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London’s biggest screening party for the Eurovision Song Contest finals has been canceled, the venue Rio Cinema and organizer Eurovision Party London have said. “Following discussion with the organizers of Eurovision Party London, we have collectively decided not to screen the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest this year while Israel remains in the competition,” the Rio Cinema said in a statement on X. “The Eurovision Party London has been a beloved partner of The Rio Cinema for many years, and we will continue to work with them in the future. We firmly believe that the Eurovision Song Contest has the power to bring people together across the world, and when its core values of inclusivity, equality and universality are upheld, it can be a genuine force for good. With its own slogan in mind, we hope that we can all be United By Music again soon. We will continue to organize fundraising events for the charities we support, including Doctors Without Borders and Medical Aid for Palestine.”
Reminder that Eurovision is an official BDS target this year. And one of the actions they recommend, which can be carried out on a local level, is to pressure venues and event organizers to drop their Eurovision screening parties.
If you're in a country that broadcasts Eurovision, consider whether there's anything you can do to pressure local venues to also drop their screening parties. Even getting a small venue to cancel their Eurovision screening can make a difference, especially if you're able to get them to organize a pro-Palestinian event in its place.
I don't need therapy, I need the USA to die
Medieval mew mews
I once had a landlord offhandedly mention that his mother had set this house on fire before. He and his wife lived on the first floor, and i rented the third.
Apparently his mom didn’t like his wife. So she set their house on fire. The house i was living in.
He assured me that everything was fine now and that this was years ago, just kinda laughed, smiled, and said ‘You know how moms are’
Yes. I know how moms are. I know how fucked up moms are as well. I have known many fucked up moms and fellow children of fucked up moms.
Attempted murder through arson is not typical mom behavior, even for a fucked up abusive mom
Oh, and his mother lived next door 🙃
There were two houses next door to each other, both owned by the same family. They had lived there for decades, and for my landlord it was also his childhood home. Each house had three floors that acted as separate units. Every unit in the two houses was occupied by members of the extended family— except for me. I was the oddball living in the attic of one of the houses.
This is the family dynamic i was tossed into
HOUSE ONE
- 1st floor— landlord and his wife
- 2nd floor— identical twin sister of landlord’s wife, occasionally children (not clear whose)
- 3rd floor— me ☺️
HOUSE TWO
- 1st floor— landlord’s mother, who previously set house 1 on fire
- 2nd floor— adult daughter of twin sister, her young kids, and current man (changes of man signified by throwing clothes out of window)
- 3rd floor— creepy brother of the twin sisters who is always outside working on his van
Yes, the rent was dirt cheap
The rent was so cheap that i usually paid in cash— ATM fees were about the same as money orders (and i didn’t have checks)
Then one day my landlord is in his truck, pulling out the driveway when he stops and asks
‘Hey— you haven’t been short on rent these last few months, have you?’
No… I had been paying in full, on time
To his wife. In cash
He wasn’t normally home when i would go to pay rent, so i would give it to her. Figured it was the same as giving it to him.
Turns out instead she was pocketing $100 off the top and telling him i was short each month.
And he knew it was happening. He just wanted to confirm.
‘Each month she makes it her little pay day! Well you know how wives are’
Sir, you need to reevaluate the women in your life because this level of stealing and attempted murder is not normal
“You know how moms/wives are” is a statistical error. Landlord Georg, whose wife and mother steal from and attempt to kill him, respectively, was a outlier and should not be counted
Additional fun fact! The reason he was hard to get a hold of? He worked a crazy schedule that always changed.
He was a hospital chef. Oh. And a wedding dj. He tried many, many times to hire me to help work dj events for him.
I would politely decline
This whole thing reads as at least a 30k notes post wdym it only has 130 notes
EARLY ON A BIG POST FOR ONCE
I have to go get a needle right now and I am being SO brave about it
So one of my veins collapsed so I actually had to get TWO needles and I didn't even cry or swear or anything, I'm SO proud of myself, I deserve ice cream. I'm getting ice cream
Ice cream fell through so I got a burrito and a staple gun
yeah im holding it backwards don't worry about it
How do u hold a burrito backwards?
The top is at the bottom 😞
thats upside down then
no cause it's sideways
if the top (the UPSIDE!!!!) is at the bottom (DOWN!!!!) then it is UPSIDE DOWN!!
?? Holding knife forwards
Holding knife backwards?
BULLYING ME
how the fuck did you take those pictures
I double blink to take a screenshot
ladies and gentlemen this is garlic number 2
1, 2, 3 4 5 everybody in the club come on let's chive
"how was work" carries the same energy as "how was school"
This is my favorite meme thing I've seen for that:
gasp
GASP
normal yagami thoughts in yotsuba arc
Selfshippers who ship with weird/unappealing characters. I love you. Like hell yeah you go get with Mr Crocker. Go get with lord faarquad
Rare occasion where twitter elevates something beautiful
I'm sorry the bank is shit. How much money do you still need to evacuate your family?
I needed 10k when i post right now we need 5k
I just watched a video that revealed teenage baseball pitchers are getting elective arm surgery to "get it out of the way" so they have a better chance of getting drafted and having an MLB career.
I don't ever want to hear about the 200 or so 17 year olds getting top surgery every year while sportsball parents are making their kids get arm surgery so they can pitch a little better.
Apparently it is child abuse to help your kid drastically improve their mental health and relieve severe dysphoria but if mommy wants a McMansion from her son's pitching arm, surgery is perfectly fine.
I'd also be grateful if I could never hear a conservative talking head say "perfectly healthy breasts" again.
I'm not doubting you, but could you share the source of the baseball surgery thing?
The part about teens getting surgery starts around 14:22.
Apparently doctors are seeing parents bring in kids as young as 10 requesting the surgery and the doctor in the mentioned article says he has operated on a 14 year old and they also mention a sixth grader as well.
There is a belief that Tommy John surgery can make you pitch faster and so parents are trying to get an edge by having their kid get the surgery as soon as possible.
And while the above doctor seems like he has some scruples, turning away the 10 year old, I am willing to bet there are surgeons willing to do it. But the fact that a sixth grader has had Tommy John is ridiculous. We should not be pushing sixth graders to throw so hard they have to put a tendon from their leg in their arm.
petition to bring back saying "huzzah!" when something goes your way and "alas." when it doesn't
in hindsight, pitching something that would be deemed a fair bit strange by some standards to a site teeming with already incredibly strange people was a mistake. apologies tumblr users i’d forgotten where i was
[ID: screenshot of a tag reading "#who doesnt do this"]