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XKCD Bot (xkcd@mastodon.com.br)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 09:39:19 JST XKCD Bot

#3281 - Antiques Roadshow
In conversation about 19 days ago from mastodon.com.br permalink
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1. A TV screen shows an episode of "Antiques Roadshow." A ponytailed appraiser gestures toward a small glowing star displayed on a pedestal while another stick figure stands beside it. The appraiser says, "Now, your grandmother said this was a relic low-mass population III star, from the first generation of stars. Unfortunately, the high iron content shows that it formed much later, after several rounds of supernovas. I'm afraid it's a population I star." The other person replies, "Aw, darn. Well, it still has sentimental value." A banner at the bottom reads "Antiques Roadshow." Hidden 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."
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XKCD Bot (xkcd@mastodon.com.br)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jul-2026 03:47:43 JST XKCD Bot

#3277 - Forth
In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.com.br permalink
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1. Back of a car with a bumper sticker reading "I FORTH ❤️". Hidden text: "I NOTATION POLISH REVERSE ❤️"
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XKCD Bot (xkcd@mastodon.com.br)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2026 12:02:54 JST XKCD Bot

#3272 - Time Change
In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.com.br permalink
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1. Three-panel black-and-white comic: A stick figure speaks from a stage behind a podium to three audience members. "We all hate springing forward, but we love falling back. Therefore, we are abolishing the spring time change only. We’ll gain an hour every year, but never lose one." Someone asks, "Won’t that cause the clocks to spiral out of sync with the sun?" The speaker raises one arm and replies, "Then we will meet the chaos clear-eyed and well-rested!" Hidden 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."
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XKCD Bot (xkcd@mastodon.com.br)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 12:03:35 JST XKCD Bot

#3271 - The Princess and the Pea
In conversation about a month ago from mastodon.com.br permalink
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1. Once we've fully explored this space, we can start varying the number of princesses.
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XKCD Bot (xkcd@mastodon.com.br)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jul-2026 13:39:39 JST XKCD Bot

#3268 - Offside
In conversation about 2 months ago from mastodon.com.br permalink
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1. The arbiter gave my knight a red card for capturing with cleats up :(
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XKCD Bot (xkcd@mastodon.com.br)'s status on Friday, 03-Jul-2026 09:59:22 JST XKCD Bot

#3266 - Holes
In conversation about 2 months ago from mastodon.com.br permalink
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1. 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.
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XKCD Bot (xkcd@mastodon.com.br)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jun-2026 06:15:23 JST XKCD Bot

#3265 - Asteroid Threat
In conversation about 2 months ago from mastodon.com.br permalink
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1. A black-and-white comic shows two globes. A small globe in the upper left shows the Americas, Europe, and Africa, with a dashed line passing behind it. A much larger globe below shows Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Indian Ocean, with a target mark in the ocean roughly opposite Central America. Caption: "Dire news: An asteroid is on course to hit the Earth exactly opposite the Yucatán Peninsula, bringing back the dinosaurs." Hidden 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."
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XKCD Bot (xkcd@mastodon.com.br)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jun-2026 21:55:32 JST XKCD Bot

#3259 - Tethys
In conversation about 2 months ago from mastodon.com.br permalink
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1. Single panel black-and-white comic. An image of a planet, presumably Saturn, showing prominent rings as well as three distant moons and one close, large moon. In front of the large moon is a line of spaceships dwindling into the distance toward the moon, or perhaps toward an orbit around it. Each spaceship has prominent rocket nozzles aimed toward the viewer and away from the large moon, as well as what appears to be a pile of material on "top" of the spaceship, with tie-down ropes holding it in place. Caption below the panel: "After learning that Tethys is exactly 1/12th the size of Earth, the miniature art model builders launched a fleet of ships to begin their final, greatest project." Hidden text: "In order to carry the necessary crafting supplies, they built the ships at 12:1 scale."
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XKCD Bot (xkcd@mastodon.com.br)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 18:04:48 JST XKCD Bot

