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Kupala Brighton @kupalabrighton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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Wonderful evening up on Whitehawk Hill in Brighton yesterday with @mattpope.bsky.social, Ukrainians and friends learning how to see 5000+ years into the past below our feet. Another brilliant gig from Matt on archaeology and Vio on translation 🤩

Dr Matt Pope and Vio Korbina on Whitehawk Hill, Brighton, as the sun sets, 26.8.26. A Kupala Brighton event in which Matt talked about the prehistoric Whitehawk Camp site and how to see its traces on the surface today.

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Up and down the coast they raise alarms about 'small boats', but in Brighton ...

Lead headline from Argus (Brighton) news website: 'Fears that human poo and public sex could spike due to 100 day beach event' https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I am the author and endorse this post, on a train leaving Salzburg Hbf on the way to Munich.

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Back a bit further to WW1 Artillery NCO, British forces Artillery NCO, German forces

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Over the past week I’ve gone by train from Brussels to Budapest via Berlin, without having my ticket checked once. DB also maintained 100% record of all trains delayed / cancelled

Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 10/07/2026

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Do you have a small child to entertain this summer? Bring them to Vilnius, where they're fixing the castle with a massive crane and a digger

Image of works including crane and digger at medieval castle on a hill

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

they will not have time to adjust to weightlessness before kickoff this is why it's called sky news, right

Sky News report on England football team preparations says that Mexico City is more than 2200 *miles* above sea level

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Kupala Brighton @kupalabrighton.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Happy Solstice from Preston Park in Brighton, and from the boloto in Trubaitsi, Ukraine ☀️

Preston Park, Brighton, 21.6.26, at the location where Ukrainian Kupala midsummer festivals were held in 2022 and 2023.

screenshot of Instagram story showing the boloto (wetland) at the edge of the village of Trubaitsi, Poltava oblast, Ukraine, 21.6.26

Kupala Brighton @kupalabrighton.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

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Summer is a-coming in, and we saw the fash off! Loved seeing Brighton Folk Against Fascism at the Carnival yesterday ☀️🌿

Banner reading 'Folk Against Fascism', Queens Road, Brighton, protest against far-right, 13.6.26

Anti-fascist demonstrator with placard reading 'fascists can folk right off!' Queens Road, Brighton, protest against far-right, 13.6.26

Accordion player and singer from Brighton Folk Against Fascism, Brighton, protest against far-right, 13.6.26

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Top Seven Nation Army chant, at a small number of 'patriots' kettled under Brighton Station in the middle of the Carnival Against Fascism yesterday: 'You're stuck in a tunnel'

Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

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Brighton friends, on June 18th this brilliant event is taking place at the Rose Hill Tavern. Help support our Ukrainian community through an evening connecting landscape, folklore, loss, memory & midsummer through Vladyslava and @marekkohn.bsky.social 's collaboration. kupalabrighton.org/sands.html

Silence and Sirens June 18: videos and conversation about land, people, nature and belonging.

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Kupala Brighton @kupalabrighton.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Spring is turning to summer, the boundary between the visible and invisible worlds is softening, so here's a handy tip for keeping dangerous spirits out of your home. Happy Green Holidays everybody! 🌿🌿🌿 kupalabrighton.org/blog.html

Spring into Summer: a post from the Kupala Brighton project

Blog | Kupala

Sussex Bylines @sussexbylines.co.uk · 12/05/2026

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Silence, sirens and the Kupala Brighton project The project aims to bring Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians together in a community around themes of nature, land, place and belonging | Marek Kohn @kupalabrighton.bsky.social @marekkohn.bsky.social

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Silence, sirens and the Kupala Brighton project

The project aims to bring Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians together in a community around themes of nature, land, place and belonging

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Including my Stories Old Towns Tell, 352 pages for just six quid!

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Please share. This is an inspiring and urgent project that listens, relocates and unleashes connection between people, culture and place. Grounded in community, during a time of war and displacement. Do follow and look for the Brighton event on the 18th June.

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Sussex Bylines @sussexbylines.co.uk · 12/05/2026

The project aims to bring Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians together in a community around themes of nature, land, place and belonging | Marek Kohn

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Silence, sirens and the Kupala Brighton project

The project aims to bring Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians together in a community around themes of nature, land, place and belonging

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Including my Stories Old Towns Tell, 352 pages for just six quid!

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Think David Bowie might have seen this photo at an impressionable age

Kupala Brighton @kupalabrighton.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

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Happy May Day / Beltane to all who celebrate, and all who don't! Today we're launching our June 18 event page: tickets are now available ☀️ kupalabrighton.org/sands.html

Silence and Sirens June 18: videos and conversation about land, people, nature and belonging.

Silence and Sirens

Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Update from the Eurostar terminal, train delayed 45 minutes ‘because of new border security arrangements’

Poster holding up cover of 12F magazine, headlined ‘F*ck it, I’m European’

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Kupala Brighton @kupalabrighton.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Silence and Sirens. Save the date – June 18, just ahead of midsummer!

