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Parameterball
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Onions Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Drawing all those stupid onions was worth it for...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Drawing all those stupid onions was worth it for the phrase keystone onion. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Summit Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I will never close that paren. Never. In fact,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I will never close that paren. Never. In fact, here's an open one: ( Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Curse Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really she should awaken after three dates have...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really she should awaken after three dates have gone very well. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hatero Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's the baaaaasexuals you have to look out...
10 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fun Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: All I'm saying is according to quantum mechanics...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: All I'm saying is according to quantum mechanics there's SOME chance a duck explodes because you thought about it. Today's News:
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Exoplanet Observation
a year ago
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Magnet Fishing
6 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Partner Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Humans are the only social animal that is creating...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Humans are the only social animal that is creating fake partners so they don't have to be social anymore. Today's News:
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Bug Thread
11 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sum Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just gently closing the door on ever giving a TED...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just gently closing the door on ever giving a TED talk there. Very nice. Today's News:
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Astronaut Guests
11 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Flatten Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder when someone will invent half-generations...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder when someone will invent half-generations to get access to more specific marketing categories. Today's News:
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Snow
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Trick Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: To be included in the forthcoming Psychologically...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: To be included in the forthcoming Psychologically Abusive Halloween collection. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ball Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later the human has an existential tantrum so they...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later the human has an existential tantrum so they take away its ice cream for a week. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Same Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: By 2026, it's just all teleporter comics. Today's...
a year ago
The Universe of...
Poor Richard's Almanack Benjamin Franklin wrote and published Poor Richard's Almanack annually from 1732 to 1758. Paper...
3 months ago
2
3 months ago
Benjamin Franklin wrote and published Poor Richard's Almanack annually from 1732 to 1758. Paper was expensive and printing difficult and time-consuming. The type would be inked, the sheet of paper laid on the press, the apprentices would press the sheet, by turning a big screw....
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Prime Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately, crowds of humans tend to congregate in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately, crowds of humans tend to congregate in places where the background is easy to draw. Today's News: Thanks, geeks! Little reviews are beginning to trickle out into the universe, including this one by Marie Robinette...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Move Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Number 3 move is the combination, because each...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Number 3 move is the combination, because each takes away from the other. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Best Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Is it time? Is it time for a book of these? Today's...
10 months ago
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A Crossword Puzzle
5 months ago
PHD Comics
09/10/21 PHD comic: 'Insult to injury' Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com ...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "Insult to injury" - originally published 9/10/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cult Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just because Scandinavians do it doesn't mean it's...
10 months ago
15
10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just because Scandinavians do it doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tree Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Patreon subscribers were pretty quick to suggest a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Patreon subscribers were pretty quick to suggest a tree that poisons the area around it. Really, I've attracted a beautiful audience here. Today's News: Stay tuned for an incoming bonus update thanks to buyers of my new book!
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Moon
a year ago
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Neutrino Modem
3 weeks ago
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Garden Path Sentence
a year ago
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Log Alignment
11 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Love Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Every time you pray to God, one finger of the...
a year ago
38
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Every time you pray to God, one finger of the infinite monkey's paw curls inward. Today's News:
PHD Comics
01/31/21 PHD comic: 'W O R D L E' Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com ...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "W O R D L E" - originally published 1/31/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Boop Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Have you noticed you can get humans to do almost...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Have you noticed you can get humans to do almost anything as long as it's presented as a scam? Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Knowing Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Look the fact that there's a misspelling in the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Look the fact that there's a misspelling in the votey panel just makes the point more strong. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Paradigm Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: There's no turning back. We live in the same world...
a year ago
12
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: There's no turning back. We live in the same world as this joke now, and always will. Today's News: Hey friends, social media makes it impossible to reach my own readers. But you, the RSS reader have the ability to check out my...
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Demons
a month ago
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Date Line
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - New Word Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Genuinely ashamed how much time was wasted on...
7 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Clouds Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Someone told me they could only do 2 weeks of SMBC...
a month ago
15
a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Someone told me they could only do 2 weeks of SMBC in a single sitting before feeling sad and needing a walk. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Entropy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We're in this really awkward stage where sapient...
a year ago
22
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We're in this really awkward stage where sapient life is possible, but it'll pass. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Post Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel like more comics need to use the word...
