


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.



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.


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.




Mine are on a 5.25 inch floppy disk, formatted for the Kaypro, using the Select word processor. I’m good.



Timmy never learns.


Boise Ed sends this in: “Background: Parents are off on a vacation, Dad’s young assistant is staying with the kid while her home is fumigated or something. Kid catches assistant canoodling with boyfriend and uses a fire extinguisher on them. (That part ran March 9-13.)”
Lio works in some of the best known cats in comics. Can you name them all?



Dedicated to all the times we read a comic and say “What’s the joke here?”





Darren throws us a nice compliment: “I consider CIDU our humor professional!
I guess there is a minor question of the text. Best I can do is:
“And this is why you never ever invest in a platypus””



Did I post this before? I thought I had, but it was still in my “to be posted” folder, and I can’t find it in recent posts. If you saw it before, you’re now seeing it again!

Interesting than panel 2 is overlaid over the right side of panel 1, rather than being separate. (Well, maybe not THAT interesting.)


Mitch4 sends this in: “LOL plus some nice word play, but not the sort to make it an OY.
I don’t know if it’s a feature or bug that the reader needs to insert “and” various places in each line to get the limerick scansion.”



Ben Bass commented upon seeing this comic: “As the resident New York Times cryptogram writer, I consider this aspirational.”
Asher Perlman urges you to create your own joke:

One example:


