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Time to read Dorian Lynskey’s cultural biography of Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Ministry of Truth, and to defriend Siri.

Allen took immediately to Facebook: “Largest mass shooting in US History and his first response is to thank himself. If you are voting for him, please defriend me. I don’t want to be friends with someone that supports this. #sorrynotsorry.”

She drew the line when she caught him with someone else and had her friends defriend him on social media, with which we happily complied.

So: Tell him goodbye, defriend him on social media, delete his number, tell his mom you’re still extremely fond of her and you’d like to schedule a catching-up lunch sometime in the far-distant future, and focus on your friends who haven’t recently broken your heart.

I’m all for unsubscribing to newsletters... but I don’t think I’m ready to defriend nonessential friends.