A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 4hDid i start crying at the estate sale when i bought a 3D printer because I realized its what i needed to finish my dad’s last project? Yes, yes i did. 1120
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I just figured out the solution to a problem i’ve had running through my head for 2 1/2 years! I can finally put my dad’s final project to bed. I am so happy right now. 090
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026There is a goddamn dual rotor helicopter circling my neighborhood at like 900 feet and i can feel the chop in my ears 030
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Jesus Christ i didn’t realize they actually released a trump dollar coin. Why does it all have to be so fucking tacky 010
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There’s a tweet that goes around every now and again thats like “do you like Star Trek TNG or do you like the fantasy of respectful meetings” and i think we need an update — Do you like Project Hail Mary or do you like the fantasy of focus time? 041
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Well, i’ve been waiting for it, and i just got my first ad for something to offset GLP-1 agonist side effects. Sigh. The floodgates are open. 020
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just randomly remembered that Drizzt Do’Urden’s swords were named Icingdeath… and Twinkle Why did we take those books seriously again? Oh right, we were teenagers. 040
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026So it turns out It really is harder to do things when you have a toddler. Not impossible, but absolutely harder. 1100
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Jesus Christ A K9 cop in portland was on his last shift before retirement today AND SOMEONE SHOT HIM 001
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Fuck mayor Wilson i am so sick of white men’s shut i could puke www.portlandmercury.com/news/mayor-w...portlandmercury.comMayor Wilson Rams Through Massive Fossil Fuel Deal in Second-Ever Tie-Breaking Vote - Portland MercuryMayor Keith Wilson on Wednesday used his power to break a tie City Council vote for the second time on his watch, this time to facilitate a massive fossil fuel deal. Wilson joined six councilors in vo... 270
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026@seedysong.bsky.social this is the glass holder the Ukrainian rails gave you to drink your instant coffee from. Absolutely charming, each set of seats had a hot water tap. 090
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Just watched Titan AE and it was better than i expected but then the credits rolled and JUMP SCARE JOSS MOTHAFUCKIN WHEDON 120
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026MrBeast bonus thread: i should have expected the sweepstakes to be as fuckin’ stultifying as the book but somehow it blindsided me, its not just a sign up you need to succeed in ten “games” that are just as dumb as you expect. The only good thing about it is how Vonnegut i look in my “id” photo. 160
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026People are, like, really weird. Its worth noting i messaged her several times asking when she was coming by with no response. 050
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I don’t remember if i’ve shared this here but i was once interviewed about my book, The Fork, and i thoight it was super fun. youtu.be/tZb8GCajHbo?...youtu.beAuthor Interview! Alex Parise - The ForkYouTube video by Book Buds 030
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Idk whats up with my brain sometimes but please enjoy 110
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Why do people love rescheduling 40-person meetings one minute after they’re meant to start? 000
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I just stopped a meeting dead on a project i haven’t worked on in 4 years. “Any field where users enter data may contain personal health information even if it’s not the intent —messaging is a good example —because users gonna use. Like, hey, can you believe the guy in bed 17 with kidney failure?” 131
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My uncle passed this morning and i should be more upset than i am but that’s the American Nazi Party side of my family, and while i have no reason to believe he was a member I do know he tithed to televangelists so…. Yeah, not a smart man. And i haven’t talked to him in 15 years on top. 070
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Someone absolutely just failed the “dontstart the hundred person meeting 11 minutes early”challenge. 100
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Wait Just saw a “first look at Ian McKellen on the set of The Hunt for Gollum” and Its real? Are you J.R.R. Jolkien with me right now? 030
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Dang i have three opponents in the election, thats crazy 100
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026MrBeast thread #4. If you’re not caught up, I just crashed out hard and skeeted 10-12 times about a three page scene and need a minute so its an opportune time to take some deep breaths, touch some grass, pound a whiskey, and do the bsky housekeeping while my blood pressure drops. Previous here:bsky.app 130
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Okay the MrBeastBook thread is all caught up, hopefully it doesn’t break again, but i’ll be limiting threads to 50ish skeets going forward so i hopefully don’t have to do this again. Picking up in a couple. 150
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Bsky has broken this liveskeet thread of MrBeast’s “The Most Dangerous Games” (barf) several times so i’m gonna restart it here. There will be repeats, unfortunately. I’m still not fixing the typos. 1100
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Even if y’all don’t read my whole dumb thread i need you to see one of the best jokes i’ve ever gotten off. 172
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Alright, time to liveskeet my review of this obvious piece of horseshit: Mr Beast and James “the biggest hack who has ever lived” Patterson’s collab “The Most Dangerous Games.” I am not excited. 2255
Reposted by A. PariseLaguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"A pastor kicked off a recent campaign stop for Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for Senate, with a prayer that asked God to bestow “integrity and honesty” upon the event and to right wrongs “hammered down on the conservative movement.” 2129
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Seeing Liz Phair sing Fuck and Run at 60 years old was almost unbearably cringe. 131
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Hosting a plant sale tomorrow and sunday 9-5 with free fig starts, come on by! Search the map for fig or plant. maps.app.goo.gl/4T3stFfWjyw7... 140
Reposted by A. PariseGretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 08/09/2026I have received news of a perfectly named cafe located on the waterfront of Nova Scotia's capital, if you know what I mean 52821260
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I love getting 5-star reviews of my book from strangers, especially thoughtful ones. Thats a good way to start a week :) 050
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I am so sick of fundraising texts, why the fuck did i just get one about saving college sports, fuck off into the sun forever 060
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 02/09/2026How does everyone feel about vergifteterMarkenname as a pithy German word for terrible irony-poisoned brand names like Liquid Death? Its almost got grift in it which i appreciate 020
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“Yourr database is directly tied to your application” wow buddy do you kiss your momma with that mouth? 000
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Just walked past sidewalk chalks that said: ABOLISH ICE FUCK THE COPS GET A CAT NOW 3150
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Jesus Christ that was an infuriating meeting, it was supposed to be a process meeting and it devolved into “why are we even doing this” 130
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 29/08/2026PDX folks if you’re free tomorrow you should go to this, its very weird and cool and also free and they don’t mind kids running around 020
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Gonna be at the Alberta street fair tonight! Come say hi, grab a campaign sticker and a free fig tree, and peep the moon through my 10” scope! 170
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026One time i had a bowl of acid going to try to strip rhyolite from topaz and and a couple years later apple decided to be helpful 😆 070
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It always feels good to have a good old fashioned bucket of acid going 250
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Being a parent gives you new opportunities to have your heart so full to bursting you could die… this time it wasn’t Smol Bean but Sammy, who climbed into bed with SB 😍😍😍 2150
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 26/08/2026This is the second smallest plane i’ve been on ever and only the third time i remember boarding from the tarmac, its so small you could feel it in the back row when someone stepped on board. CRJ 200. 141
A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Went to Coalinga for my birthday to hit the benitoite mine, and what a cool place it is - it was originally a rogues camp in WW2 for inmates to build the road up to the mines for molybdenum or manganese (i was in the sun forgive me) for airframe manufacture. 120