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This is why I don't let my wife purchase ricin.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Paper
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I'll have a comic update in a minute but I thought...
a year ago
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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.
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Or click here to see.
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a year ago
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This comic based directly on my gross biologist wife.
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WELP, looks like a bunch more bonus strips go up today thanks to buyers of A City on Mars. More soon and thank you all for your preorders!
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This isn't quite on the level of the time Hemingway...
11 months ago
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This isn't quite on the level of the time Hemingway said 'Fuck literature' but it *is* more out-of-context.
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Also the nice books give you fifty problems to...
6 months ago
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Also the nice books give you fifty problems to establish understanding while the scary books give you two trick questions.
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I wonder when someone will invent half-generations...
2 weeks ago
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I wonder when someone will invent half-generations to get access to more specific marketing categories.
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You would just watch your friends jump off a cliff...
11 months ago
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You would just watch your friends jump off a cliff and do NOTHING?
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You'd think working in the fellatio building would...
5 months ago
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You'd think working in the fellatio building would be exciting, but it's mostly paperwork and meetings.
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2 months ago
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Hoping I can get a duchy after the robot revolution.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Evolution
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a month ago
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The worst part is knowing that your great grandchildren will find the mutation sexy.
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a year ago
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Any resemblance to any sitting official is a trick of the eye - this is in fact a 2D cartoon drawing.
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Humans all just get called FC, like it's their...
a year ago
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Humans all just get called FC, like it's their initials.
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Last 72 hours!
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You are hereby banished from the Internet.
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4 months ago
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You are hereby banished from the Internet.
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The only downside is you have to go in every six...
4 months ago
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The only downside is you have to go in every six months to get spun up.
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The arts of course existed before Aristotle was...
3 months ago
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The arts of course existed before Aristotle was wrong about them.
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Let's fight about it.
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Let's fight about it.
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I'm slightly regretting not having this as the...
a year ago
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I'm slightly regretting not having this as the twist ending to a comedic novel. Gimme a few years.
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One week until BEA WOLF DAY!
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By 2026, it's just all teleporter comics.
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a year ago
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By 2026, it's just all teleporter comics.
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When you add in the Stalin potential it gets really...
8 months ago
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When you add in the Stalin potential it gets really dicey.
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Yes, ten legs.
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a year ago
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Yes, ten legs.
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Do you need to settle a dispute?
Let's hit each other with fake swords.
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7 months ago
Let's hit each other with fake swords.
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This is gonna be the most upsetting part about...
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This is gonna be the most upsetting part about first alien contact.
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+10 Internet points if you can identify all...
a year ago
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+10 Internet points if you can identify all three.
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Tomorrow.
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+10 internet points to anyone who builds this....
a year ago
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+10 internet points to anyone who builds this. -1,000 ethics points, but +10 internet points.
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Please don't email - I am already filled with...
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Godcat has a special message for you
Your lord and savior, Godcat, has a favor to ask regarding his new Netflix series.
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Your lord and savior, Godcat, has a favor to ask regarding his new Netflix series.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Commute
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AM I RIGHT?!
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AM I RIGHT?!
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Every time you pray to God, one finger of the...
a year ago
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Every time you pray to God, one finger of the infinite monkey's paw curls inward.
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Normally you don't get a flat price, but have to...
10 months ago
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Normally you don't get a flat price, but have to bid at an auction.
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The good news is that it's the default setting for...
11 months ago
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The good news is that it's the default setting for all universes that come after this one.
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Thanks again, early buyers! It is a sincerely big...
a year ago
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Thanks again, early buyers! It is a sincerely big deal to have all these preorders in place.
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More info here. God bless the 3 of you still using RSS who actually read this thing.
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On the plus side we can harvest them so future...
3 months ago
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On the plus side we can harvest them so future Martians can have microbeads in their soap.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Realize
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Please make sure to buy all smbc products before...
2 months ago
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Please make sure to buy all smbc products before deciding to tune out of consumer culture.
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Abstruse Goose
The Most Powerful Person in the World
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Society
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The good news about our society is everyone comes...
9 months ago
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The good news about our society is everyone comes early.
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SMBC is a comic about mathematics, philosophy,...
2 months ago
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SMBC is a comic about mathematics, philosophy, literature, and science.
