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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

Gentle Cheerleading from the Left of the Dial: 42 Pitches for Noncommercial Radio DJs

It’s fundraising season again. Maybe your station used to have a staffer who handed you a tidy pitchbook—full of “listener-supported excellence” and “community-powered media” in that safe, sleepy tone borrowed from public broadcasting and toothpaste ads. Maybe that person is not around this time. Maybe now you’re

TiGGR: Codex of the Repo Men

A TiGGR Retrospective There’s always a car. Always a job. And always something in the back that shouldn’t be—but is. When we published Plate of Shrimp, Neon Delica Microvan, and Cor, Blimey!, they looked like standalone zines. Different tones, timelines, genres. A punk sci-fi collapse in Los

TiGGR: A Wizard of Earthsea

Where Balance Rolls 2d6 Earthsea is not a world of sword-swinging destiny or flashy power displays. It is a world of wind, water, and names—where words shape the world, and power comes with weight. This TiGGR scenario draws from the early threads of Ged’s story, not to replicate