ISSUED DAILY SINCE NOBODY ASKED
DAILY DEMOTIVATION
A fresh disappointment every morning. Like the news, but more honest.
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
- You've rewritten that text nine times to sound like you didn't care. It's been…
- Opposites attract. Then they argue about the thermostat for forty years. Whoever outlives the…
- Your inbox reached zero once. The server was down. You were briefly free and…
- You started saying "oof" when you sit down. That's the countdown, out loud.
- Strangers online have voted you "not wrong". The same strangers once voted to give…
- A tidy playroom lasts exactly as long as it takes to photograph. The photo…
- Somebody, somewhere, is checking their phone hoping it's you. It's a debt collector.
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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