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- `updated` bumped to 2026-08-08. Live sources: 44. Skipped: 15.
New source nominees: 0 (see candidate-sources.md — a zero-nomination run, and the backlog is the story).
## 2026-08-08 — cluster run
Wrote 7 bundles from an unbundled pool of 60 finds dated 08-03 or later. 34 items placed. Reuses across bundles: **0** (budget ~20%, i.e. ~7 — spent none, because a 60-find pool never needed a repeat to make a theme work).
**Why a cluster run and not a single bundle.** The unbundled *shortlisted* pool hit 26 after this morning's capture — past the ~25 threshold the pipeline sets for switching modes. It was also overdue on its own terms: the 08-07 log recorded that the 08-03 leftovers (`crotchet`, `kakehashi`, `project-espanol`, `newold-computer`) had been invisible for four days, and today made five. A single themed bundle off a 31-find day would have placed five items and left the backlog exactly where it was.
Bundles created:
- `2026-08-08-the-wrong-size-on-purpose`: The wrong size, on purpose (5 items, 5 heroes)
- `2026-08-08-the-thing-is-gone-the-shape-stayed`: The thing is gone; the shape stayed (6 items, 4 heroes)
- `2026-08-08-go-for-the-one-strange-fact`: Go for the one strange fact (5 items, 5 heroes)
- `2026-08-08-you-work-it-out-by-playing`: You work it out by playing (5 items, 3 heroes)
- `2026-08-08-made-to-be-listened-to-properly`: Made to be listened to properly (5 items, 5 heroes)
- `2026-08-08-what-it-wont-do-is-the-feature`: What it won't do is the feature (4 items, 4 heroes)
- `2026-08-08-one-detail-they-wouldnt-leave-alone`: One detail they wouldn't leave alone (4 items, 4 heroes)
Hero floor: cleared everywhere, and comfortably — 30 of 34 placed items carry an image. The thinnest is `you-work-it-out-by-playing` at 3 of 5, which is still above the floor and above the ~4-hero aim in proportion for a 5-item grid.
**The two clusters worth defending.** `the-thing-is-gone-the-shape-stayed` is the run's best theme and it is not a topic bucket — a lava cave holding the shape of the tree that burned inside it, a field of hollow molds behind a statue workshop, a radar retired before it ever tracked anything, a motel nobody renovated away, and two archives of parts and catalogs for machines that stopped shipping. It is the only cluster here that could not be reconstructed from tags, which is the test the skill sets. `what-it-wont-do-is-the-feature` is the tightest at 4 items and was deliberately not padded to 5: `filerouter` and `graffiti-moe` were both tried in it and both were about *adding* a capability, not declining one, so they came out. Four items that argue one case beat five that argue one and a half.
**Deferred cluster (hero floor not met): "words that sound like something else."** `crotchet`, `kakehashi`, `bumbaze`, `dowfart`, `larpin`, `project-espanol`, plus the four jokes and two Quote Investigator pieces. Twelve items, **zero heroes between them**, which is structural rather than a gap someone forgot to fill: word finds, jokes and quote-origin pieces have no image and never will. This is the fourth run to strand the same material, and it is now clear the hero floor will never release it — a themed bundle of word finds is not buildable under the current rule. **The weekly catch is the mechanism that exists for exactly this** ("widen rather than hold"), it is due 08-09, and it should absorb these; recording that as the plan rather than deferring the cluster a fifth time to no one in particular.
Uncovered after this run (26 finds dated 08-03+): the twelve word/joke/quote items above, plus `boxsquad`, `ododok`, `virtualapple`, `pokeemerald-rp2350`, `catalogue-of-ships` (five hero-less), and nine that do carry heroes — `balmuda-the-brew`, `coodle-cuddling-pillow`, `filerouter`, `golden-age-comics-archive`, `graffiti-moe`, `manhattan-timelapse`, `morningprint`, `statue-of-unity-almaty`, `the-phone-in-your-hand`. Those nine are the strongest raw material the weekly catch will have had in a fortnight and none of them is uncovered for lack of merit — the run hit the 7-cluster ceiling first. `morningprint` is additionally reachable through its own review.
Alcohol-legacy finds excluded from the pool up front, per the charter: `fieldbar-mini-bar`, `do-your-whisky-whiskey-making-kit`. Both remain published and bundled where they already were; neither is counted as awaiting a home.