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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 02/10/2026

I've been playing with giving my WhenIsBins API some unique API-only features in the hope I can incentivise AI agents to use the API, not just the website. loosemore.com/2026/10/02/a...

Footer of WhenIsBins.com showing the invitation to AI Agents to use its API to access the missed bins reporting data.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 17/09/2026

I made my first thing that's aimed primarily at AI Agents. Does anyone fancy helping me test it, by pointing their Ai Agent at it? If so, send me a DM (or just reply) and I'll ping you over details. Ideally, your agent will tread lightly, given it's very early days for my new thing.

Photo of an epaper fridge magnet showing what day your bins will be collected and what bins to leave out

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 23/07/2026

Looking forward to some rain, not least it'll be me an excuse to play with my new toy.

Photo of orange M5 Stick C, a tiny ESP32 device with a tiny screen

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 07/06/2026

It's a very good year for wild daisies!

photo of field of large wild daisies and some other wildflowers

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 07/06/2026

It's a very good year for wild daisies!

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 13/05/2026

No book has given more joy. At least in this house.

cover of the children's book titled "The story of the little mole who knew it was none of his business" with illustration of angry mole striding along purposefully with a curly turd on his head.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 16/02/2026

Good day to do this trip...

photo getting train window of red cliff and sea, near Dawlisih in Devon

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 16/02/2026

Done! I'm feeding user suggestions & bugs back into the LLM almost verbatim...

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 21/01/2026

Had some fun playing with Nano Banana last night.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 10/01/2026

Hello new followers. I'm in bar in Abergavenny. A man just came in dressed as a horse skeleton accompanied by much singing in Welsh. Any clue what's occurring?

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 01/01/2026

UEA looking at its best.

Modern campus buildings at University of East Anglia in Norwich, taken from distance across grass

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 21/12/2025

Short solstice kayak. Much wildfowl, of many flavours.

Map showing the route of my kayak trip today, from Wivenhoe to Fingringhoe.Mill and back.

Bow of my kayak with the Roman River and Fingtinghoe Mill in the background, on a still, grey winter day.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 13/12/2025

The path downriver from Barking Riverside station has opened. Good walk.

View over the mud flats of the River Thames, with moored ship and industrial landscape on the horizon

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 20/10/2025

Guess the dataset in this chart.

Line chart showing a mystery dataset from 2014 to the present day.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 04/10/2025

Lee over Sands. One of my favourite places on a windy evening.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 01/10/2025

Just seen this Texas TI30 Galaxy on eBay and I'm suddenly back at my comp, being bullied for not having a hideous Casio FX82 like literally everyone else. No regrets.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 13/06/2025

"Transformation happens at the speed of trust" is a phrase we say a lot to @publicdigital.bsky.social clients. I thought I'd write an article explaining in more detail what we mean. Improving trust within clients is one the outcomes we're most proud. public.digital/pd-insights/...

Photo of governance meeting during 2013 reset of Universal Credit. Photo includes lots of people standing up in front of a whiteboard wall containing many index cards. There is bunting.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 07/06/2025

My better half JoAngell.com is showing her paintings and prints at Hornsey Library, N8 this weekend. They're amazing, although I would say that wouldn't I?

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 13/05/2025

MLF's second recommendation from 2010. www.gov.uk/government/p...

2. Make Directgov a wholesaler as well as the retail shop front for
government services & content by mandating the development and opening up of Application Programme Interfaces (APls) to third parties.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 02/02/2025

Ally Pally sometimes gives you a very fine dusk

View through a brick portcullis gate over north London, with sunset clear sky.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 24/01/2025

Havengore Bridge, just before @stephendunn.bsky.social and I asserted our ancient navigational rights to persuade the bridge keeper to lift it for our small sailing dinghy.

Murky photo of Havengore lifting bridge taken from a sailing dinghy. The bridge connects Foulness Island (a closed military training area) to the rest of the UK.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 02/01/2025

My parents took us to see Etaples Military Cemetery when I was 10. I don't remember seeing this grave of another, much less fortunate Tom Loosemore. www.cwgc.org/find-records...

Photo of War Grave at Etaples Military a cemetery of Private T.E.D. Loosemore Middlesex Regiment, died 17/11/1916.

Photo of thousands of British war graves at Etaples Military cemetery

Screengrab of database entry of Commonwealth War Graves Commission for Thomas Edward Drake Loosemore service number 20298.
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Regiment & Unit/Ship
Middlesex Regiment, 4th Bn.

Date of Death
Died 17 November 1916

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at
ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

XII. E. 3A.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
Country of Service
United Kingdom

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 17/12/2024

Someone's just bought several of my better half's paintings. Not too late to get someone a unique Xmas gift of a painting... www.joangell.com

Small abstract acrylic painting, mainly pink and brown.

Small abstract acrylic painting, mainly pink, green and brown.

Small abstract acrylic painting, mainly green and black.

Painting of cat looking out of window, half-obscured by an orange curtain.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 17/12/2024

Come on, Ofcom. You're better than this. The new online safety regulations come into force in 3 months.

Screengrab of some just published Ofcom guidance on complying with the Online Safety Act. It reads " Small/medium sized service providers: may want to start with our digital tool when
available and review our summary documents where appropriate, before turning to
our risk assessment guidance, followed by our Codes (supplemented by our other
guidance documents)."

