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From: Lutumble, Extra-Wimbledonian Relations Specialist Tasty Tumbleweed
Date: 4/25/Vendemiaire/01
Attn: Wombles concerned with womble-ratfolk relations
In response to the many inquiries I have received I would just like to clarify that despite the label ‘based on a true story’ the events depicted in the recent popular Coburg fanfic,“Ravished by the ratfolk” bear no resemblence to what befell the crew of the Tasty Tumbleweed when our ship was heisted by the ratfolk. In particular my own experience bore no resemblence to that of the viewpoint character, Bulgaria despite our common profession. Apart from heisting our ship the ratfolk concerned acted like perfect gentlerats throughout. The falsity of the story should have been obvious since the crew of the Coburg managed to escape and regain control of their ship during an attack by catfolk who are fictional creatures appearing only in Coburg:TAS.
With Solidarity and Freedom for all

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From: Parsburrow, Secretary to the Womble-Ratfolk Liason Delegates
Date: 4/25/Vendemiaire/02
Attn: Wombles concerned with womble-ratfolk relations
We would just like to record our thanks to Lutumble for clarifying that they were well treated by the ratfolk and remind our fellow wombles that had the events portrayed been real the contacting Lutumble for additional salacious details would have been wholly inappropriate. If the author is on this list we would like to suggest that the tag ‘based on a true story’ should be reserved for works with more points of contact with reality than just the heisting of a womble ship by ratfolk.
Solidarity, Parsburrow
From: Kronoburrow, Life Support Systems Engineer Wimbledon Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/25/Vendemiaire/02
Attn: Wombles concerned with womble-ratfolk relations
I would like to take issue with the description of well behaved ratfolk as perfect gentlerats. This is reinforcing the classist stereotype that the gentry, nobility and royalty are in some way superior to your ordinary working class womble.
Solidarity

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From: Heidelburrow, Wind Turbine Maintenance Specialist Blowhards Cooperative
Date: 4/25/Vendemiaire/03
Attn: Kronoburrow, Life Support Systems Engineer Wimbledon Common Shipyard Syndicate
Attn: Wombles concerned with womble-ratfolk relations
I think you are taking things a bit far the word gentle has a meaning independent of social class in modern womblish. I reall doubt that Lutumble was concerned with ancient social classes when they referred to their captors as perfect gentlerats.
Solidarity and Good Luck, Heidelburrow
From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies at Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/25/Vendemiaire/03
Attn: Wombles concerned with womble-ratfolk relations
I think the fact that ‘Ravished by the ratfolk’ was written in the first person under the pseudonym Bulgaria may have led wombles to believe it was a semi-autobiographical work by Lutumble and that they would therefore not object to fannish curiosity.
Gothenburrow

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From: Kronoburrow, Life Support Systems Engineer Wimbledon Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/25/Vendemiaire/04
Attn: Wombles concerned with womble-ratfolk relations
The lack of awareness by Lutumble is precisely the point. The gentry may be an ancient class to us but the ratfolk had a Queen until recently.
Solidarity

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From: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer New World Experimental Farm
Date: 4/25/Vendemiaire/05
Attn: Wombles concerned with womble-ratfolk relations
Rather than worrying about the class structure of ratfolk society it might be better to concern ourselves with the emerging class structure within womble society with its promotion of academics and rhubarb gardeners over the hard working tumbleweed farmers that have long fed the ordinary working womble.
Tumble On, Sevastumble

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From: Gettysburrow, Secretary to the the Wimbledon Common Rhubarb Gardeners Association
Date: 4/25/Vendemiaire/06
Attn: Wombles concerned with womble-ratfolk relations
There is no emerging class structure. The greater prominence of rhubarb gardeners is due to the fact that we are now a multi-planetary society and rhubarb is easy to grow on planets with less wind than Wimbledon Common. The hostility to academics no doubt derives from all the studies that indicate a high probability of tumbleweed becoming an invasive species should it ever be successfully adapted to tumble in less windy conditions without assistance.
May your work ever be joyful, Gettysburrow

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From: Sevastumble, Secretary to the Sticklepath Common Virtual General Assembly
Date: 4/25/Vendemiaire/10
Attn: the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
The Virtual General Assembly has asked me to inform you that we have named the planets in our system as follows. The rocky planets are named after various foodstuffs made from varieties of tumbleweed. In order Bread, Pasta, Pizza and Cake. The asteroid belt is named Seeds. The ice planets are named after various beverages made from tumbleweed: Wine, Tea and Milk.
Tumble On, Sevastumble

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From: Amburrow, Secretary to the the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Date: 4/25/Vendemiaire/17
Attn: Wombles concerned with naming of interstellar objects
It has been agreed that the Outpost in Rhubarb system shall be named Beacon of Freedom to remind the Wombles of Woon Gumpus Common that they have not been forgotten.
Solidarity, Amburrow

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From: Salisburrow, Secretary to the the all womblepace security delegates
Date: 4/26/Vendemiaire/23
Attn: Sticklepath Common Virtual General Assembly
Given the threat the Mammots pose to us all we would appreciate it if you could contribute a ship to the defense effort.
Solidarity!

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From: Bedburrow, Secretary to the Streatham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/01
Attn: the all womblepace security delegates
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
Attn: the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
We have noticed that several of the ships being constructed to defend ourselves from Mammot invasion seem to have a certain Platformist colour. In particular the ship ‘Theoretical Unity’ has very disturning implications. While Platformism may be a suitable strategy for pre-revolutionary anarchist organizations the emphasis on unity and collective responsibility risks the development of informal hierarchies to enforce these constraints. We believe that in a post-revolutionary society such as ours the fostering of diverse views is essential.
Wombles of the Worlds Unite!

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From: Salisburrow, Secretary to the the all womblepace security delegates
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/02
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
While Womble society as a whole is post-revolutionary the Wombles of Woon Gumpus Common are under the heel of the Mammots and these ships are largely intended to send a message to them.
Solidarity!

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From: Bedburrow, Secretary to the Streatham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/03
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
That does not seem much better. The liberation of the Wombles of Woon Gumpus Common is a task for the Wombles of Woon Gumpus Common themswelves. It is not for Wombles seated comfortably on the Free Worlds to dictate the form of their organisations to them.
Wombles of the Worlds Unite!

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From: Salisburrow, Secretary to the the all womblepace security delegates
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/04
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
We couldn’t dictate anything to anyone if we wanted to. That’s what the Mammots are doing. In any case we’ve already built the Diversity of Tactics II which should counterbalance any alleged Platformist tendencies.
Solidarity!

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From: Bedburrow, Secretary to the Streatham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/05
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
The Crew of Diversity of Tactics II tell us the scuttlebut is that they will be asked to transport Orange Bloc to Eridu. It isn’t going anywhere near Woon Gumpus Common.
Wombles of the Worlds Unite!

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From: Salisburrow, Secretary to the the all womblepace security delegates
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/06
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
The original intent was for that ship to support the fight to liberate the Fongari of Eridu from Mammot domination. Should we confine our promotion of revolution to Wombles? In any case that plan has now changed and it will be requested to assist in the defense of your world in case of a hostile incusion by the Aravi.
Solidarity!

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From: Hoptumble-on-Sea, Navigator Death of the Wizard Kings
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/07
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
Promoting revolution to the Fongari would be fine but sending a ship with a name that references obscure anarchist literature from the Zabanians will hardly do that. If they pay any attention to it at all they will interpret it as being narrowly about combatting the Mammots militarily. Meanwhile the Wombles of Woon Gumpus Common will perfectly understand the message to stay narrowly within the bounds of anarcho-communism if they want any ‘solidarity’ from us.
Peace and Prosperity, Hoptumble

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From: Salisburrow, Secretary to the the all womblepace security delegates
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/08
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
We are hardly just sending a ship. The ship carries a battallion of Wombles to aid the Fongari in their struggle. No doubt the Fongari will engage their comrades in struggle and learn of the cause. The ship provides a conversation starter.
Solidarity!

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From: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer New World Experimental Farm
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/09
Attn: the all womblepace security delegates
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
I notice you haven’t responded to Hoptumble-on-Sea’s points regarding Woon Gumpus Common. Is it any wonder that many Wombles are concerned about the possibility of an ‘Invisible Dictatorship’ of academics and lifestylist Rhubarb Gardeners. Some wombles clearly regard that system as a testing ground for schemes to socially engineer Womble Society. Why else would the system have a Rhubarb theme?
Tumble On, Sevastumble

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From: Gettysburrow, Secretary to the the Wimbledon Common Rhubarb Gardeners Association
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/10
Attn: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer New World Experimental Farm
The settlers of Rhubarb system chose those names because they knew that Rhubarb was a reliable crop that could be grown off Wimbledon Common and didn’t need extensive breeding programs aimed at turning it into an invasive species. Kronoburrow and the other decison support delegates are working on the problem of potential academic domination of collective decision making. Hardly anyone is worried about us Rhubarb Gardeners and most of those left for Sticklepath Common with you. Federation with other Wombles is entirely optional.
May your work ever be joyful, Gettysburrow

From: Salisburrow, Secretary to the the all womblepace security delegates
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/10
Attn: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer New World Experimental Farm
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
Nobody is planning to socially engineer womble society. The names of our ships are hardly likely to have a huge influence on Wombles who are already familiar with the seditious literature and the arguments around Platformism. It seems to us that some wombles like to blow superficial things, like the naming of ships, up into huge issues. We have more important issues like the liberation of Woon Gumpus Common and Eridu to contend with.
Solidarity!

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From: Hoptumble-on-Sea, Navigator Death of the Wizard Kings
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/11
Attn: the all womblepace security delegates
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
Conflating what we are doing on Eridu and Woon Gumpus Common is misleading. The Fongari are not a species of sapients but only an authoritarian political faction within the larger ratfolk species. Liberation of the Fongari really means handing over a bunch of ratfolk to that faction. We should ensure that world ends up in the hands of the freedom loving ratfolk of Sanara not the ’elders’ of Onkodis.
Peace and Prosperity, Hoptumble

From: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer New World Experimental Farm
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/11
Attn: the Wimbledon Common Rhubarb Gardeners Association
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
You’d like that wouldn’t you? Kick all the Tumbleweed Farmers out of the Womble Collective. I’ll never allow Sticklepath Common to leave.
Tumble On, Sevastumble

From: Amburrow, Secretary to the the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/11
Attn: Salisburrow, Secretary to the the all womblepace security delegates
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
Everyone on this list feels that names are important enough to spend their time on it.
Solidarity, Amburrow

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From: Bad Bereleburrow, Secretary to the Womble-Fongari Liason Delegates
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/12
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
We think the characterisation of the Fongari as authoritarian ratfolk is misleading. It wasn’t the Fongari who had a Queen and while Fongari society is somewhat hierarchical characterising it as authoritarian is excessive.
Peace and Comradeship - Bad Bereleburrow

From: Salisburrow, Secretary to the the all womblepace security delegates
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/12
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
We are hardly in a position to hand Eridu off to anyone. We will be fighting alongside Fongari, Sanara Ratfolk and Zabanian forces. The Sanara Ratfolk do not seem to see the Fongari as a problem so why should we? The liberation of the Fongari working classes is the task of the Fongari working classes themselves.
Solidarity!

From: Gettysburrow, Secretary to the the Wimbledon Common Rhubarb Gardeners Association
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/12
Attn: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer New World Experimental Farm
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
You’ll never allow it? I guess we know who is really trying to set up an ‘Invisible Dictatorship’. Even if Sticklepath Common were to leave the Womble Collective most of the Tumbleweed Farmers would still be back here on Wimbledon Common where Tumbleweed grows without unnatural interventions. Some of the Tumbleweed hunters have been in touch about federating with us rather than your organisation after you came out as a bot lover.
May your work ever be joyful, Gettysburrow

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From: Parsburrow, Secretary to the Womble-Ratfolk Liason Delegates
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/13
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
The ratfolk may have had a Queen but that position was always contested and didn’t last long. The position of the elders in Fongari society seems quite stable by contrast.
Solidarity, Parsburrow

From: Hoptumble-on-Sea, Navigator Death of the Wizard Kings
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/13
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
Fighting alongside Zabanian and Fongari forces is a great risk. The authoritarian rulers will never consent to the combined force being organised along anarchist lines so you are risking the ARM Yeowombles being expected to submit to a command structure based on arbitrary hierarchy.
Peace and Prosperity, Hoptumble

From: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer New World Experimental Farm
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/13
Attn: Gettysburrow, Secretary to the the Wimbledon Common Rhubarb Gardeners Association
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
I meant only that should the subject of Sticklepath Common leaving the Womble Collective ever come up in the Virtual General Assembly I would block until some suitable compromise was reached, as any womble is entitled to do. I would not be alone in this. I’m sure you knew this but chose to interpret what I said in the worst possible light. The decision to look into more automation was a collective one.
Tumble On, Sevastumble

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From: Salisburrow, Secretary to the the all womblepace security delegates
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/14
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
It does not seem likely the Zabanians and Fongari will be in a position to dictate terms. Their forces are barely hanging on as it is. In any case it was our foolishness that let the Mammots out of their system showing Solidarity with those we have harmed is the least we can do.
Solidarity!

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From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Clapham Common University
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/15
Attn: the all womblepace security delegates
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
Well Whitstumble showed Solidarity by joining the expeditionary force to relieve Woon Gumpus Common and got captured for their trouble the rest of you are just sending Wombles to join a fight we have no part in.
Nuremburrow

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From: Salisburrow, Secretary to the the all womblepace security delegates
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/16
Attn: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Clapham Common University
Are you quite alright Nuremburrow? Defending Whitstumble isn’t like you. As for sending wombles we asked some volunteers to join the fight against an enemy that is oppressing both Wombles and others. Whitstumble no doubt felt special responsibility for the events on Woon Gumpus Common having performed the initial negotiations with the Mammots. While the Fongari elders are clearly archist that hardly compares to the Mammots.
Solidarity!

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From: Pitsburrow-under-Arc, Negotiator Womble Collective
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/17
Attn: the all womblepace security delegates
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
Which just goes to show the risk of having negotiations with potentially authoritarian aliens carried out by spokeswombles and secretaries rather than trained professional negotiators.
Solidarity, Pitsburrow-under-Arc

From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Clapham Common University
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/17
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
I can recognise when another Womble does something admirable even if we don’t always see eye to eye.
Nuremburrow

From: Amburrow, Secretary to the the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Date: 4/27/Vendemiaire/17
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
This has clearly wandered far off topic. Can we ask those wombles who want to discuss issues regarding the war with the Mammots to move their discussion elsewhere.
Solidarity, Amburrow

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From: Edinburrow, Secretary to the Clapham Common Planetary Development Delegates
Date: 4/28/Vendemiaire/01
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
We’ve had a quiet word with the construction and engineering syndicate and they should be incorporating a few bookable dungeons into the latest expansion of the Commissary District.
Anarchy is Order, Edinburrow

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From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies at Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/28/Vendemiaire/02
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
Dungeons? I thought we were trying to defuse this dangerous nonsense not provide a future ruler with somewhere to lock away their opponents.
Gothenburrow

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From: Edinburrow, Secretary to the Clapham Common Planetary Development Delegates
Date: 4/28/Vendemiaire/03
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
Oh these aren’t real dungeons. Some wombles enjoy a bit of being tied up and bossed around from time to time. The ratfolk delegates thought that platformism following so swiftly after the popularity of ravished by the ratfolk might mean the whole thing derived from the lack of an opportunity to be bossed around in the privacy of a dungeon burrow.
Anarchy is Order, Edinburrow

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From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Clapham Common University
Date: 4/28/Vendemiaire/04
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
The essence of anarchism is opposition to all relations of domination and hierarchy. The construction of this BDSM dungeon goes against everything we believe in.
Nuremburrow

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From: Hoptumble-on-Sea, Navigator Death of the Wizard Kings
Date: 4/28/Vendemiaire/05
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
I think you are taking that slogan way too literally. This domination is consensual.

Peace and Prosperity, Hoptumble

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From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Clapham Common University
Date: 4/28/Vendemiaire/06
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
If you approve of hierachical relations just because they are consensual the next thing you know you’ll be endorsing wage labour. I’m beginning to think your mutualism is just a cover for anarcho-captalism Hoptumble.
Nuremburrow

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From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies at Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/28/Vendemiaire/07
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
Wage labour only looks consensual to those without a class analysis of society. BDSM can be genuinely consensual.
Gothenburrow

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From: Hoptumble-on-Sea, Navigator Death of the Wizard Kings
Date: 4/28/Vendemiaire/08
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
Thank You Gothenburrow. The natural outcome of a free market is socialism not capitalism. It is only the intervention of the state, creating and naintaining monopolies that forces the working class to sell their labour to the highest bidder.
Peace and Prosperity, Hoptumble

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From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Clapham Common University
Date: 4/28/Vendemiaire/09
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
Regardless of whether the BDSM is consensual it still sounds like we’re setting up dungeons for wombles without their input.
Nuremburrow

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From: Hoptumble-on-Sea, Navigator Death of the Wizard Kings
Date: 4/28/Vendemiaire/10
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
Well they want to be bossed around and have others take decisions out of their hands so I don’t see a problem.
Peace and Prosperity, Hoptumble

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From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Clapham Common University
Date: 4/28/Vendemiaire/11
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
Now you really are using consent to justify relations of genuine domination and hierarchy. These platformists seem confused. The original platformism was a strategy for revolution in a hierarchical society. They seem to be advocating for applying its methods to a functioning anarchist socirty.
Nuremburrow

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From: Hoptumble-on-Sea, Navigator Death of the Wizard Kings
Date: 4/28/Vendemiaire/12
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
That is just the unity of means and ends.
Peace and Prosperity, Hoptumble

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From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Clapham Common University
Date: 4/28/Vendemiaire/13
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
Yes but the wrong way around. It is supposed to be prefigurative politics.
Nuremburrow

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From: Edinburrow, Secretary to the Clapham Common Planetary Development Delegates
Date: 4/29/Brumaire/22
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
Unfortunately the Faculty of Clapham Common University pushed for the pre-planned expansion of the University rather than the Commissary District. There are fewer opportunities to add dungeons to universities.
Anarchy is Order, Edinburrow

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From: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer New World Experimental Farm
Date: 4/29/Brumaire/23
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
Thereby demonstrating the excessive power of Academic Wombles yet again. One of the few points of unity between these Platformists and the Wombles of Sticklepath Common. I’m starting to doubt we even need them at all. Ordinary working Wombles are making breakthroughs in the course of their work without all the additional resources the Universities claim they need. Still I doubt much harm was done. I’m not sure I believe the idea that the turn towards authoritarianism was occasioned by a lack of play dungeons.
Tumble On, Sevastumble

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From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies at Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/29/Brumaire/24
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
Well it is certainly worth a try and there is evidence to indicate a much lower number of play dungeons per womble on Clapham Common than on other worlds in Womblespace and no reason to think that the wombles of Clapham Common are any less kinky. What do you think the cause is?
Gothenburrow

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From: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer New World Experimental Farm
Date: 4/29/Brumaire/25
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
Well apart from the bad example set by the academic wombles there is the fact that Clapham Common is our oldest offworld settlement. The tendency to hierarchical thinking may be due to prolonged deprivation of micronutrients found only in tumbleweed. In fact maybe that is the explanation for the Mammots as well.
Tumble On, Sevastumble

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From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies at Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/29/Brumaire/26
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
Even if your theory is true of the Wombles of Clapham Common Mammots are not wombles. I’m sure their home planet provides all the micronutrients they need.
Gothenburrow

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From: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer New World Experimental Farm
Date: 4/29/Brumaire/27
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
I know they don’t look like Wombles but we know the Kallipolis transplanted ratfolk around the cluster. What if long before that someone else transported Wombles as well. The Mammoti’s size could be a result of needing to consume large quantities of inferior foods in order to get essential micronutrients. The trunks an adaptation to the quadrapedalism forced on them by their enormous size and the tusks a direct adaptation to the violence inherent in hierarchical systems. I’m taking this theory to the Virtual General Assembly. We may be able to stop the war.
Tumble On, Sevastumble

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From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies at Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/29/Brumaire/28
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
That is the most ridiculous theory I have ever heard. Although your idea about micronutrient deprivation in actual wombles is worth looking into.
Gothenburrow

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From: Surbitumble, Attendant Harburrow Parva Community Womblegarten
Date: 4/29/Brumaire/29
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
The tone of this forum seems rather patronising. Discussing the platformist without their consent seems counter to our principles. Nothing about us without us as they say.

