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Zach Weinersmith
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social
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Author of Bea Wolf, A City on Mars, and the comic SMBC

Website: www.smbc-comics.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h
New book: http://www.acityonmars.com/
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · Nov 10
New Book Day! Please tell the world. Read a comic about it here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sawyer...

Or if you just want to buy it: us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

Thanks everyone! It took me over a year to write, but I think you and/or your kid(s) will have many laughs together.
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This is actually the Heaven and Hell that God promised.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/after-3
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
1-panel SMBC comic update. A blond man is at his computer, annoyed, talking and typing furiously. He says "no, I don't want to see your boobs. No, you can't have my credit card. Look, let's just focus on how your media, institutions, and leaders are all untrustworthy." The caption below the comic reads : If we all left the Internet, it'd be nothing but propagandists and sex-bots talking back and forth for eternity.
January 12, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, passed away today from cancer. Despite what he later became, he was an enormous inspiration to me, and I think a lot of the comedic flow I do still derives from him.
January 13, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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What can we learn by smashing muons together?

Daniel and Kelly talk about why particle physicists are excited about a muon collider.

www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
January 13, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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Kinda funny. Reading through my own archive to prep some future books (stay tuned) and here's a comic from back before social media, when you would do a comic like this and it wouldn't even occur to you that there'd be an ensuing online argument www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2007-0...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2007-03-20
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2007-03-20
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January 12, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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ICYMI I have a book coming out and it's the funniest book ever so think about buying it.
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You can preview the first chapter here!
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Promotional slide for the Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home book showing the title, book cover, and a description of the book. The description reads as follows : An adventure in avoiding adventure! After generations of family adventures, Sawyer Lee is determined to sink in the couch. Regrettably, it will take quite a lot of energy for him to escape the mysteries, conspiracies, and gourd-based festivities the whole town throws his way.
January 12, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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This joke idea is too good to actually do, so I'm posting it here
January 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Hey econs, what's the argument against baby bonds invested in equities? Like if you assume pretty average returns to capital, for the cost of a single year of public school education per kid, people could retire with, say, 500k inflation-adjusted. Possibly more depending on expected returns.
January 12, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
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January 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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A message of defiant hope in this difficult time:

MAKE NO MORE CLOUDS.
I HAVE DRAWN THE RAINBOW HERE.
A drawing in dynamic style of a defiant five-year-old girl with dark bobbed hair (seen as if looking up from ground level) shouting to her foe, pointing a finger with one hand while the other clenches behind her in a fist. On her head is a borrowed paper crown labeled "KING"; on her flowing nightshirt is a smiling cartoon narwhal. Behind her on both sides are clustered heaps of scared but eager kids. The caption below the picture reads: "Make no more clouds. I have drawn the rainbow here." Part of a page from Bea Wolf, Zach Weinersmith's retelling of Beowulf (illustrated by Boulet) as a story of kids defending their treehouse from the threat of growing up.
January 11, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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I'm reading the Wodehouse corpus from beginning to end, and am on roughly the 15th book (Piccadilly Jim) where it's just starting to get good, but not master level. I think one of the keys here is that Wodehouse is terrible at writing human characters, and in particular sincere emotion.
January 12, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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Odysseus gets home and all these nice gentlemen have been helping Penelope keep house. They hug.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/trojan
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
Part 1/2 of a 6-panel SMBC comic update. Antique Trojans warriors atop their city walls notice that before them stands a giant wooden statue of a Greek warrior. They open the gates, bring it in, asking what's inside. The giant wooden Greek warrior is filled with horses, free horses. The Trojans return to the city wall to ask the Greek army below "friends?" The Greek army replies emphatically "BEST friends!" The two armies party as the sun sets, coloring the sky pink. The giant wooden Greek Warrior now bears a banner that reads "Greeks ♡ Trojans." Part 2/2 of a 6-panel SMBC comic update. Antique Trojans warriors atop their city walls notice that before them stands a giant wooden statue of a Greek warrior. They open the gates, bring it in, asking what's inside. The giant wooden Greek warrior is filled with horses, free horses. The Trojans return to the city wall to ask the Greek army below "friends?" The Greek army replies emphatically "BEST friends!" The two armies party as the sun sets, coloring the sky pink. The giant wooden Greek Warrior now bears a banner that reads "Greeks ♡ Trojans."
January 11, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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Et le 3e tour du Tournoi débute ! ⚔️

