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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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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 1d

So-called "Centrism" does not work.

everywhere the centrist argument the left has to abandon its principles to fight fascism leaving the only choice between corporate bureaucrats and nazis has had the effect of empowering nazis. thats a failed formula every time.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 1d

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

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Dan Rebellato @danrebellato.bsky.social · 7h

Responses to Billie Eilish’s challenge to the billionaires are a reminder that if you’re wealthy you can’t criticise billionaires because you’re a hypocrite and if you’re poor you can’t criticise billionaires because then you’re envious. So, magically, no one is allowed to criticise billionaires.

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Ümit Ünal @asyadada.bsky.social · 8h

Morning walk #glasgow #kelvingrovepark

Kelvin Way view with the tower of university of Glasgow in the background.

View from Kelvingrove park. Trees with yellow, red and brown leaves. A narrow path.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 11h

This is a genuinely fascinating piece of research done by Sky on the sewer previously known as Twitter.

Having been largely off it for a bit over a month, and having jumped on yesterday for a half an hour to search for insane right wing responses to Mamdani’s win, I can’t tell you just how 1/

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

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Ümit Ünal @asyadada.bsky.social · 1d

"Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!".

Ümit Ünal @asyadada.bsky.social · 1d

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Emma Lazarus: “The New Colossus”

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 2d

Samir Zitouni: a British hero

Train hero who saved passengers during attack named

The family of rail worker Samir Zitouni say they are

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 1d

75 years ago, the ECHR was signed after the horrors of the war.

Today, Nigel Farage and many Westminster politicians want to tear up the laws that protect our basic human rights.

Our rights are not Westminster’s to take away. We will stand firmly against that.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 1d

The far right want you to believe that immigration causes an explosion of crime.

It's simply untrue.

Crime has gone down - and crucially, we are a markedly less violent society than we once were.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 1d

Here’s Karine Polwart singing Hamish Henderson’s “Freedom Come-All-Ye” in the Italian Chapel, Orkney. The chapel was built & decorated by Italian POWs during WW2 using scraps & reclaimed materials, & is still in use today
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“Freedom Come All Ye” performed by Karine Polwart in The Italian Chapel, Orkney, August 2013.

YouTube video by Alan Ferrier

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations!

His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.

It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 1d

My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect

It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politica...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC.

It didn't matter.

Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 19d

As ever... the vast, vast majority of people don't want the hellscape the right is forcing on us. they really are the minority viewpoint. vocal? yes. powerful? unfortunately, yes. But there are so many more people who don't want to live in the world they're trying to make.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

We go to sleep in a better country than we woke up in. Thank you to everyone who worked for these coast-to-coast victories, for this utter repudiation of Trumpism, for economic justice and a country for all of us, not for white supremacy.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 1d

“New York will remain a city of immigrants. A city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.”

Watch the best of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's victory speech after becoming New York City’s first Muslim mayor.

Visit zeteo.com for more coverage.

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Ümit Ünal @asyadada.bsky.social · 1d

"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea. " Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)

Ümit Ünal @asyadada.bsky.social · 2d

The Mitchell Library in Glasgow is one of my favorite places to work. I find I write twice as much when I sit in this room. I don't go every day and surely there's no magic formula for work but generally speaking, it helps!

A half selfie in the reading room of the Mitchell Library.

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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 2d

The Jacobite from Fort William to Mallaig crossing Glenfinnan Viaduct.

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Ümit Ünal @asyadada.bsky.social · 2d

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Lankum - The Wild Rover (Official Video)

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 2d

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Lankum - Ghost Town (Official Video)

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Ümit Ünal @asyadada.bsky.social · 3d

I stumbled upon this film on Amazon and started watching it just out of curiosity. Despite all the huge Hollywood names, I had never heard of it before. After about 15 minutes, I realised why and had to turn it off. If it wasn't a Dadaist attempt to break the system from within, it was a disaster.

Ümit Ünal @asyadada.bsky.social · 3d

Yesterday we had a good walk from West End to Bellahouston Park, through Partick-Govan Bridge and had lunch at House for An Art Lover. "Just a perfect day." 😊

Riverside museum with the Tall Ship from Partick - Govan Bridge.

Two parallel row of tall trees in Bellahouston park

A maple three with fully red leaves in the garden of House for an Art Lover.

A statue of a giant foot in the garden of House for an Art Lover.