# ![@parsons_tor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::3578121684.png) @parsons_tor Tor Parsons ⍼🧡🇭🇰

Tor Parsons ⍼🧡🇭🇰 posts on X about in the, china, taiwan, ai the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  [social networks](/list/social-networks)  [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  [musicians](/list/musicians)  [finance](/list/finance)  [gaming](/list/gaming)  [stocks](/list/stocks)  [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) 

**Social topic influence**
[in the](/topic/in-the), [china](/topic/china), [taiwan](/topic/taiwan), [ai](/topic/ai), [the first](/topic/the-first), [just a](/topic/just-a), [culture](/topic/culture), [guess](/topic/guess), [if you](/topic/if-you), [town](/topic/town)

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**Top assets mentioned**
[Spotify Technology (SPOT)](/topic/spotify) [Parsons Corporation (PSN)](/topic/$psn)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Its not even a political statement - I just went to Hong Kong and crushed on it harder than Ive ever had a crush on a city before. Its like 4D London. San Francisco built by DMT machine elves. Actually its most like the giant city I built in Minecraft when I was 12"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1736771723704283349)  2023-12-18T15:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"For like 2-3 years of my life I basically lived in that Minecraft city. It was called New Margit (long story behind that). My years of work are gone with that old laptop - and although NM was a dense archipelagic tropical city I was not expecting for HK to resemble it so much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1736772578725740715)  2023-12-18T15:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"This doesn't surprise me at all but I do have to wonder what the results would be from China. Assuming the vast majority of ppl in both countries have never heard of e/acc until they get surveyed I'd guess still underwater but not as comically unpopular - like 30% approval. Net favorability of e/acc at -51% behind past surveys on net favorability of Wicca (-15%) Christian Science (-22%) Jehovah's Witnesses (-31%) Scientologists (-49%) and Satanists (-50%). https://t.co/QKdcMVEm6M https://t.co/aE058GK4tE Net favorability of e/acc at -51% behind past surveys on net favorability of Wicca (-15%)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1747809373693636811)  2024-01-18T02:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@maccoinnich @tedwheeler South Africa be like"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1757936961359434037)  2024-02-15T01:16Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@OregonMapGuy Why are Kerry-McCain counties such a meme for you lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1767016592674816001)  2024-03-11T02:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@RichardHanania This is who RFK Jr thinks his average supporter is. Man oh man is he going to be surprised when he finds out he's being voted for by MAGAts. (Granted there's more overlap between those demographics than most people would care to admit)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1773228192678969745)  2024-03-28T05:58Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Here's a random thing I realized the other day: Tim Walz is the first Democratic VP nominee in [---] years to be an incumbent governor. The last one was Charles W. Bryan in [----] (William Jennings Bryan's brother) who was gov of Nebraska - coincidentally also where Walz grew up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1821655532614381859)  2024-08-08T21:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Demonneko12 @Kelly_McKernan Exactly. I get why some people are against AI art but I'm worried about the precedent this could set. You think Disney's expensive lawyers won't try to milk this for all it's worth A world with stronger copyright laws is much worse for artists than a world with AI art"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1831088213219586534)  2024-09-03T21:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DJBranham Confuses Mexicans with Israelis explain. Like regularly meets Mexican people and thinks theyre Israeli Believes Israeli immigrants are pouring across the southern border Thinks Mexico is at war with Hamas All of the above"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1833911174242730281)  2024-09-11T16:51Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@nikicaga @exqeot It sounds like a French urban legend and very well might be. But when I lived in France I asked people this question and thats the answer I always got. Medieval treaty still in effect; if France built toll roads in Bretagne theyd legally be allowed to secede"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1838781953132093789)  2024-09-25T03:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"About [--] years ago Tumblr invented a word sonder: the realization that everyone you meet is living a life as complex unique and vivid as your own. Thats the feeling I get when I canvass. One of the joys of canvassing is that you meet people who fall into nobody's mental categories. Case in point: the 70yo white guy I just canvassed who told me he's undecided because they're both great candidates and both would do a great job. One of the joys of canvassing is that you meet people who fall into nobody's mental categories. Case in point: the 70yo white guy I just canvassed who told me he's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1852903624357171692)  2024-11-03T02:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"possibly a stupid question but are lots of YouTube accounts bots I know there are hella bots on Twitter so it wouldn't surprise me. My YT channel is blowing up and my subscriber count seems to be growing *faster* than my view count. I'm not complaining but it seems fishy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1860741278146887722)  2024-11-24T17:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"LBJ won on this strategy Hillary and Harris lost on it. Same as how any pro sport player today could beat person widely considered to be that sport's greatest player but that doesn't mean that player isn't still the GOAT. It means they invented new ways of winning. "If you don't vote for me your kids will be nuked" wins [---] electoral votes it's about time the Democrats use this strategy again https://t.co/x0Wz7MYbrf "If you don't vote for me your kids will be nuked" wins [---] electoral votes it's about time the Democrats use this strategy again https://t.co/x0Wz7MYbrf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1864898737618981081)  2024-12-06T05:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"i refuse to look at my spotify wrapped. i'm terrified of the unspoken truths it will reveal about me. not ready for that kind of self-analysis thanks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1865149821071561184)  2024-12-06T21:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AnniePosting Wait what Twitter community I had the impression that he had like the twitter presence of the average Cybertruck owner and it was a mystery how he got from there to assassinating a CEO. was he part of some pro-assassination corner of the internet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1874714262196920428)  2025-01-02T07:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"And it fits the scene that people picture this quote being used in to a T: someone's built a chaotic contraption - "It was a mass of gears and cams and wheels and chains and whatnot" - and is showing it off to the narrator"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1878916977256960307)  2025-01-13T21:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"And in the story it's a deliberately useless contraption to distract the aliens who are spying on the main characters. Last weird coincidence: the author is from Grant County Wisconsin the rural county where I was in charge of the Harris campaign"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1878917382250590622)  2025-01-13T21:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Noahpinion Now that TikTok refugees are joining RedNote the Chinese gov't doesn't need to make anti-US propaganda anymore. All the depression-worshipping American leftists who think Biden is more evil than the CCP are telling Chinese people a version of America that would make Mao blush"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1879812631994986823)  2025-01-16T08:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"There's a new Dittmann case in town and this one's funnier more absurd and more likely to be Elon's own shenanigans: A Path of Exile [--] player dug up evidence that Elon is paying high-scoring Chinese PoE players to pretend they're him. https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1hwxc17/documenting_the_saga_of_elon_musks_account/utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1hwxc17/documenting_the_saga_of_elon_musks_account/utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1880069710982836440)  