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Q: How are people managing to keep up with runaway inflation in Turkey? A: They're not. 23 million bankruptcy, court hearing, penalty and other enforcement notices have been served in a country of 86 million, according to this news report.

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At least 51 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza waiting for food trucks. Israeli forces also injured 200 people after opening fire on the crowd. “It was a massacre,” one witness said, adding the soldiers continued firing on people as they fled from the area. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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"The real threat posed by generative AI is not that it will eliminate work on a mass scale, rendering human labour obsolete. It is that, left unchecked, it will continue to transform work in ways that deepen precarity, intensify surveillance, and widen existing inequalities."

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A lesson Trump learned from term 1 was he was “stupid” for leaving a tonnnnnn of money on the table, and as u can see he and his orbit are making up for lost time. Latest for @rollingstone.com from @timdickinson.bsky.social and me:

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This is hardly news to any renter who lives in Istanbul, but the average rent in the city has gone up a whopping 606% since 2021 while the number of landlords opening legal cases to evict their tenants increased by 349% from 2020 to 2024.

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Israel has killed more Palestinians in Gaza in the last 24 hours than the combined death toll of the Israel-Iran conflict This impunity, enabled by global moral failure, will echo through history www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

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Pause and consider the absolute parasitical passivity here. Those "million books" just exist. Nobody wrote them. Nobody researched them. Nobody wrangled over meanings or conclusions. They just exist, magically, for techbro fool here to imagine he can learn one useful thing by not reading them.

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Busy weekend in Istanbul with Documentarist documentary film festival kicking off, free concerts in the park with @iksv.bsky.social Music Festival and more - get the scoop in my latest newsletter: istanbuletcetera.substack.com/p/whats-on-d...

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Chilling and important reporting by @yleniagostoli.bsky.social as this kind of tech-powered surveillance of protesters spreads around the world.

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Spend anytime on the mountains where endurance athletes train and this statement will become immediately obvious: “Female bodies have superior fatigue resistance,” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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“What comes next probably won’t be better. The same way Ross Perot, with his Texas twang, looks quaint to us, there is an imaginable future where Donald Trump looks quaint to us.” 😬

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Hi, pardon me, hello: mass protest in the face of fascism is a great idea and in fact the only thing that works to actually combat it. anyone saying otherwise is an idiot. sorry, i cannot anymore with this shit. do the fucking reading!

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Libertarian tech bros discovering big corporations are less efficient than government www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

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Big Tech's emissions increased 150% in just 4 years, "thanks" to the exploding electricity demands of slop-bucket LLMs that boil lakes to rephrase the internet Generative AI is worse than useless; it is making it impossible for us to limit climate change www.energymonitor.ai/news/interna...

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Even if you don't mind eliminating driver jobs (and there are a LOT of ppl who depend on these), the massive $ spent on them could have gone to public transit, & also Waymo shares footage with police, so in the context of fighting a police state, they're automated mobile copcams

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Mass dismissals of workers due to their union activities, obstruction of the right to collective bargaining, and arbitrary detentions of union members and leaders have kept Turkey in the bottom ranks for workers’ rights, according to new @ituc.bsky.social report

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“The use of federal military force in the absence of local or state requests, paired with contradictory mandates targeting protestors, is a hallmark of authoritarian drift…What begins as provocative posturing can rapidly metastasize into something far more dangerous.”

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Thread 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

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The problem is not that there are too many Americans protesting in the streets. The problem is that there are not enough. Not by a long shot.

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Today I found out I could understand the German language

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The inevitable Trump-Musk feud is finally here – and it’s pathetic | Moira Donegan

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Love this thread

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Idk why "brainwash" gets such a bad rap like I would truly LOVE a brainwash right now. Like REALLY get in there and clean out all those intrusive thoughts and stress dreams and whatever's left of Mambo #5, honestly name your price

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Herkese iyi bayramlar! If you're traveling, stay safe on the highways and bring snacks, good tunes and patience for the inevitable traffic jams. For Istanbul staycationers, here's a little rundown of which arts & culture venues are going to be open when: istanbuletcetera.substack.com/p/herkese-iy...

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An editor at independent news outlet Bianet was detained by police while boarding an Istanbul ferry, based on an indictment accusing the journalist of "publicly denigrating the Turkish nation" by conducting an interview with Armenian youth in Turkey. #pressfreedom

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After enduring months of trauma, fear and hardship, my friend and colleague Ahmed Deeb's brother was killed along with his wife and three of their children in an Israeli airstrike on a tent camp in Gaza last week. Please donate to help the surviving family members: www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-fa...

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An interesting article by Hüseyin Raşit Yılmaz who uses the expression ballotophilia in the case of Turkey. Nevertheless, what remains of the right/choice to vote when the government restricts and reorganises the space for opposition to such an extent? kulturkampftr.substack.com/p/the-enduri...

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"The problem with work now is that it’s no longer about our toxic relationship with it, but that work itself is crumbling... So that anger, that resentment, that frustration and boredom that you're feeling are all appropriate responses." tiffanyphilippou.substack.com/p/its-not-bu...

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Love to get this kind of feedback and support from readers! Check out my newsletter Istanbul etc. and if you like what you see, please subscribe and share: istanbuletcetera.substack.com

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Musk isn't really leaving the US government. He's pretending to do so to avoid disclosures he'd have to make if he stayed more than 130 days: newrepublic.com/article/1959...

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“The Gezi martyrs are immortal,” students chant in Istanbul, part of scattered pockets of resistance in a Beyoğlu under police lockdown on the 12th anniversary of the #geziparkı protests. #gezi12yaşında

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#Turkey 🇹🇷 @bianet-eng.bsky.social reports on a submission to the #UPR by Turkish LGBTQI+ CSOs, who argue that legal and institutional discrimination against LGBTQI+, hate speech and rights violations have become structural.

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If it's not from the Menemen region, it's just eggs with tomatoes and peppers...

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I'm thrilled to announce that my book, NIGHTFARING – a travel memoir exploring darkness and the night sky – will be published in Jan 2026 by Simon & Schuster (UK) and Grand Central (US). www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...

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19 young people in Turkey released under judicial control after being detained for standing - yes, standing - in Taksim Square in an echo of the “standing man” action during the Gezi Park protests that started 12 years ago this week.

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Brilliant

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Owner of loudest peep machine wonders why there no peeping.

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💯 "The culture tells us, simultaneously, that we should be in a couple and that we should feel whole all by ourselves. We should have a partner, but we shouldn't want one." 💯 www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

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