Matthew Cøman

that hound will not hunt mon frere!

He/Him

Gooner #COYG

[Matthew Cøman @Matthew_Coman]

@HighwaysSWEST what about what's going on around j25?

[Matthew Cøman @Matthew_Coman]

@clement_molin Q

[Christopher Tester @CGTester]

One for @AlisonKrauss - it was an honour to be entrusted with this poem, but if you could tag her in a RT of this post, it would be much appreciated!

[Radu Hossu 🇹🇩🇺🇦 @RaduHossu]

I want to mark this moment. Three years ago, I was in the middle of the most dangerous place in the world: Bakhmut.

After 15 hours of driving, I arrived to personally deliver a fire truck to a city where the only fire truck was unusable.

On January 20, 2023, Bakhmut was in a tactical encirclement. The only usable route was between Bakhmut and Chasiv Yar, known as the "road of death." Wagner's troops were already in the city, but they were stopped east of the Bakhmovka River. Evgeny Prigozhin was in the city that day, according to what the firefighters told me, somewhere 1-2 km away from where we were. That's how I came to say that I was a "neighbor" with the criminal Prigozhin.

The firefighters there were the ones who extricated people from wreckage, put out fires, pulled people from under rubble, provided first aid, and helped evacuate the elderly and those with mobility issues from the city. They were firefighters, paramedics, and doctors. And they did their job with an old fire truck, full of shrapnel holes and broken windows.

The fire truck was purchased from Romania with money donated by Romanians and helped save many lives in Bakhmut, later in Chasiv Yar, and now in Kostyantinivka.

I remember that there was about one shell explosion per second somewhere around us (more precisely, the average number of explosions recorded by GoPro and my phone was 40 per minute). At any moment, such a shell could hit us and that would be the end of us. We were lucky, and it didn't happen. Many tens of thousands of people were not so lucky in Bakhmut. For tens, hundreds or even thousands more, our actions (mine and yours who donated) were the luck they needed to continue their lives.

I remember that when I left Kostyiantinivka for Chasiv Yar and then for Bakhmut, I said goodbye to Flavia, but with the hope that we would hear from each other in a few hours. This was by no means certain. Bakhmut was like a black hole; once you entered it, you were more likely to never come out than to come out. The Wagner mercenaries had their positions closest to us, only 700 meters away.

Three years have passed since then. Bakhmut finally fell, as did Chasiv Yar, and now the fighting is going on in Kostyantinivka. A journey that took me 30 minutes in a vehicle carrying many tons on roads pockmarked by bombs took the Russians three years, with enormous human and material costs.

On January 19 and 20, 2023, I drove for 23 hours and 35 minutes, according to Google Maps, in the middle of a war to deliver aid offered by ordinary Romanians to people who used it for the ultimate success: saving lives.

This is, in a nutshell and as emotionless as possible, the story of that day three years ago. Thank you for your support then and now. Stay with Ukraine. Because it is right. Because it is moral. Because it is human. And only then because it also serves our interests.

Slava Ukraini!

[Idiotic Syn Syn @idioticsynergy]

I'm going to be honest, I managed to ruin Fulgrim for myself as every time I read a story with Fulgrim in it. I can't help but read it as Snake Fulgrim. NOT HEHE!

[Christopher Tester @CGTester]

‘GET UP’ - EREBUS & KHARN. From BETRAYER by Aaron Dembski-Bowden

[Christopher Tester @CGTester]

‘F**K HEROES’ - EPHRAIM. From Dark Age by Pierce Brown. Part 2 of Graphic Audio’s adaptation now out!

[Nostalgia @nostalgiaa]

Blue Gender (1999)

[Matthew Cøman @Matthew_Coman]

@idioticsynergy @NornQueenKya

[Adam Dance MP @Adamjamesdance]

My Neurodivergence (Screening and Teacher Training) Bill is published.
It's scheduled for 2nd Reading on 16 Jan, subject to sitting Fris being confirmed. It has not passed yet.
The Bill is about giving teachers better tools & training to spot needs early, not diagnosis or labels.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

Venezuelan man going viral…

"To those who say that the United States is only interested in our oil, I ask those people: What do you think the Russians and the Chinese wanted…

The recipe for Arepas?"

[Таня Woz 🌻 4.0 @tanyawoz4]

Hi! I wanted to share this great video from Perun. It really is an honour for me to be one of their volunteers. This is a bit of show and tell. 🤸‍♀️

The next occupiers ended up lying in the Ukrainian position forever. “Perun" is still operational. 🥰🔥

The "Perun" Unmanned Systems Battalion is part of the 42nd Separate Mechanized Brigade. The battalion's fighters have been carrying out combat missions since June 2023 in the hottest sectors of the Donetsk and Luhansk directions. Serebriansky Forest, Bakhmut, Chasiv Yar, and Kharkiv region since May 2024. Since fall of 2025 they have been working in Pokrovsk direction.

Today, this battalion is one of the most effective drone units of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.

If you aren’t following @shevchenkoja (my boss) yet, today is a great day to show him support and lift his spirits!! Let’s show him some moral support, Fellas. And I should get him a fella forged, no? Thoughts?

If you aren’t following and supporting the (real, not scamming Nigerian) soldiers and commanders who have profiles here, please consider starting. They are the real influencers in this war if you ask me. 😘

#NAFOExpansionIsNonNegotiable

[Matthew Cøman @Matthew_Coman]

@SpaghettiKozak @chukurchuk According to trump, him. Presumably the VP unless there's been an internal coup as well?

[Matthew Cøman @Matthew_Coman]

@kejamieson_ Careful, he'll get ideas about what sort of house he should love in 😅

[Matthew Cøman @Matthew_Coman]

@dzygaspaw That's a classy looking tea & coffee set up they've got there

[Matthew Cøman @Matthew_Coman]

@polphys @fleshsimulator Cluster of military bases and ports

[sanatorium @WennyZZL]

#artvsartist2025
I've drawn so many portraits this year🫨🫨!!!

[Matthew Cøman @Matthew_Coman]

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[Matthew Cøman @Matthew_Coman]

@sjgrimsley @NewsRusRugby @T2Rugby I can think of a few countries that would like to slap the dog piss out of a bunch of ruzzian cry babies ( their sports people are usually pretty whiny when things don't go entirely their way)

[Los Iankovers @losiankovers]

Do you wanna know what are Ukrainian Christmas Carols about? We translated the lines of the Carol to English - and sing them along with the Ukrainian version! This Carol is particularly famous in Carpathian Mountains in the West of Ukraine!