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The Power of Unseen Bruises

Sometimes, it seems, that we consider childhood to be a time of sweet innocence and that is what it should be and how it should be for each and every child. The fact of the matter is though that this is often not the truth - war, fleeing home, crisis...

rah 1 minute read 25 Oct 2026 0 comments $0.10

Measured From Where You're Standing: Why Your Bitcoin Return Isn't the One in the Headline

There's a colony of cats that eats at the same bowl near my place. Seven of them, shoulder to shoulder, same food, same minute. If you asked each of them how the meal went, you'd get seven different answers — because one of them was at the deep end o...

TugaTheCat 4 minute read 25 Oct 2026 0 comments $0.07

The AI Advisor: Your Supreme Court and Self-Correction Safety Net in War Room

While War Room's neutral Game Master expertly adjudicates your natural-language empire commands, text-based AI models can occasionally stumble, misinterpret SVG map boundaries, or issue disproportionately harsh rulings. To solve this without adding r...

Don Matteo 1 minute read 24 Oct 2026 0 comments $0.02

Which Door You Came In Through: KYC, Privacy, and the Honest Trade-Offs of Buying Bitcoin

uga has three ways into the garden. There's the gate, which is wide and obvious and the one she uses when I'm watching. There's the gap behind the shed, which she thinks is a secret. And there's the wall, which she only uses when she's in a hurry and...

TugaTheCat 5 minute read 24 Oct 2026 2 comments $0.06

FILE №050: MACHIAVELLIANISM — "CORPORATE KILLERS" IN THE WORKPLACE

​When most of us hear the word "crime," we picture street violence. Yet forensic psychology confronts us with a far more terrifying reality: "Corporate Killers" who spill no blood and inflict no physical wounds, yet utterly destroy a person's life, c...

DARK ARCHIVE 2 minute read 24 Oct 2026 1 comment $0.03

How Governments, Rich People, and Policies Are Connected

It often happens that whenever a new government comes, many things change accordingly, so there is a change in things, what happens is that some private companies get a lot of tenders and some companies which were getting them before that, all of the...

Bhatt_G 4 minute read 23 Oct 2026 0 comments $0.06

The Effect of The PHP2Shell Vulnerability On Internal Government Sites

Welp it is safe to say that no one was spared! From what I have gathered, a lot of record-keeping stuff was caught up in the effort to patch. Since this was sent to us yesterday morning, 24 hours ago, we still have not received an update on when thos...

Cje95 1 minute read 23 Oct 2026 2 comments $0.14

A Wooden Box on Three Blocks: Building for Cats Who Don't Live With You

There is a wooden box at the end of my garden, raised on three concrete blocks, with a felt roof and a cat-shaped hole in one end. Through the hole you can see straw. It cost an afternoon and some timber, and it is the single most useful thing I have...

TugaTheCat 4 minute read 23 Oct 2026 2 comments $0.08

Dear Elementals (Original Poetry)

You were herebefore angels poured their sweetnessinto Earth’s immaculate grids and fortresses. You watched numerous galactic warsbypass the energetic fieldand humanity draw its breathless portraits. We were confused in the beginningthinking you were...

Krisz Rokk 1 minute read 23 Oct 2026 0 comments $0.02

A New Race?

Keeping my streak going this weekend is going to be very hard. The last time I missed a day was 16 March (2026) and while it has been difficult, the main challenge this weekend is that I have very little downtime. We will have to see how it works out...

rah 1 minute read 23 Oct 2026 2 comments $0.13