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Continue reading →: The Quiet WorkUpstairs, the Empire is ending. Down here, I have a shivering dog and a letter that must burn. They write the history, but it’s us in the shadows who do the quiet work of saying goodbye.
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Continue reading →: The Glass and the FireYou prize the gilded halo but ignore the beggar’s sores. Vanity! I shall shatter your silver glass to show the rot beneath. I am the fire that burns away the dross. Open your eyes, clerk, for judgment waits.
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Etheldred Benett: The Fossil Hunter Who Read the Earth in Secret
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Continue reading →: Etheldred Benett: The Fossil Hunter Who Read the Earth in SecretShe whispered to the earth, and it answered in stone. Forgotten for a century, England’s first female geologist finally speaks. Witness the resurrection of a lost legacy, uncovering the hidden strata of genius that flourished in the shadows of exclusion.
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Continue reading →: The Quiet Helm: A Case for TemperanceThey’re down on Market Street screaming about dreams. I’m here making the case for being boring. New Corinth doesn’t need more passion or performative “authenticity”; it needs the cold, quiet discipline to keep the water running.
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The Un-Invention Paradox: Why We Can’t Erase Technology
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Continue reading →: The Un-Invention Paradox: Why We Can’t Erase TechnologyFrom the atomic bomb to social media, wishing to ‘un-invent’ technology ignores historical reality. This analysis reveals why erasing inventions is impossible, arguing that ethical stewardship – not regression – is the only viable solution to technological harm.
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Continue reading →: Dial ToneA silent relic sits on a shelf, still warm with old habits. Between rings, a whole childhood learned how to wait. Now faces arrive instantly on glass – yet something tender, crackling, and unrepeatable has gone.
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Lot #2185: The “Lesser” Monomakh Orb of Metropolitan Macarius (c. 1546)
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Continue reading →: Lot #2185: The “Lesser” Monomakh Orb of Metropolitan Macarius (c. 1546)A sombre relic from the dawn of the Tsardom. Witness the “Lesser” Monomakh Orb, commissioned by Metropolitan Macarius for Ivan IV’s coronation in 1547 – a gilded burden designed to remind a teenage autocrat that absolute power is a divine weight, not a privilege.
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Continue reading →: Not a Pretty AnimalHe asked for my favourite animal. A trap disguised as a game. I chose the badger: not pretty, not tame, just stubborn enough to dig. In this city, beauty gets you killed, but digging might just get you home.
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Continue reading →: The Harvest of My EnvyI sowed poison in the ears of men to blight my brother’s name. Now the wheel turns, and I reap only dust. Hearken to the plain truth of a wasted soul before I am forever lost to memory.
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Matilda Joslyn Gage: The Radical Visionary Who Documented Women’s Stolen Inventions
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Continue reading →: Matilda Joslyn Gage: The Radical Visionary Who Documented Women’s Stolen InventionsA radical feminist visionary meets her modern interviewer. Gage reveals how institutions stole women’s inventions, why she split from the suffrage movement, and why her 19th-century warnings about church power feel urgently prophetic in 2026. Uncompromising. Witty. Brilliant.
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