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The cool thing is the rapid mutation of surrounding plants and bacteria, meaning Dad is still changing lives after he's gone.
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Pro Wrestling is the most realistic form of entertainment, in that nothing means anything, but everyone still gets hurt.
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You are what we call a discontinuity at zero.
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God he is just absolutely destroying the spine of that book.
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OK OK but I am CORNERING the market on Milton-related humor.
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Ironically, I'm reading the new Derek Parfit biography as I post this.
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This is a comic about grief, and it's based on a poem by Callista Buchen.
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Meet Algo, the Boss-Guilt Absolver
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Nice book selection here on Barnes and Noble, with an especially good pick right at the bottom.
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Number 3 move is the combination, because each takes away from the other.
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Have you tried tuning out all your coping mechanisms and focusing entirely on your unresolvable problems?
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I live in southeastern Pennsylvania, so the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Delaware triple point must be somewhere nearby. I sat up and got my phone so I could look at the map, and felt foolish.
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It's uniforms all the way down, man.
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Finally an uplifting SMBC.
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Finally an uplifting SMBC.
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Look he's not good at backgrounds but he's trying. Give him a hug.
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It's a little unfair that he always has God mode switched on, though.
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Yes, ten legs.
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Inside though, the human is thinking how it still beats a real job.
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Later she's forced against her will to take care of her physical and mental wellbeing.
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Later he awkwardly buys a beer and pours it down his shirt.
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Mmmm, fully frontal prudity.
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Mmmm, fully frontal prudity.
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I'm even into heterocyclic compounds.
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I'm even into heterocyclic compounds.
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The really cool thing is that those are cargo sandals, to match the cargo socks, cargo pants, cargo shirt.
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How come nobody ever considers the increased CO2 emissions of causing the trolley to switch tracks?
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Another prestigious publication compelled to say Weinersmith.
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Patreon subscribers were pretty quick to suggest a tree that poisons the area around it. Really, I've attracted a beautiful audience here.
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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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Loki the comedian
Toph and I were discussing the story of Loki and Skaði, one of my
favorites. (Previously.) The...
3 months ago
Toph and I were discussing the story of Loki and Skaði, one of my
favorites. (Previously.) The Æsir
have killed Skaði's father, and owe her compensation. She has been
sad since her father died, she says, and demands that the Æsir make
her laugh. Loki rubs his hands together...
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How my pets see me
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I created a little animation about how I see my pets versus how they see me.
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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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We should be measuring happiness of CATS.
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We should be measuring happiness of CATS.
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For any problem there's a set of solutions that would actually work but would be too weird to be accepted.
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At some point I realized it'd be more accurate for me to say I understand 98% of social cues, but the 2% is where all the important ones are.
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This is more commonly known as the median voter theorem.
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I've been doing this for 20 years now and it feels good to come clean.
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Oddly enough, the hard part was picking jargon NOT to use.
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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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Hey, at least Kelvins would've been worse?
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Happy family life, productive work life, and...
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Happy family life, productive work life, and worldwide hegemony.
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Nice review of our space book in WSJ.
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Well I'm pushing back 10 years the date my kids get to read these.
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The post Grandpa Grover appeared first on Last Place Comics.
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Tradition is whatever had just faded when I was 12.
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The cape cost three dollars, but it's an investment.
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Panel three is my contribution to World Literature.
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We can't make the world better, but we can make little bits of it pop out of themselves.
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I read a lot of Perry Bible Fellowship, desperately afraid that somewhere I'd amnesia-stolen this script.
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Go ahead. Remember that moment.
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Go ahead. Remember that moment.
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Remember 20 years ago I started a comic about butts and stuff and now I got a book listed alongside Kip Thorne's? Truly, we're in a weird branch of the multiverse.
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The real endgame is when AI can just generate novel cat videos inside your brain.
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We're in this really awkward stage where sapient life is possible, but it'll pass.
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Have you noticed this thing where people say AI...
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Have you noticed this thing where people say AI will never be as good as Shakespeare, but then nobody mentions that none of us are as good as Shakespeare?
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The really freaky part is when you hear about this going on in medical research.
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I was actually screaming in agony, but now that you...
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I was actually screaming in agony, but now that you mention it they are lovely.
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Looking at this again, Terrible Elk-God would be a great He-Man character.
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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.
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Based on a conversation I had with two different astronomers recently, in which I was informed Jupiter is unable to clear its orbit. They weren't willing to say Jupiter is a dwarf planet but *I* am.
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Panel 7 is the actual epitaph.
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We too have our seasons, Frosty.
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We too have our seasons, Frosty.
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When humans finally step into the Experience Machine, their choice of paradise will be heartbreaking.
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Sesame Street is to blame.
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Interestingly, it seems like whoever has the best weapon systems is destined by fate for victory.
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Works great with the broader SMBC clown canon.
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St. Peter just taps the crudely drawn No Girls Allowed sign made by God.
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Abstruse Goose
the glorious new master race
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Of course then it becomes insulting when the other person doesn't want nightvision.
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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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English would be so much funnier, for generations, if we made a one-time switch from men to mans.
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You won't experience the ice cream in the powerful, meaningful way that I would, but you'll have a great big smile and it'll be so dear.
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09/17/21 PHD comic: 'The COVID-19 Virus Explained'
Piled Higher
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Piled Higher
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Cham
www.phdcomics.com
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"The COVID-19 Virus Explained" - originally published
9/17/2021
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a year ago
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Thanks, geeks! Click for the info. Also, in case you missed it, buyers get a free audiobook version read by massive dorkwad Phil Plait.
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'It's okay,' God assured him. 'I was automated years ago too.'
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Hey Austin, come see me at UT. 1:30pm April 5 2024 RLP 1.302E. I'll be talking space!
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All of these are of course just subsets of the sole story category, which is Ape Struggled And Was Thereby Changed.
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5 months ago
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The really distressing part is that he keeps saying names for approximately 6 hours.
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a year ago
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Later she experiences true oneness when she's asked to change it by one boss, then to put it back the other way by another boss.
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You ever reflect that if Thoreau lived today he'd be instagramming from Walden Pond?
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Cooperation is when we hurt people together!
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Everyone is a utilitarian until being a utilitarian is low utility.
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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 .
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.)
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I feel there's a culinary horseshoe graph where only the highest and lowest quality restaurants will serve you macerated chicken kidneys or whatever.
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It's not you, it's me. Statistically. Like 40% you,...
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It's not you, it's me. Statistically. Like 40% you, 60% me.
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Another review for A City on Mars, this one in Scientific American!
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The hard part is keeping your nostrils motionless until you hear the footsteps fade away.
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Elsewhere, a species with 20 fingers per hand will believe pretty much anything is true.
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To my intense horror, many of you have purchased the new book. And so, the bonus updates continue.
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a year ago
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Sometimes the votey panel is better than the comic and I simply have to accept it.
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Just a few more and I can do a book of teleporter...
a year ago
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Just a few more and I can do a book of teleporter humor.
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