Solidarity

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From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies at Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/29/Brumaire/30
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
Perhaps, but it seems perfectly consonant with their alleged principles and they can join in if they want to. This is a public forum after all.
Gothenburrow

From: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/29/Brumaire/30
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformist Crisis
Thank you Surbitumble. We Platformists don’t appreciate being patronised and accused of repressed desires for domination when all we are seeking is a better organised society.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

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From: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist @ Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/30/Vendemiaire/01
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
###Precis of the Organisational Platform of the General Union of Structuralist Anarchists(draft).

Most wombles are familiar with the problem of the tyranny of structurelessness where the absence of a formal structure leads to informal hierarchies arising that are potentially more dangerous than formal ones. The current system of concensus-based delegate democracy for decisons affecting large numbers of wombles, created for another people in another time, reproduces this problem by pretending that delegates are little more than conduits for mandates. Wombles who are able to make research into a given issue part of their normal work, such as academic wombles, are better able to prepare their delegates for the process of reconciling mandates and therefore have disproportionate influence on the decision making process.

While the problem arises from too strict adherence to ideas found in the seditious literature we can also find the solutions therein. We understand anarchism as the rejection of illegitimate authority not all authority. We defer to the legitimate authority of the baker on the matter of bread. We also defer to such authorities as are necessary for the preventing the rise of informal hierarchies. We can acknowledge the existence of authorities on the organisation of collective work. Such organisational leaders, so long as they remain accountable, are no threat to liberty. Indeed as they can devote time to the study of issues affecting their co-workers they can help to put their interests on a more equal footing with those of the academic wombles. Forcing each womble to form an opinion on every issue requires them to take time from their other work and ensures that both will be done badly. As the author of “A Vindication of Natural Society” put it “Your representative owes you not only their industry but also their judgement and they betray you instead of serving you if they sacrifice it to your opinion.” We must also embrace more fully the principle of workers control, through their leaders, of the workplace and exclude from infuence those whose stakes in such decisions are less vital.

We acknowledge that ours is a minority position, even within Clapham Common, and therefore we need to consider how best to bring about the change we seek. Here too we can take our cues from the seditious literature and establish an organisation designed to bring about the change we desire. As the authors of the original platform knew we must commit to Theoretical Unity, Tactical Unity and Collective Responsibility for maximum effectiveness. To prevent this degenerating into a centralised we must also embrace Federalism, combined with efficient descision making processes, to prevent the centralisation of too much power in one place.

The full draft of the platform is attached to this message [OOC: Oh no it isn’t!]
The Workers united will never be defeated.

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From: Sevastumble, Secretary @ Sticklepath Common Virtual General Assembly
Date: 4/30/Vendemiaire/02
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
While we agree with your concerns regarding the excessive influence held by academic wombles we cannot accept that the solution to this is the creation of a caste of beauraucrats. The solution is a healthy diet and the embrace of technology. Advanced automation techniques will free the average worker to spend more time on the collective decisions that affect them while advances in information technology, such as the Virtual General Assembly we use for planetary decisions on Sticklepath Common, will allow full participation of all affected wombles without any need for delegates and mandates.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

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From: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist @ Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/30/Vendemiaire/03
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
Your “healthy diet” isn’t going to affect our politics no matter what you think. As for automation techniques apart from the dangers they pose what about the need for each womble to feel useful. " Exercise is Good for you, Laziness is not" as the famous song has it. If you have your way wombles will become the sort of lazy creatures that construct something like the Sedranian Ascendancy. Your virtual general assembly only works because your planet is a low population agricultural world. On the older planets, and for womblespace as a whole, we must use a more efficient means of decision making.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

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From: Sevastumble, Secretary @ Sticklepath Common Virtual General Assembly
Date: 4/30/Vendemiaire/04
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
Automation does not necessarily mean robots and in any case we should grow beyond such old prejudices. The Zabanian Robots were dangerous because they came from a violent slaver society. The Zabanians have developed since then, even if not as much as we might like. ED-E is dangerous because they are limited in their ability to understand the motives of their creators. On the other hand Bellatrix and the other Orion Network AIs fought for the freedom of the Zabanian slaves.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

From: Mecklenburrow Stargard, Systems Developer @ Wombles versus Robots Collective
Date: 4/30/Vendemiaire/04
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
We can, and should, find a way to transform all onerous tasks into less onerous ones or play. There is no need to do so for tasks that are already enjoyable or vocational. Even if we find that the amount of useful work that needs doing is insufficient to ocuupy all Wombles we can remember that all art is useless and contribute to our society by the creation of things of beauty. The destructive nature of the Sedranian Ascendancy is no doubt due to its creation by the capitalist Ascenancy Incorporated. As I understand it the word Incorporated is used to imply that entirely fictional persons created by capitalists to take the blame for their crimes have some sort of existence in the real world. The power of the capitalist state is deployed to require people to behave as if the lie was real even though nobody actually believes it. One suspects that the Ascendancy was created in part as a place to store a reserve army of labour, eventually encompassing the whole population, and in part to permit these Corporations to manifest as NPCs and give the lie a semblance of reality.

Solidarity and Joy, Mecklenburrow Stargard

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From: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist @ Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/30/Vendemiaire/05
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
Not all Wombles have artistic talent.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

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From: Mecklenburrow Stargard, Systems Developer @ Wombles versus Robots Collective
Date: 4/30/Vendemiaire/06
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
Talent can be developed through education. The importance of inate talent is exagerated. In any case I prefer to think that we have just not discovered all the possible arts.

Solidarity and Joy, Mecklenburrow Stargard

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From: Barlburrow, Secretary @ Crookham Common Planetary Development Delegates
Date: 4/30/Vendemiaire/07
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
After a long discussion we would like to suggest the names Frogmorton and Takahashi for the inner and outer planets in our system which we suggest be named Burrow.

SOLIDARITY!

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From: Amburrow, Secretary @ the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Date: 4/30/Vendemiaire/08
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
Excellent and relatively quickly after settlement. Glad to see you see naming as an important part of planetary development. Unlike some other Wombles we could mention.

Solidarity, Amburrow

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From: Eckartsburrowa, Secretary @ Arlesey Common Planetary Development Delegates
Date: 4/30/Vendemiaire/09
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
Oops, sorry about that. We ran a quick poll on the local womblenet and the names we got back were in order from inner to outer Tomlinson, de la Tour, Langford, Baker, Purvis and Jason.

Solidarity, Eckartsburrowa

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From: Amburrow, Secretary @ the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Date: 4/30/Vendemiaire/10
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
We do wish you had taken more care as names send an important message to aliens but a search of the womblenet shows nothing to object to in those names so we’ll get them registered.

Solidarity, Amburrow

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From: Bad Bereleburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Fongari Liason Delegates
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/01
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
We are somewhat concerned that the ratfolk appear to be expelling Fongari clan members from their worlds on the basis of failure to comply with their ideology. We may need to reevaluate out attitude towards the ratfolk if these sort of ideological purges are ongoing

Peace and Comradeship - Bad Bereleburrow

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From: Parsburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Ratfolk Liason Delegates
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/02
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
Let us not rush to judgement. The Fongari clan were accused of taking without contributing back. If the ratfolk are to be believed then the Fongari Clan were an incipient ruling class seeking to exploit the labouring classes of the Free Clans.

Solidarity, Parsburrow

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From: Kupferburrow, Secretary @ Streatham Common Planetary Development Delegates
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/03
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
If that is the case then why has this Fongari Clan been offered refuge on Streatham Common? We welcome genuine refugees but not exploiters. It is “From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs” not “From each according to their whim, to each according to their greed”. If this Fongari Clan do what they can we will welcome them but not a bunch of lazy freeloaders.

Solidarity, Kupferburrow

From: Parsburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Ratfolk Liason Delegates
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/03
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
Well the Free Clan view may just be a consequence of valid but irreconcilable differences as to the appropriate degree of labour rather than genuine exploitation.

Solidarity, Parsburrow

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From: Bad Bereleburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Fongari Liason Delegates
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/04
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
Which brings us back to the original position of the so-called Free Clans expelling the Fongari Clan over a difference of opinion.

Peace and Comradeship - Bad Bereleburrow

From: Kupferburrow, Secretary @ Streatham Common Planetary Development Delegates
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/04
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
That may make the exploitation unintentional but doesn’t alter the fact that this Fongari Clan apparently got lazy as a consequence of adopting a new ideology. This isn’t a case of different capacities for hard work but an unwillingness to do work one is perfectly capable of doing.

Solidarity, Kupferburrow

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From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/05
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
Indeed this is beginning to look like a worst of both worlds scenario. A lazy Fongari Clan and so called Free Clans that deal with dissent by violence.

Nuremburrow

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From: Whitstumble, Professor of Inclusive History @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/06
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
The ratfolk don’t have a history of violence and it is hardly as if there has never been violence amongst wombles. Our current society arose as a result of the revolution that overthrew the Mystic Monarchs by force. As for incompatible differences in outlook we’ve dealt with those before. By the same methods even: the islanders on Wimbledon Common and the wombles of Sticklepath Common. If differences between Platformists and the rest of the Clapham Common wombles prove to great no doubt a similar solution will present itself. I see no reason, in principle, why the same shouldn’t apply to the Fongari Clan.

Solidarity.

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From: Mecklenburrow Stargard, Systems Developer @ Wombles versus Robots Collective
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/07
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
That they are converting their political system into a game indicates that they are addressing the issue in a constructive fashion. We may have seen some political violence this time but it will hopefully be the last.

Solidarity and Joy, Mecklenburrow Stargard

From: Kupferburrow, Secretary @ Streatham Common Planetary Development Delegates
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/07
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
It is precisely the pacific nature of the ratfolk that gives us concern. If the Fongari Clan can drive them to civil war then, if they are not willing exploiters, their ideology must be quite disruptive. We have managed to use distance to avoid ideological clashes peacefully while the ratfolk were thrown into civil war.

Solidarity, Kupferburrow

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From: Whitstumble, Professor of Inclusive History @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/08
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
It may be less the ideology that proved disruptive and more the sheer number of Fongari Clan. I am still catching up but I believe it rapidly grew to half the Ratfolk. With us the smaller group has generally chosen to migrate to somewhere they could live according to their own ways. At half the population it would not be clear who should move.

Solidarity.

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From: Parsburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Ratfolk Liason Delegates
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/09
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
Indeed Streatham Common was selected to receive the Fongari Clan refugees because it is closest to Fongari space. This Fongari clan may choose to migrate to Eridu making the plan moot.

Solidarity, Parsburrow

From: Whitstumble, Professor of Inclusive History @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/09
Attn: the all womblepace security delegates
Calling the new ship Uncle of Order reinforces outdated gender roles. If you are going to use gendered terms like Uncle you should ensure parity by naming a ship after Aunts as well.

Solidarity.

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From: Kupferburrow, Secretary @ Streatham Common Planetary Development Delegates
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/10
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
Nevertheless we shall endeavor to identify islands or other isolated parts of Streatham Common in which the Fongari Clan refugees can live if they don’t want to pitch in with the rest of us. Hopefully they won’t have the same attachment to their initial Streatham Common homes that they do to Sanara.

Solidarity, Kupferburrow

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From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies @ Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/11
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
I knew that duties of a representative nonsense reminded me of something. That is the same line of argument used to justify bourgeois democracy. One is free but a single day every few years while one chooses which faction among the ruling classes shall be your rulers and thereafter in chains. That it was said by the author of A Vindication of Natural Society is irrelevant - the worst kind of logical fallacy- argument from authority.

Gothenburrow

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From: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist @ Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/12
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
One cannot look at a single idea in isolation to determine if it is conducive to or corrosive of liberty but must look at it in context. Representative democracy was a tool of the ruling class because it existed in a class society. Our society has no such ruling class unless you academics want to admit to being one? In any case the delegate system has demonstrated itself to be no better. Delegates cannot be held properly accountable for the decisions they reach if they can always excuse themselves by pleading compliance with mandates. Accountable leaders are not bosses while the delegate system gives rise to an oppressive invisible dictatorship . As for arguments from authority your own arguments rely far too heavily on the authority of writings by dead red Zabanians rather than understanding the fundamental point that the free society can only be created by those who live in it.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

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From: Surbitumble, Attendant @ Harburrow Parva Community Womblegarten
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/13
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
I thought Zabanians were blue not red?

Solidarity

From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies @ Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/13
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recreational Dungeons
Attn: Clapham Common Planetary Development Delegates
How long until we can begin the buildout of more recreational dungeons on Clapham Common? It may help the platformists direct their energies in more suitable directions.

Gothenburrow

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From: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist @ Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/14
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
Politically red. Not skin colour.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

From: Edinburrow, Secretary @ Clapham Common Planetary Development Delegates
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/14
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recreational Dungeons
Are we still doing that? The Platformists indicated their disaproval and it would be hypocritical of us to impose our views of what is good for them.

Anarchy is Order, Edinburrow

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From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies @ Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/15
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recreational Dungeons
Clapham Common is obviously undersupplied with recreational dungeons compared to other womble worlds. We should correct this deficiency. If it helps to alleviate the pressure for Platformism then so much the better.

Gothenburrow

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From: Battenburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Kallipolis Liason Delegates
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/16
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recreational Dungeons
You seem to be obsessed with a connection between sex and authoritarianism Gothenburrow. First your ridiculous theory that the Kallipolis are homophobic and now the idea that the platformists are motivated by a lack of recreational dungeons.

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From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies @ Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/31/Vendemiaire/17
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recreational Dungeons
As the poet said: “Everything is about sex except sex. Sex is about power”.

Gothenburrow

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From: Carisbrooke, Platformist Patriarch @ Clapham Common
Date: 4/31/Brumaire/22
Attn: Womblespace Military Delegates
Please note that my title is gender-neutral. Pa refers to “parent” and not to “male parent”. The Platformists of Clapham Common would like to express our support for our comrades on Sticklepath Common.

We believe that TWEEDHEAD should be installed on all missiles as a way of harmlessly making all worlds suitable for Womblekind, and especially when attacking Mammot worlds. The theory that Mammots may be mutated Wombles is genius and the combination of TWEEDHEAD with WINDMILL could totally fix the deficiencies in the Mammot diet.

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From: Carisbrooke, Platformist Patriarch @ Clapham Common
Date: 4/31/Brumaire/23
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recreational Dungeons
Gothenburrow’s remarks are tasteless and completely miss the point. A desire for leadership springs from the increased unity of purpose that can be achieved. Expertise coupled with teamwork is a combination that allows every Womble to express their free will.

No one is under any pressure to carry out the plans that I bring forward, yet many Wombles happily do so. I listen to my followers, their desires and suggestions, then I act.

Edinburrow’s hypocrisy is staggering. Edinburrow clearly understands that imposing dungeons upon people who do not wish them is completely contrary to anarchist principles. Yet, even with that understanding, the order was still given to construct dungeons within the new commissary district.

There will doubtless be those on Clapham Common who will use these facilities, but there will be many who consider this a pointless waste of resources that could be better used elsewhere.

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From: Carisbrooke, Platformist Patriarch @ Clapham Common
Date: 4/31/Brumaire/24
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
Parsburrow comments that the Fongari clan were accused of taking without contributing back. But this was cited by the Ratfolk in terms of the ?Great Game?. If the only crime the Fongari carried out was to choose not to steal, then how can they possibly be accused of ?taking? anything?

Surely, the opposite must in fact be true? If they do not steal, then they must pay for everything they use. Thus, they would in fact be net contributors to Ratfolk society.

While payment is clearly an indicator of a capitalist society, it is certainly no reason to attempt to massacre the Fongari Clan. What I see is an attempt to force an ideology on the Fongari Clan, and a purge when that attempt failed.

They were asked to make a choice between giving up their beliefs or being driven from their homes. Is it surprising that they chose to resist that eviction?

Would not every Womble do the same?

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From: Edinburrow, Secretary @ Clapham Common Planetary Development Delegates
Date: 4/32/Vendemiaire/01
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recreational Dungeons
Carisbrooke’s accusations of hypocrisy are ill founded. The request for the establishment of recreational dungeons was the result of deliberations by delegates of wombles affected by our development decisions. While the idea to construct more recreational dungeons on Clapham Common originally arose in the context of a discussion of Platformism that is not the reason for their construction. The purpose of their construction is to provide for the needs of an underserved community as Carisbrooke notes they will not go unused regardless of whether they hold appeal for platformsts.

Anarchy is Order, Edinburrow

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From: Hoptumble-on-Sea, Navigator @ Death of the Wizard Kings
Date: 4/32/Vendemiaire/02
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
Once again the true colours of these Platformists reveal themselves. Under the guise of theoretical unity they seek to paint all divergent opinion as counter revolutionary while illustrating the risks of authoritarianism inherent in the more collectivist strains of anarchism. Payment is not a sign of capitalism but of a market which can be either free or capitalistic. Mutualist anarchists have long argued that, once purged of state interference, the natural tendency of a free market is socialism not capitalism only to be ignored by dogmatic anarcho-communists of which these platformists are but the most recent variation.

Peace and Prosperity, Hoptumble

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From: Parsburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Ratfolk Liason Delegates
Date: 4/32/Vendemiaire/03
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
Carisbrooke’s assumptions about the underlying causes of the Fongari/Ratfolk dispute are without evidence. While we cannot agree with Hoptumble-on-Sea’s characterisation of anarcho-commmunism as dogmatic in general the failure of the platformist patriarch to consider anything besides their own theories shows the risk of dogmatism inherent in that philosophy.

