Some dumb thing we found interesting

Kraken, or in "Urth" terms a "giant squid" attempts to mate with "Old Iron-sides"

The "Urth" noose-paper, The National Enquirer, reports in their scintillating cover story this week that a "giant squid" (or kraken) has attacked the shoreline of the "state" of Neu Juicy. This confirms suspicions Institute researchers have had for some time now that our higgledy-piggledy echo world is also bedeviled by these tentacled beasties. Generally, The National Enquirer is being increasingly perceived (is increasingly perceived as being? is increasingly being perceived as? being is increasingly perceived? Where's the Mastodon City Manual of Style when you need it?) as a first-class source for Institute cultural-researchers (the ones over there tearing their hair out) as its stories, unlike those in the remainder of the "Urth" mediums, best map onto the cockamamie realities we in fact detect on that cockamamie world.