parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 14hCaramelizing an entire sack of onions has not solved my problems, but it has given me more delicious goop to eat while dealing with them, so hey. 1120
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 19hIt’s the dual thing of this problem getting worse than it was when I was an undergraduate at the same time as universities have become so life ruiningly punitive to protesters who are in the right. How can anyone be expected to have any degree of respect for university administrators? 070
Reposted by parliaments for our cigarette kingHelena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 19hevery administrator involved in this decision should never work in this or any related field ever again (is the extreme-moderate position) 25512
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 21hEverything is horrible, but it gives me a small thrill every time I use my grocery panniers and the paper grocery bags fit inside them exactly, because of course they do, that’s what they were designed for. It’s very satisfying. 090
Reposted by parliaments for our cigarette kingBEAN YEAR @billhookunion.beanyear.com · 22hPeople moved so much bc the jobs were bad and it’s taken around a decade for it to catch up with everyone that basically all jobs are bad There’s no good safe jobs anymore and I think , like how people have had to wake up to many problems , I think that’s a shift now 2414
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 22hher brother had to old yeller his cow oh my god 070
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 23hDoes she say elsewhere what happened to the cow? (It seems like she died rather than was intentionally butchered, if she was intended as breeding stock?) 110
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 23hwell this one about the writer and her brother keeping their horse company while it died because a farm employee overworked him has made me cry. 061
Reposted by parliaments for our cigarette kingRobert Francis @birdhistory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I’m reading the depression-era diary from a highschooler in North Dakota and it’s making me emotional 123250
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 29/09/2026reddit has started serving me content from the potty training subreddit and I recognize that the "I trained them at the normal time and it went fine" people are obviously not posting online but there are some real beliefs on display in that sub! 040
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 29/09/2026and I mean it's just so grim how fucking stupid these people are. just the dumbest motherfuckers alive, should be laughed out of public life, should spend the rest of their lives being ignored by their grandchildren who hate them for being awful and mean. 080
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 29/09/2026crying at the guy's genuine "did I... go to atlanta and forget about it? did I see the hawks?" facial expression 2392
Reposted by parliaments for our cigarette kingmcc @dryad.technology · 29/09/2026I wish the novel coronavirus had not happened. I wish the bats hadn't done that 3742
Reposted by parliaments for our cigarette kingClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I was on the receiving end of so much male harassment on Twitter as a visible woman who was both queer & fat, and I definitely remember which of my male friends thought they were helping by getting into the replies to start fights for fun with some asshole stranger and making everything worse for me 083050
Reposted by parliaments for our cigarette kingClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026the Heroic Protector Fantasy is rarely of real use to women, it's just wish fulfillment about male posturing and it frequently exacerbates violence it's also much easier to imagine yourself kicking the ass of an obviously villainous stranger than to to actually intervene where you have influence 21381190
Reposted by parliaments for our cigarette kingClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳 12152414
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 28/09/2026It deserves its privacy even in its moment of shame! 010
Reposted by parliaments for our cigarette kingKatya Dreyer-Oren @kdreyeroren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My robot vacuum has been exiled because ever since I moved it four feet away from its original location, it gets confused and stalls a foot from its base. But its name is Jackie McClean. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_...) 021
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 28/09/2026I've never been an object namer! But The Vacuum is a valued member of the household. 010
Reposted by parliaments for our cigarette kingCarla @carlaxs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My robot vacuum’s favourite activity is trying to climb over the edge of the centimetre-tall base of a chair and getting trapped inside 121
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 28/09/2026I had to block off a corner of my living room for that! It wanted nothing more than to climb the base of my recliner and then be unable to get back to the floor. 120
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 28/09/2026Carrying a snack pack of phone chargers when we’re out of the house 210
Reposted by parliaments for our cigarette kingSnots Buffly in: hat fulla wasps @kittasaurusrex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026my simple robot vacuum son, innocent and pure of heart, who craves delicious shoelace above all things, 271
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 28/09/2026Personifying AI is bad. Personifying my robot vacuum who wishes to live amongst the dining chairs, despite the fact that it absolutely cannot, however, is funny. 3303
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 28/09/2026This is also wild because FB marketplace is the only reason anyone I know still has FB. If they broke it, what’s possibly the point. 0110
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 28/09/2026Off to google how to configure RideWithGPS’s voice nav because the default is the most stressful set of machine boops I’ve ever heard. 010
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 27/09/2026I believe @jennabikes.bsky.social and @nictrieslife.bsky.social have one based on videos she’s posted. 020
Reposted by parliaments for our cigarette kingrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026think all straight people who discoursed at great and punishing length about a western mass lesbian bar should have to give equal airtime to this. it’s your own community this time! 102071407
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 27/09/2026Anyway, Silicon Valley should be destroyed for parts. Give the tech industry to the Australians, I don’t know. 050
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 27/09/2026Bay Area tech has had rancid vibes for at least the entirety of my career in tech, though the specifics of this weirdness is new. I am grateful most of my career was in New York based companies, which have their own problems, but generally less sex magic. 180
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 27/09/2026Pacific Standard is just a perfect bar. 000
Reposted by parliaments for our cigarette kingFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up. 532610263
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 26/09/2026Am introducing my boyfriend to Mouth Sounds tonight and he is genuinely distressed. 010
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 26/09/2026“Some data centers in Oregon don’t use water for cooling 93% of the time” is a hallucinatory non phrase. 190
Reposted by parliaments for our cigarette kingBrandon Mullen @brandonmullen.com · 26/09/2026Hearing Mayor Wilson go on TV and say (paraphrased) that Portland should not be innovative or try new things is about the least leader-like thing I could imagine a Mayor saying about their city. Come on, man. 1217220
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 26/09/2026Watching Tubi and just got a pro data center ad, Christ. 000
Reposted by parliaments for our cigarette kingElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ok so anyone who is treating Yudkowsky as an expert should be forced to explain Roko’s Basilisk and why he took it seriously 2047684
Reposted by parliaments for our cigarette kingBikeLoudPDX @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026In the first half of 2026, 8 people died by gun homicide in PDX. In the first half of 2026, 17 people died as a result of transportation crashes on PDX streets. May they rest in peace. Traffic violence is real. Safety should always be prioritized over car speed (and more car lanes and car parking).pdxfamiliesforsafestreets.orgPortland Traffic Fatality Tracker | Portland Families for Safe StreetsA person-centered record of people killed in transportation crashes on Portland streets and transportation facilities. 16016
Reposted by parliaments for our cigarette kingMegan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026 3250531632
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 25/09/2026Also perhaps unsurprisingly, lot of nerve real estate devoted to swallowing and moving your eyes. 000
parliaments for our cigarette king @emchap.com · 25/09/2026Learning the cranial nerves and it is funny because the best mnemonic in the world can't get around the fact that half of them start with the same letters. 110
