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SATURDAY, 16 AUGUST 2025
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 manifested your dream job. The universe received the request, checked your CV and…
- Your financial advisor is a spreadsheet you opened once in January. It's been screaming…
- You "work best under pressure". You don't. You just only work under pressure.
- Your company's core values are printed on the wall. So nobody has to have…
- Your financial advisor is a spreadsheet you opened once in January. It's been screaming…
- Fortnite was free to play. It was not free to stop.
- Your out-of-office reply is the most confident thing you wrote all year. Nobody noticed…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 444
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