Jan 28, 2025
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Not a new rec bc I downloaded it when ayo recommended it in the 'sletter this past summer, but this app has truly changed the way I use my phone. As a very phone-addicted person, it's one of the only things that has made a tangible dent in not only my screen time but also my approach to social media. It's a simple concept (literally just wait a sec before you open instagram or w/e) but this shit really works.
Jan 11, 2024
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If you’re ~mentally ill~ like me, this (little known?) feature in the Health app is a GAME CHANGER. Scheduled med reminders and tracking, plus interaction warnings (including alcohol, nicotine, and cannabis)! And because I’m crazy, I also have as needed medications like Tylenol cataloged in this b. Like I said… game changer.
Mar 29, 2024
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A bit of a learning curve but has really helped me change how I think about budgeting + money (in a non judgmental way). love apps that don’t sell your data!
Apr 20, 2024
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Because they are so big and beautiful and will never leave us no matter how ugly we become down here.
Jan 28, 2025
“Oh, that book.” Yes.
I feel like It is thought of more often as a concept of a book/story or dismissed with a “Yeah, yeah” rather than considered an actual thing you can sit down and read. Not that it is generally despised (other than *that* scene, and yes, I completely agree), but I feel as if so few people care enough to try reading it. And with its massively popular adaptation into the 2017/2019 films, the way It as a story is viewed by the public has completely changed, and today’s tweens probably don’t even know who the director of the films is, let alone Stephen King.
Last summer, I read this book. I started it at the beach at home, but on that fateful day, the waves crashed onto my family’s belongings, taking with them a lunchbox of fruits and one flip-flop of mine (RIP). The next day, we left for a five-day trip, so I was stuck with a very old, very waterlogged, engorged, warped copy of the book. On the very long car rides over the next days, I knocked out over half of It, and spent scorching days by the pool doing the same. On the way home, I began to wrap it up.
When I got back, a hardcover was waiting in the mail for me. And with the last moments of my carefree summer days, I sat in the sunset with my brand new copy of an old story, living vicariously through 7 kids experiencing their last summer together. The red light of the fading yet radiant sunset shone onto my face, and the darkness settled in as I turned the last page.
I have never felt so many things at once. With me, I carried a palpable yet arguably unfounded sense of nostalgia endlessly afterward, and I felt as if I had lived through multiple childhoods and adulthoods in just one summer. I felt devastated and content, hopeless and happy. There is no one emotion I could tie to experiencing 1153 pages of It. It’s just It. It amazes me that on my shelf is an entire world, embossed with the proud “FROM THE LIBRARY OF,” expectant, waiting to be reopened, re-experienced, relived.
This summer will forever be engrained in my memory, and although I say this as a young person, the summer I spent in Sequoia Tree Park amidst gargantuan trees and rolling mountainscapes is the summer I grew up with seven Losers, just trying to get by and go forth with their lives.
Jan 28, 2025
Ask someone you know will know the answer; even though you can Google it, it’s nice seeing the happiness cross their face when they tell you about the things they know.
Feb 11, 2025