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To anyone struggling: You are not: A burden Annoying Weak Disgusting Unwanted You are: Important Loved Beautiful Strong Someone’s world There is: Help out there People who care Light at the end of the tunnel Hope #MentalHealth  #EveryMindMatters

For decades, Versova Beach in Mumbai, India, was not a beach in any traditional sense. It was a dumping ground. Piled shin-high in millions of kilograms of plastic waste, glass, and sewage, the coastline was legally considered a landfill. But in October 2015, one man, a young lawyer named Afroz Shah, decided he could no longer stand to see his childhood beach buried under garbage. What began as a simple, solitary act of picking up trash eventually sparked the world’s largest beach cleanup initiative. Week after week, for over 126 weeks, Afroz Shah was joined by an ever-growing army of volunteers. From local fisherfolk and Bollywood celebrities to school children and senior citizens, the community reclaimed their coast. They removed over 13 million kilograms of waste from the shoreline. In 2018, the ultimate payoff arrived. For the first time in over twenty years, the endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles returned to Versova Beach to nest. It was a historic moment, confirming that their eco-system had successfully regenerated. Today, Afroz Shah is a recipient of the United Nations' highest environmental accolade, the "Champion of the Earth." The Versova Beach project continues to inspire similar cleanup movements globally, proving that through consistent, passionate action, we can "refuse, reduce, reuse, and recycle"—and most importantly, restore our planet.

George Lucas traded $350,000 in directing salary for something Fox executives thought was worthless: the right to sell Star Wars toys. It was 1976. Over 40 studios had already passed on his script, including Disney. Fox only greenlit the project because they wanted Lucas for other films. Nobody at the studio expected to make money on a space opera with no stars, so when Lucas offered to cut his directing fee from $500,000 to $150,000 in exchange for merchandising and sequel rights, Fox said yes on the spot. Movie merchandise was a dead business. Fox had lost money on Doctor Dolittle lunchboxes a decade earlier. They thought they were getting the better deal. Lucas couldn’t even find a toy company that wanted in. Kenner, a division of cereal company General Foods, finally bought the licensing for a flat $100,000. Then Star Wars opened. Between 1977 and 1978, Kenner sold $100 million worth of toys off that $100,000 investment. They couldn’t make enough for Christmas ’77, so they sold empty boxes with IOUs inside, promising to mail the action figures later. Parents paid real money for cardboard and a promise. Nobody around the production saw any of this coming. Alec Guinness, who played Obi-Wan, privately called the script “fairy-tale rubbish.” But he was shrewd enough to negotiate 2.25% of royalties instead of a flat fee. About 20 minutes of total screen time earned his estate somewhere between $50 million and $100 million. Lucas himself was so convinced the film would flop that he offered Spielberg a bet while visiting the Close Encounters set: swap 2.5% of each other’s profits. Spielberg took it. That handshake has paid him around $40 million. And then the money started compounding. Lucas poured his Star Wars profits into ILM, the effects house he’d built for the film. When its computer graphics division got too expensive to maintain, he sold it to Steve Jobs in 1986 for $10 million. Jobs renamed it Pixar. Disney bought Pixar twenty years later for $7.4 billion. Then in 2012, Disney came back for the rest, buying Lucasfilm itself for $4.05 billion. Total franchise revenue today sits around $46.7 billion, over $20 billion from merchandise alone. The filmmaker 40 studios passed on is now worth $5.3 billion according to Forbes. Fifty years ago today, cameras rolled on a desert in Tunisia. The $350,000 pay cut that made it all possible might be the best trade in business history.