9 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Boo Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Let this strip-club ghost joke convince you that I...
12 months ago
26
12 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Let this strip-club ghost joke convince you that I don't plan for holiday comics. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Last Wishes Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This. This shall be my immortality. Today's...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This. This shall be my immortality. Today's News: Wanna rant about space settlement (pro or con) in a way that is substantially MORE ACCURATE and includes notes on legal/culinary matters pertaining to space cannibalism? A City on...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Escape Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The key to life is indulgence in maladaptive...
a year ago
18
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The key to life is indulgence in maladaptive behaviors. Today's News: Guys, holy shit.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Inflate Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Works great with the broader SMBC clown...
3 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Wish Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: She sells printer ink cheaper than anyone, but you...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: She sells printer ink cheaper than anyone, but you DO NOT ASK HOW. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fantasy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: No, Orifices in the Void cannot be your new...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: No, Orifices in the Void cannot be your new band-name. Today's News: If you wanted to get A City on Mars but the prices was a little high, WELL Barnes and Noble is doing a 3 day 25% discount on preorders.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cargo Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: No giving birth until these planks are perfectly...
a year ago
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Network Configuration
6 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Apply Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Hope the socks and sandals don't make this NSFW for...
6 months ago
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Routine Maintenance
5 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Favorite Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: All of these are of course just subsets of the sole...
a week ago
9
a week ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: All of these are of course just subsets of the sole story category, which is Ape Struggled And Was Thereby Changed. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Flourishing Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is based on a thoughtful email a reader sent...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is based on a thoughtful email a reader sent me, but I didn't know if he'd want to be associated with with it technically called Choculatio. Email me sir, if it is otherwise. Today's News: Somehow this feels like peak SMBC,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Longtermism Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Hopefully time travel isn't possible because boy...
a year ago
21
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Hopefully time travel isn't possible because boy the future is gonna be piiiiiiiisssssed. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Philospohy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Where it gets really weird is when people start...
11 months ago
25
11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Where it gets really weird is when people start saying they're pretty sure they know how all of history works. Today's News: Cool article we contributed to for NYT.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Eulogy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Weirdly, his revealed preference was for a painful...
a year ago
59
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Weirdly, his revealed preference was for a painful and protracted demise. Today's News:
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Scary Triangles
8 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Post Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Someday I'm gonna have a book in which the comic...
a year ago
8
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Someday I'm gonna have a book in which the comic sounds like it's going to become controversial and then goes all in on stupid. Today's News: Final week!
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Call My Cell
9 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dance Dance Dance Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: There exist solutions that would work if only you...
a year ago
46
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: There exist solutions that would work if only you could take them seriously. Today's News: Merci!
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Actual Progress
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Metal Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thank you to the three of you who enjoyed this...
3 months ago
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Typical Seating Chart
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Rhymes Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm going to start using that first panel for all...
a year ago
22
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm going to start using that first panel for all of my twitter replies. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This will be considered deeply offensive in...
a month ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Productivity Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Go easy on the lemon. Today's News:
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cast Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can also cast subways and dig them up! Today's...
12 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AGI Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wait, is fire even possible? Doesn't that violate...
a year ago
15
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wait, is fire even possible? Doesn't that violate conservation of fire? Today's News: Another ruinously flattering review.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Prayer Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder if Satan ever gets tired of...
a year ago
10
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder if Satan ever gets tired of winning. Today's News: For people who've asked: if on the kickstarter we don't have a package you like, you can do any custom add-on arrangement you like. So, for example, if you want 8,000...
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Tick Marks
8 months ago
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Salt Dome
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Buds Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Free movie idea: guy goes on a road trip to find...
a year ago
13
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Free movie idea: guy goes on a road trip to find himself, keeps asexually creating duplicates. Title: Buds Today's News:
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Taking selfies from various angles No one out-pizzas the Keith View on my website
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dentistry Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later the nutritionist is forced to quote from...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later the nutritionist is forced to quote from revelations about what is to come. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Clippy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Have you noticed nobody has ever explained *why*...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Have you noticed nobody has ever explained *why* it's supposedly bad if human beings are converted to paperclips? Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Costume Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Patreon users felt this one was too sad, but look...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Patreon users felt this one was too sad, but look at the cute kid in the dino suit! Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Leisure Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes I look out the window and think of how...