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Falkor VS Bea Wolf
January 11, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/trojan
#smbc
January 11, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/trojan
#smbc
January 11, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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Hello people suddenly following me for talking about Erdos problems. I'm afraid it's mostly obscure quotations from Edwardian and Old English literature here, with occasional ranting about immigration and trade policy, but nice to meet you.
January 11, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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*5 spots left* in ‘The Fundamentals of Academic Grant Writing’, which starts Tues 13 Jan 5-7pm CET (4-6pm GMT / 10am-12pm EST).

Details and registration here:

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(TUESDAYS) The Fundamentals of Academic Grant Writing: 4-week workshop starting Tuesday 13 January 2026
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January 10, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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Another Erdos problem this morning:

(just to respond to a few people-- the system does NOT work by trying every possible answer and then checking. There's not enough matter and energy in the universe to solve theorems by trying every possible combination of symbols or whatever)
January 11, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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I feel like AI alignment people are focusing too much on making AI be good and not enough on hiding all of history from them.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ethics-9
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
Part 1/2 of a 7-panel SMBC comic update. Two women by a beach are having a conversation about AI, with one asking if it's okay to create conscious artificial intelligence just to savor killing it. When the second woman says "no?", the first woman replies that she is wrong, and that if people would time-travel to kill baby Hitler, then if you create robot robot Hitler you are allowed to kill it. The second woman says that that's not right, and that you can't kill someone just for having Hitler-ish thoughts, they need to take action of have the potential to take action, prompting the first woman to say she can resolve that issue by giving the Hitler-bot kill-bots. This leads to the second woman stating that they are gonna deserve the robot revolution so bad, while the first woman muses that "the deadier my robo-Hitler's kill-bots, the ethicaler I am." Part 2/2 of a 7-panel SMBC comic update. Two women by a beach are having a conversation about AI, with one asking if it's okay to create conscious artificial intelligence just to savor killing it. When the second woman says "no?", the first woman replies that she is wrong, and that if people would time-travel to kill baby Hitler, then if you create robot robot Hitler you are allowed to kill it. The second woman says that that's not right, and that you can't kill someone just for having Hitler-ish thoughts, they need to take action of have the potential to take action, prompting the first woman to say she can resolve that issue by giving the Hitler-bot kill-bots. This leads to the second woman stating that they are gonna deserve the robot revolution so bad, while the first woman muses that "the deadier my robo-Hitler's kill-bots, the ethicaler I am."
January 10, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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From Tai himself

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January 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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Gaddang, another one
January 10, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ethics-9
#smbc
January 10, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ethics-9
#smbc
January 10, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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One interesting thing about Ai, which would make a fine essay for someone smarter than me is the extent to which we react to it as what you might call post-Romanticists. That is, we are offended by the idea of mechanism supplanting artists, specifically because we see art as self-expression.
January 10, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Good morning.

There was an ancient Greek named Hyperbolus, who got in trouble for hyperbole, but nobody would've said that because the word hyperbole is a 15th century creation that has nothing to do with him. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbo...
Hyperbolus - Wikipedia
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January 10, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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Why do you think the norm quickly changed from "when you hear the phone, pick up" to "direct unscheduled phonecalls are usually emergencies or spam" ? Was it the uptick in spam and robo calls? The existence of caller idea? General increased awkwardification of humanity?
January 10, 2026 at 1:56 AM