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The SkunkWERX Collective files the Fat Squirrel format: folk rules taken seriously as measurement instruments, what the instrument was really pointed at, and the modern indicator making the same error.

9 dispatches filed

A plain cardboard carton on a bare counter with two large eyes and a wide smile drawn onto it in red marker.

The Face Was a Poll

A premium man will tell you nobody draws a face on something that is selling itself, and he is right about what the face is for. A mascot measures the resistance the seller already found. It does not measure the hazard.

Oct 7, 2026 9 MIN Fat Squirrel

A banded caterpillar partway up a taut vertical string against a plain pale ground.

The Band Was a Growth Ring

Oct 7, 2026 8 MIN Fat Squirrel

A grassed channel running down through a row-crop field, with the crop rows stopping cleanly on either side of it.

The Draw Was a Map of Water

Oct 7, 2026 8 MIN Fat Squirrel

A flatbed hay wagon in a bare field serving as an auction stand, with an easel and folding chairs set out on the mud.

The Cycle Was a Funeral Schedule

Sep 25, 2026 9 MIN Fat Squirrel

An open palm filling the frame, deep flexion creases across it, rendered as a high contrast stencil.

The Hand Keeps the Calendar

Sep 16, 2026 8 MIN Fat Squirrel

A brewer's forearms on the rim of an open fermenter in a cramped back-room brewhouse, a floor fan running beside her.

The Sour Batch Reads the Room

Sep 16, 2026 9 MIN Fat Squirrel

A night-shift nurse at a bedside, attention fixed on the patient while the wall monitor behind her glows a steady, unremarkable green.

The Worry Reads the Patient

Sep 12, 2026 7 MIN Fat Squirrel

Stacked small square hay bales under a pole barn beside a price board at a livestock sale barn.

The Price Was a Rain Gauge: What August Hay Actually Measures

Sep 3, 2026 8 MIN Fat Squirrel

A dowser walking a fescue pasture, holding a forked peach branch that dips toward a darker patch of grass.

The Rod Reads the Surface: What Water Witching Actually Measures

Sep 3, 2026 8 MIN Fat Squirrel