iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 17/07/2026

It is still Odyssey. But merely the wrong place — in front of the screen! And I was thinking "why aren't people buying tickets for good places?"

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 17/07/2026

I bought the wrong ticket by mistake ...

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 17/07/2026

Gonna watch Odyssey on IMAX today.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 13/07/2026

Verse 348: Let go of the past, let go of the future, let go of the present, and cross over to the farther shore of existence. With a mind wholly liberated, you shall come no more to birth and death.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 13/07/2026

I have started reading Dhammapada.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 07/07/2026

All these extra, unnecessary processes complicate my life. Exile only made the voices in my head louder. I feel like a cosmic catastrophe. It would have been better if I was never born.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 07/07/2026

This doesn't stop there. Even after the conversation finishes, I start ruminating about it. What could have gone better? Did I do something wrong? What if I said this, would it make it worse? Practically, there is no use for doing this. Yet I can't simply switch it off.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 07/07/2026

These days I feel like my brain is running under a heavy workload. I am not able to hold a conversation without scripting it first: like games where ending can change depending on your choices. My brain calculates every possible outcome and it is hard for me to function.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 23/06/2026

I feel like a simulation sometimes.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 07/06/2026

I certainly had better days.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 20/05/2026

The most enjoyable moment for me is when I sit with someone and just keep silent. Like, I want to say a thousand things but in the end silence seems like the best choice.

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Raphael Bossniak @rbossniak.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

2024. Die aserbaidschanische Journalistin Ulviyya (Ali) Guliyeva erklärt mir mit welcher Masche Journalisten hier verhaftet werden: Ihnen wird Geld untergeschoben, sie stehen dann wegen "Bargeldschmuggel" vor Gericht. 2025. Guliyeva wird selbst verhaftet. In ihrer Wohnung werden 6.700€ versteckt.

Screenshot eines profil-Artikels:
Gegen "Abzas Media" laufen sieben Ermittlungsverfahren, darunter wegen Geldwäsche und Steuerhinterziehung. „Gerade der Vorwurf von Finanzverbrechen ist eine Strategie, um Journalisten einzuschüchtern und zu diskreditieren“, erklärt die Journalistin Ulviyya Ali, die über den Fall intensiv berichtet hatte. Weit verbreitet ist die Taktik bei Hausdurchsuchungen, entweder hohe Bargeldsummen oder Drogen zu deponieren um Strafverfahren zu fingieren.
Das soll neben Haftstrafen oder Bußgeldern auch den journalistischen Ruf zerstören, erzählt Ali. „Journalisten, die noch auf freiem Fuß sind, werden darauf als Zeugen zu Verhören eingeladen“, erklärt sie. „Indirekt wird damit natürlich die Nachricht gesendet ‚Wenn du weiter so machst, wartet auf dich auch das Gefängnis‘.“

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Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @hrf.org · 06/05/2026

One year ago today, seven police officers stormed the Baku home of former VOA News freelance reporter Ulviyya Ali at midnight, searched it, and arrested her. HRF demands her immediate release and accountability for the abuse she has suffered in detention.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 07/05/2026

First birthday in exile

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 19/04/2026

Happy to contribute advocacy efforts for Ahmad Mammadli — an Azerbaijani journalist, human rights defender, and founder of independent media outlet Yoldaş Media, who was sentenced to 6 years in prison on fabricated charges in retaliation for his reporting. ahmadmammadli.info

ahmadmammadli.info

Free Ahmad Mammadli | Əhməd Məmmədliyə azadlıq!

Ahmad Mammadli, Azerbaijani journalist and activist, was sentenced to 6 years in prison on fabricated charges. Demand his release.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 08/04/2026

I published this command line tool to download books from Russian Public Historical Library github.com/cavidaga/pye...

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 29/03/2026

Wrote a Wikipedia article about Jacob Reineggs, who visited Caucasus in 1780-1784. He later became court physician to Heraclius II, eventually instrumental in annexation of Georgia to Russian Empire en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_R...

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Jacob Reineggs - Wikipedia

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 27/03/2026

Not to be pedantic, but you mistake lazım for vacib here. Vacib is necessary, lazım is needed. Mənə lazımdır — I need it. Mənə vacibdir — It is necessary for me.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 27/03/2026

There is a new Thai food place next to my house and man, I should have tried Khao Soi with duck long ago.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 24/03/2026

I translated "Una Embajada de Clemente VIII a Persia (1600-1609)" by O.S.A. Carlos Alonso to English. You can buy for $15 here: www.patreon.com/posts/clemen...

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Clement VIII's Persian Gamble | Cavid Ağa

Get more from Cavid Ağa on Patreon

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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

"As ridiculous as it sounds, being radical in Azerbaijan amounts to writing articles and conducting interviews," says @louisemichelone.bsky.social.