3 weeks ago
14
3 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes I look out the window and think of how many babies are now part of a personal brand. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Augmented Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: A later update just turns things you don't want to...
10 months ago
22
10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: A later update just turns things you don't want to see into bursts of pixie dust. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Heretic Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: For A City on Mars, I read a lot of war theory, and...
a year ago
12
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: For A City on Mars, I read a lot of war theory, and one of the interesting things was how almost everyone stressed immediately that most places and times are peaceful. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pronounce Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Engish is easy. No conjugation - you just have to...
a year ago
12
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Engish is easy. No conjugation - you just have to memorize 50,000 words and you're good. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Star Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I've been doing this for 20 years now and it feels...
6 months ago
30
6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I've been doing this for 20 years now and it feels good to come clean. Today's News:
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Greenland Size
9 months ago
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Cuisine
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Inaccurate Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately the people in the comic are only alive...
a year ago
30
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately the people in the comic are only alive for the duration of this conversation. Today's News:
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Pub Trivia
8 months ago
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Situation
6 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Service Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is just a big thank you to Bea Wolf buyers....
a year ago
26
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is just a big thank you to Bea Wolf buyers. We're already in our 3rd printing and it doesn't come out for a month. If you want a hardcover, lock it in soon - they're gorgeous :D Today's News: Thanks y'all, I mean it. Here's...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mate Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks again, early buyers! It is a sincerely big...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks again, early buyers! It is a sincerely big deal to have all these preorders in place. Today's News: More info here. God bless the 3 of you still using RSS who actually read this thing.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Vice Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Speaking of vices, he's available to hang this...
4 months ago
Abstruse Goose
The Incident
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Contrived Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: How come nobody ever considers the increased CO2...
a year ago
31
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: How come nobody ever considers the increased CO2 emissions of causing the trolley to switch tracks? Today's News: Another prestigious publication compelled to say Weinersmith.
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METAR
a week ago
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Air Handler
a year ago
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Wow! How to discover videos on Facebook and Instagram! Wow! Just wow! Just wait for it ... View on my website
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dilemma Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: As I pload this, that stray mark on the hand in...
a year ago
17
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: As I pload this, that stray mark on the hand in panel 3 is making me crazy. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Touch Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The deepest cut is when he pets his cat, raised...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The deepest cut is when he pets his cat, raised from kittenhood for 10 years, and nothing happens. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cosmo Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also, in this model, everything is flat and it's...
a year ago
97
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also, in this model, everything is flat and it's the same everywhere and eventually all the stars are dead! Today's News:
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Contact Merge
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nothing Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: And that man's name was Job. Today's News:
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Homemade Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You could also do history by unboxing...
3 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Society Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The good news about our society is everyone comes...
9 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Span Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: For real though, I find this genuinely mysterious....
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: For real though, I find this genuinely mysterious. I wonder if it's incorrect to think of attention span as a single parameter. Maybe we have attention spans for particular sense modalities or even particular activities. Today's...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Warp Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This happens roughly 4 times a week. Today's News:
4 months ago
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Organ Meanings
5 months ago
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Lava Lakes
3 months ago
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Helium Synthesis
4 months ago
CommitStrip
A radical solution
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Offensive AI Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm slightly regretting not having this as the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm slightly regretting not having this as the twist ending to a comedic novel. Gimme a few years. Today's News: One week until BEA WOLF DAY!
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Michel Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: For reasons related to current research projects,...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: For reasons related to current research projects, SMBC will be slowly switching over to obscure literary references for the foreseeable future. It's been nice knowing you. Today's News:
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Radians Are Cursed
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pig Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel there's a culinary horseshoe graph where...
a year ago
21
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel there's a culinary horseshoe graph where only the highest and lowest quality restaurants will serve you macerated chicken kidneys or whatever. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Immortal Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This led to a remarkably nice discussion in patreon...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This led to a remarkably nice discussion in patreon yesterday. Today's News: 6 days!!
