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@jsugarfootm It's a wonderful film! I'm glad that you felt like it did you are Michael justice!

Seeing Jafaar Jackson transform into Michael Jackson right before my eyes was truly a surreal and unforgettable experience. The attention to detail, the energy, the atmosphere….it all brought back so many memories. Grateful to have witnessed such a special moment firsthand!

@russellcrowe Seen it - great film! Just don’t watch it for historical accuracy, but is is good fun. Russell Crowe is fantastic!

Hello to my friends in Germany. This week Nuremberg opens in cinema’s. I hope you go and see it.

@JodieMarsh I had ticket to see him at O2, for the first time, in 2009 - and he died three weeks before the concert. I was devastated. This movie has been wonderful, sad to see what I missed, but great to get the next best alternative.

GO AND SEE IT !!!!!!! 🙌🏼🥰😍💪🏼🩷🕺🏽

@DangerousThinkg @DaThermidorian I was singing along with it on silent! Very well done.

@DaThermidorian ha!

How many of you go out for early dinners and then call it a night? This hits harder as the days pass

@stevebyrnelive @michaelmovie 10/10 from me. I have never wanted to see a film twice at the cinema before.

Michael’s reviews are divided. Critics bash it for what it isn’t. Audiences love it for what it is. Simply put, for me, I loved it. @michaelmovie

@dvorahfr I went tonight in Munich. Only about 50 people in the cinema, but the atmosphere was fantastic! Lots of clapping and singing, and people waving their mobile phones like at a concert. Amazing!

Yesterday I saw the biopic: "Michael " It had been a long time since I'd seen such an atmosphere in the theater. Some people were singing, some were dancing; I must admit I had trouble staying in my seat. 🕺💃 A 13-year-old girl next to me was discovering the Michael Jackson phenomenon for the first time. She was blown away. No star today can compare.💫

@elespanolcom It was exactly the same in Munich! People singing and waving their phones during the credits, and clapping and shouting for an encore at the end! I love this film.

🎞️ ❤️ La alegría contagiosa de un grupo de amigas al salir del cine después de haber visto la película de Michael Jackson conquista las redes y se hace viral

@khanofkhans11_ Absolutely perfect!

Jafaar Jackson playing Michael Jackson’s Biopic. The kind of nepotism I support 🔥

@realharderonke Please stop making these videos. I'm addicted.

Her Blind Husband Secretly Got Surgery to Surprise Her... But He Saw Everything💔😭🙆‍♂️

@Yaw_nyame35 youtube.com/watch?v=zf5zYq…

What's one German word or concept that has no direct translation in your language? I'll start: Feierabend. The sacred end of the work day. Drop yours below 👇🇩🇪

@MurphKate1 @JamesMelville Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Elton John!

@JamesMelville I loved this but I think my favorite was when he sang Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me with Elton. Regardless, he had a spectacular voice.

April 20, 1992: George Michael performed at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium, London. His performance of "Somebody to Love" with Queen is regarded by many as one of the greatest live performances of a song. He absolutely nailed it.

@GermanSimply_ Der Vorsprung, sich zu irren

Unpopular opinion: The reason you're struggling with German articles isn't your memory. It's that every teacher starts with a table. Der. Die. Das. 3 columns. 4 rows. 16 endings. "Memorise this." Nobody memorises their way into language. You acquire language through patterns, repetition, and context – not through staring at a grid until your eyes water. Here's what actually works: Learn ONE gender pattern per week. Not all 15. One. Week 1: Words ending in -ung are ALWAYS feminine. Die Zeitung. Die Wohnung. Die Meinung. No exceptions. That's it. That's the week. Stack one pattern every 7 days and in 3 months you'll get articles right more often than learners who memorised the whole table on day one. The table is a reference tool. Not a learning tool. There is a difference. ♥️🇩🇪

@KatyKray73 To me it sounds very similar to the Essex accent (around Basildon).

The Australian accent was first noted around 1820. Colonial authorities were puzzled by the distinctive way the children of the settlers were speaking. It had developed as a unique blend of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh dialects that had never been heard together in Britain, formed through daily mixing in the new townships. The Australian accent evolved from: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@GermanSimply_ Homo Faber is my favourite on this list. Phenomenal book! I should read it again.

Every German teacher has an opinion on what to read. After years of teaching, testing, and seeing real learners succeed, this list is mine. Goethe-Institut backed. telc-aligned. Level by level. 🇩🇪📚 The only German reading list you’ll ever need. A thread 🧵👇

@kohantoys @levelsio You should see how long German Amazon reviews are!

@levelsio Summary?! The video is 36 minutes long

Amazing summary of what went wrong in Germany

@ihtesham2005 This is why I love using AI for studying. When I want to learn something I upload all of the course material into a project in ChatGPT, then tell the AI to ask me questions over and over again until I get it. It is a great way of learning and the AI is endlessly patient.