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Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

“After Azerbaijan, I changed three countries and four homes," says @cavid.info. “I still have difficulty processing it. Rebuilding a circle of friends, meeting new people, retelling the same story to everyone — it is mentally exhausting.”

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 01/02/2026

I will be an addict of something by this month. Still choosing the best substance.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 26/01/2026

Slavoj Žižek and renowned scholars demand freedom for Bahruz Samadov freebahruzcampaign.org/news/zizek-s...

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 23/01/2026

Today mom dumped an insane lore about my childhood. Apparently I started walking at the month of 8 before crawling. I was sitting all the time before. One day they walked in and I was just standing there lol.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 05/01/2026

In some cases, Turkish. If I am going to make a joke, it is probably going to be in Turkish. Because somehow, in Azerbaijani, it would sound too cringe...

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 05/01/2026

The main difference between English and Azerbaijani is that Azerbaijani is a performative language. It requires action. English is my escape from my own mind. My Azerbaijani mind is a fucking warzone where I want to kill everyone I hate. English is... just a bunch of bad people.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 05/01/2026

Saying "I love you" to a person in English is just a step up from pizza. You can't "sev" a pizza in Azerbaijani, when you use Azerbaijani for it, it feels like a big, serious commitment to a pizza. It is almost like a taboo.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 05/01/2026

Fun fact: I have texted all my Azerbaijani girlfriends in English. I could have easily used Azerbaijani as well, but Azerbaijani feels too serious to use that way. In English, it is so easy to say "I hate you" or "I love you". You can hate pizza and love pizza.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 05/01/2026

I have always wondered why I use English on social media. Contrary to what people think, I am not trying to be as universal as possible. It is just that English is the most comfortable language to express my intimate feelings in.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 02/01/2026

The most brutal thing to discover about myself since arriving in Warsaw was that I am genuinely incapable of expressing any feeling externally. Everything goes inside - the joy, the rage, the love and the sadness etc.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 21/12/2025

Life feels unbearable in exile oftentimes. Loneliness is killing me, not gonna lie.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 07/12/2025

I fucking hate it man. One of my friends committed suicide today by walking into Caspian Sea. No notes, no farewell. I fucking hate it.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 24/11/2025

Azerbaijan’s presidential website has briefly published, then quietly removed, a detailed regulation outlining how the State Security Service would collect and access personal data on citizens and residents through a new centralised system. oc-media.org/azerbaijan-d...

oc-media.org

Azerbaijan deletes plan for detailed surveillance system minutes after publication

The plan outlined how the State Security Service would collect and access personal data.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 09/10/2025

Message from @smdov.bsky.social: 1. He greets OSCE ODIHR conference participants. 2. "I call on the organizers to pay attention to the current deplorable situation regarding human rights in Azerbaijan — the issue of political prisoners." 3. "I thank those who raised this issue."

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 06/10/2025

Dear friends, I have launched a website for @ulviyyaali.bsky.social where you will be able to read her letters from prison and relevant news about her case: ulviyyaali.com

ulviyyaali.com

Ulviyya Ali

Official website of the independent journalist, human rights defender, and political prisoner Ulviyya Ali.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 05/10/2025

I will visit Krakow in the coming days.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 18/09/2025

My father was the last in our tribe born in a nomad’s tent. A century earlier, my great-great-grandfather’s cousin testified about the massacre that nearly destroyed the Padars. I wrote about it here: cavid.info/the-padar-ma...

cavid.info

The Padar massacre of 1918 | Cavid Ağa

In 1919, the elder of the Padar nomads, Ağacan İbad oğlu, testified before the Azerbaijani Extraordinary Investigative Commission about the destruction of his community’s encampments. His words, recor...

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 17/09/2025

Why did I create it? Because media freedom in Azerbaijan is heavily restricted. News is often published with bias, and it’s hard for readers to see the truth in a clear way. I wanted to build something to help fill that gap.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 17/09/2025

Yesterday, I launched lnk.az, an AI-powered media bias detector for Azerbaijani readership. My goal is to make information more transparent, clear, and independent for everyone.

lnk.az

LNK - Media qərəzi qiymətləndiricisi

Süni intellektlə media qərəzi və etibarlılığı yoxlayın. Etibarlılıq (0–100) və siyasi hakimiyyət meyli (−5…+5) üzrə qiymətləndirmə.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 14/09/2025

Berlin is so chaotic. I can't wait to go back to Warsaw.

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 04/09/2025

"As I am still being kept in prison unjustly, starting tomorrow, 5 September, I will begin an indefinite hunger strike in Umbaku prison, where I am held."

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 04/09/2025

"I express my gratitude to those who demand my freedom and stand for truth and justice. I sincerely thank those who attended my trials and my friends."

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Cavid Ağa @cavid.info · 04/09/2025

Message from @smdov.bsky.social: "My trials were conducted very unfairly. No one was allowed into my hearings. They could not prove my guilt in any way. I ask all honest people to share that I am innocent and that I was imprisoned for wanting peace and justice."

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