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Ümit Ünal
@asyadada.bsky.social
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Film Director/Writer from Istanbul living in Glasgow.
Writes in English and Turkish.

https://asyadada.wixsite.com/umitunal
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Ümit Ünal @asyadada.bsky.social · Jan 2
Bir yerde Kara Kitap ile Benim Adım Kırmızı'yı karıştırmışım. 😊Ama onun dışında çok hoş sohbet ettik.
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Pandora'nın Merakı - Ümit Ünal | 1 Ocak 2025
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asyadada.bsky.social
Pluribus E4 is pure storytelling tour de force. Wow! #pluribus #vincegilligan
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
Given the current temperature in Glasgow, I figured it's worth posting this plaque I came across on Westbank Quadrant about the origins of Lord Kelvin's ground-breaking research into absolute zero while he was at Glasgow University.

Cont./

#glasgow #glasgowtoday #keepglasgowweird #lordkelvin
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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thel1p.bsky.social
“Entering a cinema is like crossing a threshold. In the darkness, vision becomes sharper, the heart opens up, and the mind becomes receptive to things not yet imagined. Cinema is more than just a screen; it is an intersection of desires, memories, and questions.”
- Pope Leo XIV
November 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
asyadada.bsky.social
#clydetunnel
Blurred glare of the lights in Clyde Tunnel, looking like red and white brush strokes on a dark background, on a rainy day.
November 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
So if AI succeeds loads of people lose their jobs as they're replaced by AI, and if AI fails, loads of people lose their jobs as the economy crashes?
carolecadwalla.bsky.social Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3d
It’s amazing how this story has gone from 0 to 60 in UK press. There’s been no mainstream coverage to date but this morning the story is leading BBC News site & bulletins.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Google boss Sundar Pichai warns 'no company immune' if AI bubble bursts
Speaking exclusively to BBC News, CEO Sundar Pichai said the artificial intelligence boom had been an
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November 18, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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alexiconman.bsky.social
"Let's hope it's a divorce", "He's NOT a rabbit, he's a little boy! We'll call him Jeffrey, okay?"

Brilliant
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
why can they not just fix it
[Scene is MCcDONALDS PICKUP POINT but for the most part we can only see the close up faces of tha CUSTOMER and the McDONALDS EMPLOYEE at the serving point]. 1 CUSTOMER: Hi - I’m afraid this isn’t what I ordered 2 McDONALDS EMPLOYEE: Number 187? CUSTOMER: Yes 3 CUSTOMER: Maybe I pressed the wrong thing? I just ordered one strawberry milkshake. 4 EMPLOYEE: Oh - yeah sorry 5 EMPLOYEE: The milkshake machine’s not working. 6 EMPLOYEE: The only flavours we can do are vanilla, banana, and Labour Leader Pretending to be Nigel Farage. 7 CUSTOMER: Is that a new flavour? EMPLOYEE: Yeah 8 [We now see that the employee has placed a gigantic milkshake cup on the counter] EMPLOYEE: If you look inside, there’s a Labour leader pretending to be Nigel Farage. 9 [Customer looks inside the cup] 10 [Show Keir Starmer dressed as Nigel Farage inside the cup] CUSTOMER: So there is 11 CUSTOMER: Is that something people want, then? EMPLOYEE: No! No, not at all. 12 EMPLOYEE: It just keeps happening when we press banana. [ends]
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️

Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo collage shows four pottery vessels, all a creamy yellow in colour, with black painted decoration depicting underwater sea-life featuring lively stylised octopuses with writhing tentacles (arms), All on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. Top L - Minoan pithoid storage jar decorated in the “Marine Style” with wide-eyes octopus, argonauts, rocks, and coral. Rounded top tapering down to a narrower base. Short cyclindrical neck flaring out at the mouth with black wavy decoration reminiscent of waves. Loop handles attached to the shoulders of the body. Height 55 cm. From Zakros. 1500-1450 BC Top R - Minoan flask with a rounded body, short cyclindrical neck which flares at the rim, and two small curved handles attached between the top of the spout and the shoulders of the body. Decorated in “Marine Style” which depicts an almost cartoon-like octopus with wide eyes and sucker-lined tentacles which writhe around the vase. Other decorative sea-motifs include sea urchins, seaweed and rocks. Height 27cm. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC Bottom L - alabastron, broad at the base, swelling outwards into a fuller belly before narrowing near the top with a very short cyclindrical neck and a wider flat rimmed mouth. Decorated in “Marine Style” with a wide-eyed octopus among rocks. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1370 BC Bottom R - krater with rounded body narrowing at the bottom towards the foot. Wide flaring mouth and rim with black painted wavy decoration, and two sturdy handles attached on each side between the top of the mouth and shoulders of the vessel. Decorated with a central very stylised wide-eyed octopus whose tentacles loop up and down around the body of the pot, 1370-1300 BC
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
The Hydro in Glasgow a few nights ago, lit up beautifully and with its lights reflected in the waters of the nearby Clyde.

