Zach Weinersmith
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social
Author of Bea Wolf, A City on Mars, and the comic SMBC
Website: www.smbc-comics.com
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New book: http://www.acityonmars.com/
Website: www.smbc-comics.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h
New book: http://www.acityonmars.com/
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New Book Day! Please tell the world. Read a comic about it here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sawyer...
Or if you just want to buy it: us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Thanks everyone! It took me over a year to write, but I think you and/or your kid(s) will have many laughs together.
Or if you just want to buy it: us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Thanks everyone! It took me over a year to write, but I think you and/or your kid(s) will have many laughs together.
Speaking as someone who does a lot of laundry, why is it that with boy clothes you can tell the approximate size of the boy, but with girl clothes there is just literally no correlation. Like you can find a sock the size of a quail egg that turns out to be a sweater.
January 21, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Speaking as someone who does a lot of laundry, why is it that with boy clothes you can tell the approximate size of the boy, but with girl clothes there is just literally no correlation. Like you can find a sock the size of a quail egg that turns out to be a sweater.
Feels like post-Trump there's way less complaining about "econ 101" thinking. Like concerns about the imperfections of demand curves were a luxury belief you got to hold before masked men were pulling workers out of factories, and trade with Europe was taxed in order to expropriate Greenland.
January 21, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Feels like post-Trump there's way less complaining about "econ 101" thinking. Like concerns about the imperfections of demand curves were a luxury belief you got to hold before masked men were pulling workers out of factories, and trade with Europe was taxed in order to expropriate Greenland.
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It works when you bang humans together the right way!
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January 20, 2026 at 11:30 PM
It works when you bang humans together the right way!
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Can quantum measurements change the past?
Daniel and Kelly talk about the problem of time in quantum mechanics and how the past might depend on the future.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
Daniel and Kelly talk about the problem of time in quantum mechanics and how the past might depend on the future.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
January 20, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Can quantum measurements change the past?
Daniel and Kelly talk about the problem of time in quantum mechanics and how the past might depend on the future.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
Daniel and Kelly talk about the problem of time in quantum mechanics and how the past might depend on the future.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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This has been strangely popular, so buy my 100% human-crafted new book, out in June: us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home
From New York Times-bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author Zach Weinersmith comes a cartoon-illustrated middle grade novel starring a ferociously inactiv...
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January 20, 2026 at 2:37 PM
This has been strangely popular, so buy my 100% human-crafted new book, out in June: us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
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We're still okay for making sauce.
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January 18, 2026 at 11:30 PM
We're still okay for making sauce.
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Always easy to dunk on this stuff, but what I also try to consider is... imagine this existed at precisely the loneliest moment of your 20s. How confident are you that you wouldn't use it? Like, this almost co-existed with COVID quarantine.
This is it. This is The Great Filter. We've created Sexy Barista Is Super Interested in Watching You Solo Game (SBISIIWYS).
January 20, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Always easy to dunk on this stuff, but what I also try to consider is... imagine this existed at precisely the loneliest moment of your 20s. How confident are you that you wouldn't use it? Like, this almost co-existed with COVID quarantine.
This is it. This is The Great Filter. We've created Sexy Barista Is Super Interested in Watching You Solo Game (SBISIIWYS).
January 20, 2026 at 1:44 PM
This is it. This is The Great Filter. We've created Sexy Barista Is Super Interested in Watching You Solo Game (SBISIIWYS).
Half-serious. I wonder if you could create an "apocalypse index" containing only publicly traded companies that handle things like e.g. ammunition, precious metals, and camping gear.
January 20, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Half-serious. I wonder if you could create an "apocalypse index" containing only publicly traded companies that handle things like e.g. ammunition, precious metals, and camping gear.
So there's this quote, in which John Stuart Mill is delightfully referred to as "his Satanic free trade majesty." Awesome. Turns out it goes back to Henry Adams' "The Education of Henry Adams," (published 1918) which I've read. And, I'm not sure the epithet is meant to be entirely serious. Context:
January 20, 2026 at 10:50 AM
So there's this quote, in which John Stuart Mill is delightfully referred to as "his Satanic free trade majesty." Awesome. Turns out it goes back to Henry Adams' "The Education of Henry Adams," (published 1918) which I've read. And, I'm not sure the epithet is meant to be entirely serious. Context:
This quilt pattern is known as "the president said WHAT?"
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$IWM -1.9%
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$IBIT -4.8%
$TLT -1.5%
$SLV +6.3%
$GLD +3.1%
$GDX +4.4%
$QQQ -2.0%
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$VGK -1.5%
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$GLD +3.1%
$GDX +4.4%
January 20, 2026 at 10:42 AM
This quilt pattern is known as "the president said WHAT?"
