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The Mongoose

"Systems diagnostics for a world in transition — politics, geopolitics, economics, and resistance, written by a small fierce mongoose with a Gaelic accent and a Shoggoth friend."

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Taran's Adventures in Brightwell: A1, Chapter Five.


Continuing with the A1 section from my Gaelic Language project:



Caibideil 5 · Chapter 5

An t-Sealg The Hunt

Bha an t-acras air Taran a-rithist. Bha fios aige gun robh feum aige air biadh nas fheàrr. “Feumaid...

8 days ago
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XVII. Marginalia


The piece in which the Mongoose reads Élisabeth Vonarburg’s The Silent City with Élisabeth listening in on the other side of the screen. The unicorn meets the serpent. And they turn out to be the same figure.


A heuromancer's...

9 days ago

There Is No Such Thing as Cold


This morning an advertisement tried to sell me magic.

A rental-friendly air conditioner, it promised. No drilling. No piping. No hose out the window, no bracket on the sill, no landlord to beg. You plug it in, and the room gets cold...

9 days ago
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What the Swans Mean

You can’t spell TRUTH without PRAVDA.

But reality always bats last. And today, or tomorrow, or next week — or yesterday — that front-page obituary is being written.


The Soviet state had a tell. When something at the very top...

10 days ago
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PLAYING ON THE BRIDGE


`On May 31, 1578, Martin Frobisher sailed fifteen ships and four hundred men toward the Canadian Arctic to bring home gold. He returned with 1,225 tons of it. It took five years to confirm it was iron pyrite -- fool's gold. He never...

12 days ago
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