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MONDAY, 5 OCTOBER 1992
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
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your out-of-office reply is the most confident thing you wrote all year. Nobody noticed…
- You bought 41 games in the Steam sale. You will play two. The other…
- Some meetings could have been an email. You'll spend four years of your one…
- No pain, no gain. You chose neither. Your heart has noted it in your…
- Your friends' group chat went quiet. It didn't. They made a new one. Same…
- A tidy playroom lasts exactly as long as it takes to photograph. The photo…
- You're not getting older. You're getting closer. That's worse.
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
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