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Received — 21 April 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Air Fact 20 April 2025 at 19:00

Air Fact

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20 April 2025 at 19:00

'Wow, that must be why you swallow so many of them per year!' 'No, that's spiders. You swallow WAY more ants.'

Received — 18 April 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Anchor Bolts 17 April 2025 at 19:00

Anchor Bolts

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17 April 2025 at 19:00

The biggest expense was installing the mantle ducts to keep the carbonate-silicate cycle operating.

Received — 17 April 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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de Sitter 15 April 2025 at 19:00

de Sitter

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15 April 2025 at 19:00

Our anti-de Sitter club is small at the moment, but I've started corresponding with the conformal field theory people.

Received — 15 April 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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The Roads Both Taken 13 April 2025 at 19:00

The Roads Both Taken

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13 April 2025 at 19:00

When you worry that you're missing out on something by not making both choices simultaneously by quantum superposition, that's called phomo.

Received — 11 April 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Anachronym Challenge 10 April 2025 at 19:00

Anachronym Challenge

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10 April 2025 at 19:00

I have to pay with paper money.

Received — 9 April 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Push Notifications 8 April 2025 at 19:00

Push Notifications

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8 April 2025 at 19:00

NOTIFICATION: Now dismissing a head of the Notification Hydra… NOTIFICATION: Success! You have dismissed a head of the Notification Hydra!

Received — 7 April 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Tariffs 6 April 2025 at 19:00

Tariffs

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6 April 2025 at 19:00

[later] I don't get why our pizza slices have such terrible reviews; the geotextile-infused sauce gives the toppings incredible slope stability!

Received — 4 April 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Stargazing 4 3 April 2025 at 19:00

Stargazing 4

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3 April 2025 at 19:00

We haven't actually seen a star fall in since we invented telescopes, but I have a list of ones I'm really hoping are next.

Received — 2 April 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Decay Chain 1 April 2025 at 19:00

Decay Chain

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1 April 2025 at 19:00

If you have an old phone in a drawer, and you listen very carefully, you can occasionally hear the occasional tap of an emitted SIM card hitting the side of the drawer as the phone transmutes to a lower-end model.

Received — 31 March 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Orogeny 30 March 2025 at 19:00

Orogeny

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30 March 2025 at 19:00

Most properties can only boast INDOOR heated floors.

Received — 28 March 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Terror Bird 27 March 2025 at 19:00

Terror Bird

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27 March 2025 at 19:00

There has long been debate about Big Bird's species, with some experts claiming he was a canary, but recent genetic analysis places him firmly in Cariamiformes.

Received — 26 March 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Rock Identification 25 March 2025 at 19:00

Rock Identification

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25 March 2025 at 19:00

'Is it worth anything?' 'I dunno, is the answer to that question worth another $5?'

Received — 24 March 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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SawStart 23 March 2025 at 19:00

SawStart

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23 March 2025 at 19:00

Unfortunately, SawStart is one-use-only. Once started, the blade cannot be stopped, and must be replaced with a fresh blade while the running one is carefully disposed of.

Received — 21 March 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Cosmic Distance Calibration 20 March 2025 at 19:00

Cosmic Distance Calibration

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20 March 2025 at 19:00

This is the biggest breakthrough since astronomers noticed that the little crosshairs around red giant stars starting to burn helium are all the same size.

Received — 19 March 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Square Units 18 March 2025 at 19:00

Square Units

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18 March 2025 at 19:00

The biggest I've seen in a published source in the wild is an 80-fold error in a reported distance, which I think came from a series of at least three unit conversions and area/length misinterpretations.

Received — 17 March 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Lungfish 16 March 2025 at 19:00

Lungfish

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16 March 2025 at 19:00

I know having so many base pairs makes rebasing complicated, but you're in Bilateria, so shouldn't you at LEAST be better at using git head?

Received — 14 March 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Planet Definitions 13 March 2025 at 19:00

Planet Definitions

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13 March 2025 at 19:00

Under the 'has cleared its orbital neighborhood' and 'fuses hydrogen into helium' definitions, thanks to human activities Earth technically no longer qualifies as a planet but DOES count as a star.

Received — 12 March 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Off By One 11 March 2025 at 19:00

Off By One

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11 March 2025 at 19:00

It does come at the small cost of a LOT more off-by-40-or-50 errors.

Received — 10 March 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Water Balloons 9 March 2025 at 19:00

Water Balloons

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9 March 2025 at 19:00

Update: The physics department has recruited an astronomer who studies meteor fireballs.

Received — 7 March 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Omniroll 6 March 2025 at 19:00

Omniroll

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6 March 2025 at 19:00

It seems wrong that Fruit by the Foot is only sold by weight or by number of rolls.