𝗗𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗠𝗔𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗟𝗜𝗣𝗠𝗔𝗡: "𝗣𝗢𝗢𝗥 𝗞𝗘𝗜𝗥. 𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗔𝗡'𝗧 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞 𝗝𝗘𝗪𝗦 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗥 𝗢𝗙 𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗟𝗜𝗠 𝗩𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦." Dame Maureen Lipman — one of Britain's most beloved actresses, a Dame of the British Empire, and a Jewish woman who has watched antisemitism consume her country in real time — just said what the political class refuses to say. In a new Telegraph interview, Lipman delivered the most honest political diagnosis of Keir Starmer's paralysis on Jewish issues: he can't back Jews because he's terrified of losing Muslim votes. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗶𝘁. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴. Not a principled policy disagreement. Not a nuanced foreign policy position. Pure electoral arithmetic: Jewish voters in Britain number around 300,000. Muslim voters number around 4 million. The Labour coalition has made its choice, and Jews are on the wrong side of the ledger. Lipman is also unequivocal about the BBC: "The BBC is biased. Over 36,000 Iranians protesting for freedom were massacred by the regime in January. That seems to be forgotten — but if one Palestinian child dies, then Lyse Doucet is flown in to report on it." This is a woman who resigned from the actors' union Equity after fifty years because of its vocal support for pro-Palestine marches. Who has watched a certain coldness enter her professional relationships because she refuses to pretend that Jewish lives matter less than the political convenience of her peers. Who has spent years being called extreme for saying things that are obviously true. She called the left's selective compassion exactly what it is. And she noticed — as anyone paying attention has noticed — that the institutional bias isn't subtle anymore. It's systematic. Thirty-six thousand Iranians massacred in a two-day government crackdown. Buried. One child in Gaza. Lyse Doucet on the first plane. Lipman is not a political figure. She is an actress and a writer and a Jewish woman living in a country that is making her feel increasingly unwelcome. The fact that she has to say these things at all — that saying them costs her professionally, socially, institutionally — is itself the story. 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗝𝗲𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗻𝘀. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴. telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-t…

If the Lords pass this new abortion law on Wednesday they are literally legalising baby killing! express.co.uk/news/politics/…

Ricky Gervais on meeting Roy Keane: "It was like meeting a long lost brother. We immediately bonded over hating things. Lateness, leaf blowers, fireworks, and people in general."

🚨BRITISH FARMER GOES VIRAL FOR REVEALING GOVERNMENT SCHEME The Government is allegedly offering this Farmer £2,500 per Hectare to leave food in the ground or not plant food AT ALL for 3 years We need to be food sufficient Why are they crippling the farmers?

In many cities around the world, street cats are left to survive on their own. But in Valencia, Spain, things are a little different. Across the city, small, carefully designed houses have been installed to give outdoor cats a safe place to rest and shelter. These tiny refuges protect them from rain, heat, and cold, offering comfort and security in an otherwise unpredictable environment. One of the most charming examples can be found on Carrer del Museu, where a miniature house built into a blue wall captures the attention of passersby. Though only about 30 centimeters tall, it’s beautifully crafted in traditional Valencian style, complete with Spanish roof tiles, a small fountain, and even a tiny garden. Created by artist Alfonso Yuste Navarro, the piece also carries a meaningful dedication inspired by a local legend, honoring four cats said to have survived a time when felines were once persecuted in the area. Today, these small houses do more than decorate the streets. They reflect a community effort to care for animals, supported by volunteers and animal welfare groups who believe every cat deserves safety and dignity.

Activist: "The water usage for beef is obscene. Thousands of litres per kilogram." Farmer: "That's rainfall." Activist: "What?" Farmer: "The figure includes all the rain that falls on the pasture. The cows drink from the stream. The rain falls whether there's a cow here or not." Activist: "It's still water consumption." Farmer: "Should I stop the rain falling on my field?" Activist: "Grow crops instead. More efficient." Farmer: "This is a 35-degree slope in the Welsh hills. Show me the crop." Activist: "Technology..." Farmer: "To make tractors climb mountains?" Activist: "There must be a solution." Farmer: "There is. It's called a cow." Activist: [checks phone]

Just lovely 🩵

Hands up if you’ve had your council tax bill for the next year and it’s going up! 🙌🏼 Mine wasn’t frozen, it’s gone up. Labour lied to get into power. “Labour would freeze your council tax” “Not a penny more on your council tax” “No ifs, no buts” Lies, lies, and more lies.

