Damian O’Broin
@damianobroin.bsky.social
Could I belong here? The vibes are kinda strong here.
CEO @ Ask Direct.
CEO @ Ask Direct.
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Instead of humour McSweeneys did something different. And it is spectacular
May 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Instead of humour McSweeneys did something different. And it is spectacular
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Once, one of my professors said that if, in place of a murdered journalist, dozens of others appear and turn everything upside down to finish their colleague’s work – those responsible for the killing should start to worry. Well, I became part of such a project. Retweet
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April 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Once, one of my professors said that if, in place of a murdered journalist, dozens of others appear and turn everything upside down to finish their colleague’s work – those responsible for the killing should start to worry. Well, I became part of such a project. Retweet
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April 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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March 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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My new, long reflection about 1989-1991, which we all know as “the collapse”. I argue that if we saw it as liberation, we would have better recognized the dangers of reversal and Russian revanche. We need the liberation lens even more today. www.eurozine.com/liberation-n...
Liberation, not collapse
The fall of the Berlin Wall, and not the human chain across the Baltics, is emblematic of 1989. But what if this show of unity had become iconic of communism’s disintegration? Could acknowledging East...
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March 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
My new, long reflection about 1989-1991, which we all know as “the collapse”. I argue that if we saw it as liberation, we would have better recognized the dangers of reversal and Russian revanche. We need the liberation lens even more today. www.eurozine.com/liberation-n...
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Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
February 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
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The Oval Office ambush is wake up call #742 to Europe: America doesn’t have your back & you are out of time. Seize Russian assets in the EU, embargo Russian energy, allow Ukraine to hit targets on Russian territory with our missiles, & prepare new air defense & troop commitments.
February 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The Oval Office ambush is wake up call #742 to Europe: America doesn’t have your back & you are out of time. Seize Russian assets in the EU, embargo Russian energy, allow Ukraine to hit targets on Russian territory with our missiles, & prepare new air defense & troop commitments.
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Every single philanthropic institution needs to do this rather than retracting right now.
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MacArthur Foundation to increase giving for two years in response to 'crisis'
The John D
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February 27, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Every single philanthropic institution needs to do this rather than retracting right now.
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Putin planned to take Kyiv in three days, but he couldn't take Kyiv in three years.
The only way Putin wins now—the only way he finally succeeds in destroying Ukraine’s sovereignty—is by persuading Ukraine’s allies to abandon Ukraine.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The only way Putin wins now—the only way he finally succeeds in destroying Ukraine’s sovereignty—is by persuading Ukraine’s allies to abandon Ukraine.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Putin’s Three Years of Humiliation
The Russian president can’t win his war against Ukraine unless he persuades its allies to betray it.
www.theatlantic.com
February 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Putin planned to take Kyiv in three days, but he couldn't take Kyiv in three years.
The only way Putin wins now—the only way he finally succeeds in destroying Ukraine’s sovereignty—is by persuading Ukraine’s allies to abandon Ukraine.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The only way Putin wins now—the only way he finally succeeds in destroying Ukraine’s sovereignty—is by persuading Ukraine’s allies to abandon Ukraine.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Three years. Slava Ukraini.
February 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Three years. Slava Ukraini.
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If your instinct tends a bit towards catastrophising - not unreasonable right now - and asserting confidently an opinion along the lines of: "all is lost, US is done, nobody can do a thing, may as well calm down, go home, and wait for the end," stop and ask who benefits from people pushed to apathy.
February 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
If your instinct tends a bit towards catastrophising - not unreasonable right now - and asserting confidently an opinion along the lines of: "all is lost, US is done, nobody can do a thing, may as well calm down, go home, and wait for the end," stop and ask who benefits from people pushed to apathy.
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We need facts as never before.
3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline.
Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding.
Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline.
Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding.
Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
‘We have a rule when we hear the sirens: if you’ve started operating, you don’t stop’: 24 hours with doctors on the Ukrainian frontline
Like the soldiers they battle to save, combat medics in Ukraine are under constant attack. Three years after the invasion, one NHS doctor bears witness
www.theguardian.com
February 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
We need facts as never before.
3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline.
Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding.
Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline.
Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding.
Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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And so say all of us.
February 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
And so say all of us.
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Latest edition of my email newsletter 'Do Something.Anything' is hitting spam folders and inboxes as I type.
Some good news.
A pep talk.
Some cringe.
Take a look 👀👇🏼
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Some good news.
A pep talk.
Some cringe.
Take a look 👀👇🏼
preview.mailerlite.io/preview/7210...
February 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Latest edition of my email newsletter 'Do Something.Anything' is hitting spam folders and inboxes as I type.
Some good news.
A pep talk.
Some cringe.
Take a look 👀👇🏼
preview.mailerlite.io/preview/7210...
