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2021-07-27 // day precision

A protest against eighteen months of work

Posted by Dan Cary

Original source text

Hide the Pain Harold looks at a laptop: Oh look, a protest on my last 18 months of work, then forces a smile.
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Hide the Pain Harold depicts a strained smile after a protest against a long effort. Replies turn it into a friendly aging-and-hair joke about Dan; this is not evidence of a specific protest or its duration. SOURCE DISCUSSION — transcribed original comments 2021-07-28 — Graham Pritchett: Dan Cary in 24 years? 2021-07-28 — Dan Cary — reply in Graham Pritchett’s thread: Graham Pritchett too much hair 2021-07-28 — Andy Knott: [Reaction-only comment; animation not preserved.] [Reaction GIF not preserved as animation.] Coverage: Captured count matches displayed count at selected review; hidden/deleted comments remain unknown. Thread grouping follows source thread-root links; unknown immediate reply parents are not inferred. Dates preserve the displayed day, with timezone unknown. The heading, alt text and opening historical explanation are AI-assisted editorial interpretation. The original caption, preserved image renditions and transcribed discussion are source material. Public images are metadata-stripped display derivatives of Facebook-served files; the original upload files and edit history were not established.

Topics: Early Years, July 2021, Protests, Source selection, Workforce frustration