All The City Lights
@atcl.bsky.social
Fan of music, cargo bikes, the #EastBay, and humor. Not a fan of the seemingly inexorable slide into fascism. #ShoupPilled. Follow me if you want to have far too many song-a-day #MusicChallenge posts sliding into your timeline.
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Open Letters to Lake Erie and Lake Ontario on their Treatment by Gordon Lightfoot in the Sixth Verse of “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” | All The City Lights
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The 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald inspired me to finish up something that's been rattling around in my brain for a while now.
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“You Don’t Love Me Anymore,” “Weird Al” Yankovic
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#MusicSky
“You Don’t Love Me Anymore,” “Weird Al” Yankovic
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November 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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“You Don’t Love Me Anymore,” “Weird Al” Yankovic
youtu.be/kWD5gdpt4Dw?...
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
“You Don’t Love Me Anymore,” “Weird Al” Yankovic
youtu.be/kWD5gdpt4Dw?...
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Oaklanders were pretty upbeat about the city in the mid-2010s and then starting in 2019 with the affordability squeeze and the covid crime wave people really felt things were going bad. The trajectory appears to have finally reversed towards a positive direction.
November 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Oaklanders were pretty upbeat about the city in the mid-2010s and then starting in 2019 with the affordability squeeze and the covid crime wave people really felt things were going bad. The trajectory appears to have finally reversed towards a positive direction.
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This thread, plucked from this week’s newsletter, will likely change your perspective on extreme wealth.
Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy?
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November 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This thread, plucked from this week’s newsletter, will likely change your perspective on extreme wealth.
#TheTwen2ie5 - Day 40
11. "Golden"
Zella Day
2021
USA
ISC ✅
NKC ✅
Day is not nearly as well known as her L.A. alt-pop scene buddies Lana Del Rey and Weyes Blood. This downer-disco gem alone should have been sufficient for her to break through to their level. The whole album is great, though!
11. "Golden"
Zella Day
2021
USA
ISC ✅
NKC ✅
Day is not nearly as well known as her L.A. alt-pop scene buddies Lana Del Rey and Weyes Blood. This downer-disco gem alone should have been sufficient for her to break through to their level. The whole album is great, though!
November 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 - Day 40
11. "Golden"
Zella Day
2021
USA
ISC ✅
NKC ✅
Day is not nearly as well known as her L.A. alt-pop scene buddies Lana Del Rey and Weyes Blood. This downer-disco gem alone should have been sufficient for her to break through to their level. The whole album is great, though!
11. "Golden"
Zella Day
2021
USA
ISC ✅
NKC ✅
Day is not nearly as well known as her L.A. alt-pop scene buddies Lana Del Rey and Weyes Blood. This downer-disco gem alone should have been sufficient for her to break through to their level. The whole album is great, though!
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 15 - "Grade 9," Barenaked Ladies
Speaking of Duran Duran:
"Went out for the football team to prove that I'm a man,
Guess I shouldn't tell them that I like Duran Duran"
AND ...
"Dad said I have to be home by 11
Oh man I'm gonna miss 'Stairway to Heaven'!"
#MusicChallenge
Day 15 - "Grade 9," Barenaked Ladies
Speaking of Duran Duran:
"Went out for the football team to prove that I'm a man,
Guess I shouldn't tell them that I like Duran Duran"
AND ...
"Dad said I have to be home by 11
Oh man I'm gonna miss 'Stairway to Heaven'!"
November 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 15 - "Grade 9," Barenaked Ladies
Speaking of Duran Duran:
"Went out for the football team to prove that I'm a man,
Guess I shouldn't tell them that I like Duran Duran"
AND ...
"Dad said I have to be home by 11
Oh man I'm gonna miss 'Stairway to Heaven'!"
#MusicChallenge
Day 15 - "Grade 9," Barenaked Ladies
Speaking of Duran Duran:
"Went out for the football team to prove that I'm a man,
Guess I shouldn't tell them that I like Duran Duran"
AND ...
"Dad said I have to be home by 11
Oh man I'm gonna miss 'Stairway to Heaven'!"