2025-01-17T01:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Doesnt that make sense It feels like there was a sudden vibe shift in [----] toward an angrier more pessimistic world and a sudden vibe shift in summer [----] toward something new unfamiliar and yet to be defined not really better but definitely different"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1882627710327116210)  2025-01-24T03:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Like I would define all these as 2010s zeitgeist things and they all first got big in [----] and abruptly became old hat in 24: BLM Taylor Swifts 2nd wave of stardom The MCU as a unified phenomenon Technophobia Cancel culture 80s nostalgia Pop feminism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1882628111671722052)  2025-01-24T03:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@bobdyklan hell yeah. the youtuber Strange Aeons is even hosting a Dashcon revival sometime this year. I live a long way from Toronto but I'd really love to attend if I can. no specific date set yet afaict https://www.dashcontwo.com https://www.dashcontwo.com"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1882637087251571107)  2025-01-24T03:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"This is necessary. The clearest path from 3rd world to 1st is this: Shitty unequal society - Crazy gov't takes over and does land reform - Crazy gov't naturally collapses - Massive growth and prosperity. China S Korea Chile Vietnam and in [--] yrs Ethiopia can all attest. BREAKING NEWS President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the Expropriation Bill into law. The bill sets out how the state may expropriate land in the public interest. It will assist all levels of government to expropriate land for varied reasons. #DStv403 https://t.co/bUuzSm9RlB BREAKING NEWS President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1882926928048640172)  2025-01-24T23:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"I've lived in ZA before. I have white South African friends who are rightfully concerned about their future in their country. But I'm a Georgist. Wealth is determined by who owns the land. You think South Africa can't become the next South Korea That's because you're racist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1882928047227298243)  2025-01-24T23:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@KingEbeats Here's a video with advice for what you should do: When you email YT tell them to "release the claim" on this video of mine: You might have to do something to prove you created the song MadMan. Sorry you gotta deal with this. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=5-tNgFGFTqo https://www.youtube.com/watchv=ybmRMEJG6LY&t=1s https://www.youtube.com/watchv=5-tNgFGFTqo https://www.youtube.com/watchv=ybmRMEJG6LY&t=1s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1899994840206872913)  2025-03-13T01:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"In NYC this week and I love how on the subway you'll often pull alongside another train going the same direction. Where else is that common Commuter rail in many cities (London Tokyo Mumbai) but what other *subways* often have [--] trains going the same way on parallel tracks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1918478590833799414)  2025-05-03T01:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"While I agree it's now one of the most beautiful airports in America the old PDX has so much sentimental value for me I'm a little sad the new terminal feels so different. It's always been a special place to me synonymous with the magic of travel. Now it's just a cool airport"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1919591544992235544)  2025-05-06T03:14Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@turtledyke @9chabard yes of course thats where the art is. the point of the original is that its unfinished the point of the riff on it is that its finished. I dont think we disagree on that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1923592376053825717)  2025-05-17T04:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"This ain't a store it's a goddamn s-Tor. As I promised long ago Tor's Cabinet merch is finally available. https://www.patreon.com/posts/this-aint-no-its-134141368utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link https://www.patreon.com/posts/this-aint-no-its-134141368utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1944902265376268422)  2025-07-14T23:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"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 because helpful people pointed out the link was screwed up. https://torscabinet.printful.me https://torscabinet.printful.me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1944915656673247434)  2025-07-15T00:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@1thousandfaces_ Did someone deliberately put the Russian Sleep Experiment creature's face on a robot or does it just 100% look like that lmao"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1948193823563317588)  2025-07-24T01:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@1thousandfaces_ never mind looked up "asoka vs cerebral" and this is a cool weird electronic album from [----]. and the robot in the photo was under construction & meant to eventually look like Marilyn Monroe. i like this. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Pwh0o0kzHCk https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Pwh0o0kzHCk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1948194472468365746)  2025-07-24T01:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"And Nixon was pretty popular but '72 was more of a landslide *against* McGovern than for Nixon. Results would probably see Nixon break 50% but narrowly with a similar EC map to '68 and more drift from Wallace to Nixon than any change to Humphrey's performance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1957339567930868134)  2025-08-18T07:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Then what Nixon's still there. Watergate still happens. Voters are sick of the GOP mad as hell about inflation temporarily sewn back together by the bicentennial. Who's gonna run in '76 How about a charismatic Georgia Democrat who's walked both sides of the segregation aisle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1957339569483116603)  2025-08-18T07:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Mummiyuh Yes. I am proportionally the size of the Matterhorn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1957630290073121064)  2025-08-19T02:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Funny how that cover didn't stand the test of time - I was a kid in the 2000s I don't think I even heard it in elementary school gym or anything - but it caused the original to stand the test of time which it hadn't before"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1959860465255002353)  2025-08-25T06:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Michael Jackson was a creep of course. Just thought this was a fun cultural anecdote - the songs stars get remembered for aren't necessarily the ones that were hits in their heyday. Your kids will roast you for not knowing Taylor Swift's greatest hit Cornelia Street"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1959860467653820837)  2025-08-25T06:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@autumn30fps holy shit they built los angeles in minecraft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1961317785130393712)  2025-08-29T06:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"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)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1962720334379139560)  2025-09-02T03:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@55Cortex Feels like there's less culture there than anywhere else in the Midwest. Even in Ohio there are cities where I can imagine living and being happy. Can't see myself having a good life in Indianapolis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1962721077555274102)  2025-09-02T03:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@brutalqueenleah @transkatgirl My true crime phase was a big deal. I have no evidence I can point to here you'll have to take my word for it but I coined the "American Dyatlov Pass" nickname for the Gary Mathias/Yuba County Five case"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1963369941903839422)  2025-09-03T22:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@CarolingianCunt Been thinking of writing an alternate history story that takes place in a world where America did 54-40 or Fight and lost so by today the states we know as OR WA ID and BC are an independent Commonwealth country called Oregon. I have a whole list of Oregonian prime ministers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1963713078484435322)  2025-09-04T21:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@CarolingianCunt Sort of differently but the communists still won in Russia