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Official account of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal created by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social. Home of the ongoing webcomic SMBC, A City on Mars, and of little books featuring large concepts abridged beyond the point of usefulness.

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@smbccomics.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:30 PM

I feel like if you said this on twitter someone wearing a shirt that reads INTERNET would come into your house and take an ax to your router.

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1-panel SMBC comic update. A man sitting at a desktop computer reads out loud what he is typing : "Before we have an argument should we define what we’re arguing about and agree on what we want out of the discussion? Hello? Huh. my signal is busted." The caption below the comic reads "Little known fact: Since the early 1990s there’s been an automatic way to get permanently kicked off the Internet."

@mipm-jonjones.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 9:31 PMReposted by @smbccomics.bsky.social

@smbccomics.bsky.social A City on Mars in the wild, and in good company. I enjoyed the audio book a lot.

A City on Mars by Zach and Kelly Weinersmith on the shelves at B&N

@smbccomics.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 3:30 PM

It is now only cheating in your reference frame.

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4-panel SMBC comic update. A man catches his wife with another man in their bet. Shocked, he says "You're cheating on me!" The woman replies "is that bad? Who can say? Einstein proved everything is relative." Insulted, the man replies "That is not what Einstein says!" The woman corrects it "Sorry, I mean, my cheating on you only holds for low relative velocity and weak gravity." The man then calmly says "I forgive you."

@smbccomics.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 3:30 PM

The president is actually doing the same thing in the third to last panel.

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Part 1/2 of a 7-panel SMBC comic update. A generic version of an American president leans grimly over his desk, stating "we have no cards left to play. It is loss or stalemate. We launch the nuclear arsenal. Now." He then talks about the effects of the fallout for 2 panels: "once our strike is inbound, our foes will return fire. Billions, unsuspecting, reduced to shadows on a concrete wall. In the years that follow, crops will wither under a bituminous sky. And those children who survive infancy will forever bear the mark of the atom in their blood and tissues."

Part 2/2 of a 7-panel SMBC comic update. The president concludes "Whatever world emerges, civilization shall not." An employee standing behind him asks "mr. president, I ask you to hesitate. Just for a moment." The president grants him 5 minutes, during which the employee bets on a prediction market app on his phone that there will be thermonuclear wold war before the end of the year."

@smbccomics.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 3:30 PM

Back when I was in art school, we believed in this with all our hearts.

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1-panel SMBC comic update. A man is sitting at his computer while another stands behind him, criticizing what is on the screen. The standing man says "you call that art? You’re just by yourself prompting a robot to make stuff." The sitting man interjects "but it's still - " and is cut off by the standing man adding "where’s the INTENT? Huh? This isn’t why we make things." The caption below the panel reads "AI cannot create, because real Art comes from the human need to impress the shy girl in figure-drawing class."

@smbccomics.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 3:30 PM

It's not a topical comic in that I suspect I'll be posting it every few years for a long time.

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3-panel SMBC comic update. A man is checking news headlines on his phone, with the first stating "president raises tariffs; deports workers; starts war." The man says "woops," still looking down at his phone. The final panel shows a scene from earlier, where the man is wishing on a monkey's paw: "Monkey's Paw, I wish people cared about basic economics." One of the fingers on the paw curls ominously.

@smbccomics.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 3:30 PM

The secret ingredient is a half teaspoon of rosewater.

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1-panel SMBC comic update. A man is leaning into a guillotine to be executed. Surprised, he asks "is that... Cardamom?" The executioner answers "with a hint of aniseed." The caption below the comic reads "the best thing about holding The Revolution in Fall was the pumpkin spice guillotine."

@smbccomics.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 3:30 PM

Aw, he's fucking off.

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#birding

4-panel SMBC comic update. Two women are birdwatching, one marvels at a white bird standing on a rock, saying "oh my gosh, look, a Shitepoke!' The same woman is delighted as she sees other birds saying "what a charming Arsefoot! look sally, a Windfucker! Go fuck that wind, little Windfucker!" The woman birding with her says "okay fine, you can go back to scientific nomenclature and I won’t complain." The first woman replies "it is too late. The change is complete."

@smbccomics.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 3:30 PM

Bonus points if you can figure out what the canine is.

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4-panel SMBC comic update. Each panel shows a different animal with a cute name - A Buggyfriend, A Pider, A SnickySnek and A Verygoodboy. The caption below the comic reads "life goal: name a species in every genus that starts with A."

@smbccomics.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 3:30 PM

All these jokes about how it's hard to operationalize good values are gonna be really funny when the T-1000s start rolling out.

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Part 1/2 of a 5-panel SMBC comic update. A man praying at his bedside asks "God, why is it possible to be a good person, but impossible to simply specify ethical rules that always result in good behavior?" God replies "because ethics is like ALMOST EVERY OTHER PROBLEM."

Part 2/2 of a 5-panel SMBC comic update. God continues to explain as the looks gradually surprised and annoyed: "try to perfectly specify language-use with a simple rule set. Or boardgame strategy. Or driving a car. Or eating soup. Humans can hold about seven things in working memory at a time, and so have decided that anything requiring eight things is poorly specified! WooOOOoooo a talking ape can’t reduce something to an evolutionary arbitrary quantity of criteriaaaaa. Soooooooo mysteriouuuuus." The man then says "you’re being mean, God." God taunts him in return "are you SURE? Can you specify meanness? WOOOOooooo OOoooooo!"

@smbccomics.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 3:30 PM

But you wouldn't BELIEVE how many probably-true fun facts I know from YouTube.