#NotKnownEnough
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 15 - Simple Kid
📍 Cork, IRL
Monthly listeners: 9K
I really only know Kieran Mac Feely's 1st album, the aptly titled "1." He was pitched as Europe's answer to Beck, and they share a certain folk-plus-the-kitchen-sink approach, genre-wise.
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 15 - Simple Kid
📍 Cork, IRL
Monthly listeners: 9K
I really only know Kieran Mac Feely's 1st album, the aptly titled "1." He was pitched as Europe's answer to Beck, and they share a certain folk-plus-the-kitchen-sink approach, genre-wise.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
#NotKnownEnough
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 15 - Simple Kid
📍 Cork, IRL
Monthly listeners: 9K
I really only know Kieran Mac Feely's 1st album, the aptly titled "1." He was pitched as Europe's answer to Beck, and they share a certain folk-plus-the-kitchen-sink approach, genre-wise.
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 15 - Simple Kid
📍 Cork, IRL
Monthly listeners: 9K
I really only know Kieran Mac Feely's 1st album, the aptly titled "1." He was pitched as Europe's answer to Beck, and they share a certain folk-plus-the-kitchen-sink approach, genre-wise.
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And how much Transportation is hidden in the other categories? What portion of Housing costs is the garage under your apartment building? What portion of Food is the sea of parking surrounding the supermarket? What portion of Healthcare is car-related injury and respiratory disease?
Transportation costs are the second largest burden on American family budgets (17%), after housing (33%)!
To address the affordability crisis, we must create cities with abundant housing of all types (subsidized, social, coop, market rate) and make walking, biking, and taking transit convenient.
To address the affordability crisis, we must create cities with abundant housing of all types (subsidized, social, coop, market rate) and make walking, biking, and taking transit convenient.
November 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
And how much Transportation is hidden in the other categories? What portion of Housing costs is the garage under your apartment building? What portion of Food is the sea of parking surrounding the supermarket? What portion of Healthcare is car-related injury and respiratory disease?
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 14 - "She Doesn't Get It," The Format
Kids today only know one Duran Duran song, right 24-year-old Nate Ruess?
"She stops and she sings 'do do do do do do do do!'
I claim 'New Religion' is my song
She doesn't get it, it's all before she's born"
#MusicChallenge
Day 14 - "She Doesn't Get It," The Format
Kids today only know one Duran Duran song, right 24-year-old Nate Ruess?
"She stops and she sings 'do do do do do do do do!'
I claim 'New Religion' is my song
She doesn't get it, it's all before she's born"
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 14 - "She Doesn't Get It," The Format
Kids today only know one Duran Duran song, right 24-year-old Nate Ruess?
"She stops and she sings 'do do do do do do do do!'
I claim 'New Religion' is my song
She doesn't get it, it's all before she's born"
#MusicChallenge
Day 14 - "She Doesn't Get It," The Format
Kids today only know one Duran Duran song, right 24-year-old Nate Ruess?
"She stops and she sings 'do do do do do do do do!'
I claim 'New Religion' is my song
She doesn't get it, it's all before she's born"
#TheTwen2ie5 - Day 39
12. "Gila Monster"
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
2023
Australia
ISC ✅
NKC ❌
The only real metal I've got in my Top 50, and it's arguably a spoof. But what a spoof! KG&TLW famously switches up genres every album, but they clearly know their thrash.
ALL HAIL KING GILA! WOO!
12. "Gila Monster"
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
2023
Australia
ISC ✅
NKC ❌
The only real metal I've got in my Top 50, and it's arguably a spoof. But what a spoof! KG&TLW famously switches up genres every album, but they clearly know their thrash.
ALL HAIL KING GILA! WOO!
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 - Day 39
12. "Gila Monster"
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
2023
Australia
ISC ✅
NKC ❌
The only real metal I've got in my Top 50, and it's arguably a spoof. But what a spoof! KG&TLW famously switches up genres every album, but they clearly know their thrash.
ALL HAIL KING GILA! WOO!
12. "Gila Monster"
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
2023
Australia
ISC ✅
NKC ❌
The only real metal I've got in my Top 50, and it's arguably a spoof. But what a spoof! KG&TLW famously switches up genres every album, but they clearly know their thrash.
ALL HAIL KING GILA! WOO!
