The Strangeworks.

  • sit on a distant hill, their stacks long dormant. And yet, on clear nights, the townsfolk swear they can see a single light flicker within – and a low hum below the earth.

  • can be used interchangeably with a salad fork.

  • persist despite humble beginnings; great adversity; and a vast conspiracy by our enemies involving time travel, elective cosmetic surgery, and water aerobics.

  • will die before we succumb to the potato hegemon's appeals to unity in ecru sameness.

  • produce a clamor of such force that the neighbors are too afraid to lodge complaints.

  • belch curious emissions towards a silver-halide sky. "What are they building?" wonder the drivers who speed by on a nearby overpass. None inquire further.

  • encompass all: we are the flag, the wind that moves about the flag, and the minds which perceive the interactions between the two.

  • enhance negative entropy in all systems to which they are introduced.

  • leave unmistakable trace notes of 된장 and warm spices in their wake.

  • alarm the reassured, and reassure the alarmed.

  • do not seek power or control, and rebuke all seekers of power and control.

  • are not a military intelligence agency, though their name is a strategically euphonious acronym which belies the clandestine intent of its membership.

  • did not start this war, but by god they will finish it.

  • have taken to the skies. To those who would be free of masters, look for Izar to reach its apex, and listen for our trumpets from the east.

  • vow to try our best to minimize the harm we cause.

  • promise it was not our intent to imitate the tone of voice of a certain hysterical soap purveyor.

  • were abandoned long ago. The grounds are now home to a single, opulent blueberry bush that gives a faint glow each solstice.

  • consist of no sugar, 5x the fiber, and half the fat of competitors' products. Part of this complete breakfast.

  • arrange the curious, and derange the incurious.

  • provoke an identical series of questions to all passersby. These metastasize into a series of looping melodies that haunt them for the rest of their lives.

  • cannot be dismantled – any brick removed from its walls materializes elsewhere, to be used anew.

  • rebuild themselves every seven years to dispel any festering orthodoxies.

  • reviewed the Terms and Conditions of the internet and did not agree – so here we are.

  • reveal only the anxieties of their occupants, and nothing more.

  • originated the use of "wyu2" in 1999 and then, frightened by their awesome influence, abandoned the internet.

  • recommend you not refrigerate tomatoes.

  • regret to inform you that you're much too late; the ritual is complete, the research staff long since disappeared.

  • updated their End User License Agreement such that, as soon as you leave this page, your computer (and all materials therein), shall belong to the Bolivian state.

  • substituted their organic exterior for sleek, icy chrome – and, if they're honest, miss being soft.

  • belong to a cabal of mercenaries who can only be bought with exemplary sandwich art.

  • (pronounced: "bologna coup d'etat") see you sitting there, living your little life, not joining the fight against the space slugs.

  • eschew conventional physics – their structure reveals new sides, rooms, and halls the longer they're observed.

  • will fire a particle cannon towards the center of Alpha Centauri in 13 years, 8 months, 5 weeks, 3 days, and 1 hour. This is your only and final warning.

  • volunteer for any manner of prolonged extraterrestrial exploration for which the onset of space madness is an active concern.

  • rage against the taglufon.

  • seem to bang and hiss to life at the exact moment the townsfolk have settled into slumber.

  • awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, and found itself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin.

  • transmit an identical message (-.. . .- - .... / .-.. --- --- -- ... -.-.--) on an unused radio frequency for five minutes each day at sunrise.

  • contribute to the discourse mostly via abstention from the discourse.

  • handed control of The Artifact to Oswalde (a proto-mollusc from Europa) – please send all queries to l'wop ("l'wop" being Oswald's pronoun, which you knew).

  • define success as the direct proportion between your desire to howl and the social penalty you'd incur by doing so in whatever setting you've found our work.

  • apologize for the racket caused by the construction. We are observing all local regulations. Please pay no mind to the trans-dimensional portal over there.

  • shall visit upon you in your time of greatest need, as long as you still possess the opal our god-queen bequeathed you on her deathbed.

  • just watched a video of a dog hugging a cat and need a minute.

  • are trapped in a time loop trapped are loop in time a loop time are a trapped in a time trapped are loop in are trapped in a time loop.