#glasgow #nightphotography #glasgowatnight #reflections #glasgowhydro #thehydro #colours
November 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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ericalterman.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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andrewcrompton.bsky.social
Sadly true. Labour has been taken over by morally bankrupt grifters for foreign billionaire enemies of democracy. There is now no difference between Labour, Reform and the Tories.
#VoteGreen
edwinhayward.com Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 5d
Labour have finally unlocked the "Tommy Robinson approves of our immigration policy" achievement badge.

It has taken 16 months, but their journey to an irredeemably vile party now seems complete.

They are the enemy now. Not the only enemy. But they are as much the enemy as the Tories ever were.
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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brucedlittle.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'The lines are busy' by contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Morgan #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Print in black and white of a telegraph post and multiple wires where a large number of birds, in silhouette, perch
November 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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thisismyglasgow.bsky.social
Good morning, Glasgow. It's a beautiful, if Baltic, start to the day, so get your woolly hats on and get out and enjoy it while it lasts!

#glasgow #glasgowtoday #goodmorning #goodmorningglasgow #sundaymorning #reflections #squintybridge
November 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Morning.
Pompeii, 100 AD.
Fresco which has a blackbird perched on top of a golden amphora against a green background.
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
asyadada.bsky.social
Dowanhill. - I don't know the artist but it's beautiful.
A small naked human figure made of ceramic (or plastic, I really don't know) getting out of a cage. A small statue hung on a tree trunk.
November 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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getwired.com
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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audryt.bsky.social
Everything all the time now:
Blue graphic with illustration of a small bird klinging to a surface, looking a little alarmed or bewildered. Has been placed on a blue background with white text to the right of it: WHAT THE FUCK-SHITTING CHRIST IS GOING ON? ~Effinbirds
November 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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lanrickbennett.bsky.social
#30DayMapChallenge

Day 9 #ImLibraryPeople

TPL_on_reddit says “Each corresponds to areas in the north, east, south/ centre and west of the city limits back then. Pre-amalgamated TPL had a smaller geographic footprint than today's TPL”

h/t @rebeccachesley.bsky.social @gmeslin.bsky.social
1/4 Toronto Public Library neighbourhood maps that have illustrations of roads, people, cars and buildings including libraries. Titled ‘Where’s A Public Library’ 2/4 Toronto Public Library neighbourhood maps that have illustrations of roads, people, cars and buildings including libraries. Titled ‘Where’s A Public Library’ 3/4 Toronto Public Library neighbourhood maps that have illustrations of roads, people, cars and buildings including libraries. Titled ‘Where’s A Public Library’ 4/4 Toronto Public Library neighbourhood maps that have illustrations of roads, people, cars and buildings including libraries. Titled ‘Where’s A Public Library’
November 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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timbale.bsky.social
Buckle up - because this now amounts to a direct and deliberate attack on our country and its cultural sovereignty. Which side our politicians take - Trump's or the BBC's - over the coming days and weeks will speak volumes about their patriotism.
Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit
The US president confirmed he intends to sue the broadcaster for at least $1bn over the Panorama edit of a 2021 speech.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
This may well be the most pathetic and saddest thing I've seen since Arthur 2: On the Rocks.
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
Every ad now
[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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rachellazerus.bsky.social
Nabokov himself was a survivor of childhood sexual abuse.

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Lolita is Nabokov: On the Parallel Histories of the Writer and His Most Famous Character
When I was conducting my research for my novel A Revolver to Carry at Night, I immersed myself in the correspondence, biographies, and works of Vera and Vladimir Nabokov’s biographies. It was in Na…
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November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
asyadada.bsky.social
"Belki rüyalarındır bu taze açmış güller,
Bu yumuşak aydınlık dalların tepesinde,
Bitmeyen aşk türküsü kumruların sesinde,
Rüyası ömrümüzün çünkü eşyaya siner."

- Tanpınar
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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bricksncolumns.bsky.social
Read the alt text! 😄
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 7d
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
A morbidly inclined sheep, who likes to hang around in graveyards, detests parties and owns original pressings of the entire classic run of Leonard Cohen LPs from 1967-1974.
November 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM