Tom Loosemore
@tomski.com
Partner at Public Digital, co-founder Government Digital Service, ex-BBC. Expect occasional small boat sailing.
yup. in the foxhunters.
January 11, 2026 at 9:01 AM
yup. in the foxhunters.
We nodded along, paid it some money, and it buggered off. Standard for Abergavenny, right?
January 10, 2026 at 4:16 PM
We nodded along, paid it some money, and it buggered off. Standard for Abergavenny, right?
thank you! standard for South Wales. I guess.
January 10, 2026 at 4:05 PM
thank you! standard for South Wales. I guess.
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?
January 10, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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?
Reposted by Tom Loosemore
Public institutions who publish on social media should own the definitive version. It’s the same logic that means they routinely publish press releases that then get reported in multiple newspapers.
Given blog gov uk exists a... https://richardpope.org/2026/01/07/public-institutions-who-publish-on/
Given blog gov uk exists a... https://richardpope.org/2026/01/07/public-institutions-who-publish-on/
January 7, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Public institutions who publish on social media should own the definitive version. It’s the same logic that means they routinely publish press releases that then get reported in multiple newspapers.
Given blog gov uk exists a... https://richardpope.org/2026/01/07/public-institutions-who-publish-on/
Given blog gov uk exists a... https://richardpope.org/2026/01/07/public-institutions-who-publish-on/
Reposted by Tom Loosemore
Pity FT journalists in 2026. No matter what fraud they uncover, what scandals they blow up, what deals they scoop... come December they'll be looking at a "most read of the year" list with this comfortably at the top www.ft.com/content/ad94...
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Pity FT journalists in 2026. No matter what fraud they uncover, what scandals they blow up, what deals they scoop... come December they'll be looking at a "most read of the year" list with this comfortably at the top www.ft.com/content/ad94...
(You're not going to get a significant shift to remote treatment until you break away from funding flows are entirely geographic in their logic.)
January 6, 2026 at 10:56 AM
(You're not going to get a significant shift to remote treatment until you break away from funding flows are entirely geographic in their logic.)
Sensible choices about where the new NHS Online Hospital should focus. I'd love to know how (if) DHSC has changed to funding mechanisms to make this work well long term.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New NHS online hospital to focus on nine health conditions
NHS Online due to launch in England next year will provide eye, prostate and menopause care.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Sensible choices about where the new NHS Online Hospital should focus. I'd love to know how (if) DHSC has changed to funding mechanisms to make this work well long term.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You do get better results of you tweak some of the RAG settings in Anything LLM, but overall it's a pretty simple 100% GUI process.
January 5, 2026 at 7:18 PM
You do get better results of you tweak some of the RAG settings in Anything LLM, but overall it's a pretty simple 100% GUI process.
AnythingLLM document embedding is pretty seamless now. Takes a while to ingest the several hundreds word docs I threw at it, mind you!
January 5, 2026 at 5:27 PM
AnythingLLM document embedding is pretty seamless now. Takes a while to ingest the several hundreds word docs I threw at it, mind you!
(I'm using Anything LLM with gemma3:27b and a domain-specific archive of several hundred small word docs)
January 5, 2026 at 5:24 PM
(I'm using Anything LLM with gemma3:27b and a domain-specific archive of several hundred small word docs)
Running LLMs locally is much more fun with 24GB of RAM. Blending my own document archives with a decently-sized modern model works a lot better, a lot faster than I expected.
January 5, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Running LLMs locally is much more fun with 24GB of RAM. Blending my own document archives with a decently-sized modern model works a lot better, a lot faster than I expected.
UEA looking at its best.
January 1, 2026 at 7:25 PM
UEA looking at its best.
That's a lovely post, @daivaughan.uk Here's to 2026 being much better for you.
December 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
That's a lovely post, @daivaughan.uk Here's to 2026 being much better for you.
Reposted by Tom Loosemore
10 lessons from 2025
Technology & identity in GDS and the NHS
mechanicalsurvival.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Short solstice kayak. Much wildfowl, of many flavours.
December 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Short solstice kayak. Much wildfowl, of many flavours.
At least *NHS* Login has supported proxy users for years, even if it is overly crude and dependent on being registered with the same GP.
December 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
At least *NHS* Login has supported proxy users for years, even if it is overly crude and dependent on being registered with the same GP.
It's particularly tricky for health services, where delegation is rarely binary and is also highly likely to vary a lot over time. But TBF I think in general NHS folk seem to be better at recognising the importance of the problem.
December 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
It's particularly tricky for health services, where delegation is rarely binary and is also highly likely to vary a lot over time. But TBF I think in general NHS folk seem to be better at recognising the importance of the problem.
Yup. And in some cases you can get away with not making the whole thing self-service (where 'self' includes the delegated user) and bolting it on later. But for underpinning platforms like, ooh, i dunno, One Login, it's better to embed delegated authority at the core of the service design.
December 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Yup. And in some cases you can get away with not making the whole thing self-service (where 'self' includes the delegated user) and bolting it on later. But for underpinning platforms like, ooh, i dunno, One Login, it's better to embed delegated authority at the core of the service design.
(Delegated authority is how someone without full capacity can be supported by others to access the service they need)
December 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
(Delegated authority is how someone without full capacity can be supported by others to access the service they need)
If you ever get the chance to design, or redesign a public service/platform, please *start* with delegated authority user needs. It's *the* hard problem you can't afford to leave until later.
December 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
If you ever get the chance to design, or redesign a public service/platform, please *start* with delegated authority user needs. It's *the* hard problem you can't afford to leave until later.
Or alternatively you can sign up via Direct Debit, then cancel it immediately. Apparently.
December 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Or alternatively you can sign up via Direct Debit, then cancel it immediately. Apparently.
I'm with @dracos.co.uk It's unacceptable for a senior civic service leader to put the onus on you to explain 'codebase'. Software now lies at the heart of all public service delivery. The senior civil service seems to have decided it's ok for them to be left behind.
December 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I'm with @dracos.co.uk It's unacceptable for a senior civic service leader to put the onus on you to explain 'codebase'. Software now lies at the heart of all public service delivery. The senior civil service seems to have decided it's ok for them to be left behind.
Admission: I've made web things with Replit.ai about which a me from 25 years ago would have been appalled. Zero regrets. Having too much fun.
Replit.ai
December 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Admission: I've made web things with Replit.ai about which a me from 25 years ago would have been appalled. Zero regrets. Having too much fun.