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andrewtheblueskier

@andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social

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Србија, nerd things, some politics. pfp by stairscased originally from chessvariants.com

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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · Sep 7

Total lunar eclipse on 07/09/2025

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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 3m

Sleptons are slept on

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 4m

I used to think Blur and Pulp were the same band

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 6m

Jordant Carlson

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 6m

I once read your user as kit's parks

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 8m

I thought about pronouncing your name and could only read it as one unit when I tried. Sehguyjez approach. Otherwise I don't really pronounce them internally

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 9m

Like Nessie of the loch?

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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 10m

I respect you for this one

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 11m

If I have ever said a more positive sentiment about Oasis I recant it today

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 11m

One of those bands that would've been decent for one hit wonders and were blown up into something more than

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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 1h

"The judges were a bit reckless innit? The trials just weren't all that yaknow"

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 2h

The sort of encoding you need to get to a person in this formalism is really, really abstruse and nearly impossible to read the result from unless you run it

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 2h

And so many statues in Africa

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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 3h

Also worth mentioning the Kim Il Sung statue industry

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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 3h

Despite the grisly method they did it I would be opposed to taking down the Niš skull fortress in full *today* because of it. I wouldn't mind if it were done 30 years on

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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 3h

Denying history because we took down part of the skulltower the Ottomans built

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 3h

That's the beauty of it, it *does* everything

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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 3h

Subotica probably

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 4h

I thought the punchline was he'd go by Juro from then

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 4h

(and I also know a pinoy, same principle with that guy)

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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 4h

In urban Serbia everyone would admire you vaguely thanks to your appearance, in rural Serbia same thing and then they'd get suspicious first thing you uttered. I see Subsaharans and Filipinos on my commute and nobody on the bus has ever commented

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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 4h

Hardly anyone in Serbia legitimately actually thinks Albanians aren't white. People say that shit but it's 100% goading/insults and if we were put to it we would never put them alongside even Arabs, nevermind Hausa

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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 4h

And on the other hand this guy isn't Nordic, he's a Serb too

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 4h

I earnestly thought he was Greek

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 4h

There's plenty of Serbian dudes out there who look like this guy

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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 4h

The world's most intelligible language family for its breadth