RaffaeleMontecchiani

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[RaffaeleMontecchiani @MontecchianiR]

"Chi ride ruba alla morte" [M.Monicelli] Forse il nostro gruppo di amici ha rubato troppo e son venuti a chiederci il conto

[La Ragione Di Stato @ragionedistato]

Assolutamente affascinati dal presidente del Coni che non si rende conto che Sinner dece fare la foto col team

[Roland-Garros @rolandgarros]

Iconic.

#Wimbledon

[S_Galimberti @S_Galimberti]

“L’uomo libero è colui che può dire “no” quando tutti si aspettano che dica “sì”; perché la dignità comincia nell’atto di resistere alla pressione del gregge.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Good morning, dear perfectionists. This is an 89-degree angle.

[Davide Giacalone @DavideGiac]

L’occupazione cresce, ma nel parlare di record ci si ricordi che siamo quelli, in Ue, con meno gente a lavoro. La crescita degli occupati genera poca crescita del pil, segno che si tratta di basso valore aggiunto. A sinistra si capisca anziché negare e a destra anziché esaltare.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Now that's what I call attention to detail.

[Economia X Finanza @EconXFin]

Quando la sinistra parlava di produttività, di debito pubblico e di concorrenza.

[Riccardo Trezzi @RiccardoTrezzi]

🇮🇹 DA ASCOLTARE, Enrico Berlinguer, famoso liberale-liberista. Era il 1983 e Berlinguer spiegava perchè l'Italia era indietro in ricerca scientifica e tecnica, pura ed applicata, perchè era bassa la produttività (dice proprio "produttività", eh), perchè non vi erano risorse per lo sviluppo, perchè la spesa pubblica era più grande che in altri paesi.

E sapete perchè? Perchè, secondo il liberista Berlinguer, esisteva una relazione malsana tra potere e settore privato fondato sul clientelismo e sulla protezione delle categorie (=rendite) che assorbiva le risorse per la crescita.

Era il 1983. Ed era Enrico Berlinguer.

Se lo dico oggi, mi insultano dicendo che sono liberista. Tanto è la distorsione della realtà ormai.
Saluti, compagni.

P.S. Faccio notare che Berlinguer parla di bassa produttività della pubblica amministrazione e dei servizi. Ovvero, era già chiarissimo allora che il problema erano i non-tradable, non i tradable sectors.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

traces of a more advanced civilization

[em @jsinnertruth]

the most darth sinner darth sinner has ever darth sinnered

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Why does Mary look younger than Jesus in Michelangelo's Pietà?

The answer is one of the most beautiful in art history...

Mary is holding the body of her 33 year old son, but she looks 20. Critics noticed it the moment the sculpture was unveiled in 1499. The mother of a man who has just been crucified would have been in her late forties or early fifties. Michelangelo had carved her as a girl.

His own biographer, Ascanio Condivi, was the one who finally asked him why. The answer Michelangelo gave is preserved in Condivi's Life of Michelangelo and has been repeated for centuries: "Do you not know that chaste women stay fresh much more than those who are not chaste? How much more in the case of the Virgin, who had never experienced the least lascivious desire that might change her body?"

Most modern critics treat this answer as a half-serious deflection. Michelangelo was famous for his sharp tongue and refused to explain himself to people he considered beneath his intellect.

The deeper answer is older, and it lies inside one of the greatest poems ever written. In the final canto of Dante's Paradiso, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux begins his prayer to the Virgin with one of the most extraordinary lines in Italian literature:

"Vergine madre, figlia del tuo figlio."
"Virgin mother, daughter of your own son."

Michelangelo, who knew Dante by heart, was carving that line into stone. Mary is younger than Jesus because Jesus is older than the universe... because she gave birth to her own creator.

But there is another reading, simpler than either of those, and it is the one I find myself thinking of today. Every mother who has held her child has held them at every age at once. The infant is still inside the toddler. The toddler is still inside the teenager. The young man on her lap, even dead, is also the boy she nursed and the baby she first carried home.

And maybe that's why Michelangelo did not carve Mary as the years had aged her. He carved her as love had kept her: outside of time, outside of grief, holding her son the way she had always held him...

Happy Mother's Day.

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[Gallerie degli Uffizi @UffiziGalleries]

Il #cubismo nel Cinquecento? Sembra incredibile e in effetti lo è. Ma il ligure Luca Cambiaso è forse arrivato in con un di quasi 400 anni di anticipo, come dimostrano alcuni studi di figure come questo (1560), conservati nel Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe degli #Uffizi

[S_Galimberti @S_Galimberti]

#life

[Steven Cercamondi @astrosteven_]

@MMmarco0 Da lassù non si vedono i confini♥️
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[Gitana @Gitana1369877]

• "Spring: a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be."

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Surveying in the 1920s Surveying in the 1920s - https://t.co/AhFcUwp72d

[Damien Robitaille @damienrobi]

CHILDREN • Robert Miles

Song / Chanson #385

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Points of view

[Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon @GurdeepPandher]

Sadness is a downpour—it arrives without asking, soaking through our defenses in seconds. Joy is a garden—it must be planted seed by seed, watered with intention, weeded of doubt, and fiercely guarded against the storms that would drown it. This labor of cultivating light when shadows press in from every side isn't merely an act of self-preservation. It's a revolution. When we claim joy in defiance of despair, when we insist on blooming in barren soil, we become more than survivors—we become architects of hope for everyone who witnesses our defiance. Our joy doesn't just lift us—it becomes a ladder for others climbing out of their own darkness.
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[Keith Siau @drkeithsiau]

Pickle juice apparently saves the day after Carlos Alcaraz suffers from cramp at the Australian Open, requiring a medical time out and threatening an early exit. His rapid recovery and heroic comeback was attributed to pickle juice which promptly relieved his cramp.

Made from a concoction of water, vinegar, salt and spice, pickle juice has become a popular choice for remedying cramps in athletes, and in patients suffering from cramp. A randomised trial of cirrhotic patients, coined the PICCLES study, concluded that sips of pickle juice consumed at cramp onset improves cramp severity without adverse events.

It is thought that the acetic acid of pickle juice acts as an agonist of sensory Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) channels and foregut Acid Sensing Ion Channels (ASIC), triggering nerve conduction in the oropharynx that aborts the cramp without changing serum electrolytes, and doing so faster and more effectively than water alone.

Perhaps one to add to our toolbox for people suffering from cramp 🥒🥤