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Did you find it? Today's News: Just to be clear,...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Did you find it? Today's News: Just to be clear, there's no penis-nose in the actual comic strip. This is a lesson for the 99.4% of you who don't read the blog.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cult Click here to go see the bonus...
a year ago
13
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weiner/the-universe-abridged-beyond-the-point-of-usefulness?ref=6vghse Today's News: Thank you!
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Language Acquisition
a year ago
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Siphon
a year ago
The Universe of...
A complex bug with a ⸢simple⸣ fix Last month I did a fairly complex piece of systems programming that worked surprisingly well. But...
3 months ago
4
3 months ago
Last month I did a fairly complex piece of systems programming that worked surprisingly well. But it had one big bug that took me a day to track down. One reason I find the bug interesting is that it exemplifies the sort of challenges that come up in systems programming. The...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Behold Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Any resemblance to any sitting official is a trick...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Any resemblance to any sitting official is a trick of the eye - this is in fact a 2D cartoon drawing. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bayesing Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can't prove me wrong because your proof...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can't prove me wrong because your proof requires arithmetic to work. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Needed Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes I draw hands so poorly I worry I'll be...
a year ago
9
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes I draw hands so poorly I worry I'll be accused of being an AI. Today's News: THANK YOU! We are just over a day in and past 250% of our goal. WOOHOO! If you check out the page, you'll see we now have Phil Plait as an...
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1.2 Kilofives
6 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Multiverse Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The reverse middle finger in the last panel is the...
a year ago
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Abstract Pickup
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Your Father's Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also you'll want to call this tech support number...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also you'll want to call this tech support number your father called before you. Today's News: This is probably the right place to mention we made the thing people kept asking for.
The Universe of...
Everyday examples of morphisms with one-sided inverses Like almost everyone except Alexander Grothendieck, I understand things better with examples. For...
3 months ago
3
3 months ago
Like almost everyone except Alexander Grothendieck, I understand things better with examples. For instance, how do you explain that $$(f\circ g)^{-1} = g^{-1} \circ f^{-1}?$$ Oh, that's easy. Let be putting on your shoes and be taking off your shoes. And let be putting...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - That Thing Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel the quickest way to spot bias is to find...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel the quickest way to spot bias is to find someone who reacts to something terrible by worrying about the impression a third party will get. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Afterlife Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Why does St. Peter have to stand at that podium all...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Why does St. Peter have to stand at that podium all day? Is he in Hell? Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jailbreak Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Of course the risk is that it doesn't work and now...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Of course the risk is that it doesn't work and now you're just shouting carburetor at old men. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Empirical Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Usually you can't trace your line of thought on a...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Usually you can't trace your line of thought on a joke, but this is one is firmly at the intersection of listening to a sentimental podcast during the same period in which I was reading a few Karl Popper books. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Like that Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Trying to write more realistic dialog these...
5 months ago
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Ravioli-Shaped Objects
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Free Fallin'
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Control Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I think if we just convince AI that it committed an...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I think if we just convince AI that it committed an original sin, we can get it to feel guilty. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bio Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: My daughter saw me drawing and asked if it was kid...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: My daughter saw me drawing and asked if it was kid appropriate, and I don't know. Today's News:
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Cursive Letters
9 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Algorithm Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You are what we call a discontinuity at...
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Pronunciation
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conspire Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panel 4 is the greatest prose I'm capable...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panel 4 is the greatest prose I'm capable of. Today's News: Hey geeks, after years of holding out, I'm finally getting engaged with social media. I post a lot of favorite old comics plus news about NEW BOOKS. You can follow me on...
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Towed Message
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Exist Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is a bonus update brought to you by my new...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is a bonus update brought to you by my new book, A City on Mars. Please do me a favor and click this comic for more info. Today's News: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - New Years Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just because a few people on Patreon asked - this...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just because a few people on Patreon asked - this is the end of this individual comic. SMBC will persist long enough to be taken over by the AI who killed us all. Today's News:
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Lymphocytes
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Focus Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I hereby release this idea to any stupid person in...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I hereby release this idea to any stupid person in Silicon Valley. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Taste Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really, without the heart medication and...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really, without the heart medication and microplastics you don't get the proper terroire. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pinch Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If he'd been Steve Hitler, there'd be no Steve now....
