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Nina Alba

@tied_to_reality

Illustrator | Writer | Part-time Frame Alchemist
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It's Friday! 💫 Whether you're braving the grocery store or a carefully distanced park hang, here are your essential flirting tips for the Covid-conscious. You got this. 😉 #COVIDisAirborne

It's Friday! 💫 Whether you're braving the grocery store or a carefully distanced park hang, here are your essential flirting tips for the Covid-conscious. You got this. 😉 #COVIDisAirborne
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This is important. But it's not just about the virus in the room today. It's about the lesson being taught every single day. Teachers, doctors, authorities, and many other adults are modeling that ignoring a threat is easier than taking a simple precaution. They are teaching

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The virus has one job: to adapt. And it is a master of its craft, constantly mutating to survive and spread. But what about us? Our greatest weakness isn't a lack of technology. It's our own human nature. Our optimism bias tells us we'll be fine. Our normalcy bias insists the

The virus has one job: to adapt. And it is a master of its craft, constantly mutating to survive and spread.
But what about us?
Our greatest weakness isn't a lack of technology. It's our own human nature. Our optimism bias tells us we'll be fine. Our normalcy bias insists the
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It is utterly disorienting to live in this gap between reality and the collective pretense. But what if that visceral response is more than panic? What if it's the despair of the soul? What if our essential self (the part that knows connection, values life, and yearns for a

It is utterly disorienting to live in this gap between reality and the collective pretense.

But what if that visceral response is more than panic? What if it's the despair of the soul?

What if our essential self (the part that knows connection, values life, and yearns for a
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Those last posts got a bit gloomy. Let's lighten the mood with some mastery talk. Remember the 10,000-hour rule? (from Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, based on Anders Ericsson’s research) It's about deliberate practice—actively working to improve a skill. Well, COVID-conscious

Those last posts got a bit gloomy. Let's lighten the mood with some mastery talk.

Remember the 10,000-hour rule? (from Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, based on Anders Ericsson’s research) It's about deliberate practice—actively working to improve a skill.

Well, COVID-conscious
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This year, the most terrifying costume isn't a monster or a ghost. It's the one that reveals our society's deepest fear: the fear of the outsider, the one who cares too visibly, the one who refuses to pretend everything is fine. It's the mask of the conscious. The ultimate fear

This year, the most terrifying costume isn't a monster or a ghost.

It's the one that reveals our society's deepest fear: the fear of the outsider, the one who cares too visibly, the one who refuses to pretend everything is fine.

It's the mask of the conscious. The ultimate fear
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What is happening to so many COVID-conscious people has a name: social exclusion. If this is a new feeling for you, it can be incredibly confusing and painful. For many of us who have always been "outsiders," the mask is just one more reason on a long list. But now you're

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You keep going because the alternative is a betrayal of your own conscience. The community you lost was built on a conditional connection—one that required you to ignore reality for the sake of comfort. The community you have now, even if it's scattered across the internet, is

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There are hundreds of podcasts, courses, and books dedicated to dissecting the patriarchy, the medical systems that dismisses women's pain, and the systemic devaluation of our health. Then a pandemic arrives. A disease that disproportionately disables women. A disease whose core

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Another quote from Camus's The Plague: "Our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a