I hate when you’re listening to a perfectly good record and then Hey Joe comes on.

The 7y/o and I just finished playing Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan. I highly recommend playing it with your kid! The game worked in so many different forms of conflict resolution while Billy worked through complicated relationships with friends, family members and themself. 1/

I was a teen when the HPV vaccine came out, and I told my doctor at my next appointment that I wanted to get it and he looked at me like I was crazy and said something like, “HPV doesn’t really affect men,” and didn’t prescribe it to me. (I have gotten it since then).

I just had to look up what the acronym TLA means.

Jingle Bells played by a giant orchestra of only tubas. Greater Seattle Tubachristmas.

Love the new @pwhltorrent.bsky.social jersey!

For April Fools, Apple should make everyone's autocorrect turn "duck" into "fuck”

My present-wrapping skills would be best described as “See something, say something”

I am ready for a Torrent goal. Maybe a Gosling one-timer, though I’m not picky.

As someone who graduated in 2008, I’ve only ever known a U.S. economy based on scams.

Few things are more terrifying than showing your kid a PG movie from the 80s that you only vaguely remember. Will there be casual misogyny? Homophobic jokes? Fat jokes? I guess we’re finding out together. Wish me luck.

For a few hours yesterday, the Kraken were tied for 1st in their division while having a -1 goal differential. Only 2 teams have scored fewer goals, but only 3 teams have allowed fewer goals. Really interesting team. Defense is great, and they somehow keep scoring at the right time to avoid losing.

Watching the first @pwhltorrent.bsky.social game and I can’t wait to find out what the goal song will be next week! I am hoping it will be Hole or Taco Cat!

Go Torrent!

Question for communicable disease experts: Can you catch a cold from your child coughing directly into your face multiple times over a prolonged period? And as a follow-up, is it safe to eat the rest of this bowl of goldfish crackers that she’s been coughing on? Thanks in advance for your advice.

It's amazing how Bjork's album Post still sounds like music of the future even though it is 30 years old. Like, if there were some alternate universe in which Bjork was born 30 years later and this album just came out today, I'd be like, Holy shit, what a fresh sound I love this.

Instead of feeding people who are hungry, we are investing half our economy to make our celebrity deep fake videos more convincing.

In his defense, there’s a 0% chance he’s ever read The Great Gatsby.

My 7-year-old dressed her giraffe for a dance party tonight. “She put the feather in her hat and called it macaroni,” she told me.

Inspiration Blues by Warren Dunes is such a good song.

Is it possible to die from hearing KPop Demon Hunters songs too many times?

I saw someone (I forget where) write a few days ago, What if the House just stays in recess forever? Like, what if we’re all sitting here not realizing that the Legislative Branch abolished itself September 19? Trump is already facing zero consequences for illegal actions that defy Congress.

I HATE how much of being online is now just a tiresome game of playing amateur AI detective. Image generation has already ruined the joyful whimsy of seeing an unusual photo online, and now it’s doing the same to video.

American innovation and efficiency is amazing. 100 years ago, people thought the Teapot Dome scandal was a big deal. Now the White House can effortlessly knock out half a dozen Teapot Domes before they've finished their morning raw milk protein shakes.

Ugh, just got sloplash real bad. Sloplash - The feeling when one’s soul is crushed upon realizing that something they thought was good and real is actually just AI slop.

This is the first time the MLB app has ever put this y here

I suspect that over the past 15 years, the Mariners spent more time within two games of the postseason cutoff line than any other team, and it is not even close. Any baseball stat geeks (complimentary) know how to check this?

Sloptimism

We need a word for the gutting disappointment you feel when you see something that warms your heart and fills you with optimism but then your realize it was AI generated and never actually happened.

My seven-year-old saw this sign while we were waiting in a line for the bathroom and asked, “Why are only men allowed in that elevator?”

Don’t even worry, CVS has the Werther’s Originals safely locked up.

Sick of your pocket calculator using woke math? The all-new CalcGOP uses advanced technology to check with the Trump White House to ensure it never gives an answer that might offend the President. If woke math is detected, CalcGOP will automatically suggest a government-approved alternative!

Usually I am frustrated by the seemingly normal words that Firefox's spell checker does not know. But I'm actually impressed by this one. I will not be clicking "add to dictionary." What a horrible word.

Slashing Medicaid will kill poor and disabled Americans. Republicans know this and are trying to do it, anyway. This is what an actual extremist policy looks like. It kills people. Yet shitty Dems want to spend their time attacking Mamdani. Fight for the people, not against them. This is dire.

You all listened to the movie reviewers back in the 90s, so you missed this.

I met Jimmy Wales when I was in college and told him, “I like your website.”

I was obsessed with Smile by the Beach Boys back when the lost tapes leaked onto file sharing networks in the early 2000s. Nobody knew the song order until he performed it live in 2004, so everyone had to take these bootlegged tapes and try to create their own mixes. It was a lot of fun.

Tom's solution to reducing consumption to save the planet and your pocket book: Analysis paralysis. Wanna buy something? Spend an hour researching every possible option, carefully weighing the value of each only to conclude that by far the best bang for your buck is just using what you already have.

Tip-based pay doesn’t reward good service, it gives assholes a discount.

Communications person: I need to send out an email blast, so I'll give a chat bot a short bullet point list of things I need to say and let it write an email based on those points. What a time saver! Me: Ugh, this email is so long, why couldn't this just be a couple bullet points?!?

Every year there is whole new group of teens who get to listen to Either/Or by Elliott Smith for the first time. What an experience.

This morning, I tried to explain Creepy Crawler machines to my 7-year-old, and she had so many questions. First I had to explain that light bulbs used to get really hot. Then I explained that you could burn yourself if you touched the metal mould too soon. She thought these sounded like bad ideas.

Companies and organizations have got to stand up for what they believe in. If you truly believe in a more equitable world, then don’t hide that value from the public. Trust in your community to have your back. (First post on Skylight.)

Elon Musk would fire Inspector 34.

People bend over backwards to help rich people get what they want because they want some of their money. This is obvious to nearly everyone. But when these rich dudes see that even their on-a-whim bullshit ideas receive praise, they convince themselves that they must be geniuses.

OK, so AMC has a theater near my house that is 100% 21+. They show kids movies, but don't allow kids. They are also just blocks from a largely under-21 university. Instead of making the theater all-ages to see if that helps business, they are closing it: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

Council Forum Skips Past Land Use to Focus On Seward Park Drivers, Beat Cops, and "the Threat of Sound Transit" The applicants spent 15 minutes discussing how much they support cars on Lake Washington Blvd and how annoying it is when people park in front of your house. publicola.com/2025/01/22/c...

Anyone else getting a huge increase in spam calls and texts in the past 24 hours? I've gotten 20 calls and at least as many texts. Usually it's more like a couple a week max. None of the callers leave voicemail. Lots of different numbers.

If you haven't watched Season 3 Episode 8 of the Twin Peaks reboot, do yourself a favor and do it. It stands alone, so you can jump straight to it. Might be the most astounding hour of television I've ever seen. Feels almost like a reprise of Lynch's career packed into an hour. RIP.

Join me in checking out some of Seattle's latest bike infrastructure! youtu.be/v7NBbpFCfcM