Though the state of the world may be less than stellar between climate change, global conflict and the fall of democracy, sometimes the universe throws us a rare W — in this case, coming in clutch with an amazing excuse to skip work on a beautiful summer day. 

On Friday, cybersecurity company CrowdStrike experienced a massive outage, leaving planes grounded, banks offline and TV stations dark, per CNBC. But as the company scrambles to find answers, there is yet another silver lining beyond having the perfect reason to clock out early: A whole lot of dank memes about what has already been dubbed one of the world's biggest IT blackouts. 

From jokes on the state of digital infrastructure to the Las Vegas Sphere boasting the blue screen of death, here are the funniest CrowdStrike outage memes to stare at on your non-functioning computer.