“THE NEWSLETTER IS BACK?!?!”

Yea <3

“WHATS NEW?!?!??!”

i have been working on reducing my social media use for a while now! i kinda realized that in a lot of ways, using social media is a net negative for me. gets my mood down more often than it stays the same. But also its my WORK!!! so i never took the steps to reduce it. anyway at some point in march i decided to go down a rabbit hole of “how do i stop being addicted to social media” lol. a lot of the advice i saw was about not using your phone as much, but i dont use my phone for social media!!! i use my computer!!! which im on all the time!!! for other things!!! i literally cannot stop using it thats how i work

anyway i found out about ActivityWatch. it’s an app on your computer that logs how much time you spend on software/websites/whatever. wanted to use it for a week to have a baseline of how long i spend on social media, but after two days the number of hours was so big i immediately TOOK ACTION!!!!

anyway i reduced my social media usage from 4+hours a day to less than 40mn and successfully have managed to stay under that cap for two weeks now. please clap

“COOL!!! WHAT DO YOU DO WITH ALL THIS FREE TIME?!?”

see thats the hard part. stopping social media is relatively easy, all things considered. but then theres the Nothing. and the Nothing makes you go. well perhaps i could fill the nothing with social mediaAND THATS HOW IT GETS YOU!!!!!!!!!

anyway so far ive been working a tiny bit more. walking a tiny bit more. playing games a tiny bit more. watching movies a tiny bit more. and reading a LOOOOOOOT

the Nothing is an endless struggle. but we move on. and now i dont get psychic attacked by The Medias anymore

“THAT’S GREAT! HOW’S YOUR NEXT GAME TRUTH SCRAPPER GOING?”

pretty good! i got a community manager and hes great and we’re making a monthly podcast together where we chat about the development and how it’s going. here’s the first episode. second episode will drop in the next couple of days probably! theyre fun to make! i do love to yap!!! like and subscribe

“MARVELOUS! ARE YOU DOING ANYTHING FUN SOON?”

I will be in Japan for a couple weeks in late may/early june! I’ll be there for Bitsummit (not tabling, just walking around) so keep an eye out if you’re in Kyoto I guess??? for a random adrienne sighting??? ill also be in tokyo after so keep another eye out??? if you follow me on insta i Will post stories of my travels (as i often do when i travel. thats all i use stories for tbh)

also it might mean the next newsletter might be a tiny bit late until i come back. but i know you’ll be fine. (you nod. you look up at me. i have what you’d call a Secret Smile on)

“WONDERFUL! ANYTHING ELSE COOL?”

listen. i want to thank you for reading this far. i appreciate it. youre reading the newsletter. for realsies. with your eyes. so. you get to know a lovely thing.

new ISAT plushies will be dropping early this month. i wonder who it will be…

Listening: ca pik un peu quand meme

Watching: samuel on netflix was such a delightful show. you gotta watch it its so fun and nice

Reading: SO MANY!!!! my fav lately has been the body keeps the score by bessel van der kolk. incredible book on how mental trauma impacts our bodies

Playing: i went back to using my playdate, specifically a fool’s errand. i love you playdate