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

Fist bump to anyone else caught between the need to bow down & accept the dire, broken reality of the attention economy to continue surviving via their creativity & a desire to disconnect which becomes more vast, and more potentially vital to their sense of inner peace, with every year that passes.

Samuel Beckett waited outside Lidl to do the same but his supplier never turned up

A painting of pink flowers growing alongside the rocky coastline of the Bedruthan Steps in Cornwall, England.

My painting SEA PINKS

That’s complete and utter crontsper.

How refreshing to see someone using the correct use of “empathic” not the generally accepted made up “empathetic”.

Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank Mother, father and brothers aged five and seven shot in the head as they returned from Ramadan shopping trip

Israeli police shoot a five year old child dead and their seven year old brother, and their parents.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

But a big cheesy smile is what that deserves though huh?

Listening to Radio 4 Today programme is a rollercoaster.
Jeremy Bowen delivers a moving, insightful and brilliant report on the Middle East that makes you proud of the BBC.
Immediately followed by a reliably incoherent and amateurish interview from Emma Barnett.

Walking to work this morning a car drove past with Adele's 'Someone Like You' playing. It reminded me just how exquisite a piece of songwriting it is.

Access to Work cuts - Statement from Jenny Sealey - Graeae

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I hadn’t realised he’d died as young as he did.

Yep. I do.

In deep

2000 isn’t a lot within the population; and random selection makes it even more problematic.

Illustration of the Dutch Reach. You should reach across with your non-door-side hand to open a car door, because it forces you to look behind you.

Last night, I got properly "doored" for the first time. A car in the road to my right paused, and the rear left passenger threw open his door without looking, right into my path. I ended up on the floor, badly winded but ok.

If you don't know what the "Dutch reach" is, NOW is the time to learn.

Fantastic television.

Thinking about how slow some people (who would love it) have been to get on Bluesky, and it occurred to me Twitter was 5 years in before it really took on household-name status. I've persuaded two people to join today. I challenge you to do the same. (No dicks.)

Sure is a good time to be a piece of human garbage who is dumb as a piss-drinking dog

How is he “denying” that knowledge?

Subbuteo The Worlds Football Game Commercial Retro Toys and Cartoons YouTube video by Retro Toys and Cartoons

Just found the video of my first paid acting job.

youtu.be/1tV0QarGvNU

Fifteen Years

Wow…

xkcd.com/3172/

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

If you care about the BBC, stand up and defend it: this could be the beginning of the end | Polly Toynbee Replacing the TV licence with a means-tested alternative may help disarm the right of one of its most effective weapons, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

If you care about the BBC, stand up and defend it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Deleting my Deliveroo account once and for all.

What was your prompt instruction?

Where shall we meet? Last week, I listened to an episode of the Ezra Klein Show that I found incredibly compelling.

If every arts org must pass a self imposed moral purity test for sponsorship, most won't survive long enough to be patted on the back for it.

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