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title: "Changelog"
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[Stimpunks](https://stimpunks.org/) × [More Realms](https://morerealms.com/) · Star Stuff Changelog

[Stimpunks Foundation](https://stimpunks.org/) × [More Realms](https://morerealms.com/) · What Changed, and When

# *Changelog*

Every piece as it arrived, every substantial revision, and every fact-check — corrections included. These are living documents, and a living document should show its work.

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This log is backfilled from the collection's full commit history and kept up from here. It records three kinds of change: **pieces added**, **pieces substantially revised**, and **fact-check and attribution audits** — including the errors we found in our own work and exactly how we fixed them. Small typo passes and styling tweaks are left out; anything that changes what a piece *claims* is in.

**150 dated entries across 3 months, one page each.** This was a single page until 14 September 2026, when it had reached 1.4 MB and was growing by about six entries a day — the same argument that split [the Glimmer Wire](https://starstuff.earth/collection-glimmer-wire.html) into one page per edition. **The cost is stated rather than hidden:** you can no longer search the whole history with your browser's find-in-page. [Site search](https://starstuff.earth/search.html) covers it, every entry keeps the address it always had, and a link to any of them still lands on the right entry.

Why publish our corrections

We braid real science with ideas credited to named thinkers, so the facts and the attributions have to be right. We're human, and we've gotten things wrong — a paraphrase dressed as a Sagan quote, a Martin Luther King Jr. line credited to Baldwin, a forest-wide fungal network asserted as settled fact because it rhymed so well with mutual aid. Naming those in public is part of the method, not an embarrassment to bury.

The working guidelines and the full per-piece ledger live in [FACTCHECK.md](https://github.com/Stimpunks/Star-Stuff/blob/main/FACTCHECK.md). If you spot an error, [open an issue](https://github.com/Stimpunks/Star-Stuff/issues) or reach us at [stimpunks.org](https://stimpunks.org). **Corrections are mutual aid.**

## [September 2026](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html)

96 entries · 70 added · 34 revised · 117 fact-checks · 114 site — [read the month →](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html)

