My father went senile. At first, it was very slow, almost invisible. Then it happened really fast, tragically. It’s the saddest thing. Watching the news, my heart breaks. The whole world seems to have lost its mind, too.

Me every week since 2016

“It’s a straight up signal to white supremacists in the country.” White supremacy expert Robert P. Jones tells @johnjharwood.bsky.social why the Trump administration so loves referencing Nazis. Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/robert-jon...

Less ahead of his time and more endlessly prescient.

In Turkish we say: "Bir deli kuyuya taş atmış, kırk akıllı çıkaramamış"- A mad man threw a stone in a well, forty wise men couldn't get it out.

My father went senile. At first, it was very slow, almost invisible. Then it happened really fast, tragically. It’s the saddest thing. Watching the news, my heart breaks. The whole world seems to have lost its mind, too.

Senator Thinks Trump Is Literally 'Insane': 'He Is a Madman' "I’ve been very clear. He is a madman. He is insane. He’s only thinking about himself...The man is threatening war against a NATO ally...None of this is rational. Everyone needs to stop pretending this is rational.”

And tonight all the main news broadcasts in america will not even mention that their president is unhinged, demented and clearly unfit to lead anything at all. They are so afraid of the truth.

China is the world leader in wind power.

When deciphered, Pingu appears to be saying,"Invade Greenland."

Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.

If you want to understand what is happening right now & what’s at stake, please listen to this conversation I had with historian Robert Kagan. Europe has to wake up FAST.

It is even worse than it looks

We need more police to speak up like this. It’s not perfect, but it helps.

This is, in my opinion, not only the correct moral/ethical/legal position but also the correct political framing. Everyone can see the agency is out of control; everyone can see that it is constantly violating human rights. "Scrap it and start over" is the moderate position.

Slightly pathetic aurora snaps from Applecross

MLK Jr. said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." Remember this.

Vivian Maier, US street photographer whose work was discovered and recognized after her death #womensart

A winter sunset over Bolton Priory. The priory church and ruins of the Augustinian priory lie at the heart of the Bolton Abbey estate on land gifted to the Augustinian canons by Alice de Rumilly in 1154. Image Bolton Abbey Sunset Matt Smith CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

in the plus side, watching the president of the United States destroy the entire geopolitical order because he didn't get a shiny award has successfully cured all my hangups about subtle character motivation in writing

Now into their 41st year @poemsonthetube.bsky.social have gone with Shelley's Ozymandias for their Poem of the Week. Can't think why.

This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

Brexit sonrası çatlak derinleşti: İskoçya Başbakanı bağımsızlık referandumu için çağrı yaptı gazeteoksijen.com/dunya/brexit...

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

History is making fun of us

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

Posing with a usurped Nobel peace prize whilst threatening to trigger World War III against his allies in the North Pole. A modern Suetonius couldn't make it up.

Written not to shame, but to speak; carrying anger that is measured, thoughtful, & deliberately restrained It addresses directly this indefensible act of ego fuelled vandalism, but also carries judgement on our own selfish, fleeting acts that have ecological consequences #poetry #poemoftheday

For non-German speakers: “Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”

The recent climate-change silence by Democratic leaders (ie gaming their climate-change politics) must be judged in light of what scientists have warned for years: Civilization is hurtling toward catastrophe with the only escape being phasing out fossil fuels ASAP. www.thenation.com/article/envi...

This little lemon is beginning her 31st orbit of the sun. Happy birthday, Asya!

psikoloji politiktir

An anti LGBT+ TRT ad mentions 'Rainbow Fascism.' Do elephants not like glassware? Is someone painting elephants' trunks and forcing them to be LGBT+? How do 'rainbow' and 'fascism' even come together? It’s a pity for the rainbow, a pity for the elephants. It’s a pity for our beautiful country.

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

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2025 Award Season Screenplays — 40 Total, 2 New Scripts: The Chronology of Water, Frankenstein. I've interviewed 100s of screenwriters. Almost all of them say reading scripts is key to learning the craft. www.patreon.com/posts/147921425 #movies #screenwriting

It’s too bad no one has ever seen this obscure mid-twentieth-century film The Wizard of Oz, where everyone listens to a charlatan and fool because he has a machine that says words for him while he huddles behind a curtain, terrified and confused and furious.

frighteningly relatable

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Here's something I wrote earlier for #poemsabout #static. Happy new year everyone and thanks as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the great prompt! #poems #poetry

If it’s so insulting, then LEAVE THE PLATFORM!

Speaking to a journalist today, I noted, yet again, the strangeness, as a scholar of modern Turkey, of watching my own country, the US, engaged in the same authoritarian lurch, using much the same set of tools. 1/3

The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism. Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.