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Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師

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Serbian-Canadian, Lambda Literature Award winner. Former lecturer at several universities, sworn court interpreter, journalist and translator of several embassies. ___________ Respect for all, reverence for none.

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Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · Jan 24

Is there life BEFORE death?

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Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · 10d

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and you are welcome to get me a cuppa cappu(ccino)

#KofiCreativeVoice

UNESCO Cities of Literature -- they ask me what I think

Miodrag published a post on Ko-fi

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Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · 12d

The name Ghislaine is not pronounced the way you do.

First "gh" is NEVER pronounced as "dj" in English, so also not here.

Second, the "s" is not pronounced there.

Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · 26d

Yep, sadly so.

Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · Aug 22

More Squid, more Miodrag (from some time ago)

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Of Whales and Swings, and Distant Travels ( « Où les baleines naissent » )

It was summer, a quarter of a century ago. I was twenty-one and had finished reading all classes at the Philology College of Belgrade. With a few exams remaining to be taken, including the final one i...

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Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · Aug 8

I know we said we dislike the Musk and Zuckerberg platforms, but these guys have me on their Insta page and I appreciate it.

www.instagram.com/p/DNEj34Aukwi/

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · Jul 23

I removed Gemini from my bookmarks.

Too argumentative and too Serbophobic. AI should be helpful. I still have Grok, MS Copilot, Qwen and possibly the most reliable of the Big 4, ChatGPT.

Plus the smaller ones, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Claude when needed...

Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · Jul 7

My photo from China in the Brazilian "Revista Literária Aspas Duplas"

(and a brief bio in Portuguese)

Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · Jul 6

Pour qui s'encore souvient de son français écolier.

Miodrag Kojadinović, Les grenouilles de l’Université Sun Yat-sen (rhymed version), SquidLitMag, Montréal

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Les grenouilles de l’Université Sun Yat-sen (rhymed version)

Seul, je marchais sous des lueurs tamisées et les nuages.Dans la cave d’un bâtiment aux murs inachevés, et danscinq des neuf étangs, les grenouilles-taureaux en bruitage,leurs chants m’accompagnaient ...

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Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · Jun 17

If someone were to erase the global memories of the 1970s, I could spin (out of thin air) and recreate them almost in full simply by listening to Pierre Bachelet et Véronique Jannot singing " L'Atlantique".

Not kiddin'.

Could you?

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" L'Atlantique " Pierre Bachelet et Véronique Jannot ( 1975 )

YouTube video by Mano - Niglo Theromantiquevirtuel

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Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · Jun 14

I want my 44 poems published in real gold on dark turquoise rice paper in 44 numbered copies distributed to state libraries in 43 countries: 22 in Europe, 7 in Asia, 5 in South America, 4 in Africa, 3 in Oceania, 2 in North America (Mejico and either Canada or the USA) & 1 to be kept in Antarctica.

Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · Jun 12

Death Toll (estimate):

Black Death ~125 million
World War II ~78 million
Justinian Plague ~60 million
Spanish Flu ~60 million
AIDS P(l)andemic ~40 million
Great Leap Forward ~30 million
COVID-19 / Coronomor ~18 million
World War I ~16 million
Antonine Plague ~7 million
Stalin’s Purges ~5 million

Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · May 28

If you have any kind of connection to a UNESCO City of Literature & have had at least one book published in any language, you qualify to apply for a writers' residence in Nanjing. You do need to speak English (or Chinese).

Apply in the next three days.

www.dublincityofliterature.ie/news/open-ca...

Open Call for Nanjing International Writers’ Residencies 2025 | Dublin UNESCO City of literature

Dublin is known worldwide for its writers, poets and playwrights, a place with a rich literary past and a vibrant literary present.

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Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · May 21

My "Why I never went to Nanaimo" is online as a Life Poem, thanks to @poetryfestival.bsky.social

Sad to say my friend Saša mentioned in it has died in March 2025, a week after his 65th birthday (had not got a single pension cheque, though just retired).

festivalforpoetry.com/2025/05/21/l...

LIFE Poem: Why I Never Went to Nanaimo, by Miodrag Kojadinović

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Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · May 18

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Astrology and natal chart of Miodrag Kojadinovic, born on 1961/11/22Astrology chart of Miodrag Kojadinovic (Placidus system)

Horoscope and natal chart of Miodrag Kojadinovic, born on 1961/11/22: you will find in this page an excerpt of the astrological portrait and the interpration of the planetary dominants.

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Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · Apr 28

Sure. Get over here by the 5th of May.

Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · Apr 12

Must say I was surprised the prepaid enevelope of the @election2025canada.friendica.quebec.ap.brid.gy worked in Serbia, ie I did not have to pay C$ 3.80 to support the grandson of the founder of New Democrats, who runs in my Van BC riding.

Sorry, Hedy Fry, you did help once, but are too old for MP.

Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · Feb 25

Shorties (see, I am being polite and not referring to them as "midgets"!) in politics are the problem.

Men who want to lead countries' polities should be at a minimum 1 cm taller than average for males in that country, not way too short like Putin, Macron, Zelenskyy etc.

Or Napoléon in his time.

Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · Feb 22

Not sure what this means, but here is genoplot.com calculation of my YSEQ 23andMe identical data

Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · Feb 12

Methinks you are incapable of uttering that magic word "touchée" which becomes you and this situation.

Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · Feb 1

In China it is 2025.01.31 18:42, which is the most logical if you look at it as it starts with the largest and goes to the smallest. In most of the worls we start with the smallest and go to the largest (31.01.2025) but obviously not for the hours and minutes (ie we may say "25 past 12" but not 42).

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Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · Feb 1

Berlin wall was fine.

The fall of that wall was horrendous -- for us in Europe whose grandfathers were killed in WWII when recruited against their will and with no military training to go and fight and were therefore killed within 5 months in February 1945.

And you are an insulting jerk. Fuck off.

Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · Feb 1

Moron, I DO NOT OWE you anything, my comment was not directed at you, and if you are incapable of comprehending you, just bugger away.

And you won't be coming to my wall and insult me. So I am blocking you now.

Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · Feb 1

My comment was not for the intellectually challenged, so you can relax and forget all about it billy goat.

Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · Feb 1

Jerks, you do not call THE FOURTH OF JULY "July 4", do you now?

How dumb is it to call 5th February "02/05" then?

Miodrag the Writer – 緣覺乘米奧德拉格大師 @miodragthewriter.bsky.social · Feb 1

The winners of WWII who used to have military missions in Berlin well into the 1980s.