Matt Gibson
@gothick.bsky.social
Programmer. Photographer. Ambulomancer. Non erratum sed designatum. #Bristol
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
October 21, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
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In one episode of the second series of Stuff, the first five minutes consisted of what appeared to be an episode of Juliet Bravo, and really the only initial clue is that Juliet Bravo was never on BBC2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHmX...
Alexei Sayle - Juliet Bravo Cold Open - Funny Comedy Sketch Spoof Satire - Stuff S02E05
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October 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
In one episode of the second series of Stuff, the first five minutes consisted of what appeared to be an episode of Juliet Bravo, and really the only initial clue is that Juliet Bravo was never on BBC2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHmX...
Starting to get the feeling that AWS might've gone down...
October 20, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Starting to get the feeling that AWS might've gone down...
Anyway. That London. Museums, galleries, bookshops, the theatre, some great pubs and last night I even managed to have a drink with the Crossword Editor of the Times. It doesn't get much better than that, let me tell you.
October 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Anyway. That London. Museums, galleries, bookshops, the theatre, some great pubs and last night I even managed to have a drink with the Crossword Editor of the Times. It doesn't get much better than that, let me tell you.
The more I look at 16-year-old me's bedroom the more I can believe I was raised by parents who met when they were chairman and secretary of the Ilford Young Conservatives. Even the Pet Shop Boys poster is neatly pinned to the colour-coordinated noticeboard (next to Carol Decker, obvs.)
October 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The more I look at 16-year-old me's bedroom the more I can believe I was raised by parents who met when they were chairman and secretary of the Ilford Young Conservatives. Even the Pet Shop Boys poster is neatly pinned to the colour-coordinated noticeboard (next to Carol Decker, obvs.)
In which JB Priestley goes all Hunter S Thompson on us.
October 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
In which JB Priestley goes all Hunter S Thompson on us.
Borough Market, 2pm Saturday. Where *everyone* has Resting Will-Everyone-Else-In-The-Whole-World-Please-Fuck-Off Face.
October 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Borough Market, 2pm Saturday. Where *everyone* has Resting Will-Everyone-Else-In-The-Whole-World-Please-Fuck-Off Face.
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You may call it ‘Chatfishing’, but I shall only refer to it as ‘Cyrano de Berger-App’
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder
Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...
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October 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
You may call it ‘Chatfishing’, but I shall only refer to it as ‘Cyrano de Berger-App’
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
That doesn't mean I didn't spend a whole lot of moolah. London prices are mad. Though after the first day I didn't pay more than £8 for a pint; thanks to the CAMRA app for directing me to the Golden Eagle in Marylebone, the Ship & Shovell in Charing Cross and the Old King's Head in Borough...
October 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
That doesn't mean I didn't spend a whole lot of moolah. London prices are mad. Though after the first day I didn't pay more than £8 for a pint; thanks to the CAMRA app for directing me to the Golden Eagle in Marylebone, the Ship & Shovell in Charing Cross and the Old King's Head in Borough...
Back from That London with a surprisingly small amount of swag. Oh, and a library card from the Museum of Freemasonry, which I shall nestle alongside last year's one from the National Library of Wales in the hopes that I get to use either one again...
October 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Back from That London with a surprisingly small amount of swag. Oh, and a library card from the Museum of Freemasonry, which I shall nestle alongside last year's one from the National Library of Wales in the hopes that I get to use either one again...
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🧵Thread. I collect photos that people took of their TV screens (in the days before video) because they wanted to capture a historical moment, or at least something that meant something to them.
October 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
🧵Thread. I collect photos that people took of their TV screens (in the days before video) because they wanted to capture a historical moment, or at least something that meant something to them.
So. Time to wander out and try one of the local restaurants that I noted last night on the midnight walk back to the hotel as still having happy-looking punters.
October 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
So. Time to wander out and try one of the local restaurants that I noted last night on the midnight walk back to the hotel as still having happy-looking punters.
I’m staying in a hotel advertised by booking.com as being in Notting Hill. I am growing increasingly of the suspicion that it’s being advertised as being in Notting Hill because nobody has yet produced an international smash hit rom-com about Bayswater.
October 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I’m staying in a hotel advertised by booking.com as being in Notting Hill. I am growing increasingly of the suspicion that it’s being advertised as being in Notting Hill because nobody has yet produced an international smash hit rom-com about Bayswater.
So far I have visited the Tate Britain, the British Museum, the Museum of Freemasonry, got a flu jab, visited Daunt, Watkins, Atlantis and Treadwells bookshops, tried several CAMRA-rated pubs, taken in a show at the Bloomsbury Theatre and I’ve only been in That London since Wednesday. My feet hurt.
October 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
So far I have visited the Tate Britain, the British Museum, the Museum of Freemasonry, got a flu jab, visited Daunt, Watkins, Atlantis and Treadwells bookshops, tried several CAMRA-rated pubs, taken in a show at the Bloomsbury Theatre and I’ve only been in That London since Wednesday. My feet hurt.
Strangely delighted to notice earlier that among all its esoterica the archive of the Museum of Freemasonry has a copy of The Da Vinci Code 😂
October 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Strangely delighted to notice earlier that among all its esoterica the archive of the Museum of Freemasonry has a copy of The Da Vinci Code 😂
Well, if you’re going to do research, do it in style…
October 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Well, if you’re going to do research, do it in style…
Well for a last-minute ticket I really lucked out…
October 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Well for a last-minute ticket I really lucked out…
Also visited: the lovely Daunt Books, Marylebone.
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Also visited: the lovely Daunt Books, Marylebone.
Ironically, while my girlfriend is in Cyprus I’m in the British Museum looking at a small selection of the many things we stole from Cyprus
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Ironically, while my girlfriend is in Cyprus I’m in the British Museum looking at a small selection of the many things we stole from Cyprus
In That London. Tate Britain for Ithell Colquhoun exhibition, plus my first-time looks at Waterhouse’s _Lady of Shalott_ and (for Bristol interest) Henry Wallis’s _Chatterton_. Have also, to my chagrin, just experienced paying more than eight fecking quid for a pint of Brixton Atlantic.
October 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
In That London. Tate Britain for Ithell Colquhoun exhibition, plus my first-time looks at Waterhouse’s _Lady of Shalott_ and (for Bristol interest) Henry Wallis’s _Chatterton_. Have also, to my chagrin, just experienced paying more than eight fecking quid for a pint of Brixton Atlantic.
I fear the AI slop ads in the Evening Post might be getting to the point where they could kill vulnerable people.
October 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I fear the AI slop ads in the Evening Post might be getting to the point where they could kill vulnerable people.
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normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following
October 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following