Tell me something nice?

One Minute Away is about many things, but if you ask me it does a truly excellent job at talking about what it's like to be and feel like a foreigner in London. And if you're like me and your hands get tired holding up a heavy book, you're all out of excuses now that it's out in paperback.

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on the 100th listen I decided my favourite lyric on the new bleachers album is "so you retrace the steps and you dust the path for prints // there's a wasteland in you, is there something you missed?" so here's... something

Jack Anotnoff writing a lyric like "dying is not romantic this young // how could you let me do this alone // glory to the ones who were left, hallelujah" sir just stab me in the heart it would hurt less than this

Girlhood is a random stranger on the bus cleaning your dress with a stain wipe as you cry at 8:30am lying through her teeth that "you can't even tell"

There's really nothing like it, is there

Once again my main Eurovision thought is "imagine thinking that booing a young man while he sings is going to help anyone and not just make him feel like shit for the circumstances of his birth" (this year with the new addition of "maybe they just want him to feel like shit, huh?")

I love being a fan of things, it's so nice to be extremely weird about the stuff you love

It takes a special kind of talent to accidentally drop your work badge directly in the little gap between the elevator doors. And I apparently have that talent

Buffy went through a phase where, after we tucked. her in at night, she'd get up with the blanket still on, superhero-style, dragging a big red cape around. Happy birthday!

@watsoncomedian.bsky.social @matryer.bsky.social 💛

I'd like to apologize in advance for the person I'll become when the new bleachers album comes out

I loaded a monthly pass onto my card this morning, and I take full responsibility for the consequences of those actions, clearly I should have stayed home

Anything over five laugh-reacts on a message in the group chat, you should be able to put under "professional achievements" in your resume

I can hear my therapist in my head disapprovingly saying "you can't jinx things into happening" and yet I continue to pay for individual bus rides because I know the day I buy a monthly pass is the day the ceasefire will end

You know the mental health is mental healthing when I find myself quickly googling flights to London just in case I suddenly discover they're not a five hour, 500 pounds, unreliable and unattainable dream

Just as the world is truly falling apart completely, Ted Lasso returns to tape it back together like a torn believe sign

Look at this! A font that is 100% pelicans! High art! Available for download now! More exclamation points to show how excited I am about this!

I was served this song via the youtube algorithm on Friday and I'll be honest with you, I have thought of very little else since www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9C5...

Every year there's that one American colleague who wishes me a happy memorial day and I have to quietly go "no, mate, it doesn't really work like that here"

Got a text from my bank saying "someone's paying quite a lot in foreign currency on your credit card, was it maybe stolen?" but no, it's just me buying bleachers tickets to feel something

had such an exhausting day (read: week, month, year) that I came back home from work and immediately cracked open my emergency chocolate orange

Every time Andrew Lloyd Webber loses an award an angel gets its wings; every time he loses it to Sondheim a hundred angels do

Went to get a new band for my wristwatch and the old man who sold it to me said "wait, please take a butterfly before you leave" 😭

It's amazing how you can watch Taskmaster in the middle of the worst bit of life, and just forget about everything for 45 minutes and get real joy out of finding oranges under tins. It's the best and the people who make it are the best and I hope they know how much better they make our lives.

"Finally, some good news!" "You mean the ceasefire?" "What? No, I mean the Bleachers Europe tour that was just announced-"

If anyone needs me I'll be screaming in despair until I lose my voice

You can say a lot of things about Jack Antonoff but he does have the unique talent of releasing the songs I need to hear right when I need to hear them

For no reason at all, I'm reading 1984 this week, and, yeah, it sure is.

Every headline, email or text I've read today has made me physically scream. And now "a TB patient was in the underground-parking-lot-turned-makeshift-hospital in your area for five days" and I swear this will be the one that breaks me

What does BGT even know about polar bears

File this under "ill-advised but absolutely necessary"

crying at a random travel vlog because this guy wanted to go out and explore so he just got on a train and had a day out, meanwhile I wanted to see my baby niece today and got caught by three separate rounds of ballistic missiles on my 20 minute journey there. I miss my life

there's a place for us // somewhere, a place for us // peace and quiet and open air // wait for us, somewhere

Was sad, had to go pet a dog, still sad but now sad with dog

texted a childhood friend in tears that I'll be missing his wedding because the war made the airline pull out and I can't get there. if anyone needs me I'll be crying in bed for the foreseeable

[siren starts] "man, just as I opened a ripe avocado? do you know how rare those are-"

you know it's really bad when a picture from your hometown is featured at the top of the new york times

tell me nice things?

The news is full of pictures of my hometown on literal fire and I don't know how to deal with that at all

Putting up bunting in a bomb shelter is like putting rainbow sprinkles on a weetabix

Sure, everything sucks, but the neighbour's kid baked cookies for the whole building, left them at people's doors and then peeked in the hallway to see people receive them, and that is the sweetest thing I've ever seen. I didn't have the heart to tell her I'm allergic 😭💛

a senior exec took a nice picture of me presenting at the kickoff, cropped me out of it, and posted it on linkedin as if they're listening to him, happy international women's day!!

I would like one (1) good thing please

Watching Americans try to express their opinions about the war is like listening to Prologue from Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812. I understand this is niche but it is also true, so

Respectfully, FUCK

Tired girls are tired

Pausing our regularly scheduled programing to bring you, oh, what's this, something good that's happening? I can hardly believe it myself, but here it is nonetheless. (This makes financial sense even if you see one show a year, also it feels nice to support art and you deserve to feel nice.)

Googling "how to stop feeling so overwhelmed" and all the results say "go on a walk outside" or "turn off the news for a day" and then googling "okay, but how to stop feeling so overwhelmed when you can't do any of that stuff-"