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Not Everyone Wants Sausage

Notes from the Edge of a Ska Scene Before I got to college, the most I'd heard of reggae was Ziggy Marley's "Tomorrow People" on the radio and some cooler friends passing around Bob Marley's Legend. That was it. Reggae meant good

Plateau, Impasse, and the Work of Hope

A recent CrimethInc. article on the “plateau” or “impasse” of the Trump 2.0 era arrived on social media as both diagnosis and summons. It wears the language of analysis—historical comparison, enumerated objectives, retrospective narration—yet it is also unmistakably a call to action. The question worth asking is

Behind the Wheel

A Gentler Systems Analysis of Traffic Safety in Oregon Yesterday, Oregon woke up to a strange sort of compliment. Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety released their annual “Roadmap of State Highway Safety Laws” and put Oregon at the top of the heap. On paper, we were the traffic-safety

To All the Guns I’ve Shot Before: HK VP9SK

I found the VP9SK second-hand at the local FFL, a rebound impulse after the belated realization that Heckler & Koch truly is the Mercedes-Benz to Glock’s Toyota Auris. The epiphany arrived the moment I first handled a P30LS—ergonomics like someone in Oberndorf had spent an unreasonably

The Luminous Republic Gazetteer: Extra Edition

Special Civic Supplement for New Arrivals in the Furnace of Light Issued by Order of the Bureau of Renewal, Chicago, October 1920 A TiGGR One-Shot Set in the Republic of Madame Lumière FACILITATOR SIDEBAR: SETTING UP THE SESSION Before You Begin: Download and read the TiGGR rulebook. You’ll

Complexity Is the Bassline

A Listener's Notes on Jazz, Complicity, and Not "Getting" It If jazz is the last refuge of the discriminating snob, then where does it leave the listener who enjoys the music, thinks about the story behind the albums, and readily admits that he doesn't

A Playable Folktale: The Gallian Autumn

After the armistice, the harvest still comes. So does the cold. Tone: Melancholic hospitality. Harvest light fading into frost. Beauty that knows it's temporary. Length: 2–4 hours (single session or 2–3 session arc) THE WORLD Gallia is an alternate Europe—composite of French villages, Alpine valleys,

Did the Mouse Read Our Blog?

When Your Satire Becomes Someone Else’s Strategic Partnership There’s a particular kind of vertigo that hits when the world doesn’t just catch up to your speculation, but does so with the bored efficiency of a corporate earnings call. It’s not prophecy fulfilled, and it’s not

No Niin: When the Chickens Come Home to Roost

And the roost is about to collapse There’s a Finnish expression—no niin—that captures resignation, inevitability, and dry acknowledgment all at once. It’s what you say when the thing everyone knew was coming finally arrives. It’s what you mutter when the roof leaks again, or when

A Playable Folktale: The Patch

In a town that outlived its own future, the archives remember too much. Tone: Melancholic resilience. Fog and sodium light. The quiet after loud noise.Length: 2–4 hours (single session or 2–3 session arc) THE WORLD A coastal Oregon town once hosted server farms for Pacific Node West.