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Received — 14 May 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Modern 13 May 2025 at 19:00

Modern

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13 May 2025 at 19:00

Scholars are still debating whether the current period is post-postmodern or neo-contemporary.

Received — 12 May 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Deposition 11 May 2025 at 19:00

Deposition

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11 May 2025 at 19:00

P.S. If you have time travel, come to my birthday party Saturday!

Received — 9 May 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Pascal's Law 8 May 2025 at 19:00

Pascal's Law

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8 May 2025 at 19:00

Reductio ad absurdum fails when reality is absurd.

Received — 7 May 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Globe Safety 6 May 2025 at 19:00

Globe Safety

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6 May 2025 at 19:00

Frankly, given their extreme gravitational fields and general instability, even 12-inch globes should probably be banned.

Received — 6 May 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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About 20 Pounds 4 May 2025 at 19:00

About 20 Pounds

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4 May 2025 at 19:00

In addition to gravity, burritos interact through the strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces, which is believed to be a major contributor to their popularity.

Received — 2 May 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object 1 May 2025 at 19:00

Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object

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1 May 2025 at 19:00

Unstoppable force-carrying particles can't interact with immovable matter by definition.

Received — 30 April 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Jupiter Core 29 April 2025 at 19:00

Jupiter Core

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29 April 2025 at 19:00

Juno mission data suggests that Jupiter actually contains Matryoshka doll-style nested copies of every other planet in the Solar System.

Received — 28 April 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Chess Position 27 April 2025 at 19:00

Chess Position

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27 April 2025 at 19:00

It's important to learn the moves that take you into the vortex, but it's best not to study vortex itself too closely. Even grandmasters who have built up a tolerance lose the ability to play for a few hours after studying it.

Received — 25 April 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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PhD Timeline 24 April 2025 at 19:00

PhD Timeline

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24 April 2025 at 19:00

Rümeysa Öztürk was grabbed off the street in my town one month ago.

Received — 23 April 2025 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Tennis Balls 22 April 2025 at 19:00

Tennis Balls

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22 April 2025 at 19:00

After initial tests created a series of large holes in the wall of the lab, the higher-power Scanning Tunneling Tennis Ball Microscope project was quickly shut down.

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.