the Daily Whale - archive 2019

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Whew, this horrible year is over. Surely 2020 will be better? (Hint: I wrote this blurb in 2021.)



January February March
1 2019 Brexit deadline against the world
2 time zones hope to lose decline, conjugate
3 Rusty the Snow Alien Answer Bot: populism translate a word
4 science + engineering refrigerate impugn-ity
5 my one failure problem nirvana context context
6 my one success short running candied
7 one swallow quiz your oyster sleep management
8 five words genie and genius animism
9 Fabber J problem overload thusly
10 disorganized stolen data daylight saving time
11 New Year’s resolution no history future heedless
12 harm a knee imperfect paradox panacea
13 Xi on Taiwan car sharing Elves Chasm Gneiss
14 artist’s slump mowan and mefale mistakes in streaks
15 the dark side irresistible precision and accuracy
16 stupidly clever economists megaphone
17 nutria emergency cookies electrons spin
18 emphatic notwithstanding special cases
19 puns of steel imprecise world total ignorance
20 proverbs garbage collector dispositive 1
21 sports progress clearing ice dispositive 2
22 experience adults have left dirt diffuses
23 don’t give up! perdition, perdition yes
24 securitize your future 1 wishful thinking easily surprised 1
25 securitize your future 2 no comment easily surprised 2
26 big words turn your back freedom of speech
27 scale quiz future-proof freedom of thought
28 procritic realize dreams idea tensegrity
29 disclaimer details and outline
30 buzzword use details
31 recognition Brexit deadline
 
April May June
1 confidence compare and contrast unstable
2 Huawei security midnight snack future paperwork
3 every word true attention stylized
4 Pence’s moonshot backup plan genre 1
5 standard of living technical difficulties genre 2
6 hot-cold crossover surprise genre 3
7 down to a science Admiral Obvious true enough
8 never said before clickbait skepticism
9 founded bonding experience MVP
10 our high standards suspicion good burn
11 publicists violent relaxation justification
12 Europeans disagree ignorance free-for-all
13 seriousness pundit translation a seed hatching
14 software bugs scalable easy vs. hard
15 free love Killing horizon status discrimination
16 mu MTBS spike train
17 Notre Dame aphorism quiz leafblower of fate
18 can’t predict rush hour make the most
19 obsession goes wrong extrapolation
20 rising star both or neither the more you know
21 sharp words ductile oxygen 1
22 learn from failure general intelligence oxygen 2
23 cartoon characters the facts change piracy/privacy
24 big ideas human-like irrational politics
25 working hypothesis Gnirut Test randomness
26 Unready Britain get to play Miss Pelling
27 spin sense of innocence temptation
28 pathbreaking nothing imaginary friend
29 the masters’ works European Parliament correct procedure
30 engraved urn lie in state Newspeak
31 ruination
 
July August September
1 don’t look work ethic guarantor
2 the will state governor prorogation
3 right sometimes heritage wifebeater
4 safe haven phone calls truth quiz
5 perfect reliability necessity run from truth
6 flu gas help others corporate tax
7 meta-meta-rule Giffen real estate motivation
8 past perorations no mistakes my pronoun
9 above average Fanny Price moral courage
10 paperwork Mansfield Park correction
11 hearing voices ambiguity nonlethal apocalypse
12 bounded earth listen to me appalling
13 boundless imagination Soylent Green approximation
14 immigration right-of-way 1 no doubt ethics of ethics
15 immigration right-of-way 2 soap and water ingenuity
16 door Hong Kong 1 Joyville
17 irretrievable Hong Kong 2 wrong enough
18 fix a mistake Hong Kong 3 draw conclusions
19 safe city Hong Kong 4 short on brevity
20 one small step solution pledge of legions
21 publican buy Greenland imperfect
22 inevitable ability global conspiracy
23 there yet quiz Hong Kong 5 more to Hong Kong
24 long term goals Hong Kong 6 know the truth
25 has no point necessity SDG
26 Hong Kong protests idiots artistic conclusions
27 Operation Sentinel your way everything nothing
28 perseverance Anaximander oldest trick
29 mysteries perfectionism mesophone
30 litter The New Democracy the Trumpets
31 homogenization chaos and confusion
 
October November December
1 interpreting Trump coin vs. hydra no regret
2 Trump coverup dishabille-ity ignorance
3 nuclear winter green cheese 1 understand a poem
4 geoengineering green cheese 2 red edge
5 so stupid rationalize now the truth
6 ineffable antitrust inevitable
7 quantum mechanics subtract 1% impeachment 1
8 reliability technology, ideology impeachment 2
9 Ecuador make doom fun impeachment 3
10 expectations official vagueness impeachment 4
11 Parkinson’s Law double standard impeachment 5
12 thumb twiddling spaceport in good company
13 East Sea denotation spiraling
14 exceptional best polity water cooler
15 cast iron skillet interview pie in the sky
16 Chairman Mao exemplary Brexit
17 President Xi strategic concepts uncategorized
18 impending doom unprecedented change loosening the sky
19 teetotalers air quotes Double Irish
20 in the Shambles window of opportunity impeachment hearings
21 this time do your best invalidate patents
22 happy metametadata indifference
23 disembungulation House of Windsor gambling future
24 all the same opacity down pillows
25 Syria trust spam religion
26 virtuosity boiling hot possible proof
27 the wrong thing hypochondria corporatese
28 demagoguery needle with haystack late-stage capitalism
29 authority figure skulduggery remain aware
30 vice presidents paradox pollen
31 succeed me Marxism
 

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