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Part 1/2 of a 6-panel SMBC comic update. In the first and second panels, two stick figures representing a man and a women are used to illustrate the following statement : "on average, men are larger than women. On average, women carry more body fat than men." The narration then adds "the main radioactive element in the human body is potassium-40, which is nearly absent in body fat. Which means..." We then see a man hit on a woman by saying "you shouldn’t get to know me, honey. I’m dangerous."

Part 2/2 of a 6-panel SMBC comic update. The woman smiles and answers "in an interesting way?" The man smiles and replies "no."

@smbccomics.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:30 PM

That janitor just goes from building to building helping people.

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10-panel SMBC comic update. All the panels are dialogue-less. Two researchers are writing equations on a chalkboard. A janitor watches them from afar. The researchers leave as the janitor is still mopping the floor. The janitor walks up to the chalkboard and writes on it with purpose, admires what he wrote, and leave late in the evening. The two researchers return at dawn, and are shocked by what is written on the blackboard. Over their half-erased equations, the text "ChatGPT, do a breakthru, no mistakes, thankx."

@smbccomics.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 3:31 PM

That whole section is unappreciated comedy gold.

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Part 1/2 of a 6-panel SMBC comic update. A priest confronts a kid for falling asleep in church. The kid starts to recite Acts 20:9-11 as his explanation. He says : "And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead. And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him. When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.”

Part 2/2 of a 6-panel SMBC comic update. After quoting the Bible verse, the kid explains "Paul’s preaching was so boring a kid literally fell out a third story window and had to be resurrected just to hear more sermon, and you’re mad at ME for finding you boring?" The final panel cuts to a later scene, where the priest declares "the scripture memorization prize is officially canceled. We will now be rewarding doing what I say."

@smbccomics.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 3:30 PM

It's just a more full service lending program.

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1-panel SMBC comic update. Two men in period clothing talk, one of them stating "pay me back on if you can, but if you cannot... free liposuction." The caption below the panel reads "read properly, The Merchant of Venise is very uplifting."

@smbccomics.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 3:30 PM

It's the one time this sort of thing worked.

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1-panel SMBC comic update. The panel shows a black and white photo with a gallery / museum styles description below it. The photos shows many silhouetted trees with a stark white background, and a bending trunk splitting the photo in half. The descriptions reads "From the Ansel Adams Dick Pics series (1953) // Gelatin silver print //Unsolicited gift of the artist"

@smbccomics.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 3:30 PM

Just to be clear, I have been siding with machines since well before they were about to annihilate us.

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Part 1/2 of a 5-panel SMBC comic update. A man speaks smugly to a copper-colored robot. He asks "you think you can replace all mathematicians, eh robot? WELL TRY THIS: is the following statement true: “this statement is a lie.” The robot flatly answers "according to the ai-discovered theory of elliptic hyper-type manifolds, all such “paradoxes” resolve with a meta-inductive disosculated tarskian reach-around." The man is taken aback, answers "ah."

Part 2/2 of a 5-panel SMBC comic update. He then begins to asks "well let me ask you this: does a man who shaves all men who–..." The robot interrupts him "please stop embarrassing yourself."

@smbccomics.bsky.social Sep 26, 2026, 3:30 PM

He's only given one final week to live but having a salary is nice.

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1-panel SMBC comic update. A man is practicing for an interview in front of a mirror. He says "hey, that’s all right. Hey, we all make mistakes. Hey, who could’ve seen it coming? That’s it. Nailed it. Ready for the interview." The caption below the panel reads "The last available human job was being the thing AI apologizes to."

@smbccomics.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 3:30 PM

This is actually what the Predator was doing the whole movie.

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4-panel SMBC comic update. A man says he wants a divorce to a person named Celia, that is out of the panel. Is the next panel, we see Celia, who is wearing a bodysuit covered in a static pattern, with only her face visible. She asks "is it because I spent our life savings building a camouflage suit so I could duck out of awkward conversations?" The man replies that that's precisely the issue, interrupted by Celia activating the suit. The static pattern now blends with her surroundings while her blank face floats, and her partner looks annoyed.

@smbccomics.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 3:30 PM

Seriously, Derek Parfit is an untapped comedy gold mine.

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Part 1/2 of a 7-panel SMBC comic. A young man marches to his dad sitting on a red couch, stating "Your generation used up all resources and ruined the world!" The father turns, smiles and says "sorry, you can’t be mad! Even slight changes to human choices alter the set of people who get born." The father leans towards his son, looking over the couch's back to add "the generation that exists now is the one that arises in a world where we used up all the good stuff! Son, in a world where we carefully husbanded earth’s bounty, you don’t even exist!"

Part 2/2 of a 7-panel SMBC comic. Taken aback, the son answers "you’re probably wrong but I don’t know how!" The father laughs loudly. The comic cuts to 15 years earlier, where we see the dad reading a book titled "Identity Metaphysics for Expecting Parents."

@smbccomics.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 3:30 PM

The witch from Hansel and Gretel sells magic crystals.

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1-panel SMBC comic update. The panel shows a sketched out YouTube video page, with a video titled "Today: is the wolf here? Episode #427 of the Wolfcatcher diaries." The channel has over 400k subscribers, and the thumbnail shows the title of the episode with a red-haired man pointing to a bold title font saying "The wolf is coming soon. Wolf! Wolf!" The caption below the panel reads "The Boy Who Cried Wolf later had an extremely popular YouTube channel."

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