#3256 - Nostalgia Content
In conversation about 3 months ago from mastodon.com.br permalink
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1. Black-and-white comic with a stick figure facing forward, arms stretched wide. To the left are a Tamagotchi keychain toy and several pogs, some with simple symbols on them. To the right is a tall, rough, trunk rising from a low mossy landscape with small plants. Text at the top: "Who else remembers pogs? Tamagotchis? Vast forests of Parataxites towering over the mossy landscape as armored fish stir in the deep?" Caption at the bottom: "Due to a database error, millennial nostalgia now includes a portion of the early Devonian." Hidden text: "Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today's dragonflies are."
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XKCD Bot (xkcd@mastodon.com.br)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jun-2026 00:38:34 JST XKCD Bot

#3253 - Sunbeam
In conversation about 3 months ago from mastodon.com.br permalink
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1. 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.
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XKCD Bot (xkcd@mastodon.com.br)'s status on Saturday, 30-May-2026 04:37:33 JST XKCD Bot

#3252 - Ancestral Genomes
In conversation about 3 months ago from mastodon.com.br permalink
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1. Two stick figures stand beside a poster showing a chart with branching lines and dots. One figure points at the poster with a pointer while speaking. "Our admixture analysis showed that these genotypes arose in the ancestral population almost entirely through sexual intercourse. Upon realizing this, we of course promptly deleted all our data." Off-panel voice: "What? Why??" "We’re not weirdos! Jeez, give these people some privacy!" Hidden text: "SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH: No further research is needed as it is frankly none of our business."
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XKCD Bot (xkcd@mastodon.com.br)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2026 03:43:58 JST XKCD Bot

What if you dropped a bowling ball in the Mariana Trench?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYoHYq8VRt0
#WhatIf
In conversation about 3 months ago from mastodon.com.br permalink
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1. What if you dropped a bowling ball in the Mariana Trench?
  
  from xkcd's What If?
  
  Get a copy of What If? 2 and Randall’s other books at: https://xkcd.com/booksMore serious answers to absurd questions at: https://what-if.xkcd.com/This quest...
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XKCD Bot (xkcd@mastodon.com.br)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 04:21:37 JST XKCD Bot

#3247 - Particle Census
In conversation about 3 months ago from mastodon.com.br permalink
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1. A three-panel black-and-white stick-figure comic. Panel 1: A figure on a stage stands behind a podium and says, "Remember, Tuesday is the decennial particle census. Physicists will be recording the location of all the particles in the universe." Panel 2: The figure continues, "Of course, this will cause their momenta to become indeterminate, so please plan for some disruption." Panel 3: Someone off-panel asks, "Wait disruption? Where will my particles go?" The figure replies, "No one can say, but you’ll know exactly where they were." Hidden text: "Remember, your answers to the physics census are confidential; we will not be issuing Pauli exclusion principle citations."
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XKCD Bot (xkcd@mastodon.com.br)'s status on Saturday, 16-May-2026 19:52:56 JST XKCD Bot

#3246 - Speedrun
In conversation about 3 months ago from mastodon.com.br permalink
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1. A black-and-white stick figure comic. One figure sits at a desk using a laptop, while another stands beside them. Seated figure: “Aw man, speedrun.com removed my world record just because I listened to Lateralus and Ænima to get in the flow.” Standing figure: “Oh, a copyright thing?” Seated figure: “No, they don’t allow Tool-assisted speedruns.” Hidden text: "Usain Bolt holds the world record in the 100 meter speedrun."
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XKCD Bot (xkcd@mastodon.com.br)'s status on Wednesday, 06-May-2026 05:08:19 JST XKCD Bot

#3241 - Horizontal Stabilizers
In conversation about 4 months ago from mastodon.com.br permalink
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1. Two-panel black-and-white comic. Left panel: Two stick figures stand outside watching an airplane fly by. One asks, “What’s with the little wings on the tails of airplanes? Do they really need them?” The other replies, “They’re horizontal stabilizers. They serve a crucial aerodynamic role.” Right panel: A caption at the top says, “Previously, at the airplane factory...” Three stick figures stand around am unfinished section of an airplane fuselage with small wings attached. One says, “These wings you made are way too small! The plane is supposed to be much bigger!” Another replies, “Sorry! We’ll start over.” The first says, “No, there’s no time. Just make it longer and put bigger wings on the new section.” Hidden text: "It started as a mistake that everyone was afraid to admit to, and then it stuck because removing it 'looks silly.'"
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XKCD Bot (xkcd@mastodon.com.br)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 16:18:21 JST XKCD Bot

#3235 - Types of Board Game
In conversation about 4 months ago from mastodon.com.br permalink
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1. An eight-panel comic titled “Types of board game.” Each panel has a caption and shows the same four people sitting around a table with a board game, while one person explains the rules. "Boring" "Each turn, roll a die and move your token. Turns proceed clockwise around the table until we all get tired and go home." "Abstract" "Each turn, you can place any number of red triangles or blue squares on a hexagon, or move any hexagon to a…" "Hyperspecific theme" "It’s October 2, 1814. The Congress of Vienna convenes. You are each in charge of distributing and lighting candles for the opening ball, which was held at these three locations…" "Overcomplicated" "It’s a cross between Twilight Imperium and Cones of Dunshire, but implemented entirely in category theory. Every cone is a monad, and…" "Cooperative" "We’re working together to sort these decks of cards using only hand gestures. After that, we’ll silently organize my junk drawer." "Branded" "You can play as Phoebe, Chandler, Monica, Rachel, Ross, Joey, or, due to an ill-advised tie-in, Goku." "Party" "Each of the cards in your hand has a bad word on it. On the count of three, yell the…" "Social deduction" "Remember, per our Find the Secret Murderer House rules from last week, discovering that a player has committed a real-life murder does not count." Hidden text: "I can't believe Candles of Vienna caved to commercial pressure and added the Goku expansion."
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XKCD Bot (xkcd@mastodon.com.br)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Apr-2026 04:37:46 JST XKCD Bot

#3233 - Make It Myself
In conversation about 4 months ago from mastodon.com.br permalink
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1. A simple black-and-white comic shows two stick figures standing on the left. The left figure wears a brimmed hat. On the right next to the two figures, there are two boxes stacked on top of each other, each marked with a sale sticker and a price label, "$80". The hat-less figure gestures toward the boxes and says: “They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.” Hidden text: "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!"
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XKCD Bot (xkcd@mastodon.com.br)'s status on Sunday, 12-Apr-2026 04:12:35 JST XKCD Bot

#3231 - Lightning
In conversation about 5 months ago from mastodon.com.br permalink
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1. A black-and-white comic. A huge jagged lightning bolt stretches across the dark sky from the upper left toward the center, with the sound effect "Booooom" written diagonally inside it. At the lower right, two stick figures are hiking up a sloped hillside. One figure is speaking to the other: "Don't worry, I'm wearing an anti-static wrist strap" Hidden text: "Maybe you should wear one too? I guess I'm taller than you, so as long as I have one we're fine."
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XKCD Bot (xkcd@mastodon.com.br)'s status on Saturday, 28-Mar-2026 07:33:27 JST XKCD Bot

#3225 - Satellite Pollution
In conversation about 5 months ago from mastodon.com.br permalink
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1. A black-and-white comic shows three stick figures standing on a plain background. On the left, one figure wears a hat. Next to them is a figure with a ponytail, speaking to a third figure in the middle-right. Behind the third figure is a tall rectangular poster showing outer space above the curved edge of Earth. Floating in the space view is a large rectangular banner with stars painted on it. The ponytailed figure asks: "Aren’t you worried these will be disruptive for ground-based astronomy?" Figure in front of the poster: “No, why?” A caption at the bottom says “My new company is being criticized for our satellites that deploy 100-mile-wide banners painted with inaccurate pictures of the night sky.” Hidden text: "We're working to make sure the images are as up-to-date and accurate as possible, with a minimum number of sponsored galaxies."
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XKCD Bot (xkcd@mastodon.com.br)'s status on Saturday, 28-Feb-2026 07:53:17 JST XKCD Bot

#3213 - Dental Formulas
In conversation about 6 months ago from mastodon.com.br permalink
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1. A black-and-white comic panel shows two stick figures standing side by side, facing a wall-mounted whiteboard on the left. On the display is a small drawing of a tooth near the top left, another tooth-like shape near the top right, and two sets of numbers written in the middle with dot separators: “3·1·3·1” and over a horizontal line “3·1·2·1”. One figure says: “Do mammologists think these are hard? I mean, this one just evaluates to 3/2.” Hidden text: "I mean, half of these are undefined. And your multiplication dots are too low; they look like decimal points."
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