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MAKE COMPUTERS FUN AGAIN
ok so listen because this is crazy - tomorrow i am doing a live session called MAKE COMPUTERS FUN AGAIN with my besties over at aka and .
there are, at the time of this writing, 757 people registered.
WHAT THE FELL (fuck+hell)
i cann...
maybe forgiving others has nothing to do with them
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Growing up, I’d make my parents say sorry to each other whenever they were fighting.
Then I’d check to confirm they’d done it.
“Did you say sorry?” I’d ask.
“Yes.”
“Did Dad say sorry?”
“Yes.”
“Are you guys still fighting?”
Some...
everything is changing, how are you?
freewrite for substack
Alex Dobrenko
Aug 7, 2026
Homeroom 213
ONE- not wanting things to be so polished anymore
i feel like everything has become too polished online? like when i think about publishing something on...
i tried making a game with ai and then this happened
i have a confession: I’ve been using ai a lot. Maybe this isn’t even a confession since i kind of talked about it already and also because i’ve literally already written a post with a header titled ‘confession pt 2’, but still.
it feels l...
WAKE UP BABIES!!!
Wake up babies, it’s go time!
No, I don’t know what that means, but i think you do…
don’t you?
We know
so much more
than we know,
ya know?
a story
“You guys know how to drive this thing, right?”
“YEA” my kids scream, pudgy h...
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