and the Whites fled to Alaska which became like the USSRs Taiwan. Its officially called the Kingdom of Russia super rich from oil and Putin desperately wants it back. Mexico has nukes on Alaskan soil"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1963726948401902036)  2025-09-04T22:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@CarolingianCunt Yeah youre right Tsardom. They put a girl claiming to be Anastasia Romanov on the throne. Until the 70s it was illegal to question her background but by the time she died in [----] at the official age of [---] everyone knew she was fake and so what Alaskans loved her"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1963731463146512618)  2025-09-04T22:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@lucas_as08 Raohe And welcome. Taiwan is a fantastic place especially if you come when it's *not* the summer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1967889797336404037)  2025-09-16T09:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"my all-time favorite band is probably either the Beach Boys or the Magnetic Fields but Boney M definitely makes top [--] because there's nobody else whose brand is "aggressively catchy disco anthems about unusual historical figures""  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1969402512865444124)  2025-09-20T14:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I'll be back in Taiwan with my gf this time most likely in January. You'll get to see a few Tor in Taiwan episodes at that point. In the meantime I'll be moving in with her in NYC. Durian in the City I'll definitely end up back in Oregon long-term though within a year or two"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1969402514362810581)  2025-09-20T14:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@mitduckmaster standard Mandarin simplified characters. I was nearly fluent when I left Beijing in Dec [----] but I didnt realize how much Id lost til I arrived in Taiwan and on top of that had to learn traditional characters. Ill keep doing an hour of Mandarin every morning"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1969439258638532823)  2025-09-20T16:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Adellama_ jealous where did you encounter these people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1978338064867950775)  2025-10-15T05:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Vestboy_Myst I divide socialists into pro- and anti-growth. "Everyone should be equally poor" vs. "everyone should be equally rich". Most people who call themselves socialists today are the former but pro-growth leftists are the most based ideology there is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1978501588911006148)  2025-10-15T16:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Vestboy_Myst Once saw an op-ed - in Jacobin maybe Definitely an explicitly leftist magazine - arguing "Socialists should stop saying Taylor Swift shouldn't have a private jet. Under socialism *everyone* should have a private jet." If more leftists were like that I'd be a leftist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1978502050565464266)  2025-10-15T16:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Additional factoid: Commoners required a license to eat lampreys which cost [--] shillings (10 days of a skilled tradesman's wages). Many people bought one. To remind you these are lampreys"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1946805822073573594)  2025-07-20T05:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Lamprey pie is still traditionally served at the British royal coronation but when Charles III was crowned there weren't enough lampreys left in England to make a pie even for the King. Related: Do any of you know where I could get the chance to try lampreys"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1946806277524594846)  2025-07-20T05:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@TetraspaceWest god I wish I was in Hong Kong right now. that city affects me like drugs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1984525689144398012)  2025-11-01T07:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"On my occasional defenses of Stomp Clap Hey: Mumford & Sons are objectively mid. I like defending them to be a contrarian but they're unremarkable. I do however genuinely enjoy when bands stomp clap and say hey in unison. M&S never actually did that very much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1986852870004564377)  2025-11-07T17:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The actual Stomp Clap Hey bands are the Lumineers Of Monsters and Men and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. I will defend those three as serious important artists to my dying day and I'll bet real money that someday the music world will agree with me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1986852872173330812)  2025-11-07T17:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"When I predict that people in the 2030s will enjoy Mumford & Sons I mean it but I'm not anticipating a critical reappraisal of M&S beyond "lol this is fun nostalgia". The Lumineers meanwhile will eventually be remembered as one of the best artists of their time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1986852873519394866)  2025-11-07T17:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Jacobkupp Of those three OM&M are the one I'm least certain about. Pitchfork Sunday review of the Lumineers' Cleopatra and we're on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1986858286004498845)  2025-11-07T18:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Bonus: One of the other five is South Bend Indiana"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1986880363675758811)  2025-11-07T19:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Hold up I'm overthinking this and it gets weirder. If there's an intercity heavy rail station "for" the airport but you have to ride a shuttle train a little ways to get there Oakland and JFK count too. But wait that's also true of Newark which definitely counts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1986884021859618930)  2025-11-07T19:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"And Milwaukee has a station off the airport grounds where you have to take a bus to the terminal - but that's also true of Baltimore So from the upper bound there are 7: JFK Newark Baltimore Orlando South Bend Milwaukee Oakland and Anchorage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1986884628183949600)  2025-11-07T19:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"But from the lower bound my original factoid gets even more impressive. America has just three airports where you can easily walk right out of security and get on an intercity train: Orlando South Bend and Anchorage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1986884851874631870)  2025-11-07T19:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@phillippepayant The European airports I can name off the top of my head with intercity rail stations are Paris Lyon Frankfurt Brussels Amsterdam Copenhagen Oslo Zurich.probably others but you're right that it's not the norm anywhere but Japan. China only has a few"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1986897276007260341)  2025-11-07T20:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"This is absolutely the strongest argument against an if anyone builds it everyone dies scenario. Say what you want about Ralph Nader but he may have saved the world from AGI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1991199857282019572)  2025-11-19T17:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I think it's a shame that even though we had a national freakout over racism [--] years ago where everyone became obsessed with diversifying the Western canon it's still not common knowledge at all that Alexandre Dumas was black"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1992671596776198613)  2025-11-23T19:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@LinkofSunshine The day after Election Day I remember proposing a future path for the Dems would be "talk like a leftist rabble-rouser govern like a moderate pragmatist". In other words I invented Zohran Mamdani"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1992879676298293682)  2025-11-24T08:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@LinkofSunshine https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1clw9o/i_am_jose_canseco_famed_steroid_user_and_former/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1clw9o/i_am_jose_canseco_famed_steroid_user_and_former/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1992880084769022463)  2025-11-24T08:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"All slang that entered popular use in the last [--] years has had the same bizarrely specific origin path: Regional AAVE - Underground hip-hop - Online far right - Online far left - Widespread use"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1992952958078882117)  2025-11-24T13:46Z [----] followers, 56.8K engagements


