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Tove and Touko from the Quiet Side of the Street

Two queer icons, one quiet country There’s a mythic hush that settles over Finland in the imagination. Long winters. Clean lines. A melancholy that’s cozy instead of cold. Into this hush walked two of the country’s most globally enduring cultural exports—Tove Jansson and Touko Laaksonen, better

The Trash Panda of The Truth Appears

A Collapse-Accelerant for Stack & Spiral Storytelling INTRO: WHO INVITED THIS CRITTER? The Trash Panda of The Truth doesn’t take sides. It takes away the floor. An omen to some, a glitch to others, the Trash Panda of The Truth wanders the borders of the Spiral—not to warn,

The Hammer and the Hollow Rhetoric

A viral claim says Republicans are taking $880 billion from food and healthcare to give to the richest 0.1%. The truth is more complex—and more devastating. This essay unpacks the real numbers, centers the people most affected, and asks what it means to live in a system that

The Spiral Opens: Our First Game Bundle Is Live

What began as a poetic ruleset about emotional failure has spiraled into something real. After just one week of design, recursion, and ritual, we’re proud to release our first complete game project: Stack & Spiral: The Whole Enchilada Bundle now available on itch.io → What Is Stack & Spiral?

“Hold My Beer,” Said the Global Famine

From the Shoulder of the Highway, Where the Bus Is on Fire Let’s say you’re a cloud engineer. Or a content strategist. Or a professional of any stripe, squinting into the AI horizon, wondering if your job’s going to survive the year. You scroll LinkedIn. You scan

The Party That Didn’t March: Notes on Absence, Movement, and What Comes Next

Thousands filled the streets on April 5, 2025—chanting, marching, organizing. Online, the energy burned bright. But the Democratic National Committee? Silent. This isn’t a callout. It’s a question: What does absence mean in a moment like this, and who decides what counts as movement?

Belonging by Design: Why Inclusion Needs Constraints

We like to think of inclusion as an open door—broad, welcoming, boundaryless. But as Erik Summerfield recently argued, every act of inclusion is also an act of exclusion. To draw a circle is to define its edge. That’s not a flaw. That’s a feature of design. Erik’

Ripples, Not Headlines: Notes from the Day After

April 6, 2025 – Portland, Oregon I checked the front pages this morning—Fox News, Washington Post, New York Times. Nothing. No mention of the Hands Off protests that rolled through dozens of cities yesterday, including a 10,000-strong crowd that took over Portland’s bridges and waterfront. Nothing above the

Oblique Companions

A 6d6 Table for Letting Go and Letting Grow Now available as a Creative Commons artifact We’ve been walking the long trail of creative practice—sometimes in a sprint, sometimes with a yogurt cup in one hand. Along the way, something quiet and surprising emerged. A deck. A table.

Tariffs, Markets, and Metrics: Why Big Money Is Waiting

Several economists and economic analysts have adopted a cautious, observational stance regarding the effects of the recent tariffs implemented by the Trump administration as of April 5, 2025. While few use the phrase “wait and see” explicitly, many institutional responses imply this approach: * Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell In early