blackout technology 2025-09-18T14:20:16Z

The streetlamp outside our nursery window glared like a prison searchlight, slicing through cheap blinds onto my newborn’s face. Every car passing cast frantic shadows across the ceiling – headlights becoming strobes that jolted her awake hourly. I’d shuffle in at 3 AM, hollow-eyed and trembling, rocking her while whispering desperate pleas into the dark. Five consecutive nights of this ritual left me hallucinating from exhaustion; once, I nearly dropped her trying to swat a phantom moth. That’s