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2026-07-11 01:01:30 UTC

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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2026-07-08 19:46:27 UTC

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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2026-07-02 02:01:28 UTC

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/
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2026-06-29 18:01:05 UTC

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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2026-06-25 04:16:05 UTC

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/
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2026-06-23 03:47:06 UTC

The plural of anecdote may not be data, but the singular of data is anecdote.
https://xkcd.com/3262/
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2026-06-20 02:02:05 UTC

Brace yourself--the chirp gets pretty weird.
https://xkcd.com/3261/
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2026-06-15 16:02:05 UTC

In order to carry the necessary crafting supplies, they built the ships at 12:1 scale.
https://xkcd.com/3259/
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2026-06-12 22:16:05 UTC

It's great for exfoliating your skin, bones, houses, cities, landscape, etc.
https://xkcd.com/3258/
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2026-06-11 01:32:06 UTC

'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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2026-06-08 22:47:05 UTC

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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2026-06-05 13:16:05 UTC

The research was overseen by the Institutional Review Board, which is what I named my surfboard.
https://xkcd.com/3255/
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2026-06-01 15:31:04 UTC

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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2026-05-27 21:16:50 UTC

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/
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2026-05-25 22:01:48 UTC

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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2026-05-22 19:01:49 UTC

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/
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2026-05-18 19:01:49 UTC

Remember, your answers to the physics census are confidential; we will not be issuing Pauli exclusion principle citations.
https://xkcd.com/3247/
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2026-05-16 01:01:58 UTC

Usain Bolt holds the world record in the 100 meter speedrun.
https://xkcd.com/3246/
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2026-05-13 18:47:38 UTC

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/
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2026-05-08 17:46:33 UTC

'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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2026-05-06 18:16:33 UTC

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/
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2026-05-05 19:46:33 UTC

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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2026-05-01 18:46:33 UTC

"I know it seems impossible, but the trick is that I sailed in here when I was very young."
https://xkcd.com/3240/
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2026-04-24 15:31:32 UTC

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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2026-04-22 20:46:32 UTC

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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2026-04-21 04:01:32 UTC

I can't believe Candles of Vienna caved to commercial pressure and added the Goku expansion.
https://xkcd.com/3235/
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2026-04-18 00:31:32 UTC

Before resurfacing, they promise to inspect the ice for any evidence of hockey-playing life.
https://xkcd.com/3234/
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2026-04-15 21:31:33 UTC

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/
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2026-04-13 22:16:32 UTC

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/
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2026-04-10 20:46:32 UTC

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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2026-04-08 18:31:34 UTC

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/
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2026-04-06 22:01:34 UTC

Communication is one of the most popular ways to transmit information, ahead of rivals such as
https://xkcd.com/3229/
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2026-04-03 11:46:32 UTC

It has been −2,147,483,648 days since our last integer overflow.
https://xkcd.com/3228/
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2026-04-01 20:16:32 UTC

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/
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2026-03-30 21:46:35 UTC

"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/
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2026-03-27 21:16:34 UTC

We're working to make sure the images are as up-to-date and accurate as possible, with a minimum number of sponsored galaxies.
https://xkcd.com/3225/
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2026-03-26 03:31:33 UTC

Yes, the cosmic microwave background is great, but what about the earthly microwave foreground?
https://xkcd.com/3224/
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2026-03-23 18:31:33 UTC

Depending what corners of the internet you hang out on, 'regular' may at times awkwardly coexist with 'sexy.'
https://xkcd.com/3223/
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2026-03-20 20:16:33 UTC

It's ok, I still have some nice, cool gas clouds that aren't collapsing. As long as nothing ionizes them, I can continue to enjoy their ... HEY! NO!!!
https://xkcd.com/3222/
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2026-03-18 17:31:32 UTC

'Well, there's speculation that it's due to a mantle hotspot.' --a geologist who's trying to cover up the fact that they didn't hear your question
https://xkcd.com/3221/
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2026-03-17 02:46:32 UTC

I don't get it. The peak acceleration for passengers was WAY lower than in the giant-waterslide-loop-the-loop incident the other cruise line fired me for.
https://xkcd.com/3220/

2026-03-13 19:46:55 UTC

An old astronomer trick for distinguishing the Sun from other stars is to take multiple photos a few minutes apart and overlay them, making the Sun stand out due to its high proper motion.
https://xkcd.com/3219/
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2026-03-12 02:46:57 UTC

Aww, the oceanic crust and the continental crust are getting married!
https://xkcd.com/3218/
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2026-03-10 07:31:55 UTC

As always, you are permitted to call one person for guidance, but that person must be a grandparent.
https://xkcd.com/3217/
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2026-03-06 14:31:56 UTC

In contrast to the deep booming sound associated with the cannon in pop culture depictions, recent studies show it actually made more of a 'toot toot!' noise.
https://xkcd.com/3216/
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2026-03-04 14:46:56 UTC