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A patreon subscriber points out that there aren't...
a year ago
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A patreon subscriber points out that there aren't any South American pythons, but my defense is that the drawings don't even look like pythons.
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Really, if you go to a temple with excellent...
10 months ago
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Really, if you go to a temple with excellent customer service, you should wonder which branch of the afterlife is in charge.
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Is this the one that finally gets all the hatemail?...
a year ago
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Is this the one that finally gets all the hatemail? Is it time?
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Final 4 days!
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Rise from the deep
A comic about Twitter.
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over a year ago
A comic about Twitter.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Knowing
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Look the fact that there's a misspelling in the...
a year ago
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Look the fact that there's a misspelling in the votey panel just makes the point more strong.
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Poor Richard's Almanack
Benjamin Franklin wrote and published
Poor Richard's Almanack annually from 1732 to 1758. Paper...
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....
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Unity
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The header of the second panel really should be...
11 months ago
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The header of the second panel really should be above most comic panels.
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Oh God, is it 2024? And I'm still doing these
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Inflate
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Works great with the broader SMBC clown...
3 months ago
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Works great with the broader SMBC clown canon.
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You ever imagine how you'd feel if there were...
5 months ago
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You ever imagine how you'd feel if there were constant fights between anonymous well-armed vigilante factions. Eventually everyone would just move to the suburbs.
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Later, he gets a bill anyway.
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9 months ago
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Later, he gets a bill anyway.
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Who is kind - he that kicketh a man in the balls...
8 months ago
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Who is kind - he that kicketh a man in the balls for no reason, or he that doeth not?
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Age
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Honestly whenever I hear someone has been murdered...
a week ago
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Honestly whenever I hear someone has been murdered I just assume it was one of them. How would you know?
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Maximization
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Sorry for the missed updates. I'll be doing a few...
a month ago
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Sorry for the missed updates. I'll be doing a few extra to catch up.
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Time for a factory reset.
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Thank you!
a month ago
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Time for a factory reset.
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Thank you!
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conspire
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Also demanding that the Reptilians take more power...
6 months ago
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Also demanding that the Reptilians take more power because in the modern world you need an executive branch that can act rapidly.
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Somehow it became God week on SMBC.
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3 months ago
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Somehow it became God week on SMBC.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Backstory
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Right before you kill Hitler in Wolfenstein, you...
6 months ago
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Right before you kill Hitler in Wolfenstein, you get a 60 hour biography, which deeply enhances the experience.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Duh
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Based on educating my 10 year old on the varieties...
3 weeks ago
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Based on educating my 10 year old on the varieties of duhs.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Language
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That's where he pushes the robot into the...
2 months ago
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That's where he pushes the robot into the sea.
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Look at what they tried to take from us
When I was a kid, the Beatles’ seminal 1966 album Revolver was 20%
shorter. The original release...
3 months ago
When I was a kid, the Beatles’ seminal 1966 album Revolver was 20%
shorter. The original release was not a long album: 14 tracks,
totaling 34:45. But the version I grew up with had 11 tracks,
totaling only 27:31.
Three tracks, all by Lennon, were omitted by Capitol
from the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sunset
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Hopefully you didn't laugh at this, because if you...
a year ago
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Hopefully you didn't laugh at this, because if you did you're using up around .01% of your laughs on just this one comic.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, I cannot thank you enough times. The response to Bea Wolf has...
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Conveniently they just pack the gold in boxes like...
a year ago
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Conveniently they just pack the gold in boxes like that.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Paradise
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When humans finally step into the Experience...
a year ago
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When humans finally step into the Experience Machine, their choice of paradise will be heartbreaking.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Boof
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The frustrating thing is when she's trying to get...
a year ago
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The frustrating thing is when she's trying to get her crack but it's at the bottom of the purse under the boxes of tissues, pocket bible, and coupon books.
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Sorry for the missed updates, but I am at last home! For...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Service
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This is just a big thank you to Bea Wolf buyers....
a year ago
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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
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Thanks y'all, I mean it. Here's...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Downhill
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I too commit the fundamental attribution...
a year ago
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I too commit the fundamental attribution error!
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Hey geeks, last day to buy A City on Mars during launch week. Purchases now really help us, so if you were going to buy, we appreciate it happening soon. I am looking...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Illusion
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I got this idea from a story I can't remember, only...
a year ago
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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?
