It was an accident, a simple act of muscle memory that pulled up the tweets about the black hole.

For Lent, I had decided to give up a very powerful addiction: Twitter. An update in Apple’s iOS had begun alerting me to how much screen time I was spending on social media each day, and the horrifying tally shocked me into action. Each day, I’d post a photo of my dog and then dutifully close out the app without reading or engaging with whatever was in my feed.