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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 1d

Title text: "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Home Improvement or DIY"

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 2d

Title text: "Progress on getting shipwrecked sailors to adopt ICMPv6 has been slow."

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 5d

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

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 7d

Title text: "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."

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 9d

Title text: "Every downhill walk is a waterslide that might have been."

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 13d

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

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 15d

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

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 16d

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 16d

Title text: "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."

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 20d

Title text: "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..."

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 22d

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

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 23d

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 23d

Title text: "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."

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 27d

Title text: "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."

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 28d

Title text: "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."

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3137#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · Aug 26

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

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · Aug 25

Title text: "Someday I hope to find a way to mess up a recipe so badly that it draws the attention of the International Air Transport Association, the International Mathematical Olympiad, or the NSA."

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · Aug 19

Title text: "I dropped my phone while trying to search, and I tried to unlock it from up here, so can you also search for screen repair places?"

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · Aug 18

Title text: "The academic archaeology establishment is suppressing my breakthroughs because of the disruption it would bring to their prepared-core flake-based toolmaking industry."

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