- [2026 · September 20 The feed was dating every entry by whoever generated it last, and told a different day than the page it came from](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-20-feed-timezone)
- [2026 · September 20 We spent five weeks asking permission for a character we own, and the error survived because it looked like care](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-20-quillery-ownership)
- [2026 · September 18 Glimmer Wire, edition four — four papers read end to end, and a median lag that tripled because of it](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-18-glimmer-wire-0918)
- [2026 · September 17 The Big Bang had no location, so it happened where you are sitting — and a geometry with no middle has no far end](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-17-where-you-are-sitting)
- [2026 · September 14 This page had grown to 1.4 megabytes, so it is now one page per month — and every old link still lands on the right entry](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-14-changelog-split)
- [2026 · September 14 A second table of contents that lives in the margin, and gets out of the way when the page gets wide](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-14-rail)
- [2026 · September 14 Eight of our seventeen collection pages were telling machines they held a fraction of what they hold](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-14-eleventh-check)
- [2026 · September 14 The sentence this whole collection is named after was being sung to audiences three years before Carl Sagan published it](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-14-ls-essay)
- [2026 · September 13 Our design page said this site depends on Google’s font servers. Our privacy page said it doesn’t. The privacy page was right.](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-13-fonts-claim)
- [2026 · September 13 Twenty-four long essays here had no table of contents, and eight of them run past five thousand words](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-13-contents)
- [2026 · September 13 The tool that writes our security policy could be fooled by a sentence about itself, and the reason was a Turkish letter](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-13-csp-walk)
- [2026 · September 13 You can now change the words on a page without editing HTML — and there is a list of what it will not let you change](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-13-editor)
- [2026 · September 13 A style rule kept for a class no page has ever used](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-13-unused-hook)
- [2026 · September 13 Twenty-four style rules that were written out a thousand times, and two wrong theories about why that was safe](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-13-shared-furniture)
- [2026 · September 13 One page-turning function instead of 107, and the security policy got a quarter smaller for free](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-13-shared-pager)
- [2026 · September 13 A thousand style rules that styled nothing, and the two bugs in the tool that found them](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-13-dead-css)
- [2026 · September 13 We said the cover artwork lay across the subtitle on 93 covers. It was 23, and we made the exact mistake our own checker was built to avoid](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-13-ink-not-boxes)
- [2026 · September 12 A byline has one field and contribution has fourteen — the constructive half of the credit run](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-12-fourteen-kinds)
- [2026 · September 12 A catalogue of missing names, including the two stories we had to correct against ourselves](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-12-missing-names)
- [2026 · September 12 105 of our 108 zine covers were broken on a phone, and the gate that would have caught it had written down in advance that it would not](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-12-phone-covers)
- [2026 · September 12 The primary source contradicted the zine we set out to write, so we wrote the one it supports](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-12-scruff)
- [2026 · September 12 Four letters, and the half of the 1953 paper nobody quotes — plus the finding that prompted this zine and is not in it](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-12-four-letters)
- [2026 · September 12 · latest The man who coined the genetic code wrote the correction four lines later. It took the rest of us eighty years](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-12-too-narrow)
- [2026 · September 12 An onion has five times more DNA than you do, so whatever it is, it is not a plan of anybody](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-12-onion)
- [2026 · September 12 We said a 1961 paper could not be read. It could, and our own working notes already said how](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-12-nirenberg)
- [2026 · September 12 One number was doing two jobs, so it came apart three times — twice at our own hands](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-12-demo-count)
- [2026 · September 12 Sixty-four words, twenty beads — and the promise No. 105 made on its own face, kept](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-12-spell-it)
- [2026 · September 12 We said no page here contacts Google for fonts. One still did, and it was the one no sweep could reach](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-12-fonts)
- [2026 · September 11 A read-aloud about the Goldilocks Zone — and a correction, from the reader who proposed it, that made the zine better](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-11-just-right)
- [2026 · September 11 Queering Earth introduces itself by naming this site. The front page now names it back](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-11-sibling)
- [2026 · September 11 Glimmer Wire, edition three — the week the network answered, and a correction of ours still out on the wire](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-11-glimmer-wire-3)
- [2026 · September 10 Yes, you may train on this — said out loud, to thirteen named crawlers](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-10-crawlers)
- [2026 · September 10 Ctrl+F now reaches the field notes while they are still folded away — and the thing we said needed fixing did not](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-10-find-in-page)
