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Looney Comic Looney Comic is a single-panel comic that looks you dead in the eye and says the quiet part louder than necessary. Unsafe and Deliberate.

It lives somewhere between satire and a bad decision. This comic should not exist—but it does anyway.

“How Not to React When Someone is Being Electrocuted” is basically what happens when a public service announcement gets ...
05/15/2026

“How Not to React When Someone is Being Electrocuted” is basically what happens when a public service announcement gets rewritten by a Frank Zappa fan with low blood sugar and no filter.

Nobody helps.
Nobody calls for help.
But everybody participates.

The adults model catastrophic behaviour with the confidence of cruise ship entertainers, while the children enthusiastically absorb every terrible lesson.

The crowd behaves with complete emotional sincerity while being completely morally and functionally useless.

The pointing. The dancing. The celebratory energy.
It’s all wonderfully wrong.

Like a Monty Python emergency response team funded entirely by expired soda coupons.

It’s disaster as community theatre.

“Experts agree there are many incorrect ways to respond to electrocution. This community pioneered several exciting new ones.”

“I’ve Had Enough Summit” takes the polished language of self-improvement culture and fills it with something feral. It’s...
04/20/2026

“I’ve Had Enough Summit” takes the polished language of self-improvement culture and fills it with something feral. It’s not offering growth, healing, or even clarity; it’s offering escalation. The “advice” doesn’t guide you out of a bad situation; it dares you to detonate it in the most theatrical way possible, then frames that detonation as empowerment.

What makes it bite is how closely it mirrors real-world messaging. The structure is familiar: confidence, reinvention, success: all the buzzwords that usually signal a safe, upward trajectory. But here, those same words are strapped to wildly inappropriate, self-sabotaging actions. It’s not just absurd; it’s confidently absurd.

The central figure’s despondency adds a darker edge. She looks like someone genuinely lost. Instead of meaningful support, she’s being sold a fantasy of explosive liberation disguised as a structured programme. It’s a critique of how easily real frustration can be co-opted and repackaged into something flashy but fundamentally unhelpful.

There’s also a parody of commodification at play. Even outrage, even the desire to walk away, becomes something you can “register” for: tidied up, branded, and delivered as a product. The idea that you can schedule your breaking point, attend it online, and emerge “successful” is ridiculous, but only just enough to feel uncomfortably familiar.

Beneath the exaggeration is a truth: people do reach a point of “I’ve had enough.” The comic just asks: "what if the only guidance available at that moment was not wisdom, but spectacle dressed up as strategy?"

In a quiet, almost too-perfect setting, she leans forward with luminous intensity: poised, elegant, every detail immacul...
04/19/2026

In a quiet, almost too-perfect setting, she leans forward with luminous intensity: poised, elegant, every detail immaculate. Her expression is open, searching, expectant. The question hangs in the air like a fragile glass ornament: sincere, vulnerable, waiting not just for an answer but for reassurance.

Across from her, the man stiffens.

There’s a flicker - just a flicker - of internal calculation, like someone realizing too late they’ve stepped onto a stage with no script. He could soften it. He could dodge. The moment stretches, taut as a wire.

He doesn’t.

His reply lands with the force of a dropped weight: blunt, unadorned, almost clinical.

The words don’t just sit between them, they echo. The room seems to tilt, the air itself recoiling from the sheer abruptness of it. Her expression freezes mid-expectation, caught between disbelief and the slow realization of what was just said.

And he - utterly still - offers nothing more. No explanation. No cushioning. Just the stark, immovable statement, hanging there like a verdict as the silence swells to fill every corner of the frame.

"Inclusive Baby Toss"A cavernous dance studio holds its breath.Polished floors gleam under harsh lights as a baby arcs t...
04/19/2026

"Inclusive Baby Toss"

A cavernous dance studio holds its breath.

Polished floors gleam under harsh lights as a baby arcs through the air: tiny, helpless, suspended between fate and gravity. The throw is powerful, almost triumphant, launched by a figure brimming with strength and confidence. There is no hesitation in him, no doubt, only motion.

Across the room stands Dana.

Poised. Still. Unflinching.

She does not move; cannot move in the way the moment demands. And yet she faces the incoming child with absolute commitment, as if will alone might bend reality to her side. The distance closes in a heartbeat. The room tightens. Time seems to stretch, each fraction of a second heavy with inevitability.

There is no safety net. No adjustment. No second chance.

Only the baby, cutting through the air...and Dana, waiting beneath its descending path as everything hurtles toward a single, impossible point of contact.

Inclusion without proper support is cruel.

