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didn't get permission from the original author

Tell me you don't know xkcd without saying you don't know xkcd. These comics are licensed as CC-BY-NC 2.5, which means you are allowed to remix and use them, without explicitly asking for permission, as long as you attribute the original/author (which is given here) and as long as you do it non-commercially (which is given for this post IMHO).

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xkcd #2937: Room Code

My brain: "Ugh I suck at memorizing random numbers! I just know I won't be able to remember that."

Also my brain: "Oh a fire/medical emergency/... - lets call emergency services!" immediately followed by "♪ 0118999881999119725...3 ♪ "

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And people who don't read make fun of you for it.

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When the English tongue we speak.
Why is break not rhymed with freak?
Will you tell me why it's true
We say sew but likewise few?
And the maker of the verse,
Cannot rhyme his horse with worse?
Beard is not the same as heard
Cord is different from word.
Cow is cow but low is low
Shoe is never rhymed with foe.
Think of hose, dose,and lose
And think of goose and yet with choose
Think of comb, tomb and bomb,
Doll and roll or home and some.
Since pay is rhymed with say
Why not paid with said I pray?
Think of blood, food and good.
Mould is not pronounced like could.
Wherefore done, but gone and lone -
Is there any reason known?
To sum up all, it seems to me
Sound and letters don't agree.

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What are your favourite RSS feeds?

A small collection of English sources to keep it international:

(Obligatory) XKCD - get all new xkcd comics right into your feed reader

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Geeky, fun webcomic about science and other stuff

Pluralistic.net Cory Doctorows Daily commented link dumps (and rants). Usually about enshittification of services/industries

Buried Treasure Blog about Indie PC games that are real gems but don't get much coverage elsewhere but are high quality.

NOYB - None of your business. An Austrian NGO that fights companies so that they conform to the GDPR (more interesting if you're from the EU)

Google Project Zero Blog Deep dive into some exploits and bugs. Very technical.

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Wenn man immer genau das macht, was der Chef sagt: "Warum bezahle ich euch, wenn ihr nix selbstständig hinbekommt und man euch hinterherrennen muss?"

Wenn alles problemlos von alleine läuft: "Warum bezahle ich euch, ihr habt ja nix zu tun?"

Wenn alles schief geht: "Warum bezahle ich euch, wenn ihr doch eh nix auf die Reihe bekommt?"