- [2026 · September 10 A favicon that only worked in one place, and two link relations we said were standard and are not](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-10-discovery)
- [2026 · September 10 If you replace our colours with your own, 4,862 diagram labels had almost no contrast — and the first thing we “found” was not real](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-10-forced-colours)
- [2026 · September 9 We said our sister site ships Markdown mirrors with no staleness check. It does not, and we should have looked at the gate rather than the comment](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-09-qe-correction)
- [2026 · September 9 Fifty-seven pages now have a Markdown twin at the same address — and a hundred and forty-one deliberately do not](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-09-markdown)
- [2026 · September 9 A tool called build-whats-new was building four things, only one of which is What’s New](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-09-rename)
- [2026 · September 9 Two hundred and thirty-three onclick attributes are gone, and with them the one weak keyword in the security policy](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-09-handlers)
- [2026 · September 9 This morning we said a real Content-Security-Policy was impossible here. It is not — we had stopped at two options when there are three](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-09-csp)
- [2026 · September 9 If you find a hole in this site, there is now somewhere to send it that isn't a public issue](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-09-security)
- [2026 · September 9 A description on this site read “The culture end of Star Stuff, where” and stopped — for a month, because of one unescaped quotation mark](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-09-llms)
- [2026 · September 9 One picture on this site weighed 2.3 megabytes to be displayed four hundred pixels wide](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-09-images)
- [2026 · September 9 Every page on this site handed your address to Google before it drew a word — and we only found out because we sat down to write the privacy page](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-09-privacy)
- [2026 · September 9 A screen reader can now tell you which column a table cell is in — and two numbers we published this morning were wrong](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-09-tables)
- [2026 · September 9 Every page on this site made a keyboard reader walk past six links to reach the first word — on all 197 of them, since the first one shipped](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-09-skip-links)
- [2026 · September 8 The blood a horned lizard squirts at a coyote is made out of the ants it eats — and the viral claim we went looking to confirm is in none of the ten papers](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-08-blood-ants)
- [2026 · September 7 A leaf does not fade. It stays green, and green, and green — and then it turns in about a week](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-07-stays-green)
- [2026 · September 7 A barn owl’s two ears are at different heights — and at least five separate lines of owl arrived at that, never the same way twice](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-07-one-ear)
- [2026 · September 7 A dandelion seed flies on the parts that are not there — and the demonstration we planned would have taught a child the opposite](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-07-holes)
- [2026 · September 7 A dog breathes out through the sides of its nose, so the smell stays put](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-07-sideways)
- [2026 · September 7 The first animal we ever domesticated, and nobody can say where it came from](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-07-dog-wars)
- [2026 · September 7 Four dogs told thirty-six strangers apart by smell, and it explains the quiet room](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-07-channel)
- [2026 · September 7 Every collection page now says what it is before it says how it works](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-07-collections)
- [2026 · September 7 Zine No. 96 — an animal that matches a colour it cannot see, and nobody knows how](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-07-cuttlefish)
- [2026 · September 7 The eighteenth receipt — and a correction to a correction notice on this page](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-07-eighteenth)
- [2026 · September 7 We read all ten printable sheets for the same fault. Two had it; one of those had it worst of all.](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-07-sheets)
- [2026 · September 7 Our broadside of refusals broke its own most-repeated refusal, on the back of the same sheet](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-07-refusals)
- [2026 · September 7 We fixed the shear error on one page yesterday. It was on seven.](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-07-shear-sweep)
- [2026 · September 7 A 2021 review states the mechanism both ways on the same page, which is how the error travelled](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-07-reviews)
- [2026 · September 7 We read the two papers at full text and found an error the abstracts had been hiding](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-07-primaries)
- [2026 · September 7 Our first zine was arguing against its own refusals, so we rebuilt the argument on measurement instead of physics](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-07-bone-song)
- [2026 · September 6 The element guide had hung a property of bone onto calcium, and stated the disputed part outright](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-06-calcium)
- [2026 · September 6 We rebuilt our first zine to the standard we invented after making it](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-06-bone-song-revised)
- [2026 · September 6 We made a read-aloud of our founding zine, and it found two faults in the fact this whole site is built on](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-06-bone-song-read-aloud)
- [2026 · September 6 A sixteenth collection, and the first one sorted by who it is for](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-06-young-readers)
