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Okay, so I cut the last couple of pages and now I am back to 99. Chapter needed to end MUCH QUICKER. Cut material being reworked into next chapter. Possibly losing a couple of the best jokes but that's life... #amwriting

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 19h

Help us, because we recommend!

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 22h

I always want these to mean "there's a perfectly good one of those laying about that never got a name, so what should we call it?!?" And it never does.

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 29/09/2026

Guy needs to get his 'eyes checked.

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 29/09/2026

Whoever does the layouts for the @inquirer.com's Sunday puzzles has committed a crime against humanity. (Me, I'm the humanity.)

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 29/09/2026

Well it took two days and breaking out the Excel file, but I finally solved this Sunday's crypto and... Um...

A grid reproducing the Sunday cryptogram, with the unscrambled text over the encoded text reading "If a barber gave fifty-five complete haircuts in only six hours, might he collapse from shear exhausion?"

But there were line breaks inserted into the middle of the words "haircuts", "hours", and "collapse" that made the puzzle extremely difficult to solve.

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 29/09/2026

This is Major Tom To ground control The galley cart's full of ants And they're staring in a most peculiar way Now it's time to leave the airbus if you care

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 29/09/2026

Coincidentally, this is also my pitch for fixing the health care system.

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 27/09/2026

Mostly I just wanted to know more about Bill the Pony.

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 26/09/2026

I've hit page 100 on the new book. Ironically (or not ironically?) it's a bit of a mess and probably won't survive editing. (The 100th page specifically. Pages 1-99 are pretty great.) Odds are looking up for having something new out next year! #amwriting

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 26/09/2026

Argh! Just seeing this now. Is there a way to purchase/view after the fact?

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 26/09/2026

I think this might be a Mandela Effect situation because my recollection is that 10-15 years ago Ken hated dogs and enjoyed seeing them die in movies. I am googling for evidence of this now. I'm sure it will turn up something.

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 25/09/2026

Help control the book reader population! Have your romantasy book sprayed or neutered.

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 25/09/2026

They should have called it "Preferred Call Saul."

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 25/09/2026

I assume everyone but me immediately understood that you meant birth years and not current age. I thought, "maybe this is the new hyperbole the kids keep talking about?"

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 25/09/2026

Maybe if you try to line up all the dates people say in a novel into a perfect timeline and it doesn't add up, that was intentional?

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 25/09/2026

[1983] Blue Peter - Janet Ellis shows Blue Peter viewers how to make their very own Scorpio Teleport Bracelet, just like the ones in the cult sci-fi classic, Blake's 7.

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silver @silverboots.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is just to say I have eaten the moon that was in my orbit and which you were probably wanting to study Forgive me it was delicious so crunchy and so cold

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Mags Visaggio 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 24/09/2026

i will go to my grave saying this is the greatest comic of all time.

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 24/09/2026

We had a general rule when our kiddo was younger to lock down any website with a comment section. They were so frustrated that we wouldn't let them on Bricklink to look at Lego!

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 24/09/2026

Now imagining the live-action, entirely Earth-bound version of the Jetsons!

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Back in the day, people used to phone their Tweets into the BBC, where someone would type them up using a manual typewriter.

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 23/09/2026

I wish I could find a screengrab of the intercom machine from the movie PLAYTIME. It's a thing of unhinged beauty.

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 23/09/2026

I don't begrudge anyone there mopey Catholic guilt Nightcrawler if that's there thing!

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 23/09/2026

Light spoilers: This movie sets up the final film in the trilogy, GODZILLA PLUS ONE, in which Godzilla and Sandra Bullock go to a wedding together.

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 23/09/2026

You know it's some bullshit like Godzilla has a perfectly tame gay storyline.

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 23/09/2026

Yes. People keep writing things like "Kyle is the best part of Lanterns" and it gets my hopes up!

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 23/09/2026

I love happy swashbuckling Nightcrawler, but find mopey Catholic guilt Nightcrawler to be tedious.

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 23/09/2026

Thank you! I was looking for this the other day!

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 22/09/2026

"I don't know who keeps leaking my scripts, but people keep saying that my film will be set during the droghte of March, but actually Aprille with its shoures soote hath perced to the root and bathed every veyne of swich licour, of which vertu engendered is the flour."

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 22/09/2026

Hey! It was a great place to summer if you liked liver!

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 22/09/2026

I would love a series of 50s Superman inspired Inhumans comics where Medusa is always trying to prove that mild-mannered prince Blackagar Boltagon is really Black Bolt.

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 22/09/2026

You've gone too fart this time.

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 21/09/2026

Weird coincidence, mine was just a large handful of spice!

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 21/09/2026

Corkscrews were invented for a reason.

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Max @mrmax91.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Had this gorgeous piece of art commissioned and finally put it up. Yay ADHD and decision fatigue. Anyway, the wonderfully talented Bailee Poggendorf in Champaign, Urbana did this. Find her on Facebook.

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 20/09/2026

Oh, are these purchases on the DCU app? That's disappointing. I was a big early adopter of digital comics, but the inability to actually download and properly own drove me away from monthly comic book collecting all together.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...

juliaserano.medium.com

On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads

and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 20/09/2026

People with tiny tiny legs need cars too.

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 20/09/2026

Would you defend a Democrat for saying racist things they didn't believe to get elected? If a Dem campaigned for votes by arguing for a return to segregated water fountains? Then why are you okay with Dems pretending to be "pretend anti-trans"?

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Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 20/09/2026

...sincere, even if they're giving in to pressure as in a boycott, frequently the best tactical response is to accept the correction -- so that correction remains a viable response [Sorry. I see that I started rambling in there somewhere.]

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