https://srxnexus.org/blog/ Researched opinions and observational commentary from Skye Vernon. en-us Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0700 https://srxnexus.org/blog/articles/golden-age-of-crappy-ideas/ https://srxnexus.org/blog/articles/golden-age-of-crappy-ideas/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0700 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. https://srxnexus.org/blog/articles/how-i-would-fix-portland/ https://srxnexus.org/blog/articles/how-i-would-fix-portland/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0700 Portland has food, nightlife, queer culture, nature, and independent businesses. It needs to stop making them hard to reach, use, and survive on. https://srxnexus.org/blog/articles/a-personal-question-about-curvature-and-vaginoplasty/ https://srxnexus.org/blog/articles/a-personal-question-about-curvature-and-vaginoplasty/ Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0700 A six-year personal observation about changing curvature, and an unproven question I want to put to my doctor before vaginoplasty. https://srxnexus.org/blog/articles/ai-did-not-kill-artists-upload-and-pray-did/ https://srxnexus.org/blog/articles/ai-did-not-kill-artists-upload-and-pray-did/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0700 The game changed. Artists still treating one lazy upload like a marketing plan are blaming AI for problems they refused to solve. https://srxnexus.org/blog/articles/downtown-portland-has-a-journey-problem/ https://srxnexus.org/blog/articles/downtown-portland-has-a-journey-problem/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0700 Downtown has places worth visiting. The problem is how difficult Portland makes it to arrive, move around, stay, and get home. https://srxnexus.org/blog/articles/a-place-for-arguments-with-receipts/ https://srxnexus.org/blog/articles/a-place-for-arguments-with-receipts/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0700 An opening note on making researched arguments that readers can examine and discuss.