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This works great on children too.
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Meet Algo, the Boss-Guilt Absolver
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Meet Algo, the Boss-Guilt Absolver
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This will be considered deeply offensive in 2034.
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Greatest votey panel of my life.
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Another prestigious publication compelled to say Weinersmith.
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Fortunately they were just drawings and not people.
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Hey! If you want a signed Bea Wolf or A City on Mars, or Soonish, *or* Phil Plait's new book Under Alien Skies, buy here.
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Announcing The Universe: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness! Click this comic or check the blog!
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Written on the hilt in Latin is 'you will do okay'
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Not usually a cat-joke guy, but at least it's only about 4% of a cat.
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How come villains never have narrow achievable revenge plots?
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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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I wonder if any supervillains read Nudge?
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I wonder if any supervillains read Nudge?
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Lasso Man 4
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The post Lasso Man 4 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
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I wonder how many miracles get boring if you just grant god an extra dimension?
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Someday the machine will give you everything you want, and the pretenses will be dropped so rapidly it'll be heartbreaking.
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Take that, 100 year old method largely no longer in use!
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I hereby release this idea to any stupid person in Silicon Valley.
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a year ago
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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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I am not tholin' this colon?
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I am not tholin' this colon?
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PSSST. Hey London!
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I feel there's a lot of money in an app where, when you skip exercise, it projects your future body slightly degrading.
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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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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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9 months ago
Your lord and savior, Godcat, has a favor to ask regarding his new Netflix series.
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Final week!
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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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You catastrophic forgetter! You opaque box! You...
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You catastrophic forgetter! You opaque box! You absolute Chinese room!
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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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We'll also be doing a bunch of author signings if...
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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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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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A complex bug with a ⸢simple⸣ fix
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worked surprisingly well. But...
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.
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We can get sad alllll niiiiight lonnnnng
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We can get sad alllll niiiiight lonnnnng
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According to patreon I already did this? Sparrows in moonlight.
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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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Annnnnd with this update I'm back on schedule....
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Annnnnd with this update I'm back on schedule. Click back a few to make sure you haven't missed one - I loaded a bunch of updates in the past few days.
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Hoping the Welsh isn't lol.
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2 months ago
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Hoping the Welsh isn't lol.
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Normal people: You economists keep assuming humans...
a year ago
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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!
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Rise from the deep
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A comic about Twitter.
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Tradition is whatever had just faded when I was 12.
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Horrible Therapist - Random Comic Generator
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The images here are picked randomly, so they might be nonsensical and/or terrible.
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It makes sense if you hear it but don't think about it.
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I'm slightly regretting not having this as the...
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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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6 months ago
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The weird part is that the second panel is a fantasy too.
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This is probably why he was so grumpy all the time.
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This is the real afterlife.
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This is the real afterlife.
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Where it gets really weird is when people start...
11 months ago
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Where it gets really weird is when people start saying they're pretty sure they know how all of history works.
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Cool article we contributed to for NYT.
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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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Butt-cream is in fact universal, for a sufficiently...
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Butt-cream is in fact universal, for a sufficiently wide definition of butt.
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I wonder when the first cult run by a robot will...
a year ago
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I wonder when the first cult run by a robot will start up.
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This whole time we could have been united.
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This whole time we could have been united.
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Really, without the heart medication and...
3 months ago
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Really, without the heart medication and microplastics you don't get the proper terroire.
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I'm even into heterocyclic compounds.
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I'm even into heterocyclic compounds.
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There, now Nate Silver can stop arguing with...
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There, now Nate Silver can stop arguing with everyone on twitter.
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Kelly didn't like this one, but twitter did, and...
a year ago
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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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I made some animated shorts
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9 months ago
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We're getting close to the all-evil-wishes SMBC compilation.
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I do check to see what became of the PLiF guys...
7 months ago
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I do check to see what became of the PLiF guys every six months or so.
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This is actually pretty close to a complaint lodged...
8 months ago
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This is actually pretty close to a complaint lodged at Egil Skallagrímsson by a princess.
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Buncha people on patreon said the title was on the...
a year ago
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Buncha people on patreon said the title was on the wrong side of the book but *I* say that's in THEIR in-group.
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Breaking: Slamming 'Slam' SLAMMED
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a year ago
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Breaking: Slamming 'Slam' SLAMMED
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Just 10 days till the big new thing!
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Nice review of our space book in WSJ.
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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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Anyone who thinks AI endangers poets should first prove that there exists a poetry journal with more readers than contributors.
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Let us rise and make similar noises!
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Dave Luebke informs me that the upper bound should just be infinity.
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Hot damn an embarrassingly flattering review in Science.
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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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Hoping to be able to rematerialize your loved ones after the next funding round.
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It really only gets good in the 4th...
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It really only gets good in the 4th edition.
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To be included in the forthcoming Psychologically...
