Matt Gibson

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

Helicopter seems to be headed out there now. I fear something has gone Quite Wrong.

There is something very wrong on the Portway and there are ambulances and fire crews including the rescue boat team heading that way fast. Maybe best avoided #bristol

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@RobbieSkeates @ChopsyBristol I think the director and I must have similar taste in shots; snapped this back in 2022!

@ChopsyBristol Yes, it’s Vicarge Road, leading onto Hamilton Rd. Just down from Stackpool Rd.

Remember Afterlife with Lesley Sharp? Filmed in Bristol. Not seen it since it was on TV but picked up a second hand DVD because I remember it being decent. And bang, straight in with a really dark scene… this is Southville right? I feel like Being Human wasn’t far away either

Never stop saying "dozen" and "half dozen". Never stop using the word you read in an old novella. Never stop using your regional jargon. Don't succumb to an internationalized English stripped of its whimsy and romanticism in the name of streamlining global commerce.

@pleasantgreen Jesus. I'm not even American and I know the 555 exchange is a deliberately-not-real thing.

YouTube removed my video because I violated James Wilson's privacy. I sincerely want to apologize to James. But I can't. Cause he's not real.

@RobertChiodo777 @KeruboSk Same with mine; born 1896.

@KeruboSk My great grandmother

Just out of curiosity… who out there has actually talked to someone born in the 1800s during their lifetime?

@Sarkbeard @ChopsyBristol It felt like that when I arrived here, in 1995...

@ChopsyBristol Jewel in Bristol's crown...no doubt soon to be repurposed. It's a grim area, feels vaguely post-apocalyptic

Welcome to Broadmead

Just seen this programme on iPlayer called #Threads I'm hoping it will take my mind off current global affairs. I like a drama about 80's fashion

@vsync @CR1337 That just seems to be the quality of Microsoft messages these days. I guess they sacked all their translation staff and just use AI now.

@CR1337 this looks scammy... check out the ungrammatical "no appeals available" sentence

Just Microsoft things... Recently they terminated the VeraCrypt developer's Microsoft account. VeraCrypt is a free and open-source disk encryption software that performs on-the-fly encryption (OTFE) to create virtual encrypted disks, encrypt partitions, or secure entire storage devices.

@joolsd Poor George.

"perfectly normal behaviour for the wife of a spy"

sorry how do you try to shag two separate nuclear submarine commanders while your husband is a chinese spy and it somehow is not connected

@Domin3478172021 @Calveit I bet Notepad++ is still vastly more efficient.

@Calveit hmm notepad on w11 is diffrent app thought... multitab, auto-save, more like notepad++ than win10 notepad

Typed the same two lines of "The Ring Verse" (while fighting autocorrect) on Windows 11. Notepad.exe hit 650k events (allocs/frees), ~72MB. The text I used has roughly 145 characters. Win10 - 103 events/char - 4 KB/char Win11 - 4510 events/char - 497 KB/char

@WeirdBristol A passing stranger told me this very fact when I was there last Wednesday.

At Portishead Point (also known as Battery Point) in Portishead (near Bristol), large ships are able to pass closer to the mainland than they are anywhere else in the United Kingdom.

@ronanbeckman Always reminded of Larry Niven's first edition of Ringworld, where the great hard SF author had the earth rotating in the wrong direction in chapter one :D

Mortified by an editing error in your published book? Take heart authors. I've just encountered this in the first few pages of a book I bought. Published by a little press. You may have heard of them: Bloomsbury. No shame on the author - someone should've caught this.

🚨 CRITICAL: Active supply chain attack on axios -- one of npm's most depended-on packages. The latest axios@1.14.1 now pulls in plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, a package that did not exist before today. This is a live compromise. This is textbook supply chain installer malware. axios has 100M+ weekly downloads. Every npm install pulling the latest version is potentially compromised right now. Socket AI analysis confirms this is malware. plain-crypto-js is an obfuscated dropper/loader that: • Deobfuscates embedded payloads and operational strings at runtime • Dynamically loads fs, os, and execSync to evade static analysis • Executes decoded shell commands • Stages and copies payload files into OS temp and Windows ProgramData directories • Deletes and renames artifacts post-execution to destroy forensic evidence If you use axios, pin your version immediately and audit your lockfiles. Do not upgrade.

@martr101 Cheers! #indomitablepub

Merchants Arms AGAIN!

@smith_john21431 @WeirdBristol

@WeirdBristol Do you have any photos of it with the road still running across the top? I've crossed this bridge hundreds of times and find it fascinating that it was once the main road connection across the harbour. Hard to imagine now with the plimsoll bridge and other developments nearby.

Ashton Avenue Bridge opened in 1906 to connect the Bristol Harbour Railway & the Portishead Railway. The hydraulic-powered swing bridge was somewhat innovative in design as it was a double-decker crossing, allowing trains to pass at the bottom level and road vehicles at the top.

@martr101 I think there are problems with adding bollards/railings by the pub because of cellars below(?). I wonder if there's space to narrow the road down and increase the distance to the pub frontage and maybe allow some bollards/railings/whatever. Or at least put a speed cam in...

@gothick We need to enforce the speed limits. But we don't.