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Effin' Birds

@effinbirds.com

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Daily comic by Aaron Reynolds that keeps on winning awards despite being nothing more than birds and curse words. Books, calendars and merch at effinbirds.com

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 23d

That's right, in 2026 you can make your own Effin' Birds comics every weekend.
eatf.art

The box for the Effin' Birds Day To Day calendar

A prompt asking you to fill in the following:
1. a container
2. an unpleasant waste product

A woodcut of a bird above the text, "Let me climb right into that (insert prompt 1 here) full of fucking (insert prompt 2 here) with you."

Find it at your local bookstore, or online at https://eatf.art (really)

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 5h

How A Publisher Almost Killed The Book I Waited My Whole Life To Write: a thread

My novel Villager came out in 2022. It was published by Unbound, who had little marketing/sales power. But I was excited & proud, since I worked so f-ing hard on it.

Here's an extract: www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...

our cat Charles with Villager, shortly after it was published

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 8m

Oof. They did this to me on Greetings From Effin' Birds, except they told me it was a flop. In reality it was sold out, but they couldn't afford the reprint and couldn't afford to lose the rights because they had sublicensed them to Penguin for North America, so they just told me it wasn't selling.

Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 1h

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "get fucked soon"

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 10h

I had crab rangoon and fongolian beef and they were both great

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 10h

While I haven't done Galaxy's Des Moines show, I have appeared three times at Des Moines Con and have eaten at Fong's Pizza twice

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 11h

WOOF that game, St. Louis. You can blame me for bringing my Toronto energy to your city.

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 14h

The Blues are mostly from Toronto, I'm just a fan of my own hometown

Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 14h

I have a great hairstylist

Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 15h

LOCAL PANDERING ALERT: I'll be at GalaxyCon St. Louis this Friday, Saturday and Sunday! Come say hi.

effinbirds.com/appearances

Me in a hockey arena wearing a St Louis hockey sweater

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 17h

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "I AM THRILLED TO SAY THAT I DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT"

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 19h

His old Cooper scorebook!

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Tom Londe @tomlonde.bsky.social · 22h

As said admin, I've spent years debating the risks of going rogue and turning off the parental controls so I can have access to the good Effin' Birds and Swear Trek images, haha

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 21h

Bluesky's picker is powered by Tenor. But you could always try installing the GIPHY keyboard app for iOS.

Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 23h

Sure is!

Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 23h

Was it from before November 2024? Threadless took over running my store for me and their product mix is a little different, but you might be looking for the Latte Mug rather than the regular one. You can always email [email protected] for order help.

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Jason Collins @jcollins205.bsky.social · 23h

Or the time I meet him in Chicago.

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 23h

Teenage me wanted to make music, but I wasn't really cut out for it. To have some of my musical heroes be fans of my comic has been a trip.

Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 23h

he wore one of my shirts in his Are Bass Players Human Too documentary

Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 23h

Never forget the time Rush's Geddy Lee posted a selfie with this mug

Geddy Lee looking into the camera and holding a mug that says FUCK OFF UNTIL I GET COFFEE

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 23h

One of the joys of GIPHY is that you rate each GIF as G, PG, PG-13 or R when uploading, and admins of each instance decide what their users have access to. If you see only a small number of Effin' Birds with no F-bombs, your admin chose G or PG.

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