Yup, me too. I also hear good things about Moom but Magnet seems to do all the things I want.
@CubicleApril I definitely second Alfred and 1Password. I’m an Omnifocus person but I’m glad there’s so much choice in to-do apps. For notes I use Notion for some things, but one app I’d find hard to replace if I had to move platforms is DevonThink.
Sunday walk. #Bristol pic.twitter.com/TcRhTveOlc
GrahamOfTheDead Absolute bullshit. I can distinctly remember the day Thundercats was first shown on BBC1. pic.twitter.com/KSWPjCU7Dm
@stalman If they still sold a 27” iMac I might’ve moved on to Apple Silicon by now. As it is it might be that my next upgrade is a secondhand, newer, 27” Intel iMac…
@BogdanCostea @AiSimonThompson @FEhrsam Yeah, same with British weight. Google understands that 147lb is 10.5 stone, but us Brits are looking for the answer “10 stone 7 pounds” and can get confused (I make a weight conversion app for iOS and get challenged on it occasionally! NOBODY uses “decimal stone” except Google.)
Postcard, Bandstand and Australia Pavilion, #Bristol International Exhibition, 1914. The message seems *quite* **emphatic** but my deciphering-of-1914-handwriting skills need some work. pic.twitter.com/v2dS5dzUqR
ThisIsTomLittle Rodney Trotter is gonna be in Frasier???? What next?? The guy who played George from Blackadder starring in some US medical drama???? Is Sophie from Peep Show gonna win an Oscar?????? π€£π€£π€£π€£
BroadhurstBooks I have just had a customer in the shop who does not have a TBR pile, he reads a book and when he finishes it he buys another one and he never keeps them so he has no books at home bar the one he is currently reading. I’m having trouble believing him. π
ElliottBlackwe3 Some dream of fame.
Some dream of traveling to space.
I dream of having a secret door in one library that leads to another hidden library. pic.twitter.com/uAYBrYb211
JeffOvers My 134 #London bus slowed just long enough this morning to snap this view again from the top deck in passing pic.twitter.com/eRVnjTzrQD
@looksunfamiliar Just watched this and it’s amazing. Thanks!
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@4r7hr Hey, we don’t kink-shame here.
@WeirdBristol I think I might know… pic.twitter.com/P6OGC4sQ0r0r
OH REALLY YOU DON’T SAY pic.twitter.com/RudoUhoYM3
Apparently being a bit pissed (thanks, @phpsw) does not diminish my abilities. Or I got lucky.
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Proposing to do something it turns out people don’t like, then breaking purdah rules to announce you’re not doing it as part of an election campaign? It’s getting to be a habit in Bristol.
First, today, Bristol Library:
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Some of the cast of Blake’s 7 arrive at the BBC for a Series D read-through. pic.twitter.com/EZzsWIzlms
Gruelling
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CyclistBristol An update on the progress, or rather lack of progress, by @BristolCouncil on fixing the @chocpath Chocolate Path - bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-nβ¦
Ba-da-BING
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@GrammarTable Just “hold”, but I’m British, and “ahold”/”a hold” definitely sounds American to my ears.
ctrlcreep What you mistook for a witch hat was a stack of books balanced on her head, the topmost grimoire no larger than your thumb nail
@beardedjourno @martr101 @hugenuge @dangusset @hccabristol @StephenWi11iams *crosses fingers*
JTLonsdale It’s been a mystery why Roman concrete often lasted thousands of years, but ours decays in mere decades.
Turns out they incorporated chemicals in a process that induces self-healing; scientists at MIT just figured this all out - in 2022.
Extraordinary.
news.mit.edu/2023/roman-conβ¦
@iamtheshunt1 Very.
NickHowes13 Rare cine film of Ashton Avenue road/rail bridge swung open for a sand dredger with the bonus of a steam train on the Portishead branch at Clifton Bridge station. pic.twitter.com/HW4cAmWzic
I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear the question over this HUGE STACK OF BOOKS twitter.com/Skailight/statβ¦
@4r7hr HDMI-CEC, possibly.
@RodneyMarshall1 @AuntieDrJo Yeah, deffo recommend. Hard to be objective with something that scared you to death as a kid, mind, but I’ve re-watched them recently and still enjoyed them.
Not too bad.