There’s a particular kind of entrepreneurial imagination that only really blossoms once the inconvenient idea of “rights...
04/18/2026

There’s a particular kind of entrepreneurial imagination that only really blossoms once the inconvenient idea of “rights” has been cleared away. Larry isn’t being cruel, you understand; he’s being efficient. Why wrestle with adults and their tiresome expectations of wages, safety standards, and dignity, when there’s an entire untapped workforce still too young to unionize and too short to see over the paperwork?

In Larry’s world, the phrase “working with children” undergoes a subtle but important reinterpretation. Not mentoring, not teaching: deploying. It’s a vision of industry stripped down to its purest, most gleaming principle: cost reduction at any human expense that doesn’t directly invoice you back. The children, after all, won’t complain about long hours; they’ll just assume that’s what adulthood was always meant to be, only arriving a decade early.

This is the logical endpoint of a certain strain of thinking: if regulations are merely obstacles, and protections are sentimental clutter, then the ideal worker is one who has neither the knowledge nor the power to object. It’s not exploitation, it’s optimization. Why call it “child labour” when you can call it “early career development”?

The justification is always so clean, so bloodless. Larry isn’t picturing scraped knees or exhaustion, he’s picturing margins. The children aren’t individuals; they’re line items with remarkably low overhead. And if they happen to learn something along the way - say, the market value of their own labour being precisely zero - well, that’s just an added educational bonus.

There’s something almost quaint about how openly the logic unfolds. No need for euphemism when the underlying belief is that the only real injustice is inefficiency. In that light, the children in the trench aren’t a moral problem; they’re a proof of concept. A demonstration of what becomes possible when you finally stop letting ethics interfere with enterprise.

It’s not that Larry sees kids as slaves. It’s that, having removed every barrier meant to prevent exploitation, he can’t quite see why they wouldn’t be.

A quiet lakeside moment, undisturbed save for a small procedural difference that no one seems especially keen to address...
04/18/2026

A quiet lakeside moment, undisturbed save for a small procedural difference that no one seems especially keen to address.

Supply, demand, and the curious mechanisms that connect them occasionally produce results best left unexamined.

The line between longing and acquisition grows thin at the water’s edge, where patience and practice yield their own peculiar harvests.

People say they want things all the time. It’s the follow-through that tends to get strange.

A reminder that advice, once offered, has a curious way of detaching itself from responsibility.Some conversations arriv...
04/18/2026

A reminder that advice, once offered, has a curious way of detaching itself from responsibility.

Some conversations arrive already wearing a polite smile, as if nothing of consequence is about to be said. And yet, beneath the civility, something distinctly uncivil has taken root.

When empathy is replaced by expediency, anyone can become expendable, particularly when the proposed solution involves water and plausible deniability.

Nothing says “temporary commitment” like dropping a kid back off between errands, as if they came with a receipt and a m...
04/11/2026

Nothing says “temporary commitment” like dropping a kid back off between errands, as if they came with a receipt and a mildly disappointing warranty.

Anyone have a cheap confetti cannon?

The classic rise and immediate disintegration of a band whose entire identity hinges on spelling something they probably...
04/11/2026

The classic rise and immediate disintegration of a band whose entire identity hinges on spelling something they probably shouldn’t shout in public.

They had the branding, the symmetry, the quiet confidence of four characters who believed destiny was just good typography. Three letters standing there like they belonged on a stadium marquee: and then… a squirrel. Because of course the missing piece of artistic legitimacy is a neurotic woodland creature with a twitchy allegiance to legumes.

“We didn’t choose each other; the universe aligned us.” Right up until the universe rustles a peanut bag and your lead ‘K’ forgets the concept of music, friendship, and object permanence.

language pretending to be profound until biology barges in chewing loudly. One second it’s a bold, rebellious name; the next it’s a cautionary tale about building your identity around something that can be derailed by snack time.

Applaud the commitment to nonsense: not just that the band exists, but that its collapse is both completely absurd and utterly inevitable. Because of course all hell breaks loose - not due to ego, or drugs, or artistic differences - but because someone, somewhere, dared to open a bag of peanuts in the presence of a letter with a pulse and a tail.

Rock and roll was never meant to survive that kind of pressure.

Mutually endorsed delusion with a light misting of arterial spray.Romance reduced to its most efficient form: you valida...
04/11/2026

Mutually endorsed delusion with a light misting of arterial spray.

Romance reduced to its most efficient form: you validate my worst impulses, I’ll applaud yours. No growth, no conflict resolution, just a cheerful arms race of increasingly specific psychoses. It’s basically what happens when “you complete me” is interpreted by two people who should never, under any circumstances, be completed.

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