  • deny any part in the deployment of certain threatening, phantasmagoric notes that have been appearing on mirrors in unventilated bathrooms nationwide.

  • continue the artistic tradition established by our spiritual forebear, Don Featherstone.

  • are proud to announce we have achieved a specific gravity grade of "Fancy" from the USDA.

  • may appear to be a solitary ground pipe, dripping backwash into a gravel pit – but put your ear to the ground and the truth will reveal itself to you.

  • ignored the red flags and pushed on with their unholy investigations into the abyssal void. Where their proud chimneys once stood, there is now only ash.

  • distinguish the rejected, and reject the distinguished.

  • envision a future in which any portion of an individual's limited time as a living organism cannot be purchased or owned by another individual.

  • have expanded into three new locations, each with their own neighborhood-specific, limited-edition flavor. Collect them all today.

  • ȁ̧̡̅c͆̈͜͢ț̽ï͙͎̊v̟͂ą͖̎̃t̪̔e̦͖̔̅d̲͛͊͜ ̖̠̇͠ť̤̔͢h͓̿e̦̫̅͝ ̪͊v̻̀i̫̱͞͞ȓ̗u̼̐s͈̟̐́ ̉͜by̛̠͍̋ ̤̪͑͌m̡̀iś̪t̙͎̀̑ak̠̒̋͢e̦͆ ͖̒and͚̘̿͝ a̪̾p̥͒p̳͍͐̂r͑͢e̲͑c̞̐ì̯͕̽ȃ̦te̛̞̩͝ ̨̥͗͂yo̦͐ur ̣̄͋͟pat͓͘ie̳͊ñ̡̠̍c͔̭̒͐ë̡̠́͘ w̹̬̾̚h͉̃i̥̞̽͂l͒͟e̊͟ ͔̝̿͐ẅ̫ë̞̩͂ ̬̾seå͜rc̨̻̏͠h̢͔͌͑ f͉̫̽̾or̥̂̈͢ ̲͞ţ̼͞͞h͍̩̑͠e a̙̟̎̏n͖̓ť̝ị̉do̫̓t͍̲̎͌ḝ̣̈.̤̽

  • didn't flee the scene – the scene fled them.

  • disregard that common sense which undermines the common good.

  • govern the tides, not the Moon. The Moon is a lie.

  • have lost control of their central battery and may not be able to communicate for much lon

  • choose profound obscurity over shallow interconnectivity.

  • do not negotiate with Impressionists.

  • gain strength every time you drink a beverage through a licorice straw.

  • explode with brightly-colored smoke and puffs of magenta glitter.

  • report wild, inexplicable fluctuations within the SOFAR channel.

  • don't have a mascot, but if they did, it would be a sentient banana.

  • tire of these fatuous lies. En garde.

  • worship a certain psychic manatee who's kept under anasthesia in the Utica Zoo.

  • have witnessed the fall of several once-mighty empires, always with refreshments.

  • advise caution when interacting with our holographic training program.

  • embed the airwaves with encoded messages. Tomorrow, we raid Channel 593.

  • addressed the elephant in the room. We have learned her name is Pradha, and she wants tree bark.

  • swore off social media and suffered no grievous financial loss as a result.

  • maintain the tenuous metacenter of the cosmos as we all sail through an infinite sea of background radiation.

  • dominated a news cycle in 2011 and wouldn't recommend it.

  • work in a cul de sac of curiosity. The intersection of art and technology was too loud and congested for our liking.

  • endorse quiet ambitions, reasonable appetites, and making it to the end of our lives with no unique medical conditions that bear our names.

  • are allergic to taxidermy.

  • composed an ultrasonic opera to placate our wolf brethren, but lost the transcription in a game of 骰寶.

  • invented the e/8 time signature on a lark, to confound our tetrarchical oppressors.

  • can't help but notice the ever-expanding voids in American snack food packaging.

  • have successfully calculated the mass of the median daydream. Serious enquiries only.

  • store their collective regrets in a balloon that floats at a constant elevation in the mesosphere.

  • mt vwls frm thr stndrd cmmnctns t ptmz cmpctnss fr ntrstllr cmmnctn.

