I have a love hate relationship with my phone. I have to have two because work and I hate how much these dumb bricks control my attention and my life. I yearn for the days when humans weren't so easily accessible 24:7 and for a time when getting back to someone in 1-2 weeks was perfectly normal and not considered ghosting or flaky. on the reverse side, instant access to culture, memes, movies, music yada yada but still.
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For as long as I can now remember, my integrity and my relationship to myself have steadily atrophied as a result of endless scrolling. I got a new phone recently and due to a clerical error, I was locked out of instagram. This allowed me to devote my old phone (which I now call my ābad phoneā) exclusively to social media access. My pain levels have reduced 800%.
Jan 2, 2024
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recently turned off (mostly) all immediate lockscreen notifications bc nothing is ever that important. only phone calls, facetimes, libby, and classpass allowed thru.
i also like to schedule notification summaries so my phone tells me just once a day what PI.FYI notifications iāve collected or what the Pattern app predicts heading my way, astrologically speaking. itās nice and doesnāt hold my attention for long.
pros: seeing texts pile up and feeling like most popular girl in the world, no twitchy reaction everytime phone lights up bc now i know its one of four things, incredible renewed ability to FOCUS on reading or drawing or literally anything else, not being pulled into depths of phone as much
cons: was trying to sell a chair and accidentally ignored this poor sweet girl for days, even on the nights she was free to pick up chairā¦like just forgot ab itā¦ thankfully she just showed up and conversed w my roommate like olden times and i was hollered at while watching Love is Blind
iām also switching to greyscale so it makes everything look boring. i need all the help i can get iāll be so fr
this wretched device!!!!
Feb 23, 2024
Iāve converted to a flip phone and itās honestly so fun lol. I think the way we have access to everything, and everyone, in milliseconds is rotting our brains and making us such an entitled society; entitled to other peopleās time and energy on demand, their lives, business, etc. but I also think the way we get sucked in with links from app to app, ads, videos, and doomscrolling, everything is designed to be addictive and it leads (at least for me) to less productivity and more procrastination. I think having to work just a little harder, even to do something as simple as research something, can be good for us.
So what Iāve done is essentially converted my iPhone to a wifi connected iPod touch like from the old days. Iāve left on certain apps like FaceTime, banking apps, Spotify, kindle app, I kept this one to use occasionally and all my saved recipes on my phone of course, etc. but I leave it in my room and just use it in the morning or before bed for reading or checking emails, music for working out, stuff like that, and leave it at home for everything else.
Screen time of course is way down which is nice, itās also really nice to not feel like I constantly need to be checking something, opening a message on an app, etc. I also have found so far and think it will continue to help me not spend so much money impulsively on things I donāt actually need.
Aside from all of the benefits, I think in general I just find it funny and all of my friends think itās hilarious lol. Iāll have to figure out what Iāll do for airports, maybe bring the old iPhone with me, connect to airport wifi, scan boarding passes with it. Iāll figure that out when I get there.
Feb 26, 2025
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i don't think anyone ever intends to become a recreational ornithologist. but i've noticed that it definitely creeps up on you slowly in your mid-twenties. it starts with noticing how funny pigeons are, then learning pigeon lore, and suddenly you're feeding your neighbourhood birds every morning and buying books on birds. as a child i idolised the pigeon lady in home alone 2, and i woke up this morning and realised ā i AM the pigeon lady š¦
Mar 6, 2025
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reading is a habit of building and developing your empathy and critical thinking skills. youāre forced to sit with an idea for however long you are reading it and forced to contextualise it and comprehend it within your own life and perspective. You canāt just scroll away or pause or put it on 2x speed. you have to sit with it. itās super underrated, but genuinely Iāve made this a habit for the last year and feel like a totally different person. also you come out of it having learned something new or seeing the world in a slightly new way. I literally do not see any downsides to reading. make reading cool again! also you donāt have to do it in one big block, you can space it out ā 15 mins here, 45 there ā whatever works for you!
Dec 9, 2024
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our cultural obsession with being perceived as cool is a disease. its peak capitalistic/consumerist propaganda. fuck being cool. like what you like and who cares if it's cool or not. it's tiresome and we need to leave it in 2024. literally nothing gives me the ick more than people who betray themselves in an attempt to be perceived as cool by the masses. be yourself ā even if it means you're 'uncool'.
Jan 3, 2025