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Due to the recent LastPass debacle, I decided to cycle my Gmail passwords. Boy that was a mistake!!

Gmail has decided that I can't log in with "just" my password. The new password is correct. It then asks me for my old password, which I put in correctly. Then it tells me I can't log in anyway. :(

Occasionally it will give me a QR code to scan. But I can't scan it on my phone, since my phone is logged out.

I can't log in to my recovery account, because (like a fool) I changed the passwords simultaneously. Now both are locked.

Somebody help! My account name is [redacted]@gmail.com (the recovery email should match my HN username). I'm locked out of a decade+ of correspondence, recovery, and historical data.