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JER (They/Them)
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JER. 30 y/o music composer, performer, educator, and CEO of SKA 🏁// They/Them 🏳️‍⚧️
Debut Record “Bothered / Unbothered - JER” out now via Bad Time Records
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JER (They/Them) @skatunenetwork.bsky.social · Jun 13
💔DEATH OF THE HEART💔

NEW JER RECORD! OUT 8.15.25 ON BAD TIME RECORDS!

PRE-ORDER IT ON VINYL AND CD ASAP 🥹🫶🏾✨

www.badtimerecords.com/collections/...
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daerickgross.com
this Song Of The Day(ish) sums up my current mood.

SOTD 404 is endless, mindless consumption running rampant, rotting from manifest destiny...

youtu.be/c1Qw9xknGjc

#SOTD
#JER
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
#CapitalismBreedsDevastation
Capitalism Breeds Devastation (JER Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Ska Tune Network
youtu.be
January 5, 2026 at 6:29 AM
skatunenetwork.bsky.social
The thing they DONT tell you about doing audio production is the minute you think you have every cable you’d ever need… you’ll get caught in the worst time without the one cable or adapter you didn’t think about until that moment
January 3, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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flyingraccoonsuit.bsky.social
Jess is on this new Upstarters collab, with Steve from the Pietasters! Check it out! 🦝
Line in the Sand feat. lead singers of Pietasters & Flying Raccoon Suit
YouTube video by The Upstarters
youtu.be
January 2, 2026 at 8:12 PM
skatunenetwork.bsky.social
YOOO! thank you @hankgreen.bsky.social 🙏🏾
mmasnick.bsky.social Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 5d
@hankgreen.bsky.social wearing a @skatunenetwork.bsky.social t-shirt in his yearly bingo wrapup, in which he correctly claims there's a ska music revival (I'd argue it never goes out of style, but whatever). www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVmq...
I, Unfortunately, Predicted a Murder
YouTube video by Hank Green
www.youtube.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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inkweaver.bsky.social
www.patreon.com/posts/review...

Album of the year post:
Death of the Heart by JER aka @skatunenetwork.bsky.social is now free for all members on my patreon

That said: if you're wondering why it feels rushed, check your calendar and be aware that depression got hands
Review: Death of the Heart by JER! | Prettied Words by F. Zoe Blackheart
Get more from Prettied Words by F. Zoe Blackheart on Patreon
www.patreon.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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researchreality.bsky.social
Top 5 PROTEST Albums of 2025!

Let me know what you think.

@jessewelles.bsky.social
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social

youtu.be/eZXMqiXVi2U?...

#music #albums #top5 #bestoftheyear
Top 5 POLITICAL Albums of 2025
YouTube video by ResearchReality
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December 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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everyshowjoe.bsky.social
And you got to include one of @skatunenetwork.bsky.social's excellent Christmas covers
Sleigh Ride (Ska Cover) Ft. Esteban Flores
YouTube video by Ska Tune Network
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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khaotickazmir.bsky.social
Now playing: Death of the Heart by @skatunenetwork.bsky.social

We shall call it a Christmas present to myself because of the timing of its arrival.
December 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social
let's gooooooooooooooo 🏁🎄🏁☃️🏁
skatunenetwork.bsky.social JER (They/Them) @skatunenetwork.bsky.social · 13d
Imagine waking up at 2:30am in the middle of winter break to George Lopez cutting to a commercial break and seeing this banger. You just had to be there 🙂‍↕️🎄✨😂 anyway, in case yall need some good holiday music for the next few days… have yourself a VERY SKATUNE CHRISTMAS!!!
December 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
skatunenetwork.bsky.social
Imagine waking up at 2:30am in the middle of winter break to George Lopez cutting to a commercial break and seeing this banger. You just had to be there 🙂‍↕️🎄✨😂 anyway, in case yall need some good holiday music for the next few days… have yourself a VERY SKATUNE CHRISTMAS!!!
December 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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bibulb.com
I've previously noted the loophole that lets me post @skatunenetwork.bsky.social like I posted Sam Smith a few years ago. I will proceed to take advantage of said loophole.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo_W...
Breaking News! Local Punk Doubts Existence of Systemic Racism
YouTube video by JER - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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allc0re.bsky.social
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social JER - Death of the Heart
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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howiecohen.bsky.social
Then I remembered, hey, just join the Patreon! So, there ya go. Ya pause, I Skas! www.patreon.com/c/Skatunenet...
Get more from Ska Tune Network on Patreon
creating Ska Covers (and more)
www.patreon.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
skatunenetwork.bsky.social
Another update. The internet successfully bullied square into unfreezing my account.

