this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2026
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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
Rules
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π Be Nice!
- Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly.
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ποΈ Community Standards
- Comics should be a full story, from start to finish, in one post.
- Posts should be safe and enjoyable by the majority of community members, both here on lemmy.world and other instances.
- Any comic that would qualify as raunchy, lewd, or otherwise draw unwanted attention by nosy coworkers, spouses, or family members should be tagged as NSFW.
- Moderators have final say on what and what does not qualify as appropriate. Use common sense, and if need be, err on the side of caution.
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𧬠Keep it Real
- Comics should be made and posted by real human beans, not by automated means like bots or AI. This is not the community for that sort of thing.
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π½οΈ Credit Where Credit is Due
- Comics should include the original attribution to the artist(s) involved, and be unmodified. Bonus points if you include a link back to their website. When in doubt, use a reverse image search to try to find the original version. Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanently banned from posting.
- Attributions include, but are not limited to, watermarks, links, or other text or imagery that artists add to their comics to use for identification purposes. If you find a comic without any such markings, it would be a good idea to see if you can find an original version. If one cannot be found, say so and ask the community for help!
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π Post Formatting
- Post an image, gallery, or link to a specific comic hosted on another site; e.g., the author's website.
- Meta posts about the community should be tagged with [Meta] either at the beginning or the end of the post title.
- When linking to a comic hosted on another site, ensure the link is to the comic itself and not just to the website; e.g.,
β Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
β Incorrect: https://xkcd.com/
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π¬ Post Frequency/SPAM
- Each user (regardless of instance) may post up to five (5 π) comics a day. This can be any combination of personal comics you have written yourself, or other author's comics. Any comics exceeding five (5 π) will be removed.
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π΄ββ οΈ Internationalization (i18n)
- Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
SΓ, por favor [Spanish/EspaΓ±ol]
- Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
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πΏ Moderation
- We are human, just like most everybody else on Lemmy. If you feel a moderation decision was made in error, you are welcome to reach out to anybody on the moderation team for clarification. Keep in mind that moderation decisions may be final.
- When reporting posts and/or comments, quote which rule is being broken, and why you feel it broke the rules.
Banned Artists
The following artists are banned from the community.
- Jago
- Stonetoss
- GPrime85
It should be noted that when you make reports, it is your responsibility to provide rational reasoning why something should be removed. Saying it simply breaks community rules is not always good enough.
Web Accessibility
Note: This is not a rule, but a helpful suggestion.
When posting images, you should strive to add alt-text for screen readers to use to describe the image you're posting:
Another helpful thing to do is to provide a transcription of the text in your images, as well as brief descriptions of what's going on. (example)
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Skin cancer is the most easily treatable cancer with long term survival rates between 90-95%. Most deaths that do occur are those cases that were either ignored or undetected for a long time so if your skin cancer is detected early your chance of survival will be much higher than that. If you protect yourself with sun screen or otherwise make sure you're not getting extreme amounts of UV the benefits of sun exposure far outweigh the detriments in my opinion. Let a loved one check your body for melanoma from time to time.
let a loved one...
With that being said, skin cancer is incredibly shitty. My wife has melanoma and has to get checked by a dermatologist every 3 months. They typically biopsy at least once every visit, and about every other visit they schedule surgery to cut one or more cancer spots off her.
They're not very pleasant surgeries either, since they have to go fairly deep and take pretty wide margins to ensure that it didn't spread. The stitches aren't very fun, since they last for several weeks. The spots around muscles that you move a lot, like your calf or thighs are the worst, because they pull and can tear the stitches. Cleaning and dressing the bandages isn't really great either, since you have a lot of caked on blood and ooze that's tricky to get off without pulling on the wounds.
All in all, skin cancer is 0/10, would not recommend. Wear sunscreen.
Just remove the skin and you ought to be good.
I got hella freckles mate. I am doomed.
My sister yesterday was like "why is it if you go back through any given religion's history, they all started as sun worshippers?"
I was like "I mean, if you're born outside the sun is likely the first thing you see. Pop outta your mom and just be like 'Ah shit! It's fucking bright! Is that God?!'"
Also, the sun is a cruel god. You need it to survive. To grow anything. But not just the sun. Just sun? Ya die. Too much sun and not enough other stuff? Likely dead. Too much sun for 3 months in a row? Maybe dead now, maybe dead later. Or lovely, hard to say.
The sun and the moon being the same size must've been such a mindfuck back then.
eh. i never gave it too much thought and i've given a lot of thought to religion.
Have you ever seen the night sky in an area with no light pollution? I have to imagine a clear night sky back then was insane in a super moon.
The sun killed my father, that yellow bastard.
that yellow bastard
uhhhh
I choked on a mc nugget laughing at this.
I read that as MC Nugget and had a brief 80s hip-hop flashback.