Squats to Scroll: Screen Time

you didn't mean to lose the evening. you picked up your phone for one thing. forty minutes later you're still there, and you couldn't say what you saw. that isn't weak will. it's the design, and you're outnumbered. so we gave the problem to a cat. how it works nugget is an orange tabby in a white duck hat. you tell him which apps eat your time. tiktok, instagram, whatever yours are. he goes and lies on them. open one and he's sprawled across it. unbothered. immovable. the only way past him is a couple of squats, counted by your camera, and then he rolls off and gives you fifteen minutes. that's the whole loop. about twenty seconds. he is not a disciplinarian a day where you never reached for those apps at all is his favorite kind of day. the streak keeps, and he says nothing about it. no nagging, no evening guilt trip, no angry red numbers. and if you're having a hard week, he sprawls a…