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I know there are 10,001 worse things happening, but chaotic Trumpist punctuation and capitalization habits are infecting official state comms. It's subtle, but I think it points to a much larger social problem: the glorification of illiteracy as wisdom.

Emperor X and the Unified Field (a full band playing a new album) on mischief night at Kantine am Berghain in Berlin, with friends we can't announce yet. Tix here: emperorx.net/tix

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Live tweeting Eurovision here we go

I missed Norway but I hear it was kind of boring

Luxembourg seemed fairly traditional, a play for actually pleasing the crowd instead of making them laugh. Not for me.

Estonia ruled. #euro

Israel was overwhelmingly mid. Cool that there were three or four different languages in the same song though. #Eurovision

Where's Doctor Who? #Eurovision

Lithuania's up. #Eurovision Overwrought rock boi for being in Lithuanian. I think I'd probably like this song if they were opening for Turnstile or something. Baltic Radiohead. This will do well. Good singer tbh.

Spain discovered Schlager. Meh. #Eurovision

Ukraine. Always pulling for them but I don't think this will do very well. On the plus side the backing track is nice, kinda Japanese '80s city pop. Love the drops too! #Eurovision

HEROIM SLAVA #Eurovision

UK actually good?!? This straight up rules. ADHD ABBA. #Eurovision "What the hell just happened" indeed!

Austria. Ooooof. Denglish gabber opera pop trying to rip off Switzerland '22 and boots-n-cats house. Cool paper hat though. #Eurovision bonus points for somehow sucking all color out of the arena. Austrian grayscale lighting technology is advanced. Also LOL they cut the mic!!!

Iceland. Good glasses. Icelandic rap also good in principle. But it commits the sin of rapping over triplet measure -- UNACCEPTABLE. #Eurovision ALSO EVERYBODY TAKE A SHOT FOR THE KEY CHANGE

Latvia #Eurovision song absolutely RULES. Six singers. Cocteau Twins meets Shangan Electro. My fave so far. Sadly I don't think it'll do well but if it does it will be well well, well deserved. Absolute banger. Can someone who knows Latvian tell me what they're singing about??

NOOOOOO WE JUST LOST INTERNET #Eurovision Can't stream! Big storm here. Oh well. Will return to live comments when I get the net back up.

Netherlands commits the sin of being self-serious without being transcendently beautiful. Ultra meh. Guys got a great voice but the track and lyrics are painfully cliche. #Eurovision

My friends Matching Outfits got nautical on "Cold Sea": youtube.com/watch?v=BWHL28…