Rúben Portela

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The BBC has had thirty eight years and £3.8 billion a year to explain British farming to the British public. The job was eventually done by an American shopping website, in eight episodes, fronted by the man the BBC itself dropped over a row about a steak.

Countryfile first went out on 24 July 1988, and its origin is the part nobody brings up. It replaced Farming, a programme that had spent thirty years making news for the people who actually did the work. The new show was deliberately widened to take in everybody who merely liked the countryside as well as those who lived off it. Widened meant softened. In 2009 it moved to Sunday evenings, where five to six million people still watch, and it has been settled ever since into an hour of scenery, a ramble, a calendar competition and the weather.

Then in June 2021 a company best known for selling doorbells put out a series about a man failing to farm a thousand acres, and within a week the British public understood the subsidy system.

Look at what an American retailer put on screen that thirty eight years of Sunday nights had not. A thousand acres, a full year of work, £144 profit. A crop drowning in the field with nobody coming to help. A farmer selling at a price he is not allowed to set. A council able to shut a restaurant standing on a man's own land. The accounts, open, with jokes over the top.

James Rebanks, who keeps sheep for a living rather than for a segment, reckoned Clarkson did more for farmers in one series than Countryfile had managed in thirty years. The NFU said the same thing in nicer words.

Now the funding, which is where it gets genuinely funny.

Countryfile is paid for by £180 a year, rising on 1 April, taken from every household in Britain that watches live television, on pain of prosecution. Twenty three million licences. Three point eight billion pounds. Guaranteed money, a captive audience, a national mandate and a prime Sunday slot.

Clarkson's Farm is paid for by people voluntarily pressing play, and it goes out in more than 240 countries.

The nation's farmers had one broadcaster legally funded by them, obliged to serve them, sitting on the biggest slot in British television. It gave them a weather forecast and a photography competition, and when a bloke with a Lamborghini tractor did the actual job for free, the same building's stars went on a sofa to complain about his opening credits.

The BBC had the money, the mandate, the Sunday night and thirty eight years.

It used them to film the view.

[Patrick J. Wolf @PatWolf]

Dick Proenneke was 51 when he walked into Twin Lakes, Alaska, with hand tools and built himself a cabin.

Filmed the whole thing on his own and stayed almost thirty years.

[João Castro @castrojr76]

Golo à Ronaldinho

Derry!

#SportingCP

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

Same Chinese train driver 26 years apart

[Sporting Adeptos @Sporting_CPAdep]

Pedro Porro foi à terra onde nasceu, Don Benito (Badajoz), após ser campeão do mundo.

Que nunca te falte essa humildade 💚

[UEFA Futsal @UEFAFutsal]

When Ricardinho did THIS vs Serbia...

#FutsalEURO

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

NASA used a supercomputer to build a mind-bending simulation of falling into a black hole.

Once you cross the point of no return, you have 12.8 seconds left to exist.

To visualize these final seconds, NASA scientists ran the math of general relativity on a supercomputer, generating 10 terabytes of data in 5 days.

The simulation shows a camera plunging into a supermassive black hole where light warps and space flows inward. The actual descent takes 3 hours, but to a distant observer, your image would freeze at the edge forever.

A century of Einstein's equations, finally playing as video.

[` @chixxsays]

This edit deserves an Oscar 🥹❤️

[Isaac @isaacrrr7]

Este video es precioso. Polonia no será invadida como el resto de Europa.

Un grupo de musulmanes quiere rezar en un lugar público, en el aparcamiento de un McDonald's. El polaco que lo graba todo no se anda con rodeos:

"Llamen a la policía. Adelante, llámenlos. (...) Vinieron a Polonia a rezar. ¡Ni hablar! Esto es un lugar público. Vayan a su maldita mezquita musulmana. Son invitados, no pertenecen aquí. (...) Chúpenme la polla, malditos cabrones. Así es como se ahuyenta a la chusma. Sí, racismo. ¡Lárguense de aquí!"

[Sporting Adeptos @Sporting_CPAdep]

Ouvir estas palavras de Morten Hjulmand, já com as cores do Atlético de Madrid, mostra a diferença entre ser apenas mais um jogador e ser um verdadeiro Capitão.

Não se limitou a assinar um contrato e virar a página. Fez questão de sublinhar o quanto Alvalade o mudou como homem, a família que aqui construiu e o respeito gigante que tem por todos nós.

O facto de querer regressar a Lisboa de propósito para se despedir do grupo, do staff e do mister Rui Borges pessoalmente diz tudo sobre o caráter deste senhor.

Foste um gigante de verde e branco e mostras que a mística e o respeito não se compram - sentem-se.

Obrigado por estas palavras, Morten. Alvalade estará sempre de braços abertos para te receber e aplaudir de pé. Serás sempre um dos nossos! 🦁

[Paul🥷 @l4pablo]

Paddy’s walkout was the best fight entrance I’ve ever seen. The lad is a superstar! #UFC329

[Sporting CP @SportingCP]

Farás sempre parte da família verde e branca 🫂

Obrigado, Capitão 💚

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

🇸🇪🤣 Zlatan Ibrahimović is going viral for reacting to every nations elimination from the World Cup:

🗣️🇺🇸 "USA is out. So you're American dream is over. Next time, call it football, not soccer, Okay?"

🗣️🇵🇹 "Portugal? Almost. But almost is not enough."

🗣️ 🇲🇽 "Mexico? Enjoy your tacos. Amigos, adios."

🗣️🇧🇷 "Brazil? You're out. The samba continues in Brazil. See you next time."

🗣️🇸🇪 "Sweden? I told you. There is no new Zlatan. You're out."

🗣️🇩🇪 "Germany? It's over. Now you can drink sad beers."

[Sporting Adeptos @Sporting_CPAdep]

💚 @Cristiano

[𝐕𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐨 @Varticoo]

This is a generational meme right there

😭😭😭😭😭😭

[Sporting CP @SportingCP]

A história foi escrita ✍️ #FutsalSCP

Obrigado por tudo, Capitão 🦁

[Sporting CP @SportingCP]

2️⃣4️⃣ anos, 4️⃣1️⃣ troféus 🏆

Um legado eterno de Leão ao peito 🦁 Obrigado pelo Esforço, Dedicação, Devoção e Glória 🟢⚪

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is real footage from 120 years ago.

None of the people in it knew that the city around them had four days left...

What you are watching is a cable car gliding down Market Street in San Francisco, filmed on the 14th of April, 1906.

The camera was mounted on the front of the car, so you see the city exactly as it was: the crowds, the horse-drawn carriages, the early automobiles weaving through traffic, the men in hats, the great buildings rising on either side. An ordinary spring afternoon in a thriving American city.

Four days later, on the morning of the 18th of April, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck. The shaking lasted under a minute, but it ignited fires that burned through the city for days...

By the time it was over, more than 3,000 people were dead and roughly 80 percent of San Francisco had been destroyed. Almost every building you see in this footage was gone.

And the film itself nearly went with it.

The negative was placed on a train bound for New York on the 17th of April, the day before the earthquake. Had it left a single day later, it would have burned in the fire along with the studio that made it.

This entire moving record of a lost city survives because of one day...

[B24 @B24PT]

A PORTUGUESA! 🇵🇹

[The Nassr Tribune™️ @AlNassrTribune]

Look at the sheer scale of this turnout. An aerial view of the streets in Toronto right now proves that the Portuguese passion is unmatched. The city has completely stopped for this match 🇨🇦🇵🇹