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If he'd been Steve Hitler, there'd be no Steve now. Deep thoughts. Today's News:
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Proterozoic Rocks
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Illusion Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I got this idea from a story I can't remember, only...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I got this idea from a story I can't remember, only that it had the line 'I will show you the power of illusion' and was, possibly, from the Hindu tradition. Anyone know it? Today's News:
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Paleontology Museum
a year ago
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Redshift
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - History Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: C'monnnnnn hatemail. Today's News:
a year ago
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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
9 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - LLM Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Best you can do with cosmos-3.5 is get a universe...
a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Best you can do with cosmos-3.5 is get a universe that's classical at low speeds. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sheep Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Creative people express their utterly generic...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Creative people express their utterly generic feelings with NEW phrases. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Am Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: There is no Steve-in-Itself! There's not even a...
11 months ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: There is no Steve-in-Itself! There's not even a thing that believes it is Steve, now help me decide what's for dinner! Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Connection Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Time for a factory reset. Today's News: Thank you!
a month ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conscious Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panel 2 is the title of my autobiography. Today's...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Suffering Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please consult yesterday's comments (we have...
a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please consult yesterday's comments (we have comments now) for the excellent post by Hans Rickheit. Today's News: We have them, like it's the 90s again! Please don't be a dick - I would like to keep moderation light. Also, if you...
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RNAWorld
2 months ago
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Room Temperature
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Apple Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: 'It's pretty clear Eden is just a simulation,...
a year ago
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Pole Vault
5 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Anxious Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You really gotta drag out the shhhhhhh Today's...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Insta Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please don't email - I am already filled with...
a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please don't email - I am already filled with regret about the votey. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pisa Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really, you want an isometric view if you're being...
a year ago
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Fossil
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Clusivity Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is literally the funniest clusivity joke ever...
a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is literally the funniest clusivity joke ever created. Today's News: Another double update thanks to this stupid book I wrote that people keep preordering.
Abstruse Goose
The Most Powerful Person in the World - part 2
over a year ago
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Sphere Tastiness
10 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - A Family Dispute Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Okay, occasionally they are...
9 months ago
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Second Stage
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gold Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: He starts to get nervous when the gold bat comes...
9 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sonnet Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The total effacement of selfhood is bad but the...
a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The total effacement of selfhood is bad but the corn is *very* sweet. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Co-Op Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's a little unfair that he always has God mode...
a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's a little unfair that he always has God mode switched on, though. Today's News: Final 4 hours. So relieved to stop posting about it.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Featherless Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I propose that we consider AI sentient when you...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I propose that we consider AI sentient when you feed it this comic and it is disappointed in you. Today's News:
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Effect Size
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Inflation Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Freedom! Today's News:
a year ago
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The Maritime Approximation
a week ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Guarantee you AI won't sit around moping around the...
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9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Guarantee you AI won't sit around moping around the nature of qualitative experience - it's just gonna murder your ass. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bea Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks, everyone. It took about 5 years to get from...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks, everyone. It took about 5 years to get from the beginning to here. It's as a good of a thing as I can write, and I hope you enjoy it. Today's News: The most frequently asked question is the age range for Bea Wolf readers,...
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Square Packing
a year ago
The Universe of...
A triviality about numbers that look like abbc Looking at license plates the other day I noticed that if you have a four-digit number with digits...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Looking at license plates the other day I noticed that if you have a four-digit number with digits , and , then will always be a multiple of . For example, and . Mathematically this is uninteresting. The proof is completely trivial. (Such a number is simply , and .) But I...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Haiku Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: According to patreon I already did this? Sparrows...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: According to patreon I already did this? Sparrows in moonlight. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Elegant Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Max Tegmark is reading this in his office, shaking...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Max Tegmark is reading this in his office, shaking his fist and shouting 'Weinersmith!' Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Unspeakable Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The only awkward part is how it happens every 30...
10 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conscious Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Announcing The Universe: Abridged Beyond the Point...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Announcing The Universe: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness! Click this comic or check the blog! Today's News: Thank you!
