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Cake day: June 12th, 2025

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  • buddy bootstraps

    it’s nothing to do with willpower in the year-long run - that’s the rationalization of “they do it to themselves, beats me”

    it’s all to do with the habits and compensations of unfulfilled life situations. unsatisfied life situations will lead to screen abuse like this. it’s adding weight on my autistic loner ass, no amount of going out to meet people and pet dogs and willpowering through habits changes the grooves of that river. i’ve reached out to have a psychologist to analyze this in the meantime since writing: they immediatly bring up acceptance for the issue and begin by (with me) breaking down the needs involved with my screentime.

    • calendar • notebooks, quick-info, diary • creative outlet notebook

    then the chats and porn and videogames which are a longer haul to breakdown.

    none of this willpowering thru- just writing that down to anyone stuck believing the advice of “just pull yourself up by the bootstraps.”

    thank you, i got irritated, but make this constructive














  • yeah okay well your watchparties are increasingly going to get worse until you too hit your threshold: such is the business.

    the rest of the world uses a VPN like MullvadVPN and qBittorrent to “digitally back up media we’ve already bought”. without ads, in better quality, without telemetry, without serfdom-subscriptions. you may like AI offloading your decisionmaking, but keep doing it and you will be codependent on authority for choosing anything in life. what do you want in a cozy moment away from work? it frustrates me to read people are too anxioys to begin to do otherwise and accept the way things are. that’s a rant in return

    have a nice day, i won’t make this into a chain of replies.