#readandplay (529)
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”
Read 📚 & Play🎶
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”
Read 📚 & Play🎶
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
#readandplay (529)
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”
Read 📚 & Play🎶
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”
Read 📚 & Play🎶
#NotKnownEnough
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 14 - Lydia Loveless
📍 Columbus, OH
Monthly listeners: 11K
Of all the artists I'm featuring, I'm most shocked by just how #NotKnownEnough Loveless is. She oughta be as popular as pop-Americana peers like Amanda Shires & Waxahatchee, I say!
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 14 - Lydia Loveless
📍 Columbus, OH
Monthly listeners: 11K
Of all the artists I'm featuring, I'm most shocked by just how #NotKnownEnough Loveless is. She oughta be as popular as pop-Americana peers like Amanda Shires & Waxahatchee, I say!
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
#NotKnownEnough
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 14 - Lydia Loveless
📍 Columbus, OH
Monthly listeners: 11K
Of all the artists I'm featuring, I'm most shocked by just how #NotKnownEnough Loveless is. She oughta be as popular as pop-Americana peers like Amanda Shires & Waxahatchee, I say!
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 14 - Lydia Loveless
📍 Columbus, OH
Monthly listeners: 11K
Of all the artists I'm featuring, I'm most shocked by just how #NotKnownEnough Loveless is. She oughta be as popular as pop-Americana peers like Amanda Shires & Waxahatchee, I say!
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Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵
#TheTwen2ie5 - Day 38
13. "How Can I Love Her More?"
The Lemon Twigs
2024
USA
ICS ✅
NKC ❌
Beach Boys-esque Pop isn't a subgenre the same way that Beatles-esque Pop is. I'm more than OK with there being more stuff that sounds like PET SOUNDS in the world, and the D'Addario bros. nail the homage.
13. "How Can I Love Her More?"
The Lemon Twigs
2024
USA
ICS ✅
NKC ❌
Beach Boys-esque Pop isn't a subgenre the same way that Beatles-esque Pop is. I'm more than OK with there being more stuff that sounds like PET SOUNDS in the world, and the D'Addario bros. nail the homage.
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 - Day 38
13. "How Can I Love Her More?"
The Lemon Twigs
2024
USA
ICS ✅
NKC ❌
Beach Boys-esque Pop isn't a subgenre the same way that Beatles-esque Pop is. I'm more than OK with there being more stuff that sounds like PET SOUNDS in the world, and the D'Addario bros. nail the homage.
13. "How Can I Love Her More?"
The Lemon Twigs
2024
USA
ICS ✅
NKC ❌
Beach Boys-esque Pop isn't a subgenre the same way that Beatles-esque Pop is. I'm more than OK with there being more stuff that sounds like PET SOUNDS in the world, and the D'Addario bros. nail the homage.
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 13 - "Ronnie and Neil," Drive-By Truckers
Nearly any track from SOUTHERN ROCK OPERA would qualify for this, but I gotta go with the thesis statement that both builds and breaks down the mythos of the Skynyrd/Young feud. LET YOUR GUITARS BLAST FOR RONNIE & NEIL!
#MusicChallenge
Day 13 - "Ronnie and Neil," Drive-By Truckers
Nearly any track from SOUTHERN ROCK OPERA would qualify for this, but I gotta go with the thesis statement that both builds and breaks down the mythos of the Skynyrd/Young feud. LET YOUR GUITARS BLAST FOR RONNIE & NEIL!
November 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 13 - "Ronnie and Neil," Drive-By Truckers
Nearly any track from SOUTHERN ROCK OPERA would qualify for this, but I gotta go with the thesis statement that both builds and breaks down the mythos of the Skynyrd/Young feud. LET YOUR GUITARS BLAST FOR RONNIE & NEIL!
#MusicChallenge
Day 13 - "Ronnie and Neil," Drive-By Truckers
Nearly any track from SOUTHERN ROCK OPERA would qualify for this, but I gotta go with the thesis statement that both builds and breaks down the mythos of the Skynyrd/Young feud. LET YOUR GUITARS BLAST FOR RONNIE & NEIL!
