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Kupala Brighton @kupalabrighton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ukrainian trade unionist Ivanna Khrapko made it to the TUC conference in Brighton after a tense and frightening journey from Kyiv to the Polish border. Here she is, speaking at a @ukrainesol.bsky.social solidarity meeting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xduO...

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From Kyiv to Brighton, September 2026

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

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 · 07/08/2026

so I’m not white after all wow this changes everything

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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 · 03/08/2026

Speaking as someone who used to write for a magazine that had a lot of fashion in it, I quite agree! Those perspectives are transferable

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

I hope she would have been suitably amused by the NYT headline lol

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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 · 24/07/2026

Brilliant and richly deserved news, Matt, many congratulations! Professor Pope has a fine ring to it!

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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

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

Anonymity destroyed civility by removing the risk of punishment - and established the new normal in which people lost all shame about using their own names. Sounds like the process is continuing

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This sounds like a pretty small subset of the UK’s pre-WW1 building stock, quite a lot of which now turns out to have potential advantages for the new climate. That’s not fetishism, it’s physics. The past is a set of resources to draw on, but a lot of the later C20 past has little to offer.

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Going back to schools, my local primary is entirely housed in a model Prussian-style C19 building, the 6th-form college is built around a C19 school, and in between is a former C19 primary now a community hall steadily improving its energy efficiency. Conservation regs really not a problem.

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Ah I see; I assumed you were talking about school buildings. The surviving old, solid examples are on the right side of the laws of physics. The 1950s-70s ones around them, not so much.

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Dodgy Victorian brickwork? Those buildings are often better suited to heat because they have more mass and less glass than late C20 ones. D

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

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 · 09/07/2026

very fine, in the meantime eurostar is inviting me not to travel on a morning train, but says i am free to bring plenty of water if i insist

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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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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

12/15, to my considerable surprise :) Fascinating exercise, but prompted the unsettling thought that bots will increasingly train humans, as the latter scan previous reviews for phrasing to copy.

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

surely the date on that paper should be 1915, not 2015

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Their differences are at least as fascinating as their similarities.

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Yes and please let's treat non-sapiens hominins as forms with their own packages of adaptations, instead of constantly reaching for a 'look, they were like us' story.

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Do any of them still use the word 'issues' to mean what it always used to mean, before the tech world introduced it as a euphemism for 'problem'?

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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

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

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'

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

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

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Silence and Sirens

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

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

i refuse to believe they are conscious 😂

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

the delivery times are also a giveaway: why is this 'person' who writes as though they're in my time zone sending me this stuff at 4.30am?

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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

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Blog | Kupala

Spring into Summer: a post from the Kupala Brighton project

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Lidar might have come in handy for finding those paths! It seems to have found part of the Roman road magazine.goodwood.com/issues/summe...

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A healthy note of humility – from Haldane of all people – in the face of the Universe. It is lasting well, and I think it will outlast more recent claims that we've almost got cosmology wrapped up.

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Marek Kohn @marekkohn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

careful now, start down that road and it'll be i say acheulean, you say acheulian all over again

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

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 · 10/05/2026

Instead of saying if it acts like it's conscious, then it is, how about asking whether LLMs construct homunculus simulators that sit reviewing their activities – hidden behind the screen of the Turing test.

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

agreed, still reverberating with me 2 weeks later – and still posing questions!

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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

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

The Argument from Personal Credulity

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

i suppose it's nice that our data will be transferred into public ownership, though the actual trains will still belong to the leasing companies

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

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

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Silence and Sirens

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

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

I got an ‘urgent action’ Eurostar email this morning, day of travel, about API. Only solution seemed to be delete EU passport details, enter UK ones. Cheerily waved through Dutch and UK kiosks - but train delayed >30 mins, new system blamed

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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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