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DAILY DEMOTIVATION
A fresh disappointment every morning. Like the news, but more honest.
ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
SUNDAY, 28 MAY 1967
Doom spending is buying a heated eye mask because the news was bad.
The news is still bad. Your eyes are warmer. So is your overdraft.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Mondays aren't so bad. They're just Sundays that opened their bank statement.
- Your therapist said set boundaries. You set one. Then texted them at 2 a.m.…
- You're not getting older. You're getting closer. That's worse.
- Every company now has an AI assistant. It's the only member of staff nobody's…
- You have a "5-year plan". It's a Pinterest board. It's mostly kitchens.
- You reinstalled Pokémon Go to get your steps up. Eleven kilometres later you'd caught…
- You are a brief arrangement of atoms that learned to worry about emails.
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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