ISSUED DAILY SINCE NOBODY ASKED
DAILY DEMOTIVATION
A fresh disappointment every morning. Like the news, but more honest.
Parenting is ten percent love
and ninety percent asking where the other shoe is. Then they leave and take both.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- The customer is always right. The customer is also on hold, forever, which is…
- You say you're "an old soul". You're 21. The only old thing about you…
- Strangers online have voted you "not wrong". The same strangers once voted to give…
- The house will be tidy again one day. The day they move out. Tidy,…
- You "love deeply". Mostly a fictional man who doesn't know you exist. Neither do…
- Clear-coding means stating your intentions up front. Hers was "I have a hard stop…
- The light at the end of the tunnel is someone asking, "Can you see…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 445
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