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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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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 — 👍 0    🔁 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 — 👍 1    🔁 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

A memory of getting kicked out of the Seattle Hebrew Academy. The principal, Rabbi Rosenthal, asked how I felt about being punished. I said I feel like kicking you. My mother asked a psychiatrist is this ok. The psychiatrist said you don't ask a 5 year old what they think unless you want the answer.

01.03.2026 20:54 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
Živio Niš!

Živio Niš!

This, klinci i klinceze, is salade nicoise.

01.03.2026 20:19 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
“Dokumenta o Endrjuu.....”

“Dokumenta o Endrjuu.....”

Napravio sam skrinšot ovog naslova o Endrjuu, dat ću ga kao poklon Uu Thantu i Lazaru Pačuu.

01.03.2026 19:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Report from shopping: tonight we will celebrate our colleagues from Niš by making a salade nicoise.

01.03.2026 14:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Elis Regina - "Águas de Março" - MPB Especial
YouTube video by Trama TV Elis Regina - "Águas de Março" - MPB Especial

Oh my, it's March already.
youtu.be/FI1b9RK10JI?...

01.03.2026 09:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In the long term the Vandals' destruction of the Roman empire produced a great film industry.

01.03.2026 06:45 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ali Khamenei was an 86 year old man with cancer. They were prepared for his death and had a successor ready.

01.03.2026 06:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

When we became citizens we joined the Green party because it was the only party that was consistent with our values. Now it is becoming a competitive party. And it is doing us proud. Good country, have a biscuit.

28.02.2026 22:04 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They killed 85 schoolgirls with a bomb attack.
This is still the first day of their misbegotten adventure.

28.02.2026 16:14 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

OPERATION MONUMETAL INADEQUACY

28.02.2026 15:57 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It does indeed. From Macedonia.

28.02.2026 15:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Kupus!!!!!

Kupus!!!!!

Today we are making the last sarme of the season

28.02.2026 15:09 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
Curtis Mayfield live: We Got to Have Peace
YouTube video by StoptheWarCoalition Curtis Mayfield live: We Got to Have Peace

Another war?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CM2...

28.02.2026 08:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Živjeli

Živjeli

You don't really notice it until someone takes a photo, but our dining room is really disorderly.

28.02.2026 08:31 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

What if a pedophile started a war to draw attention away from the evidence he is hiding?

28.02.2026 07:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Epstein files contain explicit but unsubstantiated claim that Trump abused minor Department of Justice did not release FBI memos when it uploaded millions of pages of files beginning in December

DOJ: we don't have the files. Russia: don't worry, we have them.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

27.02.2026 22:12 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0