As a Gen X, for the first time in my life I want to hug a politician.💚

I didn’t think politics could surprise me anymore. Then the Greens did. I went from existential crisis to actually paying attention — and cracking a smile.

Once again, Zack reminds us why we believe in him. Never again for anyone! 💚

The Manchester synagogue attacks show us something brutal: antisemitism is alive, violent, and must be fought. But if we only confront hate when Jews are the target — and ignore Islamophobia or the genocide in Gaza — we’re not fighting hate. We’re managing it. #Manchester #Antisemitism #UKPolitics

The mood around #AI has shifted. Once sold as innovation’s shiny toy, it’s now a lightning rod for anger. Why? Let’s unpack the backlash—and why most of it says more about people than the technology itself. #Future #Tech #Innovation

A year ago, “Green” meant a smoothie. Now it’s a ballot box. 💚

1/8 Nigel Farage — the man who gave us Brexit chaos — now wants to retroactively cancel settled status. Spoiler: it’s a legal disaster waiting to happen. Here’s why his latest stunt will implode under the law. 👇 #ReformUK #UKPolitics #NigelFarage

1/8 The man who unleashed the hell of Brexit now wants to scrap Indefinite Leave to Remain. Let’s break down why Farage’s latest idea isn’t just cruel – it’s economically brain-dead. #ReformUK #UKPolitics #NigelFarage

Become a Green Party member—along with nearly 1,400 others t yesterday. The first time in my life I’m a sheep following the flock and I like it 😋 Podcasts’re the background noise of a world drunk on its own stupidity. Zack's passion is music to my ears. My Marxist friends will probably disown me. 💚

The Corbyn–Sultana bust-up isn’t just gossip; it’s proof their “new politics” replicates the old failures: weak structures, no process, personalised power. When movements can’t run admin, they lose credibility long before they win power. #UKPolitics

Trump’s back for a 2nd state visit. Labour’s serving him the red carpet, the silverware and probably the NHS if he asks nicely. Zack’s right — this isn’t diplomacy, it’s masochism!

Trump is democracy’s chaos agent; Starmer is its hospice manager. One breaks things for sport, the other tidies the ruins. Both depend on our lowered expectations of what politics can do. We should be demanding transformation, not trauma management. That’s why #GreenPartyUK matters #UKPolitics

Signed up for the Greens. Finally my dialectics have a recycling bin. The revolution will be carbon neutral ✌️

Trump’s back in the UK. Charles looks like a boiled ham in ermine, Camilla like she’s lost a bet at Ascot, Melania doing full funeral cosplay, Trump glowing like an irradiated Wotsit. Welcome to the End Times, funded by the taxpayer. #UKPolitics #TrumpNotWelcome

Every time someone misses irony this badly, an Oyster card loses signal. I make a joke, you take it like a policy white paper, and suddenly we’re in a thread about Palantir and China. Congratulations, you’ve managed to turn humour into homework. 😂

Structural racism—deeply rooted in the state, media, education, and daily life—has long outlived ceasefires and negotiations. Without truth-telling, institutional reform, and a genuine reckoning with anti-Kurdish discrimination, ordinary Kurdish citizens will remain second-class—even in peace.

Genocide Remembrance Day, brought to you by: selective amnesia and performative condolences. "We mourn the past," says the country that criminalises naming it. Denial is political. Truth is historical. #armeniangenocide #ermenikatliamı

1/2 Maybe the saddest part isn't that Musk has this much power—it's that we keep rewarding people who burn things down with more gasoline and applause. We mistake domination for genius, and call it innovation. Humanity doesn’t need a villain. It wants one.

1/4 The UK Supreme Court ruled that legal sex = biological sex. It’s a devastating rollback—not just for trans rights, but for the principle that justice expands. That we evolve. This isn’t just about law. It’s about who gets to belong.

Erdoğan is once again flirting with “peace” — not from principle, but political survival. As Öcalan calls for disarmament, the state bans Kurdish music at a wedding in Antalya. What kind of peace treats a language like a crime? You can’t negotiate peace while criminalising existence.

One of the clearest accounts I’ve read of what İmamoğlu’s arrest really means. Not a legal move—a political purge. It shows how Erdoğan’s strategy is never just about silencing individuals, but about exhausting the very idea of democratic resistance. The writing doesn’t sensationalise. It observes.

Autocratic regimes don’t always silence dissent directly—they create conditions where even academic participation feels risky. From Harvard to international conferences, this is how fear becomes policy—quietly, systematically, and without needing a single law.

