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Latest — 06 Jul 2026

Outside the Wall

Kicking at the Bricks Four Decades Later, Thanks to Goodwill For those who care, Pink Floyd's magnum opus, The Wall, is as colossal and dividing as its title. A bloated triumph of rock histrionics propelled by loads of major label cash, dressed in the caustically psychedelic imagery of

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The Easy Part

The first time most people fire a gun under my supervision, what surprises them is how little it asks. There's a flinch they were braced for, a noise the ear protection mostly eats, and then a hole in a paper target a few yards downrange. That's

'BAGS: Emergent Personnel

Classification: EYES ONLY — ASSET MANAGEMENT DIRECTORATE Subject: Anomalous Capability Emergence in Field Personnel — Operational Implications and Recommended Protocols Distribution: Handler Command, Medical Research Division, Personnel Pipeline Oversight Reference: Project Tselostnost Continuity File / Incident Reports 7 through 23 This memorandum does not exist in the official record. It is distributed on

Leo Fender's Chimera

How You Can't Play the Bass VI "Wrong" In 1961, Leo Fender built something that refused to be one thing. The Bass VI is tuned like a guitar — E to E, the same six intervals — but pitched a full octave down, so the range overlaps a

Third Eye Borg

THE MIND IS A BEAUTIFUL THING TO BLOW HOW TO RUN THIS 1. Psychic violence is automatic. A psion does not roll to touch a weak mind. Ever. The horror is the point. A mundane person in a room with a psion is livestock trapped with a wolf having a

When Anger Has Nowhere to Go

A Quiet Reassessment of Grief's Edges I'm no psychiatrist, nor do I play one on TikTok, but I'd like to take a crowbar to the Kübler-Ross stages anyway, because I think most of us are still using them wrong, and that misuse has

Third Eye Borg: Sublevel 9

A facility that exceeded its quota. A director who will not be buried. A chair that cannot be empty.A scenario scaffold for THIRD EYE BORG. Drop it into any Borg. Supply your own dying world. THE FRAME The world is not ending by prophecy. It is ending because too

Frogs in a Pot

How Some of Us Got Protective Gear, and How That Proves the Point “The kids these days aren’t getting the intellectual HEV Suits that we got in school,” says Gordon Freeman, who famously never said anything at all. As jokes go, it has legs. Amphibian legs, perhaps. We picture

Reading the Surfaces

Tokyo Melody and the Politics of Legibility Tokyo Melody: A Film about Ryuichi Sakamoto (1985) is both a portrait of a musician and a document of 1980s Tokyo, but its deeper subject is legibility itself — the conditions under which a person, a city, a nation, and finally a film become

Mille Teefs: Rally Report

Team WAAAGH (Grimtusk & Skarfang) vs Team DAKKA (Burna & Zogwort) Venue: somewhere with pistachio shells on the table Round 1. All four engines turn over on the first kick. Four WAAAGH! cards hit the table almost simultaneously, which either means the deck was stacked or Orks have better instincts