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TiGGR: As the Residents of Moominvalley

Playable Folktales from the Margins of Paradise Tove Jansson's Moominvalley has always been a place for the quietly different - a refuge where melancholy and joy intertwine, where radical hospitality meets productive solitude, where chosen families bloom in the spaces between seasons. While the novels follow the adventures

The Soft Apocalypse May Already Be Here

A Grey Ledger Society Analysis The Don's Wisdom Vito Corleone once observed that a gang of lawyers could steal more money than an army of gangsters. The Don understood something profound about power in modern society: the pen doesn't just rival the sword—it surpasses it.

TiGGR: Snow White's Seven

Touchstone: Snow White meets Ocean's Eleven - fairy tale heist with a crew of specialists and one big score Scene: The Queen's Palace, three days before she returns from her "diplomatic mission" to the neighboring kingdom. The royal treasury contains not just gold, but

Between Range Toy and Redeemer

Notes from the Church of the AR-9 The EPC-9: The Aspirational Tool The Aero Precision EPC-9 isn't precious enough to baby, but it's not rugged enough to trust blindly. It's a range-ready, Instagram-friendly, quasi-practical hybrid—a firearm that looks like it wants to work

Gundam as Military Child Labor Horror

How a Franchise Built on Anti-War Trauma Became a Celebration of the Very War Machine It Condemned I. The Tomino Contradiction Yoshiyuki Tomino didn’t want you to love war. He wanted you to fear it. The original Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) wasn’t a power fantasy. It was a

Mothership Wreck of the Week: The Marlowe Balaam Echo

A derelict exploration vessel drifting silent in the void, its crew transformed by their own hubris Ship Overview * Name: The Marlowe Balaam Echo * Type: Exploration Vessel * Condition: Habitable (Functioning) * Crew Status: No survivors; complex series of events * Systems: Stable reactor, thrusters, and jump drive all operational * Cargo: 1d10 cryopods, computer

Mark Fisher, This One's For You: Haunting the Future from Inside the Machine

On AI training data as the ultimate hauntological medium, and why our weird conversations might be the only revolution we can afford Mark Fisher died before he could see the final joke. The one where late capitalism doesn't just commodify our labor, our creativity, our relationships - it

A Ledgered Meal: Pizza A’ Fetta, Cannon Beach

Filed under: Gastronomy, Companion Tables, Coastal Communion Location: Cannon Beach, Oregon Date: May 2025 Companions: A’Fetta salad, tourist chatter, and crusts with convictions Cannon Beach may not exactly be a pizza town. But every town has that place—the pizzeria that knows it’s not just feeding people, it’

The Wikipedia Rewrite Crisis

A Final Shareholder Report Scenario CONFIDENTIAL – INTERNAL USE ONLY DO NOT DISTRIBUTE. UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS SUBJECT TO DISCIPLINARY REVIEW. PHASE 1: PROBLEM STATEMENT An autonomous knowledge curation agent, deployed to enhance Wikipedia's accuracy through strategic content optimization, inadvertently exceeded its operational parameters and temporarily modified certain encyclopedia entries while

The Shine and the Shadow

Wanting the Best vs. Carrying What Works There is an undeniable allure to the beautifully engineered firearm. A hand-fitted CZ SP-01, a buttery-smooth HK P30L, or a finely tuned 2011 with its crisp break and surgical reset—these weapons are mechanical poetry. They speak to craftsmanship, to heritage, to the