Fish Out of Water

69 acres of private Tuscany for €690k ($797k). The land includes an olive grove, a fruit orchard, a cork oak grove and 20 hectares of woodland. A natural spring produces 3,000 litres of water a day, solar panels cover the electricity and yes, it does have wifi. It's also been renovated, 370m² (3,983 sq ft) across 3 floors, 3 beds, 3 baths, with a pool and a sauna. 50 km to Volterra. Off-grid, self-sufficient, sauna, pool..what's missing here?

@MakingSenseInfo @TheCountessIE @kenoflynnTD @CNolanOffaly You're right. We are ruled by extremists. Like all extremists, they are impervious to data and evidence. Massive change needed.

@john_legat @notgreatlookin Imagine the sneers in the national media if a leading Irish politician recited St Patrick’s Breastplate on Saint Patrick’s Day.

BREAKING - An Africa-based research team aiming to disprove Western claims about low IQ in African countries is going viral after conducting mass IQ tests in Lagos, Nigeria, only for over 50% of participants to score below 70, with a median score of 69.7.

I think one crucial role for a wife is to believe in her husband even at times where he doesn’t believe in himself. Women don’t often know how meaningful this is to men.

Mid-week viewing. The importance of the 24.5-hour House floor debate against the WA Democrats' unconstitutional state income tax scheme: We set, on the record, "legislative intent" that will help lawsuits challenging that tax. Plus other details from the recent Olympia session.

Conor McGregor: Irish towns are being overrun He's right

@AnishA_Moonka Weird when you actually recognize the room he's talking in 🤷🏻‍♂️

Spring 1992. Steve Jobs stands in front of a room of MBA students at MIT, pitching a computer that almost nobody bought. The company was called NeXT. It sold about 50,000 machines in its entire existence. By every measure, it was a failure. The software inside it became the foundation of every Apple product ever made, and the platform on which the World Wide Web was invented. He's 37. He's been fired from Apple, the company he co-founded. He spends 70 minutes talking. He tells a room full of future consultants that consulting is a waste of talent. "Without owning something over an extended period of time, where one has to see one's recommendations through all action stages and accumulate scar tissue for the mistakes, one learns a fraction of what one can." He compares consulting to looking at a picture of a banana. "You might have a lot of pictures on your wall. You can say, I've worked in bananas, I've worked in peaches, I've worked in grapes. But you never really taste it." He says, "I think everybody lost" about being pushed out of Apple. "I think I lost. And I wanted to spend my life there. I think Apple lost. I think customers lost." Then: "Having said all that, so what? You go on. It's not as bad as a lot of things. Not as bad as losing your arm." He says hardware can never be a lasting competitive advantage. "Hardware churns every 18 months. You can make something one and a half or two times as good as your competitor, and it only lasts six months." But software, he says, is a different game. "You can make something five or even ten times as good as your competitors in software. And it's very, very hard to copy. I watched Microsoft take eight or nine years to catch up with the Mac." Then he makes a claim that almost nobody in the room would have believed: "Object-oriented technology is the biggest technical breakthrough I have seen since the early 80s with graphical user interfaces. And I think it's bigger actually." He was describing NeXTSTEP, the software his "failed" company had built. Object-oriented programming, in plain terms, means building software from reusable building blocks rather than writing everything from scratch. Jobs said developers could build apps on NeXTSTEP in about a third to a quarter of the time it took on other systems. Almost nobody cared. By industry standards, NeXT was a flop. But four years after this talk, Apple was nearly bankrupt. They bought NeXT for $427 million. Jobs came back. NeXTSTEP became Mac OS X in 2001. The same code became iOS when the iPhone launched in 2007. Every Mac, every iPhone, every iPad, every Apple Watch runs on what Jobs was selling while Sun was trying to put him out of business. One more thing. In 1990, at a physics lab in Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee needed a computer to build a prototype for something he called the World Wide Web. He chose a NeXT. He built the first web browser and the first web server. The internet, as you know it, was born on a machine that couldn't find a market. When asked what he learned from being fired from Apple, Jobs pauses. Then he says, "I now take a longer-term view on people. When I see something not being done right, my first reaction isn't to go fix it. It's to say, we're building a team here, and we're going to do great stuff for the next decade, not just the next year." He was 37, running a company most people thought was dead, standing in a room full of MBA students. Apple is now worth $3.7 trillion. Every dollar of it runs on the thing he built when nobody was watching.

