Valentine

i feel like people are deliberately missing the point of f1 academy in order to discredit it. they say things about how none of the drivers have made it to f1 yet and how they should be made f1 reserve drivers for winning (genuine comment i just read). they refuse to understand that it's an f4 level series and that doesn't directly progress to f1 for anyone, regardless of how talented they are (except maybe kimi raikkonen 25 years ago). things take time. also, there are good faith criticisms to be made for f1 academy, but by making bad faith ones you aren't actually addressing any of these issues. why is doriane pin not in single seaters next year? i thought that was the point of the whole thing. she left endurance for f1 academy and has been given a worse endurance seat than where she was before. it's ridiculous

i had someone try to call me val for the first time at the weekend and it's the first time in my life i've ever had someone try to shorten my name and it was weird. it also reaffirmed that i do not want to be called val (even if another friend says it sounds like the name a russian spy would have lol)

i have returned to the point in the indycar piracy cycle where the stream i have been using has been taken down. rip we are checking live you will be missed

i love looking at the number of listens on spotify because you find out fun things like the fact that on suck it and see, out of the top 3 songs, only 1 is a single. (and also things like the most listened arctic monkeys song is i wanna be yours which is probably my least favourite off the album oops)

me and the guy i like got mistaken as a couple but unfortunately i think that's due to heteronormativity and not bc there's any chance of anything happening

the change in tone of money supermarket adverts compared to a decade ago should be studied

i love giving people relationship advice because i could not be less qualified (and as evidenced below don't really practice what i preach oops)

i decided i've got to get over this guy but not even 2 hours later i have decided maybe i don't need to (i definitely do bc he implied he would flake on a plan which involved me, him and another friend if that other person was no longer able to go but then he came anyway so... lol)

i've learnt we avoided the timeline where favourite worst nightmare was called lesbian wednesdays and suck it and see had a whole range of awful names

i love how donald trump made an executive order to make a new indycar race and people are getting annoyed at other people for "making it political". idk i think the actions of a president are generally considered political but what do it know