#NotKnownEnough
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 13 - Fake Fruit
📍 Oakland, CA
Monthly listeners: 11K
High-octane post-punk. And high-octane things are volatile. You never quite know when the trio's humor, frustration, snarling guitars & jittery rhythms will erupt into a conflagration.
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 13 - Fake Fruit
📍 Oakland, CA
Monthly listeners: 11K
High-octane post-punk. And high-octane things are volatile. You never quite know when the trio's humor, frustration, snarling guitars & jittery rhythms will erupt into a conflagration.
November 13, 2025 at 7:58 AM
#NotKnownEnough
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 13 - Fake Fruit
📍 Oakland, CA
Monthly listeners: 11K
High-octane post-punk. And high-octane things are volatile. You never quite know when the trio's humor, frustration, snarling guitars & jittery rhythms will erupt into a conflagration.
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 13 - Fake Fruit
📍 Oakland, CA
Monthly listeners: 11K
High-octane post-punk. And high-octane things are volatile. You never quite know when the trio's humor, frustration, snarling guitars & jittery rhythms will erupt into a conflagration.
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 12 - "XTC vs. Adam Ant," They Might Be Giants
Beatle-based pop versus new romantic ... even the singer from Bow Wow Wow can't make up her mind!
#MusicChallenge
Day 12 - "XTC vs. Adam Ant," They Might Be Giants
Beatle-based pop versus new romantic ... even the singer from Bow Wow Wow can't make up her mind!
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 12 - "XTC vs. Adam Ant," They Might Be Giants
Beatle-based pop versus new romantic ... even the singer from Bow Wow Wow can't make up her mind!
#MusicChallenge
Day 12 - "XTC vs. Adam Ant," They Might Be Giants
Beatle-based pop versus new romantic ... even the singer from Bow Wow Wow can't make up her mind!
#TheTwen2ie5 - Day 37
14. "Tiny Moves"
Bleachers
2024
USA
ICS ✅
NKC ❌
Anybody heard of this Jack Antonoff guy? Apparently he has a career as a producer & songwriter in addition to fronting this nifty indie band.
This is such a bubbly little tune that builds to euphoria & a sax solo (of course).
14. "Tiny Moves"
Bleachers
2024
USA
ICS ✅
NKC ❌
Anybody heard of this Jack Antonoff guy? Apparently he has a career as a producer & songwriter in addition to fronting this nifty indie band.
This is such a bubbly little tune that builds to euphoria & a sax solo (of course).
November 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 - Day 37
14. "Tiny Moves"
Bleachers
2024
USA
ICS ✅
NKC ❌
Anybody heard of this Jack Antonoff guy? Apparently he has a career as a producer & songwriter in addition to fronting this nifty indie band.
This is such a bubbly little tune that builds to euphoria & a sax solo (of course).
14. "Tiny Moves"
Bleachers
2024
USA
ICS ✅
NKC ❌
Anybody heard of this Jack Antonoff guy? Apparently he has a career as a producer & songwriter in addition to fronting this nifty indie band.
This is such a bubbly little tune that builds to euphoria & a sax solo (of course).
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Overall, this tells the disappointing reality of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, 4 years after:
—Construction cost inflation ate up most of the increased spending
—There was no move to increase support for transit—in fact, there appears to have been a greater focus on highway than before
—Construction cost inflation ate up most of the increased spending
—There was no move to increase support for transit—in fact, there appears to have been a greater focus on highway than before
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Overall, this tells the disappointing reality of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, 4 years after:
—Construction cost inflation ate up most of the increased spending
—There was no move to increase support for transit—in fact, there appears to have been a greater focus on highway than before
—Construction cost inflation ate up most of the increased spending
—There was no move to increase support for transit—in fact, there appears to have been a greater focus on highway than before
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It's impossible to describe the evil of what occurred at CECOT to men sent on flimsy evidence of gang membership by Trump
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump sent men to torture in El Salvador, report confirms
The Human Rights Watch found that Venezuelans shipped to El Salvador by the United States were beaten almost every day.
www.motherjones.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It's impossible to describe the evil of what occurred at CECOT to men sent on flimsy evidence of gang membership by Trump
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This time for sure.
a man is standing in front of a podium that says last week tonight on it
ALT: a man is standing in front of a podium that says last week tonight on it
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This time for sure.
