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Beer goggles were also cheaper.
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Beer goggles were also cheaper.
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This is a bonus update brought to you by my new...
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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.
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Really feel like I'm getting back to my roots...
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Really feel like I'm getting back to my roots taking pot shots at creationists.
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I read a lot of Perry Bible Fellowship, desperately...
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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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Okay, but you should see the thing that gets 2...
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Okay, but you should see the thing that gets 2 minutes.
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The whole is worse than the sum of its parts...
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The whole is worse than the sum of its parts sometimes.
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I hereby release this idea to any stupid person in...
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I hereby release this idea to any stupid person in Silicon Valley.
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I don't even trust MYSELF to catch my wife, even if...
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I don't even trust MYSELF to catch my wife, even if I'm intending to.
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In running out of the room, he falls down some stairs and never stops falling.
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Weirdly, evil Kant requires you to lie to save people from murderers.
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The hardest part is that he has to keep a lantern...
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The hardest part is that he has to keep a lantern in there for good lighting.
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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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And don't even start in on liquor-cake.
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And don't even start in on liquor-cake.
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Wishing I had just taken this job instead of joking about it.
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Unfortunately, later it turns out souls are just...
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Unfortunately, later it turns out souls are just absolutely delicious.
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Thanks everyone. Social media is finally swallowing...
a year ago
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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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If we all live by metaphors, all you have to pick is the stupidest metaphor you can find.
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The good news about our society is everyone comes...
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The good news about our society is everyone comes early.
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Sometimes I look out the window and think of how many babies are now part of a personal brand.
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You're gonna wish the conditions of your birth were altered so ass to prevent this unpleasant occurrence while leaving your identity largely intact, bro!
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This is why artists and mathematicians were ahead of the curve on madness. You are all us now.
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The only downside is you have to go in every six...
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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 eyelashes suddenly appear as part of a rapid transition to being an anime character.
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Ten points if you try this. Fifteen if it ruins...
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Ten points if you try this. Fifteen if it ruins your relationship. Sixteen if it ruins your life.
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Absolute Midden is copyright SMBC Enterprises 2024...
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Absolute Midden is copyright SMBC Enterprises 2024 all rights reserved.
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You could also do history by unboxing artifacts.
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I propose that we consider AI sentient when you...
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I propose that we consider AI sentient when you feed it this comic and it is disappointed in you.
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'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?'" alt="==COSMOLOGY==> 'Uhhh ... how sure...
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'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?'" alt="==COSMOLOGY==> 'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?'" />
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Thanks to many readers for telling me the story I...
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Thanks to many readers for telling me the story I was thinking for yesterday's comic, which was a myth about Narada and Krishna. Still can't remember where I heard it first, but thanks!
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Pro Wrestling is the most realistic form of...
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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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10 points to anyone who gets a paper published...
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10 points to anyone who gets a paper published containing the term sack-blast.
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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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Just because a few people on Patreon asked - this...
11 months ago
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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.
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The really cool thing is that those are cargo...
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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On the one hand there's data and on the other there's the tiny angry man in my brain who is VERY persuasive.
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Another lovely review for A City on Mars.
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This is why smbc refuses to be about anything whatsoever, except maybe the idea that clowns are a species with interesting sexual customs.
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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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Do you want to do EVERYTHING right or do you want...
a year ago
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Do you want to do EVERYTHING right or do you want to have FRIENDSHIP?
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Make sure to refrigerate, or it's a little too...
4 weeks ago
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Make sure to refrigerate, or it's a little too scary.
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If you'd like one of the badges in the bonus panel,...
2 months ago
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If you'd like one of the badges in the bonus panel, please just attend one of the yacht meetings.
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Let's get unresolved ALL NIGHT LONG.
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6 months ago
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Let's get unresolved ALL NIGHT LONG.
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The Oatmeal - Comics...
How my pets see me
I created a little animation about how I see my pets versus how they see me.
View on my website
a year ago
I created a little animation about how I see my pets versus how they see me.
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It's true though.
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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. ]
A few weeks ago I wrote
a...
3 months ago
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A few weeks ago I wrote
a letter to my neighbors about why
I thought it was a bad idea to oppose building more housing in our
neighborhood.
I didn't write this paragraph:
In the past it has often happened that...
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Please, oh god please use panel 5 wherever you...
a year ago
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Please, oh god please use panel 5 wherever you can.
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a year ago
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If you get 100% growth you get to give everyone the finger.
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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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Creative people express their utterly generic...
