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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 09/07/2026

I’m a fan of this wall

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henry ✷ @strange.website · 01/01/2026

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

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How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 28/11/2025

Map tiles for www.toiletmap.org.uk are now completely powered using a new API running on an @cloudflare.social worker. Over the next few months we'll be looking to ship a new frontend experience and fully migrate over to our new API as part of our move from Vercel We have an app on the way too!!

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

There's always money for more driving

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 21/11/2025

Snagged a great deal on a vinyl copy of one of my favourite albums. Couldn’t pass it up!! Certainly the new stand out LP in my collection

Two vinyl sleeves from the Lemon Jelly album 'Lost Horizons' displayed on a wooden table. The sleeve on the left features a bright, stylized vector illustration of rolling orange fields and a coastline under a blue sky. The sleeve on the right features a contrasting dark blue vector illustration of a city skyline and house at night. In the background, there are PlayStation and Nintendo Switch controllers and small potted plants.

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 14/11/2025

a fantastic first half to #ffconf - some really thought provoking talks!

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Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I’m an academic on the telly! Life ambition unlocked.

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Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The world breaks my heart every day in multiple ways, but also a bluebird alerted me to a barred owl this evening

A blurry cell phone pic of a barred owl sitting on a branch in twilight

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 22/07/2025

recently started becoming really paranoid about using Spotify because I have no idea if they’ll start suggesting unlabelled AI generated music / artists. I’ll be cancelling when my current subscription period is up I think

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 05/07/2025

We've just put our new Toilet Map dataset page live. You can use it to download a copy of our entire dataset to do with as you wish. It's licensed under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...) I'm looking to put some time into documenting our API soon also!

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 05/07/2025

Some Saturday reading 📖 My new copy of @gaillyk.bsky.social and @jo-anneb.bsky.social 's new book arrived just in time to pick up on my walk into town.

A café table with a cup of coffee, a glass of water, an almond croissant, and the book 'Designing Inclusive Public Toilets: Wee the People' by Jo-Anne Bichard & Gail Ramster.

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Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

My book is published today 📚. It’s called Designing Inclusive Public Toilets: Wee the People, written with @jo-anneb.bsky.social. It’s part inclusive design guide, part manifesto for better public toilets 🚽. Buy copies for all your friends! 🎁. Here’s what you’ll find inside 🧵

Copy of the book 'Designing Inclusive Public Toilets' in front of white bathroom tiles. In the foreground is a rubber duck.

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 30/04/2025

I’ll be walking a marathon with some mates for Macmillan in May along the North Norfolk coast 🥾🥾 if you can spare some pennies for the fundraising it’d be super appreciated 💚 I’ll post some pics of the views afterwards www.justgiving.com/page/oliver-...

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Norfolk Coast Mighty Hike 2025

Help OLIVER BARNWELL raise money to support Macmillan Cancer Support

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 22/04/2025

Some time back in Norwich

A view of Norwich Cathedral’s spire rising in the background under a partly cloudy sky, seen from behind a curtain of green willow branches. A red-brick building lines a calm river on the right side of the image.

A bottle and a pint glass of beer sit on a weathered wooden picnic table, which is painted with colorful, peeling designs including musical notes and abstract shapes

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 27/03/2025

Policy idea: rail card allowance past the 26-30 year old cap for people who don’t own a car?

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 20/03/2025

Wordle 1,370 X/6* ⬛⬛🟨🟩🟩 🟨🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 😰

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 02/03/2025

finally picked an IBM Model M up, I used one ages ago at work and loved it - well worth the investment

A vintage IBM Model M mechanical keyboard with a coiled cable is placed on a kitchen countertop. The keyboard has a beige and gray color scheme with a full-sized layout, including a number pad and function keys.