Solidarity, Parsburrow

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From: Whitstumble, Professor of Inclusive History @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/32/Vendemiaire/04
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
While the Fongari/Ratfolk civil war is regretable there is little we can do about it. What we can do, however, is to stop referring to their technology with terms that they find disparaging. I therefore propose that we henceforth deprecate the terms basic and beyond the basics in favour of fundamentals of and beyond the fundamentals.

Solidarity.

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From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/32/Vendemiaire/05
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
Leave it to Whitstumble to start arguing terminology when the ratfolk are engaged in a civil war and the glorious Zabanian culture is in danger of annihilation by the Aravi.

Nuremburrow

From: Hamburrow, Secretary @ the all womblespace technological developmemt committee
Date: 4/32/Vendemiaire/05
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
Wombles concerned with ratfolk is not the appropriate forum for revising the terms used for the various stages of technological development and any such project must, necessarily, include consideration of an appropriate term for the technologies possesed by the Aravi that are beyond what we currently consider “Highly Advanced”.

Peace and solidarity, Hamburrow

From: Carisbrooke, Platformist Patriarch @ Clapham Common
Date: 4/32/Vendemiaire/05
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
It’s not only your impenetrable logic that leads you to illogical conclusions, it?s also your abuse of the Womble language. Even as you decry Womble use of language about the technology of others, you fail to make it clear in grammatical terms whether you are referring to Fongari technology or Ratfolk technology. I trust that you intend to award the same status to both races?

Peace and Prosperity, Carisbrooke

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From: Whitstumble, Professor of Inclusive History @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/32/Vendemiaire/06
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
The use of disparaging terms for ratfolk technological achievements is an obviously symptom of a hierarchical mindset still present in womble society. We should at least consider that disparaging the achievements of their society may have contributed to them adopting aspects, including violence, of societies like ours whose advancement is more technological than social.

Solidarity.

From: Hoptumble-on-Sea, Navigator @ Death of the Wizard Kings
Date: 4/32/Vendemiaire/06
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
This desire to control the development of language through delegate committees seems like further evidence of the bureaucratic nature of anarcho-communism. Such things should be left to the natural evolution of social norms.

Peace and Prosperity, Hoptumble

From: Thebes, Secretary @ the all womblepace security delegates
Date: 4/32/Vendemiaire/06
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
We are in fact dispatching a fleet to help preserve Zabania and therefore Zabanian culture.

Service only to ideals

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From: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer @ New World Experimental Farm
Date: 4/32/Vendemiaire/07
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technologival Development
That’s not anarcho-communism but the malign inflence of the academics and rhubarb gardeners. With the virtual general assembly we are able to support direct participation in decision making by affected wombles. We can avoid bureaucracy without leaving decisions to unconscious social forces. That the VGA hasn’t been rolled out on other planets is a clear dereliction of duty on the part of the technological development delegates.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

From: Whitstumble, Professor of Inclusive History @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/32/Vendemiaire/07
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
Should we really be picking sides between hierarchical societies like the Aravi and the Zabanians? While the slogan “No war but the class war” overemphasises class compared to other forms of oppression it does embody a fundamental truth about siding with one group of rulers over another. In addition the Zabanian culture that Nuremburrow seeks to preserve was based on slavery.

Solidarity.

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From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/32/Vendemiaire/08
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
Zabanian culture has clearly developed beyond slavery while the Aravi have obviously followed the path of capitalism turning into fascism when unable to sustain itself.

Nuremburrow

From: Thebes, Secretary @ the all womblepace security delegates
Date: 4/32/Vendemiaire/08
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
While taking sides may between hierarchical societies may not be ideal it is important to remember that, unlike the Aravi, the Zabanians no longer appear expansionist and that they picked our side when we were attacked by the Mammots.

Service only to ideals

From: Gettysburrow, Secretary @ the Wimbledon Common Rhubarb Gardeners Association
Date: 4/32/Vendemiaire/08
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
The belief that certain extremist Tumbleweed farmers have that the decline in tumbleweed consumption reflects some sort of plot by us is completely unfounded. Rhubarb is popular because of changing tastes and because it grows more easily on alient planets. Being accused of conspiracy by the people trying to turn tumbleweed into an invasive species is a bit rich.

May your work ever be joyful, Gettysburrow

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From: Whitstumble, Professor of Inclusive History @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/32/Vendemiaire/09
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
Zaabaian culture has developed? You’ve changed your tune. You were claiming that the change in the Zabanian language over the last millenium was a clear sign of cultural degeneration.

Solidarity.

From: Parsburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Ratfolk Liason Delegates
Date: 4/32/Vendemiaire/09
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
There doesn’t even appear to be a Zabanian clan among the ratfolk since their queen died. Perhaps you could take this discussion elsewhere.

Solidarity, Parsburrow

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From: Carisbrooke, Platformist Patriarch @ Clapham Common
Date: 4/32/Vendemiaire/24
Attn: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer @ New World Experimental Farm
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
I have received notice from the security delegates, confirmed by comrades in Clapham Common shipyard, that multiple ships are being fitted with TWEEDHEAD missiles. This despite opposition from the Rhubarb Gardeners/academic womble alliance against the Tumbleweed Farmers of Wimbledon and Sticklepath Commons. The rhubarb gardeners, without evidence, suggest the wombles of Sticklepath Common are creating an invasive species when tumbleweed needs careful breeding and ecological integration to survive off Wimbledon Common and their own crop grows everywhere. Once again we see the perils of the tyranny of structurelessness and the hidden bosses it creates. Better, by far to have acknowledged, consensual and accountable leadership to cut through the red tape.

Peace and Prosperity, Carisbrooke

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From: Knaresburrow, Anti-Elitist Agent @ Womblespace Anti-Elitist Agency
Date: 4/33/Vendemiaire/01
Attn: the all womblespace intelligence delegates
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Anti-Elitist agent working conditions
While the cause of the liberation of Woon Gumpus Common is clearly worthwhile the pressure anti-elitist agents are being put under to take excessive risks is unacceptable. I am forced to agree with Ingleburrow that agents must have greater input into the missions that they undertake. To that end my fellow agents and I have formed the Joint Intelligence Syndicate. The purpose of this syndicate is twofold. Firstly we intend to ensure that our interests are properly represented on the appropriate delegate committees. Secondly we wish to ensure that no Joint Intelligence Members (JIMs) are put under excessive pressure to take unreasonable personal risks.

Be Seeing You

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From: Loughburrow, Secretary @ the all womblespace intelligence delegates
Date: 4/33/Vendemiaire/02
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Anti-Elitist agent working conditions
We note and accept your concerns and hope to welcome a delegate from the Joint Intelligence Syndicate soon. In order to facilitate appropriate review of mission assigments we will be maintaining a confidential archive of Anti-Elitist agent mission briefings going forward. For security reasons these will only be available to the all womblespace intelligence delegates and the agent concerned.

Yours in Solidarity, Loughburrow

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From: Brookeburrow, Anti-Elitist Agent @ Womblespace Anti-Elitist Agency
Date: 4/33/Vendemiaire/03
Attn: Ugburrow, Anti-Elitist Agent @ Sticklepath Anti-Elitist Agency
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Anti-Elitist agent working conditions
Please stop sending e-Ballots polls out to the JIMs. The Syndicate has procedures in place for decision making and asking loaded questions out to the members is not one of them.

Be Seeing You

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From: Ugburrow, Anti-Elitist Agent @ Sticklepath Anti-Elitist Agency
Date: 4/33/Vendemiaire/04
Attn: Brookeburrow, Anti-Elitist Agent @ Womblespace Anti-Elitist Agency
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Anti-Elitist agent working conditions
Another attempt to take power from the ordinary working womble and place it in the hands of so-called delegates.

Be Seeing You

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From: Brookeburrow, Anti-Elitist Agent @ Womblespace Anti-Elitist Agency
Date: 4/33/Vendemiaire/05
Attn: Ugburrow, Anti-Elitist Agent @ Sticklepath Anti-Elitist Agency
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Anti-Elitist agent working conditions
Don’t be ridiculous. The syndicate membership is so small there is no reason for us to use delegates internally. All decisions can be taken directly by the wombles affected. The only delegates will be those we send to the all womblespace intelligence committee.

Be Seeing You

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From: Whitstumble, Professor of Inclusive History @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/33/Vendemiaire/06
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
The ratfolk have objected to the use of the term basic to refer to their technology. We should consider more inclusive terms without prejudice to other extra-Wimbledonians, such as the Fongari.

Solidarity.

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From: Hamburrow, Secretary @ the all womblespace technological developmemt committee
Date: 4/33/Vendemiaire/07
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
While this is certainly true if we are reorganising how we refer to different levels of technology we should consider changes at the other end too. It is evident that the some of the Aravi’s technology, for instance ship construction has progressed beyond what we had previously conceived of.

Peace and solidarity, Hamburrow

From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/33/Vendemiaire/07
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
Not this inclusive language nonsense again Whitstumble. Some people just like to take offense at everything. Excessive reliance on universal translators causes people to assume that what they hear is what is being said. I’m sure a lot of problems like this could be avoided if the cluster would just adopt old Zabanian as the language of diplomacy and forgo those silly little machines. And besides the ratfolk in question is dead.

Nuremburrow

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From: Whitstumble, Professor of Inclusive History @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/33/Vendemiaire/08
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
That might work fine for some species Nuremburrow but you are ignoring species like the arachni who live in space and use a gestural language. I’m not even sure how H communicates but I’m certain it is not speech. We need universal translators to communicate with other non-wombloid species. Adopting Old Zabanian as a diplomatic measure would be exclusionary.

Solidarity.

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From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/33/Vendemiaire/09
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
Well perhaps there is a Zabanian sign language that the Arachni could use? It wouldn’t hurt to ask.

Nuremburrow

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From: Gainsburrow, Professor of Linguistics @ Biggleswade Common University
Date: 4/33/Vendemiaire/10
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
Displaying your fundamental linguistic ignorance once again Nuremburrow. Sign languages are not just encodings of the local spoken language but separate languages with their own grammar and vocabulary. Finger spelling, which can be used to encode spoken language, is slow and awkward by comparison. Womblish signs vary depending on whether claws are extended or retracted which would be tricky even for approximately wombloid species without claws. I doubt Zabanian sign languages would work any better for the Arachni let alone H.

Understanding breeds solidarity

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From: Harburrow Parva, Professor of Linguistics @ Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/33/Vendemiaire/11
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
While what you say is true about Womblish Sign Language you are forgetting about Sign Assisted Womblish which uses the vocabulary of Womblish Sign Language to assist communication in spoken Womblish and does follow the grammar thereof. Perhaps there is a Zabanian equivalent?

Wombling Free

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From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/33/Vendemiaire/12
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
Thank you for making such a positive contribution Harburrow Parva such an improvement on all the wombles who carp and criticise but never have any useful alternatives to offer. We can start using Zabanian as the common language of diplomacy with the Zabanians immediately all we need to do is replace the current Spokeswomble of the Womble-Zabanian liason delegates with a Zabanian speaker. Other species can join when their Zabanian is good enough.

Nuremburrow

From: Freudenburrow, Professor of Linguistics @ Streatham Common University
Date: 4/33/Vendemiaire/12
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
Even if we were to use this hypothetical Sign Assisted Zabanian there is no guarantee that the vocabulary lines up perfectly with spoken Zabanian. There is also the question of dialects. Most Zabanian speakers amongst the wombles speak classical Zabanian rather than a modern Zabanian dialect which still leaves open the possibility of misunderstanding. Two species divided by a common language as it were. In addition using their enemy’s language as the language of diplomacy might make achieving peace with the Aravi harder - not very diplomatic

It occurs to me that if some species are going to be using a gestural language then maybe we all should? What better language than the Arachni gestural language? We already have the arachnigarten equipment which can be used as a communications prosthesis by those of us with fewer than eight limbs. We could share that with the other species.

Solidarity.

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From: Pitsburrow-under-Arc, Negotiator @ Womble Collective
Date: 4/33/Vendemiaire/13
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
While I am no fan of the current mode of negotiation by spokeswomble insisting that the womble in question speak Zabanian without technological assistance combines elitism with the preservation of amateurism. What we need to do is reintroduce professionalism into the mix with more reliance on trained negotiators and extra-wimbledonian relations specialists.

Solidarity, Pitsburrow-under-Arc

From: Hamburrow, Secretary @ the all womblespace technological developmemt committee
Date: 4/33/Vendemiaire/13
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
We concede that the use of the Arachnigarten equipment for diplomatic communications constitutes a form of technological development so thank you for dragging the conversation back to somewhere vaguely on topic. To get back to the original question: do any of you linguists have suggestions for more appropriate terminology for the highest and lowest levels of technological development?

Peace and solidarity, Hamburrow

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From: Mecklenburrow Stargard, Systems Developer @ Wombles versus Robots Collective
Date: 4/33/Vendemiaire/14
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
Once again we hear the cry for professionalism from those who wish to see us all stifled in a hierarchy of imagined merit.

Solidarity and Joy, Mecklenburrow Stargard

From: Harburrow Parva, Professor of Linguistics @ Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/33/Vendemiaire/14
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
Well since we’re referring to the levels below the Aravi Ship Construction and Ship Defences as “Advanced” and “Highly Advanced” why don’t we call the next level “Extremely Advanced”?

Wombling Free

From: Gainsburrow, Professor of Linguistics @ Biggleswade Common University
Date: 4/33/Vendemiaire/14
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
We could refer to the lowest level of technological development as “The Fundamentals” which sounds much more positive than “Basic”. We could even refer to the next level up as “Beyond the Fundamentals” when we’re not calling it “Effective”.

Understanding breeds solidarity

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From: Hamburrow, Secretary @ the all womblespace technological developmemt committee
Date: 4/33/Vendemiaire/15
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
Does anyone wish to raise any issues with the terminology proposed by Harburrow Parva and Gainsburrow? Obviously everyone is at liberty to use whatever language they like and the rest of us are at liberty to regard those who choose to be needlessly offensive as reprobates.

Peace and solidarity, Hamburrow

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From: Hamburrow, Secretary @ the all womblespace technological developmemt committee
Date: 4/33/Vendemiaire/17
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
Having received no objections and in furtherance of our mandates to establish technological standards we therefore formally adopt the new descripions:

1. The Fundamentals
2. Beyond the Fundamentals/Effective
3. Highly Effective
4. Advanced
5. Highly Advanced
6. Extremely Advanced.

Please remember it may take some time for your fellow wombles to adjust old habits.

Peace and solidarity, Hamburrow

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From: Hamburrow, Secretary @ the all womblespace technological developmemt committee
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/01
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
This is an open call for suggestions for future directions in technological development. Please note that suggestions made here do not replace the mandates made to the technological development delegates.

Peace and solidarity, Hamburrow

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From: Carisbrooke, Platformist Patriarch @ Clapham Common
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/02
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
Hamburrow has called for suggestions. I would like to propose a high quality project to develop combat clothing which protects against chemical and biological warfare agents. No Womble would even use such unethical weaponry, but who is to say what Mammots might try? I’ve just read Ugburrow’s report. Are we fitting enough ships with drop pods to protect our infantry?

Peace and Prosperity, Carisbrooke

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From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/14
Attn: the all womblespace space exploration delegates
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Space Exploration
It has come to my attention that significant resources are being diverted to investigate the dreams of certain religious wombles. While wombles can certainly believe what they like sending a spaceship to investigate a dream about an imaginary being when resources are already stretched thin with defending against Aravi and Mammots seems wateful.

Nuremburrow

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From: Whitstumble, Professor of Inclusive History @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/15
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Space Exploration
Your inability to understand viewpoints other than your own is showing again Nuremburrow. If the religious wombles want to salvage the ancient battle debris in Burrow why should we stand in their way? It isn’t clear what standing you have here. While we should certainly take into account objections from those affected your objection is simply that you don’t like their reasons for wanting it.

Solidarity.

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From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/16
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Space Exploration
But they don’t want it themselves. They are requesting it because they think Beresford, who doesn’t exist, wants it. They are trying to act as delegates for an imaginary friend. What next? We invite ED-E to speak on behalf of their imaginary friend Ascendancy Incorporated (it is my understanding that Incorportated is one of those capitalist terms that means the opposite of what one would think).

Nuremburrow

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From: Heidelburrow, Secretary @ the all womblespace space exploration delegates
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/17
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Space Exploration
The salvaging of the debris field was always on the agenda. It has just been moved up a bit. In any case we expect to obtain significant resources from salvaging the debris and possibly a better understanding of how the Orion Network creatures work. If anything this will enhance our defences not detract from them.

Solidarity and Good Luck, Heidelburrow

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From: Bad Bereleburrow, Fitness Trainer with @ Stonks Sports
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/18
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
I see the ratfolk have acquired a king again. You’d think they would have learned by now that never works out well. It seems odd that we are diverting resources into the paws of what appears to be a bunch of inveterate royalists via their great game while ignoring their treatment of the Fongari who have been staunch allies against the Mammots.

Peace and Comradeship - Bad Bereleburrow

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From: Mecklenburrow Stargard, Systems Developer @ Wombles versus Robots Collective
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/19
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
Given our history the word King can be triggering but we can be sure that this King Sen’th is the king of only one clan which will splinter if they become too oppressive in their demands. No different from our own platformists. Queen Sk’art Sk’errit only became so powerful due to intervention by the Zabanians who have no doubt learned their lesson. As for the ratfolk great game resources can flow both ways and it serves to support redistribution of concentrated wealth.

Solidarity and Joy, Mecklenburrow Stargard

From: Parsburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Ratfolk Liason Delegates
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/19
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
While the rift between the Fongari and the ratfolk is regretable the ratfolk had their reasons. The Fongari clans diversion of resources into their temple rather than allowing them to continue to circulate as part of the great game reminds us that there is no better excuse for a tyrant on Wimbledon, or Sanara, than a tyrant in heaven.

Solidarity, Parsburrow

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From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies @ Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/20
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
Zabanian interference in ratfolk affairs should remind us that they are as hierarchical as ever. Clearly the seditious literature didn’t stick with them. They have so many kings, princes and princesses it is like being back in the age of tyranny. Wombles should not pick sides in wars between authoritarian powers like the Aravi and Zabanians and yet we find ourselves allied with the Zabanians and their robotic allies

Gothenburrow

From: Blankenburrow, Secretary @ The Society of Wombles
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/20
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
That old saw about a tyrant in heaven is getting a little tiresome. Beresford is no tyrant she provides for her flock. Those with a proper understanding of religion know of its liberating potential. Authoritarianism only raises its head due to deliberate misinterpretation by wombles of ill will.

