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.

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!!

There's always money for more driving

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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 🧵

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-...

Some time back in Norwich

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here is a nice mushroom

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

Glasgow and Edinburgh were fab!

WHO HOG

it was really slow

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?...

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

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.

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!

Nigel Slater’s recipe for apple and blueberry demerara crumble

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

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.

'Toy Story 2' released 25 years ago today

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!

The Bank of England gets 10/10 for effort 🎄

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

a murder !

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...

Reconnecting with the Twitter homies on Bluesky

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

ICYMI This is the FT's first-ever story featuring augmented reality. Check it out!