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Voted, that was very good effort from all involved, some of those decisions were on a knife's edge. Also a certain number of songs that I hadn't heard before got the nod.

meanwhile me rushing to confirm my rock entry that there's a 5% chance of anyone else being after

I had listened to some of the Blackwater Holylight album before and thought it was a decent listen, was cool to see it showing up here. Illegal Aliens I'd also heard before the contest (once) and that was very fun to see here, I'll have to check more of hers out too. Congratulations Mattias, good to see you winning even if I didn't vote for it, very pleased to see Radio Aurora doing so well of course.

There are plenty of battles here where I'm not sure how I'm going to call it, and then also a few where in trying to go popular they've landed on a song of theirs I wouldn't consider a favourite myself, but overall I really don't see any clear cut results here, exciting!

I fucking loved and still love the flawed barely electro electro-swing that was Electro Velvet in studio form but I never pretended it was coming top 10 or anything of the sort. Incidentally that's the worst BBC staging that I can think of and this year if LMNC brings his setup we should have potentially one of our best.

Was reading the thread we had back when Solemaini got assassinated, specifically because I remembered making a post on why attacking Iran was a stupid idea that any warmonger wouldn't be going full throttle on. Interesting thread to link so I'll do that at this time because we had a lot of discussion there on why it was a spectacularly stupid idea. ^I agree with this guy, he seems pretty smart. In that Trump is very much looking to wrap up the war and say that 'it was a complete victory, very complete', and stocks are rallying again. No sign of committing to the bit. Netanyahu will though, but hopefully price shocks on this will be small? Too early to say still.

well I am doing... okay, I liked that Maybe Psychic was such a chill downbeat entry and it felt very classically Unknown Pleasures to me, thank you for the votes so far most of my votes need to be doing far better (over half the points of Lambs are mine, what?), so I guess I'm team Radio Aurora

we may be requiring for many songs that have no points right now to get more points

I am very glad to see LiSA get this far (and it's because I like her so much that I paid attention here in the first place), though I was hoping to see more of her early stuff that I got into her for show up - Oath Sign is an absolute banger that you should all check out. Eric and The Chicks both did very well too and were interesting to see songs from, shame to see them gone also.

ooh I knew there was a reason I thought I'd seen the name of your song before, possibly I've even heard it. I haven't seen that show (a TV show spinoff of the films I believe), only Ghost In The Shell content I've ever seen is the excellent original 90s film, but hype, that has a vibes advantage for me and Yoko's always good value.

Mojtaba Khamenei is the new Supreme Leader. Most influential son of the former Supreme Leader and from what I can tell your standard issue grey eminence, I expect nothing much will change on this front. The US-Israeli attacks are looking horrendous, the images from Tehran apocalyptic, with thousands dead. Along with great economic instability across the world, horrendous war from the American administration.

aww the anime opening one didn't get chosen this is going to be chaos, although I say that as from my perspective I'm going into this with something I would never choose to enter otherwise - but it is very fun so I'll allow that

I know what he meant. I also think it's borderline obsessive and disturbing to be bringing up unrelated murderers and essentially hoping that the same will happen to them. It isn't a positive outcome that Huntley has been murdered in prison.

Shame because of what? What is the implication here? God I absolutely despise the obsession culture has with murderers, despise them but also forget them - they deserve nothing less. Holly and Jessica would have been about my age had they lived and lost however many years of life in the future, that's the biggest tragedy here, not whatever happens to the monster that murdered them or any like him.

having heard Felicia for the first time tonight, that is some QUALITY EDM, to say nothing of her commanding the stage with that performance - that's going to have a long life in Eurovision circles great winner even if I'd have been also happy with half of the rest of the final winning, but only really one winner there in the end