Turkish Riviera Insights
Follow link if you’d like to see a 9min video of highlights from today’s adventure in Alanya. Yowza! Definitely an incredible day trip and an easy bus ride from where we’re staying (for $11nt) in the resort town of Avsallar.
If you’re considering a trip to the Turkish Riviera, (which is a super treat and offers a lot of value! ) it’s good to realize the towns and popular spots vary greatly.
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the thing about turkey (I am in turkey rn) is that tumblr is banned in turkey but like kind of ineffectively so everything weirdly half-loads (eg posts load but the images in them don’t). the other thing about turkey is that I don’t speak any turkish and am with my (turkish) girlfriend who must attend to family matters while here so i’m spending a lot of time quietly and politely on my phone with no idea what’s going on. which is like the situation that “scrolling tumblr” was invented to address. but alas—
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Really really don't get why so many people seem to have this burning hatred for Ukraine where they'll just... bring them up randomly purely to drag them through the mud and it's like... ok... but... do you actually know a single thing about Ukraine or what's been happening there?
Do you for instance remember when a major dam was destroyed by russia causing massive ecological damage?
Like I'm dead serious here, can you tell me a single thing that's happened in Ukraine in the last 2 years? Can you in any way demonstrate any basic understanding of the situation?
Cause if not... why do you think you should have an opinion on it, especially if your opinion is gonna be how awful people getting bombed are?
Just legit bothers me and... even more so bothers me the number of smart and caring people I see doing this. Basically I'm not even trying to be rude here, I'm trying to remind you to pay attention and remember that not everything you read on the internet is true, a tumblr post isn't a source unless they're giving you a reputable source
Cause like me? I can go track you down articles about the Nova Kakhovka dam being destroyed, and I can talk about all the reason why it's pretty clear that russia destroyed it
Can you do the same for me? Can you back up your claim about Ukraine with something concrete?
In many ways I'm not even asking you to support Ukraine, I get we have a limit to how much we can focus on, it's ok if you focus on your cause and I focus on mine and... both of us giving our undivided attention, maybe we both make some small impact on the world
What I'm asking is you don't be an asshole for no reason. You don't need to throw Ukraine under the bus. Don't you think your cause stands up on it's own two feet?
And again I'm not Ukrainian, I don't know as well as someone there, though... I spare you a lot of the stuff that crosses my dash because I don't want to burn people out with horrible stuff, but please understand it's worse than you probably think
So no, not Ukrainian, but I'll tell you why I'm still worth listening to: I've followed this every day since the invasion began. I keep my ear to the ground. I do know a fair bit and again can back what I have to say up
Anyway, my plea is to just not be a dick to people for no reason. The correct number of bombed civilians is zero, that's my stance
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A turkey billboard at a used tire dealership. Houston, Texas. 1963 - From 'Coast to Coast'
Photo by Thomas Hoepker
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I was walking along a trail near Bird Island in Point Lobos today and this turkey-vulture was wheeling around in the sea breeze. So I had to take a photo and it turned out pretty good.
Here are the other two turkey-vultures observing the third. They didn't seem very impressed.
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me looking out the window of my hotel room on Chios:
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“ Evcik plajı “ // Orhan Kilic
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