Last year, we reported on (ultimately abandoned) plans for a giant ad screen next to the #Maindy leisure centre in #Cathays. Sadly, a fresh application has come in. Learn more and object here: www.cardiffidoxcloud.wales/publicaccess... #Caerdydd #Cardiff #AdvertisingShitsInYourHead

AdBlock Cardiff@adblockcardiff.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨 ADVERT APPLICATION ALERT! 🚨 Plans have been submitted for a massive new ad screen on North Road, next to the Maindy leisure centre. Details below. Lodge an objection ASAP! www.cardiffidoxcloud.wales/publicaccess... #AdvertisingShitsInYourHead #Cardiff #Caerdydd #Cathays #Gabalfa

Last year, we reported on (ultimately abandoned) plans for a giant ad screen next to the #Maindy leisure centre in #Cathays. Sadly, a fresh application has come in. Learn more and object here: www.cardiffidoxcloud.wales/publicaccess... #Caerdydd #Cardiff #AdvertisingShitsInYourHead

AdBlock Cardiff@adblockcardiff.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨 ADVERT APPLICATION ALERT! 🚨 Plans have been submitted for a massive new ad screen on North Road, next to the Maindy leisure centre. Details below. Lodge an objection ASAP! www.cardiffidoxcloud.wales/publicaccess... #AdvertisingShitsInYourHead #Cardiff #Caerdydd #Cathays #Gabalfa

Great to see a recommendation that "the government should develop new regulation, or updating existing regulation, to ban all outdoor advertising of HFSS foods, to be implemented by July 2027" in the new Health & Social Care Committee report @oha-updates.bsky.social

Obesity Health Alliance@oha-updates.bsky.social · last mo.

Today, the Health and Social Care Committee published a powerful report calling for a new, bold approach to address England’s decades-long problem of diet-related ill health, which costs the country tens of billions of pounds every year. committees.parliament.uk/work/9239/fo...

An inspirational story here about Sheffield City Council demonstrating proactive leadership in public health policy by joining the Coalition to End Gambling Ads. Let's see this in #Cardiff #Caerdydd too! @endgamblingads.bsky.social nowthenmagazine.com/articles/she...

Sheffield is calling time on gambling adverts – and reimagining what public space is for

Cities around the world are curbing ads that cause harm to us and to the planet.

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Gambling companies trying to pretend they know or care anything about the many glorious interwoven stories of the World Cup - or any sporting event - are absolutely nauseating. They are purveyors of addiction, parasiting on the pure, untarnished joy of fans.

Change happens when it is necessary and demanded. If you are based in the UK, help change your corner of the world by calling for a fossil fuel ad ban at local and national level. 7/7

🚨CAMPAIGN WIN 🚨 The Italian city of Monza - home to some of the most famous Formula One circuits - has banned fossil fuel advertising. 🎉 This makes Monza the third city in Italy to ban polluter ads, and one of over 50+ globally. 🧵 1/7

Monza dice stop alla pubblicità di combustibili fossili

Il Consiglio comunale di Monza approva la mozione per vietare le pubblicità di petrolio, gas e carbone. Maggioranza compatta, protestano le opposizioni.

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An application has been submitted to replace an analogue billboard at the Esso petrol station on Newport Road with a digital advertising screen. Object to this energy-wasting nonsense here: www.cardiffidoxcloud.wales/publicaccess... #Cardiff #Caerdydd #Roath #Plasnewydd #AdvertisingShitsInYourHead

Evergreen reminder. #AdvertisingShitsInYourHead

This has to be @stephencollins.bsky.social's finest ever work, laying bare the advert-strewn dystopia we've created for our children. @adfreecities.bsky.social #AdvertisingShitsInYourHead

Good new briefing by @badvertising.bsky.social examining the contradiction between state-led measures to reduce fossil fuel use as a result of the US-Israeli war on Iran, and the continued promotion of fossil fuels through marketing. Worth a read. 📑 shorturl.at/qyL8J

Hate advertisers knowing all about you? The good people at @openrightsgroup.org have a simple tool allowing you to opt out of targeted ads on Meta platforms (Facebook, Insta, WhatsApp). Takes two minutes. Give it a look! action.openrightsgroup.org/meta-opt-out #AdvertisingShitsInYourHead

Meta opt-out

In March 2025, there was a huge victory for your data rights! Meta settled a four year court case with human rights campaigner Tanya O’Carroll. She had taken legal action to force the social media gia...

