Albe

Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that. ~Ellen DeGeneres

[Possibile @PossibileIt]

“La memoria collettiva è sempre breve.”

11 anni fa, il corpicino senza vita di Alan Kurdi, tre anni, diventò il simbolo del fallimento delle politiche europee in materia di migrazione.

La storia di Alan continua a ripetersi. Ancora. E ancora.

[Albe @Albi_TV]

Giorgia Meloni ha detto: "Say it to the mum, say it to the lawyer!"

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

Today, the European Union took a major step forward.

All Member States agreed to open the first accession negotiations cluster with Ukraine and Moldova.

At the first Intergovernmental Conference on Monday, we will open the cluster on fundamentals; the backbone of the accession process.

It covers the core values and principles on which the EU is built, from the rule of law to strong democratic institutions.

This is a recognition of the determination, courage and hard work shown by both countries in advancing reforms, even in the face of immense challenges.

And a signal that the EU’s offer of peace, stability and opportunity is unmatchable.

Enlargement is a strategic choice.

By bringing our nations closer together, we strengthen peace, security and prosperity across our continent.

In a world marked by growing uncertainty, a larger European Union is in our common interest.

Enlargement remains one of the EU’s greatest success stories and our best investment in our shared future.

[Possibile @PossibileIt]

"Vi siete giustamente indignati per il modo in cui Ben Gvir ha trattato i vostri cittadini. Adesso vi chiedo di pensare a come tratta i nostri."

Riyad Mansour

Fonte: @MiddleEastEye

[Mei Mei @forfunfunny]

She clocked them

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Universal Music is selling $1.4 billion in Spotify shares. It paid nothing for them. Spotify handed the shares over in 2008 just for letting Spotify play music, and the deal was set up so almost none of that money would ever reach the artists who made the music. Taylor Swift's 2018 contract changed that.

Back in 2008, Spotify was a small Swedish startup that needed songs to play. The big record labels had the songs. They had no reason to hand them over cheap, so the two sides cut a deal. Spotify gave them shares. The labels gave Spotify the right to play their music. Universal walked away with 5%. That stake later grew to 7% when Universal bought EMI and rolled EMI's 2% into its own. Then it drifted back to 3% as Spotify took on more investors and shrank everyone's slice. At today's prices, 3% of Spotify is worth about $2.7 billion. Universal sat on those shares for 18 years and never sold a single one. Until yesterday.

Most artists never see royalty money. When a label signs you, it pays you an advance to live on while you make the album. It also covers your studio time, your music videos, your marketing, your tour. All of those costs go on a tab. The label keeps every dollar your music earns until you clear that tab. Berklee, the music school in Boston, says as many as 96% of major-label artists never earn enough to clear it. They stay in the red their entire careers.

Sony moved first in 2018. It sold half its Spotify shares for $768 million and paid $250 million directly to its artists in cash, no matter how much each one still owed. Warner followed a few months later. It sold all of its Spotify shares for $504 million and said $126 million would go to its artists too. Warner played it differently. Most of that money went to pay down what those artists already owed, instead of putting fresh cash in their pockets.

Taylor Swift was negotiating her own deal with Universal that same year. She refused to sign unless Universal put the Sony version of the rule in her contract. Cash to artists, no matter what they owed. She wrote at the time that the clause "meant more to me than any other deal point." Universal had said publicly in March 2018 it would share Spotify money with artists. But it had not put the cash-not-credit rule in writing. Swift's contract, signed eight months later, did.

Universal is finally selling. Hundreds of millions of dollars in cash are about to land in artists' bank accounts, including artists who have spent years or decades in the red and would otherwise get nothing from a sale like this.

Most of those artists have never met Taylor Swift. All of them benefit from a single line she insisted on eight years ago.

[UNICEF @UNICEF]

UNICEF is outraged by the killing of two drivers of trucks contracted by UNICEF to provide clean water to families in the Gaza Strip.

The victims were killed by Israeli fire in an incident that took place early this morning at the Mansoura water filling point in northern Gaza. UNICEF extends our condolences to the families of the men killed.

