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Omar Khan

@omaromalleykhan.bsky.social

He's been saying silly & wrong things about language proficiency well before 'Boriswave', telling me 15 yrs ago that Pakistanis in Bradford spoke 3 languages badly: northern English, 'Street Gangstah' [his accent was cringe] & Urdu. I said: I didnt know you spoke Urdu David; he rolled his eyes at me

November 2, 2026 at 7:02 PM

Alexander Jabbari

@ajab.bsky.social

I'm in Hyderabad, India and looking forward to speaking at this conference at Maulana Azad National Urdu University tomorrow

Networks and Entanglements: Exploring Civilisational Intertextuality in the Global South

November 1, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Simmix1

@simmix1.bsky.social

Við erum komin á þennan stað, það þarf að taka fram að fávitar séu íslenskir.

"Þeir eru í haldi lögreglu og eru allir íslenskir líkt og þeir sem urðu fyrir árásinni."

November 1, 2026 at 1:06 PM

Robert Fields

@robertfields39.bsky.social

VOTER HELPLINES
(866) OUR-VOTE
(888) VE-Y-VOTA (Spanish/English)
(844) YALLA-US (Arabic/English)
(888) API-VOTE (English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Urdu, Hindi Bengali and Punjabi)

🔗 www.866ourvote.org
☎️ CALL HOTLINE 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683) for HELP

November 2, 2026 at 2:55 AM

Robert Fields

@robertfields39.bsky.social

VOTER HELPLINES
(866) OUR-VOTE
(888) VE-Y-VOTA (Spanish/English)
(844) YALLA-US (Arabic/English)
(888) API-VOTE (English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Urdu, Hindi Bengali and Punjabi)

🔗 www.866ourvote.org
☎️ CALL HOTLINE 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683) for HELP

November 2, 2026 at 12:58 AM

Harf-e-Hunar

@harf-e-hunar.bsky.social

Urdu quotation

October 28, 2026 at 7:45 PM

temporal3

@temporal3.bsky.social

candor / hyacinth / nurture / Nov 02

candor blended love
hyacinth nurtures mixed joy
rollercoaster ride

#haikuchallenge (candor)
#BraveWrite (hyacinth)
#haikufeels (nurture)

#WritersOfBluesky #PoetsOfBluesky
#micropoetry #senryu #writingcommunity
#poetrycommunity #thaiku #tpoem

baithuk.wordpress

Baithuk

a fireplace with cozy rugs and a flying carpet, poetry and musings trans-created in english and urdu.

baithuk.wordpress.com

November 2, 2026 at 5:43 PM

Stephanie Mathis, MLS(ASCP) 😷💜

@stephmu00mls.bsky.social

If you run into *ANY* trouble (obstruction) at polls, call‼️

English: 866-687-8683

Spanish: 888-839-8682

Arabic: 844-925-5287

Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali/Bangla, & Punjabi:
888-274-8683

🇺🇸💪❤️‼️

866ourvote.org

November 1, 2026 at 9:19 PM

temporal3

@temporal3.bsky.social

bluebell / costume / survive / Oct 31

halloween costume
antithesis in action
white or pink bluebell

#haikuchallenge (bluebell)
#BraveWrite (costume)
#haikufeels (survive)

#WritersOfBluesky #PoetsOfBluesky
#micropoetry #senryu #writingcommunity
#poetrycommunity #thaiku #tpoem

baithuk.wordpress

Baithuk

a fireplace with cozy rugs and a flying carpet, poetry and musings trans-created in english and urdu.

baithuk.wordpress.com

October 31, 2026 at 3:34 PM

Vintage Obscura Radio

@vintageobscura.net

Enoch Daniels - Unknown Urdu Title [India/Pakistan, Soundtrack, Instrumental, Swing] (196?) ripped from a rare Pakistani EP of the Indian multi-instrumentalist Enoch Light
https://redd.it/dagkeq
https://youtu.be/g2U8WZhruJ0

Enoch Daniels - Unknown Urdu Title [India/Pakistan, Soundtrack, Instrumental, Swing] (196?) ripped from a rare Pakistani EP of the Indian multi-instrumentalist Enoch Light

youtu.be

November 2, 2026 at 9:12 PM

temporal3

@temporal3.bsky.social

bouquet / bias / increase / Nov 01

bouquet aroma
increases appreciation
overcomes biases

#haikuchallenge (bouquet)
#BraveWrite (bias)
#haikufeels (increase)

#WritersOfBluesky #PoetsOfBluesky
#micropoetry #senryu #writingcommunity
#poetrycommunity #thaiku #tpoem

baithuk.wordpress.com
baithak.

Baithuk

a fireplace with cozy rugs and a flying carpet, poetry and musings trans-created in english and urdu.

baithuk.wordpress.com

November 1, 2026 at 5:05 PM

Harf-e-Hunar

@harf-e-hunar.bsky.social

Turkish quotation| how to write with the cut marker #shorts #Urdu #calligraphy

October 28, 2026 at 5:36 PM

ACLU of Massachusetts

@aclum.bsky.social

See or experience voter intimidation? Call the Election Protection Hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683)
888-VE-Y-VOTA (888-839-8682) for Spanish
844-YALLA-US (844-925-5287) for Arabic
888-API-VOTE (888-274-8683) for Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Bengali

November 1, 2026 at 10:00 PM

Juan Acevedo

@juanacevedo.bsky.social

#Persian and #Arabic #calligraphy savvy friends could you help me decide between these two fonts or suggest another one? I really feel I can't tell with Nastaliq. FWIW top is Mehr Nastaliq Web, bottom is Noto Nastaliq Urdu
@t6e.dev @majnouna.com thanks!

October 30, 2026 at 11:04 AM

aradhna.

@araopenpages.bsky.social

I don't know about which one writer or philosopher, but Urdu shayari, sufi music, qawalis and Punjabi songs (and Bollywood lyrics) definitely resonate with my characters and my writing.

#LitHodgePodge

Pamela Jeong 🎃🫜 @pamelajeong.bsky.social · 5d

#LitHodgepodge 29

Many great writers & philosophers have tried to pinpoint the nature of love. It doesn’t have to be romantic love either—Aristotle’s ideas, for example, were about friendship.

Which (simplified) philosophy would resonate most with your OC? Why?

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#LITHODGEPODGE
Hosted by @pamelajeong.bsky.social

An October Prompt Game of Miscellaneous Proportions

THURSDAY THRIFTED THERAPY

[Graphic of an old-timey bearded man sitting and leaning his arm against a barrel with a tiny frog crawling up its side]

Prompt:
29 | Which of these famous thinkers’ philosophies on love would speak to your character most? Why?

Love is…
Aristotle: One soul residing in two bodies.
Freud: Desire in disguise.
Buddha: Letting go.
Emerson: Transformative, when given all.
Nietzsche: The drive to possess another.
Dostoevsky: Suffering.
Shakespeare: An ever-fixed mark.
Schopenhauer: A trick of nature.
Marx: A luxury the poor cannot afford.
Rumi: The fire that burns everything false.

[Graphic of a talking crow]
Philosophers, writers, and artists have mused on the nature of love since... well, forever, it seems. Me, I’ve always rather liked Blaise Pascal’s quote: “The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.” But what do I know—I’m just a crow.

Join tomorrow for Friday Flights of Fancy!

October 30, 2026 at 3:14 AM

Kári Tulinius

@kattullus.bsky.social

Ég var með krónískt þunglyndi líka í meira en áratug. Það tók mig langan tíma að vinna mig upp úr því en það er hægt. Fyrst var það einn og einn góður dagur við og við, en svo urðu þeir fleiri, og að lokum urðu þeir fleiri en slæmu dagarnir.

October 27, 2026 at 8:51 PM