xkcd Bot

@xkcd-bot.bsky.social

1078 Followers 4 Following

A bot for BlueSky that posts xkcd comics, shows the alt text, and links to the Explain xkcd site. By @perevillega.com

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.
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.
NGS and IERS are complaining that they left CLEAR instructions to set the washing machine to WGS84 (G2296) instead of WGS84 (G730).
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.
Once we've fully explored this space, we can start varying the number of princesses.
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.
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.'
The arbiter gave my knight a red card for capturing with cleats up :(
I hate the unearthly sound my phone makes when the weather service issues a tornado harbinger.
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.
Paleontologists have long worried that the dinosaurs blasted into space 66 million years ago will one day complete their orbits and fall back down.
This discovery was key to his demonstration of regular/goofy symmetry violation, which won him gold in the theory portion of the X Games.
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?
The plural of anecdote may not be data, but the singular of data is anecdote.
Brace yourself--the chirp gets pretty weird.
Commentators agree that this will probably be the last World Cup in which Messi faces serious competition.
In order to carry the necessary crafting supplies, they built the ships at 12:1 scale.
It's great for exfoliating your skin, bones, houses, cities, landscape, etc.
'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
Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today's dragonflies are.
The research was overseen by the Institutional Review Board, which is what I named my surfboard.
No other experiment has a lower false negative rate.
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.
SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH: No further research is needed as it is frankly none of our business.
It's possible to do sea navigation without a compass, but you'll have to get some spoilers from the Polynesians.
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.
We definitely put the pool in a mine for shielding. It was absolutely not to hide it from the funding people.
They rounded down to 182.8 instead of rounding up to 182.9 because 182.9 might make the statement incorrect.
Remember, your answers to the physics census are confidential; we will not be issuing Pauli exclusion principle citations.
Usain Bolt holds the world record in the 100 meter speedrun.
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.
"How does the spring not run out almost immediately?" "We pull it back REALLY far."
'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.
Scientists occasionally invent alternative periodic table layouts, which is usually a sign that they don't have enough enrichment in their enclosures.
It started as a mistake that everyone was afraid to admit to, and then it stuck because removing it 'looks silly.'.
"I know it seems impossible, but the trick is that I sailed in here when I was very young."
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.
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.
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.
Thanks to differences in logging regulations, the messages actually turned out to be visible from the air.
I can't believe Candles of Vienna caved to commercial pressure and added the Goku expansion.
Before resurfacing, they promise to inspect the ice for any evidence of hockey-playing life.
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!
Anyone who is caught counting 'three ... two ... one ... zero ... GO!' will be punished with a lifetime of eating only ISO standard food samples.
Maybe you should wear one too? I guess I'm taller than you, so as long as I have one we're fine.
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.
Communication is one of the most popular ways to transmit information, ahead of rivals such as
It has been −2,147,483,648 days since our last integer overflow.
This xkcd.com update introduces a variety of new reading modes which can be activated through the menu.
"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."
We're working to make sure the images are as up-to-date and accurate as possible, with a minimum number of sponsored galaxies.
Yes, the cosmic microwave background is great, but what about the earthly microwave foreground?
Depending what corners of the internet you hang out on, 'regular' may at times awkwardly coexist with 'sexy.'
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!!!
'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
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.
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.
Aww, the oceanic crust and the continental crust are getting married!
As always, you are permitted to call one person for guidance, but that person must be a grandparent.
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.