Skye Vernon wearing glasses and a black top
Portland, Oregon

Life of Skye

Researched opinions, observational commentary, and the things I am still figuring out in public. The voice and the call are mine. The receipts are linked.

AI-assisted editingAug 10, 2026 · 6 min read

The Golden Age of Crappy Ideas

AI will let a mountain of bad and overengineered ideas become real. It will also let more people build the useful, strange, personal things companies never would.

PortlandAug 9, 2026 · 7 min read

How I Would Fix Portland: Stop Treating It Like It Has Nothing to Offer

Portland has food, nightlife, queer culture, nature, and independent businesses. It needs to stop making them hard to reach, use, and survive on.

NSFWAug 2, 2026 · 4 min read

A Personal Question About Curvature and Vaginoplasty

A six-year personal observation about changing curvature, and an unproven question I want to put to my doctor before vaginoplasty.

ArtistsJul 30, 2026 · 7 min read

Artists Are Not Losing to AI. They Are Losing to the Version of the Internet They Refuse to Let Go Of.

The game changed. Artists still treating one lazy upload like a marketing plan are blaming AI for problems they refused to solve.

PortlandJul 28, 2026 · 8 min read

Downtown Portland Doesn't Have a Destination Problem. It Has a Journey Problem.

Downtown has places worth visiting. The problem is how difficult Portland makes it to arrive, move around, stay, and get home.

EditorialJul 28, 2026 · 4 min read

A Place for Arguments With Receipts

A note on the standard here: make the case, show the source material, and leave room for people to disagree intelligently.

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