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The most shareable thing we saw this week - Welsh moo Vs Belfast moo. Liam’s brill. pic.twitter.com/VuMqtZHtJL — I Loves The 'Diff (@ILovesTheDiff) May 24, 2019 These savages eating weisswurst after noon. pic.twitter.com/2Jyxi46B3o — Valentina Voluptua (@valentinatexas) May 19, 2019 Watching these twinks from the Czech Republic performing their Eurovision song, I get this odd sense of deja vu. Now, where have I seen twinks from the Czech Republic cavorting... ... twinks from the Czech Republic ,,, cavorting ... ... it rings a Bel ... pic.twitter.com/E7gWM8Yt8M — Glen Weldon (@ghweldon) May 17, 2019 Katya: *makes joke* Trixie: pic.twitter.com/9L1TGTEMej — michael vincent (@mvddm) May 15, 2019 I lost a game of Jenga to Jessica Cornish. The loser (me) had to post a picture the other person (Jessica Cornish) picked... Smh and fml... I’m never playing Jenga with her ever again... 🚿 + 🐰 📸 : @jessiej pic.twitter.com/4KObBjlMkH — Channing Tatum (@ch...

Travelling for a job interview is, similarly to travelling for business, in theory super glamorous but in practice, mostly a bit of a drag. Monday I had a giant day of travelling for three separate interviews about one hour away by plane so the day started very early. The plane was going to leave at 7:30, I'd have to be at the airport by 6:30 and leave my apartment at 5:30 - yay. Although I do have to say, everything went pretty smoothly. I had never flown from that particular airport terminal (CDG 1) and it has two disadvantages: the airport train doesn't stop there directly and you have to take a little automatic train to get to the terminal from one of the train stations and also, it is a Berlin-Tegel style Terminal, where they don't have one big security check and then all gates and shops and restaurants together beyond that but instead, one security check for 3-5 gates, with a maximum of one shop and one cafe. So basically it is pretty efficient and the security wa...

I am not really especially a fan of monster movies ("Kaiju") but I have seen a Godzilla movie here and there and they are usually pretty pleasant, so I thought I'd watch this one for a bit of light relaxation. I will say, I didn't need my brain much, because if I had used it any more, it would have been even more irritating. The characters in this movie don't really act like real people so much as they act like cliche-fragments. All of the main ones them bounce around between a few archetypes like "hubristic scientist"/"overemotional parent" in ways that don't really come together at all but are really all about doing in the moment what the movie needs doing. It feels like the movie has been made by one of those artificial intelligence tweet-bots, all the elements are there, and they are in the right order too, but no new things enter the equation at any point, and the pieces don't really form a coherent whole. A lot of things happen ...

I just don't feel very plausible these days. Well, let me back up a bit: So this whole thing is going to be based around more or less an extended subtweet, because I'm not linking to anybody. In the small world of German bloggers, it turned out that one of what I would call the most prominent writers appears to have been less than honest with a large part of their background story. They had started writing about their (inaccurate) family history in reputable magazines and newspapers, who eventually realized that some things didn't quite add up. In true egomaniac blogger fashion, I want to talke about ME instead though. The revelation that a good part of their story that, even though I always thought parts of it seemed a bit far-fetched, was made up has hit me in an unexpected way. It wasn't so much that I was shocked about it - in a strange way, I accepted this turn of events as another link in a chain of unlikely events that seemed to be the whole story. However, i...