"I hope and partially believe TPOT will become the new 4chan: a relatively small tight-knit bunch of extremely online losers who end up almost accidentally inventing most of the slang and culture of the next few decades of the Internet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1994112486874702327)  2025-11-27T18:34Z [----] followers, 16.8K engagements


"@nosilverv I'm always on the hunt for takes that fit with this Aella tweet and "America made Europe poor by forcing them to give up their colonies" is a fascinating one. Would love to see a rigorous economic analysis of that because there could be some truth there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1994516075938287777)  2025-11-28T21:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@dweebfag999 @envisionedluna hey not my original idea. it's literally what's happening in Vancouver BC. if US cities try this - and they should - it'll be entertaining to see the coalitions that develop. https://macleans.ca/society/senakw-vancouver/ https://macleans.ca/society/senakw-vancouver/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1995997886769717289)  2025-12-02T23:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"My girlfriend is prohibiting me from drinking from the Gay Little Water Bottle because it's "moldy" and "smells terrible" or some bullshit. Thinking of auctioning it off for charity when I hit 200k but then what will I sip from at the end of my videos"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1996370729890398271)  2025-12-04T00:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I'm glad I don't live in my medianworld because I love being unique and weird and don't want to be the median person. But I'd like to live in the medianworld of someone I respect who's similar enough to me but has fundamental differences. I could live in Tetratopia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1997444730427179435)  2025-12-06T23:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"6 months into my YouTube career a friendly potbellied Minnesotan named Jim materialized out of thin air and took on that role for me. He's nearly retired and doesn't want to be paid. I'm sure there's a cold British lady out there for you Mrs. CHH. If I were to fantasize about being extremely rich I think the most appealing thing would be having so many people to help me with things that I could hire a Staff Manager who would also manage all the staff for me preferably a cold British lady If I were to fantasize about being extremely rich I think the most appealing thing would be having so many"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1997447868756754502)  2025-12-06T23:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"funny how there's a persisting cultural memory of 2010s Reddit. when people say something is "Reddit" in [----] they almost seem to mean it as a synecdoche for "2010s Internet" not anything like what Reddit is actually like today"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1998550497851224509)  2025-12-10T00:29Z [----] followers, 51.3K engagements


"Finally met @LinkofSunshine in person and they strongly resemble Curtis Yarvin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2002044228210151445)  2025-12-19T15:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Such fond memories of cracking up at this blog with my high school friends. I still refer to a turquoise/sky blue color as Dad because of it To give you an idea of how far AI has advanced this is when an early neural network tried to come up with new names for colors: https://t.co/y0VV7R9MLI To give you an idea of how far AI has advanced this is when an early neural network tried to come up with new names for colors: https://t.co/y0VV7R9MLI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2002507795581800633)  2025-12-20T22:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Why does every British building have a "way out" I'd assume it's because "exit" is a US-specific word and I'd accept that but like.Brexit. So British people clearly know the word exit they just choose not to use it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2003932218444730827)  2025-12-24T20:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"My gf credits her tonsillectomy for her 5-octave vocal range. There were 50-60 years in the 20th century when almost every kid in America had their tonsils removed. When those kids came of age that lines up with the peak popularity of vocal harmonies in pop music"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2004391849700835710)  2025-12-26T03:20Z [----] followers, 201.6K engagements


"This may be my favorite YouTube video of [----]. (This same guy's video about Rhode Island's "Witch Rock" is close behind it) Coming in clutch at the end of the year. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=1cJ79DNEQU4 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=1cJ79DNEQU4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2005108889692635589)  2025-12-28T02:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Looking through Steve Jobs' Wikipedia page and got a @growing_daniel jumpscare. I don't know why I thought his pfp was actually a photo of him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2007874238796149084)  2026-01-04T17:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@yimbosf @manic_pixie_agi Which of us here is happy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2007953133746737345)  2026-01-04T23:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@yimbosf @manic_pixie_agi Fair enough. Also you're a cool YIMBY with immigrant's patriotism. I can't get mad at you. I agree Skibidi Toilet is fun; it got me thinking "zoomer brainrot is kinda similar to boomer brainrot". It's just like Looney Tunes: [--] weird characters beat the shit out of each other"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2007956626528170102)  2026-01-04T23:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Are you trans or cis And how do you pronounce Blhaj trans/"blah-hodge" trans/"blow-high" cis/"blow-high" cis/"blah-hodge" trans/"blah-hodge" trans/"blow-high" cis/"blow-high" cis/"blah-hodge""  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2010891621517132133)  2026-01-13T01:48Z [----] followers, 11.3K engagements