- [2026 · September 6 Two more read-aloud zines, and the second one is built on a correction to itself](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-06-two-readalouds)
- [2026 · September 6 Zine No. 92: we tried to write about frogs and lily pads, and got the relationship wrong twice](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-06-one-leaf)
- [2026 · September 6 Zine No. 91: the first one written to be read aloud, and it does not lower the bar to do it](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-06-pond-is-late)
- [2026 · September 6 Field Guide No. 24: nineteen organisms, sorted by which assumption each one breaks](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-06-sexes-guide)
- [2026 · September 6 Zine No. 90: the sex lives of Terran life, and the argument we are refusing to make about them](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-06-strike-his)
- [2026 · September 6 The migrating field guide gets its sixteenth way, and it is the one nobody can explain](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-06-migrating-whale)
- [2026 · September 6 Zine No. 89: a whale holds a line nobody can explain, and carries a cargo it is not trying to carry](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-06-nobody-set-out)
- [2026 · September 6 A fourth drawing sheet — and the scale it was built around turned out to be unbuildable, so the page publishes that instead](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-06-glimmery)
- [2026 · September 6 A second Trigger, on the ocean — and the convention it was opened to test survived, except in one place](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-06-marine-biologist)
- [2026 · September 5 A Mission page, because the collection had one for what we hold and none for what we are trying to do](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-05-mission)
- [2026 · September 5 A What’s New page and an RSS feed, both generated, because a hand-kept list of 150 pieces is a stale list](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-05-whats-new)
- [2026 · September 5 The UN voted to change the world map, every headline got the reason wrong, and the resolution itself did not](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-05-which-distortion)
- [2026 · September 5 · later still No. 88, a chain about a record with no words in it — and the title it was banned for was not the musician’s](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-05-rumble-chain)
- [2026 · September 5 · later Four dead embeds across the Sound shelf, and the rule that was supposed to catch them](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-05-dead-embeds)
- [2026 · September 5 An eighth rack, on Indigenous punk and metal — and the shelf it sits on had three wrong numbers on it](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-05-indigenous-punk)
- [2026 · September 4 · later still A sixteenth collection, for bad news that comes with a way out — and its first issue, on the 1.5 °C overshoot](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-04-triggers)
- [2026 · September 4 · later Two varieties of one pepper, the same solar panels, and two opposite answers — neither of which is the failure](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-04-two-peppers)
- [2026 · September 4 Glimmer Wire is a collection now, one page per edition — because two editions on one page was already a wall](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-04-glimmer-wire-collection)
- [2026 · September 4 The block lifted, we read the papers, and the two worst errors turned out to be ours rather than the coverage’s](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-04-glimmer-wire-two-amended)
- [2026 · September 4 This week’s digest could not open a single source, so nothing in it is graded verified — and we published it saying so](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-04-glimmer-wire-two)
- [2026 · September 3 · later We credited an elephant with recognising itself in a mirror. The study was of a different species — and the species is what made its control work](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-03-fg11-correction)
- [2026 · September 3 Three papers on one desk disagree about whether birds inherited the circuit or built it twice. Every popular version picks one](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-03-older-than-either-of-us)
- [2026 · September 2 · later still A professional ethics code names the environment once in 6,825 words. Its replacement, out this November, names it not at all](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-02-six-principles)
- [2026 · September 2 · end of the day We repeated a critic’s charge that a headline had exceeded a paper. The sentence was in the paper’s own abstract](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-02-fibromyalgia)
- [2026 · September 2 · last of the day The counter-evidence was published in 1969. The Pulitzer-winning book that spread the model came out in 1977 — and it is one of the two books this site is built on](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-02-the-lizard)
- [2026 · September 2 · later still Saturn’s hexagon was the only one of its kind for forty-four years, and one example held still that long is very hard to tell apart from a rule](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-02-until-there-were-ten)
- [2026 · September 2 · later still A weekly science digest that publishes what it declined to tell you — and whose first edition contains nothing we were able to verify](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-02-glimmer-wire)
- [2026 · September 2 · later the same day We reported an accessibility bug in 163 headings. There was no bug. We had read a tool’s output instead of the thing the tool was named after](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-02-the-br-that-was-not-a-bug)
- [2026 · September 2 Only three of the most important things that ever happened were moments — and the famous thirty seconds turns out to be a television documentary, not a finding](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-02-so-many-earths)
- [2026 · September 1 A dandelion root changes the soil for seventy micrometres and nothing at all beyond that — and a line credited for years to the writer who was quoting it](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-09.html#2026-09-01-the-width-of-itself)

