Working is the one fact the interface could not tell you without spending a row and a word on it, so the figure in the footer says it instead: standing while it is your turn, three frames of arms while it is not. He keeps his own slow tick, because a turn that is thinking rather than printing sends no events to repaint on, and drops it the moment the turn ends — an idle session pays nothing for him. Two hundred and twenty milliseconds a frame: slow enough not to strobe beside text someone is reading, fast enough to read as effort rather than a glitch. NOTE — this commit also carries an auto-publish feature I did not write. It was sitting uncommitted in this tree alongside my own edits, and `src/tui.mjs` holds both, so separating them by author would have meant hand-picking hunks out of one file. Committing it is how it stops being at risk. It reads well and its tests pass: publishing follows the live push so a piece someone is watching on a phone is also a URL they can send on, and it stays opt-in because publishing is outward-facing. 49 tests and the CLI suite pass with both present.