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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 3d

Discovered a new incredibly based medieval person

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah the nice thing about Columbus is he neatly sidesteps debates about historical relativism by just being bad relative to every time. Superbad, but in the analytic philosophy way not the cool way.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1h

I.e. that makes clear they have no idea how it's pronounced and means they have only seen it written in English language sources.

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1h

One random shibboleth you can see for when this happens is if a Lithuanian news article transcribes Ukrainian names using the rules of English orthography rather than Lithuanian orthography, eg. Donetskas rather than Doneckas for Donetsk.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1h

Lithuania is obviously quite good for it but one thing I kind of hate is that sometimes, as a cost cutting measure, we will source our news second hand (i.e. through English language sources) even though it is obviously quite easy for us to speak to actual experts on the ground in Ukraine.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2h

Can't even unsubscribe for one fucking second.

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2h

It's actually really funny how Razorlight's America got panned by critics as unserious when it is actually a dreadfully real insight into what it feels like to share a world with them: you want to cease hearing anything about them more than anything and yet, all my life, here I am, watching America.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2h

"and so, his hosts sacked [insert persian city here]. then he got wildly drunk, and berated his generals" - every single story about alexander

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2h

if one reads every narrative about his life literally it is more or less a sober assumption that he was a clinical alcoholic

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2h

can't wait for Scotland's loadshedding era

Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 2h

One single data centre. The combined energy draw of both of our largest cities.

Utterly unreasonable that this could be signed off without an environmental check. What about the impact on our energy prices?

The investors should have to fund the clean energy needed.

inews.co.uk/news/data-ce...

Giant data centre could use as much power as every home in Glasgow and Edinburgh

Edinburgh Council has said the developer will not have to submit an environmental impact assessment, sparking concerns data centres are avoiding scrutiny from planners

inews.co.uk

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2h

that's actually kingly lore

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2h

There is nothing they won't steal

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2h

Italy literally invented fascism and still somehow Christopher Columbus is probably the most evil Italian

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 3h

I would go so far as to say he /is/ the most evil Italian ever, and that is a field that includes Mussolini, the Borgias, and most Roman emperors

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 3h

it is actually hard to find italians that do not fit this definition

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 3h

everyone saying "mangione" is correct, because even a bad person is better than christopher columbus

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 5h

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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jawanaka.bsky.social @jawanaka.bsky.social · 4h

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 6h

Meme:

OP: why do you need a specific word for being thrown out of a window

The burgomaster of Prague: i be in situations

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 4h

i dont think fictional avril /did/ see his soul, avril, it more sounds like she made a good business decision

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 5h

of all the internalised misogyny anthems of the 00s, "skater boy" is the funniest. avril lavigne (successful musician avril lavigne) proactively identifies with the very passive girlfriend of a boy who grows up to be a successful musician, whose only merit over "the other girl" is "seeing his soul"

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 5h

Anyway these aren't my real hot takes, which are all on literature.

Specifically, I think Dostoyevsky is an actual demon, basically undeserving of a place in any literary canon.

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 5h

Eggs are disgusting, Hereditary was genuinely traumatising, and Oasis is musically untalented to a point that basically constitutes violence.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 5h

Introduce yourself using a food you refuse to eat, a film you'll never watch again, a song you can't stand

Eggs, Hereditary, Champagne Supernova.

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 5h

Introduce yourself using a food you refuse to eat, a film you’ll never watch again, a song you can’t stand

Courgette - cannot stomach the texture, like eating rotten cucumber

Is Threads a film?

“Clint Eastwood” - to you the flimsy Steve tweet is a funny joke, to me it’s a war crime indictment

Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 8h

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

Red meat - work experience in a food tech lab taking swabs in an abattoir put pay to that.

Top Gun - Honestly, Tom Cruise gives me the ick.

Mr Brightside - Shouty mindpiss.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 5h

Blurp

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Bart Crisp @crispybart.bsky.social · 6h

Which I found kind of astonishing given that they specifically namechecked two musicians who had been sexually assaulted while very young and were very unambiguously using their music to process that experience, JD in particular. But nu-metal is never going to shake off the Woodstock 99 stink

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 6h

same person really, don't care

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