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The Bells of Marienburg

A Playable Folktale in Five Candles For those who came seeking salvation, and stayed to see what else arrived. The Tale as It Is Told They say Greta Marienburg was taken by the forest in the days before Lent. She returned barefoot, eyes pale as ash, speaking Latin she’d

What If Your Next Retro Was an RPG One-Shot?

A different approach to "gamifying" Agile. You’re 38 minutes into a Friday retrospective. The burndown chart’s been shared. The “What went well” sticky notes are quietly optimistic. The “What didn’t go well” ones are tinged with tired sarcasm. The facilitator is gently herding the conversation

Sacred Glitches: The Shape of Constraint

A call-and-response essay on memory, imperfection, and the art of echo Authors' Note: On Glitches, Memory, and Meaning This essay began as a conversation — an echo between collaborators, bouncing through metaphors and memories, misfires and musings. What started as a question about glitches in AI images quickly unraveled into

TiGGR: We've Gone on Holiday by Mistake!!!

You & Withnail & I and TiGGR A Note Before the Madness Withnail & I is remembered for its boozy witticisms, its fog of lighter fluid, and its crumbling country cottage—but what gives the film its staying power isn’t just the comedy. It’s the aching heart beneath

TiGGR: Shaman Shenanigans in the Jungle Room

A TiGGR One-Shot of Cosmic Crimps and Glitter Beasts From Crimp to Canon: Revisiting the Boosh Through Glittered Glasses It’s been over two decades since The Mighty Boosh first aired. For many, it wasn’t just a show—it was a frequency. You either tuned in or missed the

The Witness at the Threshold

Working the Middle Path in the Age of AI Part I: The Essay I didn’t build the model. I didn’t train the data. I’m not on a safety team or a policy task force. But I work near enough to the machine to feel its hum. I

End Times vs. Refusal

A Field Note for the Present Storm Prelude: The Bunker Instinct The Guardian article hit like an alarm bell. “End times fascism,” it declared—a phrase engineered to vibrate in the bones. Trump, Musk, Christian nationalism, tech authoritarianism, economic collapse. It was, in many ways, correct. A real-time catalog of

Cookies, Cables, and Keanu: Mapping the Modern Soul

An excerpt from the Lemur’s Field Guide to Posthuman Cartography “Know thyself,” they said. “Clear your cache,” they meant.” Let’s say someone wants to understand you. Not you-you—not the one with thoughts and feelings and that weird childhood memory involving a balloon and a goat. No, they

Never Leave the Stream

David Bowie and the Current of Impermanence “I watch the ripples change their size / But never leave the stream of warm impermanence…” — Changes, David Bowie Some artists leave behind albums. Bowie left resonance. In The Current, we speak often of Weathering—how one becomes Frayed, Worn, Unmoored. Of how the

Posture, Not Policy: Why We’re Creating BSEP

A Field Note from the Shadowplay SRD In the rush to regulate and adopt AI, most frameworks fall into two camps: top-down policy documents aimed at governments and tech companies, or developer guidelines wrapped in high-level ethics. These are important. But they leave out the one figure increasingly at the