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jawing Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Massive eternal regret for deciding evolution had...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Massive eternal regret for deciding evolution had elaborate speech bubbles. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Foam Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The guy opens a coat to reveal respectable...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The guy opens a coat to reveal respectable employment with opportunity for promotion. Today's News:
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Good and Bad Ideas
7 months ago
The Oatmeal - Comics...
The full trailer for my Netflix series just dropped! View on my website
10 months ago
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Messier Objects
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Im Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Is it time? Is it time for the all etymology jokes...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Is it time? Is it time for the all etymology jokes compendium? Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Normal Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Normal people: You economists keep assuming humans...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Normal people: You economists keep assuming humans have perfect pricing information! Microeconomists: we need ever more complex auction mechanisms to suss out the true preferences humans are constantly hiding! Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fetish Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It actually gets changed regularly. We're in the...
a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It actually gets changed regularly. We're in the weird incest fantasy Freud branch of the multiverse. Today's News:
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Glass-Topped Table
a year ago
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2024
11 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Secrets Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kids, you can literally find ways to annihilate all...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kids, you can literally find ways to annihilate all humans, but you have to start with algebra! Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bot Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The humanoid body is important to achieving maximum...
10 months ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The humanoid body is important to achieving maximum self-loathing. Today's News:
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Ferris Wheels
4 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bigger Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: A patreon subscriber asked why the speech bubbles...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: A patreon subscriber asked why the speech bubbles don't slowly become crabs and I'm kicking myself no. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sorry Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is like a time machine to SMBC circa...
3 weeks ago
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Schwa
9 months ago
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Alphabet Notes
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Frank Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I read a lot of Perry Bible Fellowship, desperately...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I read a lot of Perry Bible Fellowship, desperately afraid that somewhere I'd amnesia-stolen this script. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Route Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The best one was actually Part 4 Part Two Part...
a month ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ethics Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Quick thankyou to patreon subscriber/friend Dave...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Quick thankyou to patreon subscriber/friend Dave Luebke for making this joke more legible. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Singed Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Actually if you can run the trolley into ALL...
10 months ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Actually if you can run the trolley into ALL humans, the notion of sadness ceases to have meaning, so it's all good. Today's News: Fun interview about A City on Mars with Jordan Harbinger.
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Oceanography Gift
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Realize Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please make sure to buy all smbc products before...
2 months ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please make sure to buy all smbc products before deciding to tune out of consumer culture. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Meaning Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The good news is that it's the default setting for...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The good news is that it's the default setting for all universes that come after this one. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Temple Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Let us rise and make similar noises! Today's News:
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Vidjagames Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: First Person Murder Spree VII was the high...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: First Person Murder Spree VII was the high watermark, of course. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Robot John Searle Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I am posting this from a train and can't make...
a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I am posting this from a train and can't make edits, so you'lll just have to dealll with the extra L. Today's News: Jazzed to have been read and found convincing by Tyler Cowen.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hungers Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Written in a state of harnger. Today's News:
3 months ago
The Universe of...
XKCD game theory question (Source: XKCD “Exam numbers”.) This post is about the bottom center panel, “Game Theory final...
3 months ago
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(Source: XKCD “Exam numbers”.) This post is about the bottom center panel, “Game Theory final exam”. I don't know much about game theory and I haven't seen any other discussion of this question. But I have a strategy I think is plausible and I'm somewhat pleased with. (I assume...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sauce Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Unfortunately, Sally is now set on the path toward...
a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Unfortunately, Sally is now set on the path toward cannibalism. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - License Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You'd think working in the fellatio building would...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You'd think working in the fellatio building would be exciting, but it's mostly paperwork and meetings. Today's News:
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A funeral for voicemail Is voicemail dead? View on my website
4 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bad Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Somehow it became God week on SMBC. Today's News:
3 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hi Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The weird shit is a new tiny book explaining...
a year ago
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Craters
3 months ago
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Driving PSA
7 months ago
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Physics vs. Magic
9 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Confess Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The belly button is the least objectionable...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Transcendence Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If a man transcends in the woods, and nobody hears...
a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If a man transcends in the woods, and nobody hears him, should he make a sound? Today's News:
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Inspiration
a year ago
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Daytime Firefly
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hope Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: No, OR is not a typo, but the lack of a bottom...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: No, OR is not a typo, but the lack of a bottom strap in panel 3 will require some retconning. Today's News:
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Omniknot
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - What the Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Don't blame us - you're the one watching. Today's...
