Wonder who that 8 was? Spain, Netherlands, Ireland, Slovenia, Iceland are locks. Belgium, maybe Portugal?

This is my plan too. Enjoy the NF season. Sack off everything after that.

LOL, this is so weird. Where's Angelina Mango singing Imagine when you need her?

Vienna Cake Number 3: It is important to have 5 a day, so it's time to have an appelkuchen

In other news: I am going to UMK this year! Quite stressed but excited to experience my first NF live! And I am really excited to try and go to others as well! Any reccomendations? 😃

📡 Reuters has set up a livestream outside the European Broadcasting Union's headquarters in anticipation of today's General Assembly results. Watch live here: www.youtube.com/live/9LI9pzm... #Eurovision

So either the EBU excludes KAN today, and 🇮🇱 and 🇩🇪 will be miserable. Or they don’t, and 🇮🇪 🇪🇸 🇸🇮 and 🇳🇱 will be miserable. BUT There’s a secret 3rd option: where the members just fail to agree and no decision is made yet? And all just stays as is. In which case we’ll all be miserable. 😅 #Eurovision

In much happier news: finally time for some #FiK songs in work today! 🤗

This should be written with massive neon signa: this should NOT BE the responsibility of the fans! We did not ask for it! We just want to enjoy our silly little contest. But that is increasingly harder as the representatives who DO have power quietly back down. Personal boycott it is then.

If the EBU shows itself once again incapable of robustly sanctioning obvious political manoeuvring, that's me done with next year's contest. I'll probably still watch the national finals because I enjoy a lot of those, but I'll be noping out when things kick off in Vienna.

For me, today's Eurovision meeting comes down to the following: - A government has manipulated the contest over the past two years for political purposes - The way they have done so is well-documented by the EBU - The proposed rule changes do not adequately address these issues

Okay, so big day in EBU world! Let's see if the inevitable happens! 🤦

Good luck to RTVE, AVROTROS, RTÉ, RÚV and RTVSLO, fighting the good fight today

I can't listen to the song without thinking of

I haven’t made any changes. Will post later.also Svetlana Loboda, love!

So, instead of #FiK, I made the extremely hard top 10 for #esc250. And boy, was this a chore at the end, Manizha was just at 11th place and Bara Bada Bastu just below her. 😭😭😭

a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization

a lot has been said about Jack Skellington as allegory for cultural appropriation (I definitely wasn't the first) but there's also a lot to be said about Jack Skellington as clueless tech billionaire

Fenksta is back, hopefully LELEK will finally sing in Croatian! Otherwise not a lot of repeat names from last year, actually quite excited to hear the songs! 🇭🇷

I need to check out some #FiK64 songs while in work! 🇦🇱

Happy seventh birthday to Sir David Attenborough not being in the nudd.

It’s wild how there’s several different videos of several different establishment democrats giving public talks where they say “it’s a shame young people can see videos of war crimes online because they’re missing the context behind the war crimes”

life is long and i've seen a lot of things come and go but i will not stand for the rehabilitation of the ron howard grinch. motherfucker i was THERE in the theater. i was there

I still can't believe Sony sold K-Pop Demon Hunters to Netflix thinking it would be a flop, but are betting that basketball movie with a goat is going to be a huge hit in cinemas.

this is why liberals won't call for actual consequences. nothing trump is doing is something we didn't spend two decades doing throughout the middle east, central asia and africa during the war on terror. it's just that trump brags about it on social media too much

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

🇧🇬 BNT has announced a national selection to choose its #Eurovision 2026 entry, and will invite 15 artists to participate. The show will be broadcast in three stages in January and February 2026. The winner will be selected by a combination of a televote and jury vote.

Final ranking for #Montesong 2025! (Subject to change later) #Eurovision 1. Lana X Ðorde 2. Lara Baltić 3. Andrea Demirović 4. Stefan 5. Ðurda 6. Dolce Hera 7. Tamara Živković 8. Tina Džankić 9. Baryak 10. Krstinja 11. Mila Nikić 12. Lana 13. Majda Božović 14. Luka Radović 15. Neno Murić

🇲🇪 MONTESONG 2025 Reaction 🧵 #Montesong #Eurovision

#montesong: a delightful selection of songs, I am genuinely curious how the show will go down! 🇲🇪 Here's my Top 5, the rest is more fluid at this stage.

Some quick usual suspects counts: Thomas G:son - 3 Jimmy Jansson - 5 Cazzi Opeia - 3 Dino Medanhodzic - 6 Melanie Wehbe - 4 Anderz Wrethov - 4 Andreas Werling - 2 Jimmy "Joker" Thörnfeldt - 3 The Debs - 2 x Joy, 1 x Linnea There are some other repeat names too, but you get the idea #Melfest

Just make it a direct Love Love Peace Peace copy, we'll pretend not to notice

#melfest done, going back chilling with #montesong

UUUUUUUHNDOOOOO MY SAAAAAAAD! #melfest

OMG! Edward af Sillén as a Melodifestivalen entry writer?!?! Could that be the unexpected KAJ of 2026? #melfest

Okay, I find the whole 'putting Smash Into Pieces on a cardboard cuz they were unable to come' energy very unprofessional but somehow refreshing from #melfest

Maybe I missed it, but I sense a strong lack of Thomas G:sonn in this year's #melfest

Okay, who called the firemen? #melfest

I know this is just an artists' announcement, but like... I was expecting a bit more fanciness from SVT #melfest

Turned on SVT Play early and look what I saw 😅

Finally, feeling better, and havjng some quiet time in work. Finally time to #Montesong!

Lol

If the US can do whatever it wants to whomever it wants with no regard for human rights, the Geneva Convention, US law, the UCMJ, or international law, then we are no different than Vladimir Putin and Russia, who I suppose was the role model for Trump foreign policy doctrine.

San Pascual Bailon is the patron saint of kitchens and the Eucharist. Occasionally we have a postcard of a retablo with him included in our orders. The very talented artist, James Eddy sent us this amazing modern retablo that freaks me out in the best possible way. I'm so honored!

Dear Lord, all the #NationalFinal songs are flowing in and NOW I had to get sick so I couldn't concentrate properly 🤦

It's #WorldAIDSDay today. We were on track to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030; now, with the hollowing out of PEPFAR, and with the increasing rise of policies that make it harder to deliver real sex education and harm reduction programs, that progress is at risk.

COMING SOON: AI + Guy™

What stage of revolutionary socialist practice is the "does this group of people deserve rights?" stage