Judging by the copyright years in the top right that I've seen, it's not chronological. They definitely pick the comics to match some events, like Christmas, but other than that it seems pretty random.
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“Hold it! There’s a car across the street—you sure you weren’t followed, Mary?”
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“Oh, yeah? … And I suppose you got those suction marks at the meeting, too!”
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More facts of nature: All forest animals, to this very day, remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard that Bambi’s mother had been shot.
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I was down by the edge of the lake at the time. / I was just getting ready to cross the interstate. / I was in the glen, just finishing a new burrow when I got the news. / I was looking for crawdads in my favorite creek. / I was under a rock, getting ready to shed.
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“And I’m not going to tell you again— clean up your room!”
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Whoa! Maybe I'll just pass on my usual barking frenzy.
Best guess is that they either fainted or are looking down judgmentally at the farmer. Agree that the drawing is ambiguous though
Neither, "Good" and "Evil" can't exist absolutely and the universe doesn't care one whit about any of us. Our morality was shaped by what was evolutionarily adaptive, and we developed post-hoc reasoning for it with the nice big brains we evolved.
I've noticed that. Shoutout to !smbc@discuss.online btw, where I post SMBC comics daily. I wonder if Zach would be amenable to integrating with the Fediverse somehow, seems like that would work nicely for comments.
I think he drew an eighth note just because that helps get the joke across easier than a whole note. It's more instantly recognizable as music, even if you've never learned how to read it.
I thought these two books were good. Written by a neuroscientist talking specifically about grief:
https://maryfrancesoconnor.org/books/the-grieving-brain
https://maryfrancesoconnor.org/books/the-grieving-body
One crucial thing is that the popular conception of grief as 5 sequential stages is completely wrong. Those are 5 possible options out of more that you'll likely bounce between over time. Grief is also not improved by a hangover, so it's best to avoid alcohol and the like.
Some people will never admit it and go to absurd lengths to hate on him, like the person that wrote this article, Mamdani picks his mentor: The woke, radical, anti-Israel YouTuber Ms. Rachel:
Why would the man about to be sworn in as mayor of America’s largest city elevate a woke, anti-Israel YouTube children’s entertainer to his inner circle, appointing her as a prime member of his inaugural committee?
Simple: Because Mamdani himself is a child.
I thought it was parody at first, but it seems to be real.
As much as possible, I don't use proprietary software. I bought a Pixel phone specifically so that I could run GrapheneOS (which has been great), and the only non-FOSS stuff I use is basically web tools for communication, like Slack/Discord/etc. As much as web-as-a-platform sucks (and it has many shortcomings), at least things tend to just work now on Linux, one way or another.
Some background on this comic:
Before I start work on any cartoon, I usually have a fairly good idea what the caption is going to say.
In this instance, and in the last few moments of my deadline, I uncharacteristically made a sweeping change of the entire thing. Originally, the caption read, "Look, but don't touch―or the mother will throw it out."
I still have no idea what came over me that made me suddenly see it another way, but when the cartoon was published it seemed to generate a favorable response from more than a few people. And I always found that to be sort of interesting. Does this mean we all have a latent desire to stuff worms into a baby―or is it just me?
My read is that it's a low-effort "She's so ugly even the predators don't want to eat her". Maybe it was a reference to some current event?
Some background on this comic:
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After completing this cartoon in the "deer" version, it just didn't click with me, humorwise. I tried it again with bears, and I suppose, because of their ability to stand on their hind legs, they more closely approximate a group of guys standing around doing the same thing―and, to my eye, making it more effective.
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This would be great for !writingprompts@literature.cafe or something