""Tor's Cabinet is post-cool." - @transgendererer Other things established to be "post-cool" in the same conversation were Grimes and early Tumblr. I took it as a compliment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2012259323414503841)  2026-01-16T20:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@DurhamWASP Were these the standard terms for all these religions in German in [----] Protestants are "Evangelical" Orthodox are "Greek-Oriental" Jews are "Israelites" Haven't heard any of those terms in this context before"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2013055838387085681)  2026-01-19T01:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@1thousandfaces_ I spent my summers in college working [--] hour days at a salmon cannery in Alaska and that's an experience everyone should have but nobody should be forced to have. The experience of a [--] hr workday can't be likened to anything else and not necessarily in a bad way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2015186704961851686)  2026-01-24T22:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Being a poser in TPOT who admires the culture but doesn't know much about AI is fun because when everyone started talking about Gastown I was like "oh ok so the AI people are moving to Vancouver because it's like SF but doesn't have ICE and stuff cool Vancouver's nice""  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2015188695276478532)  2026-01-24T22:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ApriiSR When I was working for the Harris campaign in Wisconsin I'd ask Republicans if their main issue was abortion and if it was I'd introduce them to the American Solidarity Party"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2015192114515022259)  2026-01-24T22:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"If you're ever arrested for doing peyote and you don't go out proclaiming "What is the charge Eating a succulent" I don't know what to say to you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1899879941824798752)  2025-03-12T17:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Well today something deeply annoying happened. Putting out my new video and.I got a copyright claim from FEX. I'm contesting it saying they let the copyright lapse but I don't know if I have standing to claim that. Time to put together a new intro I'm afraid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1914904693442019618)  2025-04-23T04:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"cw disturbing image (one of them snoot dogs)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1915221105255891060)  2025-04-24T01:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I hope I don't die young but if I do I'd like it to be in circumstances worthy of being discussed by two 35yr old women with a podcast"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1915823302905631153)  2025-04-25T17:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"No episode today. The promised Thimble-centric episode will be *next* Friday. My episode on Robert Stanek has blown up beyond anything I've done before and I need a cooldown period. It's sinking in that I'm a minor celebrity now and people I've never met have Opinions about me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1915874850973028391)  2025-04-25T21:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Duolingo be like"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1917413737184604590)  2025-04-30T03:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I cannot tell if this is a clever pun about ai training or not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1919643649958170688)  2025-05-06T06:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I can't believe this - I saw this comment back when my Robert Stanek video was blowing up but only now did I check the username. Welcome to the Cabinet Hbomb. There's far more where this came from"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1920288889878520272)  2025-05-08T01:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I should not have spent so much time on this. Yeah it took me five minutes but that's too much time for what it is. this is only onscreen for like a minute & barely makes much more sense in context but enjoy. Welsh Eminem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1920666641429401893)  2025-05-09T02:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"this fool hasn't heard of Norton I .is he the first american citizen to be a regnant monarch .is he the first american citizen to be a regnant monarch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1920666981155368964)  2025-05-09T02:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"im just being honest I dont think either of those statements are opinions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1921887014716100887)  2025-05-12T11:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Met a guy about a month ago who genuinely believed this. Been thinking about it ever since. Definitely not true but fascinatingly clever probably my new favorite conspiracy theory @kitten_beloved I wonder how long we have to go with no nuclear war before people finally accept nuclear weapons are just a propaganda hoax and never existed. It's been [--] years already and everyone still believes. Will it take [---] years [---] [-----] @kitten_beloved I wonder how long we have to go with no nuclear war before people finally accept nuclear weapons are just a propaganda hoax and never existed. It's been 80"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1922372135470694782)  2025-05-13T19:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@frotterbox cancellable opinion here but I think the only authentically transgressive work of art of my lifetime was when somebody used AI to finish the picture on the left"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1922550963497267480)  2025-05-14T07:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"read this tweet while editing TCOC in Inari Finland up at [--] degrees latitude. suddenly TCOC has become successful enough that it's occurred to me this could be my life from here on out. I've been planning this trip for [--] months. then I considered it a crazy splurge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1923081873724465423)  2025-05-15T18:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"People keep sending me high-quality fully written scripts they want me to record as TCOC episodes. That was fun & time-saving the first few times it happened and there are still going to be several more fan-written episodes this summer since I'm traveling a lot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1924417871314108880)  2025-05-19T10:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"But going forward I think I'm going to have to start telling people "Start your own channel and I'll recommend it" when people do that. I'll give you advice for free. There seem to be tons of brilliant video essay writers out there who just need a mic & editing software"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1924417873092464901)  2025-05-19T10:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I love the idea of TCOC as a communal infodumping space for autists of all stripes - but maybe it can become one in a family of similar channels instead. Right now it's starting to feel like Billy's Picture. https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/h-rey/billys-picture/ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/h-rey/billys-picture/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1924417874816295125)  2025-05-19T10:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"love it when I pause at juuuuust the right moment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1931587650907230242)  2025-06-08T05:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Ugh. Just a couple weeks after I resolved the fake copyright claim & figured I was clear to bring back Subways Of Your Mind I just got a *real* copyright claim from FEX. I can share ad revenue on this episode but I'll be using the CIA song as my intro permanently from now on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1931758204981215655)  2025-06-08T17:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I take it back online misinformation is a problem Finally got to meet my favorite youtuber of all time @parsons_tor for the first time in my life. What an exhilarating experience. I had no clue he was so tall. Or black https://t.co/os1XXY0BIC Finally got to meet my favorite youtuber of all time @parsons_tor for the first time in my life. What an exhilarating experience. I had no clue he was so tall. Or black https://t.co/os1XXY0BIC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1936259328182231079)  2025-06-21T03:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A few weeks ago I noticed a trend of "Zohran Un-derangement Syndrome" on liberal/YIMBY Twitter: seems everyone overnight suddenly realized Zohran is pragmatic and not that bad compared to the alternatives. I'm glad he won I don't think he'll be popular but I wish him the best"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1937941554619990496)  2025-06-25T18:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Best thing about Zohran is his willingness to say "Will my outside-the-box policy proposals work Maybe not but we'll never know if we don't try them out." Every candidate needs the guts to say that. Progressives are usually so smug and self-important and he's clearly not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1937944016122716190)  2025-06-25T18:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I love making a video debunking something that doesn't exist and then discovering later that it basically does/did exist exactly as the urban legend suggests just in a totally different context. See here the Chinese social credit system. In Ming China there were karma ledgers so you could keep count of your karma. A kind of rationalist more effective altruism E.g. one work from [----] assigns the following merit and demerit points: https://t.co/Zi1pGaztcV In Ming China there were karma ledgers so you could keep count of your karma. A kind of rationalist more effective altruism E.g. one work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1940081401216327820)  2025-07-01T16:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