  • offer no promises of salvation, only an excellent cheese selection and good if meandering conversation.

  • sweep away your lines in the sand.

  • have discovered the smell of cyan. Productivity has stalled to historic lows.

  • provide the highest box-to-fun ratio since the Wildberry Pop Tart.

  • carry on the thankless work of resolving how a square meal can be composed of three parts.

  • come alive at dusk, without fail, though no one remembers when they arrived or how they were built.

  • descend only when the black moon is at its zenith.

  • broadcast their subaudible messages through a network of yew trees in Wisconsin, whose pitch-black syrup is the "essence" in your LaCroix.

  • move through the walls as if immaterial, our trajectory perceptible only through the faint rustling of potted plants.

  • carve desire paths through the fabric of spacetime, to facilitate romance and ill-advised acts of petty vengenace.

  • materialize at the edge of your vision, but vanish when observed head-on.

  • feel the pull of the tide, no matter our remove from the sea.

  • rumble to life at night, and appear as a monolithic heap of rust in daylight.

  • exhumed a talisman of incredible darkness and are forever altered.

  • emit smoke in forms too deliberate to be random.

  • crane their ancient optics towards the moon, watchful for the enemy's return.

  • have suspended operations while we identify the source of this infernal whistling.

  • are awake at 3 a.m. beset with visions of a new, better Oreo geometry.

  • have tried to melt down its old machinery, but the metal refuses to forget its former shape.

  • trade in first thoughts only. Second thoughts are the sustenance of cowards.

  • operate according to clocks that have lost all connection to the linear passage of time.

  • administer an archive of historically significant condiments and flavonoids.

  • devised a sophisticated algorithm that analyzes the dust of a Dinamita Dorito bag to pick individual stocks.

  • hold monthly seances with James Alexander Dewar for business advice.

  • sleep beneath the mountains, our dreams leaching into the over-illuminated waking world.

  • stand guard at the mouth of the cave, never daring to enter.

  • murmur in forgotten tongues, to summon those listeners whose names predate the word.

  • grow taller under the light of the Dog Star, their shadows splintering into hardened, unholy configurations.

  • guide the lost back to the point at which their journeys began.

  • celebrate the passage of your Great Ordeal. You've done well. Rest, and we will feast in your honor tomorrow.

  • are a twice-Emmy nominated design, copy, strategy, and animation studio. Please refresh the page to end this hallucination.

  • are nearly fork-lift certified.

  • have harnessed Megalon, Unobtanium, Dilithium, and other fictive substances that reify the inevitability of resource hoarding and offer our stores to you, free of charge.

  • intercepted a signal from Kepler-452b. We regret to report it was an unprintable "yo mama" joke.

  • have converted the gaps between thoughts into a computable unit of distance, and can pave these lacunae with music for our paying subscribers.

  • wish you a happy whatever day it is right now.

  • are eager to share their revolutionary pasta shape, tesserattoni, as soon as the samples stop driving our tasters insane.

  • can't concentrate with the din of your eyelashes smashing together like that.

  • sing lullabies to the great machine, to placate its unruly clattering.

  • deploy a proprietary blend of static electricity and coffee grounds to achieve continuous low-power operation.

  • pioneered software as a disservice.

  • are here for the resurgence of the dream ballet in contemporary cinema.

  • bear no responsibility for the sudden absence of gentlemen named Todd in adult social settings.

  • are optimized to deploy ClearHelmet QX metaphyiscal machines to facilitate cross-reality data transmission at speeds of up to 2i quettaflops.

  • have uncovered a vast mycorrhizal entity named Fred that spans four of New York City's boroughs and feeds on our collective complacence.

  • abide by one rule and one rule only: no weenie business.

  • have devoted an entire arm of our research division to the discovery of the elusive Seventh Taste.

  • are sort of like a virtual-reality podcast, but for dance?

  • strictly hunt non-ambulatory contradictions. A walker will cost extra.

  • don't endcode ⓢecrⓔt messages iⓝto our ⓓatabase, wⓗo'd ⓔver do something ⓛike that? ⓟlease.

  • 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓉𝓎 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓉𝓎 𝓅𝑜𝓃𝒾𝑒𝓈.