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Matt Gibson @gothick.bsky.social · 14d

Hey, it was the Sixties…

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Matt Gibson @gothick.bsky.social · 15d

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg as John Steed and Emma Peel

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 15d

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Matt Gibson @gothick.bsky.social · 15d

Yeah, a day’s honest work nicking “priceless” Crown Jewels and you’re allowed to root for them because they *still* haven’t made it into the 1%…

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 15d

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

YouTube video by Steve's Comedy & Vlogs

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Matt Gibson @gothick.bsky.social · 15d

What about a serial killer who only kills when the person he’s framing would be the most narratively-satisfying result of the detective’s career?

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Matt Gibson @gothick.bsky.social · 15d

When I had my bathroom done the first raw materials they moved in were the kilo jars of protein powder…

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Matt Gibson @gothick.bsky.social · 15d

Starting to get the feeling that AWS might've gone down...

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Matt Gibson @gothick.bsky.social · 23d

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.

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Matt Gibson @gothick.bsky.social · 23d

I have an even nicer bureau now. I fear this may just be my clinging onto my childhood even as I edge closer to the grave.

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Matt Gibson @gothick.bsky.social · 23d

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.)

A terrifyingly-tidy 16-year-old's bedroom including a glass-fronted bookshelf protecting a copy of the Chidren's Britannica, a bureau for those important 16-year-old epistolary duties, a very tidy noticeboard and a globe.

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Matt Gibson @gothick.bsky.social · 23d

Fantastic! 😍

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Matt Gibson @gothick.bsky.social · 23d

EXCELLENT! We had the infra-red version of the remote, we looked down on our poor relations who had the wired JVC remote :D

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Matt Gibson @gothick.bsky.social · 23d

In which JB Priestley goes all Hunter S Thompson on us.

Something more must be said, however, about that cold
which was coming on, for it plays a part in the narrative that
follows. I suffer at times from damp snivelling colds in the
head, which descend upon me quite suddenly, turning me
into a helpless and disgusting red-nosed and red-eyed animal
feebly crying for still more handkerchiefs. Now my doctor
had found some stuff for me that immediately dried up these
colds. It did not cure them but it drove them, so to speak,
from the surface. After a dose or two of it, I am no longer
helpless and sodden, but am able to carry out - perhaps rather
drearily - an average programme of work or play. In the car
travelling north, I realised that a particularly nasty cold was
threatening and that unless I grappled with it at once I should
be unable to see anything for days and my journey would
be wasted. So I began dosing myself with this mixture. (It
contains belladonna; you take it before food; and for a few
seconds, as a result of its drying-up properties, it makes you
feel rather sick.) As the cold seemed to be of gigantic size and
strength, I had to keep on dosing myself all the week. I was
able to do all that I had arranged to do. Nobody knew that
I had a cold. But my inside was the arena for a grand seven-
day contest, Giant Cold v. Belladonna Mixture.

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Matt Gibson @gothick.bsky.social · 23d

Aww. I bet they had to get their leather rocker jackets specially imported because that special shop around the back of the High Street only stocked one at a time :D

PS: Absolutely loved T'Pau. Here is my childhood bedroom with a couple of signed pics pride of place on the noticeboard.

My childhood bedroom, circa 1989, with T'Pau and the Pet Shop Boys featuring on the noticeboard in my very, very overly-tidy-for-a-16-year-old room.

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Matt Gibson @gothick.bsky.social · 23d

Borough Market, 2pm Saturday. Where *everyone* has Resting Will-Everyone-Else-In-The-Whole-World-Please-Fuck-Off Face.

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 23d

You may call it ‘Chatfishing’, but I shall only refer to it as ‘Cyrano de Berger-App’
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...

www.theguardian.com

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Matt Gibson @gothick.bsky.social · 23d

...each in its own way an old-fashioned "proper" pub and well worth a visit.

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Matt Gibson @gothick.bsky.social · 23d

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...

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Matt Gibson @gothick.bsky.social · 23d

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...

Books and mags: William Butler Yeats's _On Magic & the Occult (Watkins Books); Rory Clements' _A Cold Wind from Moscow_ (Daunt Books); Volume 5 of _The Light Extended: A Journal of the Golden Dawn_ (Atlantis Books)

Matt Gibson @gothick.bsky.social · 23d

Circa 1985 I was clearly proud of this house I’d drawn in the Sketch Drawing program from the Acorn Electron Welcome tape but while we clearly had a VCR (JBC HR-7650EK, left) I didn’t think of recording it, so just grabbed a camera.

A beautiful house being displayed on our telly.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 23d

🧵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.

1950s/60s? shot of a TV screen. Female presenter

1950s/60s shot of a TV screen. Unknown guitarists

Blurry pink shot of a TV screen. Women in evening dress

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Matt Gibson @gothick.bsky.social · 23d

A little band from Shrewsbury doing everything they possibly could not to look or sound like a little band from Shrewsbury and doing it pretty bloody well, too.

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Matt Gibson @gothick.bsky.social · 23d

Which episode?

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Bayswater.