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We need the country to run like a business that private equity has purchased and is now dumping other bad debts into.
November 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
We need the country to run like a business that private equity has purchased and is now dumping other bad debts into.
#NotKnownEnough
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 12 - Reigning Sound
📍 Memphis, Tenn.
Monthly listeners: 17K
One of Greg Cartwright's many garage-punk projects, all of which are #NotKnownEnough. This is my favorite, though. Not quite as harsh as The Oblivians or The Compulsive Gamblers.
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 12 - Reigning Sound
📍 Memphis, Tenn.
Monthly listeners: 17K
One of Greg Cartwright's many garage-punk projects, all of which are #NotKnownEnough. This is my favorite, though. Not quite as harsh as The Oblivians or The Compulsive Gamblers.
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
#NotKnownEnough
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 12 - Reigning Sound
📍 Memphis, Tenn.
Monthly listeners: 17K
One of Greg Cartwright's many garage-punk projects, all of which are #NotKnownEnough. This is my favorite, though. Not quite as harsh as The Oblivians or The Compulsive Gamblers.
#MusicChallenge
least obscure ➡️ who??
Day 12 - Reigning Sound
📍 Memphis, Tenn.
Monthly listeners: 17K
One of Greg Cartwright's many garage-punk projects, all of which are #NotKnownEnough. This is my favorite, though. Not quite as harsh as The Oblivians or The Compulsive Gamblers.
#TheTwen2ie5 - Day 36
15. "Sunset"
Caroline Polachek
2023
USA
ICS ✅
NKC ✅
Let's get in the zone!
For me, this was clearly the standout track from DESIRE, I WANT TO TURN INTO YOU. Nobody else seems to agree with me. But the Latin/Mediterranean vibes paired with them Polachek pop instincts!
15. "Sunset"
Caroline Polachek
2023
USA
ICS ✅
NKC ✅
Let's get in the zone!
For me, this was clearly the standout track from DESIRE, I WANT TO TURN INTO YOU. Nobody else seems to agree with me. But the Latin/Mediterranean vibes paired with them Polachek pop instincts!
November 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 - Day 36
15. "Sunset"
Caroline Polachek
2023
USA
ICS ✅
NKC ✅
Let's get in the zone!
For me, this was clearly the standout track from DESIRE, I WANT TO TURN INTO YOU. Nobody else seems to agree with me. But the Latin/Mediterranean vibes paired with them Polachek pop instincts!
15. "Sunset"
Caroline Polachek
2023
USA
ICS ✅
NKC ✅
Let's get in the zone!
For me, this was clearly the standout track from DESIRE, I WANT TO TURN INTO YOU. Nobody else seems to agree with me. But the Latin/Mediterranean vibes paired with them Polachek pop instincts!
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 11 - "Lou Reed Was My Babysitter," Jeff Tweedy
Track 1, Disc 3 from Tweedy's new album. The lyrics don't specifically mention Reed or The Velvet Underground, but speak to a lifetime spent as a fan of rock 'n' roll. Rawr!
#MusicChallenge
Day 11 - "Lou Reed Was My Babysitter," Jeff Tweedy
Track 1, Disc 3 from Tweedy's new album. The lyrics don't specifically mention Reed or The Velvet Underground, but speak to a lifetime spent as a fan of rock 'n' roll. Rawr!
November 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 11 - "Lou Reed Was My Babysitter," Jeff Tweedy
Track 1, Disc 3 from Tweedy's new album. The lyrics don't specifically mention Reed or The Velvet Underground, but speak to a lifetime spent as a fan of rock 'n' roll. Rawr!
#MusicChallenge
Day 11 - "Lou Reed Was My Babysitter," Jeff Tweedy
Track 1, Disc 3 from Tweedy's new album. The lyrics don't specifically mention Reed or The Velvet Underground, but speak to a lifetime spent as a fan of rock 'n' roll. Rawr!
#readandplay (526)
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”
Read 📚 & Play🎶
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”
Read 📚 & Play🎶
November 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
#readandplay (526)
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”
Read 📚 & Play🎶
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”
Read 📚 & Play🎶