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@NickHowes13 Pevsner said St Andrew the Less was “…an unforgivable crime against the architecture of Dowry Square and chapel Row. Of no value either in its own Gothic forms. The spire is particularly nasty.” I’m not sure I prefer what replaced it. pic.twitter.com/aAFWHJQvbg
NickHowes13 Chapel Row, Hotwells; Lebeck House and neighbours c.1725 with St Andrew The Less 1873, all demolished 1964. pic.twitter.com/8gFWwC4Jko
@JamesHarrisNow I wouldn’t say this is the best of all possible replies to a tweet, but it’ll do.
@craigmod Current status: my printer now tells Alexa when it thinks it’s low on toner so she can nag me to order a new cartridge several months earlier than I need to, too. I don’t remember setting that up.
@tothemax2050 I’ve just strategically placed the new one at the end of my sofa with a bookmark ready on page 1 to encourage myself to get stuck in when I get home from work.
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@ArianeSherine Maybe I’ll have to rename the place. #socialmobility
@ArianeSherine I live in a basement flat. The other accusations I’ll stay silent on.
RailwayQueen Can I just show off the greatest gift ever received??? Yes, it’s real-time data, and I can set it to any station - it even does announcements if desired! π pic.twitter.com/HulnYHLR6L
@dangusset Free prescriptions, right? Sign me up.
@ColumboScreens I’d look like that if I were in the episode with Gretchen Corbett.
@JamesAHogg2 @BriggsNicholas Played this single nearly to death on my Dansette when I was a kid. Delighted still to have it! pic.twitter.com/5McPvvn0Iw
AgrapidiL Grèce
ChaniÑ ⒠Crète
Β© Gianis Angelakis pic.twitter.com/1gJoyfY2KO
@CharlieVivante SOME people just like umami saltiness and there’s no shame in that. Not ME, obvs. And the KallΓΈ ones are much better for that anyway.
@karenwhite03 No, but I’m feeling guiltier about them today, if that helps?
@mcl_deonna @conoroneill15 Hear hear! I do feel that some of my favourite shows of all time are my favourites *because* they didn’t go on too long, but the OA felt like it was really just starting to rev its freakish engine.
@lilydoughball I care but I also know exactly what you mean x
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@DaveLadkin Same same. Also have a big soft spot for Silver Nemesis.
danrubin The camera π€ the photos (pop-up edition) #xpan pic.twitter.com/1zqkdgD0SY
@danrubin @Hasselblad @Bayeux1066 @moment @cameracaleb @craigmod @KodakProFilmBiz @ILFORDPhoto Oh, I have *so* always wanted an XPan.
Side note: my air quality monitor is angrily flashing in an attempt to warn me that patchouli is bad for me. #firstworldproblems
@ashleymcnamara I have *just* managed, for the first time, to avoid doing that. I am fifty this month. The turning point may be when you have enough leftovers from previous frivolous purchases to comfortably last the rest of your life…
FULL NOSTALGIA MODE ENGAGED pic.twitter.com/eW35CSCXif
justinkirkland4 My GOODNESS. pic.twitter.com/ktaO0HgGtb
lolennui Do tiktokers know that they are doing vaudeville
@chamomeriam Oh. Oh dear. pic.twitter.com/FhUW0OcT1Q
@timkindberg Complaining like a real gen-Q Aquarius INTJ there. Bet you were born in the Year of the Platypus.
@lexicojules Clifton Vale will probably kill me one day.
Scriblit Huge congratulations to all the people apparently going grocery shopping for the first time ever today. I’m sure you’ll get the hang of it eventually and find out that aisles aren’t for standing in large groups just sort of staring like you’re trying to work out a fucking riddle
Github 2022 summary: “It’s cold and wet, so I’m staying indoors and programming.” pic.twitter.com/TT6tUTPV8I
cult_edge Debuting at 6pm on Monday 2nd January 1978, happy 45th anniversary to #Blakes7. We’ll be marking this milestone soon with the Unofficial Blake’s 7 Annual 2023, an affectionate fan-led celebration of our favourite show. In the meantime, will you be watching ‘The Way Back’ today? pic.twitter.com/OlF1xkAjyF
@stevejelfs @NickHowes13 He still stands, near Lewins Mead. Samuel Morley, Liberal MP and abolitionist. “I believe that the power of England is to be reckoned not by her wealth or armies, but by the purity and virtue of the great mass of her population.” pic.twitter.com/73KzpuBu9N
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@Shonette One of my nearest!
RodneyMarshall1 When my dad submitted his script for Silent Dust, it provided the Avengers production team and location crew with a number of headaches. First, it required more location filming than ever before. Second, most of the main cast would need to be proficient horse riders. 1/ pic.twitter.com/APtI0i1wJZ