Full statement: https://t.co/gFQLWpCcaP

[Nicola Perugini @PeruginiNic]

Almost 800.000 signatures: “EU citizens cannot tolerate that the EU maintains an agreement that contributes to legitimize and finance a State that commits crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement.” https://t.co/k917AsC3aN

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

El Gobierno de España condena la pena de muerte contra palestinos que acaba de aprobar el parlamento de Israel. Se trata de una medida asimétrica que no se aplicaría a los israelíes que cometieran los mismos delitos.

Mismo crimen, distinta pena.

Eso no es justicia. Es un paso más hacia el apartheid.

El mundo no puede callar.

[Francesco @Franker_Taco]

Dovremmo iniziare a usare i cartelli dei titoli della Melevisione come reaction pic secondo me

[Albe @Albi_TV]

Hanno chiamato la Pausini a cantare mentre stava lavando i piatti e non ha fatto in tempo a togliersi i guanti
#Sanremo2026

[Albe @Albi_TV]

Leo alza la voce che mamma russa sul divano e non ti sento
#Sanremo2026

[Albe @Albi_TV]

Tredici Pietro ora si esibirà in 'Creuza de mä'
#Sanremo2026

[Albe @Albi_TV]

Malika Ayane is the new Serena Brancale
#Sanremo2026

[Albe @Albi_TV]

Se Tiziano se ne va senza fare Sere Nere chiedo indietro il canone Rai
#Sanremo2026

[Albe @Albi_TV]

Prima canzone interpretata da Lana Del Rey
#Sanremo2026

[Selvaggia Lucarelli @stanzaselvaggia]

Salvini, Bignami di Fratelli d’Italia (che è pure avvocato) e L’immancabile Cruciani sono un fulgido esempio di come invocare lo scudo penale per le forze dell’ordine e ritenere superflui approfondimenti perché “sto con i poliziotti/carabinieri” deve essere un dogma, è una idiozia. Un’idiozia pericolosa perchè nessuno deve essere al di sopra della legge, a maggior ragione se ha una pistola in mano. L’idea che se un poliziotto spara ha sempre ragione e sono i cattivi che se la cercano spalanca la porta a una deriva pericolosa in cui l’uso della violenza si trasforma in impunità preventiva. Significa normalizzare l’assenza di controlli, scoraggiare ogni indagine indipendente, mettere a rischio anche gli stessi agenti onesti, che hanno tutto l’interesse a onorare la legalità e a difenderla dalle mele marce.
Sostenere le forze dell’ordine non vuol dire sospendere lo Stato di diritto, e questo i tre signori qua sopra non dovrebbero dimenticarlo. Ed è molto pericoloso dimenticarlo. #rogoredo #salvini #cruciani

[Il Grande Flagello @grande_flagello]

37 minuti.

È il tempo trascorso tra la prima notizia dell’uccisione di Abderrahim Mansouri a Rogoredo e il post con cui Matteo Salvini dichiarava: "Sono dalla parte del poliziotto, senza se e senza ma".

Oggi, mentre emergono particolari inquietanti sulla vicenda, sulla figura dell’agente e sull'ipotesi di una messa in scena, lo stesso ministro dice: "Non entro nel merito di fatti che non conosco".

Curioso. Un opinionista indefesso, notoriamente prodigo di commenti su qualunque cosa di cui ignora i fatti, all'improvviso si scopre talmente prudente da non poter commentare ciò che non conosce.

Eppure, la sera del 26 gennaio, sono bastati 37 minuti a un alto esponente del Governo per entrare a gamba tesa nel merito di fatti che non conosceva, designando all'istante colpevoli e scagionati.

Ricordo di aver appreso entrambe le cose nello stesso momento, mentre seguivo una diretta su La7, e il primo pensiero fu: possibile che non abbia imparato nulla dalla clamorosa e imbarazzante figuraccia sul caso Cucchi?

Evidentemente no.
Trentasette minuti.

[Albe @Albi_TV]

#WickedForGood #Oscars #Oscars2026