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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Kiddo wasn't sold on AOR, so I've been appointed The Voice of Reason. Came home from school today and asked me about Unbreakable. "Well, there were cats... Oh look, a pterodactyl!" This is what you've reduced me to, @gailsimone.bsky.social Someone who lies to children. Monstrous.

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Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 03/07/2025

The "don't use em dashes in your writing if you don't want to be mistaken for being AI" thing is so funny to me because the way I use em dashes is so unhinged, no robot can every replicate that

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/06/2025

This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received. Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙

Merriam-Webster Tweet: Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.

Cookie Monster's reply to the tweet: Me no wear pants.

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

TikTok has decided that I want the straight white Mormon mommy vloggers, which I do not. Did, however, mean the random '97 Romy edit to Silver Springs with no warning punched me in the damned face. Feel like that should come with a warning...

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The full version of this song includes the line "a special kind of horny" and honestly...

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

There is no greater evidence of this week's Uncanny X-Men being great than the fact the Eldest Teen just quietly went "Oh damn" at the end 🤣 That level of enthusiasm is usually reserved for large fires or the Leafs not choking during playoffs...

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kaebear89 @kaebear89.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Rogue Gambit fans are the most talented bunch of people, fr

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Man, I regularly say fuck Amazon and all, but cancelling #WheelOfTime has me saying it extra loud 😭 😭 😭

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Man, the greatest writing high is rereading the fic that's old enough you've forgotten most of the details but not so old that the quality is below your current* skills. It's a little gift targeted at your niche AND weird likes. *After the last 18 months, it is above but that's another story

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

2025: Keir Starmer suggests that pressure on housing and public services is because of migrants 2020: Keir Starmer, "Poor housing, poor public services are not the fault of the migrants, they're political failure"

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

And now it's reached the even more fun stage, where I wish I'd made a different decision on every single front. Every single one. I would like to skip this step, just once. Trot right on through to "I wrote this? Damn, I'm good." Alas, this is the only way my brain learns shit.

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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

“I asked ChatGPT,” well I asked your mom and she said you’ve always been a disappointment

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Very excited for this, and perpetually impressed I titled something in under twenty words. I fear I never fully escaped the 00s pop-punk title mindset... 😂 It's gonna be great though

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Some writing projects are just Cursed. No other word for it. I've got one where as soon as I start working on it, something happens. And it's ridiculous stuff; family deaths or mystery illnesses or tech issues that shouldn't be possible, just an endless stream with awful timing. Capital C Cursed.

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Really, Spotify? NOW? Not at any point when this would have been helpful? 😒

Spotify playlist cover of a person wearing a white t-shirt and looking out the window of a car. The title is 90s Road Trip

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 30/04/2025

this is correct and also why I love Vimes. he's a bastard, he knows it, he is going to do his damnedest to point the bastardy in acceptable directions, but he is and knows full well that he is a bastard. all cops are.

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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 29/04/2025

The forever-correct way to translate Canadian parties to other countries without using their politics for reference

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

You have to wonder what Mark Carney's other two wishes were after rubbing that bottle

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Ooooo. This kept getting random release dates here (two weeks ago! No, May! No, July! Three weeks ago!) and The Child has been fuming. Might just win Mom of the Year with this news

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

It does not matter how many times I read my writing through, I will come back a week later and find a disheartening number of errors....

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 22/04/2025

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

And honestly, at this point you probably don't even need the tags because it's one of three things and all of them are big Devil's Sacrament vibes...

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I have reached the "Wait, did I say suitcase or duffel bag?" stage of editing and I am very glad someone brought me peanut M&Ms to deal with it.

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caroline @annamarielebeaus.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

💚🩷🥹

Rogue and Gambit in a panel from X-Men (1991) #8

Rogue and Gambit animation variant cover for Uncanny X-Men (2024) #14

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

"I'm really good at estimating story lengths with enough data," I said. "Even with a 10% margin of error, I'm good." If they ever invent time travel, I've got a dumb bitch to go slap.

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Friday nights are wild in our house. I'm hanging out and just hear one of my teens start yelling "NO! NO, YOU CANNOT READ MY MOTHER'S X-MEN SMUT!" repeatedly. "YOU'LL BE IN OUR HOUSE! THIS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL." Apparently friend is plotting to quote every E-rated Romy fic until one strikes a nerve 😂

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The Giver finally dropped. Apparently all The Youths were stalking Spotify at midnight 😂 Soon as it showed up, middle kid came running to tell me. Still won't accept my list of lesbian country songs though...

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Isabelle @izbyzz.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

@roguegambit97.bsky.social MUAHAHHAAAAAAAA #xmen

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Been too unwell to write, so I started the new season of Wheel of Time. s2 was an upgrade from s1 and I knew it was setting up some of my fave plotlines, but I did not expect to get sideswiped by how damned *interesting* the writing choices are proving to be, and the casting continues to be fabulous

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

one of my favorite things about Farscape is how trying to describe the plot of any episode of Farscape makes it sound like you have fully detached from reality. not in a "I'm describing a work of science fiction" way, but in a "I mixed pot gummies and Robitussen" way.

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Danni 👻 Comic Artist @danniscomics.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Inspired by the current Uncanny Xmen run by @gailsimone.bsky.social !!! #xmen #marvel #rogue #dannisart

Digital artwork of sarah Gaunt from uncanny xmen holding a mirror shard that reflects rogues face

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Most of the time, I am a competent writer. I may wail and gnash my teeth, but I know what I'm doing and how to fix what's gone wrong. Not as good as I want to be, but operating at competent. Other times, I conclude I had one good story in me and spent it on porn. 😭 A noble pursuit, but damn. FML

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Doctors TARDIS @doctorstardis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

We are continuing our XTAS watch, and every time The Kid sees Apocalypse they cheer. "It's the Ultimate Weirdo, and he's gonna bring Gambit back." No amount of pointing out *Gambit isn't even dead yet* will dissuade them 😂

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I've always felt that X-Men is best when the stories are human and the central theme is when a community meets and supports your needs, you become your best self and make the world better. #uncannyxmen continues to scratch that itch. Not really #xspoilers but tagging just in case

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

An astoundingly misleading column by Colville. Firstly, ignores that there is already a 10 year route to ILR, shown to be massively damaging all round. Ignores many dependents also earn, and can't claim support from the state, and the grooming gangs line is frankly just a dog whistle. 1/

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It's mad to give migrants leave to remain when we've no idea if they contribute

Britain cannot afford to give a route to long-term residency and citizenship to thousands or eventually millions of new arrivals who will cost the country

As I've previously pointed out, immigration on the present scale is immensely difficult to absorb, particularly since it is concentrated in certain places – especially London. It's made our hellish housing crisis even worse. And there have been all manner of well-attested – and, in the case of the grooming gangs, frankly horrific - failures of integration.

In elliptical central-banker-ese, the governor explained that there is a puzzle. We have more workers. But the economy isn't expanding. Indeed the Bank's latest report shows that output per hour fell by 2.4 per cent in a year.

So either the migrants aren't enough to offset the sickness/laziness of existing employees. Or we've got the wrong kind of migrants.

Of course, as the Bank acknowledges, the appalling state of our labour and population data makes the picture hugely hazy. Hazy enough to have started a grudge match between our CPS team and Prof Jonathan Portes, Britain's most prominent advocate of mass migration, over exactly how much all these migrants are earning.

But it is clear beyond doubt that very many are not earning enough or not earning at all. Let's go over the statistics. Astonishingly, just 12 per cent of visas issued between 2021 and 2023 were for skilled workers. Within that, 60 per cent - 254,347 - were for the health and care sub-route (slightly more than the 6,000 people a year the health department originally predicted).

The overwhelming majority of these workers went into social care, and into low-paid jobs. The official Migration Advisory Committee puts the average salary on the route even including any doctors, nurses, midwives, etc at just £24,000. For the other 40 per cent of skilled workers, it was £45,000 - a cavernous difference.

Those care workers were also allowed to bring dependants - in fact more dependants have come than actual workers. Sometimes the discrepancies are extraordinary. My colleague Karl Williams points out that in the first six months of 2024 we gave out 1,063 health & care visas to workers from Zimbabwe, and 10,670 visas to dependants of those workers and/or their predecessors.

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Andrew Bartlett @androidskeleton.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Rogue. Copic on bristol. Winner of the latest “Hey, Who Should I Draw?” poll over on my Instagram. Thanks for taking a look! #rogue #xmen #marvel #comics #art #mutant #illustration

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

👀😍🔥 I refuse to implicate myself further.

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Isabelle @izbyzz.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Rogueby.. Rogby??? Yes. #xmen

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Uncanny X-Cerpts @uncannyxcerpts.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I did not always love X-MEN (vol 2) in this period, but it did not lack for strong character moments. This was *the* X-Men moment of the early/mid 90s.

A two-panel sequence drawn by Andy Kubert from X-MEN (vol 2) #45 written by Fabian Nicieza

In panel 1, a pair of fingers approach Rogue's face. Tears well up in her eyes

In panel 2, we see a full body view of Gambit and Rogue. Her back is turned to him as he offers his ungloved hand

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Kid is feeling vindicated one of the fixation questions they've had about The Outliers came up today. Maybe they'll stop suggesting I tag @gailsimone.bsky.social every issue to ask now... 😂 UXM#9 was great for pulling at threads already laid & characters to create my fave kind of story. On to 10!

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

That's not a Roman Beaker. THIS is a Roman Beaker...

Beaker from the Muppets with a clumsily photoshopped roman helmet on his head.

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Isabelle @izbyzz.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Walk a mile in these Louboutinsssss ✨ (I’m sorry)

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Oh ho ho, I spy some familiar names 👀

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firesign-23.bsky.social @firesign-23.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I would like to go an issue of #AbsoluteWonderWoman without tearing up at this point, actually.

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