Big "DO NOT CAST PEARLS BEFORE SWINE" sign at the zoo. Yet people continue to shower the pigs in pearls. Children are jamming their little pearl-filled fists through the bars

At the pig lab, developing edible pearls to make swine opalescent

Panoneirism: few things have the coherence to be aware and reason. But all things are perpetually dreaming

Children desire a home environment in which they are camouflaged. If your color scheme is not child-disguising, they will generate hiding places by making a cataclysmic mess

panpsychism (the personal area network is an entity with cognizance, agency, and a soul)

We were wondering why we kept finding pearls in the pigpen. Apparently, it was because pearls form, very rapidly, where two pig-surfaces make contact!

panpsychism (what is it like to be kitchenware?)
panpsychism (we are sentient in proportion to our resemblance to the great god pan)

Catp-cha test (caterpillar change test)

Before piloting the butterfly mecha, you must pilot the caterpillar mecha, be obliterated in battle, and awaken in the hospital's ooze chamber

The pseudo-lepidopters are easily detected by true butterflies, who ask them to describe metamorphosis: their words are never quite right—they haven't been through that glimmering tube, haven't felt the slime gateways inside themselves

Do NOT cast "animate glyph" on the inkblot. It is illegal to produce a butterfly construct that was not first a caterpillar construct

Heated debate rages over whether all inkblots are different species of butterfly, or psycho-regional morphs of the same species

The crown falls from the monarch's head and splatters, as though it were nothing but gold and silver ink

ike all social media, we can model this one as a network of users. It's very organic. Nobody seems to run it. Users just pop into existence, connect, and things just work out. But take a gander here. No matter how you look at it, it's a hypercube graph. And it obeys the properties, even... Bipartiteness, for one. Pick a concept or opinion, compress it into a smooth paste of hue, then label any half the vertices (non-adjacent, of course!) with it. Definitionally, of course, you only need another color to paint all the nodes. But this graph, embedded with the information of this particular network... decides the other color for you. We draped a hemisphere of it in youthful verdant, then passed it to a blind trial. All the subjects finished it off with magenta, even the colorblind ones. Decompiling the color, we saw discussions about retirement and countless posts containing the phrase “back in MY day…” As you also know, one constructs n-hypercubes simply by connecting two n-1-hypercubes. It's exponential growth. A very simple and pure rate, but, no wonder they're so successful. The population doubles, but each preexisting user only makes one new friend. And the new arrivals are already set up amongst themselves. Yet if you really wanted to, you can pop over to say hi to anyone you like. Hamiltonian cycles and all. Enough restraint against overwhelming users; enough freedom to explore.

[Planar graph of a standard cube.] Of course, the most curious case is n=3. One of the younger iterations, though a pivotal one. Here the eight sole users began to realize there could be something beyond themselves. [Planar graph of a standard cube, with the six planar regions (including the “outside” one) colored in.] Cozy in their straight lines and comfortable squares, those safe 2D-playgrounds in which they came to mingle and frolick together, they failed to count. They failed to remember the sixth side. So they played and played, and for a very long time nobody else came along, and they got very bored, and the whole place almost got extinguished. Luckily, someone got bored just enough to finally wander out, but not nearly enough to return to their home node and go to sleep. The world, they all came to learn learn, was in fact very much open. So then another cube collided with them as soon as they figured it out, and then came the tesseracts, and the hypercubes continued to stack up. Just dragging it over to today... yeah, good luck coloring that. There's always a missing side, though. And within it lies the key to an ever greater world.

#InvisibleNetworks 2026 day 13

FORENOTES: oh, the shapes are shapin' fr now (ditto for tomorrow's prompt lol)

AFTERNOTES: this cube got some kinda INVISIBLE NETWORK??? 💥💥💥 anyway MORE MATHPOSTING! I learned all about hypercubes last summer & am exercising my knowledge xd

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#13: the invisible side of the cube

atonal440.net/writing/invi...

#InvisibleNetworks 14, shape eternity: when we shrink your world, we let you pick and order its vertices.

each vertex is eventually reachable from each other. your life becomes a walk forever on the border of a finite area - only everything that could ever happen between you and your chosen.

these are extremely good!!! check them out!

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14: shape eternity

DANANA NANA NA, THATS ALL FOLKS
see you next year

To babies, the high chair is very low. They are descending from a lofty place. They remember sitting on a throne that towered, watching you—oh lowness, what a novelty! They laugh

The blade of grass perceives the world as intersecting, dancing planes of light—whose ceaseless tiltings are interrupted when I lay down on it, and plunge it into flat smothering darkness

Dandelions rely on children for seed dispersal, which is why I believe they also emit a fertility-promoting miasma

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13: the invisible side of the cube
watch that shape

Canticle for Leibowitz
Zothique
Decline & Fall of the RE
Moby-Dick
Left Hand of Darkness
A Perfect Vacuum
The Boat of a Million Years
Song of Solomon
Book of the New Sun
Frankenstein
The Waste Lands
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
1000 Years of Nonlinear History
Byzantium (Norwich)
A Fire Upon the Deep

owch

as a clue, the other tetrominoes are named for the letters of the alphabet which they vaguely resemble - O, I, T, S, Z, J, L

the secret tetromino is named after a letter which does not exist in any surviving alphabet, and was last pronounced by mortal tongues in ceremonial rites on the shores of Mu

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12: algossamer
it's a beautiful world

book of the long sun
making of the atomic bomb
gamma world 3rd
dune
galactic center saga
hyperion
dark tower
talisman
mirror to damascus
ubik
left hand of darkness
corliss anomalies series
clan of the cave bear
into thin air
downbelow station

There's a secret sixth tetronimo. Seeing it will give you cluster headaches. It's in a lot of banned tetris mods

Sorry, please explain; when someone is "unhinged", are they supposed to be the door or the doorframe?