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Latest — 09 Jul 2026

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

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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

Orks & OGRE

A pocket wargame about Orks trying to stop, loot, ram, board, dismantle, and/or die memorably beneath a cybernetic supertank. Based on the design chassis of Ogre by Steve Jackson Games. This is an unofficial fan hack. Warhammer 40,000 and all associated names are the property of Games Workshop.

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

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