Ah I hadn’t seen a television yet. Shame he’s out, like you said, his music was not my style, but he managed to cheer up a ton of people with it, which is already important to me.
As for what even happened, I’ll refrain from judging before we actually know. Nu.nl says apparently a female employee from Songfestival filed a complaint that he would’ve threatened her?
The Dutch Public Broadcaster responsible for broadcasting it made an unintentionally(?) hilarious statement in that they will still be playing it on tv tonight, because ‘the organisation pointed out to us that according to the conditions laid out they are required to still broadcast it’
In addition, Ireland, Switzerland, and Greece haven’t showed up during the usual flag parade, Ireland’s not partaking in the final repetition due to ‘A Situation’, and the organisation is doing an emergency meeting, what a stunt
Christ above… that combined with the fact that it happened -right- after he supposedly mildly critiscized the Israel act, something fishy is definetly going on here.
Still, it seems I am vindicated in my decision to not watch Songfestival.
In my capacity as a Nightborne, I am quite confident in stating Something Is Not Quite Right, all in all!
Joost to the Israel act probably: “An illusion? What are you hiding…”
Also damnit forums, if I want to reply more than three times to Adelais, I’ll just do that, thank you very much.
That alongside they voiced not being sure to get the voting lines closed so they are not responsible for any wasted money of being voted. 
'Just don’t vote for the Netherlands"
Absolute mess. EBU really screwed up this year.
Consider:
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Oerth
Solidarity with the turks for having to contend with Ö when explaining words to foreigners.
I have been (re-)reading Bleach and I believe I’ve now finally caught up to where I dropped it originally, roughly 300 chapters in out of ~750.
Still waiting for the chapter where Rukia and Orihime make out. I know it’s coming but for some reason there’s just a bunch of swordfights instead, page after page after page.
lol the reason Joost Klein got disqualified is even more minor than thought, apparently - official press statement
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GNTux4TXwAAxE08?format=jpg
for those not wanting to follow the link: he made a single ‘threatening movement’ (but did not touch anyone or anything) towards a camera after, having previously made promises that this would not happen, being filmed while going off-stage, after having repeatedly then asked the person filming him to stop
And here I thought we’d all collectively agreed upon “Innocent until proven guilty” rather than the other way around…
After the farce that was last year’s stolen victory from Käärijä along with the inclusion of Israel this year and all this other BS going around it, I don’t think I’ll be watching Eurovision this year fellas
It’s been pretty blatant that EBU has basically been bought directly by Israeli state media for this year. Atop of this happening, the amount of rule violations Israel has done(and still been given second, third and fifth chances), several of the EBU “Experts” have even before she performed, stated that Israel is looking like a fan favourite and among the top runners to win.
Meanwhile, her act has been heavily criticized and fairly low ranked among general audiences.
Gonna go stare into the Abyss.
It’s more interesting/rewarding than the absolute hellscape people are making the wider world these days.
I had to blink twice. I thought that Shogganosh had finally lost his marbles. Alas…
Norway’s representative(so not their singer) for eurovision tonight has withdrawn as a spokesperson in response to Israel still being allowed to compete.
It just keeps escalating.
See also one of this year’s major sponsors. It’s all very stinky.
There’s also been drama from Italian fans because the network in charge of airing it there. During the semifinals, their networked included preliminary voting results, and that over 39% of all of italy’s votes went to Israel.
Only issue is that voting wasnt even a thing yet at that point. Like at all.
They’ve apologised and blamed it on a technical glitch, but with everything else going on in Israel’s favor its a pretty bad look.