Joakim Medin is in Erdoğan’s prison for reporting. And still he believes. “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Meanwhile, the sword censors, jails, silences. Who’s afraid of a journalist with a pen? Erdoğan. #JournalismIsNotACrime #FreeJoakimMedin

1/3 The polling visuals reveal striking political pragmatism among Kurdish voters in Turkey. Despite exclusion, demonisation, and broken peace efforts, they continue to engage in democracy—not from naïveté, but with sharp political awareness and lived experience.

Erdoğan plays the field like a tactician, and Gingeras maps it sharply. But the most honest line? That the PKK’s disbanding might be real. The most dangerous? That this could mean peace without justice. Kurds as leverage. Protestors as obstacles. Some of us don’t call that peace.

Turns out I was in a two-week content funnel for the Gülenist Alumni Association. Now I'm googling “can you accidentally join a cult on BlueSky” and applying for a sabbatical from my own brain. 🤦‍♀️

Genç captures what Turkish artists know too well: when authoritarianism tightens, art doesn’t vanish — it mutates. Censorship turns metaphor into necessity, abstraction into survival. Each brushstroke is quiet refusal, each exhibition a risk. This is resistance when the state hears everything.

Step 1: Teen depression. Step 2: German engineering. Step 3: Profit.

Welcome to the United Snitchdom of America — another proud franchise of Erdoğan’s post-truth empire.

A ceasefire not peace when state’s response is to jail political opponents, shrink the democratic space, and treat dissent like betrayal. You can’t build reconciliation on repression. The Kurdish question isn’t just about silencing guns—it’s about recognising dignity, memory, and autonomy.

#BritishSteel was left to decay. Now #Labour is trying to salvage what remains — and somewhere, #Farage is Googling “What is a blast furnace?” #UKpolitics

This isn’t law enforcement. It’s performance art. And Erdoğan is accidentally starring in it. 👇

Late Night Thought: Nothing says “peer review” like being followed, flattered, and unfollowed by an academic trying to optimise their digital prestige. Call it citation hunger games. 🫠

If this is a simulation, can we patch out neoliberalism in the next update?

A late night thought: Time is fake, money is a scam, and I’m still replying to emails like it matters. Who cursed us with Outlook and consciousness?

In Turkey, when satire is censored, irony becomes our ink. From the 'Standing Man' to street theatre, our protest art wields humor as a weapon, turning oppression into the butt of the joke. This article delves into our legacy of laughing in the face of power. 👇

A powerful reminder that independent courts and politically captured ones may look similar — but serve opposite purposes. 👇

Late night thought; Watching billionaires implode while Elon turns against Trump is the serotonin I didn’t know I needed.

Biliyoruz… Geç kaldık. Sana bunlar yapılırken yeterince ses çıkarmadık. Sustuk, alıştık, unuttuk. Ama sen hâlâ içerideysen, biz de hâlâ suçluyuz. Ama bir gün adın Nelson Mandela ile yan yana anılacak. Bir gün mutlaka Selo Başkanım. #DemirtaşaÖzgürlük #SiyasiTutsaklaraÖzgürlük #KobaniDavası

We did it. We boycotted capitalism… in three districts… for 24 hours… kind of. CHP called the boycott. CHP voters responded: stayed home, spiritually cleansed, maybe doomscrolled in silence. AKP voters hit the malls like it was a referendum on retail therapy.

Afternoon Time Thoughts: BlueSky started to feel like walking into a secular bootcamp where 700 avatars of Atatürk yell at you for not saluting properly.

A U.S. citizen mistakenly deported and thrown in a high-security prison? This isn’t immigration policy, it’s state-sponsored kidnapping.

Elif Şafak is the literary version of soft-focus Instagram activism—pretty words, zero proximity to actual risk. If she writes one more poetic op-ed about Turkey from a London café, I’m applying for asylum in a tweet.

Late night thoughts: Erdogan is the only man who could threaten a sex scandal and still sound like he’s scolding a child for not praying.

Imagine trying to escape America and getting punished for it. It's giving Hotel California energy.

Pikachu protested in Turkey before it was cool. Now he’s unionising against Musk. You're welcome, world.

Momentum over years requires narrative architecture — not just opposition to something, but a coherent vision of what comes after. Rage mobilizes; vision sustains.

Social media in Turkey is performance art at this point—equal parts protest, satire, and public risk assessment.

Turkish media just said Pikachu is a psychological warfare tool used to provoke Gen Z. Somewhere in Tokyo, Ash Ketchum is confused and Erdoğan is beefing with anime.

The Turkish resistance has entered its cinematic universe phase