Yesterday, even though my son is barely seven years old, toxic masculinity permeated his life and, perhaps permanently and irreparably, stole a small piece of his joy.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Humanity
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Humanity
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Number One
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Number One
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2013-04-07
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2013-04-07
Iron Man and the Science of His Suit
“My armor was never a distraction or a hobby. It was a cocoon. And now I am a charged man, you can take away my house, all my tricks and toys. One thing you cannot take away… I a…
Man Finds $1 Million Worth of Yu-Gi-Oh Cards in a Dumpster
It was already a sordid tale of online drama, blurry photographs, and erratic TikToks. Then his mom started posting.
Parenting - An SMBC comic collection
A collection of comics about parenting, compiled from over 20 years of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, and also from experience.
Unauthorized Bread: Real rebellions involve jailbreaking IoT toasters
Cory Doctorow's book, Radicalized, is up for a CBC award. To celebrate, here's an excerpt.
Trauma Junkie
[First place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest for Fiction.] It’s Christmastime, and over the hills, in the faraway furrows of one of those endless tracts of half-submerged land, a main battle tank sits in a ditch, decomposing, festering. My tank. But the neighborhood seems to have forgotten, here in the shadow of the old Hospital, that shining ziggurat high above. An aspiration, once — and an obligation.
Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture
Society cannot recover from such an epic scale of devastation - the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and three days later on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 - but may, instead, manifest trauma as a perpetual genetic scar—ontological chasm which moves as a consumptive demon ripping up through the generations as a peripatetic wound, egregious disfigurement banished from conscious thought, inflating to cartoon benignity in a pantomime of humanity, sutured gash badly sewn and always reopening, futile replacement of scarred mortality for the immaculate technology of machines, and finally as the wholesale abandonment of frail humanity for alternative existential states.
The Tim Ratliffe story is so fucking boring and I’ve had it.
5.3K votes, 1.1K comments. We’re now 3 episodes straight of Tim having murder/suicide fantasies, and 4 episodes straight of: “What’s wrong with you?”…
Rotten Dot Com by Dena Yago
May 6, 2026 – “Rotten.com was a haunted arcade, dispensing trauma in gumball-machine doses straight to kids with dial-up, who chewed on images never meant for their half-formed stomachs.”
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day. On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
