A. Parise
@jerseyoutwest.bsky.social
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: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CKXS61S
Also I wrote this li’l thing: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CKXS61S
This reminds me of the facebook argument i had once about common core where my accountant friend confidently stated “anyone trying to use base-10 math at a fortune 500 firm would be fired instantly” and then refused to back down when several of us asked her if she knew what base-10 meant.
More comedy from MAGA-land 😂
November 20, 2025 at 5:43 AM
This reminds me of the facebook argument i had once about common core where my accountant friend confidently stated “anyone trying to use base-10 math at a fortune 500 firm would be fired instantly” and then refused to back down when several of us asked her if she knew what base-10 meant.
God fucking damn it, we have Smol Bean on my partner’s insurance instead of mine because my work offers United Healthcare.
Guess who her work just announced they’re switching to?
Guess who her work just announced they’re switching to?
November 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
God fucking damn it, we have Smol Bean on my partner’s insurance instead of mine because my work offers United Healthcare.
Guess who her work just announced they’re switching to?
Guess who her work just announced they’re switching to?
Man, i miss writing Ted Wheeler letters about how much he sucks.
I guess i could start writing Dan Ryan letters but idk it just doesn’t sound like as much fun. :-/
I guess i could start writing Dan Ryan letters but idk it just doesn’t sound like as much fun. :-/
November 19, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Man, i miss writing Ted Wheeler letters about how much he sucks.
I guess i could start writing Dan Ryan letters but idk it just doesn’t sound like as much fun. :-/
I guess i could start writing Dan Ryan letters but idk it just doesn’t sound like as much fun. :-/
Partner: i ordered the soups we wanted.
Me: i already ordered them!
Partner: now we have two soups!
— The Gift of the Magi (2025)
Me: i already ordered them!
Partner: now we have two soups!
— The Gift of the Magi (2025)
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Partner: i ordered the soups we wanted.
Me: i already ordered them!
Partner: now we have two soups!
— The Gift of the Magi (2025)
Me: i already ordered them!
Partner: now we have two soups!
— The Gift of the Magi (2025)
Spent all morning prepping to present in a meeting only to have it cancelled with no reason 15 minutes beforehand and i am fuckin salty about it.
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Spent all morning prepping to present in a meeting only to have it cancelled with no reason 15 minutes beforehand and i am fuckin salty about it.
A weird design thing i just noticed:
Online video and audio players don’t have stop buttons, only pause buttons.
Online video and audio players don’t have stop buttons, only pause buttons.
November 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
A weird design thing i just noticed:
Online video and audio players don’t have stop buttons, only pause buttons.
Online video and audio players don’t have stop buttons, only pause buttons.
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If you've written a book or many or are writing one now, what a cool fucking thing you are doing. I hope you bask in how awesome it is that you had ideas and thoughts and worked on them for years to develop them into words others can understand. Like that's some sorcery shit. Fuck AI, THIS is magic.
November 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
If you've written a book or many or are writing one now, what a cool fucking thing you are doing. I hope you bask in how awesome it is that you had ideas and thoughts and worked on them for years to develop them into words others can understand. Like that's some sorcery shit. Fuck AI, THIS is magic.
A couple years ago i did a full, step-by-step “how to make a turducken” post on facebook, with pictures of every step of the gross process. They’re not hard, just time consuming, and they are *delicious*. If you’ve wanted to make one: www.facebook.com/share/17duYJ...
November 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A couple years ago i did a full, step-by-step “how to make a turducken” post on facebook, with pictures of every step of the gross process. They’re not hard, just time consuming, and they are *delicious*. If you’ve wanted to make one: www.facebook.com/share/17duYJ...
One the one hand its sad to see a long-running local brand die a sudden death, on the other hand their beer blew/contained chunks.
wowzers! i'm a little conflicted, i've got a friend who works for them, but also rogue has done a lot of union busting
Report: Rogue Ales in Newport is shutting down operations
Rogue Ales & Spirits is abruptly shutting down all operations, FOX 12 learned on Friday.
share.google
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
One the one hand its sad to see a long-running local brand die a sudden death, on the other hand their beer blew/contained chunks.
Alright. I’m happy with my Songs About Boats playlist now. Took a couple passes to get even the whiff of yacht rock out of it. Here are two different providers:
open.spotify.com/playlist/6nN...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
open.spotify.com/playlist/6nN...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Alright. I’m happy with my Songs About Boats playlist now. Took a couple passes to get even the whiff of yacht rock out of it. Here are two different providers:
open.spotify.com/playlist/6nN...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
open.spotify.com/playlist/6nN...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Back on my bullshit (showing up at a chili cookoff with hotdogs).
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Back on my bullshit (showing up at a chili cookoff with hotdogs).
God i love this city. Gorgeous. Unstoppable. Unmatched.
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
God i love this city. Gorgeous. Unstoppable. Unmatched.
Alright here’s what i’ve got so far, what should i add? I’m not puttin goddamn “i’m on a boat” on it.
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Downeaster Alexa
Barrett’s Privateers
Sloop John B
Wellerman
Southern Cross
Christian Island
Bonnie Ship The Diamond
Wooden Ships
Fisherman’s Blues
Orinoco Flow
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Downeaster Alexa
Barrett’s Privateers
Sloop John B
Wellerman
Southern Cross
Christian Island
Bonnie Ship The Diamond
Wooden Ships
Fisherman’s Blues
Orinoco Flow
I think i need a “songs about boats for adults” playlist. I wonder if one exists.