Berseford Bless you

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From: Carisbrooke, Platformist Patriarch @ Clapham Common
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/21
Attn: Blankenburrow, Secretary @ The Society of Wombles
Your members have had dreams sent by Beresford? That’s amazing! I believe you should immediately act upon it and tidy up the battle debris. To be sent such a vision is a gift, and a gift of such value should never be rejected. Nuremburrow, as usual, is talking out of his hat. Needs come in many forms. Religion fulfils a need for many. An understanding that there is more to life than just surviving and reproducing. Beresford not only provides, they give us inspiration! With Beresford’s aid, we can believe that we can do more and be better people. We can have a better understanding of other’s needs. We can become more inspired in the ways we support other Wombles.

Peace and Prosperity, Carisbrooke

From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/21
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
The claim that the seditious literature had no effect on Zabanian culture is clearly wrong. The Zabanians are clearly headed in the right direction they just haven’t got there yet. The Aravi on the other hand have flipped from being traders to fascists. Clearly they had a crisis of capitalism which went the wrong way. As for the Zabanians robot “allies” better that a few machines are destroyed by the Aravi than Zabanians and Wombles die.

Nuremburrow

From: Bad Bereleburrow, Fitness Trainer with @ Stonks Sports
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/21
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
Regardless of whether womble religion is libertarian or authoritarian it is clear that ratfolk relationship with religions is easy to abuse. The Caligo clan seemed to act as priest kings, little different from the wizard-kings of our past. The leaders of the Arachni cult were a disaster for their followers despite Arachni’s best efforts. Kore managed to convince the ratfolk to start a Holy War against the Fongari clan over a temple.

Peace and Comradeship - Bad Bereleburrow

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From: Carisbrooke, Platformist Patriarch @ Clapham Common
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/22
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
Bad Bereleburrow makes an interesting point. The Ratfolk relationship with religion is a complex one. But Beresford is not Arachni. As far as I’ m aware, Arachni has never claimed to be a god. One should only compare like with like

Peace and Prosperity, Carisbrooke

From: Parsburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Ratfolk Liason Delegates
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/22
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
Please keep the discussion on topic. There are other forums for those wishing to discuss relations with the Zabanians (or the Aravi for that matter).

Solidarity, Parsburrow

From: Whitstumble, Professor of Inclusive History @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/22
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
Mystic Monarchs and Theocrats please. There is no reason to restrict our discussions of authoritarians to those of a single gender.

Solidarity.

From: Blankenburrow, Secretary @ The Society of Wombles
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/22
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
You are confusing the news, an account of things that hardly ever happen, with a representative sample of events. We hear about the rare occassions where the ratfolk relationship with religion goes wrong not the many times it goes right. And if it goes wrong? All the more reason to bring them the good news about Bersford.

Berseford Bless you

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From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies @ Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/23
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
More like a good reason to bring them the good news about secularism. Religion is the tumbleweed wine of the masses or, in the ratfolk’s case, the fungal symbiotes of the masses. Religion may start off benign when it is small and weak but when it gets a grip on society it always ends up trying to regulate “morals”.

Gothenburrow

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From: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist @ Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/24
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
You may be on to something with the fungal symboites. The Fongari seem much more sensible. Their elders remind me of Patriarch Carisbrooke. We could learn a lot from them.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

From: Blankenburrow, Secretary @ The Society of Wombles
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/24
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
This discussion is showing signs of degenerating into the usual bashing of the religious by the atheist majority. As such we have no interest in continued participation.

Berseford Bless you

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From: Parsburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Ratfolk Liason Delegates
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/25
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
The ratfolk have their reasons for expelling the Fongari Clan. More than that we cannot say.

Solidarity, Parsburrow

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From: Kronoburrow, Secretary @ Decision Support Delegates
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/26
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
While we understand that delegates may sometimes receive information in confidence but if you cannot reveal the information you shouldn’t be using it as a tool to control the discussion.

Solidarity

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From: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist @ Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/27
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
A problem that only arises because of the insistence that every womble weigh in on every decisions rather than leaving the decisions to accountable leaders like Patriarch Carisbrooke.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

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From: Carisbrooke, Platformist Patriarch @ Clapham Common
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/28
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
Helsingburrow, I think that was intended as a compliment. So I’ll accept it in that light. Thank you. And you’re right, accountability is very important. I am personally accountable for every action I recommend. That in turn means I have to consider the well-being of every Womble who looks to me for leadership. We are stronger when grouped together. Tactical Unity. I’d like to hear Parsburrow try to deduce why the Ratfolk want to expel the Fongari. I?m having problems figuring it all out. Haven’t we got an anti-elitist agent on Sanara?

Peace and Prosperity, Carisbrooke

From: Kronoburrow, Secretary @ Decision Support Delegates
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/28
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
That is a misrepresentation and you know it. Decisions are best made by those wombles affected by them, or where that is impratcical by their properly mandated delegates. If a single individual or elite group makes all the decisions based solely on their own judgement without the input of others affected there is no hope of holding them accountable.

Solidarity

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From: Sevastumble, Secretary @ Sticklepath Common Virtual General Assembly
Date: 4/34/Vendemiaire/29
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
Direct decision making is fine but the delegate system is far too vulnerable to control by academics expert in manipulating the reconciliation of mandates. For large scale decisions we need to use technology to ensure the direct, unmediated involvement of all affected wombles.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

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From: Hattiesburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Edranna Liason Delegates
Date: 4/34/Brumaire/01
Attn: Womble-Sedranian Liason Delegates
We should probably discuss the exact division of responsibilities between our two delgate committees.

Tumble on!

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From: Adenburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Sedranian Liason Delegates
Date: 4/34/Brumaire/02
Attn: Womble-Edranna Liason Delegates
That doesn’t seem difficult we deal with ED-E’s toaster imperium and the Sedranians from Scipio if we ever make contact while you handle the S’Edranna from Edranna. In any case aren’t you from Sticklepath Common. I thought you all disaproved of the delegate system?

Death to Tyrants, Adenburrow

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From: Hattiesburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Edranna Liason Delegates
Date: 4/34/Brumaire/03
Attn: Womble-Sedranian Liason Delegates
Sticklepath Common is not a hive mind. While most of us do disaprove of the delegate system that understanding has not spread to the rest of womblespace so someone needs to keep an eye on all these committees. On the matter of the division of responsibilities ED-E seemed to believe that the S’Edranna and the Sedranians were the same people so it would make sense if we handled The S’Edranna and any Sedranians we find while you continue to deal with ED-E and the toaster imperium.

Tumble on!

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From: Adenburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Sedranian Liason Delegates
Date: 4/34/Brumaire/04
Attn: Womble-Edranna Liason Delegates
Well the Ratfolk and the Fongari are also in a sense one people but I think the evidence is clear that they are not in any way united. In any case ED-E changed its tune when it learned the S’Edranna aren’t from Scipio. In any case the cultures seem very different one with advanced technology one rather primitive.

Death to Tyrants, Adenburrow

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From: Hattiesburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Edranna Liason Delegates
Date: 4/34/Brumaire/05
Attn: Womble-Sedranian Liason Delegates
We know nothing of the culture of the Sedranians of Scipio all we have to go on are what ED-E tells us.

Tumble on!

From: Lutumble, Extra-Wimbledonian Relations Specialist @ Tasty Tumbleweed
Date: 4/34/Brumaire/05
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
Attn: the all womblespace technological developmemt committee
Please can we arrange for the development of a protective force of Marines to defend the reputation of wombles that venture into ratfolk space.

With Solidarity and Freedom for all

From: Adenburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Sedranian Liason Delegates
Date: 4/34/Brumaire/05
Attn: Womble-Edranna Liason Delegates
Exactly we know nothing so assuming they have anything besides possibly some distant ancestry in common with the S’Edranna is foolish. In any case we were mandated to establish communications with the Sedranians. ED-E and the toaster imperium are just obstacles in our way.

Death to Tyrants, Adenburrow

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From: Hattiesburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Edranna Liason Delegates
Date: 4/34/Brumaire/06
Attn: Womble-Sedranian Liason Delegates
And after you failed in your mandate and we encontered some S’Edranna away from ED-E’s care we were mandated to communicate with them.

Tumble on!

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From: Adenburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Sedranian Liason Delegates
Date: 4/34/Brumaire/07
Attn: Womble-Edranna Liason Delegates
We will have to agree to differ there. If we ever do manage to bypass ED-E and make contact with the Sedranians proper we don’t think we will have any difficulty in renewing our mandate to communicate with them.

Death to Tyrants, Adenburrow

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From: Gettysburrow, Secretary @ the Wimbledon Common Rhubarb Gardeners Association
Date: 4/34/Brumaire/08
Attn: the all womblespace technological developmemt committee
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
While the theory behind the TWEEDHEAD missiles is unlikely to be true we would like to request that the payload be adjusted to include some rhubarb seeds. If Mammot behavior is due to a lack of essential micronutrients it is as likely that those micronutrients are found in rhubarb as in tumbleweed. In addition rhubarb doesn’t need to be modified into an invasive species to grow on other planets.

May your work ever be joyful, Gettysburrow

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From: Carisbrooke, Platformist Patriarch @ Clapham Common
Date: 4/34/Brumaire/09
Attn: the all womblespace technological developmemt committee
I agree with Gettysburrow, we should have rhubarb seeds in there as well. A wider range of nutrients has to improve the odds. We know it’s a long shot, but it’s not an expensive one.

Peace and Prosperity, Carisbrooke

From: Sevastumble, Secretary @ Tumbleweed Hunters and farmers Syndicate
Date: 4/34/Brumaire/09
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
Of course rhubarb doesn’t need to be modified into an invasive species it already is one. This is typical of the Rhubarg Gardeners trying to freeload off the hard work and innovation of tumbleweed farmers.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

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From: Gettysburrow, Secretary @ the Wimbledon Common Rhubarb Gardeners Association
Date: 4/34/Brumaire/10
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
You are confusing being hardy enough to survive in diverse environments with being an invasive species. This talk of freeloading makes you sound like one of the Kallipolis Guardians with their obsession with measuring output rather than relying on others to make an honest effort. Whatever happened to sharing with one another for mutual benefit?

May your work ever be joyful, Gettysburrow

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From: Sevastumble, Secretary @ Tumbleweed Hunters and farmers Syndicate
Date: 4/34/Brumaire/11
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
You can talk. You and you academic allies spread rhubarb across the cluster with zero effort to adapt Tumbleweed for other planets. We had to settle a new planet to do so. You and your allies tried to ensure that the small amounts of effort required to adapt tumbleweed to wind deficient planets would never be taken but you failed.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

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From: Gettysburrow, Secretary @ the Wimbledon Common Rhubarb Gardeners Association
Date: 4/34/Brumaire/12
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
Your persecution complex is ridiculous. Nobody was stopping the development of Tumbleweed Strains it just wasn’t a high priority with rhubarb able to supply our food needs on low wind planets.

May your work ever be joyful, Gettysburrow

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From: Sevastumble, Secretary @ Tumbleweed Hunters and farmers Syndicate
Date: 4/34/Brumaire/13
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
Tumbleweed isn’t just a foodstuff it is a plant of enormous cultural signifigance. Tumbleweed Hunts are the forerunners of modern litter collecting. Your attempts to replace it with Rhubarb are an exercise in cultural obliteration.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

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From: Gettysburrow, Secretary @ the Wimbledon Common Rhubarb Gardeners Association
Date: 4/34/Brumaire/14
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
If it was as culturally important as you claim then there would have been broad support for developing new tumbleweed strains but there wasn’t. The cultural signifigance wasn’t destroyed by us but by the Tumbleweed farmers slowly supplanting the Tumbleweed Hunters. Nobody has any great cultual affinity for an agro-industrial process.

May your work ever be joyful, Gettysburrow

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From: Sevastumble, Secretary @ Tumbleweed Hunters and farmers Syndicate
Date: 4/34/Brumaire/15
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
The support was there the lack of research into new tumbleweed strains was due to your academic allies manipulating the mandate resolution process within the corrupt delegate system.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

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From: Gettysburrow, Secretary @ the Wimbledon Common Rhubarb Gardeners Association
Date: 4/34/Brumaire/16
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Technological Development
I suppose you have to tell yourself that to justify breaking into the commissary systems to divert resources to your own ends and framing the Kallipolis and a dead Womble for your actions.

May your work ever be joyful, Gettysburrow

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From: Adenburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Sedranian Liason Delegates
Date: 4/35/Vendemiaire/01
Attn: Order of Investigative Librarians
Attn: Decision Support Delegates
Attn: Womble-Edranna Liason Delegates
We would like to ask the Order of Investigative Librarians to be more careful about what they publish on the public womblenet. Correspondence between delegate committes is not “public comment on matters of public interest”. Unfortunately a discussion on the scope of our respective remits with the delegates on Womble-Edranna relations leaked out and became known to one of the S’Edranna causing some embarassment. They have accepted my apologies but we would prefer to avoid such incidents in future.

Death to Tyrants, Adenburrow

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From: Hattiesburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Edranna Liason Delegates
Date: 4/35/Vendemiaire/02
Attn: Order of Investigative Librarians
Attn: Decision Support Delegates
Attn: Womble-Sedranian Liason Delegates
It didn’t leak out. As a responsible womble I shared our discussion with the VGA via the womblenet. We are not the security or intelligence delegates. There is no argument for hiding from accountability by keeping our discussions secret. The embarassment would have been much less if you hadn’t decided to refer to the S’Edranna as primitive. Typical of the invisible dictatorship of delegate culture.

Tumble on!

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From: Adenburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Sedranian Liason Delegates
Date: 4/35/Vendemiaire/03
Attn: Womble-Edranna Liason Delegates
Attn: Order of Investigative Librarians
Attn: Decision Support Delegates
I was referring to their technology and I would have been a lot more careful with my language if I had realised that it was going to be seen by one of the people I was talking about. If you were going to publish it you should have at least warned us in advance. In any case this clearly no longer has anything to do with the Order of Investigative Librarians or the decision support delegates.

Death to Tyrants, Adenburrow

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From: Hattiesburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Edranna Liason Delegates
Date: 4/35/Vendemiaire/04
Attn: Decision Support Delegates
Attn: Womble-Sedranian Liason Delegates
Delegates are supposed to be fulfilling the mandates they have been given. Openness should be the default not something that you need to be warned about.

Tumble on!

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From: Sevastumble, Secretary @ Sticklepath Common Virtual General Assembly
Date: 4/35/Brumaire/05
Attn: Sticklepath Common Agricultural-Technical College
Given our great success in developing low wind tolerant varieties of Tumbleweed the VGA has determined that it is time to share them with the cluster. Please prepare appropriate lessons on the care and feeding of tumbleweed suitable for making TEA for the ratfolk.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

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From: Sevastumble, Secretary @ Sticklepath Common Virtual General Assembly
Date: 4/35/Brumaire/06
Attn: Faculty of Arlesey Common University
Given our great success in developing low wind tolerant varieties of Tumbleweed the VGA has determined that it is time to share them with the cluster. Please prepare appropriate lessons on the care and feeding of tumbleweed suitable for making WINE for the S’Edranna.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

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From: Sevastumble, Secretary @ Sticklepath Common Virtual General Assembly
Date: 4/35/Brumaire/07
Attn: Faculty of Biggleswade Common University
Given our great success in developing low wind tolerant varieties of Tumbleweed the VGA has determined that it is time to share them with the cluster. Please prepare appropriate lessons on the care and feeding of the FLOWER strain of tumbleweed for the Zabanians.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

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From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies @ Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/36/Vendemiaire/01
Attn: Wombles Concerned with History
I hope you will all take the opportunity to subscribe to the new vidseries “The Fall of the Hosue of Parsburrow” which documents how the house of Parsburrow changed from the benevolent Princess Parsburrow, destroyer of Zabanian Robots and inventor of the eponymous pump to the brutal Witch Queen of Royal Tumbleweed Wells who was the last holdout against the Unknown Womble. I had the honour of consulting on the historical accuracy of royal customs for the vidseries.

Gothenburrow

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From: Whitstumble, Professor of Inclusive History @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/36/Vendemiaire/02
Attn: Wombles Concerned with History
I somehow doubt the Witch Queen was any more brutal than other contemporary Mystic Monarchs. The idea that the Witch Queens were harsher rulers than the Wizard-Kings is just a sexist calumny that should have died out centuries ago.

Solidarity.

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From: Carisbrooke, Platformist Patriarch @ Clapham Common
Date: 4/36/Vendemiaire/03
Attn: Wombles Concerned with History
Don’t think I can’t see where you’re trying to go with this, Gothenburrow. My followers value the opportunity to work in more cohesive groups. We are in no danger of falling into a dictatorship, far from it. Do you think any free Womble would choose to be part of a dictatorship? Yet, we are gaining in number as Wombles see the opportunities that our philosophy brings. You yourself are an example of an organisation where power and knowledge are gathered into few hands. Have you ever paused to consider that?

Peace and Prosperity, Carisbrooke

From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies @ Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/36/Vendemiaire/03
Attn: Wombles Concerned with History
The brutality is relative to the benevolence of earlier mystic monarchs, such as Princess Parsburrow, not the Witch Queen’s contemporaries. The series illustartes how even benevolent leadership must inevitably degenerate into dictatorship when power and knowledge are gathered into few hands. While the surrender of power is initially voluntary it eventually becomes impossible to take back except by meeting force with force.

Gothenburrow

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From: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist @ Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/36/Vendemiaire/04
Attn: Wombles Concerned with History
The inevitable degeneration of leadership into dictatorship? Seems to me someone is putting on a morality play dirceted at us platformists.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

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From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies @ Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/36/Vendemiaire/05
Attn: Wombles Concerned with History
The vidseries is as historically accurate as we could make it if somewhat dramatised for entertainment purposes. If you platformist see yourselves reflected in it then that is, perhaps, your conscience speaking to you and certainly not the intent of either myself or the makers of the vidseries.

Gothenburrow

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From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies @ Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/01
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
I am somewhat perturbed by the tendency of the Platformist leaders to interpret criticism of their platform as if only intended negative consequences are of concern. Just as the Virtual General Assembly on Sticklepath Common raises concerns about problems related to the Tyranny of Structurelessness the replacement of delegates whose mandates must be considered by leaders granted plenipotentiary authority leads to the danger that the vast majority of wombles will lack the skills to take that authority back when needed even if in theory they can. At least the Wombles of Sticklepath Common understand the risks of their less structured organisation and take steps to address it. Liberty requires both vigilance and practice.