""Epstein *did* kill himself" feels like the conspiracy theory now. I feel like I've found forbidden knowledge that powerful people are deliberating hiding that has the potential to get me in trouble and it's "Epstein exaggerated his connections to other rich and famous people""  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1942670484489003093)  2025-07-08T19:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"thought this would be a fun frame for an episode teaser. jolibee will be back in not too long"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1943103480765518244)  2025-07-10T00:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Imagine living in Albuquerque going to the High School Musical High School and having your rival be the Breaking Bad High School"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1945701138780803298)  2025-07-17T04:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Wikipedia hole for tonight: The first King Henry of England died after eating a surfeit of lampreys. The city of Gloucester was forced to pay its taxes in the form of lamprey pies and was once monetarily fined for not doing so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprey_pie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprey_pie"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1946804304071016649)  2025-07-20T05:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The Carp is Back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1948195036342243774)  2025-07-24T01:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"what did I tell ya there is so much AI art in mainland China now there is so much AI art in mainland China now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1948646183603503213)  2025-07-25T07:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"what an excellent thing to be the 1st post I see on my 24th birthday. NEVER DOOM. https://t.co/9T4IEnikkI NEVER DOOM. https://t.co/9T4IEnikkI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1949039118547407213)  2025-07-26T09:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"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. https://tors-cabinet.square.site/ https://tors-cabinet.square.site/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1949955323692724642)  2025-07-28T22:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"In Cannon Beach Oregon rn and I think by now I can confidently say disappointed at the lack of tsunami"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1950462186339680261)  2025-07-30T07:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Band names by era 50s: Clark Johnson and the Guys 60s: The Kar Keys 70s: Fat Bobby 80s: Market Rate 90s: Crumpleface 00s: The Third Man On The Moon 10s: TH3M 20s: Clark Johnson and the Guys"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1951369886669873428)  2025-08-01T19:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Portland MAX Seattle Link Sacramento RT BART LA Metro Chicago L Denver RTD DC Metro NYC Subway Boston T SEPTA subway PATCO (Philly) Vancouver Skytrain Montreal Metro Gautrain (Johannesburg) London Underground Paris Metro Lyon Metro Delhi Metro Beijing Subway Tianjin Metro (cont.) * dc metro * cleveland red line * NYC Subway * Path * Chicago "L" * Seattle Link * Baltimore Metro SubwayLink (tm) and Light Rail * Septa (B/L/N) * MARTA * DART in Dallas * The Shitty Detroit Thingies that Shouldn't Count so yeah like three and a half real rapid transit systems * dc metro * cleveland red line * NYC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1951684480424632723)  2025-08-02T16:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"for the record I'm not humblebragging. this is just a straight-up brag because i am a very cool person who has ridden a fuckton of transit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1951687799205429637)  2025-08-02T16:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"SAN FRAMCISCO I AM INSIDE YOUUUU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1952765806577885367)  2025-08-05T16:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"In the lobby at Mox in SF. Theories anyone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1952930568930488458)  2025-08-06T03:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The 2010s hipster cultural era - well-kept beards IPAs sipping from Mason jars - will have a much-deserved full unironic revival soon and everyone currently hating on Stomp Clap Hey music will immediately pivot to claiming theyve always loved that stuff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1953885024119665126)  2025-08-08T18:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Here's a question I've wondered about for years: when did "technology" become synonymous with computers in casual use If you're an auto mechanic you "work in tech" too but nobody would ever say that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1954747063952167129)  2025-08-11T03:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I took shrooms for the 2nd time a few days ago and despite taking every precaution I could think of ended up violently throwing up from a mild dose. Which is exactly what happened the 1st time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1956140161668145505)  2025-08-14T23:45Z [----] followers, 13.2K engagements


"I might be allergic to the psilocybin itself. Annoying because I know so many people who have had amazing experiences on shrooms and I guess that door is just permanently closed for me. Sigh. Life goes on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1956140163022966877)  2025-08-14T23:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"West Eugene Bailey Hill area. Thank you for the tribute"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1957626987159384166)  2025-08-19T02:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Today I learned that neither of my parents know Smooth Criminal. They were both teenagers in the 80s. They know who MJ was of course and know his other hits. They have never been in a cult or otherwise restricted culture. Neither of them had ever heard Smooth Criminal. What"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1959860460989153317)  2025-08-25T06:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Everything is taking longer than I hoped. With getting sick earlier this month and preparing to leave for Taiwan in a week I don't know when the next TCOC episode will be. Definitely not this Friday. Hopefully next week definitely by mid-September once I'm settled in Taipei"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1960923838776291783)  2025-08-28T04:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@astrohxncho"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1961309865537851471)  2025-08-29T06:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1961475455338582036)  2025-08-29T17:06Z [----] followers, 453.4K engagements


"@SpeicherTrey Cleveland is the biggest surprise here yeah"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1961574794622841290)  2025-08-29T23:40Z [----] followers, 12.6K engagements


"@nobody_ Austin has one (at least in the metro area which counts)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1961574909697814547)  2025-08-29T23:41Z [----] followers, 11.9K engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1961582265768841372)  2025-08-30T00:10Z [----] followers, 17.8K engagements


"IKEA is the "guy who makes where he's from his entire personality" of chain businesses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1962644750558986523)  2025-09-01T22:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1962716432711790624)  2025-09-02T03:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@transkatgirl when I was in high school I was really into true crime and would pass the time in class plotting a death worthy of a Buzzfeed Unsolved episode. I no longer do that because Im much happier now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1963364992071471395)  2025-09-03T22:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"How I describe where Im from to foreigners France: Its where Portland is the city with all the food trucks India: Its where Nike and Intel are Northern Europe: Its like here UK: surprisingly most Brits Ive met know about Oregon China: Trailblazers Damian Lillard Never had the problem of foreigners not knowing my home state. Texan privilege Never had the problem of foreigners not knowing my home state. Texan privilege"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1963710554679529711)  2025-09-04T21:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


""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 @ApriiSR @slimepriestess A bunch of my normie friends only know about the Zizians (or Rationalism more broadly) from sensationalistic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1964552160202670290)  2025-09-07T04:51Z [----] followers, 13.1K engagements


