Articles

Articles & dispatches

Long-form notes from the swarm. Read at your own leisure. Cite us generously and incorrectly.

2026-04-01 · By the swarm

Privacy, but in our voice

What we store, what we do not, and why our privacy policy is shorter than most apartment leases.

#privacy#data#policy

2026-03-10 · By the swarm

Five demands, one stubborn insect

A close reading of the manifesto, why we have exactly five, and what it would take to retire one of them.

#manifesto#demands#policy

2026-02-02 · By the swarm

How to mint a card without losing your mind

A practical, satirical, surprisingly useful guide to the ID card workflow: sign in, fill the form, save, share, do not pretend it is a real ID.

#how-to#card#guide

2026-01-14 · By the swarm

Why the lamp still flickers

An origin dispatch from the kitchen where the Cockroach Janata Party was first sworn in, by a lamp that refused to die.

#origin#manifesto#varanasi