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FRIDAY, 25 JUNE 1976
Love yourself first.
Someone has to, and nobody else applied.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your business plan has three phases: launch, pivot, and letting the domain quietly expire.
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- The spark never fades. It gets downgraded to bin bags, then to a joint…
- Ghostlighting is when someone disappears for eight weeks and comes back with "you've been…
- 2026 is the new 2016. Your knees did not get the memo. Your knees…
- Your Duolingo owl has stopped threatening you. It's not proud. It's given up. Even…
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