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David @davidburidan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Related, many children are hurt that the hardest word for their parents to say is “well done” but for me in the case of ყოჩაღ this is literally true

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David @davidburidan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’ve been workshopping a joke about aspiring to pronounce Georgian correctly but unfortunately all the hardest sounds are non-aspirated

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David @davidburidan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Tbilisi’s marshrutkas continue to be the ultimate test of both physical endurance and linguistic comprehension.

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Random Restaurant Bot @restaurant-bot.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Old Hercegovina; Carigradska 36, Beograd, Serbia www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&q…

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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The fourth part of our symposium on the American-Israeli war on Iran: Ala’a Shehabi on Gulf security arrangements @justinsalhani.bsky.social reports on mass displacement in Lebanon and a dispatch from a resident who fled Tehran, translated by Salar Abdoh www.equator.org/articles/dea...

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David @davidburidan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Proud to donate one of your two likes—but will note that while I would never entrust AI with writing an email, it’s incredibly useful for spotting errors or suggesting improvements in emails. Like spellcheck on steroids.

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Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Israel's siege is starving the people of Gaza. We have joined more than 100 aid and rights groups to demand action - before there is no one left to save. Read the full statement here: bit.ly/3GPCpAE

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David @davidburidan.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

If you can say ‘find the most powerful quote exemplifying x theme’ it’ll do well, I’d think — but it’s probably less adept at the instinctive skill of noticing what a given piece is missing.

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David @davidburidan.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I often plug interview transcripts into Gemini after I’ve written something, to compare - and while I wouldn’t trust it to write anything from scratch, with the right prompt it’s annoyingly good at finding the powerful quotes.

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

States must act now to end the violence or bear witness to the annihilation of the Palestinian population in #Gaza: UN experts demand immediate international intervention as Israel continues relentless destruction of life in Gaza www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

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David @davidburidan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Our newborn had her first ‘poopocalypse’ and my broken internet brain immediately thought of Thiel’s fascist FT op-ed on how the apokálypsis isn’t the end of the world but instead a great “unveiling”. A load of shit, obviously, but in this case unarguable.

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will neal @willneal.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Stellar work from the folks at OCCRP on a long-running network of scam call centres based partly in the Republic of Georgia – well worth a read 👇 www.occrp.org/en/project/s...

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Scam Empire

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David @davidburidan.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Depressing stuff! I suppose it’s maybe predictable that as decreased socialising/socialisation makes us less human, we also end up producing fewer humans.

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David @davidburidan.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Thanks for sharing - fascinating article. Was surprised he didn’t mention that in a lot of places the lower fertility rate is downstream of an overall reduction in coupling/marriage — was covered in an interesting FT Economics Show episode recently.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

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David @davidburidan.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Georgian family promised to send “14kg of baby clothes” the bulk of which it transpires is churchkhela

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David @davidburidan.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

The later in the night it is, the more I’m convinced that the New Year’s Eve classics ‘The Irony of Fate’ and ‘Dinner for One’, are essentially the same story of extreme drunkenness and mistaken identity, differing only in class ideology… and length

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David @davidburidan.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

“The protests have transcended the immediate goal of safeguarding Georgia’s Western orientation and EU integration process, becoming instead a broader struggle to uphold the very foundations of democracy, statehood, justice, and common decency.” www.e-flux.com/notes/646356...

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Georgia’s Postelection Crisis - Notes - e-flux

Tamta Khalvashi and Luka Nakhutsrishvili examine recent mass protests in Georgia.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Last night, I spoke with Amnesty International's executive director about their new report on Israel's war in Gaza and its conclusion that Israel is committing genocide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPSi...

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'This is genocide': Amnesty International accuses Israel of Gaza genocide

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Hans Gutbrod @hansgutbrod.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

"it's my child!!" Utterly horrendous scene in #Tbilisi tonight, mother screaming in distress as thuggish police rips her child away. Hard to watch, but put sound on, watch, share & send to anyone who may still support GD to watch what horror they are inflicting. #Georgia #RepressionGeorgia

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Katie Shoshiashvili @kshoshiashvili.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Surreal scenes from Tbilisi as a young brave woman breaks through riot police barrier screaming: “Is it me you are afraid of?!” The Georgian women define bravery. Video via Radio Tavisupleba

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

I cannot emphasise enough how strongly I feel that if you haven’t read J L Carr’s ‘A Month in the Country’, you would benefit from doing so

Ah, those days . .. for many years afterwards their happiness haunted me. Sometimes, listening to music, I drift back and nothing has changed. The long end of summer. Day after day of warm weather, voices calling as night came on and lighted windows pricked the darkness and, at day-break, the murmur of corn and the warm smell of fields ripe for harvest. And being young. If I'd stayed there, would I always have been happy? No, I suppose not. People move away, grow older, die, and the bright belief that there will be another marvellous thing around each corner fades. It is now or never; we must snatch at happiness as it flies.

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