Reposted by mertfancy waddle dee @fivepoisonskid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026happy john coltrane centenary. i remember bringing this one home from gamestop. 429272
Reposted by mertseeds @moderndayzee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026People on Discogs will straight up spend $1000 on a late 80s private press album that sounds like this 033
mert @ussakli.com · 15/09/2026Looking forward to seeing Ed’s team book Downtown Boys as a kid-friendly non-political substitute next 020
mert @ussakli.com · 13/09/2026I don’t want to be mean (and probably get blocked as a result as well) but the “AI art that is displacing jobs” are displacing bad graphic design work that was always on thin ice In another world these were jobs WordArt displaced 010
Reposted by mertMegan Ross @meganross.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I don’t think a single driver should be able to crash into another vehicle, take out power for thousands of people and the only two grocery stores in reasonable walking distance of my house *and* close my local Light Rail station for hours without significant legal consequences 2405
mert @ussakli.com · 23/08/2026The Turkish diaspora experience is inextricably tied to an endless quest for good yogurt 010
mert @ussakli.com · 20/08/2026This is like when you assign more workers to finish your Wonder more quickly in Age of Empires 020
mert @ussakli.com · 17/08/2026Driving on the road is a privilege you are granted on the basis that you will follow the rules and keep the vulnerable safe There are many other things you can participate in where you wont be watched and vetted to see if you are a good person, but driving or owning guns clearly are not that 130
Reposted by mertOlraca @olraca.bsky.social · 06/08/2026We replaced the entire 520 floating bridge across Lake Washington, tore down the Alaskan Way Viaduct, bored, broke, dug out, fixed, continued boring a tunnel with the world's largest tunnel boring machine, and built an entire new waterfront during the entire time this has been held up by SEPA. 15518
mert @ussakli.com · 22/07/2026TIL most license plates (including ours in WA) are produced by prison labor 010
mert @ussakli.com · 15/07/2026I also feel like if I leave home before 7 AM for a cycling commute there is a pretty good guarantee that the road is light on cars. 5 PM dark basically means I feel unsafe biking on roads. There will definitely be cars and visibility influences how much they can see me 010
mert @ussakli.com · 15/07/2026I am partially asleep in the first 1 hour of being out the door, sun or no sun. I am always awake at 5 PM, but potentially sad if it is already dark. 110
mert @ussakli.com · 12/07/2026It exists! In fact the organizer of our group just finished a 1200K and is trying to qualify for PBP 130
mert @ussakli.com · 08/07/2026You should also look towards the students who are… doing the cheating. I remember flagging many cases of plagiarism as a TA and the professors ignoring them, or requiring a really egregious case to even take it seriously. Professors have a role to play to enforce the code. 010
mert @ussakli.com · 26/06/2026If there was any logic to this Turkey would have renamed the name for Hindistan and I have seen zero proposals for anyone for them to do that 010
mert @ussakli.com · 26/06/2026I don’t think that’s the logic? The point is about whether honoring the name or not should be moralized or not, not why you should honor it. And in this case, it’s not the country reclaiming a lost name. It is a bunch of bureaucrats who are too insecure to associate themselves with a bird 110
mert @ussakli.com · 26/06/2026Do we refer to Germany as Deutschland in English? Do Turkish people call England England in Turkish, or do they call it İngiltere? Should the English make a request to rename the Turkish pronunciation to İnglınd to avoid the linguistic similarity to “Dingiltere” (land of idiots)? 100
mert @ussakli.com · 26/06/2026I have never heard of anyone in Turkey making an issue out of the name of our country in English growing up. It has been made a political issue unilaterally by the Erdoğan government. It is not “woke” to respect the declared desires of an authoritarian state 130
Reposted by mertactual heathcliff comics @realheathcliffs.bsky.social · 19/06/202619 Jun 2026 32558148
mert @ussakli.com · 08/06/2026The new KARYYN album is strangely receiving no music media coverage. If you like art pop a la FKA Twigs or Björk, this is a gem from this year karyyn.bandcamp.com/album/physic...karyyn.bandcamp.comPHYSICS UNIVERSAL LOVE LANGUAGE (PULL), by K Á R Y Y N10 track album 030
mert @ussakli.com · 08/06/2026Saw them double headline with Metronomy around when Metronomy released English Riviera, a bygone era haha 010
Reposted by mertseeds @moderndayzee.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I'm glad someone finally wrote a song about this taraclerkintrio.bandcamp.com/track/there-...taraclerkintrio.bandcamp.comThere Was A Nice Sunset, by Tara Clerkin Triofrom the album Somewhere Good 121
mert @ussakli.com · 05/06/2026I can’t imagine the anxiety they must have over handing their precious equipment over to a bunch or strangers at every stop 110
Reposted by mertGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/06/2026Anchor lady: Well, but obviously a lot of smart people are invested in AI. Ed Zitron: *total silence* 322850
mert @ussakli.com · 04/06/2026Omg the KARYYN album open.spotify.com/track/4jgLPK...open.spotify.comFWDKÁRYYN · PHYSICS UNIVERSAL LOVE LANGUAGE (PULL) · Song · 2026 010
mert @ussakli.com · 01/06/2026@typewriteralley.bsky.social’s BlueSky account is always there when I want to know what coffee shop to go to next to a light rail station 000
Reposted by mertSonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 26/05/2026It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2 298105802675
