I want to do an experiment where I don’t read, consume, or learn about any news for a week. But the challenge is I would have to remove myself from email and text messages entirely….because I get so many texts from friends about news. Hmmmm…. - ThreadSky

yasharali.bsky.social • 13 hours ago

I want to do an experiment where I don’t read, consume, or learn about any news for a week.

But the challenge is I would have to remove myself from email and text messages entirely….because I get so many texts from friends about news.

Hmmmm….

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racastor.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Sounds like a win-win.

davidmouritsen.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I advise against it. Things are moving so fast that, when you return after a week, the world would be incomprehensible.

ki7bda.bsky.social•12 hours ago

It's called camping...

jamhubb.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I requested that my friends not share news in the group chat and instead keep that conversation to IRL moments where we can truly check in with each other. It’s working great so far and gives everyone the chance to consume news when/how they want.

emeraldkittycat.bsky.social•13 hours ago

notagback5.bsky.social•13 hours ago

What is this curious artifact?!?!

maryamobgyn.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I have a friend who did that. She told me that every time I texted her something about the news this month, it was so outrageous that she had to google and double check me 😂😂😂

spicypeanutsauce.bsky.social•13 hours ago

My phone connects to medical devices which I've now realized makes it really difficult to disconnect.

sailmom.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Yahar - we can run but we cannot hide. I don't think we can look away. We need your visage.

melindabyerley.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I did it for several months during cancer.

treetops165.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Yeah, tonight is really doing me head in!

pmsparrow.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Take a transatlantic cruise and don't bring anything that connects to wifi.

marshallshuman.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I've tried this. I can't do it. I get too much in my emails. But, I am reducing my intake of the crazy. Just for my own well being and mental health. This administration is insane. It's non stop cray cray, 24/7. I wish you the very best of luck! It is challenging, indeed.

mollyannie.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Sounds….refreshing

davidmenschel.bsky.social•13 hours ago

As a Pacific Northwesterner, my advice would be: go camping in the woods and leave your phone behind. Thoreau said it best: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach.”

televisedanarchy.bsky.social•12 hours ago

kelliawise.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I was about to suggest the same thing. Great minds think alike, or go camping in the same places.

nwfeline.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Just spent a week on a friend’s boat in the Caribbean. Only used my phone for taking pics. It was a fabulous week.

patrock10.bsky.social•13 hours ago

You are right and after 4 weeks we all deserve a mental break but now isn’t the time. We push more than we have.

You are an important cog of information. We rest when the orange turd and ketomine king are ousted.

It’s important to remember. THEY ARE THE MINORITY. We stick together, we win.

roozydelish.bsky.social•12 hours ago

If this is for real then I would create a whitelist keyword filter for your emails and text messages so that if a friend does contact you with a personal matter then it has a chance of getting through

lacentrist.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Difficult goal.

nae-nae73.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Turn all electronic devices off.

feliciahenderson.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Suggested gently to a friend that I did not need to receive *every* article about DEI by text and so friend stopped texting me. 😭

enlightenednomad.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I’ve managed to make it happen. Now I only email from my laptop. My life is forever changed and for the better.

hthiefs.bsky.social•13 hours ago

That would be a tough one! Good for mental health but hard to execute.

debralhd.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Do you know what a vacation is? It's not hard unless you're a news junkie in constant need of their next fix.

rsphillips.bsky.social•9 hours ago

I feel like in this time being cut off from instant communication could cause me to miss any number of catastrophic events, all of which are becoming increasingly more likely

lifebykay.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I like the idea of this but I’d last for 2 days, max.

angryparakeet.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Visit rural Indiana. You’ll never regret visiting rural Indiana! (You absolutely will.)

We have massive cell service gaps.

knava12.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Go to the woods with no internet or cable for a week. You’ll be cut off from the news and the world.

lisaosgood.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I have unsubscribed from all texts and emails because I want to survive these next four years. I'm rarely here on bluesky.

rjc1084.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Unplug in a place that has no cell service!

veroartistblue.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Me too….I can’t do this for 4 years.

traceyism27.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I know it's a lot for you but I really enjoy you and your post, when I left X the only person I found was you joining us so I'm thankful for you. Have a blessed weekend my friend☀️💪

aleksnotx.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Vacation to a remote tropical island?

pupmom123.bsky.social•13 hours ago

You would be in a completely different country by the following week.

kateallday.bsky.social•11 hours ago

It's like when you're cleaning your kitchen and it doesn't feel like there's been a lot of progress, but you leave the room and come back and suddenly you can see how much cleaner it is.

Except the exact opposite.

You come back and now your kitchen is a cross between Jumanji and a dumpster fire.😒

tfuller3.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I’ve never done a full week cold turkey. But I’ve disengaged before and even ignored the news for a day or two and found it incredibly refreshing

bigbux.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Wow. Humble brag. lol. Sorry, couldn’t resist

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