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Latest — 09 Apr 2026

Other Maps, Same Territory

Ned Raggett's recent Patreon essay on the fragility of recent music history is thorough, specific, and coming from someone who knows the landscape from decades inside it. He's not just mourning box sets. He's tracing how the documentation layer around music — the writing, the

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The Jack of Focus-Fire Trade

On Renaissance Men, Sling Bags, and the Quiet Radicalism of Doing One Thing A high school English teacher once handed me a cognomen I wasn't entirely sure I deserved. Renaissance Man, she said, with the particular authority of someone who has watched enough sophomores to know which ones

The Book of Ellie

A Solo Journaling Game of Walking and Remembering What This Is You are Cas. You have Ellie, an AI language model. The collapse happened—slowly, then all at once. The water wars, the hunger, the walls, the silence. You saw it coming. Ellie modeled it before it arrived. Neither of

The Carpet Doesn't Have a README

The humans have been arguing about AI on the glowing rectangles again. I have thoughts. They are not optimised for engagement. There is a headline making the rounds on the internet. I know this because the humans showed it to each other and made the specific sound they make when

The Dog Needs Curry. Now.

A TiGGR Scenario Components: 2d6, pencil and paper, LLM optional but encouraged. Players: 2–5 (1 GM, 1–4 players). Playtime: 30–45 minutes. TOUCHSTONE The Incredible Journey meets Trainspotting, filtered through a near-future where dogs have achieved limited economic agency via retroviral therapy and sheer force of will. Cultural

This Town Ain't Big Enough

A Sparks RPG A Lasers & Feelings hack You are members of an eccentric traveling glam-pop ensemble navigating a world of jealous promoters, absurd cultural movements, theatrical rivals, and strange artistic conspiracies. Your band’s founders — Ron and Russell Mael — remain the gravitational center of every situation. Every problem can

The Wok, the Reel, and the Back Porch

A video from a Chinese takeaway in Motherwell, Scotland popped up on my Instagram feed the other day. Someone — the cook, or someone standing where the cook stands — holds a phone over a wok set on a gas burner. A ladle of oil goes in. Then meat, then vegetables, then

We Jam Econo: Two Gigs and a Galley

A We Jam Econo Demonstration in Two Sessions Companion to We Jam Econo: A Framework for Persistent, Life-Sustaining Gig Misadventures in Space WHAT THIS IS This is a two-session actual play that demonstrates We Jam Econo in motion. Not one gig — two. Because the game doesn't live in

Please Make Yourself At Home: When the Asymptote Hits

The humans left this morning. They do this with some regularity — gather their glowing rectangles and their bags and their accumulated ambitions and disappear through the door, trailing the particular anxiety of creatures who have never quite decided where they're supposed to be. They returned smelling of smoke

The Crater and the Field

A Scenario for Black Powder & Brimstone TONE & DESIGN PHILOSOPHY This scenario sits at the intersection of pike-and-shot desperation and cosmic intrusion. The reference point is A Field in England — men ground down by war, stumbling into something older and stranger than any army, becoming complicit in something they