I paused the gofundme because I really don’t need more than what I got, but what I got IS going to cover a staggering amount of debt I was hoping to work out of
skatunenetwork.bsky.social JER (They/Them) @skatunenetwork.bsky.social · 16d
HI INTERNET
hate that I need to do this, but calling in my community to help me out!

Square freezing my account and holding my funds was the straw that broke the camels back, tbh. Here’s An incredibly long block of text, but all provides transparency and context behind this
Screenshot of gofund me featuring a picture of the JER band and text reading “help JER cover tour debt & expenses to keep touring in 2026” Hi, my name is JER and I’m calling in my community for help right now. For some background, I am an artist who releases music under my name, JER. In addition to that, I have a YouTube channel called skatune network, where I cover songs in the style of ska. For 9 years, I’ve been doing the YouTube thing, but for the past 5 years, my passion truly lies with the art that i create through the JER project and JER band. It’s been a privilege and honor to see the support of 2 full length records and 104 live shows over this time, and I’m deeply grateful for everybody who has been showing love and support to my craft! Anybody who follows me knows that touring is volatile and expensive. So many factors can make or break a tour financially, and it’s easy for expenses and debt to snowball to a point where it’s near impossible to catch up / continue. That was 2025 for me. With the expecting of a handful of shows, I didn’t really play any shows from spring 2024 to fall of 2025. I got off the road and dedicated the back half of 2024 to working to pay down tour debt. I began 2025 with minimal debt and recorded a record, the record being Death of the Heart. I made a financial plan for the year, which included keeping costs on our first March weekend. The additional cost was going to cover half of the bands flights to Japan, while I was already going to be out there AND all of our expenses in Japan were already covered. At the end of that March weekend, however, I was hit with the news that my merch fulfillment store had accumulated several thousand dollars of debt. All the money we made that weekend immediately went toward paying a portion of that debt off. This left me back home with more debt, and having to work my real life jobs to re-save to fly a portion of my band to Japan for our shows The spring is my slowest time of year, since most of my work is in the summer and fall. It took until the summer for me to save the money to book the flights. Our June tour was a breakeven, but the money we made from merch at shows was immediately taken to cover the online fulfillment debt I didn’t even know existed until March. This put me in a position where every dollar I made from my 5 jobs all summer went toward covering the costs of the last tour, and the next tour booked would start before I could pay off the last. This cycle is why we had to drop off our shows leading into fest. The money that was supposed to rent the van and book the flights instead went toward a previous tour debt. This cycle has culminated to where I’m at now. As of now, Square has frozen my account and is withholding all the merch money I made from my last few December shows. There is *still* a remaining debt on the merch fulfillment that isn’t fully paid down, and every tour has been in the red because of this lingering debt. I’m at a position where I have a lot of cool tours booked for 2026, but I am at a point where I can’t even afford to start the tour. Vans need to be rented. Flights need to be booked. Merch needs to be made. These are all costs that I don’t have, and I can’t afford to go on the road with this much debt again. It would be a huge bummer to drop off some very cool tours, but it’s just not feasible for me to make happen THATS WHERE I’M ASKING FOR Y’ALLS HELP! Between every skatune network page, I have over 1.2 million followers. If less than 1/10th of a % of my following sent me a dollar, I’d be able to cover every expense lost from square locking my merch money, AND the debt lingering over the skatune store. I hate feeling that I’m in a position where I need to ask for this. I’ve been trying my best and working non-stop for over a year. I’ve been applying to jobs all year beyond my current work, and while I’m making enough to do everything I appreciate the love and support deeply. The JER band is the most special project I’ve been a part of and had. The message of this band is so deeply important to me and I hope I can lean into my community to help make this possible. If you ever wanted to say thank you for the thousands of videos, hundreds of covers, all the entertainment, this is the way to do it! I’ve set the gofundme up for 10k. Believe it or not, my debt is higher than that right now, but that will pay off every debt lingering, cover the loss in merch money, pay down remaining tour expenses from this year, and set me up to get on the road next year! And lastly, if you purchased merch from us this past weekend and used a card, expect a refund. I’m also going to honor system this and try to build some sort of forum to contact everybody. Square refuses to release all of our card transactions and is suggesting we refund it all. I know everybody we sold merch to doesn’t follow me. Some saw us for the first time at these shows. Some don’t use social media. I just have to accept that I may be out of some merch money this weekend. Thank you all so much. I appreciate you all 🫶🏾
December 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
skatunenetwork.bsky.social
So I’ve lowkey just had an eye infection flaring up on and off for a year and too broke to go get it checked out.. but after today and the amount of people helping me, I might… be able to?
December 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
skatunenetwork.bsky.social
I can not believe the amount of support I’ve seen from y’all 😭 for the first time in over a year I feel some sort of relief over my finances. I’ve been overworking myself partially because I’ve been working to get out of this hole and this support helps so much. Thank you all so much
skatunenetwork.bsky.social JER (They/Them) @skatunenetwork.bsky.social · 16d
HI INTERNET
hate that I need to do this, but calling in my community to help me out!

