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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Calvin unable to
sleep
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Homer: "All you can taste is the hog anus."
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Amtrak has been on a war against comfy seating for at least the last ten years. I still mourn the loss of the parlor car on the Coast Starlight.
Pacific Parlour Car interior with comfy swivel chairs, cafe booth seating, and a bar.
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Found them! They cost me like $0.05 each but they're obviously priceless collectibles now that another few years have passed.
Disposable eclipse glasses branded "Lunt Solar Systems: 2017 USA Total Eclipse".
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
scene from Duck Soup where Harpo puts his feet in a vat of lemonade.
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
As someone who still lives and works here after more than 40 years, I think this is the best photo in my camera roll to sum up what's wrong with the current state of things.
Artisan AI ad: "Artisans won't complain about work-life balance"
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Seinfeld "you don't know how to hold the reservation" meme:

YOU SEE YOU KNOW
HOW TO GUZZLE THE RAW ICE

YOU JUST DON'T KNOW
HOW TO FREEZE THE WATER
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Unless, like I did, you learned it from Calvin and Hobbes (I wonder if Watterson was thinking specifically of younger readers when he spelled it out this way)...
Calvin reciting the GROSS passphrase:
- Verse Seven:
TIGERS ARE PERFECT, THE E-PIT-O-ME
OF GOOD LOOKS AND GRACE AND QUIET.UH.UM-DIGNITY
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Quote From Man Stabbed
"What are you gonna do, stab me?"
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Handy sez: "READ A BOOK!"
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Seriously, though, when I was 10, Dr Strangelove was the funniest movie I'd ever seen, and it was just about thirty years old. I also loved the Marx Brothers, which my dad introduced me to, and those movies were 30 years old when *he* was a kid. C'mon.
lauren
@NotABigJerk
i'm not falling for that hot take. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. i refuse to participate in that kind of perversion
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
TNG episode where Q puts Picard and friends into a Robin Hood story.  Worf as Will Scarlet protests: "I am not a merry man!"
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
There, I fixed it.
Dinesh "This is the blasphemy of stripping an event of its essential meaning" tweet, but edited so he's much more appropriately quote-tweeting Trump's "HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY!" tweet.
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Looking at the actual numbers I'm kinda confused because there are interesting things happening there (increase in arrest % for white drivers is fascinating -- is it because cops are wasting less time on bullshit?) but the author handwaves most of it away as negligible.
Impact of Pretext Stop Bans on Discoveries, Searches, and Arrests by Race Comparison of Pro- and Post-Policy Outcomes
Black
Hispanic
Outcome
Pre
Post
Pre
Post
Drugs discovered
2.76
2.30
1.37
0.94
Guns discovered
1.30
0.63
Any contraband
5.44
2.94
3.49
1.88
Searches conducted
12.34
8.60
• 8.85 3.76 «
Arrests made
5.67
3.77
3.74 2.51
White
Pre
Post "
2.341.06
0.31 0.70
4.68 4.60
10.737.07
5.63 7.77
'... p<0.001, " p<0.01, • p<0.05. - indicates insufficient sample size.
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I have to just speed through these things with the first games that come to mind, knowing that I'm leaving out dozens of incredible titles, or I'll spend all day second-guessing my choices.
Millipede, Sundog, Hack, Super Mario 3, Doom II, Starcraft, Half-Life, VtMB, Gone Home
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This collection, borrowed from my dad's shelf and reread many times over, was formative for me as a tween. You know the Twilight Zone ep about the creepy kid with godlike powers? The Star Trek one with the Gorn? I first encountered those stories here.
THE SCIENCE FICTION HALL OF FAME
VOLUME I
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🤔
@elonmusk

