Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet. 342790851
jas @eldrmllnl485.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Ever since I did an assessment of a city municipal water dept in 2018, I have thought about this comic at least once a week at work. 01220
James Langdell @jclangdell.bsky.social · 20/11/2025So which of the Internet's weak points will be the first to make the epic XKCD epic "TIME" panel from 2013 unviewable? xkcd.com/1190/xkcd.comxkcd: Time 010
Infosecsie (ツンデレ) @myraccoonhands.com · 20/11/2025Seeing throw-away and XKCD in the same sentence seems weird to me lol 091
Chris Funderburg @chris.funderburg.me · 20/11/2025I keep seeing that picture but I can't work out what that's supposed to be under Linux Foundations. Anyone? 110
tired @joy.bleak.life · 20/11/2025The like 8 major outages this week I think is just eng freaking out to ship end of year stuff tbh. But uh... Maybe folks should do more failovers 020
Ruby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · 20/11/2025It's the other way around. The joke is about how the Internet actually works. 040
Jon Arnesen @jonarnesen.bsky.social · 20/11/2025The Internet? Isn’t it called the world economy anymore? 010
assigned cromulent at birth @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 20/11/2025*pours one out for Dan Kaminsky* 070
persephone @jomaselli.ca · 20/11/2025I resent the fact that I live in a world where I understand this for some reason. 010
Asschapel Roan @stochasticburrito.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Dude for real does Microsoft do anything these days besides iteratively debase their legacy products? I guess they throw money at AI or something? 4712
Vlad the Imzähller @chris.zahller.me · 20/11/2025I don’t think anything @xkcd.com does is “throwaway,” but I get your point. 1470
Cristian Díaz @itscrisdiaz.com · 20/11/2025Ngl, the best part of seeing an important server going down and affecting half the Internet is using that comic again Randall Munroe remains undefeated 0380
Urge Person @bernardsweb.net · 20/11/2025I believe the stuff teetering at the top is the bloated Typescript "full stack developer" app running on a Electron with a 64GB RAM footprint. 1190
Amy Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Yesterday I used this picture explain to my students cloudflare was, and why pretty much every website that they needed to use to finish their projects during class was down. They were unimpressed. 0580
Psytonius Yggdrasil @psyguy1.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Who turned the stray cube into an angry bird 120
ysosidious.bsky.social @ysosidious.bsky.social · 26/11/2025NVIDIA’s “unlike Enron” claim needs to be in this picture somewhere? Maybe it is the one turning the AI handle? Idk 010
big_throwaway (仮) @secondthrowaway.bsky.social · 20/11/2025isn't it more accurate to say that the internet was already organized as such 000
Banda Bassotti @orpach.neocities.org · 20/11/2025I remember when Log4Shell happened, and the original images got circulated everywhere. Honestly surprised it took that long. (2020 -> 2021) 000
Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 20/11/2025We can't have good things because good things, as a rule, happen to good societies. xkcd is one of those rare exceptions that keep the hope alive. 030
Post-Punk Dad (edited) @shoegaze.dad · 29/12/2025Unpaid OpenSource Developers who are getting yelled at all day for not fixing some obscure bug that's not really a bug 000
bemmy from the black lagoon @skeeterpond.bsky.social · 20/11/2025The Unpaid Open-source Developers pillar needs to be muuuuuuuuuch muuch larger but yes 210
jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 21/11/2025The internet turns out to have many unexpected load bearing lincoln logs. 010
Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 20/11/2025I’m printing this out and adding it to my scrapbook of How Things Went Wrong, a physical record of digital information I’m keeping for posterity. 2380
