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Window Screen

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5 October 2025 at 19:00

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Home Improvement or DIY

Ping

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2 October 2025 at 19:00

Progress on getting shipwrecked sailors to adopt ICMPv6 has been slow.

Measure Twice, Cut Once

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30 September 2025 at 19:00

"Measure zero times, cut zero times." --carpenter who has achieved enlightenment and realized the wood is fine where it is

100% All Achievements

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28 September 2025 at 19:00

I'm trying to share my footage of the full run to prove it's not tool-assisted, but the uploader has problems with video lengths of more than a decade.

Hiking

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25 September 2025 at 19:00

Every downhill walk is a waterslide that might have been.

Fantastic Four

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23 September 2025 at 19:00

One perk of being born at 0.88c is that your birthday is over two days long.

Piercing

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21 September 2025 at 19:00

Some lava around the piercing site is normal, but keep an eye out for spreading earthquakes and eruptive activity that might indicate rifting.

Phase Changes

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18 September 2025 at 19:00

People looking for the gaps in our understanding where the meaning of consciousness or free will might hide often turn to quantum uncertainty or infinite cosmologies, as if we don't have breathtakingly complex emergent phenomena right there in our freezers.

Question Mark

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16 September 2025 at 19:00

Although now people will realize three-per-em space that all this time I've been using weird medium mathematical space whitespace characters in my hair space hair space hair space speech dot dot dot...

-Style Pizza

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14 September 2025 at 19:00

If you want to see true audacity, do an image search for 'Altoona-style pizza.'

Mantle Model

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11 September 2025 at 19:00

Mantle plumes explain Hawaii, Yellowstone, Iceland, the East African Rift, the Adirondack uplift, the Permian extinction, the decline of Rome, the DB Cooper hijacking, and the balrog in Moria. Those little hills of sand in your yard are caused by antle plumes.

Biology Department

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9 September 2025 at 19:00

Welcome to the Linguistics Department - It has been [2] [DAYS] since someone noticed that the Biology Department sign has a one-day-long singular/plural disagreement after it resets.

Chess Variant

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7 September 2025 at 19:00

The draw-by-repetition rule does a good job of keeping players from sliding a tile back and forth repeatedly, but the tiles definitely introduce some weird en passant and castling edge cases.

Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure

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4 September 2025 at 19:00

A person with two watches is never sure what time it is, especially if I got them one of the watches.

Cursed Number

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2 September 2025 at 19:00

Another group of mathematicians is working to put an upper bound on the number, although everyone keeps begging them to stop.

Pull

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31 August 2025 at 19:00

Be careful fighting gravity. If you win, it's a long way down.

Sea Level

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28 August 2025 at 19:00

They're up there with coral islands, lightning, and caterpillars turning into butterflies.

Wavefunction Collapse

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26 August 2025 at 19:00

Wavefunction collapse is only one interpretation. Under some interpretations, graduate students also have souls.

Dual Roomba

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24 August 2025 at 19:00

I tried uploading it to a household appliance porn site I found, but apparently their content is limited to only fans.

Coastline Similarity

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21 August 2025 at 19:00

Hey! A bunch of the early Cretaceous fossils on each coast seem to have been plagiarized, too!