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Up Up With Tuples

@bretthooverwx.bsky.social

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Numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, satellite and conventional weather observations. (Former) AI curmudgeon and (current, still) generalized bad ideas haver.

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Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 22h

I started to read this article but had to stop. It's framed so solidly as "Americans seem inflexible about their perceived need for coffee, which is a problem as tariffs drive prices higher", and very little "why the hell are we doing these idiotic tariffs at all, and on coffee of all things???????"

Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 1d

TEMPERATURE 'COOLING SOMEWHAT' ACROSS US

Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 1d

I have exactly one memorized phone number. It's not my number, and it wasn't memorized by choice. My idiot brain just decided to keep that one number and discard the rest.

I like to think the part of my brain that memorized numbers is doing something useful now, but I know myself better than that.

Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 2d

Granted - I never learned how to code properly. But at least I *know* I never learned how to code properly. Thanks Stack Overflow!

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Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 8d

Obamacare made health insurance so unaffordable that if we don’t support Obamacare then health insurance will double in price

Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 11d

imagine having so little to worry about that you both figured this out and felt compelled to tell someone else about it

Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 11d

only MechaVirgin can save us

Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 11d

The one twitter-like place I have found not run by clowns is Mastodon. But alas, nobody wants to be on Mastodon, likely because they would miss the circus.

Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 12d

blocking traffic to stare at flood water like a NERD

Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 12d

how do people just tell on themselves like this. how do you have that thought, write it down, hit save, and upload it to some place where you know it's going to be visible to other people. how.

Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 13d

(drawing connections on a whiteboard between "what comedians were on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" and "what comedians turn out to be garbage people in 2025, and getting increasingly nervous)

Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 14d

Ema Scamtext with an exciting offer from Trying To Rob You Flooring

Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 16d

The escalator as symbolic of ascendancy of the AI-ready class seems particularly fitting right now

Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 19d

Would clustering address this issue? The survivors avoiding landfall become one class and the dissipating landfallers become a separate class, and the confusion is avoided?

Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 19d

Is there a physical mechanism that connects upshear convection and RI? Or is the relationship purely correlative?

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Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 20d

I saw the trailer for BLACK RABBIT and immediately thought "oh, a second Jason Bateman vehicle where he owes a bunch of money to the very bad dudes, okay I guess"

Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 20d

Also, very separately, like put a semicolon between these: I think people need to put their musings through a "the worst person you don't even know will be able to see this" filter before they post.

Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 20d

why do so many backwoods pizza variant recipes seem like they were based on a dare

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Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 20d

Wisconsin: Hold my beer
Also Wisconsin, 5 years later: Well that didn't work, lemme get that beer back thanks for holding onto it for me

☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 20d

YOU STUPID MOTHERFUCKERS, YOU CANNOT RECREATE FOXCONN IN THE UNITED STATES

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Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 21d

Google is trying to steal all the yt traffic with this thumbnail. And GEFS has yearbook-photo-with-noticable-unibrow-and-slight-overbite energy

Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 21d

This guy in the middle is making the face he tries to maintain when I'm describing the crimes I did that brought me to this office

an online advertisement for a criminal defense law firm

Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 22d

In the distance, a familiar sound - a combination of shuffling and plodding of little feets.

"Oh thank god," I say to myself. "The kitchen light is finally going to get fixed."

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 22d

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,

Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 23d

Vampire Thursday

Mark Ellinwood @markellinwood.bsky.social · 23d

Subtly downgrade a band: Concerned At The Disco

I'm Just Dan @wxdan.net · 23d

Subtly downgrade a band: Jim

Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 23d

what up my fellow ibuprofen homies we're all feeling pretty smug today ngl

Up Up With Tuples @bretthooverwx.bsky.social · 27d

Unironically check for garage/rummage/tag sales or thrift stores and find an old one - some absurdly overbuilt beauty from 30+ years ago. They live forever and can even be repaired if they break.