Ok I’ll bite.

1) Soccer coach (that’s football to you lot)
2) Executive assistant
3) Creative director
4) Fine rug merchant
5) Jewelry repair

Back home in Atlanta. Car driven. Three cats seen, three petted. Drank an entire pot of çay.

I miss Istanbul terribly already.

Final half a day in Istanbul, one cup of çay, no cats, one taxi. Görüşürüz, Türkiye!

Istanbul tally day 7

Cats seen: 9
Cats petted: 1
Buses/trains/ferries ridden: 6
Glasses of çay: 2

So far yes!

It’s my birthday, and I’m on a team to the hamam in Karaköy, listening to someone playing Bella Ciao on a concertina. It’s a good day.

Istanbul tally day 6

Cats seen: 34
Cats petted: 1
Buses/trains ridden: 0
Glasses of çay: 6

Istanbul tally day 5

Cats seen: 11
Cats petted: 1
Buses/trains ridden: 3
Glasses of çay: 4

Istanbul tally, day 4

Cats seen: 30+
Cats petted: 5
Buses/trains ridden: 1
Glasses of çay: 1
Weird snacks bought from some guy on the highway while stuck in traffic: 1

Istanbul tally, day 3:

Cats seen: ~12
Cats petted: .5 (whole cat, only partially successful pet)
Buses/trains ridden: 1
Glasses of çay: 5

Well, after all this tea I’m unlikely to sleep for a while, so perhaps!

Istanbul tally, day 2:

Cats seen: 11
Cats petted: 3
Trams ridden: 1
Unexpected taxi rides: 1
Glasses of çay: 5
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Istanbul tally, day 1:

Cats seen: 25+
Cats petted: 4
Buses/trains ridden: 5
Glasses of çay: 2
New foods tried: 1

Stay tuned for more tomorrow!
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For the love of Pete, if you’re a creator making a travel video about a foreign city/country, please learn how to pronounce it correctly.

Toor-key-uh, not toor-key-yay.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

This is straight up terrorism. State-sponsored destruction of an iconic, publicly-owned symbol of democracy and women in power. This is a bunch of bullshit.

Maybe also call your elected folks and ask them to push for a stop work order and permit review!

Shady developers demolish buildings when they know they’re violating historic building codes and won’t get approval for what they want to do. And once the building is gone, it’s gone.

So yeah, about that East wing…

ACE knows what’s up!

Overheard at D&D: “This one has no pants, this one has crabs all over him…”

Your foot hovers over the step, hesitant, unwilling to move closer. You take each one, one by one, and there, at the bottom, just as your toe touches the dark, something brushes past. 🧵

Not too silly, but still skully. 3/31

Funny little skully guy, day 2. Idk why he needed legs. But here you go.

Oooh tattoo sounds good. Or music. Or both!

You stare into the thick dark, just beyond your safe bright circle. The bag slips, the plastic pulls painfully at your fingernails. In the dark, the trash cans clatter, unseen and untouched by you.
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(Ooops, exquisite corpse. You know what I mean. Anyway, stay tuned for tomorrow!)

A spooky month memento mori. 🧵

It’s out there - the heavy, clinging dark. It rustles and chirps. It presses expectantly at the edges of the weak circle of light on the stoop, bits of it sneaking in behind traitorous tufts of grass in the dirt. You clutch a plastic bag of trash in your clammy hand.

Pink skull illustration on a dark purple background. Drawn in a loose, sketchy style, with orange teeth.

Making little funny skully guys for spooky month

Also! The voting time is coming up. Are you registered? Have you checked your registration? And if you’re good, consider donating to this org that helps get people ID so they can vote: www.voteriders.org?fbclid=IwdGR...

Heckin RESIST

Today I’m urging you to contact your officials and ask them to fight for first amendment protections, and write to Disney and ask them to stand up to the administration, and whatever else you can think of to do. Look, Tucker Carlson is even speaking up about this. Yeesh.
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Not abridging free speech: When public outcry and pressure leads to a network firing a talk show host becaus of their comments on air.

Abridging free speech: when the chairman of the FCC strong arms a network into removing a talk show host because he made a joke about the president on air.
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