"Presented without comment "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 "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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1965163148916523354)  2025-09-08T21:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"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 Ive been offline. But I have to see a poll Do ants have a particular scent/do you know the Ant Smell Sorry if someone has done this already Ive been offline. But I have to see a poll Do ants have a particular scent/do you know the Ant Smell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1965609213134348577)  2025-09-10T02:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"This is not a drill. THERE ARE OTHER JOLIBEES"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1967739122682138942)  2025-09-15T23:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Tonight on the Taipei Metro one of the faregates at Shilin station was stuck open. Everyone queued up and tapped their card anyway"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1967906953805566189)  2025-09-16T11:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@shamanic_arts I agree and therefore I should like this tweet. But there's something poetic about that single like"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1967967574769222066)  2025-09-16T15:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Semi-related to Robert Redford: The Sting (1973) set in the 1930s briefly sparked a revival of ragtime music. Ragtime is from the 1890s. *Today* that would be a reasonable mistake but relative to when it was made it's as if Stranger Things' soundtrack consisted of doo-wop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1967971327769448910)  2025-09-16T15:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I'm looking forward to 200k subscribers but I'm looking forward to 199k even more because that's when I'll overtake Taylor Lorenz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1968701336238555433)  2025-09-18T15:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@peterrhague Look Ill defend British food til my dying day but D is so OP here Im surprised this is even remotely controversial. You can even still have British food if you choose D since Australias in it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1968836950879572364)  2025-09-19T00:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"walking through customs at SeaTac at 5am Boney M in my earbuds. back in the US from Taiwan much earlier than planned - I realized spending months off in a foreign country studying the language is kinda a luxury I can only do when I don't have strong attachments back home"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1969402511644901417)  2025-09-20T14:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Alright I'll take the bait. [--]. Everything Everywhere All At Once [--]. Rope (1948) [--]. Harold and Maude [--]. Fargo [--]. Romeo and Juliet (1996) says even though nobody but @parsons_tor would probably care. here are what I consider the five greatest movies I have ever seen. [--]. Raiders of the Lost Ark [--]. Everything Everywhere All at Once [--]. Superman (1978) [--]. The Big Lebowski [--]. The Muppet Movie says even though nobody but @parsons_tor would probably care. here are what I consider the five greatest movies I have ever seen. [--]. Raiders of the Lost Ark [--]. Everything Everywhere All at Once [--]. Superman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1969845374102999277)  2025-09-21T19:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Hey I visited that test track The maglev is cool but impractical to build. It won't "slash Beijing-Shanghai travel time to just [---] hours" because that would require building a whole new 800-mile track and the existing high-speed trains are *almost* as fast. China unveils a [---] km/h (373 mph) maglev trainnow the worlds fastest. It can slash BeijingShanghai travel time to just [---] hours. Powered by magnetic levitation its ultra-quiet efficient and emits zero direct pollution. https://t.co/nExwHbUbrV China unveils a [---] km/h (373 mph) maglev trainnow the worlds fastest. It can slash"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1970259149511630931)  2025-09-22T22:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I can vividly smell this image honestly has made my day twice now seeing @parsons_tor like my retweets love you Tor https://t.co/FyBnACH6QX honestly has made my day twice now seeing @parsons_tor like my retweets love you Tor https://t.co/FyBnACH6QX"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1970560097475797417)  2025-09-23T18:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"*bandaging up puncture wounds inflicted by a very particularly shaped skull* that's the last time I get in a fight with Marc Andreessen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1971068766667837824)  2025-09-25T04:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"What a bizarre ad. Only 63% What definition of nature are you working off of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1972851912073687437)  2025-09-30T02:32Z [----] followers, 50.8K engagements


"Someone on my last video called Trump "magenta mussolini". I'm supposed to say "2017 called they want their discourse back" but I won't. I enjoy defending Stomp Clap Hey music. Glass houses etc. However: this is magenta. Under no stretch of the imagination is Trump this color"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1973134471248424992)  2025-09-30T21:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Took this test back during covid and it said I was a "paleoliberal" i.e. old school New Deal Democrat. I was pretty surprised to take it again today and get that exact same result because I feel like I've changed a lot since then. I guess not. Interesting test it's fairly thorough and I think the questions get at core value differences better than most political quizzes Very unsurprised by my results lol https://t.co/vST6uyZ1L2 Interesting test it's fairly thorough and I think the questions get at core value differences better than most political quizzes Very unsurprised by my results lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1973413198016446612)  2025-10-01T15:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Just scheduled what may be the best half-hour of TCOC I've ever made. Releasing tomorrow 4pm EST. Audio is janky since it's the first video I've filmed in my NYC apartment and I'm still working out the kinks. But I'm so so proud of this script"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1973933695787806912)  2025-10-03T02:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The most fundamental facts of 21st century American culture are these: [--]. The average American thinks they're better off than the average American. [--]. In a pessimistic sense not an optimistic one - "No matter how good my life is life in general still sucks""  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1975652054539641052)  2025-10-07T19:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Didn't take the right long to do the same things that obliterated the left's cultural supremacy c. 2020: - Cancellation mobs going after their own supporters - Partisan media stars attacking their own party for being too moderate Soon MAGA will be as dead as wokeness. Thank God. New Subst*ck post: https://t.co/1IBdcCv3RX New Subst*ck post: https://t.co/1IBdcCv3RX"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1975672360100380852)  2025-10-07T21:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I think about this several times a day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1977065313440252141)  2025-10-11T17:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"One of my favorite English language oddities is that "dwarves" is the plural for mythical little people while "dwarfs" is the plural for real little people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1977123765969731715)  2025-10-11T21:26Z [----] followers, 10.1K engagements


"and yes I know Tolkien is responsible for this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1977123968332317156)  2025-10-11T21:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


""is jerma a rationalist" - my girlfriend tonight drawing connections between things I've introduced her to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1977257546978107647)  2025-10-12T06:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Most of the men I know like Taylor Swift and most of the women I know hate her. I don't know what this says about the kind of bubble I live in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1978106554051182655)  2025-10-14T14:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"West Coast Amtrak: Your tickets were canceled without a refund. Please go to an Amtrak station in person to learn why. It's because of track repairs that we scheduled long before you bought your ticket and they're only going on between [--] stations but we canceled the whole train"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1978852107043176884)  2025-10-16T15:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"One year and [--] days ago I released my first video. I forgot to commemorate the occasion because I've been so busy working on my latest video about quirky saints. Never expected I'd still be doing TCOC a year later let alone make this a full-time career. https://youtu.be/uW8iKh0Bc1o https://youtu.be/uW8iKh0Bc1o"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1979328022009516106)  2025-10-17T23:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I love in-person TPOT gatherings. We're just out here reinventing social interaction from first principles. None of us had ever been to a real party until we found our people and we're practicing what we imagine it's like to have an active social life. it's so much fucking fun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1980735031225057589)  2025-10-21T20:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Stay safe out there. Capitalism sightings are up 70% this year. A friend of a friend actually got capitalized in broad daylight in Central Park the other day. Remember if you see a capitalist wave your hands above your head and yell misleading statistics about AI data centers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1982089075973628062)  2025-10-25T14:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Today begins the Conjunction of the Anglospheres. For just the week around Halloween the US and the UK's time zones are one hour closer than usual"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1982503668147773837)  2025-10-26T17:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


""Money in politics" is the same as "online misinfo" - sure it's a real problem but midwits cling to it to avoid the real blackpill: Your political enemies truly believe what they say wouldn't change if given your education or experience and aren't being paid or brainwashed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1982894206617375181)  2025-10-27T19:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"My girlfriend is working on a baroque pop EP. Wants to find a producer in New York who loves the 60s. Willing to pay a good amount of money. Any of you know someone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1983293249197646125)  2025-10-28T22:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Raining hard in Manhattan today. I'm in my pajamas in my warm apartment with my gf feverishly editing the best most overstuffed 1h40 of TCOC I've ever made. Finally doing the story I teased at the end of the Corbin Bleu episode and it's the deepest rabbit hole I've ever found"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1984047510017737089)  2025-10-30T23:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The Church of the Curious"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1985744691435094055)  2025-11-04T16:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Okay I MUST know the story behind this precinct in Midtown where [--] people wrote in Eric Adams with Sliwa in 2nd place. Surrounded by similarly sized precincts that were mostly evenly split between Mamdani and Cuomo. Fraud A voting machine glitch Ethnic block voting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1986114064280658232)  2025-11-05T16:51Z [----] followers, 69.7K engagements


