Second this 😀

@jgrim@discuss.online has been doing an awesome job of running it, and also created Sublinks as a Lemmy alternative

This is one of his newer comics, he started drawing them digitally and that’s why it looks differently:

https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff

So a few years ago—finally fed up with my once-loyal but now reliably traitorous pen—I decided to try a digital tablet. I knew nothing about these devices but hoped it would just get me through my annual Christmas card ordeal. I got one, fired it up, and lo and behold, something totally unexpected happened: within moments, I was having fun drawing again. I was stunned at all the tools the thing offered, all the creative potential it contained. I simply had no idea how far these things had evolved. Perhaps fittingly, the first thing I drew was a caveman.

Yeah, it’s a moth. I’m sure there’s some other small flying insect attracted to lamps that starts with “M”, but The Far Side was written with your average newspaper reader in mind so generally isn’t that obscure

Some background on this comic:

Transcript (draft):

I work for this scientist… I dig up graves, fetch brains, mop the floor-general stuff… you wanna see the lab?

blah blah blah… and you?

Looks like they updated the comic at some point to make it more clear. Today’s post has a little strip of white that’s not there in the original.

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

A few days after this cartoon was published, I started getting a considerable amount of reaction from people who enjoyed it. But I found it interesting that, without exception, they were enjoying it from a different standpoint from the one I had intended. If you look at the enlargement of the two little calves, you’ll see that one of them is doing the old hoof-behind-the-head trick to its sibling. Apparently, it was just too subtle in the original. (In fact, it sort of looks like the one calf is just wearing a ribbon.) I wish now I had developed this into a series of places the Holsteins had visited. (“The Holsteins visit Three Mile Island” would have been interesting.)

Some background on this comic:

Transcript (comic draft):

“Look at that… Man, in our day, Bernie, we could skeletonize a cow in less than two minutes.”

Transcript (commentary):

Just about every time I’ve heard or read anything about piranhas (as you might imagine, I’m drawn to the subject), it’s always mentioned how quickly a school of them can skeletonize a cow. I’m not sure why a cow is always the standard unit of measurement for this sort of thing, but pondering it eventually led to this cartoon.

Neat, are you involved in activitypub.rocks? What sort of updates can we look forward to?

Where were you looking?

Are you maybe looking for flohmarkt?

The name flohmarkt is a german word and translates to flea market or garage sale in english. This is a symbol for each flohmarkt being meant to be a small place for a somehow connected group of people. All the flohmarkts willing to federate make up one big place for small advertisements about exchange of goods and services.

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

“You have offended millions of pet owners with this garbage. If you can not do better than this, we suggest you seek another occupation.”

—Reader, Florida

Thank God I didn’t go with my first caption, “Bobbing for babies.”

Bonus context, from the next page of the book:

Transcript:

And, finally, my response to all those who took the time to register their complaints:

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

This idea, exactly as I had sketched it in the version below, sat around for months before I actually tried it out in The Far Side. It seemed to go over well, from what I heard, but mostly with guys named “Doug.”

Some background on this comic:

Stories

Sometimes ideas have come out of short stories or ramblings I write just to shift gears once in a while. Cartoons are, after all, little stories themselves, frozen at an interesting point in time. What follows are several stories that either led to cartoons, could have led to cartoons, or were just ideas in and of themselves.

Transcript:

I was standing in the kitchen on day, fixing a sandwich or something, when suddenly I heard a very distinct “sneeze” emanate from the fridge. Naturally curious, I opened the door and scrutinized the various food items. Suddenly the mayonnaise began to scream, “The ketchup did it! The ketchup!”

Of course, I was stunned. This, after all, was an inanimate object. And, truthfully, to this very day, I’ve never been able to coax the ketchup to say or do anything and have concluded the sneeze was my own imagination.

My read of OP’s question was asking about something they could switch the friend group to. If they don’t want to switch to anything else, then they’re stuck on Snapchat because that’s what they’re already using.

It’s not part of the Fediverse, but Signal is a good for group chats. It’s got reactions and gifs and whatnot, and you can also ignore the notifications you don’t care about.

Best guess is a delay in federation between discuss.online, sh.itjust.works, and/or lemm.ee. If it’s still not working, you could try checking with the lemm.ee admins

Not entirely sure why, but it seems like he doesn’t like keeping stuff up on the site for very long. The daily comics get removed after a few days.

“A bird will become your most pressing issue”

Larson has drawn his characters’ writing as intentionally bad in other comics to make it clear that they’re primitive in some way, so this would make sense.

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

I wasn’t sure which section of this book would be a good place to get this off my chest, but I’ve always felt that I’ve committed some heresy by doing cartoons (like the ones above) that mixed dinosaurs with primitive people. I think there should be cartoon confessionals where we could go and say things like, “Father, I have sinned—I have drawn dinosaurs and hominids together in the same cartoon.”