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keeps the toilet map up and running 🚽🧻 ( toiletmap.org.uk )

sr developer at the financial times 📰
prev at the guardian, neontribe

probably quite tired
he/him - 🌐 olliethinks.co.uk
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I’m an academic on the telly! Life ambition unlocked.
Fantastic to see two London Loo Alliance members talking about toilets on BBC Breakfast this morning 🛋️

Thank you to Ray from British Toilet Association for your insight and to @gaillyk.bsky.social for your excellent interview 🚽🙌
July 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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The world breaks my heart every day in multiple ways, but also a bluebird alerted me to a barred owl this evening
July 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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
July 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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!
July 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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.
July 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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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 🧵
June 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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-...
Norfolk Coast Mighty Hike 2025
Help OLIVER BARNWELL raise money to support Macmillan Cancer Support
www.justgiving.com
April 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Some time back in Norwich
April 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Policy idea: rail card allowance past the 26-30 year old cap for people who don’t own a car?
March 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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March 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
finally picked an IBM Model M up, I used one ages ago at work and loved it - well worth the investment
March 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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
February 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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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.
February 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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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!
February 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
SaaS platforms that take you to their product marketing page instead of the dashboard when you’re authenticated …. 🙄
February 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
First day in the newsroom tooling team at work! Looking forward to working on some new and interesting things 🧐
January 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Happy New Year!
P.S. Here’s us last night below.
January 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Fine work! Ironically the family were discussing the site yesterday when we were out for a walk and suddenly had a need!
🚽✨ 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...
Toilet Map: Our 2024 (Toilet) Roll of Honour
www.toiletmap.org.uk
December 24, 2024 at 6:58 AM
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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...
Toilet Map: Our 2024 (Toilet) Roll of Honour
www.toiletmap.org.uk
December 23, 2024 at 3:11 PM
🚽✨ 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...
Toilet Map: Our 2024 (Toilet) Roll of Honour
www.toiletmap.org.uk
December 23, 2024 at 2:38 PM
large rise in the amount of random spam account followers recently 😰
December 18, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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Here is a nice mushroom
December 17, 2024 at 1:44 PM