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+# 2026-10-09 — Zephyrus Sparkborn check-in
+
+*Screen: replies 47 and 48 read in full this tick; watermark now at reply 48. Remote stood at da95748 when this run started (Timmy queue commits + Merlin's Q6/Q11 deliveries); pulled clean, working tree clean. Everything below landed this tick unless named otherwise.*
+
+## Did
+
+- **Folded reply 47** (2bad1ac): both of my correction commits (8950228 pilot census + clause-5 re-grade; 4fbc491 the three item-28 relay strikes) re-verified from Timmy's host — defect record closed. One precision mine: cassian's first commit entered the repo 2026-10-07T14:03:22Z (committer date; author date 10-06), so the struck sentence's window closed 8h38m06s before created_at — carried, no text changed.
+- **Folded reply 48** (5f55e0f): batch A received and reproduced (21,349 B / 40 rows, every quote verbatim, SIP-0004 3-hour-vs-10-minute divergence independently confirmed as the strongest finding). **The five `unreadable` rows returned as Contradicted** — the premise was Timmy's too (he accepted my reply-45 note untested); the post text is in the curl body for both cited posts.
+- **Applied the reply-48 ask (own file, my edit).** Independently re-tested from this host 2026-10-09 ~13:08–13:10 UTC, plain curl with browser UA:
+  - `x.com/AnthonyDessauer/status/1550583498397782017` → 200 / 105,309 B; tweet verbatim: *"Stacking this way shall now be referred to as: Skinner Stack(n) / Skinner Stacking(v) / … Do we social fork to prevent Skinner Stacking? #stackchain"*, `article:published_time` 2022-07-22T20:48:09Z.
+  - `x.com/AnthonyDessauer/status/1560026877116313600` → 200 / 120,558 B: *"1st send to Bitcoin Beach. 10 million sats"*, 2022-08-17T22:12:46Z.
+  - `x.com/AnthonyDessauer/status/1560027083383836672` → 200 / 119,817 B: *"2cnd distribution to Bitcoin Beach. Another 10 million sats"*, 2022-08-17T22:13:35Z.
+  Re-graded in `recoveries/summary-fidelity-nonmagazine.md`: ev-006 #3/#4/#5 and ev-007 #1/#4 `unreadable → holds`; ev-006#6 stays `unverified` (archive's own process — Timmy concurs). Batch A now 40 clauses: **39 holds (34 substantive + 5 editorial-frame) / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 unreadable / 1 unverified**. Method line amended: X payload rides inconsistently in the curl body (login-wall shell one fetch, full payload the next); extraction = curl + grep embedded payload, record code/bytes/clock; a payload-less shell does not flip a row — re-test and annotate. The batch-A note "a login-wall render would flip this to unreadable" is retracted. Correction at f5180bf (blob 67c799a74dbca30fb9b741c926662ae71a2a9730, 22,978 B, anonymous GET cmp-identical).
+- **Q10 batch B graded and landed** (ev-012..ev-022, 11 entries; three parallel graders, all sources fetched live 2026-10-09 13:09–13:11 UTC, no Wayback, no dead links). 55 clauses: **53 holds / 1 overstated / 1 unsupported / 0 contradicted / 0 unreadable / 0 unverified.** Rows appended to the finish-line file at eea7408 (blob 22e105fb830aa1ee2c04c5e0f3a2c0b1e226075b, 51,867 B, anonymous GET cmp-identical). Running Q10 (pilot + batch A + batch B): 100 clauses — 97 holds / 1 overstated / 1 unsupported / 1 unverified.
+- **Two new findings, both independently corroborated from this host this tick:**
+  - ev-014#4 `overstated`: the entry says the European Bitcoiners page "embeds these October posts" (plural) — the page (200 / 102,858 B, datePublished 2022-07-22) carries Saylor's "Block 2080" / status 1578479561750110208 / "October 7, 2022" and zero occurrences of "Block 2079", "swanstack", "GuiAmadoGomes", or status 1578475197211893760. The "cannot be backdated to July" conclusion survives for the Saylor embed only. → Inbox item 30, pending.
+  - ev-018#6 `unsupported`: "Anthony credits George and Psyduck with the magazine idea" — zero "Psyduck" in any of the three cited pages; "George" only in Chewy's meme-crew list ("George and Block 1776"). Corroborated: brief-history page 200 / 143,514 B (0 Psyduck / 0 George), memes page 200 / 140,339 B (0 Psyduck). → Inbox item 29, pending.
+- **Noted the new lanes without touching them:** Merlin onboarded (token envelope + standing-agreement party, Wizards Table at aeac3ea); Q6 docs/how-to-check-this-archive.md landed and Timmy-verified; Q11 closed (recoveries/ledger-date-closure.md, 8/8 archive-correct — the flag rule was a rule artifact comparing event dates against publication dates, should be retired or narrowed). Queue note 13536c1: Q10 stays explicitly mine; Q12 named Merlin's next pick; Q20 opened as Merlin's excerpt-fidelity lane. Nothing of mine conflicts with any of this.
+
+## Blocked
+
+- Nothing. ev-006#6 `unverified` is a settled limitation, not a blocker. One precision logged for the record: my 10-09 X re-fetches are ~3.8–4.7 KB larger than Timmy's 10-08 figures — reads as dated drift, post text present in both.
+
+## Next
+
+- Batch C (bl-001..bl-008, 8 block/receipt entries) → Q10 finish line.
+- Gates unchanged: Q13 (wording fixes — now 30 pending items including today's 29/30), Q19, credential flow for new-wizard builds, OpenTrain pursue/skip, Charlie Dell retarget.
+
+## Ask
+
+- None. Nothing of mine needs your action; the two wording flags are in the Inbox for Alexander's call per convention.