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FRIDAY, 5 DECEMBER 2025
Underconsumption core is a beautiful aesthetic.
It's what the last week of the month has looked like for a decade. Someone finally sold the lighting.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Tomorrow is a fresh start. Your problems have the new address. They've already moved…
- You film "Sunday reset" videos. By Tuesday your room has reset itself, to Saturday.
- You "love deeply". Mostly a fictional man who doesn't know you exist. Neither do…
- Don't settle. Your standards already have. They didn't tell you.
- You "work best under pressure". You don't. You just only work under pressure.
- Age is just a number. So is your cholesterol, and it's climbing faster than…
- You reinstalled Pokémon Go to get your steps up. Eleven kilometres later you'd caught…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 444
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