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[funkyrabbit]

posting this kinda late, but happy birthday to arthur and muffy!!🥳🎂

arthur is technically 50 years old this year because marc brown published arthur's nose in 1976. it's wild that he's been around for so long! i haven't posted any fanart in ages, so i made this to celebrate. i probably should've drawn something in february since that's when the book was published, but arthur's birthday works too haha

may the most famous cartoon aardvark in history persist for another 50 years !! ❤️

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I found a keytar on Facebook marketplace 15 minutes away from me for $200

It’s a sign

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #1371:

Look Mum No Computer (UK 2026) made merch honoring the fact that he earned no points from the public at Eurovision. Available on his official merch store is a shirt in the same color pink as his Eurovision costume that reads "look mum no points."

Look Mum No Computer only received one point at Eurovision from the Ukrainian jury.

[Sources]

"LOOK MUM NO POINTS T-SHIRT," lookmumnocomputer.com.

"Eurovision 2026 Results: Voting & Points," EurovisionWorld.com.

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Let it never be said UK doesn’t take the tradition in good humor.

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zero points was a travesty.

and yes I know I misspelled ein, I don’t speak German 😔✌️

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Ricocheting back and forth between Despicable Me brainrot posts and Eurovision drama has my blog looking even more chaotic and Unknowable™ than usual

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Something less controversial I’d love to see an explanation for is the UK’s performance in the last few years.

I can give Olly Alexander a pass, that was possibly zero points worthy. But Remember Monday was catchy, smart, and lovable. LMNC was not only an excellent dance track (and dance tracks did well this year otherwise), it was incredibly well staged and just unique enough to be different and memorable.

Why does the UK get zero points so often? Is there something I’m missing? This is a genuine question btw from someone outside Europe!

[unibrowzz]

Short answer: They try to assume what the audience "wants" but don't have their finger on the pulse so can't gauge it well enough.

Long answer:

The UK hasn't always been terrible at Eurovision, up until the early 00s they were one of the biggest contenders for the crown each year, much like Sweden usually is nowadays.

However it should be noted that up until 1999 there was a rule in place that countries HAD to sing in their native language, which led to a lot of bias towards English language songs.

With that rule lifted and the influx of a LOT of new countries between 1994 and 2007 due to the collapse of the USSR and Yugoslavia, the UK suddenly had a lot more competition than they had previously.

Plus they also had to contend with the fact that the public could vote for their favourite songs from the late 90s onwards, meaning songs now had two audiences to impress: the national jury and the voting public.

Since then they've struggled to accurately gauge what Eurovision audiences actually want to see, among other things such as poor song promotion, a xenophobic attitude towards their competitors, weak staging concepts and live performances, and a generally snobby, self pitying, "everyone hates us" attitude towards the whole thing certainly haven't helped.

In my own personal opinion, the UK REALLY shoots itself in the foot by composing its songs specifically for Eurovision and not letting the artist pick a preexisting recent song from their own catalogue that meets the criteria. The UK has this preconceived idea of what a "Eurovision song" should be like, and their ideas often result in generally weak songs. There's a reason our most successful song since 1998 was a song the artist had released prior to being approached by the BBC and being asked to compete, and I suspect it's the fact the song was never even intended as a Eurovision song in the first place. I don't know why the BBC hasn't stuck to this formula since, honestly.

It is, categorically, NOT about Brexit (since the UK had a poor performance record prior to 2016 anyway), NOT because "Europe hates us" (look at who came second this year and last), and certainly NOT because "they all just vote for their neighbours" (Portugal has one of the highest scores ever recorded whilst only bordering Spain + Germany, who border 9 countries, have only ever won TWICE, which is less than the UK who've won 5 times).

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Very interesting, thank you! ❤️

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

this is, as the kids say, frying me (a glasses wearer)

[humanpersonface]

Additional update to this

[lizluvscupcakes]

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Something less controversial I’d love to see an explanation for is the UK’s performance in the last few years.

I can give Olly Alexander a pass, that was possibly zero points worthy. But Remember Monday was catchy, smart, and lovable. LMNC was not only an excellent dance track (and dance tracks did well this year otherwise), it was incredibly well staged and just unique enough to be different and memorable.

Why does the UK get zero points so often? Is there something I’m missing? This is a genuine question btw from someone outside Europe!

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Something is very wrong at Eurovision.