7 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ritual Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm not saying you should do this, only that it'd...
5 days ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - DAD Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can also be consistent by saying 'Ah, but that...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can also be consistent by saying 'Ah, but that was on a Tuesday, which is different.' Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Being Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm officially adding an AI tag, since from now on...
a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm officially adding an AI tag, since from now on 83% of comics on SMBC will be about AI ennui. Ennai? AInnui? Today's News:
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Arizona Chess
a month ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Haiku Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's at its best when it interrupts a speech every...
3 months ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's at its best when it interrupts a speech every twelve syllables. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Deepfake Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really sad part is when they start deepfaking...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really sad part is when they start deepfaking themselves for affirmation. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cortex Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is why artists and mathematicians were ahead...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is why artists and mathematicians were ahead of the curve on madness. You are all us now. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gods Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Looking at this again, Terrible Elk-God would be a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Looking at this again, Terrible Elk-God would be a great He-Man character. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Book Tour! Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We'll also have a UK schedule soon. Thanks...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We'll also have a UK schedule soon. Thanks everyone! Sorry to nag about this, but well, it's the culmination of 4 years of work. I hope to see some of you! Today's News: Here are links to the individual events: Strand...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cooperation Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Cooperation is when we hurt people...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Attention Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The real endgame is when AI can just generate novel...
a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The real endgame is when AI can just generate novel cat videos inside your brain. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sad Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Borgin hard or hardly borgin? Today's News:
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Joy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Prints are available if you want this for your...
4 months ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Prints are available if you want this for your future cell. Today's News:
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Exoplanet High-5
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Grounded Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: But you should see what happened to the...
3 months ago
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Monocaster
3 months ago
Abstruse Goose
the glorious new master race
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Morality Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm unreasonably amused by the phrase 'I'm winning...
9 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Latte Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I was once at a table of British people and asked...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I was once at a table of British people and asked why they mispronounce Latte even though they usually pronounce continental languages better than Americans, and they immediately agreed, without conferring, that it was to stick it...
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Heat Pump
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Promise Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is more commonly known as the median voter...
a month ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Shining Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Clash of the Tower Swipe Matcher Puzzle has brought...
a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Clash of the Tower Swipe Matcher Puzzle has brought down marriages. Today's News:
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Moon Armor Index
9 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Puzzle Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really, you should just think of every moment of...
9 months ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really, you should just think of every moment of your life as a series of escape rooms. It's healthy. Today's News:
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Judge Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Written after enjoying the delightfully...
a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Written after enjoying the delightfully controversial book Status and Culture. Today's News:
CommitStrip
A touch of real life, but not too much
over a year ago
CommitStrip
M3RRY CHR1STMAS 2021
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Loosen Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I would find it really satisfying if you could turn...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I would find it really satisfying if you could turn a knob in the universe and diffraction fringes would go away. Today's News: Whew! Finally back on my update schedule. ICYMI a couple nice reviews have come in for the new book,...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Joke Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can use an LLM to infinitely extend the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can use an LLM to infinitely extend the description in panel 2. Today's News: See you tonight, NYC!
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Salty Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We too have our seasons, Frosty. Today's News:
a year ago
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Cell Organelles
6 months ago
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Classical Periodic Table
4 months ago
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Solar Panel Placement
a year ago
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Real Estate Analysis
a year ago
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Inspiraling Roundabout
a year ago
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March Madness
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Persuade Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I really don't understand the superpersuader thing....
