Gory Pieper 🎃

Brace for pettiness: Always pleased to see Ravens fans walking out of a game early in disappointment.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that Googling “Cheesecake Factory” after that speech will result in stories with “Cheesecake Factory” in the title.

After watching Obama’s stumping tonight a keen eye can spot a bit of a…difference in messaging.

🌍 M7.2 earthquake near 200 km W of Sola, Vanuatu at 2026-10-24 02:31 UTC More info: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/attne4d5

Look at that line... Never tell me the odds.

🌍 M7 earthquake near 191 km ENE of Nagqu, China at 2026-10-22 14:33 UTC More info: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u43g

🌍 M7 earthquake near 183 km ENE of Nagqu, China at 2026-10-22 14:33 UTC More info: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u43g

23 years into my NWS career, and this is the first I’ve heard of this issue. 🤪

Swift, bi-partisan rebuke, and yet no movement to counter. Something is broken. apnews.com/article/trum...

Didn’t even know Bluesky had an AI app. Doesn’t feel like that aligns well with sentiment I see from users here. techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/b...

Tropical Storm Rachel will bring hazardous conditions to Baja California and the Southwest this weekend, including damaging winds, flash flooding, and life-threatening surf and rip currents. Coastal flooding and erosion are also expected to worsen. hurricanes.gov

10PM CT update on #Isaias: A life-threatening storm surge is expected from Dauphin Island, Alabama, to Suwannee, Florida where a Storm Surge Warning remains in effect. Residents in the warning area should continue to follow advice given by local officials.

10/09/2026, 12p ET: This is a reminder that hurricane impacts like damaging winds, flooding rain, tornadoes, and storm surge will impact areas OUTSIDE of the hurricane forecast cone. Keep up to date with the latest forecast for your area by checking your local forecast office at weather.gov.

🌍 M7.7 earthquake near 12 km WSW of Pitaloza Arriba, Panama at 2026-10-09 17:56 UTC More info: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k

🌍 M7.6 earthquake near 10 km WSW of Pitaloza Arriba, Panama at 2026-10-09 17:56 UTC More info: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k

#Isaias has strengthened to a major hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph. Preparations Within the Storm Surge and Hurricane Warning Areas Should Be Completed Within the Next Few Hours. hurricanes.gov

Being social media lead and having once been 12, I think I've now experienced every variation of anything one could say about these things.

How are the words “hurricane” and “California” making their way into so many posts about Tropical Storm Rachel? The thing is forecast to have 40kt winds when it makes landfall in Mexico. Barely even a tropical storm. It is going to rain a lot though.

Isaias is expected to strengthen and be a strong hurricane when it approaches the northern Gulf Coast on Friday. A life-threatening storm surge is expected along a portion of the northern Gulf Coast, and a Storm Surge Warning is now in effect. Residents should follow advice given by local officials.

The deep dive into the origins of quarantining looks…weird. 👀 I won’t type what acronym I’m thinking about.

A tropical depression is likely to form over the next day or so over the southwestern Gulf of America, with further strengthening expected later this week when it turns northward.

Finally some good (Solitaire) news.

Please please please stop making a big deal out of the G7 reserves release. Yes, it’s 100 million barrels over 4 months. We - the planet - use 100 million barrels of crude every…single…day. Almost literally a drop in the bucket.

My 16 year old Texan has just told me “I don’t think I’ve heard that song” 😂

I thought people were being dramatic, claiming others were lying about not hearing this song. 😂 I hadn’t until there were headlines about it breaking a record of some kind a week or so ago. I’ve now heard it 1/6th times. It’s… fine? Kinda like Texas. Been here 23 years. It’s fine.

When the “what a time to be alive” account is in wonder about a quarter century old video game

I have terrible news for “I don’t watch the news”, “I don’t get political,” etc folks: apathy has demonstrably been the most impactful political stance of our, your parents’, and your grandparents’ times, and it’s never once worked out well.

Seems willful ignorance to what is happening in the world in the name of profit may have real consequences?

The hottest take ever: This is a fine list. To each their own.

You’re the first person i thought of, @scottaukerman.bsky.social. How giddy ARE you?

We continue to post this partially because people get so hung up on tilt changing 😂 Maybe next year we’ll introduce “relative to the Sun” to let people relax. Such drama.

In this episode of “give a crab something and it’ll grab it”…

Queue the “stat padding” posts that make no sense given NOAA’s below normal forecast for the season.

Who dey?! 🐅

Political Streisand effect.

I know it’s a bit reductive, but nowadays when I see what I’d previously would have been excited to know, it feels even more-distinctly unimportant. “Well, it’s about time we all opened our eyes about Venus’ PREVIOUS MOON!” We have today problems.

The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.

Democracy continues to limp forward. “For now…” apnews.com/article/trum...

Heavy rain and flash flooding will be possible across several parts of the country this week. The greatest concern today is across portions of the Midwest, where there is a Moderate Risk of excessive rain. Areas of heavy rain will shift and evolve through Thursday. Stay weather aware at weather.gov

We really need to be very verbose moving forward. Maybe QR codes linking to sites explaining what children’s clothes are, and that they are on sale.

FoxNews was the only major outlet to carry Trump’s Wednesday night speech. Appropriate viewership in that 9–11 p.m. ET window was 2.5 million. So, yeah, a few do. A very, very few do.

I think that World War Z and The Bible are neck and neck for best zombie fiction novel.

This reminds me of Homer's "Everything's Okay" invention, where the alarm sounds unless something isn't okay.

Do... do people watch political conventions on TV?

Considered correcting some misinformation in an AI flame thread not at all even supporting AI, but that would not have ended well. So, instead, I’ll post this vaguery. Emotions run high in that arena.