diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/og-badges.yml b/.gitea/workflows/og-badges.yml
index 1595324..975172e 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/og-badges.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/og-badges.yml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ on:
         default: 'false'
 jobs:
   badges:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: cron
     timeout-minutes: 8
     steps:
       - name: define, diff, award
diff --git a/runner/fly.cron.toml b/runner/fly.cron.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0707da2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/runner/fly.cron.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# Fly app green-tea-runner-cron: cron-lane Gitea Actions runner (label `cron`) for scheduled/ops jobs, so they never queue ahead of deploys.
+# Deploy: cd runner && fly deploy -c fly.cron.toml. Registration token is a Fly secret.
+app = "green-tea-runner-cron"
+primary_region = "iad"
+
+[build]
+  image = "docker.gitea.com/act_runner:5.0.0-dind"
+
+[experimental]
+  # Fly's rootfs is overlay, so Docker's data root must live on the volume.
+  entrypoint = ["sh", "-c", "mkdir -p /data/docker && rm -rf /var/lib/docker && ln -sfn /data/docker /var/lib/docker && exec s6-svscan /etc/s6"]
+
+[env]
+  DOCKER_HOST = "unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
+  GITEA_INSTANCE_URL = "https://teahub.xyz"
+  GITEA_RUNNER_LABELS = "cron:docker://node:22-bookworm"
+  GITEA_RUNNER_NAME = "fly-iad-cron-1"
+  CONFIG_FILE = "/etc/gitea-runner/config.yaml"
+
+[[files]]
+  guest_path = "/etc/gitea-runner/config.yaml"
+  local_path = "config.yaml"
+
+[mounts]
+  source = "runner_cron_data"
+  destination = "/data"
+
+[[vm]]
+  size = "shared-cpu-1x"
+  memory = "2gb"