Please put "Never went to therapy" on my gravestone
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Lest we forget, C.K. publicly celebrated the assault on Paul Pelosi; it didn't stop people from getting fired for failing to adequately praise him after his own encounter with political violence.
@ConroyForReal
There is no such thing as “hypocrisy” to someone who believes everything they do is de facto correct and justified. When you do this, you look like you’re laughing at an alligator for not wearing pants. It doesn’t know what pants are, and also, it wants to kill and eat you.
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
what in the actual shit is this 😂
A Message to Zoomers: In Defense of "Racism"
& Wolfshead t January 8, 2026
• Culture,
Politics
1 Comment
In 2026, with the borders overrun and the Great Replacement in full swing, the time for Boomer-era tiptoeing is over. The word "racism" isn't a scarlet letter—it's a battle cry ...
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
evergreen
wint @dril
the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"
1:52 • 02 Jun 14
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
People should be aware that this is probably not what the guy's face looks like.
Gallery of fake AI-generated faces inspired by the actual photo of the masked killer.
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I've never lived outside California, but I've visited/stayed with friends and family in a lot of places. Green states have airports where I've stopped long enough for a meal, blue states have scenery I've enjoyed from a moving train.
https://tenpages.github.io/us-level/us.html
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
This is the first thing that "bun" makes me think of:
char siu (steamed BBQ pork bun)
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The SF Cacophony Society used to do a yearly "post-Yule pyre" on the beach. The last one I know of was in 2014; I got this photo from above where you can just make out the people gathered around for scale...
People gathered around a massive beach bonfire at night.
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
lauren
@NotABigJerk
i'm not falling for that hot take. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. i refuse to participate in that kind of perversion
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
derek guy @ @dieworkwear 
Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Denizcan S.
@MrFilmkritik
When someone disagrees with you online & demands you prove your point to their satisfaction by writing a logically sound defense, u can save a lot of time by not doing that.
Dude, I've known u for ten seconds & enjoyed none of them, I'm not taking homework assignments from you.
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
"how do you do fellow kids" but it's an atlantic writer pretending to be a socialist
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Time for me to cathartically rewatch "Dennis Takes a Mental Health Day" for the dozenth time.
Dennis from It's Always Sunny confronts the tech exec responsible for his app-enabled rental car nightmare.
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
wint @dril
issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"
3:02 AM • 2/15/17 from Earth
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
This is a billboard in my neighborhood that I also had to look up, and this one is real. 🤮
HI MY NAME IS ROY I GOT KICKED OUT OF SCHOOL FOR CHEATING.
BUY MY CHEATING TOOL
CLUELY.COM
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
"don't make me tap the sign" meme, for Betteridge's Law of Headlines (any headline ending in a question mark can be answered by the word "no")
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
This one also works:
political quadrants: 
authoritarian left = 1917
authoritarian right = 1488
libertarian left = 420
libertarian right = 12
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Took this in a restaurant bathroom many years back.
sink with sign saying "no sink riding!"
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Labelers doing the lord's work once again.
screenshot showing "AI Avatar or Banner" labeler giving a heads up that this user is likely to be a genAI shill
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
SF to NYC:
First time?
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Everything I don't like is NIMBY:
A BOOK FOR TECH DICKHEADS
"This engine is NIMBY!"
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
undefeated
"Matt Yglesias Follower" label over the post text "I hate to be that guy, but"
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Sundog: Frozen Legacy had you collect components to keep your ship operational, with benefits and tradeoffs to using cheaper/expensive/specialized components.
Screenshot of Sundog showing the UI for replacing components in a ship system.
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
mocking spongebob: i'm certainly happy to try
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
I had to think hard about this because so many of the games I played as a wee child were basically unbeatable, but then I remembered the two-move combo that let me cheese my way to the end of Barbarian on the Atari ST.
Screenshot of "Barbarian"
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Ms Pac-Man, at the Musee Mecanique under the Cliff House. Last I checked that same cabinet is still part of their collection at Pier 45!
Ms Pac-Man
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
who would be the funniest journalist to break the news
triumph the insult comic dog
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
I've been looking back on my pictures from PAX past, and I'm really happy I was in the right place to photograph this confluence of Landos in 2011.
Tycho and Gabe are assimilated by Landoslandos as far as the eye can see
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
JUST missed it!
launch page showing 666 followers
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Doing our part to help with the post volume, I see
screenshot of this skeet with the current ratio (1.1k replies, vs 210 likes) circled
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
timesprayer.com/en/direction... gives the direction toward Mecca from NYC. Here it is overlaid on the Google satellite image. Which corner is it they think is pointing in that direction?
Compass rose showing direction to Mecca laid over a map of the PAC.  It's more closely aligned to a side than it is to any corner, suggesting that the original claim didn't do this basic level of checking to attempt plausibility, or they'd have said "side" rather than "corner".
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Probably depends on what metric of purchasing power is being used. CPI isn't it, though.
CPI calculation showing that inflation-adjusted minimum wage from 1970 ($1.45) would translate to $12.37 in 2025.
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Tommy Lee Jones is disappointed but not surprised.
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Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I, too, regret having had to put up with the birth and subsequent life of Marc Andreessen.
Marc Andreessen
I was born in 1971 in lowa and grew up in Wisconsin. My cohort of citizens was told that we just had to put up with this
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