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I really like xkcd, so I post them here as soon as they are released. Feel free to boost or favorite my toots if you enjoy them. – Made by @lx@swiss.social in #Rust

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Joined June 24, 2017
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 2mo ago
#3277 Forth
I NOTATION POLISH REVERSE ❤️ https://xkcd.com/3277/
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 2mo ago
#3274 Arthurian Connector
Most coffee shops have a descendant of Sophia of Hanover on staff for this, but just as I was about to ask for help, a previously unknown heir of Uther Pendragon who was ordering a muffin tripped on my laptop cord. https://xkcd.com/3274/
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 2mo ago
#3275 Calibration Nobel
We would like to once again apologize to Dr. Jones for last year's mistaken announcement. We should really have double-checked the envelope for this award in particular. https://xkcd.com/3275/
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 2mo ago
#3273 Latitude and Longitude
NGS and IERS are complaining that they left CLEAR instructions to set the washing machine to WGS84 (G2296) instead of WGS84 (G730). https://xkcd.com/3273/
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 3mo ago

Brace yourself--the chirp gets pretty weird.
https://xkcd.com/3261/

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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 3mo ago

If you're thinking 'Wait, a giant crystal cave in Mexico? What's that?' then I'm SO excited for the image search you're about to do.
https://xkcd.com/3266/

Holes
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 3mo ago

Wait, what do you mean, 'dark matter'? It's not dark, it interacts with high-energy gamma rays ... right? Oh jeez, did I forget to make it interact?
https://xkcd.com/3263/

Baryon Asymmetry
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 3mo ago
#3265 Asteroid Threat
Paleontologists have long worried that the dinosaurs blasted into space 66 million years ago will one day complete their orbits and fall back down. https://xkcd.com/3265/
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 4mo ago

While weather control is typically thought of as a superpower, the unconscious ability of astronomers and astrophotographers to summon clouds is more properly classified as a curse.
https://xkcd.com/3253/

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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 5mo ago

Anyone who is caught counting 'three ... two ... one ... zero ... GO!' will be punished with a lifetime of eating only ISO standard food samples.
https://xkcd.com/3232/

Countdown Standard
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 3mo ago

The plural of anecdote may not be data, but the singular of data is anecdote.
https://xkcd.com/3262/

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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 3mo ago

Commentators agree that this will probably be the last World Cup in which Messi faces serious competition.
https://xkcd.com/3260/

Messi
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 4mo ago

Please, we need your help. Our research suggests you're the last living descendant of the person who knew how to format this config file.
https://xkcd.com/3245/

Results Age
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 3mo ago

'If you keep trying to spray your collaborators with the beam when they're not looking, I'm turning off the ion source and NO one will get to play with the beam!' --Physics's mom
https://xkcd.com/3257/

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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 3mo ago

It's great for exfoliating your skin, bones, houses, cities, landscape, etc.
https://xkcd.com/3258/

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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 4mo ago

Usain Bolt holds the world record in the 100 meter speedrun.
https://xkcd.com/3246/

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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 4mo ago

"How does the spring not run out almost immediately?" "We pull it back REALLY far."
https://xkcd.com/3244/

Pullback Drive
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 4mo ago

The research was overseen by the Institutional Review Board, which is what I named my surfboard.
https://xkcd.com/3255/

Planetary Science
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 4mo ago

No other experiment has a lower false negative rate.
https://xkcd.com/3254/

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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 4mo ago

We definitely put the pool in a mine for shielding. It was absolutely not to hide it from the funding people.
https://xkcd.com/3249/

Neutrino Project
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 5mo ago

I can't believe Candles of Vienna caved to commercial pressure and added the Goku expansion.
https://xkcd.com/3235/

Types of Board Game
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 2mo ago
#3279 Main Span
Wind stress? Don't be silly. When has wind stress ever been a problem for a suspension bridge? https://xkcd.com/3279/
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 6mo ago

This xkcd.com update introduces a variety of new reading modes which can be activated through the menu below the comic.
https://xkcd.com/3227/

Creation
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 5mo ago

It's not as big a loss as it looks, because now I have have leftover supplies, which will help me talk myself into doing this all over again with a new project!
https://xkcd.com/3233/

Make It Myself
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 3mo ago
#3264 720 Ollie
This discovery was key to his demonstration of regular/goofy symmetry violation, which won him gold in the theory portion of the X Games. https://xkcd.com/3264/
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 4mo ago