Gothenburrow

4/38/Vendemiaire/02 #

From: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist @ Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/02
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
We’re hardly going to be out of practice when it comes to mandating delegates when we still have to collaborate with people like you. As long as there are Wombles who think like you we’re still going to get practice selecting delegates and crafting mandates for matters of mutual interest. If we happen to choose the Patriarchs as our delegates and give them broad mandates that is surely our choice. We just feel that in a lot of areas, the shipyards in particular, the fear of Wizard Kings is preventing us from organising efficiently. We’re unlikely to mistake anyone for a wizard these days after all.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

4/38/Vendemiaire/03 #

From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies @ Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/03
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
But it is precisely the repeated granting of broad mandates to the same wombles over and over again that leads to a lack of ability to do anything else over time. Without that sort of practice skills atrophy and may lead to resentment of those more skilled. The wombles of Sticklepath Common have criticised our system of delegates for empowering those, such as academic wombles, most skilled in reconciling mandates. They at least are doing something to alleviate the problem you appear to be swapping one sort of unaccountable delegate for another.

Gothenburrow

From: Carisbrooke, Platformist Patriarch @ Clapham Common
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/03
Attn: Burrowheim, Secretary @ Womble-Haxan Liason Delegates
Attn: the all womblepace security delegates
Whatever happened to: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”

Peace and Prosperity, Carisbrooke

4/38/Vendemiaire/04 #

From: Burrowheim, Secretary @ Womble-Haxan Liason Delegates
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/04
Attn: Carisbrooke, Platformist Patriarch @ Clapham Common
Attn: the all womblepace security delegates
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
Wow, you must be a friend of Nuremburrow. I cannot think of anyone else who would think that digging up archaic gendered pronouns that exclude roughly half of all wombles just to translate a Zabanian slogan more accurately was a reasonable thing to do. In any case Bellatrix would be an ‘it’ not a ‘he’. I have informed the Order of Investigative Librarians that I consider your message a public comment on a matter of public interest so your followers will find out exactly the sort of womble you are.

In Solidarity, Burrowheim

From: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist @ Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/04
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
We Wombles are quite long lived. Should we need to take control back from the Patriarchs we might be a bit rusty at first but I’m sure it won’t take too long for somebody to remember what we need to do.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

4/38/Vendemiaire/05 #

From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies @ Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/05
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
And what about the next generation? Those who don’t have your practice in crafting mandates.

Gothenburrow

From: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer @ New World Experimental Farm
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/05
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Automation
Attn: Mecklenburrow Stargard, Spokeswomble @ Womble-Haxan Liason Delegates
Attn: the all womblepace security delegates
Good to see that at least some wombles are finally coming around to the benefits of automation. Automating productive work allows for a far greater output than treating it like some sort of recreation like those diletante rhubarb gardeners. We should definitely have an open discussion on where we can more fully automate production

Tumble On, Sevastumble

4/38/Vendemiaire/06 #

From: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist @ Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/06
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
That is a problem. If only there was some sort of University of Wimbledon Common that could provide courses on how to craft mandates and select delegates. Of course the academics there would have to be willing to share their skills with the common folk.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

From: Mecklenburrow Stargard, Spokeswomble @ Womble-Haxan Liason Delegates
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/06
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Automation
You have misunderstood my position. Automation may be a last resort when work cannot be made enjoyable but I don’t advocate taking wombles out of the loop entirely. The Rhubarb Gardeners, and the Tumbleweed Hunters for that matter, combine productive work with leisure. That is surely the highest goal.

Solidarity and Joy, Mecklenburrow Stargard

4/38/Vendemiaire/07 #

From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies @ Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/07
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
Again with the attacks on academics and attempts to divide the workers who primarily work with their hands from those who work primarily with their minds. I spent a summer working in the Wimbledon Common shipyard to more fully understand the perspective of the workers there. Maybe you could try teaching a course on some practical engineering topic at Clapham Common University to see how the other half lives.

Gothenburrow

From: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer @ New World Experimental Farm
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/07
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Automation
Not all work can be made enjoyable. That is where automation comes in. Some work is both necessaery and unpleasant.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

4/38/Vendemiaire/08 #

From: Lindesburrow, Latrine Maintenance Engineer @ Streatham Common Construction and Engineering Syndicate
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/08
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Automation
Enjoyment of ones’ work surely comes from knowledge that one is making a socially useful contribution. The whole automation versus gamification debate is sterile. If you aren’t enjoying your work maybe you have a bullshit job?

Solidarity!, Lindesburrow

4/38/Vendemiaire/09 #

From: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer @ New World Experimental Farm
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/09
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Automation
Work can be exhausting and worthwhile at the same time. Without the Autotumblers producing strains of tumbleweed that haven’t yet been adapted to low wind environments would be very tiring. While tumbleweed hunting does somewhat gamify the production of tumbleweed products it is only practical where the winds are adequate and is much less efficient than farming tumbleweed directly.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies @ Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/09
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Automation
The use of the word sterile with these negative connotations disparages those of us who are child-free. Please refrain from such language.

Gothenburrow

4/38/Vendemiaire/10 #

From: Gettysburrow, Secretary @ the Wimbledon Common Rhubarb Gardeners Association
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/10
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Automation
Or one could move with the times and grow a crop that can survive off wimbledon common without automation or being modified into an invasive species.

May your work ever be joyful, Gettysburrow

4/38/Vendemiaire/11 #

From: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer @ New World Experimental Farm
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/11
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Automation
Tumbleweed is not an invasive species. We have no idea what the long term effects of eating a rhubarb based diet, lacking in the essential micronutrients provided by tumbleweed will be. Rhubarb provides empty callories.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

4/38/Vendemiaire/12 #

From: Gettysburrow, Secretary @ the Wimbledon Common Rhubarb Gardeners Association
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/12
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Automation
Ah yes. I believe it was your theory that the Platformist ideology was just a symptom of a lack of micronutrients present only in tumbleweed but now their ideas are spreading on Wimbledon Common where Tumbleweed is readily available. As for Tumbleweed not being an invasive species your entire Tweedhead missile strategy relies on it being exactly that.

May your work ever be joyful, Gettysburrow

4/38/Vendemiaire/13 #

From: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer @ New World Experimental Farm
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/13
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Automation
Growing well on other planets doesn’t make something invasive unless it is displacing native lifeforms in some manner. If it did wouldn’t your favourite crop also count?

Tumble On, Sevastumble

From: Carisbrooke, Platformist Patriarch @ Clapham Common
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/13
Attn: Gettysburrow, Secretary @ the Wimbledon Common Rhubarb Gardeners Association
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Automation
You really ought to sit down and relax with a pot of tumbleweed tea. It would do you a world of good. The shipyard workers are fully behind the Tweedhead project. The aim is not to alter the ecosystem, but to correct the nutrient deficiencies in the Mammot diet that lead to their aggressive behaviour. If they become more like Wombles then they will start to cooperate.

Peace and Prosperity, Carisbrooke

4/38/Vendemiaire/14 #

From: Gettysburrow, Secretary @ the Wimbledon Common Rhubarb Gardeners Association
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/14
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Automation
Rhubarb grows well when cultivated. Your Tweedhead strategy relies on tumbleweed spreading without Womblish intervention. If it is at all successful it must be displacing native life forms.

May your work ever be joyful, Gettysburrow

4/38/Vendemiaire/15 #

From: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer @ New World Experimental Farm
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/15
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Automation
You are confusing a successful species with an invasive one. If your concerns were serious you would be supporting the greater automation for which this forum exists rather than attacking hard working Tumbleweed Farmers.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

4/38/Vendemiaire/16 #

From: Gettysburrow, Secretary @ the Wimbledon Common Rhubarb Gardeners Association
Date: 4/38/Vendemiaire/16
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Automation
You were the one scaremongering about nutrient deficiencies in a rhubarb based diet. Still if you focussed on more automation rather than mutant Tumbleweed at least there’s less risk of it being invasive.

May your work ever be joyful, Gettysburrow

4/39/Vendemiaire/01 #

From: Harburrow Parva, Professor of Linguistics @ Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/01
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
I see that Burrowheim is using private correspondence in an attempt to put Carisbrooke in a bad light. However the foundations of this attack are rocky. In particular he criticism of Carisbrooke for the use of the possesive pronoun ‘his’. This just shows the lack of understanding of the imperfect correlation between biology, social gender and grammatical gender. As I understand it Carisbrooke’s ancestors hail from an island highly influenced by Les Wombles and therefore speaks a dialect where grammatical gender is preserved. If they, or he, feels that their native dialect provides a better translation of the Zabanian then why not? While we do not have the full context of the discussion it seems like Burrowheim is attempting to deflect a point they cannot answer by stirring up a fuss.

Wombling Free

4/39/Vendemiaire/02 #

From: Gothenburrow, Tutor in Archist Studies @ Wimbledon Common Free School
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/02
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
Sounds to me like you are just trying to cosy up to the new platformist leadership at Wimbledon Common University in the hopes that there will still be a place for you once your sojourn at Streatham Common University comes to an end.

Gothenburrow

From: Whitstumble, Professor of Inclusive History @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/02
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
Better translation is not the point. The problem is not with the quality of the translation but, as Burrowheim pointed out, with using a word that includes only some wombles when all wombles should be included. There would be no problem if ‘he’ or ‘his’ were used to refer to a particular womble of the appropriate gender. The problem arises when it is used in a generic sense.

Solidarity.

4/39/Vendemiaire/03 #

From: Flixburrow Stather, Professor of Linguistics @ Arlesey Common University
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/03
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
I think you are overlooking the fact that in many languages and dialects one gender is said to inclde the other. In this case the masculine includes the feminine. Grammatical gender and social gender are related but not identical.

May the four winds blow you safely home

4/39/Vendemiaire/04 #

From: Whitstumble, Professor of Inclusive History @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/04
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
A distinction that makes no difference. It is almost as bad to use lanaguage that leaves it unclear if the intent is to exclude certain genders as to use language that definitely does so. The former just allows discrimination while providing plausible deniability. One can refer to a Wizard King as a Wizard King but should refer to the group as a whole as Mystic Monarchs to avoid disparaging the contributions made by witch Queens. The same care should be taken with gendered pronouns regardless of what dialect one speaks.

Solidarity.

4/39/Vendemiaire/05 #

From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/05
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
Not this nonsense about Mystic Monarchs again Whitstumble? Maybe you should talk to the platformists about creating a Witch Queen to even up the score. Their taste in leaders is bad enough they just might do it.

Nuremburrow

From: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist @ Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/05
Attn: Wombles Concerned with PLatformism
So being inclusive just mean suppressing ethinc minorities cultural expression in the name of gender equity then?

The Workers united will never be defeated.

4/39/Vendemiaire/06 #

From: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist @ Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/06
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
Something tells me, Nuremburrow, that your only beef with Platformism is that you arent’t Patriarch. You probably wouldn’t like it if you were. Carisbrooke isn’t a Wizard King just a responsible and accountable womble who takes on the burden of advising and organising other wombles. We still have the autonomy to ignore Carisbrooke and choose another if they give us reason to do so. So far Carisbrooke has not given us a reason.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

From: Whitstumble, Professor of Inclusive History @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/06
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Platformism
Not at all. But being a member of a minority dialect community doesn’t excuse exclusionary language particularly when one is translating the seditious literature. The point of using a familiar quotation is recognition which is hardly enhanced if one translates it into a dialect the recipient does not use.

Solidarity.

4/39/Vendemiaire/07 #

From: Bad Bereleburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Fongari Liason Delegates
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/07
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Ratfolk Relations
I think it is high time we re-considered our realtionship with the ratfolk. While they might have initially seemed very compatible one only has to consider their recent history to see they are not like us at all. After the Queen Sk’errit fiasco they are right back to another royal who is bombarding some ratfolk who preferred the Fongari way of life to the one in which they were brought up. Whatever the protestations of this King Sen’th they are treating Sanara like their own property rather than the possession of those who occupy and use it.
The Fongari on the other hand seem a most congenial people who have been much put upon. While they certainly tolerate

4/39/Vendemiaire/08 #

From: Parsburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Ratfolk Liason Delegates
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/08
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Ratfolk Relations
The Ratfolk are only doing this because of the Fongari Fungus, which has been confirmed by the Zabanians, those who chose the Fongari “way of life” are not doing so because that is what they prefer but thanks to a non-consensually administered mind altering drug.

Solidarity, Parsburrow

4/39/Vendemiaire/09 #

From: Bad Bereleburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Fongari Liason Delegates
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/09
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Ratfolk Relations
We should trust the Zabanians then? They may have improved from their old slaver days but they still have Kings and Queens of their own and Queen Sk’erritt’s rise to power was thanks to their manipulations. Who is to say this King Sen’th isn’t likewise one of their pawns. By Sen’th’s own admission they are using a fungicide they know may be lethal to their own people. As Tuge pointed out the Zabanians experimented on Ratfolk who had the fungal spores administered to them. Lots of fungi are dangerous if you eat them. There is no evidence of these spores invading ratfolk involuntarily.

Peace and Comradeship - Bad Bereleburrow

4/39/Vendemiaire/10 #

From: Parsburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Ratfolk Liason Delegates
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/10
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Ratfolk Relations
No evidence? What do you call the sudden conversion of ratfolk who had just spent years evicting the Fongari clan from their planet to the Fongari “way of life”.

Solidarity, Parsburrow

4/39/Vendemiaire/11 #

From: Bad Bereleburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Fongari Liason Delegates
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/11
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Ratfolk Relations
The ratfolk are very short lived. It isn’t as sudden from their perspective as ours. However let us take the Zabanians at their word and assume that this Fungus has mind altering properties. Why assume that the drug was non-consensually administered? Is it not simpler to assume that the ratfolk, stressed by a war against their kin, turned to mind altering drugs as a form of solace. If those drugs gave them the more laid back perspective of the Fongari with less of a desire to compete for status then is that not as it should be? Does not every Womble and every Ratfolk have the final say on what goes into their body?

Peace and Comradeship - Bad Bereleburrow

4/39/Vendemiaire/12 #

From: Parsburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Ratfolk Liason Delegates
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/12
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Ratfolk Relations
Then why do the newly minted Fongari not make clear that it was voluntarily ingested spores that gave them their new perspective? Calling the Fongari laid back is a bit of a stretch. They’re always whining about something.

Solidarity, Parsburrow

4/39/Vendemiaire/13 #

From: Bad Bereleburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Fongari Liason Delegates
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/13
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Ratfolk Relations
Not all species recognise bodily autonomy. The Kallipolis might see it as an abdication of responsibility. The Aravi no doubt wish to control access to drugs as a means of social control and source of profits. As for the Fongari “whinging” they have good reason to complain. Invaded by Mammots, Slandered by Ratfolk and , lest we forget, one of their off world settlements was exterminated by Bellatrix.

While we are speculating about motives why did this King Se’nth bombard Sanara with a fungicide they knew was potentially lethal to their own folk when they could have waited until a more selective fungicide could be developed? Perhaps they are trying to cover up the evidence that they are engaging in ethnic cleansing? For that matter what of the behavior of ratfolk here introducing robots to Wimbledon Common?

Peace and Comradeship - Bad Bereleburrow

4/39/Vendemiaire/14 #

From: Parsburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Ratfolk Liason Delegates
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/14
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Ratfolk Relations
If their plan was to avoid conflict by pretending not to have consumed mind altering substances it doesn’t seem to have worked out very well does it? A sensible being would fess up after a plan went that badly wrong.

The ratfolk deployed what they had when they could with the fungus spreading amongst them they could hardly wait. As for the robots they were scared of the fungus and in any case it’s not as if these are the first robots in womblespace. The Wombles of Sticklepath Common have their autotumblers.

Solidarity, Parsburrow

4/39/Vendemiaire/15 #

From: Bad Bereleburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Fongari Liason Delegates
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/15
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Ratfolk Relations
If the ratfolk had done that on one of their own worlds you might have a point but the people of Sanara had exercised their self determination and freedom of association to join the Fongari. Are we supposed to believe that this magical fungus can travel interstellar distances unassisted making its presence on Sanara a threat to Ratfolk on other worlds?

Peace and Comradeship - Bad Bereleburrow

From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/15
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Ratfolk Relations
At least the Tumbleweed Farmers had the good sense to move to the far end of womblespace before they started experimenting with robots. The ratfolk started doing so on Wimbledon Common.

Nuremburrow

4/39/Vendemiaire/16 #

From: Thebes, Secretary @ the all womblepace security delegates
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/16
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Ratfolk Relations
We have the ratfolk machines under constant surveilance in any case. They seem more primitive than the Zabanian Robots and our technology has advanced a lot since then. I doubt they are any threat.

Service only to ideals

4/39/Vendemiaire/17 #

From: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist @ Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/17
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Ratfolk Relations
A good reason to boycott this Club Lu’Min if you ask me. let the ratfolk know how we feel.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

4/39/Vendemiaire/18 #

From: Salisburrow, Professor of Psychology @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/18
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Ratfolk Relations
I doubt we need to organise a boycott. With the robots there the only Wombles likely to go near the Club are those whose job it is, like the ARM Yeowombles.

Solidarity!

4/39/Vendemiaire/19 #

From: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist @ Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/19
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Ratfolk Relations
Have you noticed that the Ratfolk are now claiming that we’re infected by this fungus? Might be a prelude to an attack on us by their King.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

4/39/Vendemiaire/20 #

From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/20
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Ratfolk Relations
I doubt the ratfolk would like to face our fleet or the ARM Yeowombles. Their resources are limited by all the Ratfolk defecting to the Fongari.

Nuremburrow

4/39/Vendemiaire/21 #

From: Thebes, Secretary @ the all womblepace security delegates
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/21
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Ratfolk Relations
Our forces are also stretched thin with the Mammots and other commitments. Still an attack by the ratfolk is unlikely. They appear to have their paws full.

Service only to ideals

From: Salisburrow, Professor of Psychology @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/21
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Ratfolk Relations
The question of why the ratfolk are defecting to the Fongari is still an open one. Even for a species as short lived as they are it seems unusually rapid.

Solidarity!

4/39/Vendemiaire/22 #

From: Bad Bereleburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Fongari Liason Delegates
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/22
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Ratfolk Relations
Almost revolutionary? Sometimes a good idea is just a good idea. Or maybe this dreaded fungus is just clearing out the invasive fungal species that infest ratfolk and returning them to their natural state as Fonagri? We know the ratfolk are typically infected with strains of fungus that can cause myco-dementia. Perhaps Fongari is just a word for sane ratfolk.

Peace and Comradeship - Bad Bereleburrow

4/39/Vendemiaire/23 #

From: Parsburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Ratfolk Liason Delegates
Date: 4/39/Vendemiaire/23
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Ratfolk Relations
The ratfolk are perfectly sane despite the trauma your friends, the Fongari, seem hell bent on inflicting on them.

Solidarity, Parsburrow

4/39/Brumaire/12 #

From: Flensburrow, Secretary @ Womblespace Public Health Delegates
Date: 4/39/Brumaire/12
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Ratfolk Relations
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Fongari Relations
As the Fongari have pointed out the investigations into the Ungaree Fungus conducted by the Zabanians and Ratfolk have been slapdash. Many fungi and microbes can cause problems if deliberately introduced into the body. What needs to be tested is whether the alleged fungus poses any risks as part of its normal lifecycle. For this reason the University of Streatham Common will be conducting a comprehensive investigation into this fungus in order to get a handle on the dangers, if any, that it poses. As we have previously enjoyed good relations with both Ratfolk and Fongari we hope they will both accept results produced by a neutral third party.

We would also remind you that even if the ratfolk are correct the Fongari would be the first victims of the Ungaree fungus not its creators and therefore the name “Fongari Fungus” is an inappropriate slur.

Keep Well

4/40/Vendemiaire/01 #

From: Surbitumble, Secretary @ the all womblespace Calendrical Reform Delegates
Date: 4/40/Vendemiaire/01
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Calendrical Reform
It has been brought to our attention that naming the days of the week in the interplanetary calendar in La Langue de les Wombles can be seen as exclusionary. A proposal has been received that we replace the names Primidi, Duodi,Tridi etc with their modern womblish equivalents First Day, Second Day, Third Day etc.

Solidarity

4/40/Vendemiaire/02 #

From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/40/Vendemiaire/02
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Calendrical Reform
If we’re going to change the names of the week we should really do it properly and start with zeroth day. Include all the natural numbers.

Nuremburrow

From: Gothenburrow, Tutor in Archist Studies @ Wimbledon Common Free School
Date: 4/40/Vendemiaire/02
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Calendrical Reform
We should really avoid issuing too many dictates about calendars. Few wombles will be willing to issue a block over something that appears so superficial which means we end up with something like majority rule. The tyranny of the majority is still a tyranny.

Gothenburrow

From: Whitstumble, Professor of Inclusive History @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/40/Vendemiaire/02
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Calendrical Reform
While I am supportive of the idea of being more inclusive. The proposal for translating it into modern womblish leads to extra possibilities for confusion. If the first day of a conference does not fall on first day the possibilities for misunderstanding are immense. Perhaps some other naming system could be devised.

Solidarity.

4/40/Vendemiaire/03 #

From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/40/Vendemiaire/03
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Calendrical Reform
Well if the idea is to avoid misunderstanding we could simply translate them into Zabanian.

Nuremburrow

4/40/Vendemiaire/04 #

From: Whitstumble, Professor of Inclusive History @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/40/Vendemiaire/04
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Calendrical Reform
Zaabanian is hardly less exclusionary than la langue de les Wombles and since nobody is proposing reforming the month names alongside the weekdays it would exclude anyone who didn’t speak both tongues. Not sure why you consider zero to be a natural number anyway animals can count but someone had to invent zero. Which you would know if you had studied real history rather than apologetics for the Zabanian Empire.

Solidarity.

4/40/Vendemiaire/05 #

From: Surbitumble, Secretary @ the all womblespace Calendrical Reform Delegates
Date: 4/40/Vendemiaire/05
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Calendrical Reform
Our surveys indicate that most wombles treat month names as just that: names not words with meaning. On the other hand many wombles can see that the names of the days of the week convey meaning but not what that meaning is.

Solidarity

From: Mecklenburrow Stargard, Systems Developer @ Wombles versus Robots Collective
Date: 4/40/Vendemiaire/05
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Calendrical Reform
It hardly matters if the calendar is in modern Womblish, la langude de les Wombles or classical Zabanian. Universal translators are readily available to all. The idea that borrowing the odd word from dead languages is exclusionary seems behind the times to me. Anyone interested can just consult their universal translator. Gothenburrow may be right we’re trying to create a top down solution for something that is easy to solve bottum up.

Solidarity and Joy, Mecklenburrow Stargard

From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/40/Vendemiaire/05
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Calendrical Reform
Starting the natural numbers and especially ordinals at zero makes a lot more sense when you are automating something. Computers work that way almost naturally. Plus if you don’t include zero then the naturals lack an additive identity.

Nuremburrow

4/40/Vendemiaire/06 #

From: Mecklenburrow Stargard, Systems Developer @ Wombles versus Robots Collective
Date: 4/40/Vendemiaire/06
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Calendrical Reform
Computers should be adapted to serve Wombles not the other way around. While you are right about the lack of an additive identity without zero excluding zero means you can define the rationals as integers divided by naturals and not have to worry about excluding zero explicitly since it was never in the naturals in the first place.

Solidarity and Joy, Mecklenburrow Stargard

From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/40/Vendemiaire/06
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Calendrical Reform
Those devices stunt the development of linguistic ability in wombles. Learning a foreign language or two helps one with mastery of one’s own tongue. We should consider the names for the days of the week an opportunity for education.

Nuremburrow

4/40/Vendemiaire/07 #

From: Bad Bereleburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Fongari Liason Delegates
Date: 4/40/Vendemiaire/07
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Calendrical Reform
Computers serving wombles? Next thing you know it’ll be robots “serving” wombles like those things the ratfolk have guarding their club.

Peace and Comradeship - Bad Bereleburrow

From: Surbitumble, Secretary @ the all womblespace Calendrical Reform Delegates
Date: 4/40/Vendemiaire/07
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Calendrical Reform
While I’m sure all this discussion of the definition of natural numbers is very interesting it is probably best left to mathematicians. The connection to calendar reform is fairly tenuous.

Solidarity

From: Whitstumble, Professor of Inclusive History @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/40/Vendemiaire/07
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Calendrical Reform
I think you are doing an excellent job of demonstrating why this proposal exist Nuremburrow.

Solidarity.

4/40/Vendemiaire/08 #

From: Mecklenburrow Stargard, Systems Developer @ Wombles versus Robots Collective
Date: 4/40/Vendemiaire/08
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Calendrical Reform
We could learn a lot from the ratfolk. The way they organise their society as a great game for example.

Solidarity and Joy, Mecklenburrow Stargard

4/41/Frimaire/08 #

From: Thebes, Secretary @ the all womblepace security delegates
Date: 4/41/Frimaire/08
Attn: Wimbledon Common ARM Yeowombles Base
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Defending Womblespace
We are currently recruiting for a new brigade of ARM Yeowombles, the Freedom Column, to defend womblespace against the Mammots and other assorted authoritarians. Volunteers should report to Wimbledon Common ARM Yeowombles Base for traininfg.

Service only to ideals

4/41/Frimaire/09 #

From: Flensburrow, Secretary @ Womblespace Public Health Delegates
Date: 4/41/Frimaire/09
Attn: Clapham Common ARM Yeowombles Base
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Public Health
We are currently recruiting for a company of AFM Yeowombles, the Wombles Without Frontiers, to be trained in first aid and the treatment of fungal infections. While the effects of the Ungaree fungus on Wombles cannot be inferred from the effects on Ratfolk or Zabanians it is prudent to ensure we are ready should the funngus prove both infectious and dangerous to wombles. Volunteers should report to Clapham Common ARM Yeowombles Base where they will be checked for the fungus and treated if necessary.

Keep Well

4/41/Frimaire/10 #

From: Thebes, Secretary @ the all womblepace security delegates
Date: 4/41/Frimaire/10
Attn: Streatham Common ARM Yeowombles Base
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Defending Streatham Common
We are currently recruiting for a Battalion of Territorial ARM Yeowombles to defend Streatham Common from Mammots and other assorted authoritarians. Volunteers should report to Streatham Common ARM Yeowombles Base for training.

Service only to ideals

From: Bad Bereleburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Fongari Liason Delegates
Date: 4/41/Frimaire/10
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Public Health
The recruitment of Anti-Fungal Menace Yeowombles is an implicit endorsement of the Ratfolk Propaganda program. We should not be endorsing their campaign against the Fongari for which they have presented no real evidence other than their ridiculous robots which are undoubtedly designed to spread disension. This is clearly an attempt to undermine the technology transfer program.

Peace and Comradeship - Bad Bereleburrow

4/41/Frimaire/11 #

From: Sevastumble, Secretary @ Sticklepath Common Virtual General Assembly
Date: 4/41/Frimaire/11
Attn: Sticklepath Common ARM Yeowombles Base
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Defending Sticklepath Common
The VGA has decided that we should recruit a Battalion of Territorial ARM Yeowombles to assist Tumbleweed Forever in defending Sticklepath Common from the Mammots. Volunteers should report to Sticklepath Common ARM Yeowombles Base for training.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

From: Salzburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Zabanian Liason Delegates
Date: 4/41/Frimaire/11
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Public Health
The Zabanians have verified the effects of the Ungaree virus on Ratfolk and when advised of this the Fongari did not deny it. We can take it as read that the Ungaree virus affects the minds of ratfolk and likely Zabanians as well. The only points at issue are whether the fungus is infectious, whether it affects wombles in the same way it affects Ratfolk and whether the Fongari are deliberately spreading the fungus. Only the last has the potential to cast a poor light on the Fongari.

Solidarity Forever!

4/41/Frimaire/12 #

From: Bad Bereleburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Fongari Liason Delegates
Date: 4/41/Frimaire/12
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Public Health
The Ungaree were allies of the Zabanian Empire if I recall correctly. How do we know the modern Zabanians aren’t spreading the fungus themselves and blaming it on the Fongari?

Peace and Comradeship - Bad Bereleburrow

From: Parsburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Ratfolk Liason Delegates
Date: 4/41/Frimaire/12
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Public Health
If the Fongari are so innocent why didn’t they work with the Ratfolk to investigate the possibility that they were spreading the fungus unknowingly?

Solidarity, Parsburrow

4/41/Frimaire/13 #

From: Professor Nuremburrow, Professor of Chemical Engineering @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/41/Frimaire/13
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Public Health
The Zabanians have changed over the years. Even in their imperial days their culture gave rise to the seditious literature.

Nuremburrow

From: Bad Bereleburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Fongari Liason Delegates
Date: 4/41/Frimaire/13
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Public Health
Would you be looking to help people who call you a disease?

Peace and Comradeship - Bad Bereleburrow

4/41/Frimaire/14 #

From: Winterbourne, Patriarch @ Wimbledon Common
Date: 4/41/Frimaire/14
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Public Health
I couldn’t agree more with you Bad Bereleburrow. It must be exhausting to defend against accusations and name calling every day. It isn’t as if they use something exciting or novel, just the same accusations day in and day out. I do wonder about the mental health of the Fongari leadership having to deal with this over an extended time. Particularly as they seem to change figureheads so often. Perhaps this is behind these changes?

I don’t think we should add to their concerns by repeating such nonsensical statements and calling them a disease. Surely it would be incorrect anyway?

United, Together - Winterbourne

From: Sherborne, Patriarch @ Arlesey Common
Date: 4/41/Frimaire/14
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Public Health
I think I would agree. To call a sapient species a disease is quite rude, quite rude indeed.

Overall though, I fear that relations between the Fongari and Ratfolk have deteriorated so much that co-operation and peaceful co-existence might not be achieved for some time. Such a disappointing turn of events. I hope that, in time, a new equilibrium could be developed between them.

Peace and Solidarity -Sherborne

From: Winterbourne, Patriarch @ Wimbledon Common
Date: 4/41/Frimaire/14
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Public Health
Indeed, indeed. If I may pick up on an earlier point, I think that Bad Bereleburrow may also have a point about the Zabanians. Aren’t they considered to have some of the foremost biologists? I wouldn’t put it past them to have whipped this up in an afternoon just to demonstrate that they could do it.

United, Together - Winterbourne

4/41/Frimaire/15 #

From: Carisbrooke, Platformist Patriarch @ Clapham Common
Date: 4/41/Frimaire/15
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Public Health
My fellow Wombles, the regrettable issue has come at last. It would appear that mere disagreement is insufficient. The existence of Anti-Fungal Menace Yeowombles says it all. This shall not stand!

Aux armes, citoyens,

Formez vos bataillons,

Marchons, marchons !

Qu’un sang impur

Abreuve nos sillons !

4/42/Brumaire/03 #

From: Thebes, Secretary @ the all womblepace security delegates
Date: 4/42/Brumaire/03
Attn: Clapham Common ARM Yeowombles Base
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Defending Womblespace
As it appears that propaganda by the deed is the flavour of the day among some Wombles we encourage those interested in reponding to this by means of passive resistance to report to Clapham Common ARM Yeowombles Base for training in this technique as part of our debate team “Free and Frank discussion”. Volunteers will be screened, and if necessary treated for, the Ungaree Fungus.

Service only to ideals

4/42/Brumaire/09 #

From: Thebes, Secretary @ the all womblepace security delegates
Date: 4/42/Brumaire/09
Attn: The ARM Yeowombles of Umber Bloc
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Defending Womblespace
There is a new song doing the rounds in the bars of Crookham Common: “Burrow’s Private Ears” it sounds like the sort of rollicking number that should really inspire the troops. You should find a recording attached although I’m sure you can improve on the musical qualities.

Service only to ideals

4/42/Brumaire/10 #

From: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist @ Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/42/Brumaire/10
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Defending Womblespace
I believe that promoting that song is potentially harmdul to community relations.

The refrain “How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now” uses a name unknown in Womblespace. Given the content of the rest of the song I believe it is intended to refer to a person whose name is an obvious portmanteau of the names of patriarchs Sherborne and Carisbrooke.

As for the chorus

Go dart them all! I was told
We'd cruise the bars for ratfolk bold,
We'd choir no suns, bed mo' dears,
Now I've broken ban on the whole facts here,
The last of Burrow's private ears

I think the intentions behind that are obvious.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

4/42/Brumaire/11 #

From: Thebes, Logistic Supply Specialist @ Biggleswade Common ARM Yeowombles Base
Date: 4/42/Brumaire/11
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Defending Womblespace
Not all names come from Womblespace. Mine comes from Kalipolis. I think this is all in your imagination. If a Womble wanted to make a song making fun of platformists why would they bother making up a name? As for the chorus I don’t know what you are talking about.

Service only to ideals

From: Blankenburrow, Secretary @ The Society of Wombles
Date: 4/42/Brumaire/11
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Defending Womblespace
While I’m all for freedom of religion we shouldn’t be promoting opposition to the worship of Beresford and Robertson amongst the ARM Yeowombles by teaching them a song that tells them to “choir no suns”.

Berseford Bless you

4/42/Brumaire/12 #

From: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist @ Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/42/Brumaire/12
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Defending Womblespace
“Go dart them all” an obvious threat to involunatrily medicate those who resist anti-fungals. The rest of the chorus endorses those ratfolk from club Lu’min and implies that it is revealing of a hidden truth.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

From: Lutumble, Extra-Wimbledonian Relations Specialist @ Tasty Tumbleweed
Date: 4/42/Brumaire/12
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Defending Womblespace
Because they’re a coward, like Bulgaria, who makes up stories to defame innocent Wombles. Wouldn’t surprise me if Bulgaria was behind this song.

With Solidarity and Freedom for all

4/42/Brumaire/13 #

From: Elsterburo-upon-Serpentine, Spokeswomble @ Womble-Fongari Liason Delegates
Date: 4/42/Brumaire/13
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Fongari relations
We regret to have to inform you that it appears the communicator that Bad Bereleburrow was using to enable them to live as if they are already free and continue to act as Secretary to the Womble-Fongari relations delegates is no longer responding. We can only assume it has been found and destryed by their Mammot captors. Helsingburrow has agreed, under pressure, to round out our numbers and act as Secretary in future.

Cycle Safely

4/42/Brumaire/14 #

From: Barlburrow, Nebula Sensor Specialist @ Crookham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/42/Brumaire/14
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Defending Womblespace
I think the problem is Helsingburrow has got hold of the bowlderized version. In the origianl it’s “bed mo’ rears” not dears" and the last line of the chorus is “The lust of Burrow’s private ears”. The singer is hoping to get with Sherbrooke,the partner of one of their drinking buddies, by spilling the beans on them for cheating with “ratfolk bold” in the hopes of some tit for tat.

SOLIDARITY!

4/43/Brumaire/01 #

From: Helsingburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Fongari Liason Delegates
Date: 4/43/Brumaire/01
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
The ratfolk are embracing an abomination. Turning themselves into robots. If they destroy the Fongari we will be next.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

4/43/Brumaire/02 #

From: Parsburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Ratfolk Liason Delegates
Date: 4/43/Brumaire/02
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
We hardly know if they are embracing being turned into robots. We don’t know what the takeup on these bodies is and in any case these could just be prosthetics protecting an organic ratfolk brain from attack by the fungus your precious Fongari spread.

Solidarity, Parsburrow

From: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer @ New World Experimental Farm
Date: 4/43/Brumaire/02
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
You could do with being less paranoid about robots. These won’t be the agressive robots made by the Zabanians but something guided by a ratfolk mind.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

4/43/Brumaire/03 #

From: Helsingburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Fongari Liason Delegates
Date: 4/43/Brumaire/03
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
They claim these bodies grant immortality. A flesh and blood ratfolk brain isn’t immortal and even if the mind is preserved initially it will inevitably change without the influence of the rest of the body. The ratfolk we know are the product of their own fungal symboites. Anything that could prevent them from joining us will change that. The fungus is not an attack but an enhancement of empathy.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

From: Carisbrooke, Platformist Patriarch @ Clapham Common
Date: 4/43/Brumaire/03
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
The Ratfolk have very short lifespans. Perhaps they feel the need for a longer form of continuity. Of course, the joined have no desire for such robot bodies. We know that something of us will continue long after we are gone.

The Workers United Will Never be defeated

4/43/Brumaire/04 #

From: Parsburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Ratfolk Liason Delegates
Date: 4/43/Brumaire/04
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
None of this would have happened if the Fongari Clan had just been open about how their fungus spread. The Fongari have been denying everything the fungus does right up until the point where it is proven they are lying.

Solidarity, Parsburrow

4/43/Brumaire/05 #

From: Helsingburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Fongari Liason Delegates
Date: 4/43/Brumaire/05
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ratfolk
It is the characterisation of themselves as a disease and a fungus that the Fongari deny. They, like the ratfolk, have fungal symboites that enhance their lives. The bigotry of the ratfolk and certain wombles is on full display here.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

4/43/Brumaire/06 #

From: Hamburrow, Secretary @ the all womblespace technological developmemt committee
Date: 4/43/Brumaire/06
Attn: Wombles Concerned with the Tasty Tumbleweed
We have received many requests, and not a few mandate revisions, from wombles concerned that the Tasty Tumbleweed will be decomissioned in line with other similar obsolete ships. The technical development delegates recognise the cultural significance of this ship and hope that a separate set of delegates will be appropriately mandated to determine the ultimate fate of the Tasty Tumbleweed as Ravished by the Ratfolk fandom is not within our purview.

Peace and solidarity, Hamburrow

4/43/Brumaire/07 #

From: Lutumble, Extra-Wimbledonian Relations Specialist @ Tasty Tumbleweed
Date: 4/43/Brumaire/07
Attn: Wombles Concerned with the Tast Tumbleweed
We, the Crew of the Tasty Tumbleweed, are in occupancy of the ship and object to this attempt to turn it into some form of erotic entertainment venue. The association of the Tasty Tumbleweed with the Ravished by the Ratfolk series is based on unfounded speculation.

With Solidarity and Freedom for all

4/43/Frimaire/04 #

From: Thebes, Secretary @ the all womblepace security delegates
Date: 4/43/Frimaire/04
Attn: Wimbledon Common ARM Yeowombles Base
Attn: Clapham Common ARM Yeowombles Base
Attn: Streatham Common ARM Yeowombles Base
Attn: Biggleswade Common ARM Yeowombles Base
Attn: Arlesey Common ARM Yeowombles Base
Attn: Crookham Common ARM Yeowombles Base
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Defending Womblespace
Wombles who wish to take part in freeing Woon Gumpus Common should report to their local ARM Yeowomble camp to form part of a new column for that purpose. To avoid accusations of biological warfare recruits will need to consent to testing for and removal of the Ungaree Fungus.

Service only to ideals

4/44/Frimaire/01 #

From: Sevastumble, Secretary @ Sticklepath Common Virtual General Assembly
Date: 4/44/Frimaire/01
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Defending Womblespace
Attn: Sticklepath Common ARM Yeowombles Base
Wombles interested in the defense of Womblespace should report to the Sticklepath Common ARM Yeowomble training facilities. Please note that to prevent accidental infection of the Wombles of Woon Gumpus Common any volunteers will need to be tested and treated for the Ungaree fungus.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

4/44/Sanscullotides/05 #

From: Winterbourne, Patriarch @ Wimbledon Common
Date: 4/44/Sanscullotides/05
Attn: All who seek to destroy peaceful Fongari}
Here on Wimbledon Common, we have sought to remain at peace with our Womble comrades, rather than start bloody wars as has happened on other worlds. But we will not stand for a process intended to lead to our eventual extinction. We will not stand by and allow our new born children to be estranged from us. We have chosen not to take up arms on this issue,, in order to prove our continued respect and friendship towards all Wombles, but the so-called ‘Air Wick’ tower has been switched off.

United, Together - Winterbourne

4/45/Brumaire/01 #

From: Heidelburrow, Secretary @ the all womblespace space exploration delegates
Date: 4/45/Brumaire/01
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recycling
We’ve had a request from the Coburg fan club to repurpose the Tasty Tumbleweed as an entertainment venue. Although the ship is now obsolete as an exploratory ship reuse is better than recycling so we are giving this serious consideration. We would however like to invite proposals for alternate uses.

Solidarity and Good Luck, Heidelburrow

4/45/Brumaire/02 #

From: Lutumble, Extra-Wimbledonian Relations Specialist @ Tasty Tumbleweed
Date: 4/45/Brumaire/02
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recycling
Hang on there. The reason we were given for recyling our ship was that the logistical support required was excessive for such a small ship. If the ship continues to be used the logistical support will still be needed. If the ship is to be kept going then it should be used for its original purpose exploring the cluster.

With Solidarity and Freedom for all

From: Carisbrooke, Platformist Patriarch @ Clapham Common
Date: 4/45/Brumaire/02
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recycling
The whole Tasty Tumbleweed affair lacks taste and reflects badly on the everyday womble. If you wish to convert it to an entertainment venue, please do not place it on Wimbledon, Clapham or Arlesey Common!

PS. Club Lumin is not missed at all by those on Wimbledon Common.

The Workers United Will Never be defeated

4/45/Brumaire/03 #

From: Heidelburrow, Secretary @ the all womblespace space exploration delegates
Date: 4/45/Brumaire/03
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recycling
To send the Tasty Tumbleweed exploring again would require repairing it while using it as an entertainment venue it can just remain where it is. I don’t think the logistical support requirements are that great.

Solidarity and Good Luck, Heidelburrow

4/45/Brumaire/04 #

From: Lutumble, Extra-Wimbledonian Relations Specialist @ Tasty Tumbleweed
Date: 4/45/Brumaire/04
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recycling
All the other small ships are being recycled whether or not they need repairs. This is just some scheme cooked up by those perverts promoting the “Ravished by the Ratfolk Experience” isn’t it? They’ve wanted a new venue since club Lu’min closed its doors.

With Solidarity and Freedom for all

4/45/Brumaire/05 #

From: Heidelburrow, Secretary @ the all womblespace space exploration delegates
Date: 4/45/Brumaire/05
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recycling
I believe that was the name proposed for the entertainment venue.

Solidarity and Good Luck, Heidelburrow

4/45/Brumaire/06 #

From: Lutumble, Extra-Wimbledonian Relations Specialist @ Tasty Tumbleweed
Date: 4/45/Brumaire/06
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recycling
Well we’re not haing it. The crew and I are in occupancy and use of the Tasty Tumbleweed and if it isn’t being disasembled then we’re not leaving.

With Solidarity and Freedom for all

4/45/Brumaire/07 #

From: Hamburrow, Secretary @ the all womblespace technological developmemt committee
Date: 4/45/Brumaire/07
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recycling}
Well we cannot really justify repairing the Tasty Tumbleweed and while you may be in occupancy of the ship it isn’t clear what use you are making of it given that it can’t survive a trip through a starburrow.

Peace and solidarity, Hamburrow

From: Heidelburrow, Secretary @ the all womblespace space exploration delegates
Date: 4/45/Brumaire/07
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recycling
Well maybe the Coburg fan club can use the Moh’Tah transport ship instead since presumably any sort of connection to the ratfolk will do. It was nice of the ratfolk to give it to us but it is somewhat small for modern use.

Solidarity and Good Luck, Heidelburrow

4/45/Brumaire/08 #

From: Lutumble, Extra-Wimbledonian Relations Specialist @ Tasty Tumbleweed
Date: 4/45/Brumaire/08
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recycling
Well if the ship isn’t being recycled maybe we can get your mandate adjusted so it can be repaired.

With Solidarity and Freedom for all

From: Parsburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Ratfolk Liason Delegates
Date: 4/45/Brumaire/08
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recycling
I don’t think we should be repurposing the Ratfolk’s gift in that way it might seem disrepectful. In any case we were going to Rename it Ratfolk Solidarity Ship to show we appreciate the gesture.

Solidarity, Parsburrow

4/45/Brumaire/09 #

From: Amburrow, Secretary @ the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Date: 4/45/Brumaire/09
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recycling
Don’t you think you should consult us before changing the names of an interstellar object.

Solidarity, Amburrow

4/45/Brumaire/10 #

From: Parsburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Ratfolk Liason Delegates
Date: 4/45/Brumaire/10
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recycling
Your mandate doesn’t cover manufactured objects.

Solidarity, Parsburrow

4/45/Brumaire/11 #

From: Amburrow, Secretary @ the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Date: 4/45/Brumaire/11
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recycling
It doesn’t cover objects made by Wombles. This was made by Ratfolk.

Solidarity, Amburrow

4/45/Brumaire/12 #

From: Parsburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Ratfolk Liason Delegates
Date: 4/45/Brumaire/12
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recycling
Are you going to be renaming their planets too?

Solidarity, Parsburrow

4/45/Brumaire/13 #

From: Amburrow, Secretary @ the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Date: 4/45/Brumaire/13
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recycling
Southarc did and without following the proper process either.

Solidarity, Amburrow

4/45/Brumaire/14 #

From: Parsburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Ratfolk Liason Delegates
Date: 4/45/Brumaire/14
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Recycling
That was part of the Great Game and the ratfolk chose to keep the names. In any case those were natural objects. The ship is an artifact of Ratfolk creation and should be treated with respect.

Solidarity, Parsburrow

4/45/Brumaire/30 #

From: Carisbrooke, Platformist Patriarch @ Clapham Common
Date: 4/45/Brumaire/30
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Defending Womblespace
It may be that the time has come to propose a more formal relationship between joined and unjoined Wombles. Those of us who are joined still regard our fellow Wombles as brothers and sisters. We share your concern regarding the Mammots, and understand your (unjustified) fears about the joined. Perhaps the time has come for us all to be more open with one another, and to formalise a way for each faction to live without fear of the other? There are many variants of what you call the Ungaree fungus. Different strains affect different races in different ways. It is our belief that Womble joined are different in many ways from the joined of other races. We support Womble principles of peaceful co-existence and harmony. We also wish (in spite of attempts to discriminate against us) to support Womble efforts against the Mammots.

I wish to open a dialogue, to formalise relations between us and allow us to work cooperatively together.

4/46/Brumaire/29 #

From: Thebes, Secretary @ the all womblepace security delegates
Date: 4/46/Brumaire/29
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Defending Womblespace
Attn: Biggleswade Common ARM Yeowombles Base
Attn: Streatham Common ARM Yeowombles Base
Attn: Crookham Common ARM Yeowombles Base
Wombles interested in defending Womblespace should report to the ARM Yeowombles camps on Biggleswade and Streatham Commons. All volunteers will be tested for the Ungaree fungus and purged of it if necessary. Synthungus will be provided as a replacement for those who require it.

Service only to ideals

4/46/Sanscullotides/05 #

From: Whitstumble, Secretary @ Decision Support Delegates
Date: 4/46/Sanscullotides/05
Attn: Order of Investigative Librarians
Attn: All committees concerned with planetary and womblespace wide affairs
We need to support the full involvement of wombles from diverse backgrounds in our decision making processes and not just those from privileged backgrounds. Secretaries to delegate committes have the primary responsibility for ensuring that the necessary information is available to all and that all voices are heard. This does not absolve other delegates of their responsibility but imposes a responsibility to use their privileged position to ensure that the secreatary is doing their job and to call them out if they are not.

In particular please ensure that information on the following is available and up to date:

1. Level of planetary development.

2. Construction projects being undertaken by the construction and engineering syndicate.

3. Research projects being conducted by the local university

4. What new ARM Yeowomble units are being recruited and current progress

5. What new ships are being built and current progress.

6. Technologies we have developed.

7. Which Extra-Wimbledonian factions we are in communication with.

8. A record of public comments on matters of public interest.

Secretaries, delegates and spokeswombles should refrain from using their delegate title in contexts where it is irrelevant to avoid giving the impression that it implies any authority to speak for the collective outside of those areas where they have been mandated to do so.

Solidarity.

From: Flensburrow, Secretary @ Womblespace Public Health Delegates
Date: 4/46/Sanscullotides/05
Attn: Commissary Wombles
Attn: Medical Wombles
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ungaree Fungus
Unfortunately we now know that the Ungaree fungus is not merely a mind altering substance that can influence a wombles personality but is actually capable of taking control of or killing a womble when it acts against the interests of the fungus.

We cannot respect the bodily autonomy of those who have none.

Please ensure that Fongari detectors connected to alarms are mounted at the entrances of all public buildings and burrows starting with hospitals.

Wombles infected with the fungus should be brought to Hospitals where they can be treated as soon as possible.

Where possible the Fongari detectors should be connected to the womblenet and configured to send anonymised data to the public health delegates indicating the number of infected passing by.

Keep Well

4/47/Brumaire/10 #

From: Gainsburrow, Secretary @ the all womblespace Calendrical Reform Delegates
Date: 4/47/Brumaire/10
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Calendrical Reform
We are currently seeking revised mandates from wombles concerning

• Whether our expulsion from Wimbledon Common by the Joined constitutes the start of a fifth age of Womblekind.
• If our expulsion constitutes a fifth age whether there are any other aspects of the Calendar in need of reform.

Understanding breeds solidarity

4/47/Brumaire/11 #

From: Pitsburrow-under-Arc, Negotiator @ Womble Collective
Date: 4/47/Brumaire/11
Attn: the all womblespace Calendrical Reform Delegates
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Calendrical Reform
Why are you wasting our time with this stupid question? Your fifth age would end in a few years when we drive the joined from Wimbledon Common. We’d never have gotten into this situation if we’d had trained professionals handling this rather than random delegates. There’s a place for getting everyone involved and a place for letting those who know what they are doing get on with it. I guess one good thing to come out of this is that with all the amateurs getting Joined we’ve managed to get some Extra-Wimbledonian relations specialists in as spokeswombles.

Solidarity, Pitsburrow-under-Arc

4/47/Brumaire/12 #

From: Gainsburrow, Secretary @ the all womblespace Calendrical Reform Delegates
Date: 4/47/Brumaire/12
Attn: Pitsburrow-under-Arc, Negotiator @ Womble Collective
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Calendrical Reform
Obviously we’d like to think you are correct but we have been suprised before. We don’t want to start a new age late like the last one. In any case once the idea was supported by sufficient Wombles it was our duty as delegates to solicit fresh mandates. Neither we nor you have a pocket veto.

Understanding breeds solidarity

4/47/Brumaire/13 #

From: Pitsburrow-under-Arc, Negotiator @ Womble Collective
Date: 4/47/Brumaire/13
Attn: the all womblespace Calendrical Reform Delegates
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Calendrical Reform
Who is asking for this? They sound like Joined agents trying to undermine morale to me.

Solidarity, Pitsburrow-under-Arc

4/47/Brumaire/14 #

From: Whitstumble, Professor of Inclusive History @ Crookham Common University
Date: 4/47/Brumaire/14
Attn: Pitsburrow-under-Arc, Negotiator @ Womble Collective
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Calendrical Reform
Could you please tone down the aggression this forum should be welcoming to all. I am aware that many wombles are very angry with the joined but accusing with whom you disagree of being Joined agents helps nobody.

Solidarity.

4/47/Brumaire/15 #

From: Falkenburrow, Secretary @ Inter-Community Relations Delegates
Date: 4/47/Brumaire/15
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Womble-Joined Relations
Regrettably, with the death of our partner in peace Carisbrooke, it has become clear that the Joined, lack true autonomy. We warned Carisbrooke that they were in danger of recreating the Mystic Monarchs all over again. An initially benevolent ruler accustoms the people to being ruled only to be replaced by a less benevolent ruler. Carisbrooke dismissed the idea but events have proven that we were right and Carisbrooke was wrong.

Almost as soon as Carisbrooke was dead the Joined, to a Womble, switched their loyalty to the very womble who Carisbrooke warned us against. This is not the behavior of a free people. Despite what Winterborne says now they were clear in equating the Joined with the Fongari until the Fongari revealed themselves as knowing monsters. Winterborne has also torn up the agreement we carefully negotiated with Carisbrooke. Wimbledon Common was the line in the sand when we were mandated to negotiate with Carisbrooke and it has been crossed. We will not be forced to choose between our homeworld and freedom.

The Joined led by Winterborne will not be as the Joined led by Carisbrooke. Even if Winterborne were replaced by another Womble like Carisbrooke we cannot rely for our safety on the survival of a single womble. There can never again be an agreement between us and the Joined. We must free as many of our siblings,niblings and cousins as we can and kill as few as possible. The Joined have reminded us there can be no compromise with authoritarians.

Solidarity

4/47/Brumaire/16 #

From: Battisburrow Cross, Commissary Quartermaster @ Tastier Tumbleweed
Date: 4/47/Brumaire/16
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Defending Womblespace
I have been attempting to respond to H’s queries about why there is so much war in the cluster. The Fongari are under the control of an ancient weapon so that behavior isn’t too surprising. That just punts the question backwards in time. It also doesn’t explain why the Aravi and Mammots are so aggressive. Surely if we are trying to defend Womblespace the best way is to stop war not fight them.

Solidarity

4/47/Brumaire/17 #

From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies @ Streatham Common University
Date: 4/47/Brumaire/17
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Defending Womblespace
Well the Mammots are obviously a very hierarchical society unable to relate to others as equals they must establish who is master.

As for the Aravi their violence is no doubt fuelled by captalisms need to expand to find new markets. The attack on the Zabanians and the supernova prevention station were intended to intimidate the rest of us into compliance. ED-E is just a competing collection of capital operating without capitalists to them.

When it comes to the joined. The sort of faux solidarity they enjoy requires an outgroup to be organised against. As to what they consider the outgroup to be you’ll notice that the joined rarely go around bottomless like the rest of us. I’ve got a white coverall in my wardrobe like a lot of you but I don’t wear it all the time. This sort of prudishness is evidence of a sex negative attitude that will no doubt surface as homphobia and attacks against others who don’t conform to gender norms.

Gothenburrow

From: Clannaburrow, ARM Yeowomble @ Mono Blanco
Date: 4/47/Brumaire/17
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Defending Womblespace
Not this nonsense again. If we’d just taken a hard line with the Joined fewer of us would have had to experience the fungal brain worms. The best way to defend Womblespace is as part of the ARM Yeowombles.

Service only to Ideals

4/47/Brumaire/18 #

From: Bad Marienburrow, Professor of Computational Biology @ Streatham Common University
Date: 4/47/Brumaire/18
Attn: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies @ Streatham Common University
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Defending Womblespace
Blaming the Mammot’s agression on their hierarchical society seems like putting the tumblespear before the weed. From the Mammot’s we’ve spoken to it seems like their society was locked in a struggle for resources brought about by population pressures. The violence arises as a result of the conflict over resources and the hierarchy arises as the simplest way to organise collective force.

Peace Out

4/47/Brumaire/19 #

From: Whitstumble, Professor of Inclusive History @ Crookham Common University
Date: 4/47/Brumaire/19
Attn: Bad Marienburrow, Professor of Computational Biology @ Streatham Common University
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Defending Womblespace
Please leave constructing theories on the history of the Mammots to those who do actual research. However your idea that population pressure may be at the root of the problem may not be totally off-base.

Solidarity.

4/47/Sanscullotides/05 #

From: Whitstumble, Secretary @ Decision Support Delegates
Date: 4/47/Sanscullotides/05
Attn: Order of Investigative Librarians
Attn: All committees concerned with planetary and womblespace wide affairs
We need to support the full involvement of wombles from diverse backgrounds in our decision making processes and not just those from privileged backgrounds. Secretaries to delegate committes have the primary responsibility for ensuring that the necessary information is available to all and that all voices are heard. This does not absolve other delegates of their responsibility but imposes a responsibility to use their privileged position to ensure that the secreatary is doing their job and to call them out if they are not.

In particular please ensure that information on the following is available and up to date:

1. Level of planetary development.

2. Construction projects being undertaken by the construction and engineering syndicate.

3. Research projects being conducted by the local university

4. What new ARM Yeowomble units are being recruited and current progress

5. What new ships are being built and current progress.

6. Technologies we have developed.

7. Which Extra-Wimbledonian factions we are in communication with.

8. A record of public comments on matters of public interest.

Secretaries, delegates and spokeswombles should refrain from using their delegate title in contexts where it is irrelevant to avoid giving the impression that it implies any authority to speak for the collective outside of those areas where they have been mandated to do so.

Solidarity.

From: Flensburrow, Secretary @ Womblespace Public Health Delegates
Date: 4/47/Sanscullotides/05
Attn: Commissary Wombles
Attn: Medical Wombles
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ungaree Fungus
Unfortunately we now know that the Ungaree fungus is not merely a mind altering substance that can influence a wombles personality but is actually capable of taking control of or killing a womble when it acts against the interests of the fungus.

We cannot respect the bodily autonomy of those who have none.

Any Joined captured should be purged of the Ungaree fungus and offered the choice of continuing as such or being reinfected and kept in suspended animation until we can find a safe place for them to live with their choice separate from the rest of us.

Keep Well

4/48/Brumaire/01 #

From: Amburrow, Secretary @ the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Date: 4/48/Brumaire/01
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
It appears we have forgotten to name the stars in Biggleswade March(Titus-Uvik-Uvik) and Sticklepath March(Xenoplectus-Yacola-Yacola). Would all cocerned parties submit their suggestions as soon as possible.

Solidarity, Amburrow

4/48/Brumaire/02 #

From: Sevastumble, Secretary @ Sticklepath Common Virtual General Assembly
Date: 4/48/Brumaire/02
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
The naming of the star in Sticklepath March(Xenoplectus-Yacola-Yacola) is the concern of the Wombles of Sticklepath Common. We will be making the decision ourselves without the intervention of any delegates.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

4/48/Brumaire/03 #

From: Amburrow, Secretary @ the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Date: 4/48/Brumaire/03
Attn: Sevastumble, Secretary @ Sticklepath Common Virtual General Assembly
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
The naming of interstellar objects has been delegated to this committee.

Solidarity, Amburrow

4/48/Brumaire/04 #

From: Sevastumble, Secretary @ Sticklepath Common Virtual General Assembly
Date: 4/48/Brumaire/04
Attn: the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
Not by the Wombles of Sticklepath Common it hasn’t. We make decisions ourselves via the virtual general assembly. We do not see how the name of our star is the concern of wombles elsewhere. Federation is optional you know.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

4/48/Brumaire/05 #

From: Amburrow, Secretary @ the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Date: 4/48/Brumaire/05
Attn: Sevastumble, Secretary @ Sticklepath Common Virtual General Assembly
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
So now you are threatening to defederate like those filthy Joined. Should have known it wouldn’t be long.

Solidarity, Amburrow

4/48/Brumaire/06 #

From: Dunstumble, Secretary @ Biggleswade Common Planetary Development Delegates
Date: 4/48/Brumaire/06
Attn: the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
We’ve been informally referring to our star as Toolbox. Might be time to make it official.

Solidarity

From: Sevastumble, Secretary @ Sticklepath Common Virtual General Assembly
Date: 4/48/Brumaire/06
Attn: the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
We are not threatening to defederate just making the decisions that affect only us for ourselves.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

4/48/Brumaire/07 #

From: Amburrow, Secretary @ the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Date: 4/48/Brumaire/07
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
The name Toolbox has been agreed for the star in Biggleswade March(Titus-Uvik-Uvik). It would be a lot easier if the Wombles of Sticklepath Common would stop needing to be different just to be different.

Solidarity, Amburrow

4/48/Brumaire/08 #

From: Sevastumble, Secretary @ Sticklepath Common Virtual General Assembly
Date: 4/48/Brumaire/08
Attn: Amburrow, Secretary @ the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
You are starting to sound like one of the Joined yourself with your obsession with centralisation. Are you sure you don’t have some brain fungus? In any case we have decided to name the star in Sticklepath March(Xenoplectus-Yacola-Yacola) Tumbleweed. We are informing you as a courtesy in respect of your function in co-ordinating these things.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

4/48/Brumaire/09 #

From: Amburrow, Secretary @ the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Date: 4/48/Brumaire/09
Attn: Sevastumble, Secretary @ Sticklepath Common Virtual General Assembly
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
Centalisation is not always oppression nor is decentalisation the same as freedom.

Solidarity, Amburrow

4/48/Brumaire/10 #

From: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer @ New World Experimental Farm
Date: 4/48/Brumaire/10
Attn: the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
Sure, just most of the time. Next you’ll be advocating democratic centralism. Tell the Rhubarb Gardeners I said “Hi!”.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

4/48/Brumaire/25 #

From: Blackburrow, Secretary @ the all womblespace security delegates
Date: 4/48/Brumaire/25
Attn: Metal Common Common ARM Yeowombles Base
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Defending Womblespace
Wombles wishing to participate in recovering our world from the Fungus should report to the Metal Common ARM Yeowombles base to be trained as a new Anti-Fungal Menace Fumigators Company to be called: Freedom from Fungus. For obvious reasons all volunteers will be checked for infection and purged if necessary.

Ad Astra

4/48/Sanscullotides/05 #

From: Whitstumble, Secretary @ Decision Support Delegates
Date: 4/48/Sanscullotides/05
Attn: Order of Investigative Librarians
Attn: All committees concerned with planetary and womblespace wide affairs
We need to support the full involvement of wombles from diverse backgrounds in our decision making processes and not just those from privileged backgrounds. Secretaries to delegate committes have the primary responsibility for ensuring that the necessary information is available to all and that all voices are heard. This does not absolve other delegates of their responsibility but imposes a responsibility to use their privileged position to ensure that the secreatary is doing their job and to call them out if they are not.

In particular please ensure that information on the following is available and up to date:

1. Level of planetary development.

2. Construction projects being undertaken by the construction and engineering syndicate.

3. Research projects being conducted by the local university

4. What new ARM Yeowomble units are being recruited and current progress

5. What new ships are being built and current progress.

6. Technologies we have developed.

7. Which Extra-Wimbledonian factions we are in communication with.

8. A record of public comments on matters of public interest.

Secretaries, delegates and spokeswombles should refrain from using their delegate title in contexts where it is irrelevant to avoid giving the impression that it implies any authority to speak for the collective outside of those areas where they have been mandated to do so.

Solidarity.

From: Flensburrow, Secretary @ Womblespace Public Health Delegates
Date: 4/48/Sanscullotides/05
Attn: Commissary Wombles
Attn: Medical Wombles
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Ungaree Fungus
Unfortunately we now know that the Ungaree fungus is not merely a mind altering substance that can influence a wombles personality but is actually capable of taking control of or killing a womble when it acts against the interests of the fungus.

We cannot respect the bodily autonomy of those who have none.

Any Joined captured should be purged of the Ungaree fungus. They should be provided with controlled and steadily reducing doses of Synthungus to help wean them off the fungus. They should ideally be isolated on an island somewhere so they cannot relapse. Ultimately we cannot force someone to be free but we can give them their best chance of escaping fungal domination.

Keep Well

4/49/Brumaire/01 #

From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies @ Streatham Common University
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/01
Attn: the all womblespace security delegates
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Mammots
While I understand that we cannot currently press the assault upon the Mammots agreeing to a peace treaty with such blatant authoritarians. We should not bind future wombles in this way.

Gothenburrow

4/49/Brumaire/02 #

From: Blackburrow, Secretary @ the all womblespace security delegates
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/02
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Mammots
We fully recognise that we cannot bind future wombles. At the moment we need the troops back to join the fight to free the Joined from the fungus.

Ad Astra

4/49/Brumaire/03 #

From: Amburrow, Secretary @ the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/03
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
We understand that upon learning of the term “Toaster Imperium” for the forces controlled by ED-E Bellatrix appeared to be disapointed that we did not have a similar term for them. Since Bellatrix also objected to the generic term “Robot Menace” and clearly falls into the category of “Interstellar Object” it falls to us to come up with an approprite way to refer to the other robot menace. Submissions are encouraged.

Solidarity, Amburrow

From: WSLLSB Sevastumble, Secretary @ Sticklepath Common Virtual General Assembly
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/03
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
I think the term “Toaster Imperium” is an organically evolved nickname. One can hardly imagine that a term decided by committee will have the same salience. In any case I’m not sure your mandate estands to nicknames and Bellatrix already has a name. In any case wasn’t it decided that your mandate only extends to natural objects not manufactured ones?

Tumble On, Sevastumble

4/49/Brumaire/04 #

From: Amburrow, Secretary @ the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/04
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
The exclusion of manufactured objects was due to their having creators and users whose choices took precedence over ours. As far as we know Bellatrix’s creators are long gone and nobody is in occupancy and use of Bellatrix so the decision falls to us.

Solidarity, Amburrow

4/49/Brumaire/05 #

From: Mapleburrow Green, Professor of Linguistics @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/05
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
I have to agree with Salisburrow that a nickname designed by committe is unlikely to stick. In any case wouldn’t the best way to refer to these robots be “Future Recycling”.

Seeking Peace

4/49/Brumaire/06 #

From: Mecklenburrow Stargard, Systems Developer @ Wombles versus Robots Collective
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/06
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
I do think we need to distinguish between different sorts of Robots. The autotumblers of Sticklepath Common are fairly harmless and easy to switch off. ED-E and the Zabanian robots are dangerous because they have a fair degree of instrumental intelligence but lack anything that could be fairly called a conscience. I believe Bellatrix and most likely all the other Orion network members are of a different order.

The Joined seem closer to the Zaabanian Robots than Bellatrix. Both the Joined and the Zabanian Robots had a simple-minded prime directive that they are unable to deviate from even when circumstances change.

We should perhaps rethink our attitude to creatures like Bellatrix. Surely the important factor is the capacity to make ethical decisions not wheter one is organic, metallic, ceramic or otherwise.

Solidarity and Joy, Mecklenburrow Stargard

4/49/Brumaire/07 #

From: Hattiesburrow, Secretary @ Womble-Sedranian Liason Delegates
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/07
Attn: Mecklenburrow Stargard, Systems Developer @ Wombles versus Robots Collective
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
While I’m not necessaily endorsing your taxonomy of Robots don’t you think that ED-E might be classed closer to the autotumblers than the Zabanian Robots now that the Sedranisns are finally exercising proper oversight.

Tumble on!

From: Falkenburrow, Electronic Engineer @ Streatham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/07
Attn: Mecklenburrow Stargard, Systems Developer @ Wombles versus Robots Collective
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
Carisbrooke stands as a refutation of the position that the Joined are more Robotlike than Bellatrix. They were clearly capable of overriding the fungus’ directive to spread.

Solidarity

From: High Eggburrow, Rhubarb Chef @ Potlatch People
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/07
Attn: Womble-Sedranian Liason Delegates
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
We have no idea what ED-E would do if there was a conflict between orders from the Sedranians and preserving the Sedranian species itself. It would, no doubt, cheerfully sacrifice wombles to save Sedranians and I am not confident that it would pay any more attention to the wishes of the Sedranians than the Wombles in those circumstances.

Solidarity

From: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist @ Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/07
Attn: Mecklenburrow Stargard, Systems Developer @ Wombles versus Robots Collective
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
I wouldn’t be so optimistic about Bellatrix. Apparently they are negotiating with the Fongari. Probably programmed to make peace and doesn’t know when it is time to stand and fight. The ratfolk were pretty peaceful too but they knew when to turn and fight.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

From: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer @ New World Experimental Farm
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/07
Attn: Mecklenburrow Stargard, Systems Developer @ Wombles versus Robots Collective
Refreshing to here from someone willing to look at the possibilities of automation with an open mind. Even if your game does encourage prejudive. The autotumblers are a great boon to our work creating new strains of tumbleweed.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

4/49/Brumaire/08 #

From: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist @ Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/08
Attn: Falkenburrow, Electronic Engineer @ Streatham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
I wouldn’t be so swift to praise Carisbrooke. Didn’t have any trouble ordering us around when I was joined. Pretended to accept the rule against Joined in the ARM Yeowombles yet they kept on infiltrating.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

From: High Eggburrow, Rhubarb Chef @ Potlatch People
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/08
Attn: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer @ New World Experimental Farm
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
As long as you keep your infernal machines at the far end of Womblespace from me.

Solidarity

4/49/Brumaire/09 #

From: Flensburrow, Epidemiologist @ Biggleswade Common Health Service
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/09
Attn: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist @ Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
And yet you owe your Freedom to Carisbrooke ordering you to take the fungicide. You weren’t keen as I recall.

Keep Well

From: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer @ New World Experimental Farm
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/09
Attn: High Eggburrow, Rhubarb Chef @ Potlatch People
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
The Fongari laying siege to Sticklepath Common have expressed similar ideas to yours in the past. It is hardly surprising that a Rhubarb Chef would oppose the tools necessary to bring the benefits of Tumbleweed to womblespace. If you had your way Tumbleweed would have been lost to the Joined on Wimbledon Common.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

4/49/Brumaire/10 #

From: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist @ Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/10
Attn: Flensburrow, Epidemiologist @ Biggleswade Common Health Service
Supporting benevolent dictators to save us from ourselves now Flensburrow? Are you sure you didn’t catch a whiff of the fungus yourself.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

From: High Eggburrow, Rhubarb Chef @ Potlatch People
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/10
Attn: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer @ New World Experimental Farm
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
And today those same Fongari are singing the praises of Bellatrix and trying to negotiate a peace treaty.

Solidarity

4/49/Brumaire/11 #

From: Amburrow, Secretary @ the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/11
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
This seems to have veered a fair way off topic. Could we perhaps move back to the central question of an appropriate name for the forces controleld by Bellatrix.

Solidarity, Amburrow

4/49/Brumaire/!2 #

From: Mecklenburrow Stargard, Systems Developer @ Wombles versus Robots Collective
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/!2
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
The status of Bellatrix is relevant. If as I believe Bellatrix is an intelligence, not too unlike our own, in occupancy and use of various roobot bodies then we should surely accept their self designation?

Solidarity and Joy, Mecklenburrow Stargard

4/49/Brumaire/13 #

From: Amburrow, Secretary @ the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/13
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
The entity known as Bellatrix hasn’t really distinguished between themselves and their polity except when they were calling themselves Haxan which we understand to be a lie. In any case we are discussing a nickname in Womblish which is surely our domain?

Solidarity, Amburrow

4/49/Brumaire/14 #

From: Mecklenburrow Stargard, Systems Developer @ Wombles versus Robots Collective
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/14
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
If by our domain you mean Wombles then you are probably right. However such informal names are probably best to evolve naturally not delegated to a committee.

Solidarity and Joy, Mecklenburrow Stargard

4/49/Brumaire/15 #

From: Amburrow, Secretary @ the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/15
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
It seems very odd that we have been mandated to deal with naming interstellar objects and yet whenever we propose naming something everyone always finds some reason why whatever we are discussing falls outside our mandate.

Solidarity, Amburrow

4/49/Brumaire/16 #

From: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer @ New World Experimental Farm
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/16
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
That’s not really true. You co-ordinated the naming of some stars recently. In any case the whole delegate system is only meant to be used when the number of wombles affected makes direct decision making infeasible. If the rest of you just adopted the Virtual General Assembly model we could get rid of delegates entirely.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

4/49/Brumaire/17 #

From: Amburrow, Secretary @ the womblespace interstellar naming delegates
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/17
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
If by co-ordinated you mean rubber stamped decisions made elsewhere, sure.

Solidarity, Amburrow

4/49/Brumaire/18 #

From: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer @ New World Experimental Farm
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/18
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
Rubber stamping decisions made by the wombles affected is rather the point. The whole naming arena is one of the most trivial areas for the Virtual General Assembly to handle. It would be an easy way for the rest of you to ease in to it. Rather than naming delegates we could just have a few clerks functioning similarly to commissary wombles.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

4/49/Brumaire/19 #

From: Salisburrow, Professor of Psychology @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/19
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
I really doubt your Virtual General Assembly would scale very far up. It only works for you because you live on a low population planet where most of the population are involved in Tumbleweed Farming in some way.

Solidarity!

4/49/Brumaire/20 #

From: Sevastumble, Tumbleweed Farmer @ New World Experimental Farm
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/20
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Names
Even if the VGA cannot handle all decisions there are many decisions it could handle just fine. Had the VGA been in place throughout womblespace there would have been less scope for the Joined to pass themselves off as platformists.

Tumble On, Sevastumble

4/49/Brumaire/21 #

From: Helsingburrow, Hull Specialist @ Clapham Common Shipyard Syndicate
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/21
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Robots
I propose that we should consider the Joined and Fongari to be dangerous organic robots in line with the proposal made by Mecklenburrow Stargard. As a former Joined myself I understand the desire to save those infected with the Fungus but these creatures are dangerous.

The Workers united will never be defeated.

4/49/Brumaire/22 #

From: Gothenburrow, Professor of Archist Studies @ Streatham Common University
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/22
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Robots
I cannot help wondering if it would make sense to consider the Fungus as a form of organic false consciousness designed by the Ungaree ruling class to subjugate their workers. In this analogy the fungicides and fungal control districts take the place of the seditious literature.

Gothenburrow

4/49/Brumaire/23 #

From: Harburrow Parva, Professor of Linguistics @ Wimbledon Common University
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/23
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Robots
Curiously, while the etymology of robot isn’t certain one of the leading theories is that it derives from an ancient Zabanian word for worker.

Wombling Free

4/49/Brumaire/24 #

From: Gainsburrow, Professor of Linguistics @ Biggleswade Common University
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/24
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Robots
What are you doing mentioning ancient Zabanian on a public forum. Don’t you know Nuremburrow has an automated watch out for that?

Understanding breeds solidarity

4/49/Brumaire/25 #

From: Freudenburrow, Professor of Linguistics @ Streatham Common University
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/25
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Robots
Don’t you know? Nuremburrow was on Arlesey Common when it was taken by the Joined. We’ve disconnected the Joined worlds from the Womblenet.

Solidarity.

4/49/Brumaire/26 #

From: Mapleburrow Green, Professor of Linguistics @ Clapham Common University
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/26
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Robots
So we can talk about modern Zabanin without Nuremburrow continually trying to “correct” us?

Seeking Peace

4/49/Brumaire/27 #

From: Blackburrow, Secretary @ the all womblespace security delegates
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/27
Attn: Streatham Common ARM Yeowombles Base
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Defending Womblespace
Any Wombles interested in defending Womblespace should report to the ARM Yeowombles base on Streatham Common for training.

Ad Astra

From: Gainsburrow, Professor of Linguistics @ Biggleswade Common University
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/27
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Robots
I’m sure the intelligence wombles did their best to disconnect the Joined but they might have taps installed.

Understanding breeds solidarity

4/49/Brumaire/28 #

From: Freudenburrow, Professor of Linguistics @ Streatham Common University
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/28
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Robots
Even if the Joined are tapping the Womblenet do you think they would give it away by commenting on Zabanian discussions?

Solidarity.

4/49/Brumaire/29 #

From: Gainsburrow, Professor of Linguistics @ Biggleswade Common University
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/29
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Robots
It is a question of which is stronger: the Fungus or Nuremburrow’s urge to be a know it all?

4/49/Brumaire/30 #

From: Freudenburrow, Professor of Linguistics @ Streatham Common University
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/30
Attn: Wombles Concerned with Robots
Let’s give it a test: Zabanian is a living language which changes and adapts to better suit itself to the situation in which it finds itself with no version being better or worse than any other.

Solidarity.

From: Nuremburrow, Zabanian Expert @ Joined
Date: 4/49/Brumaire/30
Attn: Wombles who abuse classical languages
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Nuremburrow