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Ümit Ünal

@asyadada.bsky.social

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Film Director/Writer from Istanbul living in Glasgow. Writes in English and Turkish. https://asyadada.wixsite.com/umitunal

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Ümit Ünal @asyadada.bsky.social · Jan 2

Bir yerde Kara Kitap ile Benim Adım Kırmızı'yı karıştırmışım. 😊Ama onun dışında çok hoş sohbet ettik.
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Pandora'nın Merakı - Ümit Ünal | 1 Ocak 2025

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Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social · 1d

So Jurassic Park is about a group of rich people who don't understand that biology is far more complicated than "there are only two genders" and how this ignorance toward gender fluidity in nature causes these rich people to lose their money and die.

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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 22h

Why do so many people want to do things to harm others when there's more opportunity than ever to be kind, caring and compassionate? And they're so proud of their cruelty. What the fuck is wrong with people?

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 22h

'Nowhere will be safe for teenagers while I'm around.' is an odd boast, Bill.

William Hague still being a thundering tool after all these years.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Three panel cartoon by Wawa wiwa comics

An octopus, a shark and a jellyfish are talking to each other

Octopus: I once saw a human and peed myself

Shark: a human saw and peed himself

Jellyfish: a human touched me once and his friend peed on him

Octopus: dude…

Shark: what?

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 1d

'Sora cost $20 a month & subscribers can generate an unlimited number of AI videos... this costs (Sora owners) OpenAI "at least $5 per 10-second video"'.

Journalists, please ask more questions about how this tech could ever in a million years make a profit?

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 1d

studio execs & major outlets claim AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over Hollywood. the reality is much different. i spoke with filmmakers, producers, and editors about how AI is actually showing up in productions – and what it still can't do:

Hollywood Has a Major AI Hype Problem

Studio execs and major media outlets claim that AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over film and TV. The reality is much different.

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 3d

The former Ascot Cinema (renamed in Gaumont in 1950), Anniesland, Glasgow. This is one of Glasgow's lost neighbourhood cinemas. There used to be so many of these local cinemas in Glasgow in the 1930s that it was nicknamed Cinema City.

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#glasgow #architecture #artdeco #cinema

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 3d

If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk

Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer

I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services. Get in touch!

www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 4d

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A comic strip in six panels. The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels.

Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory."
Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality."
Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?:
Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint)
Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close"
A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.

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Ümit Ünal @asyadada.bsky.social · 3d

#barrasmarket

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 4d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

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Ümit Ünal @asyadada.bsky.social · 4d

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Annie Hall (11/12) Movie CLIP - Seems Like Old Times (1977) HD

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TVLine @tvline.com · 4d

Diane Keaton, an Oscar-winning actress who starred in 'Annie Hall' and 'The Godfather' films, has died. She was 79.

Diane Keaton, Oscar-Winning Actress, Dead at 79

Diane Keaton, an Oscar-winning actress who starred in 'Annie Hall' and 'The Godfather' films, has died. She was 79.

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Emrah Virlan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇹🇷 @evirlan.bsky.social · 4d

From the timeless masterpiece "How to Be an Alien" by George Mikes

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Ümit Ünal @asyadada.bsky.social · 4d

#autumn in #glasgow

From the garden of the University of Glasgow, trees of Kelvingrove Park in autumn. In the background, the towers of Kelvingrove Museum.

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I Am Loud CIC @iamloudpro.bsky.social · 5d

New Video!
Watch here: youtu.be/02aPpi9ggwk

From Trystan Lewis, a stirring poem about unconditional love.

Learn more about Trystan Lewis' work via www.instagram.com/trystan_shout/

We're so grateful to the EIBF for partnering with us. Learn more via www.edbookfest.co.uk

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Ümit Ünal @asyadada.bsky.social · 5d

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‘£20 a night for one of the most peaceful locations in the world’: readers’ favourite remote stays

From the Scottish Highlands to a Greek island, our tipsters have been awed by silence, beauty and wildlife in out-of-the-way corners of Europe

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Reuters @reuters.com · 6d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 7d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Ümit Ünal @asyadada.bsky.social · 7d

"Ne denmişse yalan hayat için
İşte o, yaşandığı gibi sokaklarda
Cümle geçmişimi aziz bileceğim
Turnam bir gün bırakmayacağım seni
Yaşamak ve sevmek için art arda
Ömrüm oldukça peşinden geleceğim"

Turgut Uyar

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 7d

Heaven forbid that young people should ever understand their own culture

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 8d

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be a carpenter. I’d love to be one.

But when politicians use that to sneer at everyone else, you start to see what they’re really afraid of: people who can think for themselves.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 8d

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1579: If you’re going to write in any genre (children’s fiction, SFF, romance, etc), you need to read EXTENSIVELY in that genre. You need to read current authors in the genre. You need to know what’s been done; what tropes exist; how the genre has changed.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8d

The Geat X-Tinction.

From an in-house chat app to the most dangerous social media site in history.

The magical flight and tragic decline of twitter.

And why I left.

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/07/t...

The Great X-Tinction: Why My Time's Up On Twitter

Otto English explains why, after 15 years, he has left the social media platform now disseminating disinformation worldwide under the control of Elon Musk

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RedScharlach @redscharlach.bsky.social · 8d

Writing a screenplay about spotting an alluring stranger in a Paris café and falling passionately, hopelessly in love. It’s based on a true story but this is the stranger and the place was called Café Miaou.

Fluffy cat with beautiful eyes in the window of a cat café

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Ümit Ünal @asyadada.bsky.social · 8d

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Yas

Yasın anatomisi üzerine birkaç söz…

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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 14d

There have likely been 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25.

@gsoh31.bsky.social, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes, argues that the Higher Education system as we know it is coming to an end.

Where now for Britain’s Universities?

UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

politicalquarterly.org.uk

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