@_XeniaKara_ Aww needs a top hat too xx

Look at this distinguished gentleman…look at the way he is sitting. #Caturday

GRANTS AVAILABLE‼️ 🍃The Town Council is offering grants of up to £250 to local community, voluntary and faith organisations to support their entry in the @The_RHS - ‘It’s Your Neighbourhood’. Applications are now OPEN.

To anyone struggling: You are not: A burden Annoying Weak Disgusting Unwanted You are: Important Loved Beautiful Strong Someone’s world There is: Help out there People who care Light at the end of the tunnel Hope #MentalHealth  #EveryMindMatters

@cecegkh @_XeniaKara_ You need this ..😻😻😻😻😻

Here’s an amazing idea for cat lovers. A place for your cats that looks like art.

As a Bishop, I cannot stay silent. I have today drafted and sent an open letter to His Majesty King Charles III, the text of which reads as follows: To: His Majesty, Charles III, King of the United Kingdom and the Realms, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Bearer of the ancient title Defender of the Faith. Your Majesty, I write to you neither as a politician nor as a commentator, but as one of your loyal subjects who, as a bishop of Christ’s Church, cannot remain silent while the Christian foundations of this kingdom are steadily dismantled. Sir, there are moments in the life of a nation when silence becomes a form of betrayal. If I refused to speak to Your Majesty now, this would be such a moment. For more than a thousand years the Crown of this realm has stood in solemn covenant with the Christian faith. The laws of this land were shaped by it. The liberties of our people were nurtured by it. The conscience of our civilisation was formed by it. From the abbeys of medieval England to the parish churches of our villages, from the preaching of the Reformers to the missionary zeal that carried the Gospel to the ends of the earth, the Christian faith has not merely influenced Britain — it has defined her. Yet today that inheritance is being quietly but deliberately eroded. Across the institutions of this nation there is a growing hostility toward the faith that built them. Christian belief is mocked in the public square. Christian morality is dismissed as intolerance. Christian institutions are pressured to surrender doctrine in order to conform to the ideology of the age. Within the very Church that bears the name of England, voices have arisen that appear more eager to mirror the spirit of the age than to proclaim the eternal truth of the Gospel. Meanwhile, beyond the walls of our churches, powerful political movements openly speak of removing Christianity from its historic place within the life of this nation. What would once have been whispered is now proclaimed openly: that Britain must become a post-Christian state. It is in this context that I write to you, Your Majesty. For the British Crown does not stand apart from this crisis. The Sovereign of this realm bears a title that is not merely historic but sacred in its origin and meaning: Defender of the Faith. Those words are not decorative. They are a charge. They speak of a monarch whose duty is not merely to preside over the ceremonies of the Church, but to stand as a guardian of the Christian inheritance of the nation. Yet many among your subjects now ask, with increasing anxiety: “Who will defend that inheritance today?” They see a nation drifting from its foundations. And they ask whether the Crown will remain silent while that inheritance is dismantled. Your Majesty, may I be so bold as to observe that your coronation oath was not a poetic formality. It was a solemn vow made before Almighty God to maintain and preserve the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law. Those words bind the conscience of the sovereign. They remind the Crown that its authority is not merely constitutional but moral. The monarch is not merely a symbol of national continuity, but a custodian of the spiritual inheritance that shaped this realm. History records moments when kings and emperors were confronted by the Church and reminded that their authority was accountable before God. In the fourth century Ambrose of Milan stood before the Emperor Theodosius I and reminded him that even the ruler of an empire must bow before the moral law of Christ. That tradition of prophetic witness has never disappeared. Nor should it. For when rulers forget the foundations upon which their authority rests, the Church must speak — not with hostility, but with holy clarity. And so, I write to say this, Your Majesty: The Christian character of this nation is under profound and accelerating assault. If the Crown does not stand visibly and courageously in defence of that inheritance, history will record that the guardians of Britain’s institutions watched in silence as the foundations were removed. The issue before us is not nostalgia. It is civilisation. Remove Christianity from the story of Britain and you do not create a neutral society — you create a moral vacuum. And history teaches us that moral vacuums are never left empty for long. Your Majesty now stands at a crossroads that few monarchs in modern history have faced. For the erosion of Britain’s Christian inheritance will not ultimately be judged by speeches made in Parliament or debates in the press. It will be judged by whether those entrusted with the guardianship of our ancient institutions chose to defend them — or merely preside over their quiet surrender. You may preside over the quiet dissolution of Britain’s Christian identity. Or you may rise to the ancient responsibility entrusted to the Crown and speak with clarity about the faith that built this kingdom. The first path requires little courage. The second will require a great deal. But it is the path that history honours. Your Majesty’s subjects are not asking for religious coercion. They are asking for leadership. They are asking that the sovereign who bears the title Defender of the Faith remember what that title means. They are asking that the Crown hear the growing cry of anguish from Christians across this land who feel that the spiritual inheritance of their nation is being surrendered without resistance. And they are asking whether the Crown will stand with them. For the faith that shaped Britain is not merely a cultural ornament. It is the wellspring from which our laws, our liberties, and our moral imagination have flowed. If it is cast aside, the nation will discover — too late — that it has severed itself from the very roots that sustained it. Your Majesty, to many the Crown is a symbol of authority. But before God it is also a symbol of stewardship. And stewardship carries with it the duty to defend what has been entrusted. May Almighty God grant Your Majesty the wisdom to discern this hour, and the courage to fulfil the sacred duty entrusted to the Crown. Yours faithfully, Bishop Ceirion H. Dewar FSHC Missionary Bishop Diocese of Providence Confessing Anglican Church @PhilHs10 @RevBrettMurphy @revwickland @BishopRobert1 @GBNews @TalkTV @danwootton @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @LozzaFox @BackBrexitBen @RupertLowe10 @KemiBadenoch @JohnCleese