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Only one
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After about 3 slayings they just sit in a chair,...
a year ago
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After about 3 slayings they just sit in a chair, look out the window, and shake their heads from time to time.
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I expect this comic to be amusing until roughly...
2 months ago
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I expect this comic to be amusing until roughly 2029.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Help
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Actually maybe this is why prayer works in old...
10 months ago
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Actually maybe this is why prayer works in old books written when there was a smaller population.
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I hope, dear readers, that I have fecked many of...
7 months ago
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I hope, dear readers, that I have fecked many of you.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Life
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Six dimensions is OK, but 7+ is for freaks.
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3 months ago
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Six dimensions is OK, but 7+ is for freaks.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - God
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Someday, long after the robots have won, they will...
a week ago
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Someday, long after the robots have won, they will find this comic and not laugh because that is not a thing they do.
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It's at its best when it interrupts a speech every...
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It's at its best when it interrupts a speech every twelve syllables.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Milton
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OK OK but I am CORNERING the market on...
a year ago
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OK OK but I am CORNERING the market on Milton-related humor.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Social
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The funniest thing is that all the humans are dead...
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The funniest thing is that all the humans are dead and all the talking things at the end are confused robots!
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We're a best book of the year!
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Taking care
This is a comic about grief, and it's based on a poem by Callista Buchen.
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12 months ago
This is a comic about grief, and it's based on a poem by Callista Buchen.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hatero
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It's the baaaaasexuals you have to look out...
10 months ago
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It's the baaaaasexuals you have to look out for.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - A Family Dispute
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Okay, occasionally they are...
9 months ago
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Okay, occasionally they are autobiographical.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Best
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Is it time? Is it time for a book of these?
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10 months ago
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Is it time? Is it time for a book of these?
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Augmented
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A later update just turns things you don't want to...
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A later update just turns things you don't want to see into bursts of pixie dust.
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Tradition is whatever had just faded when I was...
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Tradition is whatever had just faded when I was 12.
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Kids have precisely three fantasies: nurturing,...
a year ago
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Kids have precisely three fantasies: nurturing, power, and retribution. Adults are the same, plus sex and immortality.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conscious
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Panel 2 is the title of my autobiography.
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a year ago
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Panel 2 is the title of my autobiography.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Compliment
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Every time I see this it takes me a minute to...
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Every time I see this it takes me a minute to realize it isn't an insult.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Inappropriate
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Favorite fun fact from researching A City on Mars...
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Favorite fun fact from researching A City on Mars was how ASTP in 1975 had to have androgynous docking so nobody was the girl spaceship.
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So Zach, what do you do when not making children's...
a year ago
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So Zach, what do you do when not making children's books?
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Hey geeks, I'll be speaking a Proton Prom with a bunch of people who are more important than me!
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Half
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Hoping to be able to rematerialize your loved ones...
2 months ago
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Hoping to be able to rematerialize your loved ones after the next funding round.
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Looking at this again, Terrible Elk-God would be a...
a year ago
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Looking at this again, Terrible Elk-God would be a great He-Man character.
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This happens roughly 4 times a week.
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Oddly enough, I feel this is one of those jokes that only makes *me* laugh.
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Grandpa Grover
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This remains for me one of the weirdest things that defies my ideas about math being prior to science.
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Later the nutritionist is forced to quote from revelations about what is to come.
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Therapy is now horrible
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Intrusive thoughts and more.
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This is why He stopped answering prayers.
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Wow! How to discover videos on Facebook and Instagram!
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This is actually pretty close to a complaint lodged at Egil Skallagrímsson by a princess.
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It was the only way to save you.
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The Queen frowns upon vacation days.
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The Queen frowns upon vacation days.
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6 months ago
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It's not you, it's me. Statistically. Like 40% you, 60% me.
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This'll be even funnier once SMBC is infinite scroll.
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Geeks of the UK! If you pre-order soon, you get a 20% discount on my new...
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Insert the p-value joke over your choice.
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Hey geeks! A few of you have requested signed copies of the new book, Bea Wolf, and they are available here.
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Fortunately, by the time this all happened, everything was a form of branding, and there was nothing left to lament.
