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Eric Gordy

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All about: sociology, Balkans, good cooking, jazz, dogs. No patience for: racists, nationalists, sexists, creeps, bad methodology. “East of Ethnia” -- politics, sociology, and culture from the Balkans and other places: https://eastethnia.wordpress.com

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re Noem/Mullin/everyone else:
Drugarice i drugovi, listen: if you condemn someone for lacking education, what you are really condemning is your own failure to provide people with the education they need.
Znanje i prosvjeta će biti naša osvjeta.

05.03.2026 21:55 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A Tek C5?

05.03.2026 21:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Big Star - September Gurls
YouTube video by edumota Big Star - September Gurls

I like Big Star. But I also like Haustor. So those are the two stars I like, Big and Hau.
youtu.be/BNKSs1J38EA?...

05.03.2026 21:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Evaluative comment on this evening's dinner: trout fillets, ništa ne može faliti; asparagus, milina čista. But the rizi-bizi, ma čovječe, rizi-bizi je čisto savršenstvo.

05.03.2026 20:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Asparagus

Asparagus

This is a photo of a plate of asparagus, aspaaaaaragus...

05.03.2026 19:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Now Kristi Noem will be free to go after our doggie.

05.03.2026 19:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Path

Path

And one more

05.03.2026 08:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Trees

Trees

Toys

Toys

More fog pix

05.03.2026 07:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Kip

Kip

Football sculpture in the fog.

05.03.2026 07:29 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

One thing I enjoy is coming up with really ambitious projects then hoping they do not get funded because then I would have to manage them.

04.03.2026 22:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ima u knjizi, ne znam za onlajn.

04.03.2026 17:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Zidovi pamte by Eric Ušić

Zidovi pamte by Eric Ušić

Hearing from a fella whose new book has dropped. He's got a film too.

04.03.2026 17:45 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Reeves’s spring statement? The economy is great, don’t worry about the Middle East With no spending or fiscal commitments to offer, the chancellor kept it short, sweet and just a little tin-eared

They don't seem to have any plan but, hey government, if you are ever in the mood to buy social peace, I'm selling.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

04.03.2026 15:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My fitbit app says I am burning 3000 calories a day but if that were true I would be svelte enough to compete with my dog.

04.03.2026 15:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gym routine was interrupted by a period of travel but now I'm back. Feeling virtuous today.

04.03.2026 10:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
There is a  war- LEONARD COHEN Live on WARSAW /Poland March 22, 1985, Sala Kongresowa
YouTube video by FritzP-cologne There is a war- LEONARD COHEN Live on WARSAW /Poland March 22, 1985, Sala Kongresowa

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.
youtu.be/5zHAUoVc8eg?...

04.03.2026 07:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Avion sa evakuisanim građanima sa Bliskog istoka sleteo noćas u Beograd Evakuacioni avion Er Srbije sa 67 putnika koji je poleteo iz Šarm El Šeika sleteo je oko pola dva na Beogradski aerodrom. Povratak naših državljana iz ratom zahvaćenih područja na Bliskom istoku organ...

Speakers of South Slavic languages were welcomed on these planes, speakers of Paleo-Balkan languages not so much. www.danas.rs/vesti/drustv...

04.03.2026 06:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Most Reform members believe non-white UK citizens born abroad should be forced or encouraged to leave, poll finds Nigel Farage’s recent efforts to woo centre-ground voters may cause tension in party’s right flank, says Hope Not Hate

BREAKING: the Racist Party is supported by racists.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

04.03.2026 06:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I think if Sarajevo won't put up a memorial to Franz Ferdinand then they should definitely consider honouring some other Scottish musical group.

03.03.2026 17:36 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Greens overtake Labour in sensational poll The Greens have polled higher than Labour in the latest poll by YouGov, which puts them only two points off Reform UK and five ahead of the governing party.

Labour govts from Blair onward thought they could afford to act right wing because their voters have no place else to go. Now that have some place else to go. And they are going.
news.sky.com/story/greens...

03.03.2026 11:35 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don't mean to brag but the last hotel I stayed at had really good quality laundry bags.

03.03.2026 08:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nojes Dojčland: Novi zakoni prete da trajno potčine srpsko pravosuđe vladajućoj partiji Vladajuća Srpska napredna stranka (SNS) usvojila je po hitnom postupku izmene pravosudnih zakona potpuno ignorišući stav struke.

Sorry to people who are happy to spell po Vuku, but "Nojes Dojčland" sounds to me like "ostriches of Germany."
n1info.rs/vesti/nojes-...

02.03.2026 21:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Got the ingredients for mushroom curry and realised that the tragedy of this neighbourhood is that it has no naan bakery.

02.03.2026 18:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Overheard at work: "I don't pretend I know how to do your job, but I don't pretend that you do either."

02.03.2026 16:04 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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(VIDEO) Beogradski sat na Trgu republike i dalje pokvaren, sada i bez kazaljki Ubrzo nakon što je postavljen, mesecima pompezno najavljivan

Today in transparent public works tenders
n1info.rs/vesti/video-...

02.03.2026 08:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Podvarak s ošinkom

02.03.2026 07:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Of course I was hoping I could take the James Bond train from Monte Carlo.

02.03.2026 07:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Got my tix for Montenegro, happy to see that the airport is still abbreviated TGD.

02.03.2026 07:45 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Refugee status to be temporary as Shabana Mahmood rips up rules on UK asylum Home secretary announces 30-month protection limit, with refugees required to leave if their home countries are later judged safe

So basically the future is Labour, Tories, and Reform competing for the xenophobe cult vote while we get the support of all the decent and sentient people.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

02.03.2026 06:56 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Class of 1970

Class of 1970

If you remember me from Seattle Hebrew Academy then you remember me.

01.03.2026 22:07 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0