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Madeline's avatar

Also I hope you feel better!

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

I AM

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Madeline's avatar

I take your 3 am and raise you a 3 am https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXOnsPWBk0M&ab_channel=HalseyVEVO

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

whoa so this is Hasley. Ok i'm interested

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Madeline's avatar

Oh hell yeah, a real fucking rockstar and ARTISTE

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Alicia Kenworthy's avatar

This is fabulous. Please don’t delete later.

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

ALICIA THANK YOU and also great hanging with you in the breakout room !! Very excited to read ur stuff in Catalectic

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Alicia Kenworthy's avatar

That was so much fun!!

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Myq Kaplan's avatar

love this as always! how are you feeling now?

i really like this:

"One realization I DID have about my ‘audience’ is that I want to write for past Alex like from 5 years ago, 10 years ago, etc."

i also like that you hyphenated "powerhouse-hold" but you DIDN'T hyphenate "multihyphenate"

love!

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

i am an innovator, at the vanguard, the apex of genius and humble.

Myq thank you as always for the comments they fuel me and doctors say they actually healed me from the covid

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Myq Kaplan's avatar

wow!

i'm very glad to hear this.

i also really like "the apex of genius and humble."

an apex usage of the word "apex"!

also would be a good word for a mystery ape. Ape X!

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Theory Gang's avatar

The brain is crazy, and some of those crazy brains are trying to study other crazy brains, but humans are a terrible model for rat research. 🤷‍♀️

Also excited for school tomorrow 🤓

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

its about time the rats research us

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Matthew Welmers's avatar

If you've not seen the music video to Shania Twain's 'Man! I feel like a woman' I highly recommend it; it defies expectations in the best of ways. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJL4UGSbeFg

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

i LOVE this song but have not heard it or seen the video in a little bit so thank you!

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Matthew Welmers's avatar

It's beautiful! Let me know what you think after you've watched it!

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Michael Jensen's avatar

Hope you're feeling better and yes, it is absolutely amazing, if not outright terrifying, how the brain works.

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

thank you Michael!!

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Anne Kadet's avatar

Hope you feel better soon Sasha!

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

Anne I am on the mend! Covid will not ruin me not today. Were you at substack school today you weren't in the humor breakout room so i cried

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Anne Kadet's avatar

Awww I missed you too! I was hanging out with the "culture" ladies. They're a wild bunch!

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Dustin T Waling's avatar

4am ramblings is my jam. I dig it.

P.S.: I'd recommend a slow roll on the resurrecting "crap" business. All them littles out there need time to acclimate - I mean, if you ever thought the tired & hungry kind of ornery was rough, then you must realize that a raging wave of 10-n-unders in the aftermath of such sick burns, and no prepared comeback, is a prickly bunch you don't want to mess with ...ain't no question!

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

my god you're right. a word as powerful as crap in the hands of such youth? makes a grown man spooked

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Overexpression's avatar

“By labeling we create distance and with distance we see we are not our thoughts, we are actually something much, much worse”

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

whoever said this is a bonafide genius

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Michael Maupin 🄾🄵 🅂🅃🄾🅁🅈🅂🄷🄴🄳's avatar

Should I refer to you as Sasha? I want you to feel comfy when people call you by your name. I write “Michael” but prefer Mike. Cheers mate

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