I bought two hair combs. 
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Glad the little one is settling in, but no pics?
Aww, poor thing! It does sound like he really wants a home, and has just figured out that youāre a safe person. I hope everything works out in the long term, and Iād love to see pics if you end up getting any!
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I love this title >_< Agree with above, sounds like bro is settling in really well!
I also like your (new?) favicon. Reminds me of the raspberry pi logo which I happen to have open in another tab
I had a major screen time setback yesterday and squandered almost the entire day on Redditā¦ A quick blog post about how I plan to deal with this particular issue going forward.
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The Weekly Wrap Up is posted! Links this week include a story about carnivorous squirrels, the possibility of the whole internet collapsing and an introduction to the Mystery Flesh Pit National Park. I met up with friends to play a board game, met up with a different friend to check out some Ghanaian food and went by myself to a pop-up classic video game arcade. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.
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The book about Marie Antoinette and fashion sounds interesting! Iām intrigued by the Mystery Flesh Pit National parkā¦ I love this kind of thing.
yes, YESSSS more people into mystery flesh pit national park I LOVE IT!!! i also recommend Happy Meat Farms though itās a bit more explicit in its āhorrorā and itās an ARG as well with a site and youtube channel too
Did anyone here play The Longing? I see that it has very good steam reviews, but itās not really clicking with me so far.
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I love that thereās a dermatologist/arcade combination. My late father-in-law was a country family practice doctor, and always imagined a clinic/bait shop combination (because it might actually get people in for primary care!)
I feel this in my bones. I had the old alcohol problem, and itās kind of the same - the danger is when youāre mentally worn out and willpower is all used up (itās a finite resource). Also the carousel of doing well, being proud of myself, then crashing out and feeling physically ill from a dumb internet bingeā¦ it sucks.
I do get some value from a couple subreddits but Iāve made that a computer thing, not a phone thing, with a lot of blocking software because my willpower runs out after teaching kids all day. In the low-effort world - cross-stitch is really easy and helpful when I want to chill with brain off, and I often pair it with videos from folkstreams which are mostly older documentaries with no jumpscares or ads or over-sensationalism. Sometimes I play Simonās puzzles while I watch them, too. Iām trying to get more into reading graphic novels from the library, but sometimes just flipping through pages is too much when my brain is proper cooked.
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Thank you for sharing what works for you! Cross-stitch would definitely be up my alley, and itās something Iāve thought about trying in the past. I think anything where I can just engage my hands in a seated activity and mostly switch off my brain while listening to background music will work when Iām mentally/physically tapped out.
What blocking software are you using? Iāve been using LeechBlock for Reddit on my computer, but it has felt a little pointless thus far, as itās so easy to overrideā¦ I waste less time on Reddit when Iām on my computer than I do when the app is on my phone, but itās still occasionally a problem for me if I get stuck in a lengthy back and forth with someone. I need something that I canāt override, or something that will force me to enter a password before I can override it. I find it so infuriating that certain social media platforms have such a grip on me, to the point where all of this stuff is necessaryā¦ Reddit isnāt even all that great. 
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if it helps for mobile, i use screenzen :] it has some good parameters for limiting access such as being forced to wait a certain amount of minutes to access the settings page in the first place (which is where you can bypass stuff, iāve found even putting 5 minute waiting timers on stuff annoys me enough to go do other things)
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I caved and bought cold turkey for my mac and it was awesome. It just doesnāt have Linux compatibility so Iām back to Leechblock 
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omg we have the same keyboard :D pink is a pleasing colour, thatās a nice way to put it
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yaaas pink is great!!
btw, how does it feel to type on that keyboard ^^ how does the key travel feel like, what noise it makes. does it feel mushy, or firm?
im sorry i could talk about keyboards for like foreverrr.
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it is tactile in the way a lenovo thinkpad keyboard is. i think thatās what it reminds me of most. so iām quite happy with it. given they are chiclet keys iām guessing scissor switches, which are usually something iām always a fan of more or less when they are tactile
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I enjoyed reading about the podcast highlights. I canāt believe North Dakota has such a progressive law regarding pharmacy ownership. I think itās awesome, but not the state I would expect something like that from!
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