Tor Parsons ⍼
@parsons_tor
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Durian friend. Doll owner. Corbin Bleu's 2nd-biggest fan. Oregon nationalist. Twink Riddler. Stomp Clap Hey defender. "super cool person" - @1thousandfaces_
Finally home in Oregon
Joined September 2015
This ain't a store, it's a goddamn s-Tor. At long last, TCOC merch is available - mugs, posters, T-shirts, and more to come!! Reposting a 2nd time because there were some last-minute things to get set up.
tors-cabinet.square.site
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There are people who don't know about Ant Smell?!? It's one of those weird little genetic things like asparagus pee? A MAJORITY OF HUMANS CAN'T SMELL ANTS? This is like learning 2/3 of the population doesn't think farts stink.
Sorry if someone has done this already, I’ve been offline. But I have to see a poll Do ants have a particular scent/do you know the Ant Smell
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"I saw a video today about the Zizians and was like 'Hey! My boyfriend is in that!'" - my girlfriend, cheerfully but not meant as a joke, one month into our relationship
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"I saw a video today about the Zizians and was like 'Hey! My boyfriend is in that!'" - my girlfriend, cheerfully but not meant as a joke, one month into our relationship
@ApriiSR @slimepriestess A bunch of my normie friends only know about the Zizians (or Rationalism more broadly) from sensationalistic news articles and podcasts, and they always seem to think the Zizian cult is much larger than it is They talk as though there are dozens or even hundreds of Zizians
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Seeing one of these and freaking out thinking I’m driving WAY faster than I should be
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HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (2024). Stunning, almost exhaustingly brilliant. Looney Tunes meets Buster Keaton meets a dozen other awesome things. Great gags, great callbacks, superb vibes shifts just when you need them. More of this, please.
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Taiwan is full of a lot of interesting little experiments like this, the culture of their civil service is quite distinct from the rest of the democratic world. One of the many, many reasons they must be defended
Incentivizing bridges over scissors. (from Taiwan's digital minister 2016-2024)
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How I describe where I’m from to foreigners France: It’s where Portland is, the city with all the food trucks India: It’s where Nike and Intel are Northern Europe: It’s like here UK: surprisingly, most Brits I’ve met know about Oregon China: Trailblazers! Damian Lillard!
Never had the problem of foreigners not knowing my home state. Texan privilege
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You know what, to calibrate, here's the map of states I've been to. Every "have lived here" except OR was either very short-term (AK, IA), I was too young to remember (NY, though I'm moving there next year - to the city, as opposed to Syracuse where I was born), or both (CA).
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Hopping on this trend a couple weeks late, as usual. The key to understanding my preferences: if I could independently select SoCal, it would be red. To me "California" has always meant the Bay Area or Sacramento.
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Proper way to carve the world is regions of about a trillion dollars of GDP. I've been to 🇺🇸 San Francisco, 🇺🇸 Baltimore-Washington, 🇺🇸 Carolina, 🇺🇸 Pacific Northwest, 🇺🇸 New York, 🇺🇲 Mountain West, 🇬🇧 the South, 🇬🇧 the Midlands, 🇬🇧 the North, 🇫🇷 Île-de-France, 🇹🇼 Taiwan, 🇨🇳
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trying for another ikea-related viral tweet, as you can see
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IKEA is the "guy who makes where he's from his entire personality" of chain businesses
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@1thousandfaces_ alternate, much more obscure thing this made me think of. discovered this a few days ago and can't stop thinking of it.
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@parsons_tor my definition has been if the tallest building is a hotel, it's probably not a city
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Everyone disagreeing is defining cities by city limits rather than by metro area. Come on. If you live in Frisco, Texas you live in Dallas. If you live in Elizabeth, NJ you live in Newark. US city limits are ridiculous squiggles and patchworks that don't define anything.
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When I was a little kid, the way I defined a "city", as opposed to a "town", was if it had an IKEA. And all these years later, I'm still not sure there's a better way of defining what's a major city and what's not, at least in the US.
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