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Published in The Squid Weekly

·Jul 26, 2022

Guide to Your Relationship

Have you ever been in a situation with your partner and thought, Huh. It’s a good thing I don’t have a knife or a blunt object because otherwise this person would be dead? Have no fear! You are not alone. Here are some tips for surviving your relationship. Realize that…

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Guide to Your Relationship
Guide to Your Relationship
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Published in The Squid Weekly

·Jul 17, 2022

Missing Pandemic Times

Missing pandemic times? You’re not alone. COVID is like your ex that was abusive, controlling, and emotionally unstable — but you can’t help but miss some things about them. And that’s okay. We know you wouldn’t go back, unless your current life really sucks. …

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Missing Pandemic Times
Missing Pandemic Times
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Published in The Squid Weekly

·Nov 6, 2021

Work Jargon Translator

Working an office job and sick of the vague, wordy responses you get? Don’t work at an office but are forced to deal with bureaucracy? Don’t do either but hate stupid, confusing sentences? Have no fear! This is your translation guide to workplace jargon. We appreciate your concerns, and we’ll…

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Work Jargon Translator
Work Jargon Translator
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Published in MuddyUm

·Sep 13, 2021

What Type of Outdoors Person Are You?

Just how excited are you to come back to society after a camping trip? — Intense. When you ask intense people what they do outside, they give the smile of people who have gone off their medication and murdered someone. Their outdoor adventures are closer to highly specific acts of torture, like running a hundred miles for no real reason. …

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What Type of Outdoors Person Are You?
What Type of Outdoors Person Are You?
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Published in The Squid Weekly

·Sep 11, 2021

How to Save the Planet

With the planet going from hot to dead, the Climate Change Recommendation Panel sees the need to act. Our proposals for cities across the US may not be the most traditional or easy to implement. …

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How to Save the Planet
How to Save the Planet
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Published in MuddyUm

·Aug 23, 2021

Welcome to Your Local Brewery

Another bearded man pursues his real passions: beer, hanging out, and dogs — Thank you for visiting Stoned Valley Brewery where it’s Saturday afternoon all the time. There’s nowhere to go and nothing to do, except petting the chubby pug or fixing the drain at home that’s been leaking for three years. As entrepreneurs, we’re fulfilling the new American dream complete with IPAs…

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Welcome to Your Local Brewery
Welcome to Your Local Brewery
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Published in The Squid Weekly

·Jul 18, 2021

Lessons From a Pandemic

What lessons have we learned from the pandemic? It seems near enough to the end to form some take-aways from the last year or so of absolute shit. …

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Lessons From a Pandemic
Lessons From a Pandemic
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Published in MuddyUm

·Jan 24, 2021

I am the Plant Who is Dying in the Corner

This is all your fault and I hate you — Oh, the pain! Why did you forget about me? Why did you fail to water me for three weeks when I love water? Why must you torture me? I am dying. My death is so very obvious. And I am so very far from home. I NEED SIX HOURS OF…

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I am the Plant who is Dying in the Corner
I am the Plant who is Dying in the Corner
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Published in The Squid Weekly

·Jan 8, 2021

The Completely Unrealistic, Best-Selling Robot Girlfriend

HUMOR The Completely Unrealistic, Best-Selling Robot Girlfriend Made by men, for men Imagine everything feminists are trying to dismantle in current society, and then imagine those things engineered into a robot that outsells the Bible. Because that’s exactly what we did with the Girlfriend 5000. The best thing about the Girlfriend 5000 is that she’s not…

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The Completely Unrealistic, Best-Selling Robot Girlfriend
The Completely Unrealistic, Best-Selling Robot Girlfriend
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Published in MuddyUm

·Jan 4, 2021

How To Know When To Quit Your Job

You’re the only one who doesn’t realize it’s time — When have you dealt with one too many soul-suckers whose purpose seems to be to make you die of a stress-induced aneurysm? At what point does your job cost more than you earn? Are you a burnt-out wage slave? Here are seven signs something needs to change. 1. You listen…

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Benjamin Rietema

Benjamin Rietema

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A writer from Colorado.

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