Silke Brandt
@silkebrandt.bsky.social
Writer, editor and translator of speculative fiction and essays. Fellarina.
I love Brutalism, tall ships, race sailing and truly weird fiction.
Details: https://silkebrandt.weebly.com/biobibliografie.html
I love Brutalism, tall ships, race sailing and truly weird fiction.
Details: https://silkebrandt.weebly.com/biobibliografie.html
Greetings from Finland.
Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
November 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Greetings from Finland.
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A heavy music festival in Blackfeet Nation this summer was abut more than just music – it was a protective ceremony to shelter Indigenous youth from suicidal distress.
buff.ly/aQQC7EX
buff.ly/aQQC7EX
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
www.hcn.org
November 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
In the last throes of writing the follow-up to this (Architecture & Dystopia for !Time Machine), but already chuffed that I'm included in the prestigious SF yearbook again! Thanks to Espoo City Museum's kind permission I could use my own photo of their Futuro house.
Ab sofort erhältlich, € 32,-.
Ab sofort erhältlich, € 32,-.
November 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
In the last throes of writing the follow-up to this (Architecture & Dystopia for !Time Machine), but already chuffed that I'm included in the prestigious SF yearbook again! Thanks to Espoo City Museum's kind permission I could use my own photo of their Futuro house.
Ab sofort erhältlich, € 32,-.
Ab sofort erhältlich, € 32,-.
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Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action
Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...
www.help99.co
October 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
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Fellas! We’re pleased to announce a new campaign in partnership with @timothysnyder.bsky.social!
Introducing Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action
Timothy Snyder has partnered with #NAFO to provide critically needed aid for 🇺🇦 defenders!
More info can be found in 🧵
🔗 www.help99.co/patches/timo...
Introducing Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action
Timothy Snyder has partnered with #NAFO to provide critically needed aid for 🇺🇦 defenders!
More info can be found in 🧵
🔗 www.help99.co/patches/timo...
October 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Fellas! We’re pleased to announce a new campaign in partnership with @timothysnyder.bsky.social!
Introducing Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action
Timothy Snyder has partnered with #NAFO to provide critically needed aid for 🇺🇦 defenders!
More info can be found in 🧵
🔗 www.help99.co/patches/timo...
Introducing Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action
Timothy Snyder has partnered with #NAFO to provide critically needed aid for 🇺🇦 defenders!
More info can be found in 🧵
🔗 www.help99.co/patches/timo...
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Our Lviv endured a horrendous terrorist attack.
NATO countries could have helped us repel it w #SkyShield. Instead, they chose to stand by, allowing the russian cancer to spread — until the day when civilian aviation in Europe is gone thanks to russian drones non-stop over airports.
📸 A Sadovyi.
NATO countries could have helped us repel it w #SkyShield. Instead, they chose to stand by, allowing the russian cancer to spread — until the day when civilian aviation in Europe is gone thanks to russian drones non-stop over airports.
📸 A Sadovyi.
October 5, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Our Lviv endured a horrendous terrorist attack.
NATO countries could have helped us repel it w #SkyShield. Instead, they chose to stand by, allowing the russian cancer to spread — until the day when civilian aviation in Europe is gone thanks to russian drones non-stop over airports.
📸 A Sadovyi.
NATO countries could have helped us repel it w #SkyShield. Instead, they chose to stand by, allowing the russian cancer to spread — until the day when civilian aviation in Europe is gone thanks to russian drones non-stop over airports.
📸 A Sadovyi.
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Have you ever asked yourself, how to survive russian drone strikes and power shortages? Check out survival guide, based on Ukrainian experience!
youtu.be/Xe033K9yijM
youtu.be/B3n8PNj_BZ8
I really hope will be helpful - but even more than that, I hope, it will never be needed.
youtu.be/Xe033K9yijM
youtu.be/B3n8PNj_BZ8
I really hope will be helpful - but even more than that, I hope, it will never be needed.
September 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Have you ever asked yourself, how to survive russian drone strikes and power shortages? Check out survival guide, based on Ukrainian experience!
youtu.be/Xe033K9yijM
youtu.be/B3n8PNj_BZ8
I really hope will be helpful - but even more than that, I hope, it will never be needed.
youtu.be/Xe033K9yijM
youtu.be/B3n8PNj_BZ8
I really hope will be helpful - but even more than that, I hope, it will never be needed.
