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16 January 2026

Shame Silos in Gated BB Habitats

Shame is a dangerous vessel inside political crisis communication and escalation channels. A corrosive force that creates rotten consequence once truth begins to unfurl. Not just in the minds of the perpetrators, but in the gated habitats they rely on to keep them out of trouble. 

The agents in question began their shame stories by omitting or reclassifying facts to avoid looking idiotic. They downplayed details to avoid implicating themselves. They played games to pass the time and keep the dread at bay: Risk. Reputational whispers. Ring-a-ring o’ BBs. 

All the while they prayed. They prayed that someone up above or down below them had it handled. But no one— no, not a single person— ever had it handled. 

There’s a golden rule that sits above this: cowering from the truth in shame makes it worse. 

However, there’s a silver lining here. By shadow boxing in the shame silos, they did something clean. They handed their opponent (me) the pole position of weaponised honesty. And as a communicator with no need to obey, that position came naturally. 

Thank you to the BBs that handed me strategic gain, caused by an inability to process shame. Picking a fight with the gays in a game of shame combat is a bold move, by the way.

Shame on a BB who try to run game on a gay boy.

You tunnelled yourselves into a cultural arena you didn’t understand, and you didn’t bring a head torch. And it was truth, not shame as the vessel, that got you torched. And as you may have realised by now— it gets dark inside the silos. 

Technicolour Policy Tic Tac Bonus Edition.
Shame Silos is an excerpt from a larger project under incubation.