Slow the Scroll
1 Apr 2026 18:20![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyberneticdryadI'm easing into it today, but I decided to firm up my overall goal to have less mindless screen time. I found a work around for ScreenZen to kind of make it work on Firefox, and I'm planning on logging out of my worst offender accounts (tumblr, pinterest) to add an extra step to engaging with them. My brain hates extra steps (even just... having to open a water bottle versus drinking from a straw), so I think it'll help.
My goal this month is to reduce my daily screen time on my offender apps and to be more mindful about why I'm wanting to engage which is usually because I want input or because I want to hunt or ponder. Input is easy to replace because I know more options for that off hand. It's just replace scrolling with reading or sudoku or easy fiber arts. The hunting/pondering is harder. Sometimes I scroll pinterest for the same reason I thrift—I'm looking for ideas and options and possibilities—and I'll need to do some brainstorming for alternatives. Maybe that in itself is the alternative to start.
For an April Fools, things were pretty low key. Tumblr's snek was fun to play a bit of, and Chicken Smoothie briefly turning into Rat Shake and all of the monthly pets starting as rats was fun. I mostly ran errands and tried to get caught up on housework after a lazy birthday weekend and with oncoming body things. I actually called off some of our weekend plans because I started feeling fatigued, but I'm pleased we still got to go to the Daffodil Festival (and early tulip fest with how warm the spring has been), and my partner got me some goodies while we were there.
Hopefully this month will be a kind of reset, maybe a good way to kick off a new year of being alive.
My goal this month is to reduce my daily screen time on my offender apps and to be more mindful about why I'm wanting to engage which is usually because I want input or because I want to hunt or ponder. Input is easy to replace because I know more options for that off hand. It's just replace scrolling with reading or sudoku or easy fiber arts. The hunting/pondering is harder. Sometimes I scroll pinterest for the same reason I thrift—I'm looking for ideas and options and possibilities—and I'll need to do some brainstorming for alternatives. Maybe that in itself is the alternative to start.
For an April Fools, things were pretty low key. Tumblr's snek was fun to play a bit of, and Chicken Smoothie briefly turning into Rat Shake and all of the monthly pets starting as rats was fun. I mostly ran errands and tried to get caught up on housework after a lazy birthday weekend and with oncoming body things. I actually called off some of our weekend plans because I started feeling fatigued, but I'm pleased we still got to go to the Daffodil Festival (and early tulip fest with how warm the spring has been), and my partner got me some goodies while we were there.
Hopefully this month will be a kind of reset, maybe a good way to kick off a new year of being alive.