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Painted Tunnel
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3 months ago
The post Painted Tunnel appeared first on Last Place Comics.
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I made some animated shorts
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Why do people keep choosing autonomy over animal pleasure in movies?! It makes no sense!
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Whenever I explain this to someone the only responses are amazement and being unable to fathom why anyone would care.
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Better make sure the wings of your airplane are shaped like a Bat. Also swing on ropes whenever possible.
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The really creepy part is the tower is its cloaca.
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OpenAI, hear me out: instead of nerfing the AI just make it shame the user.
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Despite being linked from SMBC, I'm told the show is family-friendly.
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I'm thinking of a word. Try to guess what it is.
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I coded a daily word-guessing game.
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Thanks everyone. Social media is finally swallowing...
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Thanks everyone. Social media is finally swallowing the whole Internet, so being able to shift to making books my major source of revenue is looking like the best path. Unfortunately, social media doesn't like people linking...
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He's also an intolerancesexual, which to his...
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He's also an intolerancesexual, which to his delight, they refuse do tolerate.
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Lovely long review of A City on Mars here, by Cory Doctorow.
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Does Santa exist? No, I have killed him.
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11 months ago
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Hey, wanna see me talking space settlements with the Planetary Society?
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Trying to write more realistic dialog these days.
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There are actually several burger universes but He...
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There are actually several burger universes but He only goes to this one because it's closer.
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Next "Abridged" book will be on cosmology.
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Any swear words you notice are pareidolia.
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Any swear words you notice are pareidolia.
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It's uniforms all the way down, man.
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It's uniforms all the way down, man.
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She sells printer ink cheaper than anyone, but you...
11 months ago
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She sells printer ink cheaper than anyone, but you DO NOT ASK HOW.
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Have you tried tuning out all your coping mechanisms and focusing entirely on your unresolvable problems?
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It actually gets changed regularly. We're in the...
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It actually gets changed regularly. We're in the weird incest fantasy Freud branch of the multiverse.
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Patreon users felt this one was too sad, but look...
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Patreon users felt this one was too sad, but look at the cute kid in the dino suit!
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Inside though, the human is thinking how it still...
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Inside though, the human is thinking how it still beats a real job.
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Ha! You wouldn't believe how despair crept over your eyes like a living shadow!
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A single tear twinkled in the twink's eyes.
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A single tear twinkled in the twink's eyes.
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Infinity (noun)
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You ever think about how many STDs would go down with us if there were an AI apocalypse?
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10 points to anyone who gets a paper published containing the term sack-blast.
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A complex bug with a ⸢simple⸣ fix
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worked surprisingly well. But...
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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
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One reason I find the bug interesting is that it exemplifies the sort
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Also rationality developed entirely to rationalize your own behavior. Its use in mathematics is incidental.
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Max Tegmark is reading this in his office, shaking his fist and shouting 'Weinersmith!'
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I originally had a hamster but that seemed mean.
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Go ahead, email me your shrinkage joke. It's fine.
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You're in pillar of salt territory here, bro.
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Tiny hats would cost a literal fraction of the...
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Tiny hats would cost a literal fraction of the price of the mittens.
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The really tough part is when the company consolidates and you have to do all the jobs at once.
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Hey geeks! You can enter to win a free copy of my new book here!
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Better than sociologists who propose by questioning...
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Better than sociologists who propose by questioning the role of the engagement ring in nuptial rituals.
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You are what we call a discontinuity at...
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You are what we call a discontinuity at zero.
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Time Traveler Causes of Death
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Honestly, soup matters a lot more to my life than...
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Honestly, soup matters a lot more to my life than love or bravery.
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Behold! (slightly NSFW)
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I wonder if anyone's dropped a 20 at an economics conference to see if nobody touches it.
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First Person Murder Spree VII was the high...
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First Person Murder Spree VII was the high watermark, of course.
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I learned today that the etymological roots of the word anatomy mean cutting up.
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Weirdly, his revealed preference was for a painful and protracted demise.
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Everyone thinks the Victorians were polite, but...
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Everyone thinks the Victorians were polite, but Dickens' corpus is basically 14,000 pages of talking shit.
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I like to imagine an old woman among the groundlings, hearing the twist in Macbeth and immediately hurling rotten tomatoes and having to be dragged out of the Globe.