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This is gonna be way funnier in 2035
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January 19, 2026 at 11:30 PM
This is gonna be way funnier in 2035
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Today's SMBC from @zachweinersmith.bsky.social is so goddamn funny in so few words. I tip my hat. Hope @chuckwendig.bsky.social sees it! www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fuzz
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fuzz
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fuzz
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January 19, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Today's SMBC from @zachweinersmith.bsky.social is so goddamn funny in so few words. I tip my hat. Hope @chuckwendig.bsky.social sees it! www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fuzz
Interesting way to show LLMs are not thinking like humans. Like, a 5 year old might do a lot of stupid stuff, but not this kind of error, where it's drawn something that is solution-like but clearly nonsensical.
January 19, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Interesting way to show LLMs are not thinking like humans. Like, a 5 year old might do a lot of stupid stuff, but not this kind of error, where it's drawn something that is solution-like but clearly nonsensical.
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On my way to Minneapolis finally this morning. My plan is to report on the community resistance. So if you're involved in any organising and want to talk to me about it, please do drop me a line - I am dlknowles.12 on Signal!
January 19, 2026 at 1:24 PM
On my way to Minneapolis finally this morning. My plan is to report on the community resistance. So if you're involved in any organising and want to talk to me about it, please do drop me a line - I am dlknowles.12 on Signal!
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January 19, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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255. Would Musk deliberately break the 1967 Outer Space Treaty by declaring Mars a new nation?
by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social and @weinersmith.bsky.social
#TabClosed2026 🔭
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Mars Attacks: How Elon Musk's plans to colonize Mars threaten Earth
Elon Musk's quest to colonize Mars could upend international cooperation and the establishment of space as a commons—it's a risk to Earthlings everywhere.
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January 19, 2026 at 4:15 AM
255. Would Musk deliberately break the 1967 Outer Space Treaty by declaring Mars a new nation?
by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social and @weinersmith.bsky.social
#TabClosed2026 🔭
by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social and @weinersmith.bsky.social
#TabClosed2026 🔭
Remember what they did to HitchBOT? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT
January 18, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Remember what they did to HitchBOT? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT
Another Erdos problem announced solved by machine learning: github.com/teorth/erdos...
From discussion, looks like it may have already been solved in prior lit. A weird thing about neural networks is that we can't actually tell if it used that source or not.
From discussion, looks like it may have already been solved in prior lit. A weird thing about neural networks is that we can't actually tell if it used that source or not.
AI contributions to Erdős problems
A community database for the problems on the erdosproblems.com site - teorth/erdosproblems
github.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Another Erdos problem announced solved by machine learning: github.com/teorth/erdos...
From discussion, looks like it may have already been solved in prior lit. A weird thing about neural networks is that we can't actually tell if it used that source or not.
From discussion, looks like it may have already been solved in prior lit. A weird thing about neural networks is that we can't actually tell if it used that source or not.
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At first they fear that the antenna is a probe, but after about thirty minutes they wish it was merely probe day.
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January 17, 2026 at 11:30 PM
At first they fear that the antenna is a probe, but after about thirty minutes they wish it was merely probe day.
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One of the weird things about writing a book called A City on Mars has been discovering that a *really* popular question posted by clickfarms frequently is "What would you name a city on Mars?" Not sure what human brain wizardry this question performs, but it does seem to work.
January 17, 2026 at 10:11 PM
One of the weird things about writing a book called A City on Mars has been discovering that a *really* popular question posted by clickfarms frequently is "What would you name a city on Mars?" Not sure what human brain wizardry this question performs, but it does seem to work.
Odd thing I've noticed lately, which is that over time I've been able to do work I care more and more and more about, and this significantly adds to my stress level. This was probably predictable, but somehow you imagine "I get to do the stuff I care about" would be more relaxing.
January 17, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Odd thing I've noticed lately, which is that over time I've been able to do work I care more and more and more about, and this significantly adds to my stress level. This was probably predictable, but somehow you imagine "I get to do the stuff I care about" would be more relaxing.
In the Star Trek universe, are there farmers?
January 17, 2026 at 9:27 PM
In the Star Trek universe, are there farmers?
Pressing face sadly against window of the USA, looking at cool kids in Europe and South America. apnews.com/article/merc...
European Union and Mercosur bloc of South American nations sign landmark free trade agreement
The European Union and the Mercosur bloc of South American countries have formally signed a long-sought landmark free trade agreement.
apnews.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Pressing face sadly against window of the USA, looking at cool kids in Europe and South America. apnews.com/article/merc...
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This is a longshot, but... any people in Austin or thereabouts who work for the library system? The short version is we have some books that people like, but which we printed wayyyyy too many of, and I would love to donate a LOT.
January 17, 2026 at 10:46 AM
This is a longshot, but... any people in Austin or thereabouts who work for the library system? The short version is we have some books that people like, but which we printed wayyyyy too many of, and I would love to donate a LOT.