This replaces the previous solar activity watch, which was issued last month when the sun took off its sunglasses.
https://xkcd.com/3215/
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2026-03-03 03:31:55 UTC

Now that I've finally gotten an electric vehicle, I'm never going back to an acoustic one.
https://xkcd.com/3214/

2026-02-27 21:46:56 UTC

I mean, half of these are undefined. And your multiplication dots are too low; they look like decimal points.
https://xkcd.com/3213/
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2026-02-26 02:46:55 UTC

After a lot of analysis, I've determined that they're actually big red dots; they're just very far away.
https://xkcd.com/3212/
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2026-02-24 05:46:55 UTC

Oh, and do you have any tips on how to vacuum up copper that's melted into your carpet?
https://xkcd.com/3211/
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2026-02-20 20:01:55 UTC

'If you've eliminated a few possibilities and you can't think of any others, your weird theory is proven right' isn't quite as rhetorically compelling.
https://xkcd.com/3210/
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2026-02-19 03:01:57 UTC

My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost.
https://xkcd.com/3209/
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2026-02-16 21:46:55 UTC

People say setting of fireworks indoors is dangerous, but I looked at their energy release and it's like 10^-40 foe; totally negligible.
https://xkcd.com/3208/
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2026-02-14 02:31:53 UTC

'The zero line in WMM2025 passes through a lot of population centers; I wonder what year the largest share of the population lived in a zone of less than 5° of declination,' he thought, derailing all other tasks for the rest of the day.
https://xkcd.com/3207/
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2026-02-12 02:46:59 UTC

Do YOU remember the skylight being this big?
https://xkcd.com/3206/
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2026-02-10 04:16:06 UTC

This dating is corroborated by the presence of stone tools at the site, rather than earlier and less effective helium ones.
https://xkcd.com/3205/
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2026-02-06 19:31:49 UTC

Staplers are actually in Pseudosuchia, making them more closely related to crocodiles than to dinosaurs.
https://xkcd.com/3204/
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2026-02-05 04:46:39 UTC

The discovery of a fully typographical star system comes with a big asterisk.
https://xkcd.com/3203/
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2026-02-02 16:16:41 UTC

Originally, the ceremony used a variety of rodents and mustelids, but over time most people agreed it made sense to standardize on a specific individual ground squirrel in Pennsylvania.
https://xkcd.com/3202/
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2026-01-30 17:46:54 UTC

There's also a proof without content of a conjecture without content, but it's left as an exercise for the reader.
https://xkcd.com/3201/
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2026-01-28 20:02:01 UTC

Some of the atoms in the molecule are very weakly bound.
https://xkcd.com/3200/
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2026-01-27 00:16:03 UTC

'Ugh, I'm never going to be like spiders. My descendants will all just be normal arthropods who mind their own busines and don't do anything weird.' --The ancestor of a bunch of eusocial insects
https://xkcd.com/3199/
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2026-01-24 01:46:19 UTC

'Oh, and can I borrow 50 sacks of loose flour, a pile of lithium-ion batteries, a bucket of bleach, and a bucket of vinega--' 'NO!!!!!!'
https://xkcd.com/3198/
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2026-01-21 22:46:11 UTC

Unfortunately, my scheme to trick NASA has now taken over a decade longer than planned and has run way over budget.
https://xkcd.com/3197/
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2026-01-20 02:31:04 UTC

I've had countless nights where the line never left the bottom zone of the graph, but the few moments where it's climbed all the way to the top have made up for them all.
https://xkcd.com/3196/
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2026-01-16 14:46:51 UTC

Welcome to the International Space Station Exclamation Point!
https://xkcd.com/3195/
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2026-01-14 20:01:24 UTC

Some surfaces may seem difficult to glue. But if you research the materials, find tables of what adhesives work on them, and prepare your surfaces carefully, you can fail to glue them in a fun NEW way that fills your house with dangerous vapors.
https://xkcd.com/3194/
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2026-01-13 05:01:21 UTC

I wanted to make the world's fastest yawl, so I made the aft sail bigger, but apparently that means it's not a yawl anymore! It's a real ketch-22.
https://xkcd.com/3193/
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2026-01-10 05:16:38 UTC

We're going to need to modify the surface to mount it on the test stand. Which ocean basin do you like the least?
https://xkcd.com/3192/
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2026-01-07 19:46:30 UTC

It's important to teach yourself to feel responsible for random events, because with great responsibility comes great power. That's what my wise Uncle Ben told me right before he died; he might still be alive today if only I'd said rabbit rabbit that year!
https://xkcd.com/3191/
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2026-01-06 03:16:11 UTC

Some people argue that the tension and compression in the human skeleton is technically tensegrity, but it's missing the defining characteristic: making people say 'wtf, how is that thing floating?' when they see it.
https://xkcd.com/3190/
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2026-01-03 01:31:10 UTC

They're not generally used for crewed spacecraft because astronauts HATE going around the corners.
https://xkcd.com/3189/
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2025-12-31 22:16:04 UTC

