• AernaLingus [any]
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    7 months ago

    I was gonna be all, "I understood that reference," but I didn't realize that the Gary Larson comic named something that lacked an existing formal identifier and so thagomizer is actually used in academia to some extent (e.g. this 2023 paper). TIL!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer