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  "description": "Fiddling while Rome burns, and feeling all the feels as it does 🔥",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-25T07:00:30.000Z",
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  "textContent": "The other day I cheered you up, demonstrating that we're all in this together by writing about being glum. As suspected, it didn't last for too long and I think by later on that day I'd already started working on the _following_ day's Daily Reminder.\n\nThese things happen. I don't tend to take them _too_ seriously, because if I do, they have a habit of sticking around for longer!\n\n🤷🏻‍♂️\n\nAs always with these low states of consciousness, the first thing a mind does is observes it and asks, _Why?!_\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "Misery and happiness",
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