Niang Soli, 106, is the oldest active dancer in the world. Her continued movement and energy are a powerful testament to resilience, passion, and a lifetime devoted to rhythm and culture.
Jeremy Clarkson’s Farm show on Amazon is the most radicalizing piece of mainstream media I’ve ever seen
Just one example (bear with me):
Badgers became a protected species in Britain 40+ years ago.
The population has exploded and now frequently transmits tuberculosis to cows
But farmers can’t cull the badger population to protect their cattle because the government still considers them to be endangered
Instead of addressing the root cause, the UK has the most batshit testing regime for cattle
There’s no TB vaccine. So the cattle have to get tested. The vets administering the test have to measure welts on the cows neck. Whether a cow lives or dies comes down to a vet trying to discern 1mm on a caliper (reactive vs non reactive).
If a cow tests positive, the farm (already running on super thin margins) is quarantined and starts hemorrhaging money.
Jeremy Clarkson’s cow (pregnant with twins) has an inconclusive test so it’s separated from the herd. It receives a second inconclusive test so they have to kill it (before it can give birth to the twins).
Now here’s the kicker: the autopsy reveals no sign of TB. It was a healthy cow needlessly killed
So - silver lining the farm should be removed from quarantine, right? WRONG - it’s still under quarantine and has to keep testing and can’t sell its beef
Kafkaesque doesn’t even begin to describe how f’d up it is for British farmers
The Boston Globe has dedicated a full page in today's edition to the Tartan Army 🏴 🇺🇸
The letter in Boston's largest newspaper reads: "Dear Tartan Army,
"You came for the World Cup, but gave us something more.
"For a week, you turned train stations into singalongs, Fenway into a football ground, and an ordinary June into something we'll be talking about for years.
"Boston has hosted championships, parades, and celebrations of every kind. But we've never hosted guests quite like you all.
"Thank you for the laughter, the bagpipes and the memories. The World Cup will move on. So will the songs, but we'll never forget the joy you brought to our city."
𝘐𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 @SPARScotland
𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵
Dear England, We just wanted to make you aware; We have officially adopted the Scots. They are family now. We will be in touch to negotiate your visitation rights.
Signed, The Americans.
🦅🇺🇸💪🏴🫶 #Scotland#America🇺🇸
https://t.co/facOKOMmeo
💔⚽️ LA HISTORIA QUE CONMUEVE AL MUNDIAL
Donny Strathie, un apasionado hincha escocés de 76 años, cumplió el sueño de su vida: viajar a Estados Unidos para volver a ver a Escocia en una Copa del Mundo después de 28 años de ausencia.
Alcanzó a vivir una alegría inolvidable en Boston, donde presenció la victoria 1-0 de su selección ante Haití. Pero días después, falleció repentinamente por causas naturales en su hotel.
La noticia golpeó a toda Escocia. Incluso el seleccionador Steve Clarke envió sus condolencias a la familia.
Y entonces llegó el homenaje más emotivo. ❤️🏴
En el partido siguiente, cuando el reloj marcó el minuto 76 (La edad de Donny) todo el estadio se puso de pie para dedicarle una ovación que puso la piel de gallina. Entre aplausos, cánticos y el sonido de las gaitas, la Tartan Army se aseguró de que uno de los suyos siguiera presente.
Porque hay historias que recuerdan que el fútbol es mucho más que un juego 🥹💙
Iceland had the Viking clap at Euro 2016. Norway, back at the World Cup for the first time since 1998, has rowing.
The stands row in unison. Yesterday even parliament joined in mid-session. A nation of rowers, and there is history behind that👇
⭐️ A "IDEIA MALUCA" DE CARLOS SAINZ QUE REVOLUCIONARIA A F1 PARA SEMPRE ⭐️
Carlos Sainz, da Williams, falou sobre a sua "ideia maluca", que mudaria completamente a F1:
"Tenho uma ideia um pouco maluca, que acho que nunca falei disso publicamente: Sempre imaginei uma F1 onde as equipes e os pilotos fossem separados. Isso nunca vai acontecer, claro, mas sempre imaginei uma categoria com 20 corridas e cada piloto disputando duas corridas com cada carro.
Nesse caso, o piloto faria parte da F1, não de uma equipe: Ele seria um cliente da F1, contratado pela F1 para pilotar os carros. Então, eu teria a chance de fazer duas corridas com a Williams, duas com a Mercedes, duas com a Ferrari, e por aí vai. Todos os pilotos teriam exatamente a mesma chance de ganhar o título.
