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Hurkle-Durkle Is the New Way to Self-Care Ourselves to Death
Tracey Emin’s 1998 piece My Bed, on display at Christie’s on June 27, 2014, in London, England. (Rob Stothard via Getty Images)
Thanks to the internet, there are fancy names for old-fashioned laziness.
By Suzy Weiss
03.20.24 — Culture and Ideas
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Every few years, the algorithm latches on to a new justification for doing absolutely nothing. 

Sometime this winter, I noticed videos about bed rot, which is what it sounds like: plonking down in bed indefinitely. Like most people, I didn’t need an instructional video to teach me about lying down. My bedroom is tiny; it basically just fits a bed, on pur…

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Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss is a co-founder and reporter for The Free Press. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.
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