Don’t forget how performative people can be, and don’t forget how often they only pretend to believe.

If home were a comfortable enough place, men wouldn’t leave domesticity to women.

Working becomes meaningless if what we earn doesn’t actually provide us with comfort.

Pure essentialism leads you straight to fascism.

People with a strong sense of worthlessness tend to be more sensitive about belonging to a group, draw much harder lines between “us” and “them,” and because of that, they’re more willing to resort to violence.

The orange guy is now really trying hard to bring democracy to his own country.

Jellyfish don’t have a brain, and they don’t even realise it.

Children aren’t customizable

There’s nothing as relieving as telling someone straight to their face that you don’t like them.

They want to **break society**, to leave it **broken** before they’re gone.

They’re going to call you a “soy boy,” a “lefty,” or something like that, because they’re against everything positive individuality, hope, strength, and more.

I’m really scared of people who support these guys and drag the world into chaos just because they have daddy issues.

Bluesky has added a **beta feature** that shows when someone is live on Twitch. Is Twitch still this popular? I thought it had already lost its popularity to another streaming platform, like Kick.

I’ve been reading about Buddhism, and speaking specifically about the book I’m reading, what’s described there feels like the unhealthiest way of stomping all over your own ego.

For moral gatekeepers, morality is just a tool to put someone down.

To-do list: • Drink coffee ☕️ • Read a book 📖 • Do some sketching 🎨✏️

Lately, I’ve realized that I don’t really like people, and that realization hit me harder than I expected.

They say you should respect your elders, but don’t forget, idiots get old too.

Rigidity kills the soul.

I can’t bring myself to read news about Iran or watch the commentary anymore. The last video I saw showed photos of the dead laid out in a hospital, with people trying to identify loved ones. It was horrifying. I can’t imagine the fear of those living there.

The book I shared recently was about Buddhism and finding your own path. I’m not on a spiritual quest, I’m just reading out of intellectual curiosity. Buddhism still gives me this open-source religion kind of feeling.

What I want to say to extremely conservative guys is simple: honestly, I couldn’t care less. I don’t want to play this game.

There’s one small thing in life that would still surprise me. If a famous person followed me here, I’d probably get way too excited. But I guess there aren’t many famous people around here anyway.

Those who’ve been following me for a while know I live in Turkey. Right now in Turkey, there’s a lot of talk about a very conservative young journalist. For years, he played the good boy. Now his colorful sex life is public, and the whole country is fixated on one man’s private life.

I realized that we had become like boring people who constantly eat junk food and do very little, simply because that’s what someone else wanted.

I’m in a serious writing mood, but I have no idea where to start.

I just want to move to Svalbard, live there, stay away from everyone, and sit quietly eating salmon until I get tired of it.

Nowhere in the world feels safe anymore.

I wrote a short piece about writing, pressure, and speaking up even when it’s uncomfortable. This is my garden open.substack.com/pub/onurm1/p...

Writing on a platform like Substack feels really relaxing, especially when it’s all about saying what you want to say. The idea of retreating to your own corner and writing something is truly nice. If you’re curious about what I’ve written, please check the link on my profile.

How do you feel about the upcoming midterm elections?

Do worms go to heaven?

I see the cruelty

They gaslight you

Ugly bunny 🐰

Wisdom cannot be transmitted; it must be lived.

When something bad happens to people, they no longer think about proving their innocence. They think, *“Could this happen to me too?”* That’s the kind of period we’re living in.

“Authority is strongest when it doesn’t need to explain itself.”

We all know that it's for oil

When we can’t see the people we love and how important we are in their eyes, when we don’t even notice it, we’re doomed to think we’re as special as a snowflake.

I shared something about this woman before. She’s a Turkish woman who claims Trump is her father, says she’s worried about her life, and even asks him, “Dad, please free Maduro.”

My idea of emotional regulation boils down to this: good, bad, and calm.

They stone the ones who question.