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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 · 6m

Have they come up with Slovakia WW2 revisionism

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 12m

Though of course some papers have always included a regular dosage of bait-and-switches with clever distribution to avoid people catching on

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 13m

Limited space and the one-paper-at-a-time nature of browsing the news meant most yellow journalism was moreso weaving tales with no basis in reality than just lying in the headline and reporting disappointing truth afterward

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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 14m

"bait-and-switch" and "sensationalism" were used but also modern incentives just make the dynamic far more favourable to clickbait

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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 44m

Serbia is a country that is many things, one of them is spite that every single time spills from confidence in risk to riding off the edge of a cliff into destruction. Russia is basically us if you cut out every actual comeuppance and replaced it all with inexplicable reward

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 52m

The high of empire is just psychologically debilitating and for all that they've pointlessly crippled their own position they constantly bounce back off lucky breaks and inertia

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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 54m

Matter of fact Yugoslavia also federates with Bulgaria to some degree here since the Bled Agreement was mostly blocked by Tito splitting with OTL Stalin

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 56m

Not to mention that any world with peacenik Stalin is also likely one where he doesn't try to impose on the rest of the OTL ostblok and that means Yugoslavia can get closer to them as well

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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 57m

1991 ends up with Mikhail Gorbachev more or less inheriting the tetchy and loose union of states he unsuccessfully threw out OTL

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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 59m

If you can't process the reasons for this statement you've got a low risk of becoming Red David Irving and must educate yourself before that risk becomes 100%

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 1h

Can't wait for Galicia vs Galicia

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 2h

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 3h

More than you can possibly imagine

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 3h

At least we still have this one

Gregory S Paul in a very low quality image in 2011

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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 3h

You changed it with an undercover account

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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 3h

Applies as much to the bad guys as to the good guys

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 3h

More seriously I think Jacob would be used by English sources if he's recent

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 3h

Jaume as in Catalan

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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 3h

Me when I underestimate the horrors

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 3h

Positive reinforcement for this

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 4h

Name one people that doesn't tbh

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bebinson 🌹🧦 @bebinson.bsky.social · 4h

there’s a saying here everyone's got a Korwin phase before they entered the labor market

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andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 4h

Basically the idyllic society.

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 4h

The LSDP, Eastern* Europe's most successful social-democratic party

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · 4h

After disputing your characterisation of ex-YU as "the Soviet bloc", Slovenia is *the* Balkan country where things are fine and not much goes wrong yeah

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