A community college professor taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years, and the video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings on the internet. His name is Marty Lobdell. He spent his career as a psychology professor watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because nobody had ever taught them how their brain actually works under the pressure of learning something hard. The lecture is called "Study Less Study Smart." Over 10 million views. Passed around in Reddit threads, Discord servers, and university study groups for over a decade. And the core insight buried inside it has been sitting in cognitive psychology research for years, waiting for someone to explain it in plain language. Here is the framework that completely changed how I think about effort. Your brain does not sustain focus the way you think it does. Studies tracking real students found that the average learner hits a wall somewhere between 25 and 30 minutes. After that, efficiency doesn't just decline. It collapses. You're still sitting at your desk, still looking at the page, but almost nothing is going in. Lobdell illustrated this with a student he knew personally. She set a goal of studying 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week, to pull herself out of academic probation. Thirty hours of studying per week. She failed every single class that quarter. She wasn't failing because she lacked effort. She was failing because she had confused time spent near books with time spent actually learning. The 25-minute crash hit her at 6:30pm every night. She spent the next five and a half hours sitting in the wreckage of her own focus and calling it studying. The fix sounds almost too simple. The moment you feel the slide, stop. Take five minutes. Do something that actually gives you a small reward. Then go back. That five-minute reset returns you to near full efficiency. Across a six-hour window, the difference is not marginal. It is the difference between thirty minutes of real learning and five and a half hours of it. The second thing he taught destroyed something I had believed about how memory actually works. Highlighting feels productive. Going back over your notes and recognizing everything feels like knowing. But recognition and recollection are two completely different cognitive processes, and your brain is very good at making you confuse them. You can see something you've read before and feel completely certain you understand it, even when you couldn't reconstruct a single sentence from memory if the page were blank. He proved this live in the room. He read 13 random letters to his audience. Almost nobody could recall them. Then he rearranged the same 13 letters into two words: Happy Thursday. The whole room got all 13 without effort. Same letters. Same count. The only thing that changed was meaning. The brain stores meaning. Not repetition. The moment new information connects to something you already understand, the retention changes entirely. This is what the cognitive psychology literature calls elaborative encoding, and it is the mechanism underneath every effective study technique. The third principle was the one that hit me hardest, and the one almost nobody applies. Lobdell cited research showing that 80 percent of your study time should be spent in active recitation, not passive reading. Close the material. Say it back in your own words. Teach it to someone else, or to an empty chair if no one is around. The struggle of retrieval is where the actual learning happens. Reading your notes again is watching someone else do the work. His parting line has stayed with me longer than almost anything else I have read about learning. He told the room that if what he shared didn't change their behavior, they hadn't actually learned it. It would just live in their heads as something they had heard once and felt good about. He was right. And most people leave every lecture exactly like that. The students who remember everything aren't putting in more hours. They stopped confusing the feeling of studying with the fact of it.

@FinalBloodline @Playteaux1 Lovely photos of a beautiful woman. And an athlete! What an inspiration.

@Playteaux1 Thank you so much. I’ll show you my favorite photograph of her. Her show name was June Arnold.

These were three of the most beautiful women in television at the height of their popularity. I don’t want to be mean but can people just grow old gracefully?

@George_Laing_ I listened to your interview on Magic Towns Italy. Well done, amazing job!

I am reviving Sicily 1 abandoned home at a time 🏚️📈📈 Join me buying 1€ properties!

@BoxedGenie @DreyfusJames And the music. I could not tell you any really significant musical trend from the last 25 years.

@DreyfusJames Have you also noticed how fashion and culture hasn’t really changed either? Before, you could recognise the era and it was fully its own. But now it’s just a mishmash that stopped around 2010, and since then there’s been no culture or era change?

Incredible to think this wonderfully chaotic, joyful, irreverent programme, which I had the pleasure of being on a few times, seems like another world away now. Fun & joy has been completely replaced with dour earnestness, bland virtue signalling & self-conscious caution.

@evelinesalario @thealepalombo Great photos! I love Sicily.

@thealepalombo my father was born in sicily, in chiusa sclafani. this is my uncles land. this are my father and my uncle. sadly they both past. in sicily people have land with a simple house, and a house in the village.

I'm Italian. I just got back from Rome. Over dinner, old friends and I started arguing about the same thing we always argue about: which cities in Italy are genuinely incredible but nobody ever talks about? We went back and forth for hours. By the end of the night, we had a list. 7 hidden cities that most people, including most Italians, will never think to visit, let alone move to. No crowds. No tourist markup. Insane quality of life. Thread 🧵