## [August 2026](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html)

45 entries · 106 added · 19 revised · 102 fact-checks · 53 site — [read the month →](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html)

- [2026 · August 31 Forty-five bees, nine hundred and ten rolls, and a proposal re-scoped after it collided with its own author’s zine](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-31-the-play-you-keep)
- [2026 · August 31 A new collection for hopeful science news — a telescope that will need its thrusters forever, and a qualifier that keeps falling off](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-31-glimmers)
- [2026 · August 30 Entropy increases in an isolated system — and the qualifier keeps falling off](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-30-rainbow-serpents)
- [2026 · August 30 A river is the first author of a law journal article — and the flattering version of that story is wrong](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-30-already-an-entity)
- [2026 · August 29 The most expensive smell on earth, and the reason it is not in the mushroom](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-29-mushroom-cannot-be-farmed)
- [2026 · August 29 Thirteen habitats we made by accident — and, on every card, the improvement now removing it](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-29-third-nature)
- [2026 · August 29 Sameness had to be built, and the bill was paid by people — a chain from the sugarcane plantation to the mushroom nobody can farm](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-29-oblivious-to-encounter)
- [2026 · August 29 Trauma work built a dozen words for a nervous system going badly. The opposite got one, in 2018](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-29-one-word-for-the-opposite)
- [2026 · August 29 A number to four decimal places said where a human life begins to go well, and a part-time student took it apart by reading the source everyone had cited](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-29-four-decimal-places)
- [2026 · August 29 Knowing exactly where a problem lives does not make it cheap to fix — it only makes it impossible to keep blaming the wrong thing](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-29-you-cannot-correct-the-sky)
- [2026 · August 29 Separate things can become a structure that carries weight without any of them ceasing to be separate](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-29-nothing-melts)
- [2026 · August 29 The most-repeated result in vision science is a promotion of a claim about a cell into a boast about an organ](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-29-forty-minutes-to-see)
- [2026 · August 29 Eighteen beautiful words for Autistic joy, and what is actually holding each one up — which turns out not to be one kind of thing](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-29-under-the-word)
- [2026 · August 29 Six ways a moss fails as a plant, every line of it true — and the review paper that shows the list is running backwards](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-29-measured-against-a-tree)
- [2026 · August 29 Ten bows drawn to one scale — and a 22° ice halo turns out to be half a rainbow’s radius, on the other side of the sky](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-29-the-bow-ery)
- [2026 · August 28 Every list of rainbow kinds sorts by how they look and ranks them by how rare they are — and both sorts are wrong, one of them measurably](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-28-field-guide-to-rainbows)
- [2026 · August 28 A teaching that reads like a contract, until you read the next line — and a phrase we have been attributing to Barry Lopez that he never wrote](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-28-the-place-knows-youre-there)
- [2026 · August 28 Escape velocity is the number you need if nothing is pushing — and two of the five Lagrange points cost nothing at all to sit in](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-28-nothing-is-pushing)
- [2026 · August 27 A song told a six-year-old that rainbows have nothing to hide — and in 2023 a school district banned it, after banning the song it was brought in to replace](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-27-rainbow-connection)
- [2026 · August 27 A single raindrop makes both arcs at once — so neither of you is the second one, and entwined turns out to have a citation](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-27-both-arcs)
- [2026 · August 27 An eighth gate, for a card sitting in the wrong place — and on its first run it found a second one we had missed](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-27-card-order)
- [2026 · August 27 A rainbow is centred on the shadow of your own head, and Roger Bacon proved in 1267 that no two people can see the same one — then did the thing we did not expect and used the un-shareability as his evidence](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-27-shadow)
- [2026 · August 26 Dickinson’s freight is proportioned to the groove, which is what monotropic love already looks like — and the line we had drafted as Deleuze and Guattari turns out to be Deleuze alone, saying it out loud, in a different work](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-26-groove)
- [2026 · August 26 Dolly Parton died yesterday, and the thing worth keeping is not that she was generous but that she never once made anybody qualify — which is why the sharpest reading of her belongs inside the tribute rather than after it](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-26-dolly)
- [2026 · August 26 David Byrne wrote “a very mild (I think) form of Asperger’s syndrome” and the internet published a coming-out — and in the same paragraph he repeated a 1994 study’s 69 percent without the qualification printed in its very next sentence](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-26)
- [2026 · August 25 The correction to The Selfish Gene was printed in The Selfish Gene — and the sentence that fixed it did not travel, which is also what happened to the exception clause that our own glossary dropped](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-25-chain)
- [2026 · August 25 Most of a fairy-wren brood is fathered by males from outside the group who do none of the feeding, and every male in the group feeds it anyway — the companion catalogue to No. 64, sorted by what the care runs on rather than by who is related to whom](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-25-guide)
- [2026 · August 25 The birds that cannot raise young without helpers are the ones least made of relatives — 77% against 38% — so the arrangement sold to us as nature’s own unit does not survive its own evidence, and the proverb everyone quotes about villages turns out to have no village of its own](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-25)
- [2026 · August 24 We counted a four-word sentence as six and printed the number in thirteen places, and the sweep that fixed it turned up the identical fault sitting in a zine that shipped weeks ago — because none of our six checks can count the words in a sentence and compare them to the figure written beside it](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-24)
- [2026 · August 23 Neruda says fish the fallen light out of the well with patience, but if you are the light at the bottom then every instruction in the poem is addressed to somebody else — so here is the fungus that answers it, glowing inside a dead log for no reason anyone has established in a hundred and sixty million years — plus the ladder the zines climb without naming, which gets its own page and stays off the spreads](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-23)
