Jèf Uphoff
@juphoff.bsky.social
Principal Systems Engineer at @ctrliq.bsky.social. Lapsed astro/physics guy.
Ex C’ville & RVA, now Roanoke.
Tours @ AWS, Red Hat, SUSE, rPath, NRAO, Transmeta, kernel.org, among others. Veteran x2. NAPS/USNA/VT/UVa alum. Pilot. Ump.
Crazy cat gentleman.
Ex C’ville & RVA, now Roanoke.
Tours @ AWS, Red Hat, SUSE, rPath, NRAO, Transmeta, kernel.org, among others. Veteran x2. NAPS/USNA/VT/UVa alum. Pilot. Ump.
Crazy cat gentleman.
Had you told me yesterday morning I'd find myself spending an evening drinking rye whiskey and chartreuse with Mary Huff, bassist and bull-whipper for Southern Culture on the Skids, I'd have called you nuts. And yet...
The best small-venue band I've ever seen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9dx...
The best small-venue band I've ever seen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9dx...
Southern Culture on the Skids: "Banana Puddin'" Live 11/11/05 Chapel Hill, NC
YouTube video by Backwoods Films
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February 18, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Had you told me yesterday morning I'd find myself spending an evening drinking rye whiskey and chartreuse with Mary Huff, bassist and bull-whipper for Southern Culture on the Skids, I'd have called you nuts. And yet...
The best small-venue band I've ever seen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9dx...
The best small-venue band I've ever seen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9dx...
Can’t. I’m walking like a camel.
Can’t. I met someone at the dog show
Can’t. I’m right down the line
February 18, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Can’t. I’m walking like a camel.
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Print is a rent strike.
It’s going to sound quaint, but the best way to resist an AI takeover of the humanities is to assign physical books, sit around, read them, and argue about ideas. Academic has become such a competitive arena, that we ourselves are trained to look for the winning angle, instead of the best education.
February 17, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Print is a rent strike.
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Either violent criminals are preventing you from getting higher wages or JD Vance has grown so lazy from all the lying that he can’t even pretend to care what he says out loud.
JD Vance: "What we have consistently said is that we want to deport violent criminals, people who came in under the Biden administration, and get them out of the country so Americans' wages can go up."
February 18, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Either violent criminals are preventing you from getting higher wages or JD Vance has grown so lazy from all the lying that he can’t even pretend to care what he says out loud.
I have found my spirit animal.
Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Vampire Kitty Plush Toy. All cats are vampires, but not all vampires are cats.
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February 18, 2026 at 2:05 AM
I have found my spirit animal.
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This bill includes criminal penalties and a bounty provision. It also authorizes the state DMV to strip trans people off their current drivers licenses.
Kansas Senate overrides governor’s veto of anti-trans ‘bathroom bill’ | via @crazeywriter.bsky.social #ksleg
Kansas Senate overrides governor’s veto of anti-trans ‘bathroom bill’ • Kansas Reflector
The Kansas House overturned Gov Laura Kelly’s veto on Tuesday, putting the state one step closer to a "bathroom bill."
kansasreflector.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:29 AM
This bill includes criminal penalties and a bounty provision. It also authorizes the state DMV to strip trans people off their current drivers licenses.
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Mitch McConnell
February 18, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Mitch McConnell
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A system built to eat people never stops eating people.
The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't.
They won't only be for brown and Black people.
The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.
The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.
They won't only be for brown and Black people.
The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.
The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.
February 18, 2026 at 12:10 AM
A system built to eat people never stops eating people.
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Is there no end to radical communist agitation from the Chamber of Commerce!?
libs getting the chamber of commerce in the national divorce, sure, why not, welcome aboard
www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...
www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...
February 17, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Is there no end to radical communist agitation from the Chamber of Commerce!?
Everything wrong about minor-league baseball is also everything that's right about minor-league baseball.
February 17, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Everything wrong about minor-league baseball is also everything that's right about minor-league baseball.