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Silence and Sirens
A journey to a village in Ukraine from a park in Brighton

Videos and conversation about land, people, nature and belonging

Thursday 18 June, 7pm–11pm, £10/£7/PWYC

The Rose Hill, Rose Hill Terrace, Brighton BN1 4JL

Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

yeah good choice but you can see why the Pope sampled Masters of War instead

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or one; that whilst the planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful & most wonderful have been, & are being, evolved

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Kupala Brighton @kupalabrighton.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

People rally round when something terrible happens: an accident, an illness, an invasion. But what do we do now that the invasion of Ukraine has changed from a sudden drama to a chronic condition? Our first blog post kupalabrighton.org/blog.html

Posts from the Kupala Brighton project

Blog | Kupala Brighton

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Kupala Brighton @kupalabrighton.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

We now have a newsletter and you can sign up for it here eepurl.com/jCIgys !

The EBRD @ebrd.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

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Spring is here and so is the #EBRDLiteraturePrize2026 shortlist! Thank you independent judges: chair Maya Jaggi, @marekkohn.bsky.social, Chigozie Obioma, @leaypi.bsky.social! And congratulations to the authors, translators and publishers on this inspiring list from across our countries of operation.

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Like the druids, no one knows who they were, or what they were doing, but their legacy remains ...

Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Can't overstate the importance of recognising the drone strike as an attack on shared history and universal heritage. As well as damaging the monastery, it nearly struck the archive that documents 900 years' worth of Lviv's widely shared history.

Kupala Brighton @kupalabrighton.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

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Congratulations to the Laukiai Oak, Eurovision Tree Contest winner!! 🌳👑🥬

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 24/03/2026

A Russian strike hit the historic center of Lviv on March 24, causing damage to a UNESCO World Heritage site and residential infrastructure. Video: Kozytskyy Maksym; Lachen / Telegram.

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Insincere thanks to Virgin Media for finally pushing me to get an icloud email address by randomly denying access to my virginmedia email once again. Hint taken.

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Sincere thanks to the Southern train driver who just offered us passengers ‘sincere apologies for the complete cock-up of your journey today’

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

The $200bn bill the Pentagon is presenting for the four-week-old war against Iran is larger than the amount America has spent on the defence of Ukraine in four years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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White House seeks $200bn in military funding in wake of Iran war

President Donald Trump says the US needs

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Kupala Brighton @kupalabrighton.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Standing for Ukraine in Brighton

Vladyslava Bondar, co-founder of Kupala Brighton, standing in front of I Want To Live, a touring sculpture created by the remembrance art charity Standing With Giants, at the ceremony held by local Ukrainian support group Stand for U to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The sculpture depicts a Ukrainian soldier leading his partner and child to safety, while he goes to defend their country.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 12/02/2026

Bonus #DarwinDay content: Six of the best grumpy Darwin quotes.

I hate every wave of the ocean.
—Charles Darwin to W. D. Fox 15 Feb 1836

Oh my God how I do hate species & varieties.
—Charles Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 11 Mar 1858

I am very tired, very stomachy & hate nearly the whole world.
—Charles Darwin to Thomas Huxley, 10 Sep 1860

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything.
—Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell, 1 Oct 1861

I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees.
—Charles Darwin to John Lubbock, 3 Sep 1862

I am languid & bedeviled & hate writing & hate everybody.
—Charles Darwin to J. D. Hooker 23 Jun 1863

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Take the time to do this folks. The proposed changes to ILR are shocking and cruel, which is made abundantly clear in the text of the public consultation linked below. Please lend your voice to try to mitigate the cruelty.

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

We're just coming up to the 6th anniversary of Brexit, and to the time I imagined, nearly 20 years ago, that it would happen. For my 2010 book Turned Out Nice, about how climate change would shape the British Isles, Brexit was in 2026/7. The future arrived faster than I expected. (See Alt text)

A photo taken in an Amsterdam bar at 23.07 on 31.1.2020, 7 minutes after the UK left the EU. It shows a scarf with the EU stars arranged on a candle-lit table, with a poster from Brighton's (and my) Club Europ Express pro-European project, showing the slogan 'Because we're still European and always will be'.

Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

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Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot

It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

A family's night-time routine in Kyiv; shelter at night, kindergarten in the morning. This ‪@kyivindependent.com‬ video is thoughtful, respectful and eloquent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGEI...

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What Russian mass attack feels like in Ukraine

YouTube video by Kyiv Independent

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

don't suppose the menu at the Grenadier is as traditional as Google makes it look

screenshot of Google map showing location of fossil mammoth find overlapping symbol for 'restaurant', the Grenadier pub

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Yes, the answer to 'do you trust me?' has to be 'to do what?', as Russell Hardin pointed out long ago.

Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

'130,161 people in Scotland had some Gaelic skills in 2022, an increase of 43,105 from 2011 ... 2,444,659 people in Scotland had some Scots skills in 2022, an increase of 515,215 from 2011'. What's driving this impressive stat surge?