November 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Alright here’s what i’ve got so far, what should i add? I’m not puttin goddamn “i’m on a boat” on it.
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Downeaster Alexa
Barrett’s Privateers
Sloop John B
Wellerman
Southern Cross
Christian Island
Bonnie Ship The Diamond
Wooden Ships
Fisherman’s Blues
Orinoco Flow
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Downeaster Alexa
Barrett’s Privateers
Sloop John B
Wellerman
Southern Cross
Christian Island
Bonnie Ship The Diamond
Wooden Ships
Fisherman’s Blues
Orinoco Flow
I know i’m not really going out on a limb here, but i’m listening to a lot of Gordon Lightfoot today and he really is at his best when he’s writing about forms of transportation. Even his love songs that involve trains are better than the ones without.
November 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I know i’m not really going out on a limb here, but i’m listening to a lot of Gordon Lightfoot today and he really is at his best when he’s writing about forms of transportation. Even his love songs that involve trains are better than the ones without.
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if you're cool and you live in san francisco and your name is k wilson- your time is now
San Francisco needs to step up and get on the west coast k wilson train
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
if you're cool and you live in san francisco and your name is k wilson- your time is now
After a couple days of hippies not stealing those amanita muscarias under cover of night, i decided, hey, i’m hippie!
But i grabbed some to make spore prints, because that’s more fun than gettin blitzed. I think i left them too long, but its still pretty.
But i grabbed some to make spore prints, because that’s more fun than gettin blitzed. I think i left them too long, but its still pretty.
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM
After a couple days of hippies not stealing those amanita muscarias under cover of night, i decided, hey, i’m hippie!
But i grabbed some to make spore prints, because that’s more fun than gettin blitzed. I think i left them too long, but its still pretty.
But i grabbed some to make spore prints, because that’s more fun than gettin blitzed. I think i left them too long, but its still pretty.
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I really need to get to bed, but I just poked my head out the back door again. This is the view from my deck. All of this is looking south. When the geomagnetic storms are like this, the oval overshoots me and stretches into the US, which is why so many are seeing it tonight. #aurora
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I really need to get to bed, but I just poked my head out the back door again. This is the view from my deck. All of this is looking south. When the geomagnetic storms are like this, the oval overshoots me and stretches into the US, which is why so many are seeing it tonight. #aurora
Jesus christ one of my new teammates just casually mentioned he gave gab money in 2020 and showed off his “the media is the virus” t-shirt in a multi-person meeting.
I cannot.
I cannot.
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Jesus christ one of my new teammates just casually mentioned he gave gab money in 2020 and showed off his “the media is the virus” t-shirt in a multi-person meeting.
I cannot.
I cannot.
Some weird synthesis of the four in the bottom left corner. I guess i’m… well, not triangulating, more like quadrangulating on something.
Turns out the real political spectrum is just how people feel about free parking 😂
Tag yourself!
Tag yourself!
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Some weird synthesis of the four in the bottom left corner. I guess i’m… well, not triangulating, more like quadrangulating on something.
I hope Schumer steps on a physical rake to match the metaphorical one he just smashed.
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I hope Schumer steps on a physical rake to match the metaphorical one he just smashed.
I missed skeeting for kickoff because i was holding a baby but GO THORNS!!!
November 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I missed skeeting for kickoff because i was holding a baby but GO THORNS!!!
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
Drove all the way to gd mollalla to a gd dairy that claimed on their website to make butter from gd jersey cow milk and walked in to be told “oh we don’t sell butter” by a surly teen standing under a big sign that said BUTTER.
Its ironic i wanted unsalted butter because I am gd SALTY rn.
Its ironic i wanted unsalted butter because I am gd SALTY rn.
November 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Drove all the way to gd mollalla to a gd dairy that claimed on their website to make butter from gd jersey cow milk and walked in to be told “oh we don’t sell butter” by a surly teen standing under a big sign that said BUTTER.
Its ironic i wanted unsalted butter because I am gd SALTY rn.
Its ironic i wanted unsalted butter because I am gd SALTY rn.
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[On the bench today ⚒️ #BehindTheScenes]
Finishing up some #Voyager space probe pendants in sterling silver today 🛰️
Two of these beauties are still unsold and will ship out quickly if you grab one:
🔗 sciencesocks.co/coll...
🔭🧪🐡🎨
Finishing up some #Voyager space probe pendants in sterling silver today 🛰️
Two of these beauties are still unsold and will ship out quickly if you grab one:
🔗 sciencesocks.co/coll...
🔭🧪🐡🎨
November 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
[On the bench today ⚒️ #BehindTheScenes]
Finishing up some #Voyager space probe pendants in sterling silver today 🛰️
Two of these beauties are still unsold and will ship out quickly if you grab one:
🔗 sciencesocks.co/coll...
🔭🧪🐡🎨
Finishing up some #Voyager space probe pendants in sterling silver today 🛰️
Two of these beauties are still unsold and will ship out quickly if you grab one:
🔗 sciencesocks.co/coll...
🔭🧪🐡🎨
Its pretty easy to figure out, ever since Woke it’s impossible to get cattle into the ring.
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Its pretty easy to figure out, ever since Woke it’s impossible to get cattle into the ring.