Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:
- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal
“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
Headline: Dow rises 300 points after Trump says U.S. in ‘serious' talks to end operation in Iran
Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball
Brilliant read on the 'tyranny of the quantifiable' vs 'the arduous, the uncomfortable, the slow and wandering, the unpredictable, the vulnerable or risky, the intimate, the embodied.' Which side are you on?
FMA joins other media and #pressfreedom organizations in calling on the EU to reform visa policies that contribute to the professional isolation of Turkish journalists and hinder cross-border reporting on issues of shared importance. ipi.media/turkey-joint...
FMA stands with press freedom and freedom of speech organizations in calling for the release of journalist İsmail Arı. www.mlsaturkey.com/en/press-fre...
Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
Press freedom in #Turkey continued to deteriorate in 2025.
New report by @globalfreemedia.bsky.social @pressfreedom.bsky.social and partner orgs documenting rising political pressure, judicial harassment and censorship:
turkiye.ipi.media/ipi-turkey-2...
Press freedom in #Turkey continued to deteriorate in 2025.
New report by @globalfreemedia.bsky.social @pressfreedom.bsky.social and partner orgs documenting rising political pressure, judicial harassment and censorship:
turkiye.ipi.media/ipi-turkey-2...
Also both excellent choices :)
Since September, there's been a magical and at times menacing garden growing inside a magnificent mansion in Istanbul. Ahead of its final weekend, I wrote about the "Folia" exhibition for the new MENA edition of T: The New York Times Style Magazine:
www.arabianbusiness.com/t-magazine/a...
Money saved by taking public transportation from Istanbul airport instead of the airport bus: 340 TL
Not have the first thing you encounter in the city being a barrage of "taksi taksi taksi taksi" at the bus stop: Priceless
"I am not a dangerous criminal. I don't even have parking tickets," says 65-year-old British tourist handcuffed, shackled and detained by ICE for a total of six weeks on US visit despite traveling with a valid visa.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Pressure on foreign media, too, is increasing in Turkey. Today, seasoned Deutsche Welle reporter Alican Uludağ was detained for "insulting" president Erdogan. He should be released immediately. #DW #JournalismIsNotACrime
#Turkey: We join our affiliates TGS, TGC, DİSK Basın-İş and GCD in demanding the immediate release of @news.dw.com journalist @alicanuludag.bsky.social.
Uludağ's arrest relates to an X post where he criticised the Turkish government.
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FMA joins other journalism and #pressfreedom organizations in calling for the release of award-winning Turkish journalist @alicanuludag.bsky.social and an end to judicial harassment of journalists reporting on matters of public interest. #GazetecilikSuçDeğildir turkiye.ipi.media/turkey-media...
Very cool 🤩
While statistics show the number of workers returned to pre-quake levels in impacted areas, they mask a shift in job quality.
“There are many people who are well educated and are working in construction right now in Hatay,” DISK's Mehmet Emin Doğruel said.
@nimetkirac.bsky.social reports:
In a cabinet reshuffle, Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor Akın Gürlek, who has headed up controversial investigations into Istanbul Mayor İmamoğlu as well as previous prosecutions of CHP official Canan Kaftancıoğlu and former HDP co-chair Demirtaş, has been appointed Turkey's Minister of Justice.
Working on a new piece about dissident Russian-language writers living outside Russia and looking to discover new voices.
Who are the contemporary authors in exile or diaspora that you’re reading right now? Recommendations very welcome.
Istanbul concerts by two metal bands, one from Russia and one from Poland, banned by Beşiktaş District Governorship as "incompatible with societal values" and ALL events at the venue, Zorlu PSM, banned for the two days this week that the shows would have occurred.
Post a banger that's not in English - Uçkun, Mabel Matiz feat Hello Pshycaleppo) (Türkçe)
youtu.be/siSlPpH9m-4?...
Post a banger that’s not in English: m.youtube.com/watch?v=cpp6... (Türkçe)
Passionate about art (and its intersections)? Hyperallergic is hiring for several roles on our Editorial and Publishing teams. If you want to work in independent media, we’d love to meet you. buff.ly/kPh13gC
Challenge accepted 😅
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Miss you too! Yes, in Istanbul for the foreseeable, hope our paths can cross again someday xo
Trump's attacks on universities & media, capture of the judiciary, and inflammatory rhetoric against "others" looks very familiar from the Turkish perspective - @kayagenc.bsky.social writes for @thedialmag.bsky.social on how the two countries now mirror each other www.thedial.world/articles/new...