2 months ago
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To be included in the forthcoming Psychologically Abusive Halloween collection.
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Depending on which AI becomes skynet you might also...
5 months ago
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Depending on which AI becomes skynet you might also be able to have a suit with banal political questions.
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I'm back to drawing after 2 weeks off and so let me...
a year ago
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I'm back to drawing after 2 weeks off and so let me just say that the hands will not be proportionate and accurate for at least 6 more months.
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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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We need an arc of History that smashes BOOM right...
5 months ago
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We need an arc of History that smashes BOOM right into Justice.
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Oddly enough, I feel this is one of those jokes...
a year ago
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Oddly enough, I feel this is one of those jokes that only makes *me* laugh.
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If you want to hear me tell a weird science story...
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9 months ago
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This caption works for most comics, and makes them a lot nicer.
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I'll be at CulpeperCon today, if you're in central Virginia and want to say hi.
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I'm just saying, it wouldn't be the MOST useless...
a year ago
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I'm just saying, it wouldn't be the MOST useless expenditure of grant money.
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Deontology, as is well-known, says you should feed...
4 months ago
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Deontology, as is well-known, says you should feed the flame of Gornak with the flesh of man.
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a month ago
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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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Better than the stoic genies who just tell you to...
a year ago
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Better than the stoic genies who just tell you to appreciate that your current situation is in line with the nature of things.
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as surely as the sun rises...
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Remember when conspiracy theories were mostly just...
5 months ago
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Remember when conspiracy theories were mostly just funny?
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Unfortunately the driver drowns so it's a moral...
2 months ago
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Unfortunately the driver drowns so it's a moral stalemate.
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'How dare you politicize this tragedy' works in...
2 months ago
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'How dare you politicize this tragedy' works in literally any context. In fact, if anyone sends hatemail, it's going to be my response.
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Finally an uplifting SMBC.
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Last...
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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11 months ago
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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.
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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 feel like every ethical system works better if...
10 months ago
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I feel like every ethical system works better if you just have people ask themselves 'is this a bit much?' once in a while.
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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'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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Leave before I throw my collection of wigs at...
2 months ago
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Leave before I throw my collection of wigs at you!
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It gets even weirder when you realize God has been...
a year ago
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It gets even weirder when you realize God has been saving the brains, so the blogs are sapient.
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People who say microeconomics isn't useful in real...
a year ago
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People who say microeconomics isn't useful in real life are simply not being creative enough.
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I feel like all these people trying to measure...
a year ago
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I feel like all these people trying to measure attention span degradation should just look at what percent of the population is cognitively capable of reading Sense and Sensibility.
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5 months ago
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Wishing I had just taken this job instead of joking about it.
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Please click the annoying ad so I can make more...
a year ago
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Please click the annoying ad so I can make more books and then make more annoying ads.
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I'm not saying I'm into sea-cows, I'm saying *if I...
9 months ago
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I'm not saying I'm into sea-cows, I'm saying *if I were an elephant seal* I would be. Don't act weirded out.
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3 months ago
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From this angle you can't see the Habsburg jawline.
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After we get a perfected holodeck, there'll be a...
a year ago
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After we get a perfected holodeck, there'll be a horrific amount of sexual unleashing, followed by the deep and movingly pathetic fantasies nobody was willing to express.
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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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Interestingly they're both reading AI image...
a year ago
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Interestingly they're both reading AI image generation subreddits and pretending it's not to see the pinups.
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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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Weirdly, his revealed preference was for a painful...
a year ago
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Weirdly, his revealed preference was for a painful and protracted demise.
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Big announcement tomorrow. A new book, which is the...
a year ago
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Big announcement tomorrow. A new book, which is the product of years of research. Stay tuned, and then for God's sake please buy a copy.
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Sometimes the votey panel is better than the comic...
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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The whole is worse than the sum of its parts...
a year ago
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The whole is worse than the sum of its parts sometimes.
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English would be so much funnier, for generations,...
a year ago
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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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There was a discussion on patreon about whether pix...
4 months ago
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There was a discussion on patreon about whether pix or pics is appropriate and I stand by my choice.
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Mmmm, fully frontal prudity.
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a month ago
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Mmmm, fully frontal prudity.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conscience
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I wonder if anyone's dropped a 20 at an economics...
4 months ago
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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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Bad Map Projection: Exterior Kansas
5 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Kid
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I mean it's frustrating. Why can't we just select...
9 months ago
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I mean it's frustrating. Why can't we just select the year that the sun swallows the Earth and work backward?
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I will, of course, posthumously occupy half the...
3 months ago
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I will, of course, posthumously occupy half the English Canon with my boner jokes.
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They must've felt so in tune with their...
a year ago
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They must've felt so in tune with their environment.
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Next Tuesday!
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Really you start to wonder about all those pale...
7 months ago
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Really you start to wonder about all those pale blonde princesses in storybooks.
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