Ana Lypen
@lypenian.bsky.social
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•Independent researcher, singer, and nomad trying to repair the world with Ukrainian vocal topology and folk wisdom 🕊️
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•Independent researcher, singer, and nomad trying to repair the world with Ukrainian vocal topology and folk wisdom 🕊️
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Ana Lypen
@lypenian.bsky.social
· Mar 1
Cynicism is as delusional as idealism.
Ignoring the positive parts of objective reality doesn't make you realistic, it makes you cynical. And deciding to act upon your values despite seeing that all odds are against you is not idealism, it's bravery.
Ignoring the positive parts of objective reality doesn't make you realistic, it makes you cynical. And deciding to act upon your values despite seeing that all odds are against you is not idealism, it's bravery.
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A scene from Satan‘s Ball
Hundreds of children & women hid in the building. They wrote “children” in huge letters outside
Russians bombed it, and when they rebuilt, they bulldozed the remains and poured cement right over the bodies
To understand this crime is to know everything about Russia.
Hundreds of children & women hid in the building. They wrote “children” in huge letters outside
Russians bombed it, and when they rebuilt, they bulldozed the remains and poured cement right over the bodies
To understand this crime is to know everything about Russia.
The unbearable callousness of #russianCulture captured in side-by-side footage of the Mariupol Drama Theater: 2022 vs. today.
Year 2022:
🔴 the kremlin repeats ad nauseam that Ukrainians are “brothers” and invades Ukraine to “liberate” it from the people living there
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Year 2022:
🔴 the kremlin repeats ad nauseam that Ukrainians are “brothers” and invades Ukraine to “liberate” it from the people living there
🧵 Thread 1/5
December 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
A scene from Satan‘s Ball
Hundreds of children & women hid in the building. They wrote “children” in huge letters outside
Russians bombed it, and when they rebuilt, they bulldozed the remains and poured cement right over the bodies
To understand this crime is to know everything about Russia.
Hundreds of children & women hid in the building. They wrote “children” in huge letters outside
Russians bombed it, and when they rebuilt, they bulldozed the remains and poured cement right over the bodies
To understand this crime is to know everything about Russia.
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If you were invited onto a ruscist Joseph Goebbels podcast, would you go?
If your answer is “hell no,” congratulations! you’re not Jeffrey Sachs.
If your answer is “hell no,” congratulations! you’re not Jeffrey Sachs.
December 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you were invited onto a ruscist Joseph Goebbels podcast, would you go?
If your answer is “hell no,” congratulations! you’re not Jeffrey Sachs.
If your answer is “hell no,” congratulations! you’re not Jeffrey Sachs.
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The Irish Navy had a ship present, but 'made the decision not to shoot down the drones', though the article also notes it the vessel did not have the capacity to disable the drones.
A huge reminder that Irish neutrality does not protect it from hybrid attacks.
A huge reminder that Irish neutrality does not protect it from hybrid attacks.
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The Irish Navy had a ship present, but 'made the decision not to shoot down the drones', though the article also notes it the vessel did not have the capacity to disable the drones.
A huge reminder that Irish neutrality does not protect it from hybrid attacks.
A huge reminder that Irish neutrality does not protect it from hybrid attacks.
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Ru has been doing this bs forever. In 1968, the USSR claimed it was defending itself in Czechoslovakia. And many in the IR field are channeling this same energy by pushing forward arguments about NATO expansion's provocation and Ru's pre-emptive war.
🤡 Putin: Our “Special Military Operation” is not the start of a war, but rather an attempt to end one that the West ignited using Ukrainian nationalists.
December 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Ru has been doing this bs forever. In 1968, the USSR claimed it was defending itself in Czechoslovakia. And many in the IR field are channeling this same energy by pushing forward arguments about NATO expansion's provocation and Ru's pre-emptive war.
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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
December 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
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All human drama is encounter, and all human communication is translation.
@sjgarnett.bsky.social
@iwm.at
@sjgarnett.bsky.social
@iwm.at
We live in a world where the borders between one language and another, between reality and non-reality, between the human and the non-human, are all being denied. Translation can be an antidote to this nihilism of borderlessness, writes @marcishore.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/encounters-i...
Encounters in the borderlands
We live in a world where the borders between one language and another, between reality and non-reality, between the human and the non-human, are all being denied. As a reminder of difference and an op...
www.eurozine.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
All human drama is encounter, and all human communication is translation.