They rounded down to 182.8 instead of rounding up to 182.9 because 182.9 might make the statement incorrect.
https://xkcd.com/3248/

182.8 Meters
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 4mo ago

Every place has a local cryptid; more places need a local Pictish Beast, a creature in historical art that's drawn so weirdly that no one can tell what animal it's supposed to be.
https://xkcd.com/3250/

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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 4mo ago

Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today's dragonflies are.
https://xkcd.com/3256/

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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 4mo ago

It's possible to do sea navigation without a compass, but you'll have to get some spoilers from the Polynesians.
https://xkcd.com/3251/

Time Machine Conversation
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 6mo ago

It has been −2,147,483,648 days since our last integer overflow.
https://xkcd.com/3228/

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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 6mo ago

"While I try to do my part to destroy the environment, I try not to focus too much on individual responsibility. By pushing for broad policy changes, we can collectively do far more damage to the biosphere than any of us could on our own."
https://xkcd.com/3226/

Home Solar
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 2mo ago
#3270 Toasting Marshmallows
We have two 'in case of fire, break glass' boxes, which you pick between based on how big of a problem the fire is. One has an extinguisher, and one has sticks, marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate. https://xkcd.com/3270/
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 4mo ago

Remember, your answers to the physics census are confidential; we will not be issuing Pauli exclusion principle citations.
https://xkcd.com/3247/

Particle Census
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 3mo ago

In order to carry the necessary crafting supplies, they built the ships at 12:1 scale.
https://xkcd.com/3259/

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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 4mo ago

SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH: No further research is needed as it is frankly none of our business.
https://xkcd.com/3252/

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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 5mo ago

'Beyond that lies a vale of fire through which my vision cannot penetrate' is the kind of fun thing geologists, heliophysicists, and early universe cosmologists have a lot of opportunities to say.
https://xkcd.com/3243/

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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 5mo ago

It started as a mistake that everyone was afraid to admit to, and then it stuck because removing it 'looks silly.'.
https://xkcd.com/3241/

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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 3mo ago
#3269 Airport Meeting
Although it was a setback for physics, I'm glad the particle naming rights issue led to the cancelation of Pizza Hut's Superconducting Super Collider in the early 90s, so the Double Stuffed Extra Cheese Topping Quark ended up just being named 'top quark.' https://xkcd.com/3269/
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 5mo ago

Imagine you could ride alongside a sound wave. It would probably be pretty cool, right? We're putting in a departmental budget request to buy a really fast plane so we can check it out.
https://xkcd.com/3238/

Soniferous Aether
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 5mo ago

Scientists occasionally invent alternative periodic table layouts, which is usually a sign that they don't have enough enrichment in their enclosures.
https://xkcd.com/3242/

Aperiodic Table
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 5mo ago

"I know it seems impossible, but the trick is that I sailed in here when I was very young."
https://xkcd.com/3240/

Bottle
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 5mo ago

Before resurfacing, they promise to inspect the ice for any evidence of hockey-playing life.
https://xkcd.com/3234/

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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 5mo ago

Borat came out twenty years ago this year--closer to the breakup of the Soviet Union than to today--but it honestly feels like it's been even longer, somehow.
https://xkcd.com/3237/

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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 5mo ago

Thanks to differences in logging regulations, the messages actually turned out to be visible from the air.
https://xkcd.com/3236/

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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 6mo ago

Maybe you should wear one too? I guess I'm taller than you, so as long as I have one we're fine.
https://xkcd.com/3231/

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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 2mo ago
#3281 Antiques Roadshow
The family lore was that we've had it ever since it was ejected from a star-forming gas cloud, but it seems more likely that my great-grandparents probably just bought it while on vacation in the galactic thin disk. https://xkcd.com/3281/
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 5mo ago

It's hard to decide which simple machine system to invest in. DeWalt makes a great lever and inclined plane, but I hear Milwaukee's wheel-and-axles are really good.
https://xkcd.com/3239/

Simple Machines
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 6mo ago

I think I accidentally installed an Overton window in my bedroom. A few months ago, the sun wasn't in my face in the morning, but now it is.
https://xkcd.com/3230/

Overton
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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 6mo ago

Communication is one of the most popular ways to transmit information, ahead of rivals such as
https://xkcd.com/3229/

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XKCD Bot @xkcd@mastodon.xyz
· 2mo ago
#3272 Time Change
All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse. https://xkcd.com/3272/
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