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💩 A poopy phone screen might not be the worst thing to happen when you check your insta on the toilet, a new study warns. US researchers surveyed 125 adults, finding those who take their phone to the dunny spend significantly more time there, and are 46% more likely to have haemorrhoids

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www.scimex.org · EXPERT REACTION: Scrolling on the toilet linked to haemorrhoids
Right next to the Nordstrom flagship store on Billionaires' Row — looking up at the Central Park Tower, the tallest residential building in NYC, almost brushing the clouds.
The tower climbs over 1,500 feet into the sky. Built for the 0.01%, invisible to the rest of us ...
It’s impressive, no doubt. But thinking about the lives up there — in luxury pods stacked above the city — feels less like awe, more like alienation.
A monument not to vision, but to excess. 🏙️💸
[Fujifilm XT-3 - Tamron 17-70, 17mm F/4.0 ISO: 160]

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PsyPost: Dopamine and social media: Why you can’t stop scrolling, according to neuroscience. “That satisfying feeling after doomscrolling through endless TikTok videos or impulsively shopping online mimics the relief of scratching an itch. This is dopamine at work — a brain chemical (neurotransmitter) responsible for feelings of reward and accomplishment. Whether indulging in viral videos […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/17/dopamine-and-social-media-why-you-cant-stop-scrolling-according-to-neuroscience-psypost/

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Before, it was drinking and reading the news and spiraling away from friends and family into hopelessness. Now the outlook is objectively more bleak! But the response can't be the same.

I see myself replacing #drinking with #scrolling and reading comments sections and hot take after hot take as if I'm going to find the final one that will fix me.

Current safety rails for me - blocking software (ColdTurkey is my favorite), NO BROWSERS on my phone, journaling, trying to hang out with PEOPLE IRL

CSS: How to Indicate Container Overflow, When There Is Overflow:

You have a block of text that you can’t shorten and yet that you don't want to give too much space, so as not to draw attention away from other content. It’s useful metadata that you like to show. On a stopgap option using scroll-driven animations.

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meiert.comCSS: How to Indicate Container Overflow, When There Is Overflow · Jens Oliver Meiert
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