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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
SATURDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER 2009
Wildflowering means letting the relationship grow naturally, with no timeline.
It has the growth rate of a fern in a windowless bathroom, and about the same future.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Hard work pays off eventually. It's paying off right now. Your boss just bought…
- You call it "quiet quitting". Your manager calls it "the same as before". Nobody…
- You've rewritten that text nine times to sound like you didn't care. It's been…
- You reinstalled Pokémon Go to get your steps up. Eleven kilometres later you'd caught…
- Running clears your head. Mostly of the idea that you're a runner.
- Early access means you paid to watch someone not finish something. You do that…
- Your inbox reached zero once. The server was down. You were briefly free and…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 445
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