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 [Forth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)) 😏)
 
-You can follow my progress, as well as, as well as my comical struggles with maintaining
-mental health as a rogue knowledge worker in a cyberpunk dystopia, and various other
-trials'n'tribulations, on [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@unspeaker).
+You can follow my progress, my tragicomical struggles with maintaining
+mental health as a rogue knowledge worker in a cyberpunk dystopia, and various
+other trials'n'tribulations, on [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@unspeaker).
 
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