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This evening we are taking our visitors from an exotic foreign land to try the traditional English specialty фишендчипс.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Sometimes I am relieved that my parents are no longer alive so they do not have to see what is happening.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Anyway, this thing about a televised public execution, sure, but you know, the execution is not any better if it is not broadcast.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If you're around on Friday come on down. The format is I interview the translator Ellen (she already knows the questions) then we open it up to the audience (she doesn't know the questions). www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/translatin...

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Translating War: Damir Karakaš' Celebration and Blue Moon

A Southeast European studies seminar with translator Ellen Elias-Bursać

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Also, "punoljetni građani": why do they only count the summers?

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Someone tell him he got the Nobel prize just for as joke.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Report on reading the collected works of Damir Karakaš: imagine Kristijan Novak but with no language humour and a lot more cruelty to animals.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So the polls in Camden close tonight. I think we blew it. I think we had an advantage that we let the Corbynista arrivistes demolish. I think this is why there is no hope for the left in this soggy land. It would be mighty nice to be proved wrong on this.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm being cautious about making predictions but jbg i got a feeling. (not that me having a feeling has ever been a good indicator of anything before)

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is of course a prediction. I would prefer that it be wrong.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Things that go together really badly: Politics and sex Pasta and sauerkraut Progressive impulses and nationalism

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tomorrow is the parliamentary election in Camden and I don't know, sestre i braćo, but I think we had the chance to do something really meaningful but we blew it and we will fail.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Много бре тражиш.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Fun fact: the easiest solution to the problem of people not having high paying jobs is to pay them better.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Every year there is this uncomfortable period of about a month between the time the new students arrive and the time they learn to do urban walking.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sorry, but Green party is my party. And I am an antizionist Jew whatever the fuck that means. But this resolution has done nothing to help Palestinians, who I think of as my sisters and brothers. And it has done a lot to hurt the Green party, which is (was?) our hope. Jebiga.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Possibly the last BBQ dinner of the season

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Former head of agency that drove people to suicide worries that there may not be enough exploitation.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There's a certain kind of nacoš that really loves to make this kind of claim. The ironic thing is that these people are probably unwelcome in most places. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tory shadow minister claims Luton has ‘no-go zones’ where ‘white people won’t go’

Blake Stephenson tells fringe meeting at Tory conference that the town is ‘a very dangerous place’ with ‘ghettoes’

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The principal distinction in Croatian history: there was Prljavo Kazalište with Davorin, and after Davorin left there was a vast nothingness.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Key takeaway: there were no late night places in Karlovac. But I bet there were if you knew people.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Some news outlets are saying that the deceased former Republican House speaker Dennis Hastert did prison time for "banking crimes." But it was for schtupping little boys.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We had a panel on history of labour and migration in Yugoslavia. Question time comes, Croatian embassy guy says why are you talking about Yugoslavia. Wine reception afterward, dude is arguing with my wife about the history of Balkan punk rock.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Zamisli imaš pravo glasa a glasaš za Dodika.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Last evening England defeated Croatia 7-0, but the result was 0-0 if you only count the goals scored by people the English right wing considers to be English.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Report from dinner: the salad we are having for dinner is called šopska salata because all of the things you need to make it can be bought in a šop.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The only reason I have ever made a screenshot is by mistake.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

To be clear, any form of exclusive nationalism is racist, which is why you do not replace one exclusive nationalism with another one.

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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The resolution that the Green party passed is meaningfully distinct from the position that Palestinians and Jews should have equal rights in a democratic state.

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