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Creative people express their utterly generic feelings with NEW phrases.
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Employees at the gestation facility appreciate...
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Employees at the gestation facility appreciate having easy access to the park.
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4 Internet Points to Dave Luebke for making the...
a year ago
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4 Internet Points to Dave Luebke for making the techno-babble more accurate.
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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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The weird thing is he was originally just printing teeth for the pure delight before he discovered the opportunity for savings.
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a year ago
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Go ahead, email me your shrinkage joke. It's fine.
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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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Someday I'm gonna have a book in which the comic...
a year ago
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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.
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Final week!
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I worry that with humanities departments being...
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I worry that with humanities departments being gutted we are no longer creating the necessary levels of narcissism to preserve civil society.
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It's launch day!!!
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Every time you pray to God, one finger of the...
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Every time you pray to God, one finger of the infinite monkey's paw curls inward.
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Was reading a book that pointed out that everything...
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Was reading a book that pointed out that everything kid understands the idea of 'that's mine,' but has to be taught 'that's yours'
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Unfortunately there's no plumber-bot to fix that...
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Unfortunately there's no plumber-bot to fix that leak.
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I wonder how long it'll be before dating sites do...
a year ago
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I wonder how long it'll be before dating sites do some version of 'I'll have my bot talk to your bot'
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The two possible exceptions are Mad Nuclear Physics...
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The two possible exceptions are Mad Nuclear Physics and Mad Finance, but they're both toward the top of the curve, OK?
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Bea Wolf is half off one day only!
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This joke conceived while reading Tarski's...
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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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At the very least, I feel this would be a good dual use of photovoltaics.
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Slightly worried some of these are actual...
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Slightly worried some of these are actual words.
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Works great with the broader SMBC clown...
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Works great with the broader SMBC clown canon.
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Don't blame us - you're the one watching.
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Don't blame us - you're the one watching.
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Also you'll want to call this tech support number...
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Also you'll want to call this tech support number your father called before you.
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This is probably the right place to mention we made the thing people kept asking for.
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Slightly regretting that he didn't also take the...
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Slightly regretting that he didn't also take the guy's coat.
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This is why Starfish have so much sex.
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This is why Starfish have so much sex.
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It's the only Indiana jones that actually takes...
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It's the only Indiana jones that actually takes place in Indiana.
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My reply to the people who want to designate my neighborhood a "historic district"
Last week I received a widely circulated email that began:
With tall apartment buildings being...
3 months ago
Last week I received a widely circulated email that began:
With tall apartment buildings being erected all around, we feel it
is ever more important to preserve our community.
I sent this reply.
I have been a Spruce Hill homeowner for 16 years. I had to miss the
June 26...
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Unprompted, they will walk into a cafe and pretend...
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Unprompted, they will walk into a cafe and pretend they have important business to do.
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Wings would also be acceptable, as would a thousand...
7 months ago
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Wings would also be acceptable, as would a thousand gibbering eyes.
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Don't you all use the SSMS trick at once or it'll...
6 days ago
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Don't you all use the SSMS trick at once or it'll stop being offputting.
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This will be considered deeply offensive in...
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This will be considered deeply offensive in 2034.
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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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I would find it really satisfying if you could turn...
a year ago
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I would find it really satisfying if you could turn a knob in the universe and diffraction fringes would go away.
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Whew! Finally back on my update schedule. ICYMI a couple nice reviews have come in for the new book,...
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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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Patreon subscriber Ivan points out that effectively...
3 months ago
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Patreon subscriber Ivan points out that effectively his whole life became a football pull. I wonder if Lucy is watching from a distance.
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Later they just have their bots engage in a debate...
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Later they just have their bots engage in a debate while they go get ice cream.
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Earlier he changed his name to Emperor but nobody...
9 months ago
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Earlier he changed his name to Emperor but nobody was buying it.
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Sesame Street is to blame.
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Sesame Street is to blame.
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a year ago
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Really, you want an isometric view if you're being honest.
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4 months ago
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If you're having trouble, he's roughly in the middle of the page.
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Moon Landing Mission Profiles
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Cham
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Cham
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a year ago
definitively' autocorrect rule to their keyboard." alt="A really mean prank you can play on someone who's picky about words is to add a 'definitely->definitively' autocorrect rule to their keyboard." />
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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
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Does Santa exist? No, I have killed him.
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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
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How to Entertain...
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Marnanel Thurman reported the following item that they found in an 1875
book titled
How to Entertain a Social Party:
To Make a Loaf of Bread Dance on the Table.
