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Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. Just yes.

Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social · 12d

on Banville's Venetian Vespers: if you are an amazing novelist, so much so that the entire novel is exactly what it would be if its third-rate-novelist narrator indeed did write it, is that an achievement?

Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social · 23d

(Sarcastic.) I do appreciate your taking my comment seriously. I got the sense that people in the region were celebrating, so the timing of the university decision seemed tone deaf to me, but it is nice to see people caring. I am not pro-BDS, but my comment was more about timing than BDS itself.

Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social · 24d

I just dont understand this Ozempic thing. Find me a pill where I can enjoy my baklava and not gain weight. Where's the magic if I am losing the weight by not eating the baklava?

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Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social · 24d

What a strong response to the ceasefire.

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Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social · 24d

A stroll among the leaves.

Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social · Oct 4

you too

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Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social · Oct 3

Excited to be presenting at this.

NAVSA 2025 @navsa2025.bsky.social · Oct 3

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NAVSA 2025: Aftermaths // Digital Pre-Session Registration

Attendance at the NAVSA 2025 digital pre-sessions is free but you must register in order to receive zoom links for both dates (Friday, November 7th and Saturday, November 8th). Please register if you ...

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Michael Carley @drmcarley.bsky.social · Sep 26

Yesterday I heard a radio presenter say that Sarkozy's sentence was the most severe sanction ever imposed on a French head of state ...

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Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social · Sep 22

Flesh, by D. Szalay--now that is some novel. And the Guardian review by Keiran Goddard captures so well why it is amazing.

Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social · Sep 16

battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:

family dinner out on the balcony

watching a film on tv with the dog next to me

listening to an audiobook while walking the dog

coming across a text / passage that suggests my argument's right on.

sleeping with the window open

Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · Sep 16

battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:

first sip of coffee
picking up a conker, cool and soapy in your hand
geese honking overhead
leaves changing colour: green, yellow, red
debating when to put the heating on

(I really like autumn, ok)

Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · Sep 16

battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:

Reading books
Writing about books
Homemade cookies
Dog walks
Woolly jumpers

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Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social · Sep 10

Are curtains distinctive features of Istanbul brothels and what extent of comparative experience is required to know that?

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Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social · Sep 10

I find it a fundamental flaw in the WH adaptation that Heathcliff is so good looking. We shouldn't be able to explain Catherine's infatuation on looks alone.

Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social · Sep 10

One who needs to male a living.

Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social · Aug 17

a radical idea for a tv series: a show where the chacters are not super wealthy.

Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social · Aug 1

Poor writing or anti-choice brainwashing: "Could scientists eventually replicate an actual embryo that has a heartbeat and experiences pain, or one that could grow into a fully developed human model?"

Could stem cells be used to create life without sperm or egg? Not yet, but here’s why scientists are concerned | CNN

Lab grown models of embryos, made from clusters of stem cells, are getting increasingly complex. Ethicists, regulators and legal specialists are scrambling to keep up with the pace of research.

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Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social · Jul 26

CNN rhetoric: "Gaza’s starvation crisis continues to deepen . . " Gaza's starvation crisis! Are there classes for writing like this? Quite a craft.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jul 29

AI folks have now discovered “thinking”

Steph Smith: Sometimes in the process of writing a good enough prompt for ChatGPT, I end up solving my own problem, without even needing to submit it.

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Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social · Jul 19

2025. CEOs' exorbitant salaries are the tip of the iceberg in economic inequality and people know it and resent it. Society could deal with the situation by organizing politically or voting for people who'll tax the rich. Instead, we publicly shame them for infidelity.

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Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social · Jul 4

A bit behind the curve here, aren't we, dear NYT and E Adams? Go ahead pull an Erdogan, get this guy's diploma cancelled.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Jul 4

Everyone should be making noise about this huge media scandal in the New York Times. While Trump makes money off of frivolous lawsuits against CBS, ABC, etc, the Times is getting away with an anti-Mamdani hit job fed to them by a far right ‘race science’ guy, who they kept anonymous!

Mediaite @mediaite.com · Jul 4

New York Times Grants Race Science Enthusiast Anonymity in Mamdani Hit Piece

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · Jun 27

Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million.

If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.

Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.

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Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social · Jun 14

Right, it happens in other countries. That's just the normal state of affairs. But when in *this* country, now that we cant tolerate.

Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social · Jun 14

Good reading! Not that I know as much about this as I should, but aren't good old human agency and its alternatives--ANT etc--important terms in the consideration of this topic?

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Dr. Shelby Judge @shelbyjudge.bsky.social · Jun 9

“I just want to read books as a job” 🥹📚

Memento (Aloof) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · Jun 9

Does anyone ever grow up and do the job they wanted to do as a kid

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Ayşe Çelikkol @celikkol.bsky.social · Jun 7

WaPo ranked the five best ai summarizers, which, they say, give you the superpower of speed reading. They did the testing by asking the ai tools to summarize books in a few different genres. One of the genres: the novel.