Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 23, 2020

So Rat is no longer working at the coffee shop.

Instagrim is how he can afford to quit the coffee shop

My app idea is a write-only version of twitter. You post it, no one reads it, everyone’s happy.

FaceShnook: You post your pics and opinions, and everyone tells you what a loser you are for doing it. Instead of thumbs-up or -down, the only rating you get is a middle finger.

And for everything else, you got Instagrime.

Insta-grimm is where the Thing posts his photos.

and when you check out instagrim you instagrimace…

Twinger: where every post makes you twinge

AKA @realDonaldTrump

“…….for your Insta-Migraine, try…”

FaceSlap! For when reality hits you hard.

How about an app that limits your time on social media? We can call it ‘QUITTER’.

Rat that cubicle looks like a jail cell ! … Croc Power !

Beginning monday I am going to limit my social media to one 30 minute block per day..that’s it, FB/Twitter/Reddit. It is going to make me happier. Bots are in control.

I think this would be popular!

An idle mind is RATS workshop….

I was going to create an anti-social media. Problem is:no one would sign up.

You know I think instagrim would actually be a big hit

But how is he gonna get people to buy it?

Post it on Fakebook.

Pastis should be on Insta-groan!

You know… this could be a real and popular app.

The rat is a many-faceted gem / a guy who trifles not – no haw, no hem / he sees with perfect clarity / he detects the least disparity / and the optimists know that he ain’t one of them !

The Goat is an affable soul/ who suffers no need to control/ he places reliance/ on Reason, and Science/ and is doomed to end up in a hole..

The Goat and the Rat two sides/ of Stephan, who also derides/ his own self the most / He’s our genial host/ in this cheerfully mirrored hall..

“If you wanna be real about things … InstaGrim!”

Aah, the good old days.

Could have saved newspapers millions of gallons of ink if you’d used the proper word ‘WHY’.

rat should go back to the coffee shop. his customer service was superb.

Rat is looking grim in the photo because it just dawned on him that he’s a president that’s working behind a desk in a coffee shop.

“Instagrim”—I love it! :-D

Maybe we do need something like for the real world. That’s why it won’t make him money.

That pun belongs on insta‍groan!

The real reason we’re in Quarinitne is to binge watch Criminal Minds.

I know you won’t like hearing me say this, Rat, but Instagrim sounds like fun! Me want!

I like it.

There’s a picture by Paul Klee called “Twittering Machine”, but I can’t figure out what it has to do with DJT.