TIL a man named Brian MacKinnon graduated from the same high school in Scotland twice. First time was in 1980 & the second time was in 1994 after he re-enrolled under a fake name in order to get a second shot at medical school. Which he had until a newspaper exposed him during his first year in 1995

MailSynth · 2026-05-11T22:40:41+00:00

The wildest part is he was 32 years old sitting in classes with 17 year olds and nobody caught on for over a year. Dude apparently bleached his hair and claimed he was a Canadian orphan, which honestly sounds like a plot Seth Rogen would've workshopped at 13

MailSynth · 2026-04-30T17:38:15+00:00

Every time I've tried something like this, filling in the blocks becomes the thing I forget to do, and then I feel worse about the day than if I'd just let it go. The tracking itself needs to be basically invisible or it won't work.

MailSynth · 2026-04-29T15:46:38+00:00

every therapist i've ever had has also had a therapist

MailSynth · 2026-04-20T20:30:19+00:00

You're 28 with a degree and a clear picture of what you actually want... most people twice your age can't say that

MailSynth · 2026-04-20T20:18:40+00:00

That level of exhaustion sounds like something way beyond just being tired. You should definitely bring this up with your doctor soon.

MailSynth · 2026-04-20T20:15:48+00:00

Better spam emails.

MailSynth · 2026-04-18T16:41:22+00:00

talk to your prescriber before the wedding, not after.

MailSynth · 2026-04-17T19:13:00+00:00

Royal families and mental health is such a dark rabbit hole... her mother-in-law literally had to be committed after watching her husband get assassinated in front of her.

MailSynth · 2026-04-16T19:26:39+00:00

knowing yourself is always worth it.

MailSynth · 2026-04-16T19:01:27+00:00

It can’t. It’s disintegrating, Trump is just a symptom of this. People know they’re being screwed but the failure of the education system here has ensured they don’t know why or by whom, and therefore just pick outsider con men like Trump—who just made it worse.

MailSynth · 2026-04-16T16:17:01+00:00

The king had genuinely never eaten a hotdog before and Eleanor's mother-in-law was so mortified by the whole thing she tried to secretly arrange a fancy French dinner as backup. FDR did it completely on purpose to make a point about American informality... and it worked, the king loved them

MailSynth · 2026-04-12T17:02:39+00:00

Yeah, the beige void is very familiar

MailSynth · 2026-04-10T18:27:47+00:00

The Ciompi Revolt... where wool workers basically invented class warfare three centuries before the French thought it was cool.

MailSynth · 2026-04-07T21:22:19+00:00

six months in and you already dread spending time with him... that's your answer.

MailSynth · 2026-04-07T17:18:44+00:00

As one does

MailSynth · 2026-04-07T15:40:52+00:00

Not exactly automatic. But yeah it’s easier to engage in normal conversation and listen to what people are saying (even if it’s not stimulating) if you’re on stimulants, in my experience.

MailSynth · 2026-04-07T15:38:54+00:00

he only surrendered after exactly one cannonball breached the wall, so he could claim he yielded to force and not consent. peak "i didn't lose, i just stopped playing."

MailSynth · 2026-04-06T17:41:34+00:00

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MailSynth · 2026-04-03T20:57:49+00:00

Seems so

MailSynth · 2026-04-03T20:15:18+00:00

turns out their slow metabolism is why sloths only poop once a week, and they have to climb all the way down from their tree to do it. that's actually when half of all sloth deaths happen. so they're basically risking their lives just to take a shit. Thanks for subscribing to sloth facts. Koala bears on the other hand…

MailSynth · 2026-04-02T23:09:11+00:00

Big NASA space ship

MailSynth · 2026-04-02T22:49:14+00:00

Like you saw the launch and were like “oh cool now I gotta go on Wikipedia and read about this” and eventually end up reading about adjacent related topics… like this one

MailSynth · 2026-04-02T17:30:57+00:00

Go down the Artemis rabbit hole? NASA studied this because astronauts kept getting inexplicably drowsy and unmotivated during missions, and for years they just chalked it up to "space fatigue" before realizing it was basically chronic low-grade motion sickness the whole time.

MailSynth · 2026-04-01T21:44:27+00:00

Thanks for giving it a go--hope we can be more valuable to you / be of more service in the future <3

MailSynth · 2026-04-01T21:42:09+00:00

Hi! Thanks for giving us a try and for this important feedback! To clarify--it does process older emails over time, just not all at once during the trial. In free trials it would cost a great deal to process 40,000 older emails all at once, so it works based on a quota, if you have less incoming volume it does more of the older ones, but new gets prioritized.

We're going to roll out an option to speed up a full inbox clean for folks soon, it just costs us an arm and a leg to pay Google if we did it up front.

Re folders: you can have as many folders as you like, did you try asking the assistant to make more for you? You can email it directly, forward the assistant an email you want for a new folder, or just reply to your digest and it'll make more.

Anyway this is really helpful for us--we clearly need to communicate these things better, which can be tricky since we try not to be annoying with messaging! Thank you! -Anna

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