on the phone with my bank

"Vain, aggressive, and self-centered, you are preoccupied with matters of power and dominance."

[undeadhousewife]

[bestiolin]

lyn chao yu

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

I’d love to see a version of Julius Caesar where he takes the beware the Ides of March warning seriously like “oh shit. good heads up man thanks” and he goes into it with his own knife. He calms down a bit when he see’s all his best friends like “yea, the squad is here and everyone is strapped. nice”

[tomb-mold]

my foul demeanour and ill temper. my quarrelsome and disagreeable nature

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

people have said good things about you behind your back, without your knowledge. people have shared their love for you with others.

[70sscifiart]

A set of interior illustrations by Robert Tinney, for BYTE magazine's December 1988 issue, accompanying a series about groupware (Collaborative software for people working on a common task together).

More info in my art blog newsletter post: Robert Tinney: BYTE Magazine and Beyond

[smbc-comics]

Things will never again be so beautiful.

Check out the bonus panel on the site.

Upcoming book signings this summer.

───── ◆ ───── ◆ ───── ◆ ─────

SMBC ◆ PATREON ◆ INSTAGRAM ◆ BLUESKY ◆ STORE

Buy this comic as a print.

[nonlynear]

i was playing my own heart strings and one of them just broke wtf.. i’m new to this instrument how do i even fix

[prokopetz]

It's fun when the robot character in the sci-fi show gets cut in half because nobody working on this type of media knows anything about robotics and you never know what you're going to find inside. Green printed circuit boards? Meat and viscera, but like in a weird colour? Just a shitload of goo?

[prokopetz]

I especially like it when the robot appears to have realistic musculature which operates via contraction, suggesting some sort of fluid-driven or shape-memory-based actuation, and then it gets dismembered and a bunch of random gears and sprockets go flying everywhere.

[prokopetz]

You're a sci-fi robot who just got cut in half by the Big Bad (don't worry, you'll get better). What's inside you?

Printed circuit boards (blinking lights optional)

Gears and sprockets

Endless bundles of wire

Some sort of translucent crystal

Meat and viscera in a weird colour

Random geometric shapes

The cut is mirror-smooth, like I was one solid mass of metal

It looks like... car parts?

I'm actually mostly hollow

Just a shitload of milky goo

Other (specify)

Cheese sandwich

Remaining time: 14 hours 7 minutes

[fidius]

[markadoo]

given the existence of an organization "mothers against drunk driving" youd assume drunk driving was a good thing. and yet.

[yassifiedgollum]

Fuck I love silence. #mysilence

[evilsoup]

sponsors of local pride include the local main big union branches (neu, unison, unite, gmb) and the local bus company.it's all kind of lame but well isn't that what it's all about; there were struggles in previous decades to make being gay something that's basically depoliticised and so kind of lame lmao. anyway, enjoying some tinnies on the grass while some bad drag queens lipsync to godawful pop music. this is what victory looks like

[evilsoup]

done with full co-operation of the city council which, and i can't emphasise this enough, would have literally been illegal 40 years ago

[prokopetz]

I've rattled on about this before, but the notion that operational security is irrelevant for media piracy resources because if one gets taken down an identical replacement will be up and running by next week is really only true if the thing you're interested in pirating is, like, MCU movies. If you're into really niche shit, every takedown is a potential disaster, because at least half the time it turns out that of eight billion people on the planet there was precisely one who possessed exactly the right intersection of interests and technical know-how to provide that resource.

[filthburger]

people debate about whether wojaks carry fascism within them inherently or not, and yknow, maybe there's something to be said about how symbols work etc, and then you see a communist make a meme that features the one that's drooling with a dent in his head to represent someone who is incorrect, and you just kind of take a pause and ask yourself what the fuck is wrong with everybody

[yassifiedgollum]

Re: this post I think if someone gave me a spiritual awakening I would be so fucking mad

[evilvillain123456789]

a pit of dread forms in your stomach as you parse my "evil baby on board" decal and realize you have a moral duty to rear end my vehicle as hard as you can

[wildgifthorses]

A passing remark in a podcast on Chatrie reminds me I still have a Roku TV, which brags on its package of voice activation and doubtless, Smirnoffishly, listens to me. There must be some keywords that turn them against you—some sequence of sounds that raise silent alarm, where a whisper of vice near a so-called assistant Benito Cerenos the digital swarm. Or maybe they don't, or they will, or don't need to—you'll make yourself crazier trying to guess. This whole line of thinking is deeply neurotic; in general, things just work out for the best.