@sjgarnett.bsky.social
@iwm.at
@sjgarnett.bsky.social
@iwm.at
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⚡ The European Union is adding Russia to its blacklist of countries at high risk of money laundering and terrorist financing.
EU Blacklists Russia for Money Laundering Risks, Triggering Tougher Banking Checks
The EU is set to include Russia in its blacklist for money laundering risks, reinforcing scrutiny for financial transactions, as reported by Politico.
united24media.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
⚡ The European Union is adding Russia to its blacklist of countries at high risk of money laundering and terrorist financing.
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Unearthed 2016 video: Pete Hegseth straight up says US troops will not follow ‘unlawful orders’ from the commander-in-chief, and there have to be consequences for ‘abject war crimes’.
Guess it suddenly gets blurry when it’s Trump issuing the unlawful orders.
Guess it suddenly gets blurry when it’s Trump issuing the unlawful orders.
December 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Unearthed 2016 video: Pete Hegseth straight up says US troops will not follow ‘unlawful orders’ from the commander-in-chief, and there have to be consequences for ‘abject war crimes’.
Guess it suddenly gets blurry when it’s Trump issuing the unlawful orders.
Guess it suddenly gets blurry when it’s Trump issuing the unlawful orders.
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Wild how people like this, just like russians, still can’t comprehend that the Revolution of Dignity wasn’t staged. It was Ukrainians choosing freedom over fear. Imperialists and small minds always assume someone else must be pulling the strings, because they’ve never seen a nation with a spine.
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Wild how people like this, just like russians, still can’t comprehend that the Revolution of Dignity wasn’t staged. It was Ukrainians choosing freedom over fear. Imperialists and small minds always assume someone else must be pulling the strings, because they’ve never seen a nation with a spine.
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⚡️An elderly couple walked 16 kilometers under Russian shelling to escape from Torske to Lyman in Donetsk region.
Their home was destroyed by a Russian strike, and after three days without food, they set out on foot until police rescued them.
Their home was destroyed by a Russian strike, and after three days without food, they set out on foot until police rescued them.
October 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
⚡️An elderly couple walked 16 kilometers under Russian shelling to escape from Torske to Lyman in Donetsk region.
Their home was destroyed by a Russian strike, and after three days without food, they set out on foot until police rescued them.
Their home was destroyed by a Russian strike, and after three days without food, they set out on foot until police rescued them.
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Permanent member of UN security council attacked UN humanitarian convoy. 🤷♂️
UN need proper reconstructure. Right now is dead.
UN need proper reconstructure. Right now is dead.
Hey look russians are parading war crimes again and posting FPV footage of their attack on humanitarian convoys
October 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Permanent member of UN security council attacked UN humanitarian convoy. 🤷♂️
UN need proper reconstructure. Right now is dead.
UN need proper reconstructure. Right now is dead.
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💬 Polish FM Sikorski: "If another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission, deliberately or by mistake, and gets shot down, and the wreckage falls on NATO territory, please don't come here to whine about it. You have been warned."
September 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
💬 Polish FM Sikorski: "If another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission, deliberately or by mistake, and gets shot down, and the wreckage falls on NATO territory, please don't come here to whine about it. You have been warned."
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A million curses on Chomsky for spawning this brain rot
June 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
A million curses on Chomsky for spawning this brain rot
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One of the worst crimes of Russia’s war is the abduction of children. This Yale lab tracked the kids. Trump and Rubio cut the funding. You can help. Urge Rubio to reinstate the funding — and donate here.
medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnoo...
medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnoo...
Help the Humanitarian Research Lab Keep Finding Ukraine’s Abducted Children
The Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at Yale helps to locate and bring back Ukraine’s children who have been abducted by Russia. But without additional funding,
medicine.yale.edu
June 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
One of the worst crimes of Russia’s war is the abduction of children. This Yale lab tracked the kids. Trump and Rubio cut the funding. You can help. Urge Rubio to reinstate the funding — and donate here.
medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnoo...
medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnoo...
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The happy occasion when you meet the students of your own students and see the love of thinking being passed on. Thank you @ymonastyrskyi.bsky.social for sending your KSE students to the Kyiv Book Arsenal.
Photo by Sofiia Yermakova.