Anyone else watching this Youtube video in 1954? If so, my last trip definitely messed with the timeline.
https://xkcd.com/3188/
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2025-12-29 23:46:43 UTC

1,300,000-1,400,000 ft: Ask a crew member to show you how to use the ISS food warmer.
https://xkcd.com/3187/
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2025-12-26 16:16:45 UTC

Building Inspectors HATE This One Weird Trick
https://xkcd.com/3186/
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2025-12-25 01:16:02 UTC

Vertebrae Georg
https://xkcd.com/3185/
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2025-12-23 04:46:20 UTC

In 1899, people were walking around shouting '23' at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trying to figure out what it meant.
https://xkcd.com/3184/
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2025-12-20 04:31:54 UTC

My goal in life is to be personally responsible for at least one sports rule change.
https://xkcd.com/3183/
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2025-12-18 00:01:55 UTC

I'm trying to buy a gravitational lens for my camera, but I can't tell if the manufacturers are listing comoving focal length or proper focal length.
https://xkcd.com/3182/
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2025-12-16 04:16:29 UTC

Earth's r_jf is approximately 1.5 light-days, leading to general relativity's successful prediction that all the frogs in the Solar System should be found collected on the surface of the Earth.
https://xkcd.com/3181/
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2025-12-12 23:16:27 UTC

The experimental math department's budget is under scrutiny for how much they've been spending on trains leaving Chicago at 9:00pm traveling at 45 mph.
https://xkcd.com/3180/
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2025-12-11 03:01:53 UTC

'That's definitely above the catch-and-release size minimum for planetesimals.' 'I'm going to throw it back anyway.'
https://xkcd.com/3179/
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2025-12-09 02:16:14 UTC

Our models fall apart where the three theories overlap; we're unable to predict what happens when a nanometer-sized squirrel eats a grapefruit with the mass of the sun.
https://xkcd.com/3178/

2025-12-06 02:16:27 UTC

Luckily, the range is limited by the fact that the square boundary lines follow great circles.
https://xkcd.com/3177/
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2025-12-04 01:46:56 UTC

Some tires are marketed as 'all-shape tires,' but if driven in a climate with both inverted catenary falls and triangle falls, they wear out really fast.
https://xkcd.com/3176/
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2025-12-01 19:46:46 UTC

Tired of waiting on hold? Use our website to chat with one of our live agents, who are available to produce words at you 24/7!
https://xkcd.com/3175/
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2025-11-28 21:16:09 UTC

A lot of the highway department's budget goes to adjusting the sign whenever the moon passes directly overhead.
https://xkcd.com/3174/
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2025-11-26 20:46:01 UTC

Every weekend I take an ATV out into the desert and spend a day tracing a faint "(C) GOOGLE 2009" watermark across the landscape.
https://xkcd.com/3173/
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2025-11-24 21:31:52 UTC

"Want to feel old?" "Yes."
https://xkcd.com/3172/
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2025-11-21 23:16:12 UTC

If you drill at the right angle and time things perfectly, your core sample can include a section of a rival team's coring equipment.
https://xkcd.com/3171/
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2025-11-20 01:46:14 UTC

Now, if it were the *Canon* wiki, it's possible to imagine someone with a productivity-related reason for consulting it, but no one's job requires them to read that much about Admiral Daala.
https://xkcd.com/3170/
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2025-11-17 23:01:15 UTC

'Oh no, the box is drifting out into the harbor!' 'Yeah, I wouldn't worry about losing it.'
https://xkcd.com/3169/
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2025-11-14 22:16:14 UTC

We're adding some industrial flypaper to minimize reflection or scattering of customers who might complain.
https://xkcd.com/3168/
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2025-11-12 19:46:14 UTC

'They really shouldn't let those small cars drive in traffic. I worry I'm going to kill someone if I hit one! They should have to drive on the sidewalk, safely out of the way.'
https://xkcd.com/3167/
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2025-11-11 01:31:14 UTC

Are you the annoying spoon or the sleepy spoon?
https://xkcd.com/3166/
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2025-11-08 02:16:14 UTC

At least people who make religious predictions of the apocalypse have an answer to the question 'Why didn't you predict any of the other ones that happened recently?'
https://xkcd.com/3165/
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2025-11-05 21:01:14 UTC

The package weighs 7 kg 9 oz.
https://xkcd.com/3164/
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2025-11-03 23:16:14 UTC

The statue should be in the likeness of whatever sculptor posted the sculpting tool repair video that was most helpful during the installation of the statue.
https://xkcd.com/3163/
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2025-11-01 00:16:49 UTC

Even geology papers about Heart Mountain are like, "Look, we all agree this 'volcanic gas earthquake hovercraft' thing seems like it can't possibly be right, but..."
https://xkcd.com/3162/
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2025-10-29 21:31:48 UTC

Carefully maneuvering the balloon down a mineshaft in an effort to break the OTHER altitude record
https://xkcd.com/3161/
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