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CAT ADVISORY: It's very hot across the UK this weekend. All cats should find the coolest spot in their home and stay there. Tell your staff to bring chilled snacks and water every 15 minutes.

Thank you for the beautiful fun times !!! RIP Rob Base 🔥🕺🏾 1,2,3 Get Loose 🚀

Think marijuana is harmless? Think again! (‘80s)

Oh damn….RIP Rob Base 🙏 Hit it!

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.” ~Sigmund Freud

The security level for the Indonesian president’s cat is on another level, and the whole country loves this cat. 🇮🇩🧡

OK, this slaps 🙌

Raceway Park, Englishtown, New Jersey any Saturday in the 1970s.

Hemingway at work, impeded by cat.

This dog 🐕❤️ This is Officer Brian Santos and his K9 partner Kyra from Cocoa PD in Florida. They’ve been a team since 2018. Impressive!

@justin_ng @Number10cat who does Larry have pet him?

Was waiting for the chancellor to depart and then Larry came out to say hi. He sauntered off to the FCDO but did come back to get pre lunch appetiser.

According to old paintings, cats used to walk on two legs and worked hard

Me and my son have been sneaking out in the middle of the night in our Ewok and Chewbacca costumes just to mess with our neighbor's trail cams.

A 20-year-old Mike Tyson walked into the ring against heavyweight champion Trevor Berbick like a man possessed. 😳🥊#boxing After the stoppage of round 1, Berbick spat on Tyson out of frustration and humiliation, and Tyson instantly became furious. The rest was history for him.🔥

US President Ronald Reagan was shown "WarGames" (1983) at Camp David the weekend it was released. He loved the movie but it also freaked him out. A few days later, at a White House meeting that included the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Reagan asked, “Could something like this really happen? Could someone break into our most sensitive computers?” The answer came back a week later: “Mr. President, the problem is much worse than you think.” That led not only to a significant revamp of how computer security was handled at the Defense Department, but also passage of an anti-hacking law that would eventually evolve into US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 1986. Clips of "WarGames" (1983) were shown during the congressional hearings where lawmakers debated the need for hacking legislation. ("How Sci-Fi Like ‘WarGames’ Led to Real Policy During the Reagan Administration", Kevin Bankston, New America, 2018) P.S: On this day, 43 years ago, John Badham's "WarGames" (1983) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, France.

Thousands of tiny souls 🐈🐈‍⬛

Emma Thompson spent years trying to have a second child. IVF after IVF failed. The grief stayed with her for a long time. Then, in 2003, a 16-year-old Rwandan refugee came to her house for Christmas and quietly became part of her family forever. His name was Tindyebwa Agaba. And the story of how he entered Emma Thompson’s life says more about family than almost anything Hollywood has ever produced. By the early 2000s, Emma Thompson already had the career most actors dream about. Oscars. Classic films. Screenwriting awards. Worldwide recognition. But privately, the center of her life was much smaller and more ordinary: her husband Greg Wise, their daughter Gaia, and a London home built around warmth, humor, and connection. Emma once said: “Family is about connection, not necessarily about blood ties.” That belief would eventually reshape all of their lives. Emma gave birth to her daughter Gaia in 1999 after IVF treatments that made the pregnancy feel almost miraculous. She desperately wanted more children afterward. For three years, she tried IVF again and again. Nothing worked. Later, she admitted the loss was painful. But with time, she came to see it differently — because if life had gone according to plan, there may never have been room for Tindy. Tindy’s childhood could not have been more different from Gaia’s. He grew up in Rwanda during one of the darkest periods in modern history. His father died of AIDS. His mother and sister disappeared during the genocide. At 13, he was kidnapped and forced into life as a child soldier. By the time he arrived in Britain as a refugee teenager, he carried trauma most adults would struggle to survive. Emma and Greg met him at a refugee event in 2003. At the time, he had been sleeping rough in London. They invited him to Christmas. That was all. Just one invitation. One meal. One open door. But then came more conversations. More visits. More trust. Eventually, he became family. And honestly, one detail from this story wrecks me. Years later, Tindy was sitting in a Shakespeare class when his teacher played Much Ado About Nothing. Suddenly he saw Emma Thompson, her mother Phyllida Law, and other familiar faces on screen. He still didn’t fully understand how famous Emma was. To him, these weren’t celebrities. They were simply the people who had taken him in when he had nowhere else to go. Emma and Greg helped him rebuild a life: school, confidence, stability, belonging. Tindy eventually studied human rights law, became an activist, and later worked in criminal investigation. He built a future that once probably felt impossible. And Gaia — Emma’s daughter — grew up with him as her older brother. Different countries. Different childhoods. Different histories. But inside that house, none of that mattered very much. That’s the part of this story I keep thinking about: family is sometimes created by biology… and sometimes by someone looking at another human being and deciding: “There’s room for you here too.” Emma Thompson once said Tindy brought “so much joy” into her life. But I think what she really built was something even bigger: a home where survival eventually turned into belonging. And honestly, that might be one of the most beautiful things a person can do.

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