Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 08/10/2026gross. I prefer the original recipe. (Bat guano.) 010
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 07/10/2026There's a bit in the movie "Help!" where we see an exterior shot of the four Beatles walking into adjoining townhouses, and then an interior shot revealing that the walls have been knocked out to make one giant shared house. 250
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Oh I meant it as a *positive* that they didn't have to bring up the yellow thing, have the Manhunter paint itself yellow, have a whole episode's central conflict be "how do we wash that yellow paint off", etc. 😂 Minimizing the use of the ring means not having to deal with how silly it is. 100
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 06/10/2026They did manage to get through the whole season without bringing up the fact that his secret weakness is the color yellow (the only thing I remember about the Green Lantern from reading comics as a kid), thanks to their very sparing use of ring powers. 100
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The archaeological sites along the Via Appia Antica are pretty neat. I wished we'd had a whole nuther day to explore, but my favorite of the ones we visited was the Catacombs of St Sebastian. Lunch at Giardino di Giulia e Fratelli (just down the road) was excellent. 010
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In my house we refer to Foundation as "My Three Cleons". 050
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I've been struggling with the question of how to give feedback on this kind of thing. Every time I see an AI-slop menu/poster/whatever I want to tell someone "hey that looks bad and it makes your place look bad" but I feel like the person I tell isn't gonna be the one who needs to hear it. 110
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 30/09/2026As a preservationist/hoarder this kind of thing keeps me up at night. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...en.wikipedia.orgList of lost films - Wikipedia 151
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It cuts both ways, too -- it will sometimes bend over backwards to avoid meddling with another piece of code *directly* and instead introduce an ugly abstraction leak. It's generally bad at big-picture thinking (but good at implementation if given focused instructions and corrections). 010
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I have a 3-year-old and Danny Go is not yet on our radar, but now I'm going to do some research and see if I'm okay with that becoming the new obsession... 000
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This HAS to be based on best single season rather than overall quality of show because Game of Thrones in the top ten? Come on. Come ON. 010
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I thought this was some kind of synesthesia thing: cologne is a feeling, silk is a taste, chocolate is a sound. Then I realized you're in a place. 010
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It seems very weird to me to respond to a five-part proposal with a complaint that the first part doesn't solve the entire problem. Unless, of course, one views the existence/survival of below-market-rate tenants as a problem in itself! Then I can see how that would rile one up. 110
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 14/09/2026see, now I'm worried that somewhere out there people are boiling their calzones 000
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 05/09/2026"I shouldn't have to campaign, people should be smart enough to know I'm better." Okay, what if they aren't, and you lose the election? Do you reconsider your view of what it takes to win an election or do you just keep doing the same thing and sulking when it doesn't work? 110
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Similarly, you can't just hope all the shitty people will vanish. We will probably always have shitty people! The task is to make sure that they aren't able to propagate their shitty policies by winning elections. 020
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It can be both. There are a lot of people who want shitty things, and a lot who want good things. If the opposition turns out all the people who want shitty things AND you fail to turn out all the people who want good things, you lose. You can't just hope the opposition will fail. 220
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Welcome to politics. Most people vote on vibes rather than reasoned assessment of policies. It's fine to be mad that that's how it works. It's also fine to be mad that people whose WHOLE JOB is politics don't have as firm an understanding of how to win an election as a senile reality TV star. 220
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Found it! Sounds delightful. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/7...drivethrurpg.comDriveThruRPG - The Largest RPG Download Store!Your one-stop online shop for new and vintage RPG products from the top publishers, delivered fresh to your desktop in electronic format. 120
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 25/08/2026"Okay, demolition time, everyone out of the courtroom. No, not you." 0190
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Putting my money on "everyone outside is tiny and they got tired of giants accidentally stepping on their houses". 010
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I feel like someone made a movie about this.static.klipy.comNight SurgeonAlt: Repo, the Genetic Opera 010
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 19/08/2026That was my thought, and then I saw Michael Sheen and said "or..." and then I saw Trammel Tillman and said "OR..." and then I saw Wanda Sykes and said "OR...?" Before I started reading ART in my head as Kevin Free I read it as Tilda Swinton; there are a lot of directions one could go with it. 1100
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 19/08/2026As a frequent solo or couple rider on those long trips up the coast I'd always be sharing a table at mealtimes, usually an older couple from the Midwest or the Valley, and it always felt very normal to just have a nice chat over dinner with those strangers. Not a common thing in modern life. 110
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Amtrak 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. 3101
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Mamdani's the mayor of over 8M people and he doesn't seem to be getting any less sharp... 030
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I've never heard of any of these people but every one of them has the full set of "this person posts like an asshole" warnings from every labeler I subscribe to and then you click into their profile and their pinned post is "I HATE TRANSES" so I gotta admire their commitment to the brand 171
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 15/08/2026EXACTLY the comparison I thought of. And Solyndra actually suffered consequences for failure (they went bankrupt) instead of getting another $2.5B of taxpayer money and a pat on the back. 0286
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 14/08/2026idk but the article you felt the need to praise specifically *before* he died sure was! bsky.app/profile/gerr... 061
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Clearly a placeholder name that the writer meant to go back and replace with something less on the nose. 030
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Found them! They cost me like $0.05 each but they're obviously priceless collectibles now that another few years have passed. 000
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I went looking for eclipse glasses several years ago for some eclipse or other (which wound up being too overcast to see) and was tickled to find that you could in fact buy them in bulk for super cheap if you didn't mind them being branded with the date of the PREVIOUS big eclipse event. 111
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I got off Facebook a couple of years ago because AI slop had become about half my feed and was trending upward faster than I could block the pages that posted it. I can't even imagine what it's like now. 020
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I can't imagine a universe in which I would wade through 6k words that were, I assume, extrapolated from a 15 word prompt. 0441
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 10/08/2026It's so weird how this happened practically on the heels of the SF Municipal Pier closure, with no plan in sight to restore either one. 010
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 07/08/2026This is exactly the kind of thing that makes dudes like Garry Tan and JD Vance say "epic own" and high-five each other, and I don't think they have any concept of how off-putting the average person finds it. 020
Reposted by Chekhov's Footgunrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/08/2026dear local business owners, nobody is going to tell you they’re bailing on your business because of the AI ads. they’ll just stop going. in a year you’ll have run out of customers and you’ll be totally mystified as to the reason 372190487
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Really makes you appreciate the difference between "almost made $1.3M" and "made almost $1.3M". 010
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Maybe they should run the person with the best demonstrated ability to get people to vote for them! I wonder what the easiest way to do that would be. 0130
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 03/08/2026If building/testing your C++ app takes so long that you can't afford to wait for the build to finish before you blast it to main, maybe take 0.01% of the cash you're spending on tokens and invest in reasonable build infra? 010
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 03/08/2026In fact, back in my day, Perforce's own internal Perforce repo always ran on a mainline nightly build of p4d, because our policy was that the mainline was kept stable enough for us to entrust our own family jewels to. And we didn't even have fancy CI systems back then! 110
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 03/08/2026"Even Perforce's game-dev material says HEAD is never stable at AAA scale." -- I believe that someone wrote that, but if I still worked there I'd yell at them for it. The canonical mainline model is that the mainline (or "HEAD" as he calls it) is stable. No reason for game-dev to work differently. 110
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 03/08/2026If we want less garbage on the ballot: keep the current signature requirement, but make it illegal to pay people for gathering signatures. 000
Chekhov's Footgun @spamwise.bsky.social · 01/08/2026it's not a real contenedor if it doesn't have a contenedor cat sleeping on top of it. it's a contenedor thing, you wouldn't understand. 000