How can a country that garners nothing but loud boos and protest every time they’re on screen, whose point announcements were met with a chorus of deep angry shouting, and who is shown pure derision and scorn in most every Eurovision-centric space still be getting such high numbers?

Why is it that every year we don’t root for our favorites, we root for anyone but Israel and we sit not excited for a new winner but terrified that they’ll steal the competition?

How long can this continue?

[creeplet]

I had a random idea; the juries should be doing blind voting. If we're going to keep doing juries, they should be going in blind and actually judge purely off the music and not be swayed by country, performance and stage settings.

The public vote should be changed too, instead of a set amount of votes to give out (which can then be given all to a single song), we should be doing the point system (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,12 points) so that the votes get adjusted to how much people actually like the different songs.

Because yeah, it's just not fun anymore. I boycotted in 2024 and felt the FOMO, but then I watched in 2025 and realized... it feels awful. It's not enjoyable to watch Eurovision, to pretend it's all fun, glitter, glam and gay camp stuff (which has also gotten cut back on, boo) like one of the participating countries aren't currently committing a genocide.

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This is actually a brilliant idea! 👆👆👆

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Something is very wrong at Eurovision.

How can a country that garners nothing but loud boos and protest every time they’re on screen, whose point announcements were met with a chorus of deep angry shouting, and who is shown pure derision and scorn in most every Eurovision-centric space still be getting such high numbers?

Why is it that every year we don’t root for our favorites, we root for anyone but Israel and we sit not excited for a new winner but terrified that they’ll steal the competition?

How long can this continue?

[kettem7]

1. Glad we agree about aomething

2. A loud angry minority can seem like a majority. But there are a lot of people who like israel, and a lot of people who vote based on the music - y'know, like in a song contest that's about artists... pretty sure that DARA herself said she is there for the music not politics.

3. You literally don't have to do that. That's *your* choice to make yourself miserable and have some bizzare strategy instead of enjoying the contest. Other people vote for whoever they like and enjoy it. You do things that will obviously leave you feeling anxious and then complain when you have the choice to have fun instead. In fact, you have many choices. You don't have to watch it at all if you find the notion of any competitor winning to be distressing to you.

4. It will continue as long as you let your obsession with israel take over your life... you can continue to pretend that this one country is sucking joy out of your life, but the truth is that's a choice that *you* made (perhaps subconsciously).

[theraggedygirl11]

In 2022 Russia was banned because some countries said they would have withdrawn from the contest if they were allowed to participate. The tension of having an invading country in the contest was avoided.

We now have Israel which is doing far worse things, the result is:

More and more Eurovision fans withdrawing from watching the contest and enjoying it because they are allowed to participate

Countries actually leaving the contest! FIVE OF THEM, one of the big 5 too. They didn't just threaten to do it, they actually left

The EBU attempting to contain the fact that Israel is trying everything to win, even cheating (let's not forget all the promo videos made by the Israeli advertising agency, run by the government, which is illegal and against the rules of the contest)

Israel being booed during their song every damn time, and the EBU censoring that last year

The motto of the contest being almost like a mockery and a joke at this point, "united by music" my ass

A contestant, Joost in 2024) being banned from Eurovision for allegations which apparently turned out to be fake, everything caused by the Israeli delegation, which by the way was also accused of harassment by other countries, like Ireland and Greece

Many people "decided" to feel this way and more and more will "take the same decision" next year. People are angry because the EBU did something against Russia but is doing nothing against Israel.

I started watching Eurovision in 2012, I loved the contest, I even met irl people I met online thanks to Eurovision and artists we love and discovered thanks to this event. This is the first year I decided not to watch it because it felt wrong, because I didn't feel the excitement of the contest.

It's made to unite people despite their differences. It is supposed to bring us together, make us sing in languages we don't even know, dance, cheer for the country with the song we love. And the presence of Israel is taking everything away, because we know that if they win it will mean the end of the contest, and the show is already crumbling right in front of us.

[kettem7]

- Russia was banned because their broadcasting union was not independent enough. Israel's broadcasting union fits the requirements. Also there is a difference between a country being involved in war (a nuanced compex sotuation that can happen to any country and which I don't intend to get into here), and one eurovision participant attacking another eurovision participant.

- yes. 5 members left. They didn't get the desired result. We don't know if they'll bother again. Do they plan to do that every year now? Regardless of whether or not there is a war? Sounds weird.

