Tom Fucoloro

The iPhone calculator, but the plus sign is a swastika and the equals sign is an approximation sign.

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!

Text says, "influencers on social media." The word influencers is underlined to signify it is not recognized or is spelled wrong, even though it is correct.

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.

Any reporter looking for a real-world, local example of how this will affect your community should just call up any assisted living facility/nursing home and ask to talk to someone in the resident financing office. Ask them what would happen if Medicaid dried up.

And Medicaid isn’t just for people who are already poor, it’s also for people who didn’t think they were poor until a major medical issue or long term care wiped out every penny they had saved up. Happens all the time because our healthcare system is garbage. It’s there for any of us.

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.

Like, sure, the film might be better if the studio hadn't ripped it away from the creative team and recut it a Hollywood action film. But that's all ancient history now that we're several years beyond the film's 2021 setting. As an artifact of the 90s, it's so good. There's a cyber dolphin!

A scary guy with long hair with the subtitle "Jesus time."

The guy is on fire and being electrocuted with his arms outstretched.

Ice-T with a circle A tattoo on his forehead with subtitle "Piece of shit."

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.”

It led me to became a theatrical sound designer in college, which is how I met the friends who eventually led me to Seattle. Funny how life plays out.

The experience of digging through these old tapes was really impactful on me, though. I assumed that since it had been abandoned since 1969, it was never going to be released. It was a chance to play music producer with disjointed bits of genius and often bizarre takes.

Pretty much everyone assumed the album would be in two halves (two sides of vinyl). I remember being shocked when bootlegs of the first performance in London leaked and it turned out to be three acts. I quickly made a new mix with the correct order.

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.

They probably just caught some microdrafts that missed you. That’s a common weather phenomenon this time of year.

Well, none of this applies to bikes. You can buy those on vibes.

A new gpu would outperform mine by 150% at a price of $450 (after tax). But since my gpu costs $0, the price-per-performance advantage of keeping my existing gpu is literally infinity.

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.

Also, “make prayer great again” seems like wildly offensive statement. Prayer is a personal connection between a person and god. This dude thinks people’s prayer sucks and that they need government action to make it great?

I always tip! It's weird that if I were an asshole, I'd get a 20% discount.

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.

Hell yeah!

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.)

Freeze frame of little Pete and Inspector 34 from the 90s show Pete and Pete.

Elon Musk would fire Inspector 34.

The president’s new clothes are woven with yarn of naked racism, transphobia and bullying.

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.

I asked them once why they can't have any all-ages screenings, and they blamed WA liquor laws, which do suck. But come on. I'm sure there was a solution there somewhere.

10-screen Seattle movie theater will close for good this week The movie theater opened in 1989 as the Metro, park of the Landmark chain. Sundance Cinemas bought the theater in 2012, and it became an AMC in 2017.

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" - PubliCola By Erica C. Barnett The six men selected by the Seattle City Council as finalists for the District 2 city…

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.
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