billboard Most Recent Scroll: fix SQLite NULL drop on SIG_READY exclude; pronouns flow FT; Blades middle reversal Nervous → Fickle — TDD

- billboard/views.py _billboard_context: `.exclude(verb=SIG_READY, data__retracted=True)` was silently dropping every SIG_READY event whose data had no `retracted` key — `WHERE NOT (NULL AND verb='sig_ready')` evaluates to NULL via JSON_EXTRACT, which the SQL engine treats as "row not satisfying WHERE", so the row was excluded. Fix: pull a 100-row buffer w. only the SIG_UNREADY exclude at the SQL level, then post-filter retracted SIG_READY in Python before slicing to 36; PostgreSQL handles the lookup correctly so this is a SQLite-only manifestation that explained intermittent "No events yet" in Most Recent Scroll
- CLAUDE.md gotchas: new entry warning that `.exclude(data__key=value)` / `.filter(data__key=value)` on SQLite JSONField bites on missing keys; if the predicate must require key existence, post-filter in Python
- functional_tests/test_game_kit.py PronounsAppletFlowTest: end-to-end profile-wide pronoun flip — start on per-room billscroll seeing "their" cognates, navigate to Game Kit, click bawlmorese card, assert guard portal active w. "yo/yo/yos" preview, click OK, navigate to billboard + see Most Recent Scroll re-rendered w. "yos", navigate back to billscroll + see same flip; covers the whole render-time-pronoun-resolution path on real DOM
- epic/0008_blades_reversal_fickle.py: rename Middle Arcana Blades reversal_qualifier "Nervous" → "Fickle" (RunPython forward+reverse on arcana=MIDDLE, suit=BLADES, number ∈ {11,12,13,14}); SigSelectSpec.js hardcoded "Nervous" updated to "Fickle" + collected static

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Git commit message Co-Authored-By:
Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/apps/billboard/views.py

@@ -41,16 +41,26 @@ def _billboard_context(user):
         .distinct()
         .first()
     )
-    recent_events = (
-        list(
+    # SIG_READY+retracted exclusion is done in Python because SQLite's NULL
+    # semantics drop ALL SIG_READY events whose data has no `retracted` key:
+    # `data__retracted=True` resolves to NULL via JSON_EXTRACT for missing keys,
+    # and `WHERE NOT (NULL AND verb='sig_ready')` evaluates to NULL → row
+    # filtered out. We pull a buffer (100) to absorb any retracted prefix and
+    # then slice to 36 after Python filtering.
+    if recent_room:
+        candidates = list(
             recent_room.events
             .select_related("actor")
             .exclude(verb=GameEvent.SIG_UNREADY)
-            .exclude(verb=GameEvent.SIG_READY, data__retracted=True)
-            .order_by("-timestamp")[:36]
-        )[::-1]
-        if recent_room else []
-    )
+            .order_by("-timestamp")[:100]
+        )
+        visible = [
+            e for e in candidates
+            if not (e.verb == GameEvent.SIG_READY and e.data.get("retracted"))
+        ]
+        recent_events = visible[:36][::-1]
+    else:
+        recent_events = []
 
     return {
         "my_rooms": my_rooms,