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🚨OBJECTION, OBJECTION!🚨 We have OBJECTED to a retrospective application for a load of tatty advertising hoardings on Cowbridge Road East in #Riverside #Cardiff #Caerdydd. To learn more and add your objection, go here: www.cardiffidoxcloud.wales/publicaccess... #AdvertisingShitsInYourHead

🚨OBJECTION, OBJECTION!🚨 We have OBJECTED to a retrospective application for a load of tatty advertising hoardings on Cowbridge Road East in #Riverside #Cardiff #Caerdydd. To learn more and add your objection, go here: www.cardiffidoxcloud.wales/publicaccess... #AdvertisingShitsInYourHead

Spotted in #Newport #Casnewydd earlier. Jesus Christ, if energy-wasting pointless adverts in public space are "the future" then the future can sod off. Here's a crazy idea: plant a tree here instead. 🌳 @adfreecities.bsky.social #TreesNotAdverts #AdvertisingShitsInYourHead

Y mis nesaf, bydd Cymru yn ethol Llywodraeth newydd, ond a fydd cerdded ac olwynio ar yr agenda? Ymunwch â ni ddydd Mercher 15 Ebrill ar gyfer ein Hystingau Teithio Llesol gyda @willhaycardiff.bsky.social, @cyclinguk.bsky.social @wwctrustcymru.bsky.social 👉 https://bitly.livingstreets.org.uk/4tGyDwm

Next month, Wales will elect a new Government, but will walking and wheeling be on the agenda? Join us Wednesday 15 April for our Active Travel Hustings, chaired by @willhaycardiff.bsky.social @cyclinguk.bsky.social @wwctrustcymru.bsky.social Find out more: https://bitly.livingstreets.org.uk/4tGyDwm

Excellent organisation, questions and answers at our Cardiff Cycling Hustings event this evening - thanks to Bike Lock for hosting! Shame we didn’t get any representatives from the Tories or Reform, however. We were looking forward to hearing their plans for Active Travel policy in the next Senedd…

Tireless work from Sheffield councillor @ruthmersereau.bsky.social fighting planning applications for digital advertising screens. It's hard work - which is why we're working to change the planning rules, to give councils and residents more power to keep these unwanted ad screens off our streets.

Ruth Mersereau@ruthmersereau.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1/7 I’m a Green Party councillor for City Ward #Sheffield. It’s a densely populated urban ward. I’m going to talk about digital advertising screens, which doesn’t sound exciting, but please bear with me. I want to explain why I spend time objecting to so many of these. Since 2023, I’ve …

Learning to reject the transactional city commonedge.org/learning-to-... 'I began to see that there were two fundamentally different ways of understanding the city: one relational and lived, the other regulatory and transactional.' Written in American context but relevant to cities in Wales

Learning to Reject the Transactional City

As a Mexican American interested in the relational nature of cities, the author was fortunate to attend MIT when vestiges of radical planning still lingered.

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The gambling industry employs very aggressive marketing strategies despite the huge impact that gambling has on people's health & lives - it is good to see this @adphuk.bsky.social policy statement calling for a ban on all gambling advertising, promotion & sponsorship @endgamblingads.bsky.social

Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH)@adphuk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣 We have published a new policy position statement highlighting the impacts of gambling harm and recommendations Government can take to address it. Stronger national action is needed to prevent these harms, including adopting a new Gambling Act. 👀 Read more ➡️ bit.ly/adphgambling

A Friday shoutout to the good people at @adfreecities.bsky.social who are doing great work to advise citizens on how to reject and avoid pointless, damaging adverts in our towns and cities. Embrace ad shrouds, eschew adverts! #AdvertisingShitsInYourHead

What does this sentence even mean?!? #AdvertisingShitsInYourHead

Some excellent #subvertising being done by Smartphone-Free Childhood (sadly seemingly all in London). More pwoer to their elbow. #AdvertisingShitsInYourHead

My fake Coca-Cola ad in bus stops around London. You can also now download a copy for free from my website. www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/single-post/...

Massive congratulations to @adblockcardiff.bsky.social for blocking another digital billboard & keeping more space in Cardiff for people not corporations 🙌🥳😍

AdBlock Cardiff@adblockcardiff.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Only just clocked that this application for a huge digital billboard on the junction of Albany Road & Newport Road in #Roath / #Plasnewydd was REFUSED following our objection. Well done, all! 🥳 @adfreecities.bsky.social #AdvertisingShitsInYourHead #Cardiff #Caerdydd

Only just clocked that this application for a huge digital billboard on the junction of Albany Road & Newport Road in #Roath / #Plasnewydd was REFUSED following our objection. Well done, all! 🥳 @adfreecities.bsky.social #AdvertisingShitsInYourHead #Cardiff #Caerdydd

AdBlock Cardiff@adblockcardiff.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚨 PLANNING ALERT! 🚨 Proposed new ad board near the junction of Newport Road & Albany Road in #Roath #Plasnewydd #Adamsdown. It would be MASSIVE - see guide below, as tall as three people. Object here: www.cardiffidoxcloud.wales/publicaccess... #Cardiff #Caerdydd #AdvertisingShitsInYourHead

Daily Mail criticised for falsely portraying Cardiff as a crime hot-spot nation.cymru/news/daily-m...

Daily Mail criticised for falsely portraying Cardiff as a crime hot-spot

Martin Shipton The Daily Mail has been criticised after portraying Cardiff as a crime-ridden city where violence is commonplace. In a double-page spread, the right-wing English paper states: “In moder...

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