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A. Parise

@jerseyoutwest.bsky.social
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I like soup. Sci-fi writer. Data architect. BLM. ACAB includes AI. Plants, rocks, cats, occasional hiking pics. He/him. Located in sunny NE Portland, OR. Also I wrote this li’l thing: www.amazon.com/dp/B08CKXS61S

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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 4h
We live in such a stupid world.
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 4h
Did 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.
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I 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.
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There is a goddamn dual rotor helicopter circling my neighborhood at like 900 feet and i can feel the chop in my ears
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh no
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jesus Christ i didn’t realize they actually released a trump dollar coin. Why does it all have to be so fucking tacky
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’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?
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well, 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.
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just 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.
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So it turns out It really is harder to do things when you have a toddler. Not impossible, but absolutely harder.
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jesus Christ A K9 cop in portland was on his last shift before retirement today AND SOMEONE SHOT HIM
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fuck mayor Wilson i am so sick of white men’s shut i could puke www.portlandmercury.com/news/mayor-w...
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Mayor Wilson Rams Through Massive Fossil Fuel Deal in Second-Ever Tie-Breaking Vote - Portland Mercury
Mayor 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...
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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.
A silvery metal glass cup holder thing with an emblem of a huge train station on the earth with a soyuz module, rockets, the moon and stars, and lots of filigreed detail.Same glass cup holder from the side, lots of fancy detail and a scalloped rim.
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just watched Titan AE and it was better than i expected but then the credits rolled and JUMP SCARE JOSS MOTHAFUCKIN WHEDON
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
MrBeast 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.
A bad pic kf a computer screen with some bullshit on it.
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yayyyy! Found my first wild silver!
1942P nickelBigass P mint markObverse not under scope.
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
People are, like, really weird. Its worth noting i messaged her several times asking when she was coming by with no response.
A lady failing at communicating but succeeding at stealing plants.
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I 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.be
Author Interview! Alex Parise - The Fork
YouTube video by Book Buds
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Idk whats up with my brain sometimes but please enjoy
Very old friends meme with a potato.
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Why do people love rescheduling 40-person meetings one minute after they’re meant to start?
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I 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?”
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My 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.
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Someone absolutely just failed the “dontstart the hundred person meeting 11 minutes early”challenge.
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wait 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?
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dang i have three opponents in the election, thats crazy
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
MrBeast 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
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Okay 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.
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Bsky 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.
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Angie burnt seven hundred calories today.
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Even 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.
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Alright, 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.
The cover of the bookThe page side of the book, painted lime green with gratuitous blood spatter.
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Laguna 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.”
Convicted sex offender offered opening prayer at rally for GOP Senate nominee in North Carolina
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Seeing Liz Phair sing Fuck and Run at 60 years old was almost unbearably cringe.
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
George bush 9/11 meme
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hosting 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...
Fig starts in community pot shaded by a large monstera
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 08/09/2026
I have received news of a perfectly named cafe located on the waterfront of Nova Scotia's capital, if you know what I mean
"Broken Man cafe" sign on a big plate glass window, through which one can see cafe tables and chairs and backs of people's heads. In the distance, a sign indicates that this is Pier 22 on the Halifax waterfront
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I love getting 5-star reviews of my book from strangers, especially thoughtful ones. Thats a good way to start a week :)
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am so sick of fundraising texts, why the fuck did i just get one about saving college sports, fuck off into the sun forever
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
How 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
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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?
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Just walked past sidewalk chalks that said: ABOLISH ICE FUCK THE COPS GET A CAT NOW
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Jesus Christ that was an infuriating meeting, it was supposed to be a process meeting and it devolved into “why are we even doing this”
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
PDX 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
Description of a performance art piece.
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Gonna 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!
Close up of a red telescope
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
One 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 😆
A glass bowl filled with topaz and yellow 70% hydrochloric acid helpfully labeled “bon appetit”
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It always feels good to have a good old fashioned bucket of acid going
A yellow plastic bucket set in a metal bucket set on a bin of bird seed steaming in the morning sun.
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Being 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 😍😍😍
A towheaded toddler asleep in a grownup bed with a huge longhaired grey and white cat intentionally slightly cuddling her knee.
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This 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.
A tiny ass plane (12 rows) from the tarmacLook how cute this tiny plane is!
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A. Parise @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Went 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.
Rundown bunkhouse Row of bunkhouses and a neat treeMore bunkhousesBunkhouses and a row of pomegranate trees
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