Damian O’Broin

Instead of humour McSweeneys did something different. And it is spectacular

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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Only two days left to apply!

Apply now: www.friendsoftheearth.ie/jobs/finance...

It’s not even Easter!

*mutters about snowflakes and woke gone mad and it wasn’t like that in our day*

Yep, pretty much

Fund Irish Football!

#ForTheLoveOfDublin

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...

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...

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

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.

MacArthur Foundation to increase giving for two years in response to 'crisis' The John D

Every single philanthropic institution needs to do this rather than retracting right now.

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Putin’s Three Years of Humiliation The Russian president can’t win his war against Ukraine unless he persuades its allies to betray it.

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...

Three years. Slava Ukraini.

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.

‘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

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...

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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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.

As Recommended By... 2024 Playlist · Damian O’Broin · 9 items · 1 saves

So here's the start of the playlist, with tracks from here and also from friends on LinkedIn:

Do please chip in with your recommendations to add.

open.spotify.com/playlist/4qO...

Let’s hear your recommendations
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Excellent!

Snap!

Oh I love that Sinead track!

And Starburster ❤️

Saw them play the other week and they were AWESOME

- Suggest up to 3 songs that you love
– At least two should be new
– One can be an old song that deserves to be heard and appreciated by more people
– I'll add everything into a Spotify playlist and share it here
– We all get to discover new music.
Easy.
Who's going to be first?

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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’s such wonderful television

We didn’t even have the fake voice over here. SF were completely banned from TV and radio until 1994.

Aw Sian, you’re making me feel very old!
I remember John Craven covering the 1976 US election on Newsround. I can remember the 1977 General Election and the Troubles were an ever present background noise.
The hunger strikes in 1981 (aged 11) were probably the first to really make an impression

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

Leia, our miniature schnauzer who used to be black but is now a kind a black / silver / grey blend, curled up in a blue sofa, resting her head on a white Christmas cushion.

Someone loves her cushions
#schnauzergang