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Clearly the talking snake had a few bites anyway.

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5-panel SMBC comic update. A child in Sunday clothes is speaking to a man dressed as a priest. The kid asks about the apple giving knowledge of good and evil to Adam and Eve, asking if before eating the apple they could do bad things (such as strangling a cat) and not know it's wrong. The kid questions why the snake is demonized for granting them this knowledge, and why God would kick them out for this. The priest replies that morality is obedience to God, which they did know of before eating the apple. The kid replies "has god eaten an apple yet? Is that why there are so many hurricanes?"
January 6, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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The film is better <ducks>.
January 6, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
johnsw.bsky.social
a dark background with the word sandman written in white letters
Alt: a dark background with the words Th Sandman written in white letters, from the Netflix show of the Neil Gaiman comic.
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January 6, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
Just a cute little picture to go with the information below…
January 5, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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tabularaza.net
300+ page printed manual with extensive reference sections.

This is what they took from us.
January 3, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
The biggest missed story of the day
Venezuela vice president Rodriguez in Russia, four sources say
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez is in Russia, four sources familiar with her movements said on Saturday, after President Donald Trump said President Nicolas Maduro had been by U.S. forces af...
www.reuters.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Forgot to post this one
[Scene is KEIR STARMER as FATHER CHRISTMAS in his factory, with RACHEL REEVES as an awkward-looking Head Elf] 1 FATHER KEIR: Well, well, well! [Elf Reeves is holding an enormous sack of letters] 2 FATHER KEIR: Look at all these letters of membership cancellation! ELF REEVES: More than ever this year 3 [Father Keir reads one out:] “Dear Father Keir I am writing to cancel my Labour Party membership…” Awww how sweet 4 “I have truly believed for 40 years, but now I’ve had enough.” 5 “Please please please this year can you deliver some policies that aren’t craven right wing bullshit?” 6 FATHER KEIR: Well, I think we know what to give this good boy don’t we? Elf Mahmood! 7 [Show SHABANA MAHMOOD as an elf poking her head round a doorway to afactory full of busy elves, above the door is a wooden sign reading CRAVEN RIGHTWING BULLSHIT FACTORY] ELF MAHMOOD: What. 8 FATHER KEIR: Do we have any performatively cruel immigration stuff left? 9 ELF MAHMOOD: We've got ‘stealing their belongings and a 20-year wait for settled status’…? 10 FATHER KEIR: In the sack, please! [Elves Mahmood and Reeves push the big sack into the sleigh as father Keir climbs in the driver’s seat] 11 And off we goooo! [He wooshes off into the snowy polar night] 12 [Cut to a person’s LIVING ROOM - a man and a woman are looking in their stockings - the man looks disappointed] WOMAN: Is it not what you wanted MAN: Not really, no [Ends]
January 2, 2026 at 11:16 PM
johnsw.bsky.social
Oh well done.
January 2, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Ask wearer to put phone in hat. Call their phone.
January 2, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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santiagomayer.com
2025 sucked.

In hopes of a better 2026, I am pleased to present the 5th annual batshittery bingo card.
December 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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I don't remember that, but it's been a while since I played Valhalla.
January 2, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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airbagged.bsky.social
Fuck it I don’t care anymore
Mogwai
January 1, 2026 at 7:01 AM
johnsw.bsky.social
I turned 50 very recently. So far it's only just as bad as being 49.
January 1, 2026 at 4:28 PM
johnsw.bsky.social
I've only just noticed that The Princess Bride is a Christmas film!
December 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
Calls to strip pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah of his British citizenship pile torment on top of torture.

New piece by me on a dangerous and manufactured storm:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s tweets were wrong, but he is no ‘anti-white Islamist’. Why does the British right want you to believe he is? | Naomi Klein
I have no interest in defending his social media posts, but calls to strip the newly freed activist of British citizenship pile torment on top of torture, says Naomi Klein, Guardian US columnist and c...
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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rianjohnson.bsky.social
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 9d
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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December 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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The Man With The Aluminium Gun
December 30, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Don't feel sad. That's the rover that is canonically rescued by Matt Damon in the Martian.
December 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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December 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
johnsw.bsky.social
I'm sure he'll come good in the end.
December 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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smbccomics.bsky.social
Look, I found something lazier than a graph joke!

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1-panel SMBC comic update. Two people are silhouetted in white on a hill against a dark night sky. One of the figures says "why do people keep believing in Malthusian theories when they keep not panning out?" The other person replies "the number of problems that seem Malthusian grows geometrically while the number of Malthus debunking only grows linearly."
December 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
johnsw.bsky.social
Noice
December 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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bookshopghost.bsky.social
America, there's something you should know.

The top three kinds of books that young people (under 25) offer to sell me on Dec. 26 are:

- "Chicken Soup for the _____"

- "Oh, the Places You'll Go"

- Books of New Yorker cartoons

I'm just saying. Keep it in mind for graduations and birthdays, too.
December 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM