Luke

sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand

[Luke @dubakoorid]

Various facets of heroism.

Time to replug this thread.

[Luke @dubakoorid]

1. Will start with this popular one.

Apparently Suresh Krishna and Rajini were just brainstorming an idea during Annamalai movie shoot:
//something dramatic is happening behind a glass door, heated argument to submission but it’s all muted and inaudible. What could it be.//

[Luke @dubakoorid]

Wonderful!

[Dhruv @DhruvJ213]

GOLD🥇IN WOMEN'S 4×400 RELAY! WHAT A RUN BY OUR GIRLS! EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM AND WHAT A FINISH BY VITHYA!!!!

[Alan Chan @_achan96_]

An intelligence explosion could pose extreme risks to society, such as by eroding checks on power and making us lose control over powerful AI systems.

To prepare for this possibility, we recommend that policymakers—including heads of government—urgently prioritize

1) Obtaining visibility into AI R&D automation
2) Developing ways to steer and constrain an intelligence explosion
3) Preparing society for the impacts of an intelligence explosion

[Luke @dubakoorid]

She’s from where?
It’s lore galore week for Coimbatore!

[Rajesh @rajeshamlw]

TN is on fire at the Asian Games 2026! 🔥

Coimbatore’s Vithya Ramraj clocked 54.75s, broke P.T. Usha’s 42-year-old national record of 55.42s, and won Bronze medal for India 🇮🇳

India: 41 medals so far
TN athletes: 8 medal events — nearly 20% 🔥

Proud of Tamil Nadu, India! 👏🏾👏🏾

[Luke @dubakoorid]

இதுனால தான் இவங்க மேல வேற யாருக்குமே அன்போ பரிதாபமோ வர மாட்டேங்குது. ஒருத்தன் ஒழுங்கா இருந்தா நூறு பேர் சாக்கடையா இருக்கானுங்க, எவன் கிட்ட சேத்துவான்? தேவைன்னா மக்களோட சேரதுக்கு பதிலா மன்னன் கால்ல விழுந்திடலாங்கிற தந்திரம், இன்னும் எத்தனை நாள் ஓடுதுன்னு பாப்போம்.

Waste fellas!

[Luke @dubakoorid]

அரைகுறைகளா இருந்தாலும் வாய்கொழுப்புக்கு குறைச்சலில்லை.
#smh

[Luke @dubakoorid]

Talents like this getting sponsorship shouldn’t be a struggle. Focus on this. @TVKVijayHQ @CMOTamilnadu @AadhavArjuna

[தாண்டவம் @saivamtamil]

Abinaya RAJARAJAN 🔥. Tenkasi, Alangulam Taluk-Kalluthu Village.

Looks like she was struggling to get proper sponsors even 1 year back. Whoever helped her to reach Asian Games 2026 in Japan deserves appreciation 👏

India has enough talent. Kids just need enough backing.

[Tamil Guardian @TamilGuardian]

🚨 British Tamil Bodhana Sivanandan becomes youngest woman grandmaster in chess history

The British Tamil schoolgirl from Harrow secured her third and final norm playing all 11 rounds on England's top board at the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, finishing on eight points. The record had stood since Kateryna Lagno and Hou Yifan took the title at 12.

"I'm happy to do it, but I want to keep going and keep making history as well, instead of just stopping here," she told FIDE.

She learned the game at five, during lockdown, from a chessboard given to her by a family friend leaving for India. At seven she won all 24 games at the European Schools Championship. At nine she became the youngest person ever to represent England internationally in any sport. At ten she became the youngest female player to beat a grandmaster.

She is now two norms into the open international master title, and says she wants the grandmaster title next.

[Luke @dubakoorid]

Start learning from west.

Daily post-school one hour cross-country training, track from as early as sixth grade. Private coaching for tennis, soccer, volleyball, badminton etc is all available within a few miles radius. Kids are in swim team or competing for it.

It’s a culture.

[Dharma @galaxyofsport]

INDIA IS HEADING TOWARDS ZERO GOLD IN ATHLETICS AT THE ASIAN GAMES.

The last time India finished an Asian Games athletics campaign with ZERO gold was in 1990 and 1994.

Read that again.

Athletics has historically been one of India’s strongest Asian Games sports — 85 gold medals, putting India among the top three nations historically in Asian Games athletics.

So how are we struggling to find even ONE Asian champion in 2026?

Yes, there have been some excellent individual performances, silvers and bronzes. But for one of India’s strongest disciplines to potentially finish an Asian Games with ZERO gold, this demands serious introspection.

Injuries? Preparation? Athlete management? Competition planning? National-level development? Federation decisions?

And if weather, conditions or scheduling are being cited — weren’t those conditions the same for athletes from other Asian countries too?

So where exactly is the problem?

AFI needs to answer. The Sports Ministry needs to ask questions. And sports media needs to keep asking them.

How has Indian athletics reached a point where even an Asian Games gold is becoming so difficult?

#AsianGames2026 #IndianAthletics #Athletics #TeamIndia

CC: @KhelNow @SportsArena1234 @TheKhelIndia @afiindia @IndiaSports @Media_SAI @RevSportzGlobal

@SportsArena1234

[Luke @dubakoorid]

Lock up this pos for life.

