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It appears to be a primitive fertility fetish.
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Just a month till my new book drops. Please consider preordering!
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I am not tholin' this colon?
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It's true though.
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Subject: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Generation
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I'm even into heterocyclic compounds.
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Yes you can take a mean of meanings for the right meaning of mean.
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The funniest thing is that all the humans are dead and all the talking things at the end are confused robots!
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We're a best book of the year!
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My knowledge of Batman ends somewhere around 1952, when his costume was at its peak.
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Hello! If you missed the kickstarter, or just want a joke book about cosmology or a signed copy of A City on Mars, please go here soon.
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It's one of those unstoppable force immovable object things.
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A single tear twinkled in the twink's eyes.
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You really gotta drag out the shhhhhhh
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Better than the stoic genies who just tell you to appreciate that your current situation is in line with the nature of things.
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Borgin hard or hardly borgin?
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If repetition over time has led to the veneration of a particular alcoholic beverage in a sacred context TAKE A DRIIIIIIIINK
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It's not you, it's me. Statistically. Like 40% you, 60% me.
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The real fantasy is clearly a VR suit with a food tube and a lack of perception that you're in the VR suit with a food tube.
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Unfortunately, Sally is now set on the path toward cannibalism.
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I got this idea from a story I can't remember, only that it had the line 'I will show you the power of illusion' and was, possibly, from the Hindu tradition. Anyone know it?
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Thanks to many readers for telling me the story I was thinking for yesterday's comic, which was a myth about Narada and Krishna. Still can't remember where I heard it first, but thanks!
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OpenAI, hear me out: instead of nerfing the AI just make it shame the user.
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Patreon users felt this one was too sad, but look at the cute kid in the dino suit!
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