Eric Gordy

So it turns out embedding a video on Wordpress is really easy, you just paste in the link and the daemons do the rest.

A spy/bigot story Apparently Russia hired some ne’er do wells from Serbia to go and put on a lot of offensive pranks targeted mostly at Jews and Muslims in Germany and France. And these people pled guilty to e…

Russia hired them to do what? Ok, it's nasty and stupid. Which means there may be some lessons for us.
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Ha! Congrats to my neighbour and friend @ankahajkova.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ah, getting to the exhausting end of the semester. Today was one of those days when you ask a question to the class and they all sit there like their faces are made of pancakes 🥞

'Moj drug Dino je pitao: „Šta je to nacija?“ Uča Smilja je rekla: „Nacija je velika masa svita koja izmišlja svoju povjest!“'
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Sretan rođiš ga. Kupusu!

From Party Control to Student Primaries: Candidate Selection and Regime Contestation in Serbia A Post-Soviet Press Group event with Viktor Stamenković

Join us for this Post-Soviet Press Group event with Viktor Stamenković, who will examine the ongoing student protests in #Serbia as the most significant threat to the country’s current authoritarian regime.

🗓️ 11 March at 1pm
📍 UCL SSEES
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Oblanda

Our friend brought us these lovely enormous češke oblande.

There is a car parked perpendicular to the street, right on the pedestrian walk, in front of the school, blocking the kiddies who are struggling to get in on time. And of course it is a Tesler.

Tree

Oh and another one

Magla

Fogscape (for Richard Diebenkorn)

Arbol

A tree blossoms in the fog

This kicked off a series of films in which the Coen brothers punished people for being their lead characters.

I think this may be close to the version of the ethnic identity that is articulated by Kinky Friedman and the film "A serious man."

The thing about Tr*mp in a hat is that a brain like that, there is no need to keep it warm.

I cannot hear the term "Supreme Leader" without thinking of "suprema de pollo."

Cvijeće

These are the flowers our friend brought for dinner last night. She says they were assembled by a gentleman at Brixton station.

Scuse me if I am not a very good Jew, but the state that claims to represent my identity is violating every value that my rabbis taught me. Sorry if you expected me to be a better Jew than this.

There is a van parked in front of our house that has “Theft and roadside recovery” written on the side. What is their business? Is it one of those one-stop services?

YouTube video by Paul Hodge AU PAIRS - IT'S OBVIOUS

Srećan međunarodni dan žena svima koji slave.
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“stakeholders in the fields of civic education and history education, in digital something or other and information literacy, and bla bla muka mi je someone else write this paragraph.”

Sometimes it is so convenient to have collaborators to step in.

Grenel: „Tačija za premijera“ Bivši američki izaslanik za dijalog Beograda i Prištine Ričard Grenel ocenio je raspuštanje Skupštine Kosova kao "odličnu vest" i sugerisao da bi na čelu kosovske vlade trebaalod a bude Hašim Tači, pr...

Grenell never quite figured out that you have to win an election to name a premier.
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Senior Labour figures warn government amid fears of ‘political earthquake’ in London Exclusive: Senior party figures share data suggesting Green surge could put Labour in fourth place in capital in May

Well, sure, why would a progressive voter choose Labour? It is not a progressive party.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Gurnard

Trouts and friends

Scenes from shopping

Rusija regrutovala špijune iz Srbije: RSE imao uvid u tri presude za incidente u Parizu i Berlinu  

So Russia recruited and trained this group just to flit around Europe and be assholes to Jews and Muslims?
www.slobodnaevropa.org/a/srbija-par...

Home Office may forcibly remove child asylum seekers from UK in handcuffs Move is part of scheme to target families for expedited voluntary removals before enforced removal proceedings

We are governed by people who want to put children in handcuffs.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

In kebab we trust

Contains spoilers

Opening sentence for a research proposal on democracy. Work in progress.

Osnovne škole gađaju bre.

Shabana Mahmood accused of mimicking Trump as she announces asylum plans Home secretary’s proposals to overhaul immigration system include end to permanent refugee status

Labour's grim determination to lose their humanity is impressive. All the same there is no way they are getting our support.
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