Editor ZBicyclist is on vacation, and taking a cue from comics that repeat old episodes is dipping back into the past: June 2021. This was originally posted by EditorM. Repeating a synchronicity about autoplay seems appropriate, somehow.
A synchronicity of LOLs from Boise Ed:
(However, I think the “Previously on” does not count as part of the Intro that gets skipped if you so elect.)
Most people who remember playing “Kick the Can” have, in fact, kicked the bucket.
Job skills for the coming economy — or at least coming years of education.
Mitch4 sends this in: “Setup is quite unlikely, but yields a good chuckle.”
But maybe this boat is the Tooth Ferry?
Pretty sure the last panel tech support is Hindu deities.
This was tilted in Tom Falco’s original, so I left it that way in case it’s part of the joke.
This worked for Jeremy’s older brother Chad, who hasn’t had an on-panel appearance since 2006 (although occasionally mentioned). I think Chad is in the Marines, though.
Mark H. sends this in:
I volunteer as a tax preparer, and Illinois requires information off the driver’s license or state ID in order to process the return. One of these information items is the weight shown. That’s used to match with the information the state has, to control identity theft.
But it’s pretty obvious from comparing what’s on the license with what I see in front of me that the state makes little attempt to confirm the information given.
Arlo award winner.
Polymarket is a prediction market — under current rules of the CFTC, technically not gambling so legal in all 50 states. It allows you to gamble (ahem, “predict” with $ at risk) on a wide variety of things. Here are some of the trending bets as I’m writing this (May 2, 2026). Note you can bet on whether Bitcoin (BTC) will go up or down in a 5 minute period. But that’s not gambling. Definitely not gambling.
Boise Ed sends this in: “So long as he considers it only a first draft and revises it as needed, why not take advantage? (I do appreciate Wayno’s irony, though.) And I like the name RevBot.”
Happy Mothers’ Day!
We’re going to lead off today with a nice Synchronicity sent in by Ian C:
Bonus panel:
The mouseover text also plugs his Patreon page.
Yes, we’ve de-emphasized synchronicities because we were getting too much clutter (really, talking animals show up every day in my feeds), but these from April 23 also qualify as LOLs, so here we are.
We definitely passed on a May 7 synchronicity in which both Reality Check and Real Life Adventures featured cat vomit.
Yorick’s absence: was it due to some skullduggery?
Don’t worry. They’ll get a light sentence.
On the other hand …
Actually, Ned looks pretty good for 96.
Boise Ed sends this in. [Бојси Ед го испраќа ова]
“The modern Macedonian alphabet consists of 31 letters, including 5 vowels (А, Е, И, О, У) and 26 consonants, with six letters unique to Macedonian: Ѓ (gj), Ѕ (dz), Ј (j), Љ (lj), Њ (nj), and Ќ (kj). It was officially codified in 1945 by a commission in Yugoslav Macedonia….Spoken as a first language by around 1.7 million people, it serves as the official language of North Macedonia.[” (Wikipedia)
Six unique letters in a written language that’s the primary language of only 1.7 million people. In the age of computers, that’s a fairly easily solvable problem by designing a font. One wonders, though, how this worked back in the typewriter era. I get the implication that perhaps they used a Cyrillic typewriter with combinations of letters, such as the Cyrillic version of kj for Ќ.
A bit of information omitted.
Speaking of Great Blue Herons, there’s a rookery near me. You can see the nests high up in the trees — about as high up as they could put them, considering the males are about 5 lb and the females about 3 lb, plus the weight of the nest and the eggs / hatchlings. The rookery is persistent — it’s been in the same location at least 5 years now. The arrival of the young roughly coincides with the trees getting covered with leaves, so the nests can’t easily be seen.
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