Square freezing my account and holding my funds was the straw that broke the camels back, tbh. Here’s An incredibly long block of text, but all provides transparency and context behind this
Screenshot of gofund me featuring a picture of the JER band and text reading “help JER cover tour debt & expenses to keep touring in 2026” Hi, my name is JER and I’m calling in my community for help right now. For some background, I am an artist who releases music under my name, JER. In addition to that, I have a YouTube channel called skatune network, where I cover songs in the style of ska. For 9 years, I’ve been doing the YouTube thing, but for the past 5 years, my passion truly lies with the art that i create through the JER project and JER band. It’s been a privilege and honor to see the support of 2 full length records and 104 live shows over this time, and I’m deeply grateful for everybody who has been showing love and support to my craft! Anybody who follows me knows that touring is volatile and expensive. So many factors can make or break a tour financially, and it’s easy for expenses and debt to snowball to a point where it’s near impossible to catch up / continue. That was 2025 for me. With the expecting of a handful of shows, I didn’t really play any shows from spring 2024 to fall of 2025. I got off the road and dedicated the back half of 2024 to working to pay down tour debt. I began 2025 with minimal debt and recorded a record, the record being Death of the Heart. I made a financial plan for the year, which included keeping costs on our first March weekend. The additional cost was going to cover half of the bands flights to Japan, while I was already going to be out there AND all of our expenses in Japan were already covered. At the end of that March weekend, however, I was hit with the news that my merch fulfillment store had accumulated several thousand dollars of debt. All the money we made that weekend immediately went toward paying a portion of that debt off. This left me back home with more debt, and having to work my real life jobs to re-save to fly a portion of my band to Japan for our shows The spring is my slowest time of year, since most of my work is in the summer and fall. It took until the summer for me to save the money to book the flights. Our June tour was a breakeven, but the money we made from merch at shows was immediately taken to cover the online fulfillment debt I didn’t even know existed until March. This put me in a position where every dollar I made from my 5 jobs all summer went toward covering the costs of the last tour, and the next tour booked would start before I could pay off the last. This cycle is why we had to drop off our shows leading into fest. The money that was supposed to rent the van and book the flights instead went toward a previous tour debt. This cycle has culminated to where I’m at now. As of now, Square has frozen my account and is withholding all the merch money I made from my last few December shows. There is *still* a remaining debt on the merch fulfillment that isn’t fully paid down, and every tour has been in the red because of this lingering debt. I’m at a position where I have a lot of cool tours booked for 2026, but I am at a point where I can’t even afford to start the tour. Vans need to be rented. Flights need to be booked. Merch needs to be made. These are all costs that I don’t have, and I can’t afford to go on the road with this much debt again. It would be a huge bummer to drop off some very cool tours, but it’s just not feasible for me to make happen THATS WHERE I’M ASKING FOR Y’ALLS HELP! Between every skatune network page, I have over 1.2 million followers. If less than 1/10th of a % of my following sent me a dollar, I’d be able to cover every expense lost from square locking my merch money, AND the debt lingering over the skatune store. I hate feeling that I’m in a position where I need to ask for this. I’ve been trying my best and working non-stop for over a year. I’ve been applying to jobs all year beyond my current work, and while I’m making enough to do everything I appreciate the love and support deeply. The JER band is the most special project I’ve been a part of and had. The message of this band is so deeply important to me and I hope I can lean into my community to help make this possible. If you ever wanted to say thank you for the thousands of videos, hundreds of covers, all the entertainment, this is the way to do it! I’ve set the gofundme up for 10k. Believe it or not, my debt is higher than that right now, but that will pay off every debt lingering, cover the loss in merch money, pay down remaining tour expenses from this year, and set me up to get on the road next year! And lastly, if you purchased merch from us this past weekend and used a card, expect a refund. I’m also going to honor system this and try to build some sort of forum to contact everybody. Square refuses to release all of our card transactions and is suggesting we refund it all. I know everybody we sold merch to doesn’t follow me. Some saw us for the first time at these shows. Some don’t use social media. I just have to accept that I may be out of some merch money this weekend. Thank you all so much. I appreciate you all 🫶🏾
December 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
skatunenetwork.bsky.social
HI INTERNET
hate that I need to do this, but calling in my community to help me out!

