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Welp, I guess it's time for another year

Vintage postcard showing a painting of fireworks over Coney Island
Fireworks night scene, at Coney Island, N. Y. [Card]. (1930).

Having to start a year in the middle of the British winter is obscene. Who can summon the energy or the optimism when it has been grey and dark and cold forever and it will continue to be grey and dark and cold for another forever? The global acceptance of the Gregorian calendar is just one of the many reasons European colonialism was a mistake.

But here we are, so let's do this.

So, how was 2024?

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Janina Matthewson

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