Olavainen @olavainen

Aimlessly alive & occasionally enthusiastic 🇫🇮 Suomi Joined December 2011

Tweets

703
Followers

307
Following

4K
Likes

35K

Brit Hume @brithume

2 months ago

The best explanation I've seen of why the last thing Putin wants in Ukraine is peace. Very cogent piece. atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainea…

68 160 613 83K 173

ian bremmer @ianbremmer

a year ago

best geopolitical hack i’ve seen of this meme.

92 2K 9K 769K 509

Download Image

RUSSIAN-OWNED CABINS IN 🇳🇴 MILITARY HEARTLAND In the northern Norwegian mountain idyll of Målselv Fjellandsby, there are a number of large luxury cottages owned by people in the 🇷🇺 power elite close to Putin. Here follows a LONG 🧵 on an excellent dig done by Norwegian TV 2.

57 1K 5K 954K 760

Olavainen @olavainen

2 years ago

Russia’s Slaughter of Indigenous People in Alaska Tells Us Something Important About Ukraine - POLITICO politico.com/news/magazine/…

0 0 1 229 0

The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor

2 years ago

Why we should give the world's most-hated architectural style a second chance...

569 2K 25K 3.6M 4K

Download Image

Olavainen @olavainen

2 years ago

Aikoinaan Vanhalla hikiruuhkassa mies selkääni nojautuen kaatui. Takaraivonsa lepäytyi vaistomaisesti sisäänpäinkääntynyttä kantapäätäni vasten ennen marmorilattiaan iskeytymistä. #kantapäänkautta

0 0 0 107 0

Olavainen @olavainen

2 years ago

Panodraama yle.fi/a/74-20042084

0 1 0 83 0

The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor

2 years ago

This is Barcelona at night, one of the world's most unique cities. But why does it look like that? Well, until 1855 it was overcrowded, dirty, and diseased — then something special happened. Here is how you build a beautiful city...

548 10K 79K 11.4M 16K

Download Image

Johanna K @HauntingLetters

2 years ago

Amiksen yhteisten (elikäs tuttavallisemmin yleissivistävien aineiden) ope tässä, hei! 🧵 Ei ole muuten ensimmäinen kerta, kun olen itseni tällä avauksella esittäytynyt, eikä varmasti ole viimeinenkään. Sen verran on tässä työvuosia vielä edessä. 1/20

54 228 1K 238K 40

Oliver Darkshire 🌈 @deathbybadger

2 years ago

it's a tough decision, but this won out because star wars bros are still messaging me in a rage about it over a year later

377 5K 70K 4.1M 1K

Download Image

Oliver Eagleton @Oliver_Eagleton

2 years ago

A stunning overview of recent Sudanese history by @joshua_craze: 'To listen to the diplomats and World Bank officials that invaded Khartoum’s air-conditioned cafes after the revolution was to regress to the End of History.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

2 52 106 22K 37

Omni @omni_red

2 years ago

Regionmuseet i Kristianstad ställer in sommarens utställning ”Fashion Cocktail” efter Absolut Vodkas exportbeslut om Ryssland. omni.se/absolut-fashio…

5 32 304 54K 1

Olavainen @olavainen

3 years ago

academic.oup.com/past/article/2…

0 0 0 61 0

Olavainen @olavainen

3 years ago

Vinyylin viemää theverge.com/2023/3/10/2363…

0 0 1 91 0

Olavainen @olavainen

3 years ago

Nyt vielä, jos olisinkin viisillä kulmilla. Digeliuksen levykauppa lopettaa - Helsinki | HS.fi hs.fi/kaupunki/helsi…

0 0 4 96 0

MOFBA • Advertising History in China @MOFBACN

3 years ago

This beautiful mid-1920s Art Deco style ad sign for Allenburys tells the astonishing story of the wealthiest foreign family of Old Shanghai. They had several schools, 2 streets, 1 building & 1 coffee house named after them, yet you have never heard of them … until now: 🧵⬇ 1/n

3 17 96 23K 23

Download Image

The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor

3 years ago

Victor Hugo is most famous for writing beloved novels like Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. But he was also one of the greatest painters of the 19th century. And Hugo's art, kept secret until after his death, is unlike anything you've seen before...

258 6K 44K 7.1M 6K

Download Image

The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor

3 years ago

This two thousand year old statue is called Laocoön and His Sons. And it's one of the most divisive works of art in history...

396 5K 50K 8.9M 6K

Download Image

Denes Torteli 🇪🇺🇭🇺🇺🇦 @DenesTorteli

3 years ago

Russia spent almost 50 years building its energy market in Europe and Putin destroyed it in less than 50 weeks. A network of gas fields and pipelines developed at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars has been effectively thrown away. - Bloomberg bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…