— Having a quill filled with quicksilver and stopped close, you
secretly thrust it into a hot roll or loaf, which...
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Lovely long review of A City on Mars here, by Cory Doctorow.
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This caption works for most comics, and makes them a lot nicer.
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Borgin hard or hardly borgin?
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Borgin hard or hardly borgin?
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Fun interview about A City on Mars with Jordan Harbinger.
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Boy’s Club VS Girl’s Club, Part 1
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as surely as the sun rises...
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I like to think the robot apocalypse won't feel so bad if we really do our best to earn it.
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PSSST. Hey NYC, it's gonna get pretty dorky.
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If we survive long enough, most of the atoms in everyone's body will have at some point been involved in a murder.
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The belly button is the least objectionable...
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The belly button is the least objectionable one.
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I wonder when the first cult run by a robot will start up.
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Who's a morally relativist boy? It's you!
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3 months ago
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Who's a morally relativist boy? It's you!
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a year ago
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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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Back to regular comics shortly, but the book comes out tomorrow. Opening week sales matter a lot, so wish me luck!
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She sells printer ink cheaper than anyone, but you...
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She sells printer ink cheaper than anyone, but you DO NOT ASK HOW.
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You can see why there'd be an uptick in people taking 30 pieces of silver in exchange for betrayal.
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Sometimes they just read our declarations of war and get giggle-fits.
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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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Please click the annoying ad so I can make more books and then make more annoying ads.
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So Zach, what do you do when not making children's...
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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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Really this caption can work for any comic.
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The best part of the book is his descriptions of Freud fainting because Jung didn't believe sex was the cause of everything.
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+10 internet points to anyone who builds this. -1,000 ethics points, but +10 internet points.
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This'll be even funnier once SMBC is infinite scroll.
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Hoping to be able to rematerialize your loved ones after the next funding round.
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This accidentally became Bea Wolf for teenagers.
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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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This theory actually makes sense of all holiday creatures that manage to visit every house.
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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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Interestingly, SMBC is in fact an erotic fertility...
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Interestingly, SMBC is in fact an erotic fertility behavior.
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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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St. Peter just taps the crudely drawn No Girls Allowed sign made by God.
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Anyone caught brandishing an ultrasound will be escorted off the premises.
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I'm actually surprised no weird economist is pushing this somewhere.
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Thanks to everyone who came to Scrawl Books for Bea Wolf!
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Praise from Neil Gaiman was nice and all, but have you tried kid-turned-down-youtube-for-your-book?
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Bad Map Projection: The United Stralia
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Baby VS Intimacy
A comic about intimate moments.
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over a year ago
A comic about intimate moments.
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If he'd been Steve Hitler, there'd be no Steve now. Deep thoughts.
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a year ago
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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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Freedom!
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Freedom!
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This comic will become way MORE relatable after the apocalypse when everyone urgently needs potatos. It's what you call playing the long game.
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Panels 3 and 4 are the last 10 years of Internet summarized.
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For the three of you who read this blog, we're doing a livechat about Bea Wolf in 30 minutes on instagram!
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Drawing all those stupid onions was worth it for...
5 months ago
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Drawing all those stupid onions was worth it for the phrase keystone onion.
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A patreon subscriber points out that the trees and bushes appear gigantic, but I am traveling and can't correct it so please invent your own interpretation.
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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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If you toot the whoopie cushion long enough you'll eventually toot the proof.
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a year ago
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When I think of altruism, I think of guys selling apocalypse gold on youtube.
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XKCD game theory question
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This post is about the bottom center panel, “Game Theory final...
3 months ago
(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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Later they place Taylor Swift in a jar of ethanol.
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5 months ago
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That's the official International Sign system imagine for in-the-butt.
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What's really irritating is the way some of them...
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What's really irritating is the way some of them live lives of quiet desperation which is a thing our people have been doing for generations.
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Thanks everyone. Some day I will stop being surprised by how willing my...
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Painted Tunnel
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3 months ago
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Written after enjoying Children's Fantasy...
8 months ago
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Written after enjoying Children's Fantasy Literature, by Levy and Menlesohn.
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Bet if you get close to those peppermints they're...
11 months ago
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Bet if you get close to those peppermints they're covered with dead flies.
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The silver lining is due to cesium...
8 months ago
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The silver lining is due to cesium contamination.
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So you'll eat a chicken that does this but you...
a year ago
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So you'll eat a chicken that does this but you won't marry a HUMAN BEING who does? That's called hypocrisy.
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