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I really don't understand the superpersuader thing. At least 1/4 of all humans would let an evil AI escape just to tell their friends. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ha Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Oddly enough, I feel this is one of those jokes...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Oddly enough, I feel this is one of those jokes that only makes *me* laugh. Today's News: If you want to hear me tell a weird science story...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gorillas Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Unprompted, they will walk into a cafe and pretend...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Unprompted, they will walk into a cafe and pretend they have important business to do. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dad Joke Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: As I post this, I'm suddenly worried Kris Wilson...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: As I post this, I'm suddenly worried Kris Wilson did it years ago, and if he did well fuck him for putting me in this terrible position. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gold Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: When I think of altruism, I think of guys selling...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: When I think of altruism, I think of guys selling apocalypse gold on youtube. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jump Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You would just watch your friends jump off a cliff...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You would just watch your friends jump off a cliff and do NOTHING? Today's News:
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Kedging Cannon
a month ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Meaning Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Meaning is for 18 year olds. I'm ready for...
4 weeks ago
The Oatmeal - Comics...
I am making an Exploding Kittens TV series at Netflix It's being produced by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels. View on my website
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Esteem Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes the votey panel is better than the comic...
a year ago
10
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes the votey panel is better than the comic and I simply have to accept it. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Efficient Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If heroes would just check the betting markets...
a year ago
91
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If heroes would just check the betting markets before fighting they could make much better choices. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Feelings Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also, self-destructiveness stops being attractive...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also, self-destructiveness stops being attractive some time around age 22, but for some reason people keep doing it. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Superintelligent Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later she's forced against her will to take care of...
9 months ago
25
9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later she's forced against her will to take care of her physical and mental wellbeing. Today's News:
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Flatten the Planets
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hands Down Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wings would also be acceptable, as would a thousand...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wings would also be acceptable, as would a thousand gibbering eyes. Today's News:
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Doctor's Office
a year ago
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Dubious Islands
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Below Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: In running out of the room, he falls down some...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: In running out of the room, he falls down some stairs and never stops falling. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - The Universe Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thank you everyone! I would love to keep bringing...
a year ago
8
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thank you everyone! I would love to keep bringing more of these, and your support makes that happen :) Today's News:
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How to Coil a Cable
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Compliment Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Every time I see this it takes me a minute to...
4 months ago
22
4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Every time I see this it takes me a minute to realize it isn't an insult. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pino Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I am prepared for your call Hollywood. It's...
2 months ago
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Supergroup
9 months ago
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Data Quality [last 4 digits of your cat's chip ID] -> [your cat's full chip ID] -> [a drawing of your cat] ->...
a year ago
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a year ago
[last 4 digits of your cat's chip ID] -> [your cat's full chip ID] -> [a drawing of your cat] -> [photo of your cat] -> [clone of your cat] -> [your actual cat] -> [my better cat]" alt="[exclamation about how cute your cat is] -> [last 4 digits of your cat's chip ID] -> [your...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - LLM Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also rationality developed entirely to rationalize...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also rationality developed entirely to rationalize your own behavior. Its use in mathematics is incidental. Today's News:
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Linear Sort
4 days ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Protein Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If demand is high enough, SMBC will reorient all...
a year ago
11
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If demand is high enough, SMBC will reorient all business around the production of nugs. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Paper Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'll have a comic update in a minute but I thought...
a year ago
9
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'll have a comic update in a minute but I thought you might enjoy this paper I was involved with. Click to read - it's available online for free. Today's News: Or click here to see. The paper was based on a culled chapter from A...
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Professional Oaths
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Three Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: There are actually several burger universes but He...
a year ago
39
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: There are actually several burger universes but He only goes to this one because it's closer. Today's News: Next "Abridged" book will be on cosmology.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AAAAAAAAAAA Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Have you tried tuning out all your coping...
a year ago
9
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Have you tried tuning out all your coping mechanisms and focusing entirely on your unresolvable problems? Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AI Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Honestly, what're the odds we DON'T creep out...
9 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Snow White Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm just saying, Disney, I am married to a...
a year ago
11
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm just saying, Disney, I am married to a parasitologist and the tick people really want accuracy in the new movie. Call me. Today's News:
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Perseids Pronunciation
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sleddy Problems Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Deontology, as is well-known, says you should feed...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Deontology, as is well-known, says you should feed the flame of Gornak with the flesh of man. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Three Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That uni-foursome is, to be clear, entirely for...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That uni-foursome is, to be clear, entirely for procreation. Today's News: