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#distractions โ€” Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #distractions, aggregated by home.social.

  1. #MissKittyRaw It's all raw. About a week and a half late on #estrogen shot again. I have not seen a #doctor in 9 months. I have been out there. But I got disconnected from a lot of noise. A lot. #Isolation, if survived, is the beginning of the making of #unbreakable. Events cannot be #distractions.

  2. "#Research shows that constant #distractions take a major toll on productivity and #wellbeing, and this has worsened over the past two decades. In fact, we spend an average of 47 seconds on a screen before shifting our attention, down from two-and-a-half minutes in 2004.

    In the age of constant notifications from our phones, computers and watches, some experts fear that our growing inability to focus is leaving us vulnerable to mis- and #disinformation."

  3. AV Club: U.S. government registers โ€œaliens.govโ€ domain, which is pretty good as distractions go. โ€œShout-out today to whichever (presumably well-stocked) portion of the Trump administration works to distract the American public from the shit all their coworkers get up to on a daily basis, because theyโ€™ve worked up a doozy this week: Officially registeringโ€”per 404 Media, and sites that track [โ€ฆ]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/19/av-club-u-s-government-registers-aliens-gov-domain-which-is-pretty-good-as-distractions-go/
  4. AV Club: U.S. government registers โ€œaliens.govโ€ domain, which is pretty good as distractions go. โ€œShout-out today to whichever (presumably well-stocked) portion of the Trump administration works to distract the American public from the shit all their coworkers get up to on a daily basis, because theyโ€™ve worked up a doozy this week: Officially registeringโ€”per 404 Media, and sites that track [โ€ฆ]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/19/av-club-u-s-government-registers-aliens-gov-domain-which-is-pretty-good-as-distractions-go/
  5. AV Club: U.S. government registers โ€œaliens.govโ€ domain, which is pretty good as distractions go. โ€œShout-out today to whichever (presumably well-stocked) portion of the Trump administration works to distract the American public from the shit all their coworkers get up to on a daily basis, because theyโ€™ve worked up a doozy this week: Officially registeringโ€”per 404 Media, and sites that track [โ€ฆ]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/19/av-club-u-s-government-registers-aliens-gov-domain-which-is-pretty-good-as-distractions-go/
  6. AV Club: U.S. government registers โ€œaliens.govโ€ domain, which is pretty good as distractions go. โ€œShout-out today to whichever (presumably well-stocked) portion of the Trump administration works to distract the American public from the shit all their coworkers get up to on a daily basis, because theyโ€™ve worked up a doozy this week: Officially registeringโ€”per 404 Media, and sites that track [โ€ฆ]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/19/av-club-u-s-government-registers-aliens-gov-domain-which-is-pretty-good-as-distractions-go/
  7. ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ Behold! The Eon Teamโ€™s groundbreaking achievement: a digital fly! Just what the tech world neededโ€”more buzzing #distractions and virtual insect swatting. ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ” But don't worry, it's a "work-in-progress," much like their promise of a virtual human mind. ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿง 
    eon.systems/updates/embodied-b #EonTeam #DigitalFly #TechInnovation #VirtualInsects #HackerNews #ngated

  8. ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ Behold! The Eon Teamโ€™s groundbreaking achievement: a digital fly! Just what the tech world neededโ€”more buzzing #distractions and virtual insect swatting. ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ” But don't worry, it's a "work-in-progress," much like their promise of a virtual human mind. ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿง 
    eon.systems/updates/embodied-b #EonTeam #DigitalFly #TechInnovation #VirtualInsects #HackerNews #ngated

  9. ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ Behold! The Eon Teamโ€™s groundbreaking achievement: a digital fly! Just what the tech world neededโ€”more buzzing #distractions and virtual insect swatting. ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ” But don't worry, it's a "work-in-progress," much like their promise of a virtual human mind. ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿง 
    eon.systems/updates/embodied-b #EonTeam #DigitalFly #TechInnovation #VirtualInsects #HackerNews #ngated

  10. ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ Behold! The Eon Teamโ€™s groundbreaking achievement: a digital fly! Just what the tech world neededโ€”more buzzing #distractions and virtual insect swatting. ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ” But don't worry, it's a "work-in-progress," much like their promise of a virtual human mind. ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿง 
    eon.systems/updates/embodied-b #EonTeam #DigitalFly #TechInnovation #VirtualInsects #HackerNews #ngated

  11. ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ Behold! The Eon Teamโ€™s groundbreaking achievement: a digital fly! Just what the tech world neededโ€”more buzzing #distractions and virtual insect swatting. ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ” But don't worry, it's a "work-in-progress," much like their promise of a virtual human mind. ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿง 
    eon.systems/updates/embodied-b #EonTeam #DigitalFly #TechInnovation #VirtualInsects #HackerNews #ngated

  12. ๐Ÿšจ Breaking news: the New York Times has transformed into a digital landfill, offering a 49MB buffet of #distractions for your #bandwidth delight ๐Ÿฝ๏ธ. For those who crave a workout in futility, there's nothing like attempting to load this bloated behemoth just to read four headlines ๐Ÿ“‰.
    thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit #digitallandfill #bloat #NewYorkTimes #newsheadlines #HackerNews #ngated

  13. ๐Ÿšจ Breaking news: the New York Times has transformed into a digital landfill, offering a 49MB buffet of #distractions for your #bandwidth delight ๐Ÿฝ๏ธ. For those who crave a workout in futility, there's nothing like attempting to load this bloated behemoth just to read four headlines ๐Ÿ“‰.
    thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit #digitallandfill #bloat #NewYorkTimes #newsheadlines #HackerNews #ngated

  14. ๐Ÿšจ Breaking news: the New York Times has transformed into a digital landfill, offering a 49MB buffet of #distractions for your #bandwidth delight ๐Ÿฝ๏ธ. For those who crave a workout in futility, there's nothing like attempting to load this bloated behemoth just to read four headlines ๐Ÿ“‰.
    thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit #digitallandfill #bloat #NewYorkTimes #newsheadlines #HackerNews #ngated

  15. ๐Ÿšจ Breaking news: the New York Times has transformed into a digital landfill, offering a 49MB buffet of #distractions for your #bandwidth delight ๐Ÿฝ๏ธ. For those who crave a workout in futility, there's nothing like attempting to load this bloated behemoth just to read four headlines ๐Ÿ“‰.
    thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit #digitallandfill #bloat #NewYorkTimes #newsheadlines #HackerNews #ngated

  16. Quote of the day, 11 March: Blessed Marie-Eugรจne

    โ€œWhat happens is that my intellect is suddenly seized by things sometimes so trivial that at other times I would laugh about them. The devil makes the soul upset in every way he wants and shackles it there without its being master of itself or able to think of anything else than the absurdities he represents to itโ€ฆโ€
    (St. Teresa of Avila, The Book of Her Life, 30:11).

    It is natural enough that the devil should use his great power and take advantage of the relative weakness of beginners in prayer, to stop them in their journey towards God by causing in them, as far as he is able, as much dryness and distraction as he can. That he thus intervenesโ€”often successfullyโ€”in the prayer of beginners seems certain; and, although using on them much more benign procedures than on Saint Teresa, these are probably much more effective.

    Blessed Marie-Eugรจne of the Child Jesus

    Chapter VI, Distractions and dryness

    Note: Blessed Marie-Eugรจne of the Child Jesus made his first religious profession on 11 March 1923.

    Marie-Eugรจne de lโ€™Enfant-Jรฉsus & Doran V 1990, I Want to See God, Christian Classics, Allen, Texas.

    Featured image: Father Marie-Eugรจne of the Child Jesus. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites (by permission)

    #BlessedMarieEugeneOfTheChildJesus #distractions #prayer #religiousProfession #StTeresaOfAvila
  17. Lifehacker: How to Manage Your Increasingly Desperate App Notifications. โ€œAccording to a 2025 analysis from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, news publishers have increasingly relied on push notifications to reach their audiences, as a way to avoid relying too much on platforms like Google or social media apps. However, this bid for direct attention comes at a costโ€”and in the [โ€ฆ]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/03/lifehacker-how-to-manage-your-increasingly-desperate-app-notifications/
  18. [Me waking to find we're at war with Iran]: "Wow, there must be some nuclear-grade secrets in those Epstein files."

    #HowItsGoing
    #Distractions
    #StupidestTimeline

  19. Being distracted

    I've had moments where I could not stop writing blog posts. Where I had all these ideas, all this inspiration and energy... Where I could keep typing and keep thinking of new topics. And then there are moments where I struggle to focus on writing. Where I can't think of any topics that seem interesting enough. Where I feel I keep repeating myself. Where I wonder if people would really be interested in all the things that my brain thinks of and deals with. [โ€ฆ]

    cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/

  20. ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ”Š Breaking News: Earthlings can now bother astronauts with #amateur #radio, because they clearly need more #distractions while orbiting the planet at 17,500 mph. ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ๐Ÿš€ Forget sending emails, just scream into the void for #cosmic #customer serviceโ€”your call is important to us! ๐Ÿ“ž๐ŸŒŒ
    ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html #space #communication #astronaut #service #HackerNews #ngated

  21. The dead milkmen - swordfish

    youtube.com/watch?v=mlVNW-s7bvM

    Some people believe in astrology
    Others believe in technology
    Some people believe in all those "ologies"
    But I believe in swordfish

    #DeadMilkmen #Swordfish #Punk #Faith #Religion #Distractions

  22. There is a #phenomenon where a person successful in one area decides to focus their #energies on an unrelated area, to the detriment of their more successful work.

    Michael Jordan, a #basketball wizard, decided to try to become a professional #baseball player. He (to use a technical term) #sucked at it.

    After the incredible success of the single "Jump" from the 1984 #album, Eddie van Halen became obsessed with adding more synthesizer to Van Halen's music. The reality he never accepted: nobody ever went to a #concert to watch Eddie van Halen play #keyboards.

    Why do I bring this up? Because it's the closest thing I can think of to explain the way that Mozilla has behaved for years. #Mozilla had #Firefox, a great, freedom-and-privacy-respecting web #browser used by millions of people. Instead of focusing on that, they pissed away engineering time, money, and #users by chasing #irrelevant crap.

    Nobody ever used Firefox or supported Mozilla to build an encrypted file transfer service.
    Or to become just another player in the VPN market.
    Or to build a VR browser.
    Or a reading list manager.
    Or an IoT device manager.
    Or a Macromedia / Adobe Flash clone.
    Or authentication service.
    Or geolocation service.
    #AI #junk.
    Voice recognition.
    Journalism.
    Built-in #ads.
    Search engine.

    Van Halen continued to be #successful despite Eddie's #synthesizer obsession, not because of it.

    If Mozilla continues, it will be despite their #distractions, not because of them.

    #VanHalen #Jump #why

  23. There is a #phenomenon where a person successful in one area decides to focus their #energies on an unrelated area, to the detriment of their more successful work.

    Michael Jordan, a #basketball wizard, decided to try to become a professional #baseball player. He (to use a technical term) #sucked at it.

    After the incredible success of the single "Jump" from the 1984 #album, Eddie van Halen became obsessed with adding more synthesizer to Van Halen's music. The reality he never accepted: nobody ever went to a #concert to watch Eddie van Halen play #keyboards.

    Why do I bring this up? Because it's the closest thing I can think of to explain the way that Mozilla has behaved for years. #Mozilla had #Firefox, a great, freedom-and-privacy-respecting web #browser used by millions of people. Instead of focusing on that, they pissed away engineering time, money, and #users by chasing #irrelevant crap.

    Nobody ever used Firefox or supported Mozilla to build an encrypted file transfer service.
    Or to become just another player in the VPN market.
    Or to build a VR browser.
    Or a reading list manager.
    Or an IoT device manager.
    Or a Macromedia / Adobe Flash clone.
    Or authentication service.
    Or geolocation service.
    #AI #junk.
    Voice recognition.
    Journalism.
    Built-in #ads.
    Search engine.

    Van Halen continued to be #successful despite Eddie's #synthesizer obsession, not because of it.

    If Mozilla continues, it will be despite their #distractions, not because of them.

    #VanHalen #Jump #why

  24. There is a #phenomenon where a person successful in one area decides to focus their #energies on an unrelated area, to the detriment of their more successful work.

    Michael Jordan, a #basketball wizard, decided to try to become a professional #baseball player. He (to use a technical term) #sucked at it.

    After the incredible success of the single "Jump" from the 1984 #album, Eddie van Halen became obsessed with adding more synthesizer to Van Halen's music. The reality he never accepted: nobody ever went to a #concert to watch Eddie van Halen play #keyboards.

    Why do I bring this up? Because it's the closest thing I can think of to explain the way that Mozilla has behaved for years. #Mozilla had #Firefox, a great, freedom-and-privacy-respecting web #browser used by millions of people. Instead of focusing on that, they pissed away engineering time, money, and #users by chasing #irrelevant crap.

    Nobody ever used Firefox or supported Mozilla to build an encrypted file transfer service.
    Or to become just another player in the VPN market.
    Or to build a VR browser.
    Or a reading list manager.
    Or an IoT device manager.
    Or a Macromedia / Adobe Flash clone.
    Or authentication service.
    Or geolocation service.
    #AI #junk.
    Voice recognition.
    Journalism.
    Built-in #ads.
    Search engine.

    Van Halen continued to be #successful despite Eddie's #synthesizer obsession, not because of it.

    If Mozilla continues, it will be despite their #distractions, not because of them.

    #VanHalen #Jump #why

  25. There is a #phenomenon where a person successful in one area decides to focus their #energies on an unrelated area, to the detriment of their more successful work.

    Michael Jordan, a #basketball wizard, decided to try to become a professional #baseball player. He (to use a technical term) #sucked at it.

    After the incredible success of the single "Jump" from the 1984 #album, Eddie van Halen became obsessed with adding more synthesizer to Van Halen's music. The reality he never accepted: nobody ever went to a #concert to watch Eddie van Halen play #keyboards.

    Why do I bring this up? Because it's the closest thing I can think of to explain the way that Mozilla has behaved for years. #Mozilla had #Firefox, a great, freedom-and-privacy-respecting web #browser used by millions of people. Instead of focusing on that, they pissed away engineering time, money, and #users by chasing #irrelevant crap.

    Nobody ever used Firefox or supported Mozilla to build an encrypted file transfer service.
    Or to become just another player in the VPN market.
    Or to build a VR browser.
    Or a reading list manager.
    Or an IoT device manager.
    Or a Macromedia / Adobe Flash clone.
    Or authentication service.
    Or geolocation service.
    #AI #junk.
    Voice recognition.
    Journalism.
    Built-in #ads.
    Search engine.

    Van Halen continued to be #successful despite Eddie's #synthesizer obsession, not because of it.

    If Mozilla continues, it will be despite their #distractions, not because of them.

    #VanHalen #Jump #why

  26. There is a #phenomenon where a person successful in one area decides to focus their #energies on an unrelated area, to the detriment of their more successful work.

    Michael Jordan, a #basketball wizard, decided to try to become a professional #baseball player. He (to use a technical term) #sucked at it.

    After the incredible success of the single "Jump" from the 1984 #album, Eddie van Halen became obsessed with adding more synthesizer to Van Halen's music. The reality he never accepted: nobody ever went to a #concert to watch Eddie van Halen play #keyboards.

    Why do I bring this up? Because it's the closest thing I can think of to explain the way that Mozilla has behaved for years. #Mozilla had #Firefox, a great, freedom-and-privacy-respecting web #browser used by millions of people. Instead of focusing on that, they pissed away engineering time, money, and #users by chasing #irrelevant crap.

    Nobody ever used Firefox or supported Mozilla to build an encrypted file transfer service.
    Or to become just another player in the VPN market.
    Or to build a VR browser.
    Or a reading list manager.
    Or an IoT device manager.
    Or a Macromedia / Adobe Flash clone.
    Or authentication service.
    Or geolocation service.
    #AI #junk.
    Voice recognition.
    Journalism.
    Built-in #ads.
    Search engine.

    Van Halen continued to be #successful despite Eddie's #synthesizer obsession, not because of it.

    If Mozilla continues, it will be despite their #distractions, not because of them.

    #VanHalen #Jump #why

  27. 1 Simple Way To Boost Focus When Youโ€™re Stressed, By A Psychologist

    Amidst all the noise about productivity hacks and beating procrastination, you might be overlooking the simplest habit thatโ€ฆ
    #NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #attention #Brain #CA #Canada #distractions #Health #MarkTravers #meditation #mentalexhaustion #MentalHealth #mindfulness #productivityhack #SocialMedia #stressed
    newsbeep.com/ca/101141/

  28. ๐‘พ๐’‚๐’š๐’˜๐’๐’“๐’…๐’” ๐‘ณ๐’†๐’‚๐’“๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ: ๐‘ฌ๐’”๐’„๐’‚๐’‘๐’† ๐‘ถ๐’๐’๐’š ๐’•๐’ ๐‘น๐’†๐’‚๐’…๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ -

    And our response to all of this is fairly clear, isnโ€™t it? Stop reading according to these approaches. We are fully capable of picking up (or cueing up) a book and reading it on our own terms, for our own reasons.

    waywordsstudio.com/learning/es

    #learning #books #reading #criticalreading #criticalthinking #habits #readingspaces #readingroutine #distractions #planning #readingschedules #readingplanner

  29. ๐‘พ๐’‚๐’š๐’˜๐’๐’“๐’…๐’” ๐‘ณ๐’†๐’‚๐’“๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ: ๐‘ฌ๐’”๐’„๐’‚๐’‘๐’† ๐‘ถ๐’๐’๐’š ๐’•๐’ ๐‘น๐’†๐’‚๐’…๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ -

    And our response to all of this is fairly clear, isnโ€™t it? Stop reading according to these approaches. We are fully capable of picking up (or cueing up) a book and reading it on our own terms, for our own reasons.

    waywordsstudio.com/learning/es

    #learning #books #reading #criticalreading #criticalthinking #habits #readingspaces #readingroutine #distractions #planning #readingschedules #readingplanner

  30. ๐‘พ๐’‚๐’š๐’˜๐’๐’“๐’…๐’” ๐‘ณ๐’†๐’‚๐’“๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ: ๐‘ฌ๐’”๐’„๐’‚๐’‘๐’† ๐‘ถ๐’๐’๐’š ๐’•๐’ ๐‘น๐’†๐’‚๐’…๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ -

    And our response to all of this is fairly clear, isnโ€™t it? Stop reading according to these approaches. We are fully capable of picking up (or cueing up) a book and reading it on our own terms, for our own reasons.

    waywordsstudio.com/learning/es

    #learning #books #reading #criticalreading #criticalthinking #habits #readingspaces #readingroutine #distractions #planning #readingschedules #readingplanner

  31. ๐‘พ๐’‚๐’š๐’˜๐’๐’“๐’…๐’” ๐‘ณ๐’†๐’‚๐’“๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ: ๐‘ฌ๐’”๐’„๐’‚๐’‘๐’† ๐‘ถ๐’๐’๐’š ๐’•๐’ ๐‘น๐’†๐’‚๐’…๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ -

    And our response to all of this is fairly clear, isnโ€™t it? Stop reading according to these approaches. We are fully capable of picking up (or cueing up) a book and reading it on our own terms, for our own reasons.

    waywordsstudio.com/learning/es

    #learning #books #reading #criticalreading #criticalthinking #habits #readingspaces #readingroutine #distractions #planning #readingschedules #readingplanner