Isso constituiria o campeonato mundial de pilotos, e os pontos conquistados por cada equipe seriam o campeonato de construtores. Dessa forma, as equipes seriam completamente separadas dos pilotos. E teríamos um verdadeiro campeonato de pilotos e um verdadeiro campeonato de construtores"
E aí, o que acham dessa ideia?
كل يوم بنكتشف حاجة عن هالاند تخلينا نحبو اكتر و نحترمو أكتر و أكتر ❤️
في ديسمبر الماضي، هالاند ووالده اشتروا نسخة نادرة جدًا من كتاب "سير الملوك" مقابل 134 ألف دولار.
الكتاب ده مش أي كتاب.
دي النسخة المطبوعة عام 1594، والنسخة الوحيدة المتبقية منها في العالم كله.
وأصبحت أغلى نسخة كتاب تُباع في تاريخ النرويج.
المفاجأة؟
هالاند مشتراهوش عشان يحطه في متحف خاص أو يحتفظ بيه لنفسه.
بالعكس.
تبرع به للمكتبة العامة في مدينة برينه، البلدة اللي نشأ فيها.
بشرط واحد فقط:
إن الكتاب يفضل متاحًا للجميع، وأي شخص يقدر يدخل ويقرأه.
الكتاب نفسه كُتب في القرن الثالث عشر، ويحكي تاريخ ملوك النرويج والمحاربين والمزارعين الذين عاشوا في نفس المنطقة التي جاء منها هالاند.
يعني ببساطة...
هالاند اشترى جزءًا من تاريخ بلده، ثم أعاده للناس بدل ما يحتفظ به لنفسه.
This is the world we deserve. Not the one that the media and politicians use to divide us.
Maybe the most powerful thing about the World Cup isn’t who wins the trophy. It’s millions of people discovering that the stranger they were taught to fear turns out to be a friend they just hadn’t met yet. That’s the kind of thing that restores faith in humanity. ❤️🌎⚽
𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦
Jeremy Clarkson has never pretended to be anything other than exactly what he is
Brutally honest. No oil painting. A pot belly, a lifelong smoker, a drinker. Not exactly the modern alpha male or is he?
And somehow that is the whole point
I have watched him for most of my life
First as a motoring journalist who could make you want a car you would never own and never need
Then as something bigger
The loudest, funniest, most unfiltered mouthpiece the ordinary person ever had
A man who said the thing everyone was thinking while the rest of television tiptoed around it
From Top Gear he built something that should not have worked
Three middle aged men, The Stig, a track and a chemistry you cannot manufacture
James May the patient one
Richard Hammond the brave one
And Clarkson the force of nature dragging both of them into chaos and somehow back out again
When it all fell apart at the BBC he could have disappeared
The fracas was not his finest hour and he never pretended it was
He owned it, apologized and carried on
No reinvention, no groveling tour, no carefully managed comeback
He just kept being himself and let the work speak
The move to Amazon and The Grand Tour proved something I think a lot of people missed
The format was never the magic
The men were
You can take three friends out of a studio and drop them anywhere on earth and the loyalty between them travels with them
But it is Clarkson's Farm where the whole picture finally comes into focus
Here is a man with nothing left to prove walking into a field he barely understands and refusing to fake competence he does not have
He has run that farm at break even and then at an outright loss in full public view
No editing it into a success story
No pretending the numbers work when they do not
His farm manager hands him one brutal truth after another and he sits there and takes it
A whole season swallowed by drought even after he leaned into robotics and the most advanced farming money could buy
Technology was supposed to be the answer and the weather did not care
He showed that too
Most people would have cut it
And through all of it he has done something quietly remarkable
He has dragged the plight of the British farmer into the light
The paperwork, the council, the margins that vanish, the weather that ruins a year of work in a week
People who had never thought about where their food comes from suddenly cared because he made them care
And then there is the part nobody warned me about
Men who raise animals for meat and still love them
Who name them, worry about them, sit with them
Who treat them with respect and dignity right up to the moment they cannot keep them
And feel the full weight of sending them off
He does not hide that
He lets the camera sit in the discomfort of it
The grief of a man who knows the deal he made and still finds it hard
That is not weakness
That is honesty most people are far too afraid to show
We live in an age that rewards the polished, the curated, the carefully built personal brand
And here is a scruffy, swearing, chain smoking farmer who has done the opposite of all of it and won
He stayed exactly who he was while the world begged him to become a product
That is the whole secret
There is no act
There never was
And that is exactly why we keep watching
Praying for a full recovery mate, looking forward to another season of Clarkson's Farms!