Ümit Ünal
@asyadada.bsky.social
Film Director/Writer from Istanbul living in Glasgow.
Writes in English and Turkish.
https://asyadada.wixsite.com/umitunal
Writes in English and Turkish.
https://asyadada.wixsite.com/umitunal
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Ümit Ünal
@asyadada.bsky.social
· Jan 2
Pandora'nın Merakı - Ümit Ünal | 1 Ocak 2025
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Bir yerde Kara Kitap ile Benim Adım Kırmızı'yı karıştırmışım. 😊Ama onun dışında çok hoş sohbet ettik.
youtu.be/oMDpfMilGXQ?...
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Edgelands (2024)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Oil and acrylic on canvas
December 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Edgelands (2024)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Oil and acrylic on canvas
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.
December 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.
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Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
December 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
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“The last-minute christmas rush at the bookshop.” - my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books
December 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“The last-minute christmas rush at the bookshop.” - my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books
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Happy Winter Solstice - and Happy #NationalRobinDay!
What better bird to cheer up the shortest day? Reply with your favourite snaps of these beloved garden friends...
Let's fill our feeds with Robins. 😍
What better bird to cheer up the shortest day? Reply with your favourite snaps of these beloved garden friends...
Let's fill our feeds with Robins. 😍
December 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Happy Winter Solstice - and Happy #NationalRobinDay!
What better bird to cheer up the shortest day? Reply with your favourite snaps of these beloved garden friends...
Let's fill our feeds with Robins. 😍
What better bird to cheer up the shortest day? Reply with your favourite snaps of these beloved garden friends...
Let's fill our feeds with Robins. 😍
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Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
December 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
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My weirdest Christmas: I tried to catch out Santa with a whoopee cushion – but the Big Man outwitted me
My weirdest Christmas: I tried to catch out Santa with a whoopee cushion – but the Big Man outwitted me
Who was Santa, really? Aged eight, I devised a cunning plan to catch him in the act, involving a booby trap and a camera. Unfortunately, the joke was on me …
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:18 AM
My weirdest Christmas: I tried to catch out Santa with a whoopee cushion – but the Big Man outwitted me
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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The EPSTEIN Files are a much quicker read than I expected.
December 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The EPSTEIN Files are a much quicker read than I expected.
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Especially harsh as this is coming from James Cameron
December 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Especially harsh as this is coming from James Cameron
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Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
December 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
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The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
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Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
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Amazing to think Keith Richards is 82 today. No idea what that is in human years.
December 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Amazing to think Keith Richards is 82 today. No idea what that is in human years.
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Reposting this because it's my personal Tom Holland/Umbrella, and possibly my favorite essay ever written as well.
"Do you ever want to just pick up a knife and stab him in the neck? Poison his food?"
Because I mentioned this during a phone call today, I ought to share my favorite essay, which is by @alexanderchee.bsky.social. longreads.com/2015/06/18/m...
Because I mentioned this during a phone call today, I ought to share my favorite essay, which is by @alexanderchee.bsky.social. longreads.com/2015/06/18/m...
Mr. and Mrs. B - Longreads
When Alexander Chee was a struggling young writer, working as a cater-waiter for William F. and Pat Buckley.
longreads.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Reposting this because it's my personal Tom Holland/Umbrella, and possibly my favorite essay ever written as well.
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"They'll come back to get me, if not today, definitely tomorrow." #lostinglasgow
December 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"They'll come back to get me, if not today, definitely tomorrow." #lostinglasgow
"They'll come back to get me, if not today, definitely tomorrow." #lostinglasgow
December 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"They'll come back to get me, if not today, definitely tomorrow." #lostinglasgow