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   Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Aug-2025 02:22:14 JST Sandra

   An I’ve said before, when I went dumbphone in 2017, to my own surprise I got way less annoyed at other people being on their phone. I just felt free and happy and like “oh they wanna be connected to people or info or culture they care about, how nice”.

   But when I then went anti glowy screen in 2025, that annoyance at people being on their phone returned a hundredfold. I just want to put a lead shield over every reels-scrolling knucklescraper who has brightness on full blast. I long for a cityscape that isn’t a visual loudness competition. I hate phones and I hate seeing other people’s phones.

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     Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Aug-2025 02:22:13 JST Sandra

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     There is a huge nostalgia component to my phone-hatred but I don’t know what’s chicken and what’s egg there.

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     petes_bread_eqn_xls (petes_bread_eqn_xls@mastodo.neoliber.al)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Aug-2025 02:22:48 JST petes_bread_eqn_xls

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     @Sandra I miss a lot of technology being optional. When nobody expected you to have Google/Apple, then you could have a smartphone that ran PalmOS, or WinCE, or a feature phone… whatever worked for you.

     Nowadays, for lots of technology, not just smartphones, we simply don’t have any choice.

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