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
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Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
This is about the time of day dad would call every year and play Alice’s Restaurant over the phone to us. I miss him terribly and I wish he was still here, and i will always be forever heartbroken that he never got to meet Smol Bean.
But-at least i get to play Arlo at them today for the first time.
But-at least i get to play Arlo at them today for the first time.
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This is about the time of day dad would call every year and play Alice’s Restaurant over the phone to us. I miss him terribly and I wish he was still here, and i will always be forever heartbroken that he never got to meet Smol Bean.
But-at least i get to play Arlo at them today for the first time.
But-at least i get to play Arlo at them today for the first time.
I have never made creamed onions before and this might be the most irritating dish i’ve ever assembled.
November 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I have never made creamed onions before and this might be the most irritating dish i’ve ever assembled.
I think i’m gonna make a quince and custard pie for dessert tomorrow so first things first - poaching a buttload of quince in chardonnay with vanilla, sugar, and candied Buddha’s Hand.
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I think i’m gonna make a quince and custard pie for dessert tomorrow so first things first - poaching a buttload of quince in chardonnay with vanilla, sugar, and candied Buddha’s Hand.
We have a persimmon tree that i’ve never eaten a fruit from because i was confidently incorrect that persimmons had to ripen on the tree, and its so wet here that as they start to ripen they immediately rot. Then today i finally looked it up and guess what. WROOOOOOOOOOOOONG.
Sigh.
Sigh.
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
We have a persimmon tree that i’ve never eaten a fruit from because i was confidently incorrect that persimmons had to ripen on the tree, and its so wet here that as they start to ripen they immediately rot. Then today i finally looked it up and guess what. WROOOOOOOOOOOOONG.
Sigh.
Sigh.
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There are currently TWENTY THREE Great Pyr mixes at the Oregon Humane Society available for adoption, rescued from a huge neglect case out in Polk County. If you’ve ever wanted a LORG fren for your family, you can’t do much better than Pyrs.
Animal Details
Details about each animal available at the Oregon Humane Society.
www.oregonhumane.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
There are currently TWENTY THREE Great Pyr mixes at the Oregon Humane Society available for adoption, rescued from a huge neglect case out in Polk County. If you’ve ever wanted a LORG fren for your family, you can’t do much better than Pyrs.
One year my ex labeled our thanksgiving leftovers and “Green Bean Cass” made me giggle every time i saw it because it sounds like a track cut from the final release of If You’re Feeling Sinister.
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
One year my ex labeled our thanksgiving leftovers and “Green Bean Cass” made me giggle every time i saw it because it sounds like a track cut from the final release of If You’re Feeling Sinister.
I got some incredibly complimentary reviews of my book but one makes me tear up a little when i think about it: “Reading this book made me feel less broken as a person, as a citizen, and as a participant in the continued work of ground organizing for a more just world.”
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I got some incredibly complimentary reviews of my book but one makes me tear up a little when i think about it: “Reading this book made me feel less broken as a person, as a citizen, and as a participant in the continued work of ground organizing for a more just world.”
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
All i have for the pie discourse: One thanksgiving i made two pumpkin pies, one regular, and one with masala spice. A five-year-old guest ate the masala pie and broke down crying.
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
All i have for the pie discourse: One thanksgiving i made two pumpkin pies, one regular, and one with masala spice. A five-year-old guest ate the masala pie and broke down crying.
Every year on the winter solstice morning i would drive with friends down to the Jersey Shore (usually Point Pleasant) and we would greet the rising sun by singing The Sun Is A Mass of Incandescent Gas to it. Fine, fine memories.
Name your fav They Might Be Giants song.
November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year on the winter solstice morning i would drive with friends down to the Jersey Shore (usually Point Pleasant) and we would greet the rising sun by singing The Sun Is A Mass of Incandescent Gas to it. Fine, fine memories.
I really hate all these “many republican representatives told us they’re planning on quitting” hopium articles. I don’t believe any of them, if they wanted to quit they would just fucking quit.
November 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I really hate all these “many republican representatives told us they’re planning on quitting” hopium articles. I don’t believe any of them, if they wanted to quit they would just fucking quit.
Protip, you don’t need to throw them away, you can coil them and hang them from bicycle hooks you put in your garage rafters next to rusty chainsaws instead. Then when you need to find one you can look up instead of dogging through a box!
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Protip, you don’t need to throw them away, you can coil them and hang them from bicycle hooks you put in your garage rafters next to rusty chainsaws instead. Then when you need to find one you can look up instead of dogging through a box!
I can’t really participate in that “a movie set where you’re from” because no one sets movies in South Jersey, but M. Night Shamalamadingdong did film a movie no one watched partially in my hometown.
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I can’t really participate in that “a movie set where you’re from” because no one sets movies in South Jersey, but M. Night Shamalamadingdong did film a movie no one watched partially in my hometown.
I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way, Charlie Brown.
She had the weather gauge, and a clear advantage in firepower, Charlie Brown
We Thought You Was a Toad, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way, Charlie Brown.
We had some friends over last weekend for an indoor party and i neglected to clock that since kids came, the party would spill over into the backyard… the state of which is a) entirely my fault and b) entirely embarrassing.
Just got an hour to put in some work and i think it looks worse. Go team.
Just got an hour to put in some work and i think it looks worse. Go team.
November 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
We had some friends over last weekend for an indoor party and i neglected to clock that since kids came, the party would spill over into the backyard… the state of which is a) entirely my fault and b) entirely embarrassing.
Just got an hour to put in some work and i think it looks worse. Go team.
Just got an hour to put in some work and i think it looks worse. Go team.
Hm. Reckon it is time to replace this doormat.
November 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Hm. Reckon it is time to replace this doormat.
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this is how you lose the dish war
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
this is how you lose the dish war
After seven months of job searching post-graduation took my biochem major off my resume and landed a normal programming gig on literally the first resume out.
I think i put the major back on at some point once it didnt matter because i was pretty solidly down the appdev career path.
I think i put the major back on at some point once it didnt matter because i was pretty solidly down the appdev career path.
November 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
After seven months of job searching post-graduation took my biochem major off my resume and landed a normal programming gig on literally the first resume out.
I think i put the major back on at some point once it didnt matter because i was pretty solidly down the appdev career path.
I think i put the major back on at some point once it didnt matter because i was pretty solidly down the appdev career path.
Its pretty impressive that gmail has enshittified itself to the point that if you turn off the “let us steal all your shit to train AI” feature it also turns off all the useful features that differentiate gmail from every other email service.
November 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Its pretty impressive that gmail has enshittified itself to the point that if you turn off the “let us steal all your shit to train AI” feature it also turns off all the useful features that differentiate gmail from every other email service.
Tried to make foccaccia using some fresh herbs @javapeg.bsky.social gave me and uh I think I’ll bake six more and use them to pick out a darling path through my garden instead.
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Tried to make foccaccia using some fresh herbs @javapeg.bsky.social gave me and uh I think I’ll bake six more and use them to pick out a darling path through my garden instead.
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)