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Part of my resolutions (posted on access lock) for this year was figuring out a better balance of not reflexively checking SM as much since I genuinely enjoyed staying offline for a week back in November (and it's starting to become a problem again with me being active on bsky).

Different methods work for different people - setting timers for limited time on SM doesn't really work for my brain since sometimes i actually do need to break it to find a reference pic. but i did find a cool firefox extension that makes the browser all greyscale!

(having only firefox be greyscale is perfect since it lets me draw and read on the laptop uninterrupted, which I don't mind; it was only the internet that was the issue. it doesn't stop you from looking at the sites but it makes them comparatively less interesting; I already find myself picking at the reading list more in the 30 minutes of trying it out. smaller frictions rather than going cold turkey, etc.)

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"Perhaps it would be better, then, to say that those who work the edge between what can and can’t be said do not escape from shame but turn toward it and engage with it. They wrestle with it; they try to change its face; they kill it in one form so as to resurrect it in another. Hermes is a shameless speaker in the Hymn, but that poem regularly refers to him as the Slayer of Argus, as if to remind us that he doesn’t simply avoid shame, he faces it and fights it if he has to."

- Trickster Makes the World