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

Title text: "Rumor has it that they're finally auctioning off the zeppelin navigation bands, but everyone is worried that the scary boat captains will express interest." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3307#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Title text: "Fans at Daytona always get extra excited when officials decide to introduce some antimatter cars circling the track in the opposite direction." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3306#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Title text: "Runners looking for aerodynamic advantage typically wear sneakers because some fancy dress shoes can create wingtip vortices." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3305#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Title text: ""I did briefly visit Venus in August 2025, but I figured out the mistake on my own because it didn't have any moons."" Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3304#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Title text: "It's ok if you want to close close your eyes for the slab graveyard, so you can still have fun riding the mantle plume back up afterward!" Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3303#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Title text: "Convincing him to turn off the stupid laser show and useless sound system was such a huge ordeal that no one has wanted to do it again." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3302#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Title text: "The sun and the moon appear the same size in the sky, even though in real life the sun is more than twice as big. Some call this lucky alignment coincidence; others say it's proof that sometimes things can be the same size." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3301#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Title text: "Many of the smaller dinosaurs seem to have largely preyed on housecats." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3300#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Title text: "You should probably get back to shore before spring hits." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3299#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Title text: "Someday, we will find the problem that goes with this solution." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3298#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Title text: "To access distant parts of the project, I ended up building a regular-scale passenger train inside each rail." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3297#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Title text: "One of the first things they teach you is to NEVER play with the geology toy over a mantle hotspot." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3296#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Title text: "The speed of light in air is 50% faster than in fiber, but it's a challenge to get the arms to move fast enough to realize the latency advantage." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3295#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Title text: "Lander, this is Houston. There's been a request that you turn clipping back on and instead set the mass to 1kg. The theorists believe that will be pretty funny." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3294#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Title text: "A 'left-handed specialist' is a physicist who studies the weak interaction." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3293#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Title text: "The rise of AI review bombing tools threatens to take away a crucial source of experience for geology undergraduates." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3292#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Title text: "It does come at the cost of some launchpad expansions and increased fuel requirements, but that all comes out of the facility's budget." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3291#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Title text: ""You legs may have a comparative advantage at running, but we arms have a competitive advantage at swinging hammers, so unless you accept that we're the dominant limbs and stop hogging the oxygen, that running advantage won't be around for long.""

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Title text: "Highway engineers like Planck units because, like the speed of light, the energy capacity of a typical car's gas tank is 1." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3289#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Title text: "Update: I would not have embarked on this powerscaling venture if I'd known how thoroughly Mark Twain was going to roast me." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3288#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Title text: "Recently I've been watching the Daytime Perseids. I haven't seen a meteor from them yet, but the clouds are pretty and the snacks are good." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3287#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Title text: "The one that sounds like the oracle at the center of the galaxy where the hero travels to hear a prophecy is probably Brookhaven National Laboratory's now-dismantled COSMOTRON." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3286#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Title text: "The late Triassic rifting was caused by a dinosaur trying to use the control panel to escape a predator, but it was eaten before the continent could fully separate." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3285#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Title text: "The administration thinks it's weird, but the geologists say it looks normal." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3284#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Title text: "With their 13 years recording and performing together and two humans worth of mass, the White Stripes are sandwiched neatly between gray wolves and blue whales." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3283#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Title text: "I've been trying to find out whether the Laws of the Game take the axiom of choice or not, but FIFA officials keep blocking my number." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3282#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Title text: "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." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3281#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Title text: "As a side effect of the research, mice are now the only known animals other than humans to have developed a Backrooms mythology." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3280#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Title text: "Wind stress? Don't be silly. When has wind stress ever been a problem for a suspension bridge?" Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3279#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Title text: "'Spurious signals from the kitchen' is harder for an optical telescope than a radio one, but with enough determination and creativity, I believe it's possible." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3278#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Title text: "As if the americium smoke detector incident wasn't enough, now nuclear regulators have ANOTHER reason to worry about the Boy Scouts." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3276#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Title text: "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." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3275#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Title text: "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." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3274#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Title text: "NGS and IERS are complaining that they left CLEAR instructions to set the washing machine to WGS84 (G2296) instead of WGS84 (G730)." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3273#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Title text: "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." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3272#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Title text: "Once we've fully explored this space, we can start varying the number of princesses." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3271#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Title text: "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." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3270#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Title text: "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.'"

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Title text: "The arbiter gave my knight a red card for capturing with cleats up :(" Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3268#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Title text: "I hate the unearthly sound my phone makes when the weather service issues a tornado harbinger." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3267#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Title text: "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." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3266#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Title text: "Paleontologists have long worried that the dinosaurs blasted into space 66 million years ago will one day complete their orbits and fall back down." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3265#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Title text: "This discovery was key to his demonstration of regular/goofy symmetry violation, which won him gold in the theory portion of the X Games." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3264#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Title text: "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?" Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3263#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Title text: "The plural of anecdote may not be data, but the singular of data is anecdote." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3262#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Title text: "Brace yourself--the chirp gets pretty weird." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3261#Transcript

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Title text: "In order to carry the necessary crafting supplies, they built the ships at 12:1 scale." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3259#Transcript

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