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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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Sure, it looks like ham, but also check out this absolutely stunning necklace made with rhodochrosite that is so fragile it has only been worn once, and then was donated to the Colorado School of Mines Museum.

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Portland friends, I am drowning in plants so I’m having a plant sale this Sunday October 6th 9-5. I have hundreds of seed-grown plants for sale - monstera, cacti, plumeria, cherimoya, jaboticaba, strelitzia, adenia, adenium, albuca, and lots of other one-offs - come by, see what I’ve got! DM 4 addy.

An absolute mess of plants under an awning outside
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I am maybe 1/3 of the way through processing all the ChipDrop logs into firewood and already have like a five-year supply, if any of my PDX peeps want to come by and either take quarter-logs or chop in my driveway and cart it off for your use, HMU

A 14 foot by 4 foot stack of firewood under some arborvitae bushes in a driveway. There is a giant log next to a blue trash can and a blue recycling bin
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Sure why not. Well, because my taste in music is so bad some of you might question following me, that’s why not.

Get to know my music taste, one like = one song I love
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The question now is: where do I put this?

An orange and white lawn sign that says “Rene Gonzalez is the nastiest skank bitch I have ever met”
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This picture of me is terrible but I needed to do the thing I always see bands do and take a selfie with the audience, I’ve never given an author talk before and it was so cool to do it in the main theater at OMSI and have an audience who was so engaged :)

A man in a blue shirt with long curly hair smiling in a selfie with a half-full auditorium behind him
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Someone in the Q&A after my presentation asked me what I thought about the worldbuilding in Xanth and the only answer I could come up with was “uhhh i really don’t know, those books kinda sleeved me out at 15 and I haven’t gone back?”

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Portland friends! Come dork out with me at OMSI at 8:15 tonight! We’ll be finding answers to many burning questions, including: - Can I talk for 30 minutes without cussin? - Will tomatoes be thrown if I make fun of Star Wars? - Can I compress 14 billion years of mineral evolution into 2 minutes?

An orange power point cover slide with the title “microclimates? In this economy? Using planetary science, geology, and botany in speculative fiction world building “
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Rice’s whale. Made in collaboration with Tommy Tucker, www.instagram.com/tommy_in_the....

A whale swimming in a beautiful blue ocean with shafts of light. Text: This is one of the rarest whales in the world. It's American, but most Americans have never heard of it.
A whale swimming to the surface. Text: Rice's Whales live only in the Gulf of Mexico. They were identified as a species in 2021. Arrows point to the pointy fin, three ridges on the head, and a length that's a little longer than a school bus.
A whale making calls that look like swirly lines and little frogs. Text: They make unique sounds, including a frog-like grunt and a sweeping, descending moan. These calls have echoed through the gulf for millions of years.
An image of 50 whale tails, and a whale resting at the surface. Text: Today, there are fewer than 100 Rice's whales left -  maybe only 50. Oil spills, noise from industry, and shipping traffic make things tough, especially since these whales sleep close to the surface at night.
A whale swimming through a sunset-purple sea, with two other whales farther away
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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: www.amazon.com/dp/B08CKXS61S
556 followers866 following4.3k posts