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Latest — 21 Jul 2026

The Specimen

An essay about AI and water that spends more words taking its headline back than making it — and why that is the most honest thing about it First in a series on how debates about scarce resources get told as stories about personal guilt. You have probably met the number

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Neighbors

Play tonight. 1 GM, 2–4 players, 30–45 minutes. The city has always been shared. Most tenants just aren't on the lease. THE PITCH A city has cracks — literal ones, and the gaps between old agreements. Things live in those cracks: the accumulated residue of a city&

A Milk Run: Part Two

Every roll below is standard TiGGR: 2d6 + stat vs. Risky 6 / Dramatic 8 / Climactic 10. Where a saver says "beat by 4+," that's the threshold for the great result. Failure always fails forward — describe the wrench, dock the Margin, keep moving. Scene 1 — The Pitch &

The Riflemen and the Hares

Notes on Building TALUS TALUS started as a pun. Porg Borg. Say it out loud once and you can already hear the problem: a doom-metal apocalypse engine pointed at a CGI seabird that exists mostly because the real seabirds on a real island wouldn't leave the set.

The Other F-Word

It started, unsurprisingly, with a long-overdue doctor appointment. High blood pressure. High triglycerides. Low HDL. Numbers on a patient portal, followed by the seemingly universal Mediterranean diet recommendation, as if every physician in America had quietly bought shares in hummus. A month and a few days later, the surprise

Grots & Gretchens

A Lasers & Feelings Hack · While Da Waaagh Rages · Many Dice · Few Answers YER GROT OR GRETCHEN Name your Grot or Gretchen. There is no reason for this. Do not ask. Pick a Trait. This is how you endure. Trait How It Helps What It Costs Bitter Rallies other Grots

A Milk Run: A TiGGR Scenario

Touchstone: Jacques Tati's timing comedy + Lupin III's competent-crew improvisation — dignified people versus an uncooperative system, with a deadline. Components: 2d6, pencil and paper, the TiGGR core rules, an LLM optional but encouraged. Players: 1 GM + 2–4 crew. Playtime: One long session or two short

Combat Log: OGRE Unit Mk. V

SERIAL CV-7 ("STEADFAST") Engagement Reference: WAAAGH/INDETERMINATE Transcribed from recovered memory core, condition: operational Classification: FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH [T+00:00] Mission parameters confirmed. Advance on Paneuro firebase designation CRESTLINE. Destroy command post. Eliminate resistance. Return for maintenance cycle. Estimated engagement duration: four hours.

Speaking from the SRE Lane

Cross-Disciplinary Observations on AI Engineering Playbooks Notes from a DevOps/SRE practitioner on where agentic-engineering playbooks land for work that crosses ownership boundaries. Written to stand on its own — you don't need the specific playbook it responds to. Why this exists A colleague recently shared an

Psychiatric Help $0.05, The Shoggoth Is In

A Kedamono Opera Character Study & Scenario Seed "The Doctor has been in for a very long time." Content Warning This scenario seed contains: a predator that means well; the slow accumulation of care as a form of harm; an entity that cannot refuse; one patient who cannot