A guitar pick with a gas masked penguin print.

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   Deniz Opal (selzero@syzito.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 03:28:23 JST Deniz Opal

   When the Gezi protests kicked off a decade ago, Turkish state TV showed a documentary about penguins while people were getting tear gassed and beaten by the police.

   The gas masked penguin became the symbol of the protests, and I still have this guitar pick from back then.

   It's ironic that as protests against an egomaniac autocrat kick off again in Turkey in 2025, the penguin has become symbolic of another egomaniac autocrat in the USA at exactly the same time.