That’s really cool! Are the trees based on the bonsai set? I’ve got that one and it looks similar. Works very nicely as a regular-sized tree for the minifigs.

Some background on this comic:

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Sometimes, when you stay up too late at night trying to think of something funny, these things happen. Except to say that it’s obviously inspired by “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” I haven’t the slightest idea what “Ghost Riders in the Kitchen” means. I’ll figure it out one day. (I should have followed up the next day with “Ghost Riders in the Living Room.”)

Also, mildly interesting to note that the original doesn’t depict the ghosts as transparent, but somebody colored it in at some point and added that. Probably easier to do with colors vs B&W.

Some speculation on this comic. I don’t think the PBF creator has ever officially commented on it, but it seems probable:

As far as I can tell, Catch Phrase was a meta-commentary on how he saw the role of himself and his comics in the public’s eye. Basically, he was tired of feeling like he “had to” make a funny comic, and he burned out. Now that he’s (apparently) bounced back from burnout, he replaced Catch Phrase with something new, and less pointed and angsty, to signify that he’s not done with comics.

Moominmamma from the previous strips would definitely be giving herself the side eye here, like she does for the other characters. I can imagine her tsk tsking at herself like this:

What’s a seed with the highest-level RoW you can find in the sewers? I’ve been meaning to try out one of those runs.

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My editor balked at this cartoon initially, not because of the somewhat unsavory suggestion that Warren was choking on the cat, but because he feared not enough people would know what the Heimlich maneuver was.

I had to go trawl around the Internet Archive. The old site is mostly functional here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080730191420/http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF006-The_Man_with_No_Penis.gif

You can also search for some of them to still find them on the site, just not in the main index. I guess some sort of “Not quite good enough to showcase, but not quite bad enough to remove entirely”.

https://pbfcomics.com/?s=love

Anything with this image as a placeholder is one of those:

I also used the IA to track down some old animations he did, like this one:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060526042753/http://www.danreitz.com/nick/theforest.mov

That’s how I understand it, yeah. Not their funniest comic ever, but at least they apologize at the bottom (very light text):

The artist would like to formally apologize for this pun. He is under a lot of mental anguish and hopes that the shame of this pun kills him.

Since been taken down, here’s an archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20090314153516/http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF006-TAOTMWNP.gif

I’ve got a few dozen comics left to post that are on the site, and a handful of comics that were published and taken down at some point. The ones that were taken down mostly seem to be ones that he now thinks are in poor taste, even for PBF. We’ll see how they go, maybe I’ll skip them. There’s also a few animated shorts he created way back that I’ll post, and then it’ll be time to loop through them again, probably selected randomly instead of in order.

I think the joke here is just that she’s warning her kids to stay away from the weird old man’s house, which is kind of a trope on its own, and then merged with the nursery rhyme. The house she’s warning the kids to stay away from is a squalid, rundown house as you might expect, but it’s funny (presumably, ymmv) to think about what that would look like as a shoe.

I think the Archie references in the Disqus link are just amused by the coincidence that the random name Larson picked is close to the Archie principal, but that probably wasn’t intentional.

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I don’t think this ever really worked. The title on the dog’s book is a well-known phrase, but I couldn’t recall any expressions that would similarly reflect a cat’s reading interests. In cases like this, I usually sit on the idea with the hope that someday I’ll stumble across it in my sketchbook and immediately know how to handle it. This time, unfortunately, I think I forced it.

To be clear, I’m not finding fault with you specifically, I think most people use terms like conscious/aware/etc the way you do.

The way of thinking about it that I find useful is defining “consciousness” to be the same as “world model”. YMMV on if you agree with that or find it useful. It leads to some results that seem absurd at first, like in another comment someone pointing out that it means that a thermometer is “conscious” of the temperature. But really, why not? It’s only a base definition, a way to find some objective foundation. Clearly, humans have a lot more going on than a thermometer, and that definition lets us focus on the more interesting bits.

As stated, I’m not much into the qualia hype, but this part is I think an interesting avenue of thought:

it likely won’t be possible to directly compare raw experiences because the required hardware to process a specific experience for one individual might not exist in the other individual’s mind.

That seems unlikely if you think the human brain is equivalent to a Turing machine. If you could prove that the human brain isn’t equivalent, that would be super interesting. Maybe it’s a hypercomputer for reasons we can’t explain yet.

Your project sounds interesting, if you ever publish it or a paper about it, I’d love to see it! I can’t judge about hobby projects being messy lol.

I searched DDG for “is garfield neutered” and the AI “helpfully” said “Yes, Garfield is neutered, as indicated in various comic strips and public service announcements featuring the character. This aspect of his character is often used humorously in the context of pet care.” and then linked to this SRoMG edit as a source:

https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3241

Not a lot of actual references to go on, the 1979-11-24 strip is the closest thing:

Whether that’s because he is fixed and traumatized by it, or unfixed and scared of the possibility remains unclear. Some other online comments say that his grandchildren are referenced in an animated story, but since Garfield’s age is unclear here anyways, it’s possible he’s fixed now even if he has had children.

Think it’s just supposed to be the bear’s sidekick. Something of an explanation here:

In “Bear Police”, some naughty kids are spraying graffiti on the wall. Here comes Mr. Bear the Policeman, along with his friend, a white dove! The cop is, however, still a bear, and he proceeds to use his bear paw to somewhat graphically knock out the brains of at least one of the vandalizing kids, before he and his bird friend go for a well-deserved cup of coffee and a donut.

One of the weaker PBF comics IMO, it’s one of the earlier ones that didn’t quite match the later style. It probably would’ve worked more to go more graphic and show the bear eating them, or show the bear in a cave with their bones, still wearing the police uniform, or something kind of absurd like that.

That’s on me tbh. I have a script that munges the image and text together into a single image (since it’s plain text on the website), and the library I’m using occasionally lays out text in a weird way like this. I’ve been meaning to fix that, and the fact that it doesn’t handle italicized text properly.

I think the younger one is threatening to kill himself to stop the future from happening and his future self from existing. The last panel isn’t “in the future”, it’s just showing that he got the job in the present day because of the threat (technically in the future but only by a few minutes)

Lemmy just released 0.19.14, which addresses this somehow, but the announcement is vague:

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-12-08_-_Lemmy_Release_0.19.14

https://discuss.online/post/31855056

Recently some malicious users started to use an exploit where they would post rule violating content and then delete the account. This would prevent admins and mods from viewing the user profile to find other posts, and would also prevent federation of ban actions.

The new release fixes these problems. Thanks to @flamingos-cant for contributing to solve this.

Beware of pussy traps!

He also riffed on Charlotte’s Web here:

https://discuss.online/post/24951832

Perfect 🐈➖🐈, chef’s kiss 🤌