bananasareviolet

i am already drinking

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drinking tea, of course 😇

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i will keep clawing onto my teetotaler credentials you will not break me

it sucks that mittens look aesthetically cooler but are less useful than winter gloves because what if you need the rest of your fingers but can't take off the mittens because then the frostfiends immediately give your hand the cold and freezing and cold and cold and cold and cold and cold and

so "The Answer" premiered on the same day as Ruby's VA's 30th birthday?? oh my god, that's actually perfect alignment

Sapphire joyously driving a Mario Kart Double Dash style Pipe Frame kart, having just done a quick swerve after having foreseen a better item - lightning - in the (from our point of view) leftward item box, with Ruby flailing behind as a result of the swerve.

the double dash ❤️💙

a mix of two of my favorite franchises :)

#sapphire #ruby #su #rupphire #stevenuniverse #mariokart

guy who knows what snowballs are but has no grip on the concept of snowing

compliments of the season #StevenUniverse #Sapphire #Ruby

Ruby and Sapphire walking through the snow hand in hand in somewhat wintery apparel, Sapphire in a long puffy jacket and mittens and Ruby just in a hoodie. They carry a cooler and picnic basket, toddling through a snowfield with Sapphire leaving footprints in her wake and Ruby leaving a path of melted snow. A snow-coated temple hill is visible on the horizon.

#StevenUniverse #Ruby #Sapphire

On Winnie-the-Pooh’s 100th birthday, read the very first story Hundred Acre Wood has captivated imaginations since appearing in a newspaper on Christmas Eve 1925. Today we reprint the first tale and Johanna Thomas-Corr pays tribute

www.thetimes.com/article/58c1...

YouTube video by Rebecca Sugar Rebecca Sugar - Love The Way It Feels (Official Music Video)

oh this is great
youtu.be/946NB95CcLk?...

i like paul's steven, lauren & hillary's garnet, lauren & hillary's pearl, jeff & joe's amethyst and paul's peridot

I guess not being subjected to it 24/7 in every single store or other place with loudspeakers makes it easier to not dislike

i will get slain for this suggestion but APT

you could just go for some three-letter international organization or country to base it around 🤷‍♂️

Local election voting rights - What's Going On In Estonia? #1 March 26 is set to be the final reading on major local election voting rights changes - with strong uncertainty about a successful outcome.

wrote some thorough yapping on the voting rights situation in estonia - substack is a good place for yapping for whenever i feel like it and so i did
open.substack.com/pub/violetsa...

Estonia: the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SDE-S&D) has been removed from the governing coalition of the liberal Reform Party (RE-RE) and the liberal Estonia 200 (E200→EPP).

With the Social Democratic Party removed, the coalition has 52/101 MPs.

➤https://europeelects.eu/estonia/

"some serious alternatives would have been nice, just for the sake of the competition"

as in, there were alternatives but none of them reached the bar of giving tommy cash much of a challenge

ollie last year did make the 5miinust x puuluup win a bit more intense, for example

the song is okay and all but it feels like it's lacking on the stage aspect so if we do make it to may with this, i'd hope to see more improvements there. it's not giving "eurovision 2025 winner" right now

and the controversies don't help either, oh well

on another note, as it seemed and was later confirmed (tommy cash won with 83%) - it really felt like we had no choices in the eesti laul of this year and it all seemed more like a long coronation

some serious alternatives would have been nice, just for the sake of the competition

the official ESC page has tommy cash on it but the video of his performance was taken down from the ESC channel hours after uploading, and now there's also that new song with joost klein

getting mixed signals as to whether we'll have someone out there in may or not

...no stresso, no stresso?

is this what the sino-soviet split felt like

rabbits

currently the main 100% reliable partners we have are the nordics, the poles and the brits

german and french voters don't care for playing world nor european police and the US has also directly expressed disinterest

i'm gonna lose it

elon is faking it in terms of liking ai for the record

before he went nuts he used to often warn about the dangers of ai, he even used to call for global regulations on ai

now, like on almost everything, he's flipped in order to pursue corruption with the republicans

crab flag

sorry latvians i didn't know you were cooking

Desynchronising our energy grid from Russia has begun.

We have thoroughly prepared for this. There are sufficient controllable capacity and external connections in the Baltic States to ensure a smooth transition.

Tomorrow we will join the Continental European frequency band.

the red shell mafia can't take me down

USAID worked to take down apartheid south africa, it's currently saving countless children during the famine and genocide in sudan, it's destroying landmines in warzones, helping field hospitals in refugee camps, distributing medicine to fight HIV and polio.

the list goes on.

there's also the aspect of actual humanitarian/ aid and support to civil society in many countries.

you know why bukele (dictator of el salvador) supports ending USAID? because he's an autocrat and dismantling civil society faster allows him to consolidate power and commit more human rights abuses