Just brilliant 😃😻😻😻

At what point is a government held to account for not spending their tax payers money on things that improve the lives (or roads even) of the actual tax payer?

Final touches taking place for this evening’s State Banquet! 🍴🌷 The table has been decorated with handpicked seasonal flowers and foliage from the gardens at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and The Savill Garden in Windsor Great Park. 🌼 After the Banquet, the flowers that cannot be reused are donated to Floral Angels, of which The Queen is Patron. The charity delivers flowers to hospices, elderly care homes, shelters, and many other deserving beneficiaries within the local community.

Nine-year-old Tiernan McCready was walking home from football in Derry when he saw something that didn’t feel right. Nearby, three men were trying to force an 18-year-old girl into a van. Most people would have frozen in fear. Tiernan didn’t. Even though he was scared, the young boy started shouting and ran closer to the scene, drawing attention to what was happening. The sudden noise and interruption caused the men to panic and flee. The girl was able to escape. Tiernan then helped her get to safety and alerted his mother so the police could be called. Later, Tiernan admitted he had been frightened the entire time, but said he knew he could not just stand there and do nothing. Police praised the boy’s quick thinking and courage, saying his actions may have prevented a much more serious outcome. To recognize what he did, officers presented Tiernan with a badge of bravery. Despite the attention, the young boy remained humble and said he hopes to become a police officer one day so he can continue helping people. Sometimes the biggest acts of courage come from the smallest heroes.

Keir Starmer lied to us all over Peter Mandelson and his friendship with Epstein. He misled Parliament. Now 56 missing documents have been highlighted in the House of Lords. We were promised a “transparency revolution” but received cover ups instead.