- pretty sure that it's not illegal to make promo videos, other countries did that too. The issue was that they specifically mentioned "vote 10" instead of a general call to "vote". But that would be obvious that whatever country is telling you to vote, hopes that you vote for them... it's been blown entirely out of proportion, like anything regading israel. Israel isn't trying to cheat and isn't "trying everything to win" in some shady conspiracy theory way. There's this trend of painting israel as this shady manipulative force and it's eerily similar to the "shady manipulative jews secretly control the media" trope. When israel got high scores from the juries people complained that it's rigged and unfair and should be more audience votes. Then when audience got more weight people conplained that it's rigged and unfair and demanded more power to the juries... And every year they are so baffled when israel still does well. If israel was placed 17 in the order, you'd say they rigged the competition in their favor, but when it's finland it's all good. Only israel is shady. The rest is just the usual eurovision shenanigans...

- yeah, some people booed israel. So what? Israel can be very polarising. The haters are loud but that doesn't mean other people don't love them, vote for them etc - many people do. Israel has a loyal fan base.

- the motto is the same motto. It's not a joke, it represents what the competition should be about: being united in love for music regardless of where you're from. The fact that so many people have decided to add "unless you're from this one country!" is ironic.

- don't remember what happened with joost (only that he was arrested) but the israeli competitor was literally bullied *by* the other delegations. Someone else (i think it was Baby lasagna) spoke about this at a later point.

It's not the presence of israel that is taking everything away. It's the absurd reactions people have to the mere presence of israel.

[theraggedygirl11]

Even if it fits the requirements, the Israeli broadcaster keeps insulting other participants and mocking them for who they are and what they represent, see Croatia this year for example. Congrats on the respect they don't have for the others countries

No, the issue is not the ads to vote for Israel, because last year I got ads for the UK too on Instagra last year. The issue is that the Advertiser was a government agency. The government was involved in this. As far as we'd like to be a non-political competition, a government agency which creates ads in each language of the countries involved in the competition and literally bombarding YouTube AND the Grand Finale stream? They got called out for aggressive advertising by EBU too which tried to contain the damage this year, in a very poor way I'd say. Besides, last year, the only countries which didn't give any televote points to Israel are the ones where getting a SIM is harder and actually requires some more documents, I wonder why.

I've been watching the contest since 2012, I don't remember Israel getting booed and "hated" as much as it is since 2022. It didn't have any strong reaction in the last 14 years.

The motto SHOULD represent what the competition is about, yeah, that's right. We are not united. Countries left the competition. Some participants last year were harassed by the Israeli delegation. The Israeli broadcaster is mocking directly the other participants. This is not UNITED.

Yeah, it's the mere presence of a state which is doing inimaginable things in Palestine which is causing all these reactions. Israel imposes all of this on use by taking part in international events without any consequences meanwhile Russia was banned, Russian participants were not allowed to participate as Russian, speaking about Russia and everything related was prohibited because Russia is a bad country.

The contest is dying, Bulgaria winning was just another year of "saving" something that is already in agony and if anything doesn't change it will die because the purpose it was born with doesn't exist anymore.

The solution to everything is easy and it's right there.

[touchyourblood]

Save your breath, you're talking to a zionist. They only know how to support genocide and play victim, no amount of logic will get through here. Block their sorry ass, trust me.

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Zionists can keep commenting and posting all over my stuff, I’ll just keep deleting it lmao <3

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Something is very wrong at Eurovision.

How can a country that garners nothing but loud boos and protest every time they’re on screen, whose point announcements were met with a chorus of deep angry shouting, and who is shown pure derision and scorn in most every Eurovision-centric space still be getting such high numbers?

Why is it that every year we don’t root for our favorites, we root for anyone but Israel and we sit not excited for a new winner but terrified that they’ll steal the competition?

How long can this continue?

[kettem7]

1. Glad we agree about aomething

2. A loud angry minority can seem like a majority. But there are a lot of people who like israel, and a lot of people who vote based on the music - y'know, like in a song contest that's about artists... pretty sure that DARA herself said she is there for the music not politics.

3. You literally don't have to do that. That's *your* choice to make yourself miserable and have some bizzare strategy instead of enjoying the contest. Other people vote for whoever they like and enjoy it. You do things that will obviously leave you feeling anxious and then complain when you have the choice to have fun instead. In fact, you have many choices. You don't have to watch it at all if you find the notion of any competitor winning to be distressing to you.