Some good news.
A pep talk.
Some cringe.
Take a look 👀👇🏼
preview.mailerlite.io/preview/7210...
1990.
When you just had to be home on a Monday night to watch Twin Peaks because if you missed it you missed it and god help you trying to figure out what was going on next week.
I hope there’s damn fine coffee there Mr Lynch.
When you just had to be home on a Monday night to watch Twin Peaks because if you missed it you missed it and god help you trying to figure out what was going on next week.
I hope there’s damn fine coffee there Mr Lynch.
January 17, 2025 at 9:20 AM
1990.
When you just had to be home on a Monday night to watch Twin Peaks because if you missed it you missed it and god help you trying to figure out what was going on next week.
I hope there’s damn fine coffee there Mr Lynch.
When you just had to be home on a Monday night to watch Twin Peaks because if you missed it you missed it and god help you trying to figure out what was going on next week.
I hope there’s damn fine coffee there Mr Lynch.
Let’s hear your recommendations
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Eight years ago now, struggling to find new music I liked, I started asking people on social media for recommendations and I stuck them all in a playlist and shared it with everyone.
It was such a great way to find new music that I kept doing it.
So. The 2024 edition...
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It was such a great way to find new music that I kept doing it.
So. The 2024 edition...
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December 19, 2024 at 9:07 AM
Let’s hear your recommendations
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Eight years ago now, struggling to find new music I liked, I started asking people on social media for recommendations and I stuck them all in a playlist and shared it with everyone.
It was such a great way to find new music that I kept doing it.
So. The 2024 edition...
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It was such a great way to find new music that I kept doing it.
So. The 2024 edition...
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December 18, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Eight years ago now, struggling to find new music I liked, I started asking people on social media for recommendations and I stuck them all in a playlist and shared it with everyone.
It was such a great way to find new music that I kept doing it.
So. The 2024 edition...
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It was such a great way to find new music that I kept doing it.
So. The 2024 edition...
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I adored Karla’s Choice and heartily second @columnist.bsky.social recommendation. A brilliant achievement by @harkaway.bsky.social
December 15, 2024 at 10:24 AM
I adored Karla’s Choice and heartily second @columnist.bsky.social recommendation. A brilliant achievement by @harkaway.bsky.social
Some awesome music is this thread
slightly random but who wants to share a song cover they really enjoyed - here’s my choice
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Happiness Is A Warm Gun
The Breeders · Pod · Song · 1990
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December 14, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Some awesome music is this thread
Someone loves her cushions
#schnauzergang
#schnauzergang
December 14, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Someone loves her cushions
#schnauzergang
#schnauzergang
Tree is up.
Christmas in Hollis has been played.
Officially Christmas now 🎄
Christmas in Hollis has been played.
Officially Christmas now 🎄
December 12, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Tree is up.
Christmas in Hollis has been played.
Officially Christmas now 🎄
Christmas in Hollis has been played.
Officially Christmas now 🎄
Couldn’t agree more
“Oh no you fucking don’t. Seriously, you tosspot, you’re not one of us and we wouldn’t want you even if you were. Step one foot on our lovely spectrum and we’ll yeet you directly into the sun.”
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Autistics to Boris Johnson: don’t even fucking think about it
Autistic people have issued a statement explaining to Boris Johnson that autism does not cause you to become a compulsively lying, law-breaking, nation-wrecking cunt. The statement encourages Johnson ...
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December 9, 2024 at 11:22 AM
Couldn’t agree more
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I made an autism starter pack. 🦋☁️
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December 6, 2024 at 5:54 PM
I made an autism starter pack. 🦋☁️
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We’re at a rare moment in time where the Irish centre left actually has the opportunity to build a strong, coherent, progressive alternative.
I really hope people see the opportunity and seize the chance rather than fighting over who can gain marginal advantage by becoming the biggest small party.
I really hope people see the opportunity and seize the chance rather than fighting over who can gain marginal advantage by becoming the biggest small party.
December 6, 2024 at 6:17 PM
We’re at a rare moment in time where the Irish centre left actually has the opportunity to build a strong, coherent, progressive alternative.
I really hope people see the opportunity and seize the chance rather than fighting over who can gain marginal advantage by becoming the biggest small party.
I really hope people see the opportunity and seize the chance rather than fighting over who can gain marginal advantage by becoming the biggest small party.
I didn’t think Taylor would keep the top spot, but there she is.
Fontaines creep in as the token boys at the bottom.
Fontaines creep in as the token boys at the bottom.
December 4, 2024 at 2:44 PM
I didn’t think Taylor would keep the top spot, but there she is.
Fontaines creep in as the token boys at the bottom.
Fontaines creep in as the token boys at the bottom.