🤭 As a sailor I usually don't take pleasure in a tall ship's mishap, but the American Bark Eagle losing it's GOLDEN figurehead during a training cruise is just the state of the nation in one perfect image.
Pic: US Coastguard via Żaglowce.
Pic: US Coastguard via Żaglowce.
September 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
🤭 As a sailor I usually don't take pleasure in a tall ship's mishap, but the American Bark Eagle losing it's GOLDEN figurehead during a training cruise is just the state of the nation in one perfect image.
Pic: US Coastguard via Żaglowce.
Pic: US Coastguard via Żaglowce.
For the architecturally inclined: A new and surely equally wonderful mini guide by Modernism in Metroland, also sold to EU from The Modernist shop here:
the-modernist.org/products/ern...
the-modernist.org/products/ern...
September 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
For the architecturally inclined: A new and surely equally wonderful mini guide by Modernism in Metroland, also sold to EU from The Modernist shop here:
the-modernist.org/products/ern...
the-modernist.org/products/ern...
United24 X Saint Javelin. Do join in!
u24.gov.ua/news/saint-s...
u24.gov.ua/news/saint-s...
August 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
United24 X Saint Javelin. Do join in!
u24.gov.ua/news/saint-s...
u24.gov.ua/news/saint-s...
Nothing to see here, just three fecken dickheads enjoying themselves.
August 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Nothing to see here, just three fecken dickheads enjoying themselves.
ECHO Historical Textile Kyiv shared the heartbreaking news about the death of their friend Igor Klymovych. The history enthusiast and re-enactor died on 30th July 2025 near Kharkiv, defending freedom.
Let his memory not be forgotten. 💔
Let his memory not be forgotten. 💔
August 11, 2025 at 4:51 AM
ECHO Historical Textile Kyiv shared the heartbreaking news about the death of their friend Igor Klymovych. The history enthusiast and re-enactor died on 30th July 2025 near Kharkiv, defending freedom.
Let his memory not be forgotten. 💔
Let his memory not be forgotten. 💔
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Four years ago, most of these women had never fired fired a gun. By the time they died, they were operating some of Ukraine’s most sophisticated weapons.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/08/u...
euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/08/u...
Blue hair, drones, and evac crews: Ukraine’s fallen women fighters (Part 1)
Nobody drafted them; nobody forced them. These women fighters chose to go to war and face death.
euromaidanpress.com
August 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Four years ago, most of these women had never fired fired a gun. By the time they died, they were operating some of Ukraine’s most sophisticated weapons.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/08/u...
euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/08/u...
1/2 - Humans hunting humans in history and today - how is it perceived?
July 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
1/2 - Humans hunting humans in history and today - how is it perceived?
2/2 - Humans hunting humans in history and today - how is it perceived?
July 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
2/2 - Humans hunting humans in history and today - how is it perceived?
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"The whole city is a big shooting range,you're the target,"the residents of Kherson say about life in their city,where Russians have organized a literal human safari
I won't write about how other cities,not only in Ukraine,might face the same thing,because I still believe that we will stop this
I won't write about how other cities,not only in Ukraine,might face the same thing,because I still believe that we will stop this
July 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
"The whole city is a big shooting range,you're the target,"the residents of Kherson say about life in their city,where Russians have organized a literal human safari
I won't write about how other cities,not only in Ukraine,might face the same thing,because I still believe that we will stop this
I won't write about how other cities,not only in Ukraine,might face the same thing,because I still believe that we will stop this
Exhibition in Tallinn!
"The Face of Bravery. The Undefeated Defenders of Azovstal". 16.5. - 5.10.2025 at Krulli kvartali sepikoda.
Info: visitestonia.com/en/exhibitio...
All proceeds will be donated to the State Historical Museum of Ukraine.
"The Face of Bravery. The Undefeated Defenders of Azovstal". 16.5. - 5.10.2025 at Krulli kvartali sepikoda.
Info: visitestonia.com/en/exhibitio...
All proceeds will be donated to the State Historical Museum of Ukraine.