Square freezing my account and holding my funds was the straw that broke the camels back, tbh. Here’s An incredibly long block of text, but all provides transparency and context behind this
Screenshot of gofund me featuring a picture of the JER band and text reading “help JER cover tour debt & expenses to keep touring in 2026” Hi, my name is JER and I’m calling in my community for help right now. For some background, I am an artist who releases music under my name, JER. In addition to that, I have a YouTube channel called skatune network, where I cover songs in the style of ska. For 9 years, I’ve been doing the YouTube thing, but for the past 5 years, my passion truly lies with the art that i create through the JER project and JER band. It’s been a privilege and honor to see the support of 2 full length records and 104 live shows over this time, and I’m deeply grateful for everybody who has been showing love and support to my craft! Anybody who follows me knows that touring is volatile and expensive. So many factors can make or break a tour financially, and it’s easy for expenses and debt to snowball to a point where it’s near impossible to catch up / continue. That was 2025 for me. With the expecting of a handful of shows, I didn’t really play any shows from spring 2024 to fall of 2025. I got off the road and dedicated the back half of 2024 to working to pay down tour debt. I began 2025 with minimal debt and recorded a record, the record being Death of the Heart. I made a financial plan for the year, which included keeping costs on our first March weekend. The additional cost was going to cover half of the bands flights to Japan, while I was already going to be out there AND all of our expenses in Japan were already covered. At the end of that March weekend, however, I was hit with the news that my merch fulfillment store had accumulated several thousand dollars of debt. All the money we made that weekend immediately went toward paying a portion of that debt off. This left me back home with more debt, and having to work my real life jobs to re-save to fly a portion of my band to Japan for our shows The spring is my slowest time of year, since most of my work is in the summer and fall. It took until the summer for me to save the money to book the flights. Our June tour was a breakeven, but the money we made from merch at shows was immediately taken to cover the online fulfillment debt I didn’t even know existed until March. This put me in a position where every dollar I made from my 5 jobs all summer went toward covering the costs of the last tour, and the next tour booked would start before I could pay off the last. This cycle is why we had to drop off our shows leading into fest. The money that was supposed to rent the van and book the flights instead went toward a previous tour debt. This cycle has culminated to where I’m at now. As of now, Square has frozen my account and is withholding all the merch money I made from my last few December shows. There is *still* a remaining debt on the merch fulfillment that isn’t fully paid down, and every tour has been in the red because of this lingering debt. I’m at a position where I have a lot of cool tours booked for 2026, but I am at a point where I can’t even afford to start the tour. Vans need to be rented. Flights need to be booked. Merch needs to be made. These are all costs that I don’t have, and I can’t afford to go on the road with this much debt again. It would be a huge bummer to drop off some very cool tours, but it’s just not feasible for me to make happen THATS WHERE I’M ASKING FOR Y’ALLS HELP! Between every skatune network page, I have over 1.2 million followers. If less than 1/10th of a % of my following sent me a dollar, I’d be able to cover every expense lost from square locking my merch money, AND the debt lingering over the skatune store. I hate feeling that I’m in a position where I need to ask for this. I’ve been trying my best and working non-stop for over a year. I’ve been applying to jobs all year beyond my current work, and while I’m making enough to do everything I appreciate the love and support deeply. The JER band is the most special project I’ve been a part of and had. The message of this band is so deeply important to me and I hope I can lean into my community to help make this possible. If you ever wanted to say thank you for the thousands of videos, hundreds of covers, all the entertainment, this is the way to do it! I’ve set the gofundme up for 10k. Believe it or not, my debt is higher than that right now, but that will pay off every debt lingering, cover the loss in merch money, pay down remaining tour expenses from this year, and set me up to get on the road next year! And lastly, if you purchased merch from us this past weekend and used a card, expect a refund. I’m also going to honor system this and try to build some sort of forum to contact everybody. Square refuses to release all of our card transactions and is suggesting we refund it all. I know everybody we sold merch to doesn’t follow me. Some saw us for the first time at these shows. Some don’t use social media. I just have to accept that I may be out of some merch money this weekend. Thank you all so much. I appreciate you all 🫶🏾
December 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
skatunenetwork.bsky.social
Lmao Square froze my account and is holding all my merch sales from this weekend and I am ready to just end it all over this cause I have expenses that are so immediate and their customer serve told me to wait 3 - 6 months for my account to unfreeze or refund every transaction and lose all my money
December 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
skatunenetwork.bsky.social
Had a red eye and landed at 6am to drive home 2 hours and I am so thrilled to not have to get on a plane for the next half year
December 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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skatunenetwork.bsky.social
Handful of S - XL of each design left, AND $10 off all 2XL - 5XL!!!!
Www.skatunenetwork.com
skatunenetwork.bsky.social JER (They/Them) @skatunenetwork.bsky.social · 19d
LEFTOVER JER MERCH!
Most of these were sold out, but re-upped a handful of smaller sizes on these designs!
I’m off the road for a while, if y’all want to help support! Clearing out the merch will help us get on the road next year 👁️👁️
Www.skatunenetwork.com
Picture of JER pulling their glasses down looking at the camera while wearing the way you tune it out shirt JER taking a picture holding up their hand as a peace sign and wearing the I’m still bothered shirt Picture of JER standing with their hands in their pocket wearing the capitalism breeds devastation shirt
December 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
skatunenetwork.bsky.social
Handful of S - XL of each design left, AND $10 off all 2XL - 5XL!!!!
Www.skatunenetwork.com
skatunenetwork.bsky.social JER (They/Them) @skatunenetwork.bsky.social · 19d
LEFTOVER JER MERCH!
Most of these were sold out, but re-upped a handful of smaller sizes on these designs!
I’m off the road for a while, if y’all want to help support! Clearing out the merch will help us get on the road next year 👁️👁️
Www.skatunenetwork.com
Picture of JER pulling their glasses down looking at the camera while wearing the way you tune it out shirt JER taking a picture holding up their hand as a peace sign and wearing the I’m still bothered shirt Picture of JER standing with their hands in their pocket wearing the capitalism breeds devastation shirt
December 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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skatunenetwork.bsky.social
$25 for extended sizes!
2XL - 5XL!!!
EVERYTHING IS SHIPPING THIS WEEK! Not too late for a holiday present 👀
Www.skatunenetwork.com
skatunenetwork.bsky.social JER (They/Them) @skatunenetwork.bsky.social · 20d
$10 DOLLARS OFF EXTENDED SIZES
2XL - 5XL

