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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

We are willing to forgive this transgression if you will write us lots and lots of even more wonderful books

dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Not exactly historical, but I flinch in “Doctor Zhivago” (1965) when Komarovsky says “Call me Viktor Ippolitovich” and Lara giggles and says “I couldn’t possibly.” First name + patronymic is a very respectful form of address, not at all intimate.

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Very delicate headline in a local paper:

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

They have definitely added atmosphere compared to the cavernous Burgy Brews warehouse feel

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Then we probably met at one of the Neighbor to Neighbor events! Small town, small world

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I am still wondering what about my profile made this job a good fit:

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

My child’s high school teams were the Silverbacks

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

He might have checked out sports bars, though

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Imagine my mortification in grade school when I insisted that “gug” was another word for “train.” I like to think it was cognate with the German “Zug.” My daughter similarly learned the hard way in college that “skibble” (from “Eloise”) is not standard English for “hurry up, move fast.”

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sing, O Grok, of my journey from Troy, NY to Ithaca, NY

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And respect right back at you! I have your paramilitaries book on my shelf. I hadn’t realized that you were once at POBiH. And my daughter says she is connected to you on LinkedIn: Dea Omerović at the Carnegie Foundation. It’s a mali svijet we inhabit.

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Brassed Off” (1996) Tara Fitzgerald: “Would you like to come up for a coffee?” Ewan MacGregor: “I don’t drink coffee.” TF: “I don’t have any coffee.”

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh indeed, no one really repents. I just found it very telling that Plavšić signed a plea agreement admitting to crimes, and then complained of having to live among criminals

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yup, that’s the kind of cases I have worked on in the US (after 20+ years in ICTY/MICT). The only US case where someone was tried for the crime itself, rather than immigration charges, ended in a very quick acquittal. I appear as an historical expert, to explain ex-YU and the wars to US juries.

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just to be clear, my first comment about the non-repentant war criminal who didn’t think she was a criminal refers to Plavšić, not the US defendant.

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There was an interesting case in the US: a Serb woman from Tarčin who joined the Muslim Zulfikar paramilitary unit, charged with crimes against Serb prisoners on Mount Inman. She pleaded guilty the day before I was due to testify at her trial. She must have read my expert report 😉

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

She acknowledged her crimes in her plea agreement, and later complained that she had to live among criminals in prison

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Because my mother took me and my entire seventh birthday party to The Magic Sword ☠️

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My mother learned to ski inside Wanamaker’s in Manhattan in the 1930s. They set up a slope with Borax flakes for snow.

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good thing he lives with a food historian who knows the danger of monoculture and Phytophthora infestans

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Quite common in England when I lived there in the 1970s-1980s

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Would she say the same about murder mysteries? They are also formulaic

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Double the otters, double the fun 🦦 🦦

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In response to your (as ever, hilarious) alt text: it is very good to imagine eels when you are doing Kegel exercises. Just imagining you are in a bathtub full of eels will ensure you work all the right muscles

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I want to know about the little guy in the 🎩. Water boy? Mascot? Coxswain?

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dchanson.bsky.social @dchanson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And grape jelly?! Who wants that, except in a PB&J?

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