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 01/12/2024

"The first graphics generated by an electronic machine" - Electronic Abstraction 27 by Ben Laposky. From the Electric Dreams exhibition at Tate Modern.)

White line creating a spheroid shape on black background. Lines generated by electrical waveform signals on and then photographed.

The label reads:

Ben Laposky 1914-2000

Born and worked US

Electronic Abstraction 27

1952

Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper

This photograph, together with Electronic Abstraction 4 on display on its left, shows variations of electrical signals. To obtain these images, Laposky used an oscilloscope, a device which captures and displays electrical signals as waveforms and shows how they change over time. He manipulated the displayed wave forms and photographed the results. Laposky called these images 'Oscillons'. They are considered the first graphics generated using an electronic machine.

The Anne and Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 21/11/2024

My better half is an artist. She's just redesigned her website. Just in time for those seeking creative, classy xmas presents... www.joangell.com

Painting of two children playing with sticks in the river

Small abstract painting, mostly pink, orange and brown

Print picture of a cat looking out of a window from behind a semi translucent orange curtain

Table covered with 6 small abstract paintings of different colours and designs.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 16/11/2024

Doing my best to curate my better half's paintings and prints at this weekend's Wivenhoe Art Trail www.wivenhoearttrail.com/angell

Small acrylic abstract painting by Jo Angell. Mainly green and pink

Small square abstract painting by Jo Angell. Acrylic. Mainly red/brown tones.

Abstract stall giclee print. Mainly blue with black circle.

Painting of cat sitting at window behind semi transparent red curtain

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 10/11/2024

Remembering Sergeant Arnold Loosemore VC, died as a result of WW1 wounds in 1924, leaving his widow and child destitute, hence his burial in a shared grave.

Plaque commemorating Sergeant Arnold Loosemore VC DCM, after whom Loosemore Drive in Sheffield is named.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 12/10/2024

Excellent letter from a GP in today's Times. As a patient I'll only benefit from the joining up of my data if all clinicians describe the same things in the same way. (Joining up the myriad "IT systems" is necessary, but very far from being sufficient.)

Listless GP data

Sir, Leslie Scott (letter, Oct 11; Thunderer, Oct 10) mentions the failure of NHS computer systems to communicate. More importantly, there is no consensus on how to record clinical events across primary care: it is left to individual practices. Until there is a consensus, robustly applied and audited, the old adage "garbage in, garbage out" will continue to apply.

Andrew Rigby

GP, Tewkesbury, Glos

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 21/09/2024

My mum died over 30 years ago. Someone very kindly just sent me this, from the comp where she was a teacher for many years.

School building name sign saying "Jean Loosemore Music & Drama Block"

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 06/09/2024

Proud that artist better half joangell.com is supporting the excellent breast cancer charity Art For Cure with a gorgeous series of paintings. But then I would say that wouldn't I. Anyway, you can decide for yourselves: artforcure.org.uk/collections/...

Small abstract acrylic painting, mostly pink and orange.

Small abstract acrylic painting, mostly pink and brown.

Small abstract acrylic painting, pink, brown and orange.

Small abstract acrylic painting, pink, brown, black and orange.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 06/09/2024

I think the last thing I want DVLA's services to be "exciting"... (I'm being too snarky - gov.uk/driver-vehicles-account is a good thing)

Screenshot from a DVLA email prompting the DVLA's "exciting new online service".

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 03/09/2024

Oooh, my (much) better half just gave me this book. Suspect I won't be able to resist devouring it all in one sitting.

Cover of book called The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono, featuring a wonderful lino print of an idylic tree-strewn landscape.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 27/08/2024

I was at this gig, wherein The Railway Children so chose the wrong support act.

Photo of Damon Albarn on stage with Alex James.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 09/06/2024

Sailing past Brightlingsea's Blessing Of The Waters ceremony. Lots of horns being blown.

Sailing smacks with bunting parading in a line on the sea with dramatic sky.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 03/06/2024

Particularly good post from @pahlkadot.bsky.social on why you should fund teams, not programmes. Really like the way the graphs build. eatingpolicy.substack.com/p/project-vs...

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 14/05/2024

My better half just unearthed this wall-sized map of Bolivia from when I lived in La Paz in the early 90s. Many memories, of all flavours.

Very large map of Bolivia, laid out on a wooden floor.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 10/05/2024

All of my @publicdigital.bsky.social colleagues are very dear to me.

Tom's precious Birmingham City FC mug now sullied with an additional sticker saying 'relegation champions'.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 09/04/2024

Got an email update "from the DVLA blog", encouraging me to click on a link to a random .gd domain. Funnily enough, I'll not be doing that. Now the email *is* legit, but the above plus being sent from a random .com domain make it smell well dodgy. Worth a mull, whoever's running blog.gov.uk.

Screen grab of an image of cars on motorway which includes a call to action to check out the new services the DVLA added to their motoring account. Well, I presume it's from the DVLA.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 10/02/2024

Just bought 10 copies of Russell Davies' new book 'How To Do Presentations' for colleagues, friends and family. It's totally, totally brilliant. fitzrovialightindustries.com/produc…

Inside page of Russell Davies' new book How To Do Presentations, including a page saying "Just divide it into three".

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 14/01/2024

Joyous wind-assisted cycle from Ally Pally to Ebbsfleet. No hills, over half is off road.

selfie of Tom in cycling gear with the River Thames and Queen Elizabeth 2 bridge in the background.

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