RUNNIN a last minute sale to clear out these larger sizes!

We print on comfort colors up to 4XL 👀 high ass quality shirt! The 5XL is Hanes cause it was the only option we could get!
Www.skatunenetwork.com
Picture of JER wearing a 5XL death of the heart shirt, giving 2 thumbs up JER wearing a 5XL capitalism breeds devastation shirt. JER is throwing up 2 peace signs. JER wearing a 5XL tune it out shirt with their arms up. JER taking a selfie in front of a shelf of JER MERCH.
December 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
skatunenetwork.bsky.social
LEFTOVER JER MERCH!
Most of these were sold out, but re-upped a handful of smaller sizes on these designs!
I’m off the road for a while, if y’all want to help support! Clearing out the merch will help us get on the road next year 👁️👁️
Www.skatunenetwork.com
Picture of JER pulling their glasses down looking at the camera while wearing the way you tune it out shirt JER taking a picture holding up their hand as a peace sign and wearing the I’m still bothered shirt Picture of JER standing with their hands in their pocket wearing the capitalism breeds devastation shirt
December 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
skatunenetwork.bsky.social
$25 for extended sizes!
2XL - 5XL!!!
EVERYTHING IS SHIPPING THIS WEEK! Not too late for a holiday present 👀
Www.skatunenetwork.com
skatunenetwork.bsky.social JER (They/Them) @skatunenetwork.bsky.social · 20d
$10 DOLLARS OFF EXTENDED SIZES
2XL - 5XL

RUNNIN a last minute sale to clear out these larger sizes!

We print on comfort colors up to 4XL 👀 high ass quality shirt! The 5XL is Hanes cause it was the only option we could get!
Www.skatunenetwork.com
Picture of JER wearing a 5XL death of the heart shirt, giving 2 thumbs up JER wearing a 5XL capitalism breeds devastation shirt. JER is throwing up 2 peace signs. JER wearing a 5XL tune it out shirt with their arms up. JER taking a selfie in front of a shelf of JER MERCH.
December 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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hexavexagon.bsky.social
When the internet forces you to remember that Jer -is- real and they -can- make you skank (positive).

🕴️🕴️🕴️🕴️
skatunenetwork.bsky.social JER (They/Them) @skatunenetwork.bsky.social · 29d
That’s why I’m here 🙂‍↕️
Hi my name is JER.

I have a YouTube channel (skatune network) where I cover songs as ska, but my main focus is my original music. I write ska songs. I have a band who helps me play them.

There’s more ska right here waiting for you 🙂‍↕️
December 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM