Hahaha I just came here to post this.
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It’s such a telling truth that due to their inability to adapt to change that the word ‘dinosaur’ so quickly became a perjorative label for people who struggle with social and technological change. And even after proof emerged that the ‘change’ was brought on by a massive cosmological event of such speed and magnitude that we ourselves would have likely been wiped out as well, it remains stuck in our language as an insulting metaphor.
And even though the taxonomic proof that genetically living birds ARE indeed the dinosaurs that did survive, our language still can’t seem to adapt to linguistically group the extinct species with the ones that somehow miraculously survived.
Especially when winged, feathered creatures have predominantly been admired and even worshipped for most of our own species existence.
But maybe it’s time we tried harder to fix this slightly hypocritical paradox.
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Why a stapler ? Is it a stapler ? Why ??
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My take on that one is that the stapler was invented in the mid 19th century as was the standard ‘safety bicycle’. The main designs of these two items have not changed significantly from the originals and thus good examples of old tech that still is current – but few know or acknowledge how long they have been about relative to other commonly used tech.
My fave part is the non-dinosaurs examples in the top right. I bet most 8 year olds would do better at getting those right than most adults!
Oh, and maybe instead of an ostrich (which, IMO, really DO seem like dinosaurs) I would have threw in a hummingbird.
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It’s something that fits the category! 
If you go to the actual XKCD page, the comics also include a hidden joke that appears as alt-text if you hold your cursor over the image. For this one, it says:
Staplers are actually in Pseudosuchia, making them more closely related to crocodiles than to dinosaurs.
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I don’t know, but the stapler is what made me laugh out loud
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It is a stapler. I don’t know why either, it does not rhyme.
There should be an aeroplane and Batman instead:
There is a dinosaur. Is it a bird? Is it an aeroplane? Is it Batman?
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Omg I want this
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Maybe not a comic, but pikaole draws lots of cute pictures of insects and crustaceans. Here’s one about bees (from https://bsky.app/profile/pikaole.bsky.social/post/3mejbh3sqac23)
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Proof that cartoon bees can still be anatomically correct (I am tired of the ubiquitous popular depictions of waistless, two-winged “bees”, or bumblebees on honeybee hives and similar implausibilities)
Though there is an error in the Megachile willughbiella drawing – only females carry leaf cut-outs, but the bee shown is clearly a male.
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The image of the domestic duck in mafia get-up is really making me laugh for some reason.
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