For nearly 60 years, one of the rarest Caravaggio portraits in existence sat in a private collection in Florence. Most people had never heard of it. Only a handful of specialists had ever seen it in person. Then in 2024, its owners agreed to loan it out for a temporary exhibition at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome, and the art world finally got a look at a painting that had been hiding in plain sight for decades. The portrait depicts Maffeo Barberini, a clergyman in his 30s, painted by Caravaggio around 1598. Barberini wasn't just anyone. He went on to become Pope Urban VIII in 1623, and he was the man who later commissioned the Palazzo Barberini itself, the very building now displaying his portrait. The painting had essentially come home. In March 2026, the Italian government made it permanent. They paid nearly $35 million to acquire the work for the Palazzo Barberini's collection, making it one of the most expensive artworks the country has ever purchased. The price makes more sense when you understand how rare it is. Around 65 paintings have been attributed to Caravaggio, who died at just 38. The overwhelming majority depict biblical scenes or mythological figures. Portraits are a different matter entirely. He painted almost none, which makes this one genuinely exceptional. Art historian Roberto Longhi first attributed the painting to Caravaggio in 1963 and argued it was central to understanding how the artist approached portraiture. Longhi described it as a founding moment in the history of modern portraiture, highlighting Caravaggio's ability to capture psychological intensity in a sitter's face. That's the quality Caravaggio is known for across all his work, the sense that something real and human is happening just beneath the surface, and this portrait apparently shows that quality applied to a face rather than a scene. The painting went on public display for the first time during the 2024 exhibition at Palazzo Barberini, drawing enormous attention. Italian officials began negotiations with the owners during that period, and the acquisition was announced on March 10, 2026. A portrait of a future pope, painted by one of the most technically brilliant and personally chaotic artists in history, hidden in a private collection for six decades, and now permanently installed in the palace that the man in the painting built. As art stories go, that's a good one. #archaeohistories

This year I’ve been awakening to the notion that males may actually be more loving and loyal by nature than females I observe by spending so much time with my brothers and their friends that men always look out for eachother, even if they’re at odds in some low level way Women on the other hand have less tolerance for friction amongst themselves. I’m personally guilty of this Men will be in debt to eachother, be irritated with eachother, and have ongoing conflict in some way but will still spend time together and journey on their mission. The “mission” can be as simple as continuing to hang out or something more complex like a business venture Women, when facing uncomfortable feelings amongst eachother will burn a connection to the ground. Women often go low too, bringing up secrets and using personal information against eachother to try and quell their hurt ego when there is tension in the relationship In comparison I see that men are loyal to eachother, keep secrets secret, are slow to abandon friendship, and are a lot more willing to face conflict head on than women (or just let things go a lot easier) I think men are also more loving as mentioned above because they are very simple and honest in their approach to relationships, especially romantic. The way a man treats you is usually exactly how he feels about you. When he treats you well, it’s a testament to his good feelings. Even when he doesn’t treat you well, it’s an honest reflection of how he feels and with displays of honesty we understand that it can be a “true” display of “love” When a man loves a woman it is often forever, even if it’s not an “in love” vibe. It’s a decision they make to love someone, and it lasts. While love is seen as an emotion, it’s moreover a choice for men and they see it logically. This is why I believe men are the real yearners. You see those comments online about men getting their heart broken in middle school and never getting over it…. Yea…. This is what I mean. When they love, they love hard and true. Women on the other hand can feel totally in love one day, and totally indifferent the next (another thing I know I am guilty of). Their feelings are a lot more fleeting, shifty, inconsistent…. and they are by nature more fickle In sharing this I am in no way trying to make women out to be totally lacking loyalty or love. It’s also not a competition to point out how each gender operates and who is better at what as a way to create superiority. I do think though, that it is helpful to see the ways men operate and give credit to them because I think women misunderstand them heavily. The lack of understanding creates discord amongst the harmony everyone’s ultimately trying to get to in society. Instead of getting mad at men, why don’t we look at them honestly? I’ve come to recently appreciate the way men act amongst eachother and am grateful to all examples shown to me, even the ones here with men who interact with this account 🙏🏼💙

People don’t want to be punished for success. It is not wrong to want to preserve your wealth.

Rupert Lowe contends that the UK is effectively a communist regime controlled by organised crime, where non-contributors are rewarded while the hard-working are punished. He calls on the public to push back against excessive government control. "Do not allow these petty bureaucrats and these people who are supposed to be serving you... to push you around." "They're your servant, not your master." "People have lost sight of what the state is there for. It is there to serve." Credit: @RupertLowe10 @Sargon_of_Akkad

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It's supposed to be parody, but it's almost 100% accurate, so it really isin't This is Canada's healthcare system.

The fight back begins! Today I received £482,315.32 And most importantly a new trial. Never give in! Never surrender!

This is the way! Ground beef and chicken 😂🤣

Here it is: The chairman of the U.S. Intelligence Advisory Board, Devin Nunes, CONFIRMS that Barack Obama ordered the raid on Mar-a-Lago because he was looking for this—his ICA report, the falsified intelligence report used to frame Donald J. Trump in an effort to overthrow the United States government, and then classified it so that no one could ever see it. MORE DAMNING DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS ARE ON THE WAY. In the meantime, give the man, @DevinNunes, the Presidential Medal of Freedom—at once.

Washington State's Massive Overspending Crisis EXPLAINED #wa #washingtonstate #shorts #economy #shortsfeed