*･･*:.｡..｡ “Our job is to love others without stopping
to inquire whether or not they are worthy." - Thomas Merton *･･*:.｡..｡

📷 #photography Negotiation between the zoo director and escaped chimpanzee.
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1988.

Note: Everything was resolved peacefully ☮️

Car-Free Future Would Require Real Political Will, Podcasters Say The transition to electric vehicles is lauded as one of the best solutions to reduce the roughly 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions that cars and vans emit annually, but what if it went one step f...

"The problem is cars, and that problem can’t be solved with different cars."

Coed Cadw manifesto argues that trees and woodland are essential for a 'healthier, fairer and more resilient Wales' Stephen Price Coed Cadw, the Woodland Trust in Wales, has launched a new manifesto setting out the case for trees and woodland as essential infrastructure for a healthier, fairer and more resilient Wa...

Coed Cadw, the Woodland Trust in Wales, has launched a new manifesto setting out the case for trees and woodland as essential infrastructure for a healthier, fairer and more resilient Wales

Interesting suggestion of a way to spend taxpayer money from a party that keeps complaining about money ‘wasted’ on Welsh language and cultural programmes.

Disgrifiad (Cymraeg) : Cofeb enfawr i deulu 'Booker' mewn mynwent gadawedig, Yr Eglwys Newydd. Mae'n ger hen wâl ac o dan coeden. Mae hen gerrig beddi wedi bod yn trefni o gwmpas y waliau. Description (English) : A huge memorial to the 'Booker' family in an abandoned churchyard, Whitchurch. It is near an old wall and under a tree. Old gravestones have been arranged around the walls འགྲེལ་བཤད།(བོད་ཡིག) : དྲན་རྟེན་ (dran rTen) memorial

Y fynwent gadawedig, www.blipfoto.com/entry/349389..., #blipfoto, @blipfoto, 2026-04-22

— a once in a lifetime shot..

captured by wildlife photographer Alan McFadyen

Demographics, Destiny, and Dharma: An Interview with Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche - Buddhistdoor Global Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche offers a bold and broad response to recent Pew research about Buddhism's demographic decline

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche:

“Before I answer your questions, I want to point out that Buddhists pray for all beings to become Buddha, not Buddhist. As well, any sense of Buddhist identity or self is not the aim of a path that teaches selflessness.”

#Buddhism #selflessness #Dharma #peace

Disgrifiad (Cymraeg) : Golygfa mewn du a gwyn dros ganol Caerdydd yn dangos cymysg anhrefnus o arddulliau pensaernïol. Description (English) : A black and white view over the center of Cardiff showing a chaotic mix of architectural styles. འགྲེལ་བཤད།(བོད་ཡིག) : ཟ་ངེ་ཟིང་ངེ་ཟིང་ཆ (za nge zing nge zing cha) chaos

Mae'r anhrefn yn edrych yn well mewn du a gwyn, www.blipfoto.com/entry/349352..., #blipfoto, @blipfoto, 2026-04-21

Starting February 18, 2027, smartphones and many portable devices sold in the EU must have batteries that users can remove and replace more easily. That means #Apple #Samsung #Google #Xiaomi etc may need to redesign future devices to meet the new rules www.business-standard.com/technology/t...

Yellow, black and white cover of Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile. Features yellow circle saying "National Bestseller" and an image of a traffic light covered in vines.

It's been exactly 6 months since LIFE AFTER CARS was published.

Our book tour has taken us to 27 cities around North America and seen us do more than 100 press interviews with many more to come.

Thanks to everyone who's bought the book and spread the word!

www.lifeaftercars.com

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

The Paris transformation continues, unhindered by the culture of excuses, and self-sabotaging election results, that we’ve seen in too many other cities.

Disgrifiad (Cymraeg) : Cysgod ar wal lliwgar: melyn, oren a gwyrdd Description (English) : : A shadow on a colourful wall: yellow, orange and green འགྲེལ་བཤད།(བོད་ཡིག) : མཆོད་ཁང་། (mchod khang) shrine room

Dydd Llun, yn agosáu at 6yp, www.blipfoto.com/entry/349317..., #blipfoto, @blipfoto, 2026-04-20

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

Kids these days better start thinking about what kind of planet they're going to leave Keith Richards.

Any anti-bike articles about how Amsterdam and Utrecht are unique, and your own little community couldn't possibly go multi-modal should be headlined "Can't Dutch This"

BBC BBC FFAGAN SAIN BBC NEWS Reform UK will tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says

Absolutely.

The fuck.

Not.

And any of my countryfolk knowingly deciding to vote for surrendering yet more of our culture to English millionaires who would be happier if we all died are clearly a bigger threat to our nation than any immigrant.

So much of our language reflects
the common “car first” bias around our streets, & we should never forget that much of that language was the result of deliberate campaigns to specifically re-write our perspective of streets as “for cars only.” This is one of the more subtle, but important, examples.

A hundred years ago, the U.S. had a nationwide network of short-line railroads that connected most urban and rural communities. By the 1940s, most of it had been dismantled ... by the barons of the auto and oil industries. 😑

IF YOU BUILD A BIKE LANE THAT DOESN'T CONNECT TO ANOTHER BIKE LANE THEN YOU DIDN'T BUILD A BIKE LANE

'Life After Cars' Is The Book America Needs Right Now - Jalopnik The changes Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon argue for offer an escape from the endless cycle of some random event blowing up your gas budget every few years.

Life After Cars offers "an escape from the endless cycle of some random event blowing up your gas budget every few years. Just close your eyes and think for a second what it would feel like to never have to think about how much gas costs again."

Disgrifiad (Cymraeg) : Plentyn yn gardd, pwyntio at goeden gellyg Description (English) : A child in a garden, pointing at a pear tree འགྲེལ་བཤད།(བོད་ཡིག) : ལྡུམ་རྭ་ (lDum rwa) Garden

Diwrnod yn llawn o bethau rhyfeddol, www.blipfoto.com/entry/349281..., #blipfoto, @blipfoto, 2026-04-19

Celebrities are also paid for the event and even get their Mars bars, for free!

Disgrifiad (Cymraeg) : Plentyn gyda ci brown wedi'i wneud o Lego Description (English) : A child with a brown dog made of Lego འགྲེལ་བཤད།(བོད་ཡིག) : : པུ་གུ་ (pu gu) child; children

Llwyddiant dros nos, www.blipfoto.com/entry/349280..., #blipfoto, @blipfoto, 2026-04-18

Questions for politicians.

Be honest.
1. Do you work primarily for (a) your constituents or (b) your sponsors?
2. If (a) what do you say to (b)?
3. If (b) what do you say to (a)?

An image of a person with a pushchair down a residential street near inconsiderately parked cars. The person is wearing striped clothing and walking past a black car. The setting includes brick buildings and a view of houses on a hill in the background.

It's happening! 📢

On Tuesday, MPs will consider an amendment to enable local leaders to ban pavement parking in their area. We need you to help us get this amendment on to the Bill.

Ask your MP to agree to Amendment 265 when it's considered on Tuesday: https://bitly.livingstreets.org.uk/4tMU2Uq

this may be a silly question, but why does anyone park on pavements anyway? I'm sure driving tests used to be all about 'Don't hit the curb!'

A guy has organised a petition against the proposed cycle lane on Titwood Road. It says that the cycle lane is bad because it will take away on-street parking; it also says the cycle lane will increase congestion.

It is fascinating to me that cycle lanes create congestion, and parking lane don't.

Loved his music, an intelligent man.