Photo by Sofiia Yermakova.
June 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The happy occasion when you meet the students of your own students and see the love of thinking being passed on. Thank you @ymonastyrskyi.bsky.social for sending your KSE students to the Kyiv Book Arsenal.
Photo by Sofiia Yermakova.
Photo by Sofiia Yermakova.
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I disagree. Degrading Ru's capacity to wage war is the only feasible way to end the war and even if this particular attack won't end the war, a series of those could. The window for diplomacy has never been cracked even a tiny bit for it to be closing.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
Ukraine smashes Russia’s air force and a key bridge
The window for diplomacy is closing
www.economist.com
June 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I disagree. Degrading Ru's capacity to wage war is the only feasible way to end the war and even if this particular attack won't end the war, a series of those could. The window for diplomacy has never been cracked even a tiny bit for it to be closing.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
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BABE, WAKE UP! The Ukrainians hit the Kerch Bridge again
June 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
BABE, WAKE UP! The Ukrainians hit the Kerch Bridge again
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💥 russian media are reporting a renewed attack on the Crimean Bridge.
June 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
💥 russian media are reporting a renewed attack on the Crimean Bridge.
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We must give Ukraine the weapons it needs to defeat Russia.
Peace can only be achieved through strength of arms, that’s the only language Russia understands.
Peace can only be achieved through strength of arms, that’s the only language Russia understands.
May 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
We must give Ukraine the weapons it needs to defeat Russia.
Peace can only be achieved through strength of arms, that’s the only language Russia understands.
Peace can only be achieved through strength of arms, that’s the only language Russia understands.
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Do someone who knifes you and someone who blames you for being attacked have the right to go to a bar afterwards and write out your future on a napkin? No? That’s the scenario when Putin and Trump talk about a "deal" for Ukraine.
May 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Do someone who knifes you and someone who blames you for being attacked have the right to go to a bar afterwards and write out your future on a napkin? No? That’s the scenario when Putin and Trump talk about a "deal" for Ukraine.
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The @hrf.org founder Thor Halvorssen tells Ukrainian journalist Olha Rudenko not to “demonize Russians.” She cancels her speech.
We break down what happened
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We break down what happened
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May 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The @hrf.org founder Thor Halvorssen tells Ukrainian journalist Olha Rudenko not to “demonize Russians.” She cancels her speech.
We break down what happened
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We break down what happened
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Zelensky is showing exactly the right way to deal with Putin and Trump. Call their bluff, and show you won’t play their game. Hopefully this will help galvanise Europe to fully commit to the Ukrainian cause.
May 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Zelensky is showing exactly the right way to deal with Putin and Trump. Call their bluff, and show you won’t play their game. Hopefully this will help galvanise Europe to fully commit to the Ukrainian cause.
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For the millionth time!
May 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
For the millionth time!
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There is a date on which Russians can stop dying if they are willing to stop liking Ukrainians - curious how their apologists will try to explain how akshually Russia really wants peace if they reject this
Zelensky officially confirmed: from May 12, Ukraine agrees to a 30-day ceasefire as part of an international initiative worked on by the US, Europe, and Kyiv.
UK PM Keir Starmer stated that if Putin rejects the pause, the West will ramp up support alongside Donald Trump.
UK PM Keir Starmer stated that if Putin rejects the pause, the West will ramp up support alongside Donald Trump.
May 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
There is a date on which Russians can stop dying if they are willing to stop liking Ukrainians - curious how their apologists will try to explain how akshually Russia really wants peace if they reject this
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Latest of an interesting group of articles broadly about the Westsplaining of Ukraine. Unfortunately the present moment, with the Putinism on display in the White House, also calls for simpler critiques.
trafo.hypotheses.org/52545
trafo.hypotheses.org/52545
An Angry Ukrainian Syndrome: Stereotypes About War, Peace, and Injustice
By Olena Komar. In this article, the author aims to demonstrate that a set of prejudices exists in Western countries against Ukrainians, which she terms the "Angry Ukrainian Syndrome" (similar to the ...
trafo.hypotheses.org
May 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Latest of an interesting group of articles broadly about the Westsplaining of Ukraine. Unfortunately the present moment, with the Putinism on display in the White House, also calls for simpler critiques.
trafo.hypotheses.org/52545
trafo.hypotheses.org/52545