Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 10, 2024

Are all the Twits in mourning?

Most extinctions over the past 2,000 years were preventable

Tragic. The mascot changed and all we got in return was free speech.

I always thought that Twitter was a dumb name for it.

All of them were preventable.

Elon Musk scares me. He has the money to buy himself the next presidency of the USA.

That last one didn’t happen. Twitter was moribund under the old censorship regime, it’s alive again thanks to Elon Musk.

But I understand Stephan has to butter his bread somehow.

Twitter was “Elon-gated” to X!

It an X bird now. Ha ha ha.

Unicorns: Extinct due to Acute Cuteness

Well, the first two at least served a useful purpose.

Looks like Pig has a corkscrew coming out of his wazoo.

Unfortunately, it’s not extinct.

It’s not extinct; it evolved.

With Twitter, one could sent out tweets. What does one send out with X? Xits (pronounced like “zits”)?

Yeah, but I can actually pity the dodo and the warbler.

“I’m not moody…you’re moody!” ~Elon “Moody” Musk

Twitter only existed because of a moody billionaire

They ALL were “preventable”

Twitter was appropriate… just a huge gaggle of birds chirping and shrieking while pooping on everything

Thank God I never had a Twitter account.

Every time I see it referenced it is written as: "X (formerly known as TWITTER).

Facebook should be extinct

Twitter is dead! Everyone rejoice!

I’m still amused of people clutching their pearls over X…

It might have been preventable but it was inevitable! If Musk hadn’t destroyed it, it would have eventually self-destructed.

The last one didn’t have to start.

Mr. Pastis is showing great restraint here by calling you-know-who a “moody” billionaire. :P

Thank goodness Sylvester Puddy Tat hasn’t gotten Tweety.

So much Musk envy…

I was permanently suspended on Twitter because I made a sarcastic comment about it being an ironic punishment for people pouring oil on paintings to be tar and feathered. Musk restored my account and others. I was never a violent or harassing poster on twitter, I used my real name.

X is alive and well. Many of the strips created here would be banned under those twitter rules by individuals that wanted to put their thumb on the thoughts and opinions of others.

The bird is dead, thank God for freedom of speech. Long live X.

Actually, that last one was the most inevitable. Twitter burned through all of its IPO money, angel investor money, random investor money and still did not find a way to make a profit.

The thing is that when you offer twice the market value of a company, no matter how many times you declare “I was just kidding” the board of directors is going to take you seriously if they think you have the financial means to pull it off.

At any rate, musk bought twitter specifically to destroy it, so he got his wish in the end.

The Passenger Pigeon; Viciously hunted for food during the 19th century. Last known bird died in 1912. It is estimated that there were 3 billion to 5 billion passenger pigeons at the time Europeans discovered America. All gone.

So is X.

“I always thought that Twitter was a dumb name for "

Eh, Apple, Yahoo, Google et al set a precedent.

That moody billionaire has accomplished milestones in the technology industry.

Twitter was extinct the moment it came to be.

Sadly, the twittiots did not die off with the bird logo.

Twitter didn’t go extinct. It was saved together with a little corner of free speech.

All three were preventable.

I’d say all three were avoidable.

X is a really STUPID name

Well at least only twits used twitter!

yes but it was doomed anyway

They were ALL preventable

T"WOKE"itter.

Last one not missed. The planet is better off with it’s extinction…

That’s a rare Bachman’s Turner Overdrive!

But the birdbrains live on…..

The moody billionaire seems the most dangerous to me. Very similar to mad king.

I’m sure that if enough people had stopped using X, the enlightened owner would have reconsidered.

Elon Musk is a drug addled moron. Just felt like sharing that.

Nah, it was inevitable as soon as Elon got his hands on it.

Elon Musk is just another overly rich petulant child

Giant Moa of New Zealand, extinct due to overhunting. Haast’s eagle, extinct because the moa was their main food source.

The first two were preventable as well.

“Resurrected” is more like it. You hadn’t heard?

He told the tyrant of Brazil off, too.

And if you liked this anti-Twitter comic be sure to click the Twitter icon and share it on Twitter.

Xtinct

Twitter is better now than it was before the billionaire. Much better.

the last one is also the only one we can feel happy about.

They were all preventable.

So you don’t like free speech, Steph? Oh, well. Bye-bye!

Stephan was being too nice here. This isn’t even mentioning the rampant spam bots plaguing the site. In fact, spam bot accounts say it’s EASIER for them to use the site now (This is why you keep seeing all those “[censored] in bio” posts)

bro didn’t even say passenger pigeons