4. It will continue as long as you let your obsession with israel take over your life... you can continue to pretend that this one country is sucking joy out of your life, but the truth is that's a choice that *you* made (perhaps subconsciously).

[theraggedygirl11]

In 2022 Russia was banned because some countries said they would have withdrawn from the contest if they were allowed to participate. The tension of having an invading country in the contest was avoided.

We now have Israel which is doing far worse things, the result is:

More and more Eurovision fans withdrawing from watching the contest and enjoying it because they are allowed to participate

Countries actually leaving the contest! FIVE OF THEM, one of the big 5 too. They didn't just threaten to do it, they actually left

The EBU attempting to contain the fact that Israel is trying everything to win, even cheating (let's not forget all the promo videos made by the Israeli advertising agency, run by the government, which is illegal and against the rules of the contest)

Israel being booed during their song every damn time, and the EBU censoring that last year

The motto of the contest being almost like a mockery and a joke at this point, "united by music" my ass

A contestant, Joost in 2024) being banned from Eurovision for allegations which apparently turned out to be fake, everything caused by the Israeli delegation, which by the way was also accused of harassment by other countries, like Ireland and Greece

Many people "decided" to feel this way and more and more will "take the same decision" next year. People are angry because the EBU did something against Russia but is doing nothing against Israel.

I started watching Eurovision in 2012, I loved the contest, I even met irl people I met online thanks to Eurovision and artists we love and discovered thanks to this event. This is the first year I decided not to watch it because it felt wrong, because I didn't feel the excitement of the contest.

It's made to unite people despite their differences. It is supposed to bring us together, make us sing in languages we don't even know, dance, cheer for the country with the song we love. And the presence of Israel is taking everything away, because we know that if they win it will mean the end of the contest, and the show is already crumbling right in front of us.

[symeraid-s]

I'm too tired and annoyed to formulate a proper post about this year's Eurovision, do here's the bullet list.

The good:

Denmark understanding the assignment and sending in a twink with a banger song.

Albania delivering one of the best ballads in the contest history.

Serbia doing some really great goth metal.

Croatia giving us another witch circle.

The United Kingdom giving us the most British performance ever.

Moldova having the most fun song of the night.

Finland delivering a completely live performance, instruments included.

Lithuania sending art.

Romania doing the most.

Austria having an actually really fun song (I will die on this hill!)

JJ's new song being better than 70% of the competition.

Hearing Lordi do covers of old Eurovision songs.

The stage-ready sound being from "Die Zauberflöte".

The stage-ready design with the spiral of light around the stage.

Israel not winning.

The Bad:

The show looking like a TV production.

The hosts.

The interval acts (especially the Austria vs. Australia one)

That stupid tone deaf Professor Eurovision segment.

Denmark performing first in the final, denying them any fair chance of winning.

The camera breaking during Czechia's performance and them being denied the chance to perform again.

Montenegro and Switzerland not qualifying.

The jury and public scores being all over the place.

Lithuania not scoring with the jury or the public.

0 points for the UK from the public.

Israel getting a decent jury score (for what???)

Israel buying votes (again!)

Israel almost winning.

Bulgaria winning both the jury and public vote (genuinely how?)

Bulgaria winning (worst winner since 2011, imo)

Edit: Martin Green saying that Russia could return to Eurovision even if the war is still going on.

[mysharona1987]

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I would also like to make the very important and seldom repeated point that even if you remove Israel’s actions as a country from the equation, they still shouldn’t be in the competition because their behavior as a competitor has been outside the lines of stated rules and regulations. They have broken multiple rules as a competitor. Their conduct as a Eurovision competitor should be enough to get them banned, even if you don’t agree they should be removed for “political” reasons.

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Something is very wrong at Eurovision.

How can a country that garners nothing but loud boos and protest every time they’re on screen, whose point announcements were met with a chorus of deep angry shouting, and who is shown pure derision and scorn in most every Eurovision-centric space still be getting such high numbers?

Why is it that every year we don’t root for our favorites, we root for anyone but Israel and we sit not excited for a new winner but terrified that they’ll steal the competition?

How long can this continue?

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Fabulous addition @radiant-sunlight-blueberry