This map looks similar to some other election maps out there, but it’s a little unusual. It tries to address something that I find frustrating about election maps: Very few of them do a good job of showing where voters are. (Brief thread, because I am enthusiastic about maps!)

People often focus on the idea that election maps over-emphasize sparse rural areas with few people, but a deeper problem is that the maps imply that “areas” have political leanings at all. Spots on the map belong to many overlapping areas won by different sides.

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Randall Munroe

@xkcd

Nov 30, 2020

Learning new things from Google

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Randall Munroe

@xkcd

Oct 14, 2020

Dialect Quiz xkcd.com/2372/

How do you address a group of two or more people?

How do you pronounce “Penelope”?

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Randall Munroe

@xkcd

Aug 31, 2020

I’ve thought back to this chapter from What If a lot this year

Flipping through the other chapters, I’m sorry in advance for putting a specific year here

Now I’m trying to decide which page of my recent book How To (xkcd.com/how-to) I least want to unexpectedly come true five years from now. This part would be pretty bad.

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