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Imagining an ICE officer who *raided the concentration camp so children couldn’t write more letters about how bad being in a concentration camp is* going home tonight and being asked “how was your day” and going “yeah pretty good”
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Imagining an ICE officer who *raided the concentration camp so children couldn’t write more letters about how bad being in a concentration camp is* going home tonight and being asked “how was your day” and going “yeah pretty good”
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always amazed by the inventiveness of the criminal mind
February 17, 2026 at 8:03 PM
always amazed by the inventiveness of the criminal mind
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Remember, "I don't know, I lack sufficient information on this topic" is NEVER an acceptable answer.
Instead, loudly state the first opinion that pops into your head, speak with authority, and gaslight anyone who disagrees until they begin to question everything they know.
Instead, loudly state the first opinion that pops into your head, speak with authority, and gaslight anyone who disagrees until they begin to question everything they know.
February 17, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Remember, "I don't know, I lack sufficient information on this topic" is NEVER an acceptable answer.
Instead, loudly state the first opinion that pops into your head, speak with authority, and gaslight anyone who disagrees until they begin to question everything they know.
Instead, loudly state the first opinion that pops into your head, speak with authority, and gaslight anyone who disagrees until they begin to question everything they know.
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Jesus Christ these people are monsters.
How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
February 17, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Jesus Christ these people are monsters.
Fluvalbemarlottesville must be defended at its maritime border with Lake Monticello.
February 17, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Fluvalbemarlottesville must be defended at its maritime border with Lake Monticello.
I have a list.
The next person who dies better be terrible.
February 17, 2026 at 3:12 AM
I have a list.
“Chucklefuck Barnacles” is my irreverent pirate alter ego—my nom de mer.
You'll notice that I am very carefully riding the line in NOT saying AI is the same as NFT. It's just not.
But the vibes, man. The chucklefuck barnacles. The ostentatious proclamations trespassing even a toddler's understanding.
Excluding these people from the vibes is gonna need to be a Project.
But the vibes, man. The chucklefuck barnacles. The ostentatious proclamations trespassing even a toddler's understanding.
Excluding these people from the vibes is gonna need to be a Project.
February 17, 2026 at 3:10 AM
“Chucklefuck Barnacles” is my irreverent pirate alter ego—my nom de mer.
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Some St Elmo’s fire from earlier this evening.
It’s harmless but it certainly gets your attention.
#AvGeek #Meteorology
It’s harmless but it certainly gets your attention.
#AvGeek #Meteorology
February 17, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Some St Elmo’s fire from earlier this evening.
It’s harmless but it certainly gets your attention.
#AvGeek #Meteorology
It’s harmless but it certainly gets your attention.
#AvGeek #Meteorology
Reverse catapult shot!
February 17, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Reverse catapult shot!
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we are, at all times, cursed with two political parties: the Republicans and the Republicans of twenty years ago
February 17, 2026 at 12:52 AM
we are, at all times, cursed with two political parties: the Republicans and the Republicans of twenty years ago
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Why can't Canadian curlers just inject acid into their penises to cheat like normal Olympians?
February 16, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Why can't Canadian curlers just inject acid into their penises to cheat like normal Olympians?
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“Earth is a pleasure cruise for 1000 people and we're all just the staff.”
I literally saw a post two weeks back in which a guy with two jobs was flagellating himself because he was short on rent, lamenting that had he donated plasma more, maybe his rent would be on time. This system is deeply fucked. Earth is a pleasure cruise for 1000 people and we're all just the staff.
February 16, 2026 at 8:48 PM
“Earth is a pleasure cruise for 1000 people and we're all just the staff.”
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I repeat: The strong impression I got upon seeing her in person, albeit briefly, is that if you come at Abigail Spanberger SHE WILL CUT YOU
This is a nice move in an interview www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...
February 16, 2026 at 7:24 PM
I repeat: The strong impression I got upon seeing her in person, albeit briefly, is that if you come at Abigail Spanberger SHE WILL CUT YOU
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Another year, another failure.
February 16, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Another year, another failure.
