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I SO want Miles and Miguel to have a moment where they both gripe about having dramatic Spanish-speaking moms.

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"Trauma’s impact on time can be severe and fracturing: Moments are lost, others are expanded beyond their import. It can feel as if we exist inside of a scene falsely or incongruously. Pieces don’t fit together. There’s always too little and too much of everything. Blink and you’re somewhere else, sometime else.

In The Return, this is all made literal."

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As a small-phone stan, I feel seen by this article.

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It's sad, but I know that the title of this article is wrong - there are people who will say up-is-down, black-is-white, and refuse to share empathy for any of these women because they have a made-up Reaganite caricature of what an "abortion" is, and will refuse to understand the reality of the healthcare situation or their complicity in the pain, suffering, and death of women.

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"...national conversations about systemic biases have made it easier for couples to acknowledge wrongdoings by easing people into the idea of unconscious complicity. Accepting that you are part of a complex social system and implicated in its biases no matter what you tell yourself can also help you accept that in other aspects of your life, you are partly governed by unconscious forces you do not necessarily recognize."

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"Only half of Americans report having meaningful, face-to-face social interactions on a daily basis. The nation consumes two-thirds of the world’s production of antidepressant drugs. The collapse of the working-class family has been responsible in part for an opioid crisis that has displaced car accidents as the leading cause of death for Americans under 50.

At the root of this transformation and decline lies an ever-widening chasm between Americans who have and those who have little or nothing. Economic disparities exist in all nations, creating a tension that can be as disruptive as the inequities are unjust. In any number of settings, however, the negative forces tearing apart a society are mitigated or even muted if there are other elements that reinforce social solidarity — religious faith, the strength and comfort of family, the pride of tradition, fidelity to the land, a spirit of place.

But when all the old certainties are shown to be lies, when the promise of a good life for a working family is shattered as factories close and corporate leaders, growing wealthier by the day, ship jobs abroad, the social contract is irrevocably broken. For two generations, America has celebrated globalization with iconic intensity, when, as any working man or woman can see, it’s nothing more than capital on the prowl in search of ever cheaper sources of labor."

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"Good tools make it clear how they should be used."

This is a great essay about the inherent challenges in an interface that has no clear way to communicate to users how to use it, but you REALLY should click through for the amazing webpage design.

Reminds me of people like John Gruber talking about how the new Steve Jobs book webpage designed by Lovefrom is way better than the ebook or almost even the physical book.

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Holy shit, the Nib is ending. What a moment.

The Nib is one of those things that is a miracle ever issue that happened. Was it ever going to last? Probably not. Comics is a tough business, and 10 years in that world is an amazing run. Still sad to see it go.

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Like, one of the best things about Martha Jones way back in the day is that she looked around, realized she wasn’t having a good time, and just got off the ride. “I’m not jaunting around space and time for the right reasons, I’m gonna go work on me. Bye!”

(…i mean, then RTD seemed to spend a handful of episodes trying to make up to her character for how the show treated her, but each attempt just piled on some Strong Female Characters bullshit until he just gave up, but that first exit, chef’s kiss. No notes.)

No offense to modern Doctor Who but why does every companion stay in the TARDIS until some horrible life altering thing forces them to leave (death, trapped in a parallel universe, memories forcibly taken, etc.). I miss how in Classic Who most companions just said “Hey Doc, this has been fun but I think it’s time I went home” or “hey this planet is pretty cool, I think I’m going to stay here” and the Doctor was just like “okay cool, I’ll always remember you fondly, bye!”