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The Revolution Will Be Hand-Knitted: Meet the Trolley Magi

Tabletop RPGs often cast resistance fighters as young heroes—chosen ones with swords and spells. We don't imagine Maureen from Flat 3B, who remembers when the miners had power, The Clash fought the law (and the law won), and uses her shopping trolley to disrupt surveillance grids. But

Little Spectacles: A Night of Resistance in a Crater Theater

The other night at the Clinton Street Theater, I watched my old college radio buddy Doug Dillaman achieve something genuinely subversive: he got people to drive 800+ miles to eat fake raw chicken in the dark while contemplating alien gut parasites. This is what victory looks like when you refuse

The Gun That Goes With You: Questioning Traditional CCW Wisdom

Or: Why "G19 or stay home" might be missing the point entirely There's a persistent orthodoxy in concealed carry circles that sounds something like this: "Carry the biggest gun you can conceal. If you can't carry a Glock 19 (or an M&

The Bone-Bag Syndicate

A UVG-Inspired Caravan of Necro-Logistics, Bureaucratic Liches, and a Dog Named Delia The Caravan A rickety, skull-festooned wagon creaks across the wastes, pulled by pale horses and loaded with burlap sacks that sway with sinister intent. These aren't mere trade goods—they're the embalmed heads of

The AI Takeover That Isn’t

Why Organizations Thrive When They Prioritize People Over Hype When NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang declared that "if you're not using AI, you're going to lose your job to somebody who uses AI," he crystallized a narrative that has dominated tech media and executive LinkedIn

Derelict of the Day: The Communal Dream

A Sci-Fi Horror One-Shot Adventure Background The players are part of a salvage crew or rescue operation that has detected a derelict courier ship, "The Communal Dream," drifting in orbit around a mysterious dead planet. What they discover aboard will test their sanity and survival instincts as they

The System Worked (and That's the Problem)

A systems-level autopsy of United States v. Skrmetti — and how institutions convert moral urgency into outcomes that betray their values. This essay was written not in cynicism but in grief — and with care. It is offered in the hope that more honest accounting of how systems behave can help us

The Archival Spell: Kate Bush and the Politics of Cultural Memory

I still dream of Orgonon. The line floats through Terry Gilliam's miniature movie, Kate Bush transformed into Peter Reich, Donald Sutherland towering as the persecuted scientist Wilhelm Reich. The cloudbusting machine—part Tesla coil, part Victorian fever dream—stretches toward the sky in a gesture of pure theatrical

The Mon-keigh Mirror: How We Built a Machine to Echo Us and Then Panicked

A satirical examination of AI alignment discourse through the lens of cultural archaeology and Warhammer 40,000 Prologue: "We tried to psychoanalyze the Monster, and they is us." What started as reading a breathless news piece about "evil" AI vectors somehow gained gravity-assisted velocity, slung around

From Duct Tape to Digital Dice: A Gaming Life in Three Acts

How constraints, complexity, and creative tools shaped one designer's journey through decades of tabletop gaming Act I: The Scarcity Years My tabletop gaming journey began with the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set—so basic that dice weren't included. I had to save allowance money to buy