My parents sent me olives and olive oil that they made. I’m so happy and grateful 💓💓💓💓

muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine

Turkish is a really complex language. Sometimes I have to read words slowly to make sure I’ve added all the correct suffixes. I just wrote “anlamamalarına,” which means something like “for their not understanding.” Breakdown of the suffixes: anla → to understand ma → not ma → the act of / -ing lar → they (plural) ı → their (possessive) na → to / for

There is a tradition called the Ramadan drummer. During Ramadan, after midnight, drummers walk through neighborhoods to wake people up for sahur. I especially like the ones who have a good sense of rhythm.

Happy Ramadan 🌙

Sometimes it is difficult to explain to normative people that I do not reject their norms because I think they are wrong but because I do not see norms as transcendent or ontologically grounded principles. Rather, I understand them as relationships that become temporarily stabilized within specific actor-networks; so, I do not believe in a single, fixed ontological norm.

My mom sent me an AI photo and I thought it was real. She called me a boomer 😭

What? 7.0 earthquake in Jerusalem?

This is the House of the Virgin Mary. It is believed that Mary, the mother of Jesus, spent her last days here. It’s very close to my hometown. I first visited it as a child. My brother and I were so little... I remember there was a wishing wall and my brother wished for a computer.

To Allah belong the east and the west, so wherever you turn you are facing towards Allah. Surely Allah is All-Encompassing, All-Knowing. Surah Al-Baqarah 115

my nostr notes will be like this. very very soon

Including the spinoff, I’m dedicating myself to 199 episodes (398 hours) of an Ottoman historical drama. If Cardi B can do it, so can I.