Exhibition "The Face of Bravery. The Undefeated Defenders of Azovstal"
Azovstal, one of the largest factories in Europe, became a symbol of Ukrainian resistance in the spring of 2022. Under the merciless siege of Russian troops, the last defenders of Mariupol fought not ...
visitestonia.com
July 5, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Exhibition in Tallinn!
"The Face of Bravery. The Undefeated Defenders of Azovstal". 16.5. - 5.10.2025 at Krulli kvartali sepikoda.
Info: visitestonia.com/en/exhibitio...
All proceeds will be donated to the State Historical Museum of Ukraine.
"The Face of Bravery. The Undefeated Defenders of Azovstal". 16.5. - 5.10.2025 at Krulli kvartali sepikoda.
Info: visitestonia.com/en/exhibitio...
All proceeds will be donated to the State Historical Museum of Ukraine.
In case you missed it:
🚨 BREAKING: Russia damaged the last power line connecting the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant to Ukraine’s grid, causing a full blackout.
The plant is now running on emergency diesel generators, Energoatom reports.
The plant is now running on emergency diesel generators, Energoatom reports.
July 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
In case you missed it:
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"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time
snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...
snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...
On Tyranny free resources
To use and to share, now or any time
snyder.substack.com
July 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time
snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...
snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...
😅 In a (slightly) better world ... 😂
June 25, 2025 at 6:48 AM
😅 In a (slightly) better world ... 😂
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🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Today, Ukrainians are fighting against Ruscism with the same courage our ancestors showed in defeating Nazism. Because this is a battle for the very essence of humanity – for freedom, dignity, and justice.
June 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Today, Ukrainians are fighting against Ruscism with the same courage our ancestors showed in defeating Nazism. Because this is a battle for the very essence of humanity – for freedom, dignity, and justice.
😂 Love this! It'll definitely work.
Give the Americans this map. Who knows, it's 50/50 at this point if it works.
June 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
😂 Love this! It'll definitely work.
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Reposted by Silke Brandt
Requesting NAFO Article5, Paragraph 24:
#DarkNight🫡
Together with Fellas, we've successfully closed 4 drone fundraisers to fight off russian invaders.
This time, let's fundraise an air defense turret to protect Ukrainians from terrorist UAVs and name it, too:
u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
#DarkNight🫡
Together with Fellas, we've successfully closed 4 drone fundraisers to fight off russian invaders.
This time, let's fundraise an air defense turret to protect Ukrainians from terrorist UAVs and name it, too:
u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
June 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Requesting NAFO Article5, Paragraph 24:
#DarkNight🫡
Together with Fellas, we've successfully closed 4 drone fundraisers to fight off russian invaders.
This time, let's fundraise an air defense turret to protect Ukrainians from terrorist UAVs and name it, too:
u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
#DarkNight🫡
Together with Fellas, we've successfully closed 4 drone fundraisers to fight off russian invaders.
This time, let's fundraise an air defense turret to protect Ukrainians from terrorist UAVs and name it, too:
u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
History doesn't offer just warnings, but also inspiration:
livinglondonhistory.com/the-epic-bat...
Comes with a soundtrack: TMTCH "Ghosts of Cable Street". Eerie, how abstract that problem seemed when I listened to it in the 80s as a teenager! on.soundcloud.com/fJ1uR0DVXKpV...
livinglondonhistory.com/the-epic-bat...
Comes with a soundtrack: TMTCH "Ghosts of Cable Street". Eerie, how abstract that problem seemed when I listened to it in the 80s as a teenager! on.soundcloud.com/fJ1uR0DVXKpV...
June 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
History doesn't offer just warnings, but also inspiration:
livinglondonhistory.com/the-epic-bat...
Comes with a soundtrack: TMTCH "Ghosts of Cable Street". Eerie, how abstract that problem seemed when I listened to it in the 80s as a teenager! on.soundcloud.com/fJ1uR0DVXKpV...
livinglondonhistory.com/the-epic-bat...
Comes with a soundtrack: TMTCH "Ghosts of Cable Street". Eerie, how abstract that problem seemed when I listened to it in the 80s as a teenager! on.soundcloud.com/fJ1uR0DVXKpV...