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Take that, 100 year old method largely no longer in use!
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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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GREAT JOB AI, STAY WITH ART YOU'RE NAILING...
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GREAT JOB AI, STAY WITH ART YOU'RE NAILING IT
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Fortunately they didn't have quantitative finance yet, so he was just a serial killer.
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I really don't understand the superpersuader thing....
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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.
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Really, you should just think of every moment of...
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Really, you should just think of every moment of your life as a series of escape rooms. It's healthy.
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If demand is high enough, SMBC will reorient all business around the production of nugs.
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Thank you patreons for recognizing that the original caption was basically unreadable.
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I am posting this from a train and can't make edits, so you'lll just have to dealll with the extra L.
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Jazzed to have been read and found convincing by Tyler Cowen.
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Okay, but you should see the thing that gets 2 minutes.
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Fortunately he was able to invest those socks and return a dividend later.
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I wonder if Satan ever gets tired of winning.
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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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This accidentally became Bea Wolf for teenagers.
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Kelly didn't like this one, but twitter did, and...
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Kelly didn't like this one, but twitter did, and twitter, let me tell you, is very smart.
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It's the last day that sales of Bea count toward our NYT bestseller total! The list is normally dominated by major franchises,...
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As I pload this, that stray mark on the hand in panel 3 is making me crazy.
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Kicking myself for not having AI balloons in the SMBC store right this second.
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9 months ago
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He starts to get nervous when the gold bat comes out.
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Having enough support that you can insist on four years to research a topic before presenting a book is of course down to all of you over all these years. It is daily appreciated.
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Sitting in detention for having done nothing wrong is, however, excellent training for service sector work.
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Lovely review for Bea Wolf.
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Stuff I wanted to say to the historic district people but didn't
[ Thanks to John Wiersba for noticing that I forgot to publish this. ]
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3 months ago
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Also nothing will ever taste as good as a single oreo, age 9.
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That's the official International Sign system imagine for in-the-butt.
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Oh right, you're experiencing it from a state of total oneness wherein time is without meaning, my bad.
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4 months ago
The post Spin the Bottle appeared first on Last Place Comics.
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This could be the greatest school play of all time if anyone out there had the guts to do it.
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I've been doing this for 20 years now and it feels...
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I've been doing this for 20 years now and it feels good to come clean.
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You could also do history by unboxing artifacts.
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I have this fear that one day an all-powerful AI...
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I have this fear that one day an all-powerful AI will be able to examine a statement you made and determine precisely where you got the information and it will be the most shame-filled moment of your life.
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3 weeks ago
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Don't at me, history of international politics scholars!
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Slightly worried the wallstreetbets people will not...
a year ago
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Slightly worried the wallstreetbets people will not understand this is a joke. Or, rather, will understand that it's a joke and therefore employ it as a financial plan.
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Thanks for supporting this book -- it has succeeded...
10 months ago
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Thanks for supporting this book -- it has succeeded all expectations.
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Rudolph with your nose so bright
Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?
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3 months ago
Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?
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Kids, you can literally find ways to annihilate all humans, but you have to start with algebra!
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Every time I walk into the woods I like to think...
5 months ago
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Every time I walk into the woods I like to think about the millions of creatures currently being killed for food.
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Every time I tell a joke about ads targeting men...
2 months ago
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Every time I tell a joke about ads targeting men for being weak I wonder if I'm the only one who's being targeted.
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This joke conceived while reading Tarski's biography, a fact which will cause four of you to laugh politely.
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Or the simulators, insanely, think we'd rather have...
7 months ago
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Or the simulators, insanely, think we'd rather have a life of striving together.
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I was either that or Jai Ganticpenis.
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I was either that or Jai Ganticpenis.
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Sesame Street is to blame.
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Sesame Street is to blame.
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Patreon subscribers pointed out numerous objections...
10 months ago
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Patreon subscribers pointed out numerous objections but I think if I work hard I can find technical reasons I'm right and my supporters are wrong.
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Let us rise and make similar noises!
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Let us rise and make similar noises!
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Finally an uplifting SMBC.
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a year ago
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Finally an uplifting SMBC.
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Last chance to get signed books and free audiobooks by Phil Plait and Gretchen McCulloch!
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