Luca

A (gentle)man, an accent.

[Tancredi Palmeri @tancredipalmeri]

Lo strepitoso gol a volo d’angelo di Sandro Mazzola al Borussia Dortmund nella semifinale di Coppa dei Campioni 63-64

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your brain produces somewhere around 60,000 to 80,000 thoughts a day. According to a figure widely cited from the National Science Foundation, up to 80 percent of them are negative, and up to 95 percent are the same ones you had yesterday.

That means the voice in your head is running on a loop, and the loop is biased toward threat, because the brain evolved to keep you alive, not to keep you happy. A thought like "I am not ready for this" fires the amygdala, your brain's alarm centre, which floods you with cortisol, the stress hormone. Cortisol makes you more reactive and more likely to have the same thought again, and the repetition digs the groove deeper each time.

This is why affirmations work as counter-programming. When you repeat a sentence like "I can handle this," you are building a competing pathway. The first few times it feels empty, because the old groove is deeper. But the brain rewires itself based on what it practises, and a 2015 study from the University of Pennsylvania found that a repeated values affirmation activates the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that handles reasoning, and quiets the amygdala over time.

The research suggests that the mechanism works the same way whether you write the affirmation, say it out loud, or read it from a card. What matters is repetition and personal relevance, choosing words that connect to something you care about. Generic positivity does not land the same way a sentence about something you care about does. The more specific the statement, the stronger the signal. https://t.co/suEZKh5ARf

[𝑽𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒂🖤💙⭐⭐ @LadyValentina14]

Buonanotte così 😍🖤💙

[Inter ⭐⭐ @Inter]

NOI 🖤💙

[Lega Serie A @SerieA]

L’Inter la ribalta con Lautaro Martinez 🇦🇷

#InterNapoli #SerieAEnilive

[Luigi Marattin @marattin]

Oggi quando il (bravissimo) Marco Piccaluga ha dato la linea a (la bravissima) Ludovica Cirielli per l’anteprima del programma successivo, ho finalmente avuto modo di dire quello che avevo sulla punta della lingua da 3 mesi.

[Se non ora quando? 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @BimbePeppe]

Da Luglio 2021 a Luglio 2026 i prezzi reali sono aumentati del 30%.

Fonte: partito comunista? No, Sole 24 ore.

In Italia invece parliamo ancora delle minchiate.

[Najifa AI @NajifaAI]

FIVE SIGNS YOU’RE DEALING WITH A TRULY GOOD PERSON.

1. They often like to be alone.

[Emotion & Music @Emotion78687]

How could two people who had just met on stage, with only a few hurried minutes of rehearsal, sing as if they had shared the same heartbreak for years?

In June 1986, at the Prince’s Trust Rock Gala, Paul Young had already sung “Every Time You Go Away” once that night. The song was his biggest hit, a smooth, aching ballad that had topped charts the year before. Then George Michael appeared. He had not been fully expected. The two men had only a few hurried minutes to run through the lyrics backstage. What followed should have felt awkward. Instead it became one of those rare live moments that still feels alive decades later.

Watching the clip now, what strikes you first is how little either of them seems to be performing for the cameras. Young sings with the steady warmth that made the original recording so persuasive. Michael enters with a different kind of intensity—slightly more urgent, more exposed. They do not blend into one smooth sound. They take turns, listen, push each other a little higher on the chorus, then pull back. There is no visible competition, only a quiet agreement to stay inside the song together.

The circumstances make it more interesting. Michael had scheduling conflicts that evening. He arrived late and chose this particular track because it was the one he already knew. Young, who had just finished performing it, simply stepped back onstage and began again. Behind them sat an absurdly stacked band—Elton John on piano, Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler on guitars, Phil Collins on drums—yet the focus never drifts from the two voices at the front. The stars in the background only underline how little the moment needed decoration.

What gives the performance its lasting charge is the absence of polish. Most high-profile duets are rehearsed until the edges disappear. This one still has edges. You can hear the slight uncertainty of an unrehearsed entrance, the way one voice adjusts to the other in real time, the shared decision to treat the song as something fragile rather than a showcase. “Every time you go away / You take a piece of me with you” lands differently when sung by two men who had no time to protect their images. The lyric stops sounding like a radio-friendly heartbreak and starts sounding like a simple admission.

There is something quietly generous about the exchange. Young could have guarded the song as his own. Michael could have used the stage to remind everyone of his own rising stardom. Neither does. They make space. In an industry that often rewards self-display, the restraint feels almost radical. The result is not a perfect performance. It is a human one.

That is probably why the clip continues to circulate. It captures a night when two skilled singers decided, on very short notice, to trust each other with a song about loss. They did not turn it into a spectacle. They simply sang it, and in doing so left behind something more durable than most carefully planned collaborations. Sometimes the most memorable moments are the ones that almost did not happen.

[Marshall Mathers @Eminem]

I'm sorry we never got a chance to meet, but getting this note from Dolly really had a an impact on me. She definitely didn't have to take the time to do it. Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon. A superstar in every sense. Rest easy Dolly. And thank you for the kind words.

[Alessandro @90ordnasselA]

Il saluto di Davide Frattesi 🖤💙

[Luca @lucabello]

@Antonio_Tajani @forza_italia Scusi visto che lei è ministro degli esteri, lei ha mai provato ad usare la piattaforma "prenotami" per prendere un appuntamento con un consolato all'estero? Non è praticamente mai possibile prendere un appuntamento, neanche se lo volessi prendere 6 mesi prima. Inizi da li

[fOx @fOx1257067]

In May 2016, 15-year-old Karinya “Yaya” Chen was in hospice care in Austin, Texas after years of fighting cancer. She had tickets to see Florence The Machine, but by the night of the concert, she was simply too sick to go.

So the people at Hospice Austin reached out to the band.

And Florence Welch came to her.

Florence and guitarist Rob Ackroyd walked into Karinya’s room and gave her the concert she couldn't make it to. They sang “Shake It Out” and “Dog Days Are Over,” with Karinya singing and harmonizing right alongside them.

A few months later, Karinya lost her battle with cancer at just 15 years old.

But for one afternoon, none of that seemed to matter.

There was just a young girl, one of her favorite singers, a guitar, a room full of people who loved her... and music.

Sometimes the smallest act of kindness can become one of the biggest moments of someone's life.

This is what being human is supposed to look like.🙏

[Tony Posnanski @tonyposnanski]

Same person under two different presidents.

[Il Grande Flagello @grande_flagello]

La Spagna ha già rispedito in Marocco 37.500 persone tra quelle entrate a Ceuta. Ha rimpatriato più gente Sanchez in un giorno che il governo italiano in 4 anni.

[Marta Ottaviani @martaottaviani]

L’#Italia ha fatto una figura inqualificabile, che ci si ritorcerà contro. E tutto per rubare voti a Vannacci #Ceuta

[UEFA @UEFA]

Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National Associations

[luca foresti @lforesti]

La crisi sulla criminalità in Italia che non esiste

Gli unici reati sulla microcriminalità cresciuti in Italia dal 2006 sono i furti in abitazione (+9%) e i reati informatici (+160%)

La crisi sulla microcriminalità, il peggioramento rispetto al passato é una fake-news

[NASA @NASA]

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon.

[Luciano Pulici @Lorenzo32843904]

Matteo, a nome di tutti gli spagnoli: GRAZIE GRAZIE GRAZIE

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@LegaNord