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you can see why the romans left

real time networked game/app between deskhogs might be cool

May your desk hog bring you much joy ✨

Good stuff!!

it took a while but is definitely worth it!
if you have a local independent gym instead of a chain they can often be quieter and have a really good supportive community

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I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but big congrats!!
Is it the Today programme with Amol Rajan next??

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

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

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

synth synth synth!

The link would've been a helpful addition to the prior post: www.toiletmap.org.uk/dataset

The data is refreshed daily by a CRON job

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!

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.

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.

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

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 🧵

Norfolk Coast Mighty Hike 2025 Help OLIVER BARNWELL raise money to support Macmillan Cancer Support

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-...

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

Some time back in Norwich

No Roman coins?

did you find anything good?

oh interesting! I might go have a go sometime

oh cool! did you have to get permission?

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

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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.

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

great, thank you!

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

Cuckoo Song Cosmo Sheldrake · Wake Up Calls · Song · 2020

open.spotify.com/track/5zqCzV...

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

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.

I wonder if they’ll be deprecated in TS one day 🤔