"In war, there are no winners. In Eurovision, there are no losers." Zoran from Let3 with an absolutely gracious message to the non-qualifiers. They're good men.
#Eurovision
Idk what's so hard to understand about the removed jury votes at Eurovision: it isn't the votes from the final that had a problem, it was the semifinal votes. None of the six broadcasters released them to the public for scrutiny yet.
Small town goose in a big arcade
I got addicted to a losing game
HOOOOOOONK! Hoooooooooonk
All I know, all I know...
Loving you is an
#untitledgoosegame
#Eurovision
Literally whenever someone says that Eurovision voting kinda shows some racist bias, you always always get some white person saying "you're overthinking it."
Maybe YOU'RE just not thinking enough? Sorry about it. 💁🏽♂️
any Eurovision fan would look at Belarus' algorithm'd jury vote and immediately know it's wrong... and it took the EBU more than three days to correct it
@EuroDivision
It probably would've looked much worse if they announced the televote first and then the jury winner ends up winning. Green room interviews are just problematic tbh
"eurovision isn't about politics, hatari shouldn't have done that"
my dear, we don't live in a politics-free bubble. the existence of eurovision is political. eurovision being in tel aviv is political. get your head out of your ass.
Ok this sucks. Low-key disrespectful to give them only one minute each, including a clip of the song, behind the scenes and a personal message. :/ I feel horrible
#Eurovision
I think this year's Eurovision will have a winner from a country that hasn't won before. Will it be Iceland... Lithuania.... Romania.... Malta? Certainly not Moldova, Croatia, or Poland. Hmm.
#Sense8
is so special because it's about all kinds of love, and the lengths we must go to protect that love. Romantic love, platonic love, familial love. Love that transcends gender, race, geography, economic status. No other show comes close to making me feel these feels. 😭😭😭
So... I can finally say... I'm going to Rutgers University in the fall to work on my Ph.D. in Linguistics! I'm sooooo excited to be able to take this next step up in my education. Dr. Gerbear 2026!!
Imagine losing the right to broadcast your own gigantic song contest in some places because you thought Justin Timberlake + selling the rights to Logo TV and its handful of viewers was a good idea. Can't even relate.
My Top 5 European cities by how much I love their tap water:
1. 🇮🇸 Reykjavik - hot water smells funky but the cold water??? godly
2. 🇳🇴 Oslo - so clean, so fresh
3. 🇸🇮 Ljubljana - crisp and basic (in the best way)
4. 🇦🇹 Vienna - love that alps water
5. 🇩🇰 Copenhagen - so wet
it's like calling lady gaga 'stefani' all the time or something. like.... you don't know the person. they're not your close friend. you know the persona they choose to show to their audience.
@Deirdre_Night
@HTTPaladin
/f/ doesn't occur in Tagalog, either.
Also, to attribute the "x" to white people robs those who do identify with "Filipinx" of their agency. It isn't white people who came up with it in the first place. White performativity surely plays into it, but it isn't the whole story.
In case any Europeans are confused about the lack of state flags in the
#AmericanSongContest
graphics: very few US state flags are iconic. I mean, look at this week's selection of generic blue sheets:
📣 NEW FEATURE ALERT!!
It's now 100% easier to share your results... I've added an automatic screencap button!! It should open an image version of the table in a new tab/window. Enjoy! <3
If you'll recall, in April, my baby Orange Cat had to go to the vet for a really bad wound and... I didn't want to have to crowd fund for this, but the bill is coming due and the job hunt has been... unsuccessful so far :( Any help is appreciated <3
Racism is pervasive in the Eurovision fandom.
In 2014 in the press center, a couple of white Eurovision "journalists" asked loudly, behind my back, "do they not close doors where he's from?" when I propped open a door that was usually left open :V like... how unnecessarily rude
Hey guess what: two new features are here!!
1. The lovely
@elainovision
has made us a way to automatically see your qualifiers from each semifinal!
2. If you're on the Eurovision (un)Official Discord server, I've added the code for updating your rankings on the bot!