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TUESDAY, 18 MAY 1971
You reinstalled Pokémon Go to get your steps up.
Eleven kilometres later you'd caught three pigeons, a cold and a physio waiting list that will outlive the app.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Lessons will be learned. By whom, and when, will also be learned. Eventually. Possibly.
- Your backlog is a library of things you were going to enjoy. It is…
- Some days you're the pigeon. Most days you're the statue, and nobody remembers who…
- You can do anything you set your mind to. Your mind has set itself…
- The first email you open on Monday is a reply-all from Friday. Forty replies.…
- Don't settle. Your standards already have. They didn't tell you.
- They say sweat is weakness leaving the body. Yours has decided to stay.
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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