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  1. Just heard on the morning news Austria is voting today. Austrians, got any insights on the main campaign issues or the possible outcome? Enjoy your Sunday everyone.

  3. I was doing some busy work on the couch yesterday as my husband was watching his Saturday ZDF political satire shows. There was one video clip of a CDU politician (he has a name, but since I don’t want to say it I will refer to him as the Winding Key of my Dick (abbreviated WKD)). WKD was giving a speech about the border controls, trying to assure his voter base that “you, dear citizen coming back from your family vacation, of course won’t be controlled. It’ll be that weird (komisch) person in that weird car, he will be controlled”

    So, Germans beware. Maybe don’t tan too much. You don’t want to be mistaken for that weird guy. The instructions by WKD are very clear.

    Apparently the controls haven’t yielded anything other than exhausted police officers, as they’re very easy to drive around. Who could have known.

    *sigh*

  4. It seems to be the season for orienteering contests all around the country. Looking out of my kitchen window, I see kids in racing outfits warming up and running for the next checkpoint. The organizing club spread hundreds of fliers, including an apology for any potential disturbance caused by the event, and an invitation to come and buy some coffee and cake at the race center less than a kilometer from where I live.

    I know enough about map reading to do well on hiking trips, but attending an orienteering event once, my concentration went 100% out the window as I started to get winded. I ended up returning to the race center from the exact opposite direction everyone else did, and one of the organizers, seeing me come in with my map, looked at me in a side-eyed fashion, and asked “so, have you been out there orienteering, too?”. I felt quite embarrassed, and have settled for “permanent routes”, ones you visit when you feel like it: the checkpoints are in the same place for 12 months, and you just buy a map that’s updated every year.

  5. Last night I came to the realisation that Aserejé actually slaps pretty hard. The song and the dance used to be everywhere, but I haven’t really listened to it since the early 2000s because in my mind I always associated it with Macarena which fucking sucks. But yesterday I heard it and realised it’s a banger.

    Here’s my prediction: the mentions of Aserejé by Las Ketchup in research papers will increase exponentially in the next two decades. Eventually people will start to research viral TikTok dances, and Aserejé had a viral TikTok dance attached to it 20 years before TikTok got popular. It will be mentioned in every “brief history of” section in those papers. Mark my words.

  6. Alright, final post on food for a bit. I wasn’t able to find the cleanser, so I just bought another baking sheet, which I wanted anyways. I’ll probably get back to it at some point. As for the microwaved potatoes, they seem to be pretty similar to baked ones. I’m probably going to find something to flavor it next time.

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