His family, kith and kin must have known this all along. Looks like he is from a “dominant” caste. This is where a news report MUST expose his caste and show the internal contradiction that this caste doesn’t have high values but wants high status.

[PttvOnlinenews @PttvNewsX]

ஜெம் வீரமணி மீது மேலும் ஒரு போக்சோ வழக்கு

#GemVeeramani | #POCSOCase | #POCSO | #Veeramani | #TNPolice | #SexualHarassment

[Luke @dubakoorid]

Great!

TN, be ready with laurels, money and best job offers.

[மு.குணசேகரன் M.Gunasekaran @GunasekaranMu]

Vithya Ramraj bags bronze, breaks PT Usha’s 42 year record | VITHYA RAMRAJ WINS BRONZE MEDAL FOR INDIA IN WOMEN'S 400m HURDLES
Clocked 54.75s AND ITS A NEW NATIONAL RECORD

India at Asian Games 2026 #VithyaRamraj

[Luke @dubakoorid]

A city where trouble is everyone’s middle name and stunt is a way of life.

(But seriously it’s not worth risking your life like that and frankly, Cbe, you’ve gone a little out of character there.)

[Wilson Thomas @wilson__thomas]

Headconstable Velmurugan of Kovilpalayam police station in #Coimbatore clung onto the roof rails of an SUV for about 40 km as three men from Rajasthan tried escape from the police with over 250 kg of gutkha. The video was shot by the crew of an NHAI ambulance. @THChennai

[Luke @dubakoorid]

செம!

[Sports Apna 🇮🇳 @sportsapna1]

WHAT A RACE! 😱🔥🇮🇳

India were around 4th-5th place, but Abinaya Rajarajan, the rising 19-year-old, made that final 100m INSANE! 😱

WHAT A COMEBACK! 🔥🇮🇳

[Luke @dubakoorid]

Must take it seriously but not just for job loss.

With others a decision/action is pre-determined by humans.

With AI a decision is a multi-billion steps ordeal, a result of humanly unpredictable traversal through a complex web of infinite decimal numbers between 0 and 1.

[Luke @dubakoorid]

Was expecting this to happen a while ago.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

get ready for "AI personhood" discourse in which very serious arguments are made that sufficiently advanced AI models are more deserving of rights than you are

[Luke @dubakoorid]

No biggie!

[Polladha Manidhan {Valiant🎶} @Dhanan_jayan_]

Unbelievably, #Muthumani was composed for d visuals!

Edit was done already with remixed version of an older Raaja song & then @ilaiyaraaja composes & writes "Muthumani"!

& #Raaja slightly changed d notes of HTNI bgm to suit d character movement in #Dorothy scene!

#Ilaiyaraaja

[Luke @dubakoorid]

People, the other thing is you don’t throw the entire society under the bus for some weird opinions.

ஒரு கோடி மக்கள் இருக்காங்கன்னா ஒரு லட்சம் கிறுக்கனுங்களாவது இருக்கதான் செய்வாங்க. அதுல ஒரு 10000 loose-talk, loud, vocal talkativesம் இருப்பாங்க. 1% / 0.1% தான்னு கண்டுக்ககூடாது.

[Luke @dubakoorid]

Added to the many lores of Coimbatore.

[மனோ🖤❤ @CatchMano2022]

இங்க கோவை INOXல,

படம் முடிஞ்சதும்
பாதி பேராவது ஏந்திச்சி கை தட்டினாங்க.

கேவலமா பாக்கப்படுற
ஒரு பாலினத்த,
பரந்த மனசோடு, அன்பாக ஏத்துக்கணுங்க.

மனசுல ஈரம் இருக்கவங்க
இருக்காங்க 🤗

#Dorothy

[Luke @dubakoorid]

படம் தான பாத்திட்டு இருக்கோம், இசை அந்த இடத்தில கலக்கும்போது அப்படி ஏன் சிலிர்க்கணும்? ராஜாவுக்கு மட்டும் ஏதோ பிடிபடுது இல்லையா. கதையோடயே பயணிச்சிடுறார்.

True artistic moments. Raaja fans like me were waiting for this for a while now.

[Dinesh @Dinurocco]

The placements of Muthumani and How else to name it tracks were best ever in Tamil Cinema History 🔥

@karthiksubbaraj

#Dorothy

[Luke @dubakoorid]

Was wondering about that comment and where it was coming from.

ஞானின்னு சும்மா சொல்றாங்கன்னு நினைச்சிருப்பாங்க போல.

[Sureshkumar P. Sekar @ursmusically]

I’m surprised that people are surprised Ilaiyaraaja agreed to score Dorothy. I mean, do you even know Ilaiyaraaja.

[Luke @dubakoorid]

In the #Sarpatta movie, Pa.Ranjith uses athletic success and endurance to point out the internal contradiction of caste. In a fair fighting sport monitored by referee and public, the results contradict caste.

[Luke @dubakoorid]

In #Dorothy climax, Karthik calls that family a bunch of kenak**** (idiots) for believing what he said.

It does use the intellect fault-line there but shies away overall.

(ModhaRathiri/LubberBandhu didn’t challenge with any internal contradiction of caste fault-line.)

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