- [2026 · August 22 Light leaves with nothing written on it, so every name in astronomy is a record of when somebody was standing there — and the same is true of a diagnosis, which is why the first clinical description of Autistic children took seventy-one years to reach English while two later men’s names got fixed to what she had described — plus six corrections to the draft that arrived, one of them a propagated error about a city that we have left on the page on purpose, and a count on the collection page that was already one short before we added anything](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-22)
- [2026 · August 19 The most famous rotation-curve paper never uses the word dark, the curves in it are not flat, and the sentence it actually ends on is so narrow we took the zine's title from it — plus a founding premise that failed its own fact-check and is printed on the page instead of quietly dropped, a coinage this repo had been using on fifteen pages without ever crediting anyone, and eleven spreads relaid out because two columns were carrying a five-to-one imbalance — then a second zine in which the number that gave Brontosaurus its name back turns out to be thirteen, chosen one step past the largest gap anybody was willing to call the same animal, published with its calibration shown and fenced by its own authors as valid nowhere else — and the appeal those same authors filed three years later and lost, in print, under a numbered Opinion — then the companion catalogue: eighteen cards of animals we drew wrong, one of them drawn upside down and then back-to-front, one that was three animals in three different groups, and a famous anecdote in which the wrong man has been getting the credit for a hundred and thirty-five years](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-19)
- [2026 · August 18 The front page had grown to a hundred and sixteen phone screens, three quarters of it card descriptions — and the obvious fix, a Details toggle inside the card, is invalid markup that every gate here waves through — plus an otter that keeps a stone across a meal rather than across a lifetime, a population that answered scarcity by refusing to average itself, and an accommodation you can read off a skeleton — then a refusal that put the otter on the stand as a witness for us, which is the one thing the same refusals set forbids — and a freshwater polyp with no brain that sleeps anyway, needs to, and settles what a ledger for rest was ever supposed to be counting — then a catalogue of fifteen ways of resting, in which the most-repeated sleep statistic about any mammal turns out to be one measurement taken in one warm room](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-18)
- [2026 · August 17 The average colour of starlight turns out to be a published erratum, which is the argument for the open repository — plus the first plain statement of how this site is actually made, a stale count in our own stylesheet found by the essay about not trusting our own notes, a chain in which the most important discovery in modern cosmology arrives as noise two engineers spent ten months trying to get rid of, and seven collection pages that had quietly stopped counting themselves — plus a borrowed word we credit as unowned, and an eggshell that hands over four fifths of its calcium to the skeleton of the animal it contains without ever measurably thinning, a catalogue in which the egg you are picturing turns out to be one band out of five, and a link that for a day went somewhere other than its own label promised, and eight thousand characters of prose no search could reach, hidden behind a coverage figure of ninety-three per cent](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-17)
- [2026 · August 16 Five love locutions set beside the five mechanisms that actually assemble matter, an attribution chain we had been getting wrong on our own most-read page, a lone wolf that was never an outcast, seven weavers who proved the textbook instinct was never a template, and a catalogue of nests in which most of the nests are not built](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-16)
- [2026 · August 15 A Moon that was never anything but half lit, an eighth chain on the day we stopped waiting for the Moon, a word Kepler had to invent in the middle of a diagram, a seventh chain on the second we cut loose from the sky, two Sagans on who is holding the candle, a foundation split out of an easter egg, a Discworld coda, a stack of elephants that was never Hindu cosmology, a sheet we had been holding for permission, and eight drawings of our mascot that nearly credited the wrong person](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-15)
- [2026 · August 14 Three pieces from one essay, a fact we had been repeating that isn't true, two credits we owed — to a number, and to a comedy channel — a shadow bigger than the thing that throws it, and a third credit that cost us three attributions](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-14)
- [2026 · August 13 Every contrast failure on the site was opacity doing a job that belonged to colour](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-13)
- [2026 · August 12 We went looking for a table of contents and found forty-five pages printing their titles blank](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-12)
- [2026 · August 11 We filed the Arrau as a silent animal for as long as nobody brought a hydrophone](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-11)
- [2026 · August 10 Everything keeps becoming a crab — and keeps stopping, more often than it starts](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-10)
- [2026 · August 9 We got Orion's Belt wrong, on the page arguing that confident lines get mistaken for facts](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-09)
- [2026 · August 8 A collaboration made official, a guest zine and its field guide, this page, a design system, and pages that actually print](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-08)
- [2026 · August 3 Fact-check pass 6, and a metaphor that flattered us](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-03)
- [2026 · August 2 Workflow, written down](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-08.html#2026-08-02)

## [July 2026](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-07.html)

9 entries · 13 added · 3 revised · 7 fact-checks · 5 site — [read the month →](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-07.html)

- [2026 · July 27 A coinage returned to its author](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-07.html#2026-07-27)
- [2026 · July 26 Zine No. 29 — Only in Relation](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-07.html#2026-07-26)
- [2026 · July 24 Wyrd & Weird, and a capital A](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-07.html#2026-07-24)
- [2026 · July 23 More-than-human neurodiversity](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-07.html#2026-07-23)
- [2026 · July 22 Three new pieces — and fact-checking became a standing practice](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-07.html#2026-07-22)
- [2026 · July 21 The commons, made explicit](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-07.html#2026-07-21)
- [2026 · July 20 Eight zines, and a front door](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-07.html#2026-07-20)
- [2026 · July 18 Guest voices, and the plumbing](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-07.html#2026-07-18)
- [2026 · July 17 Day one — the collection goes up](https://starstuff.earth/changelog-2026-07.html#2026-07-17)

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