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 16/02/2025

does anyone know of a nice open source smart speaker platform (maybe pi based?) I'd like something for the kitchen to set timers, play the radio, ask random llm questions to perhaps that isn't owned by a big corp

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All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · 14/02/2025

A clumpy galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.67 (lookback time 6.33 billion years) with coordinates (150.17826, 2.12050). 45 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

A clumpy galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 45 volunteers.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

$A line graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1955 to 2025. The y-axis represents CO2 mole fraction in parts per million (ppm), ranging from 320 to 420 ppm, while the x-axis is years.$

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 03/02/2025

SaaS platforms that take you to their product marketing page instead of the dashboard when you’re authenticated …. 🙄

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 06/01/2025

First day in the newsroom tooling team at work! Looking forward to working on some new and interesting things 🧐

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year! P.S. Here’s us last night below.

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 24/12/2024

Fine work! Ironically the family were discussing the site yesterday when we were out for a walk and suddenly had a need!

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Toilet Map @toiletmap.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

From a community toilet in Friockheim, Scotland, to London loos in Tower Hamlets and Trafalgar Square, check out our 🚽 stars of 2024!🌟

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 23/12/2024

🚽✨ Our 2024 Toilet Roll of Honour is here! 🏆 @gaillyk.bsky.social and I have rolled out the red carpet for the most interesting loo related stats from the past year. Check out our first @toiletmap.bsky.social blog post to discover the 2024 LOO OF THE YEAR. www.toiletmap.org.uk/posts/our-20...

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Toilet Map: Our 2024 (Toilet) Roll of Honour

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 18/12/2024

large rise in the amount of random spam account followers recently 😰

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Here is a nice mushroom

A single tiny mushroom with a slippery yellow cap and a dark fuzzy stem grows on a mossy covered log in front of a fallen fern frond

Can I just say that we get beautiful mushrooms ALL WINTER that’s pretty cool

All photos by me

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Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Hey Londoners - done your xmas shopping yet? Been into town for festive fun? (top tip: Outernet at Tot Court Road has multi-player Tetris). Anyway, we'd like to know if you needed the loo when out (legit reasons). Please fill in this VERY SHORT survey, we'd be very grateful. #LondonLooSurvey #London

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 17/12/2024

Glasgow and Edinburgh were fab!

Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Statue wearing a cone hat

Greyfriars Bobby, outside the Greyfriars Bobby pub in Edinburgh

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 01/12/2024

finally got around to watching Napoleon,, good film, although I’m pretty sure they never shot the pyramids?! - and they managed to get a succulent meal reference in too! youtu.be/E4D2i07ucFI?...

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Succulent chinese meal reference??? (napoleon 2023)

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 01/12/2024

sleeper 🚞 up to Scotland tomorrow!! can’t wait for a week away from work to reset

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Word of the day is a favourite, from old Scots. To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 01/12/2024

just purchased an Apple developer licence … what have I done 😨 In more positive news, we may have a toilet map app in the new year!

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 25/11/2024

hello welcome to my tutorial on how the JPEG file format works

An edited version of the "how to draw an owl" meme. The title is "How to encode a JPEG of an owl". The first step is labeled "get some of these thingies", with a visualisation of the 2D cosine basis of the discrete cosine transform (a common sight in explainer articles). The second part is labeled "encode the rest of the fucking owl" (with the original and detailed owl picture above)

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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

My superpower is I can tell whenever the coffee cups in a tv show are empty. Law & Order hasn’t seen a wet cup in 30 years.

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 24/11/2024

'Toy Story 2' released 25 years ago today

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 23/11/2024

heading up to Edinburgh and then later Glasgow on the sleeper in a week or so - very excited to spend some time away from it all for a week!

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John Reilly @johnnyreilly.com · 22/11/2024

The Bank of England gets 10/10 for effort 🎄

The bank of England with a Christmas tree out front and the columns wrapped like candy canes

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ollie @olliethinks.co.uk · 22/11/2024

this is astounding, I’m surprised that this wasn’t already the default

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Bramus @bram.us · 20/11/2024

As of Chrome 131 you have more options to style `<details>` and `<summary>`. You can now use of the `display` property on these elements, and also use a `::details-content` pseudo-element to style the part that expands and collapses. developer.chrome.com/blog/styling...

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Reconnecting with the Twitter homies on Bluesky

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Orangetronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

we love to see the museum of english rural life getting into the spirit of bluesky and posting hog

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