Just one more from Rafi and Johnny. I gotta wonder, what are the chances of a bus driver and devout Muslim (and by all accounts thoroughly decent human being) being catapulted to fame in today's Bollywood? (rhetorical) youtu.be/6h4KqRe3604?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallege Day 13: A song by a an artist/band starting with M It turns I literally couldn't do just one Rafi Saheb song youtu.be/pC5Eyfl8WuA?...

Drop something PINK. 🌸🐖👚🦩🩷

A very rare instance of colorisation actually doing justice to its subject imo. If any film sequence deserves to look as good as possible, it's this iconic example of sublime human dance skill www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoMb...

Scrolling through a YT compilation called "Top 20 Greatest Dance Routines of All Time" I was not surprised by the complete absence of any great dance sequences from Indian cinema (🙄) but that US compilers can STILL ignore the Nicholas Brothers is 😡🤬

Post something black & white 🖤🤍

Jamāl al-Din `Abd al-Rahīm ibn `Umar ibn Abī Bakr al-Dimashqī, known as al-Jawbarī I've read read plenty of long books in my life but the book I'm currently #Reading wins the 'longest author's name' prize by at least 12 parsecs #Booksky

This week's #MurderEveryMonday theme is "Crime fiction which is in an omnibus edition" - so I've used deductive skills of which Hastings and Watson would be proud and concluded that this one just might qualify. #Reading #Mystery #Booksky crossexaminingcrime.com/murdereverym...

#MusicChallenge #DavidsMonthOfMusic DAY 8 - A SONG BY A BAND/ARTIST WHOSE NAME STARTS WITH H. youtube.com/watch?v=ovAV...

Drop something yellow 💛🐤🐝

As fun as it was to be stopped by a young supermarket staffer who said "love your shirt, we're winning the league", confirming my suspicion that he quite literally was not alive the last time #ArsenalFC di was a bit depressing

If Spuds are relegated AND #ArsenalFC win the League, does Vinai Venkatesham get a lifetime achievement award for the most successful agent provocateur EVAH?🤔😆

As Vizzini reminded us, everyone knows Australia is entirely peopled with criminals - including who ever it was that bribed and/or blackmailed the Canadian PM to give AUS the credit for being the first to grant female suffrage. Bad enough they stole the pav, Phar Lap and the flat white, eh?! 🤦‍♂️🙄

Happy St Totteringham's day to all who celebrate it! (The earliest ever!) #COYG #Arsenal #THFC #PremierLeague #FPL

Let's hope enough people buy it to get you to Paris when it sizzles, or at the very least a Roamin' Holiday.

@thestorygraph.com minutes after securing my prized "Early Bird" tag for another year, I got to wondering - how many of us are left?

#LookAndSee 343 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky I could've gone with Nelly Furtado, but she came to mind second. This one popped in first, straight away www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuM...

#LookAndSee 342 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejor...

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

I could not just reply for some reason. One week means one thing, will try to come up with my NR 1 thing on all 2 main islands

#LookAndSee 339 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=O93E...

St Totteringham's Day could be THIS WEEKEND?! Awesome! #ArsenalFC

Quote post with a drama that is not your favorite genre but is so good you loved it anyways TOO Easy. I love sageuks the way Xi loves Winnie the Pooh, but I LOVED #TreeWithDeepRoots - 24 eps of linguistics, phonology and orthography. (There may have been some historical swordy stuff too)

A wonderful book I happened upon in The Heath Bookshop a while ago: Partha Mandal, Zarah Alam, Anne Cockitt, Natasha Uzair, Mohammad Farooque (eds.) – “My City, My Home” librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/b... #ReadIndies2026 @sampadarts.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙💡

#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 23. A perfect song to sing along to. Our House. Madness. "Our house, in the middle of our street Our house, in the middle of our Our house, in the middle of our street Our house, in the middle of our street" youtu.be/KwIe_sjKeAY?...

#LookAndSee 336 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjZy...

#LookAndSee 335 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJg6...

If you see this, post a character that starts with X.

#LookAndSee 334 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky (The chances of me not using this one were a million to one against) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Poii...

If you see this, post a character that starts with W

This was fun & mildly trippy. YouTube said it would provide auto-generated Panjabi subs, and did, then it started slipping in Hindi devanagari, a bit of Marathi devanagari with a couple of characters maybe from Bangla, then back to Gurmukhi & devanagari www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ3L...

yourrahmanera.com/r/YCqfpdZJ (A little cheating - if offered 2 songs I didn't know, 1 Hindi & 1 Tamizh, I defaulted to Tamizh)

An interesting development tonight: Concrete plans made for to leave these shores for only the third time in my nearly twice as many decades. It will be my first time visiting a prisoner island, hidden in the summer for a million years.

TFW you loved an outstanding translation so much you'd love to get your hands on the original, but have no idea how to go about it. Muhammad Umar Memon's translation of Ikramullah Chaudhary's "The Old Mansion" left me wishing I could at least TRY to read it in Urdu, one day. #Reading #Booksky

The first time I ever came across the terms "threshold of human survivability" and "wet bulb temperature" were in articles about Pakistan, so it's no surprise that Mohsin Hamid's short "Air Conditioning" is my favourite fiction in "City of Sin and Splendour" #Reading #Booksky

Currently #Reading the awesomely-names "City of Sin and Splendour: Writings on Lahore" and enjoying it. As obscure connections go, "great-great-grandmother's uncle" is right up there, but since I started because of a family it's still fun to see a different family name referenced often.

If you see this, post a character that starts with the letter H

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen

I'm #Reading "Devil in the Mountain - A Search for the Origin of the Andes" and this sounds like a fun trick question: How can you climb 2,000 metres by descending for 5 minutes? #Booksky #Geology

Drop a tracher

“Our social media screens are now flooded with some images that show us the hard-to-swallow reality of Hindi cinema….This was not a clandestine meeting. This was spectacle. The optics were deliberate, the message unambiguous.” #DesiWatch

To celebrate my new ATP host from Europe, eurosky.social , a song also from Europe The Final Countdown referred to is likely to be the final countdown for when I have none of what they possess in such abundance: . . . Hair. 😢 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-...

Which is your favourite? For me, of this set, in order: Green Money, Kate Hardy, The Fair Miss Fortune

@eurosky.social a question about the rate limit: I just made my very first post as a eurosky.social user and got "rate limit exceeded". I wondered if it was the GIF I was trying to use, so deleted it and was able to make the post no problem. Does this mean any GIF will always exceed the rate limit?

Burning is nothing, Ripping is the true dark magic 🤫

I did a bit better today, at least www.maptap.gg February 13 98🎯 95🏅 97🔥 100🎯 96🔥 Final score: 975

Being a flight attendant is a tough job and now, when some of them selflessly perform a heroic community service, they get labelled as villains? I feel so sorry for them

Who's the most famous alum of your high school? Aussies might know one of these, the other one might be more widely known to popera fans (I had no idea who he was)

quote with a gif that pops up when you type your name

This song is in Panjabi, so I have only a very hazy grasp of the lyrics. Which is WAY more than my grasp of the video! I'm sharing it because though I find the video pretentiously 'arty', I like the song & it reminds me "I'm thinking of giving sufism a whirl" 🤣 www.youtube.com/watch?v=anZj...