Tom Gerken

It’s that time of year again where I get a notification from my dead dad asking me to help out with something.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: whatever your problems are up there big man, I sincerely doubt I can assist

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He loves to laugh

These headlines read like two @benpartridge.bsky.social Eli Roberts podcasts run back-to-back

A text message chain. Two messages read “squishy” and “Lola is having a drink”. Underneath them is a video of a black and white rabbit.

My partner sent me this updating me on how my rabbit Lola (not pictured) is getting on, along with a video of Brakes as he recovers from his surgery.

Idk if I’ve just had pets for too long but my instinct was Brakes was updating me on Lola and calling me “squishy”, I assume his new pet name for me

If I’m ever in those areas filming I’m absolutely going to take you up on those suggestions.

Though the chippy near me has sussed gluten free batter, and their potato fritters are the #1 reason why on-camera I look like a news potato 😂

The best part about this is the topline I went with is truly something stuck in my past because I hadn’t yet realised I was glutenintolerant lol

If any of the big pizza chains want to develop the tech to make an actually nice gluten free pizza I can guarantee I’ll be there with a film crew

Mohamed Salah is destroying his legacy, says Wayne Rooney in latest podcast Mohamed Salah is destroying his legacy and should not be involved in Liverpool's next two games before he goes off to the Africa Cup of Nations, says Wayne Rooney.

legacy, what is a legacy, it’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see

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That just raises further questions

I do not understand. Why does Brian May, the largest Queen, not simply eat the other three?

Somebody to Love is *objectively* a significantly better song and if you have any opinions about this I would be very grateful if you told my pal Rich them

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I Want To Break Free, a standard, slightly hum-drum tune where they dressed up for the video.

Or: BICYCLE RACE, one of the greatest songs ever.

Vote #IamBoring for I Want To Break Free, or #YEAH for Bicycle Race.

That simple. Appease your circus-master.

The result we demanded

You’re my best friend is objectively a better song, and I would implore you to demand my friend Rich respects this fact

Facebook coming at me with my dad asking me for help from beyond the grave lol

Whatever your problems are up there big man, I seriously doubt I’m gonna be able to help

Seriously <3

<3 big up

What a finish. I mean I hate to see it but I can appreciate as a neutral it’s been a classic

Daniel Naroditsky, US chess grandmaster, dies aged 29 The young prodigy's "unexpected passing" was announced by his family on Monday.

I am absolutely devastated about danya. He was my favourite streamer. I don’t know how to feel. This is just an awful, awful day.

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Radio Ga Ga v Save Me tie of the round?

Or Fat Bottomed Girls v Bicycle Race AKA the only match where one song references the other?

From back before I was in the vids myself and I was more behind-the-scenes, I snuck this in to our Steam Deck review

Big fan of @twgerken.bsky.social answering the actually important questions in the BBC’s article on the Xbox ROG Ally, like how it runs Sonic Adventure 2

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Literally if I had the time I’d rank all the handhelds on the market based on how well they run sonic adventure 2

It’s like my favourite game, ever

At one point I even tried to break the game by stopping people on the street to ask their opinion and I couldn’t find a Scot in Glasgow who liked Hey Bulldog lol

YouTube video by Queen Official Queen - I'm Going Slightly Mad (Official Video)

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On the one hand, as @twgerken.bsky.social points out, the video for I'm Going Slightly Mad really goes for it, with Mercury, months left to live, gets a banana wig: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od6h...

Televoting is in… Mrs Gerken is plumping for Love of my Life all the way from sunny Tenerife

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Ironically, kick off is late for an all-early Queen encounter.

Our first Freddie songs! Our first song off A Night At The Opera.

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Love Of My Life vs Seven Seas Of Rhye

Vote #LOML or #SSOR by 9pm!

Yeah just gimme 10 of those sweet sweet midroll ads, that’ll really add to my viewing experience

Me: finally parks and rec is on a streaming service in the UK!!!

The streaming service:

Lola and Brakes exploring/scent marking their new house… they’ve already decided who gets the upstairs bunk lol

American musical satirist Tom Lehrer dies at 97, US media report Lehrer, a Harvard-trained mathematician, wrote darkly humorous songs, often with political connotations.

Man talk about something to bring you back down to earth after today’s wonder win

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