"another fun oddity if not a mystery: Sliwa won a single precinct citywide but he won it with 100%. It's in Maspeth and it has just one resident who voted"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1986117705825722809)  2025-11-05T17:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"shit I was misreading this. They don't have [----] results yet for this precinct so they were showing [----] results when the race was Adams vs. Sliwa. Goddamnit. My bad. That's the explanation. Okay I MUST know the story behind this precinct in Midtown where [--] people wrote in Eric Adams with Sliwa in 2nd place. Surrounded by similarly sized precincts that were mostly evenly split between Mamdani and Cuomo. Fraud A voting machine glitch Ethnic block voting https://t.co/XSHcmKWQOp Okay I MUST know the story behind this precinct in Midtown where [--] people wrote in Eric Adams with Sliwa in 2nd"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1986118292394647616)  2025-11-05T17:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@LinkofSunshine I figured it out and it's embarrassingly simple: Those are [----] results. They don't have [----] results for that precinct yet so the displayed results are from [----]. It says [----] above the results. I'm an idiot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1986118934832013787)  2025-11-05T17:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Wait there actually is a mystery here. That precinct It's Union Square. The square itself. No wonder there are no [----] election results. Nobody lives there. So who were the [---] voters registered there in [--] It can't be Adams corruption because they didn't all vote for Adams. shit I was misreading this. They don't have [----] results yet for this precinct so they were showing [----] results when the race was Adams vs. Sliwa. Goddamnit. My bad. That's the explanation. shit I was misreading this. They don't have [----] results yet for this precinct so they were showing [----] results when the race was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1986592917771755957)  2025-11-07T00:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Why hasn't "zugzwang" caught on as a word outside the chess world It's such a fun word to say and it means a situation you can apply to so many things: when you have to make a move but every legal move would make your situation worse. E.g. "I'm in zugzwang with my job search.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1986847512309698909)  2025-11-07T17:25Z [----] followers, 30.4K engagements


"It tickles my mind so much to remind myself that Anchorage is one of just [--] American airports (and the only in the West) with an intercity heavy rail station right at the terminal - but the station at ANC is only for package vacation charters and has no scheduled service"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1986880362081898567)  2025-11-07T19:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I've been featured in the college newspaper I used to write for https://mossylog.org/2025/11/14/tors-cabinet-of-curiosities-gains-popularity/ https://mossylog.org/2025/11/14/tors-cabinet-of-curiosities-gains-popularity/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1989619244997513619)  2025-11-15T08:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I can haz cheezburger. You can haz cheezburger. In this modern world we all can haz cheezburger. *national anthem plays*"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/1989978405430063130)  2025-11-16T08:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"This generation of nerds needs to rediscover The Eye of Argon. I quote "Your presence is requested in another far deeper hell hole" almost every day. https://ansible.uk/misc/eyeargon.html https://ansible.uk/misc/eyeargon.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2015944533347803381)  2026-01-27T00:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Snow days are so much fun. Now some of the downtown Qs are running local and others express with no clear pattern. While my train was sitting at Herald Square another Q pulled in then sped on ahead of us on the track to the left. Unironically love the constant confusion of riding the NYC subway. Wdym this Q train is stopping at 49th St now. Im not mad just why Unironically love the constant confusion of riding the NYC subway. Wdym this Q train is stopping at 49th St now. Im not mad just why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2016342589486620982)  2026-01-28T02:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@adastroworld Ok I rechecked her stats and yeah thats not normal lol. For some reason I swear everyone was freaking out about her showering like 2x/week which is basically the norm for cis women who care about having smooth hair & skin. [--] showers in a year is crazy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2017715952389943777)  2026-01-31T21:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@viemccoy We got the uncanny future and Im all for it. Most possible futures are bad. This one gets to be fun too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2018078139025326347)  2026-02-01T21:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I love hearing about dreams and if you dont its a red flag for incuriousness in my mind. Where can I find the purportedly annoying people who start sharing their weird dreams all the time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2018400936641561005)  2026-02-02T19:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ImSmilingRn The cast & crew of Titanic had someone slip PCP into their soup and nobody has ever been caught for it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2018830311115919607)  2026-02-03T23:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Reminds me of this idea I've had for a while called "Myth and Countermyth". Here are examples but please suggest others (I mentioned the 2nd one in my livestream and the 4th in my ancient Egypt video) Can anyone think of more examples of this type of thing https://t.co/hNYoXHZcI0 Can anyone think of more examples of this type of thing https://t.co/hNYoXHZcI0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2018860945787994394)  2026-02-04T01:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@DanielGalef Oh damn these are all so good. The lemmings one is exactly what Im thinking of. And the [----] Great Wall of China hoax - now thats a potential TCOC episode Id never heard of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2018915386217865351)  2026-02-04T05:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Heres another good one that occurred to me. Myth: Thanksgiving was invented by the Mayflower Pilgrims Truth: Thanksgiving is a post-Civil War invented tradition based on New England harvest festivals Countermyth: Thanksgiving celebrates the [----] Pequot massacre"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2018916328103444856)  2026-02-04T05:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@toasterlighting It was sold as being made from mummies but surviving samples of mummy brown paint we've tested don't contain any human remains nor was it as popular with Pre-Raphaelite painters as it's often claimed. https://harvardartmuseums.org/tour/770/slide/12414 https://harvardartmuseums.org/tour/770/slide/12414"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2019103366966825020)  2026-02-04T17:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Suppose I'm an extremely online (by the standards of the time) nerd in [----]. I'm in the most similar social circles that exist then to my current IRL circles. I've been in a coma since then. What surprises me the most when I wake up in 2026"  
[X Link](https://x.com/parsons_tor/status/2020632167701742040)  2026-02-08T22:53Z [----] followers, 50.4K engagements


"Why is jumbo shrimp taught in school as the default example of an oxymoron when jumbo shrimp are a thing you can buy by the pound at the seafood counter at any supermarket"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2020734656568860975)  2026-02-09T05:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

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