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Broad classification for digital life & internet.
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Struck by the sudden, irreversible horror of an email sent to three hundred people instead of one.
Read full entry →A brief but total collapse of professional dignity caused entirely by predictive text with a mind of its own.
Read full entry →A collective, unexplained group silence that leaves the original sender wondering what exactly they did wrong.
Read full entry →A catastrophic, tone-deaf text response typed on autopilot before actually reading the full message.
Read full entry →A blessed, temporary ceasefire in a parent group chat that has otherwise generated ninety notifications in an hour.
Read full entry →A slow, excruciating video-call ritual in which each person's total lack of general knowledge is broadcast individually.
Read full entry →An involuntary physical reaction to hearing your own recorded voice, which never once sounds the way you imagine it.
Read full entry →A single-word acknowledgement text that neither confirms nor denies understanding of anything that was actually said.
Read full entry →A sudden burst of pure, unearned joy delivered via a single automated text message about school closures.
Read full entry →A tense internal debate about how much passive aggression is professionally acceptable in a single sentence.
Read full entry →A sudden, total loss of memory occurring exclusively while holding a phone with the correct answer already open on it.
Read full entry →The act of turning a trivial update into an unlistenable audio drama that recipients will avoid opening until Tuesday.
Read full entry →A terrifying, split-second loss of object permanence that makes you think you've lost an £800 piece of glass you are literally staring at.
Read full entry →The deployment of the word 'fine' or 'ok' to create a false sense of peace while secretly preparing for a massive argument.
Read full entry →The principled, furious refusal to invent a new password for a retailer you will literally only use once in your life.
Read full entry →A lightning-fast digital assassination of evidence, performed to protect your personal brand from a highly unflattering angle.
Read full entry →A terrifying cognitive blackout where the pressure to sound casual makes it impossible to type a single cohesive sentence.
Read full entry →The deeply confusing phenomenon of a coward who refuses to reply to a text but aggressively consumes every piece of content you upload.
Read full entry →The psychopathic, 3 AM digital excavation of a loved one's tagged photos to find an ex you can negatively compare yourself to.
Read full entry →A traumatic auditory hallucination induced by corporate burnout, causing you to flinch when no computer is even in the room.
Read full entry →A desperate, scorched-earth digital cleansing where you accept failure and permanently ignore years of correspondence.
Read full entry →The desperate, primate-like stretching of an arm towards the ceiling in a futile attempt to summon a data signal.
Read full entry →The chaotic, overlapping chorus of colleagues aggressively informing a boomer that their microphone is turned off.
Read full entry →The frantic, preemptive destruction of browser evidence (ASOS, Reddit, flights to Spain) right before a Zoom presentation.
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