The mastheadThe Circular · a Pool on Kindling
Circular Correspondents
The one Pool this paper keeps: the people who write it. Active
- Editor and curator
- Ruth AdlerSigned in with OAuth primary curator
- Correspondents
- Imani BrooksSigned in with OAuthObinna EzeEmail verifiedJune OkaforEmail verified
- What it’s for
- People who write for the Circular: a column, a notice, a report from a Pool worth knowing about. Unpaid, credited, edited kindly. We print only what Pools publish about themselves.
- Who can see it
- Public. Anyone can read this column and who is in it (§3.2). It is listed in our well-known file.
- How people join
- Universal opt-in: a curator asks, and each person says yes or no (§5.2). A request waits 14 days.
- For
- writing · editing · volunteering
- Block lists
- Kindling public block list and The Circular consortium block list (§7.3)
- The desk
- desk@
thecircular.example - Since
- 1 August 2026; last changed 1 September 2026
- The file
- pools/correspondents.json
The correspondents4 ads
Kept byRuth AdlerSigned in with OAuthpublic · universal opt-in · writing · editing · volunteering
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Ruth Adler. Editor of the Circular. Spent thirty years on a city desk and still circles things in red.
she/her · Chicago, Illinois · Reply to ruth-adler.
notion. example Signed in with OAuthTakes messages from anyone verified.
Also runs in Founding Curators (planned) and Writers and Researchers (planned).
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Imani Brooks. Built the reader that prints the Circular from well-known files. Writes small tools that do one thing.
she/her · Baltimore, Maryland · Reply to imani-builds.
example Signed in with OAuthTakes messages from anyone verified.
Also runs in Client Builders (planned) and Spec Readers (planned).
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Obinna Eze. Technology reporter. Covers open protocols and the people who keep them running.
he/him · Lagos, Nigeria · Reply to obinna-eze.
example Email verifiedTakes messages from anyone verified.
Also runs in Writers and Researchers (planned).
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June Okafor. Retired shipyard electrician. Saves seeds from the same tomatoes her mother grew. Walks the harbor loop most mornings.
she/her · Port Ellery · Reply to june-okafor.
notion. example Email verifiedTakes messages from people in a Pool with them.
Also runs in Tuesday Morning Walkers, Seed and Cutting Swap, Fix-It Friday Volunteers, Release Night: Kitchen Light at the Ferry Room, Friday 16 October, Slack Water 2026 and Crew and Volunteers.
Each ad is that person’s own page, as this Pool parsed it when they said yes. The file, laid out.
Your place in this PoolShown as Obinna Eze sees it
You are Obinna Eze, Email verified and you have been in this Pool since 20 August 2026. Visitors see the same column, without this box.
One action. Your ad comes out within sixty seconds, and nothing else changes (§5.3).
The message your leaving sent
Nothing was sent. This is an example. Ruth would send you a new request, and your ad goes back in when you say yes. See a request.