Mastodawn

I also love how Montenegro and Croatia are pushing back against the trad wife shit

I will spend a lot of money voting for Bulgaria next Saturday, but in terms of songs, France 🇫🇷, Greece 🇬🇷 and Moldova 🇲🇩 are the best.

Honourable mention to Montenegro, Croatia, Serbia, Albania and Ukraine.

Germany should be kicked out and permabanned for sending... that...

Ivan Simic May 10

I am so happy that Bulgaria is back at Eurovision. Their song is top tier trash, an immortal Balkan disaster! 🇧🇬♥️
https://youtu.be/J3oGYo_mekw

DARA - Bangaranga | Bulgaria 🇧🇬 | Official Music Video | #Eurovision2026

YouTube

Ivan Simic May 8

It is 8 May, and the tree in front of my house has decided that winter is over!! She is ready to bloom!! Finally!! 🌺🌺🌺

Ivan Simic May 4

After what happened in Alberta, Canada urgently needs an EU-style GDPR, brought into law yesterday!

Ivan Simic Apr 25

This is what having a spine looks like!

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/trump-must-drop-tariffs-release-epstein-files-before-us-booze-returns-to-manitoba-shelves-kinew/

Manitoba won’t put U.S. liquor on shelves until Trump drops tariffs, releases Epstein files: Kinew

American liquor will only return to Manitoba store shelves if the U.S. drops all tariffs on Canadian goods, Wab Kinew said Friday.

CTVNews

Ivan Simic Apr 15

Because they are finally free from awful helicopter parenting!

"despite frequent claims that young people are drinking less, this study suggests that gen Z drinkers in their early 20s may now be drinking as much as – or more than – millennials did at a similar age"

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/05/gen-z-binge-drinking-triples-since-teens

Binge drinking rises sharply among gen Z in their early 20s

Research challenges idea of ‘generation sensible’ as alcohol and drug use increase after teenage years

The Guardian

Ivan Simic Apr 12

Orbán is gone, but he has done so much damage to Hungary that it will take decades to recover. As with all conservative populist politicians, the consequences are generational...

Ivan Simic Apr 11

Me learning German 🇩🇪
First class: able to pronounce everything
Two years later: following academic lectures

Me learning French 🇫🇷
First class: what is that sound??
Five years later: what is that sound??

Ivan Simic Apr 7

📚 Book launch tomorrow if the world still exists

Sickle and Veil: Communist Gender Policies Towards Muslim Minorities in Eastern Europe

8 April, 3pm, the University of Alberta, Tory 2-79

A discussion of the book followed by questions and conversation. Refreshments will be served ☕🎉

All welcome!

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