Ümit Ünal

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

Dawn light over Loch Caol, Isle of Skye #Scotland #Sligachan #IsleofSkye www.damianshields.com

A low-angle, nighttime shot shows a baby elephant standing behind a light pole in an attempt to hide. Only the elephant’s rear and legs are visible as it presses its body against the light pole. Tall grass grows in the background, and the ground is illuminated by the light.

🪬🧿Hiding baby elephant :) you can have all sugarcane you want wee baby #elephant #hiding #night #africa #wildlife #cute #animals

We Lived Happily during the War And when they bombed other people's houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house- I took a chair outside and watched the sun. In the sixth month of a disastrous reign in the house of money in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war.

"in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money,
our great country of money, we (forgive us)

lived happily during the war."

- Ilya Kaminsky

A naive representation of an owl on a small flat slate sheet. The body is depicted in alternating white and dark triangles. Crucially, this owl is not playing American Football.

It's Superbowl Sunday! So here's our traditional, and predictable Superb Owl.
🏈🦉

#SuperbOwl #SuperbOwl2026

Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown Palantir and Deloitte among beneficiaries of spending by government agencies

Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year.

Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.

https://www.ft.com/content/c74170d3-237d-459c-8642-bfd71530897d

Print featuring a tabby cat with back to the viewer sitting next to a small harbour with a boat and houses to the far side, a lobster pot is to the left side of the cat

Babs Pease, contemporary artist and printmaker living in rural Scotland #WomensArt

YouTube video by TheCureVEVO The Cure - Just Like Heaven

Imagine an internationally recognized pop star with 45 years, much of it defining a genre. He's still married to the woman he met when he was 14. And he wrote a song about her when he was famous. @danielwell.bsky.social

10/10 - Gen X ;-)

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Small Finds #7 Andy Goldsworthy

Interesting piece on Andy Goldsworthy's Gravetstones art work on the BBC website. It's an "exclusive first look" apparently. I offered it to a national newspaper last year but they turned it down. I ended up writing it for my Substack. smallfinds.substack.com/p/small-find...

An infographic titled "The Chemistry of Body Odours" illustrates the chemical compounds responsible for four common smells. It features a central human silhouette with lines pointing to the mouth (Halitosis), armpit (Underarm Odour), digestive system (Flatulence), and feet (Foot Odour). Each section provides chemical structures, names, and scent descriptions, such as hydrogen sulfide smelling like rotting eggs in halitosis and isovaleric acid smelling cheesy or rancid in foot odour.

Today is #NationalFartDay 💨 Here's a look at some of the goaty, cabbagey and pungent compounds behind various body odours: www.compoundchem.com/2014/04/07/t... 🧪

This is actually real.

And it's very illustrative of what DOJ has done. The document in question has redaction boxes over the face of every femme-looking person (including the Mona Lisa). It's clearly done using some sort of AI-assisted process.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Everyday I think back to this headline

Ulaşılabiliyor. (Sinan tabiî ki kimse okumasın diye böyle demiş. Halbuki gerek yok, çünkü zaten meslektaşlar dahil kimse okumuyor.) Buyurun:
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In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage

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Ümit Ünal - Senaryo Atölyesi: 9-12 Şubat. Ayrıntılı bilgi için lütfen mesaj atın.

And how is he in a position to lecture other artists?

Tomorrow I fly back to the Lofoten Islands in the Norwegian Arctic. Last year the first night we arrived I filmed this outrageous combination of full moon rainbow combined with Northern Lights. Hard to imagine how this year could top it, but fingers crossed!

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
― Aldous Huxley

Philosopher Judith Butler issues stark warning to the world Feminist philosopher and gender studies scholar Judith Butler has made a stark warning about the future of the world at an event in Spain.

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/01/j...

Kenmure Street documentary wins Special Jury Award at Sundance Film Festival

Everybody to Kenmure Street has been awarded the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance, it was announced this evening (January 30).

The Boss has spoken!

Chef’s kiss. No notes.

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

The billions to DHS have built the for-profit panopticon surveillance state they were unable to fully push through after 9/11 because people fought back.

It took 25 years but they have it now.

This cannot be reformed. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

This is grim news, not just for Glasgow but the wider arts sector in Scotland. Thoughts with the laid off staff and the cultural clients now made homeless.

Epigeneium coelogyne, n.d., by #MaryGrierson (English, 1912-2012), who died #otd, Jan 30. Source, Shirley Sherwood Gallery at Kew Gardens, shirleysherwood.com/-GMEc2796 #artherstory #womenartists #hernaturalhistory