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In love with God, and my Saviour, Jesus Christ || @NqobiMsibi is where I act like a grown-up || @WeSitTech is my baby ❤️

[Favour @GylezManylez]

@tenacious_1o @KoketsoResane @Martin_ASFL Many farmers in MP changed to macadamias once this tax was introduced

[Chioma Amadi @Chioma__Amadi]

There are sites that hire remote workers daily. Pay range is between $130-$250/day, and you won’t be expected to join any calls.

Here’s a quick list for anyone interested:

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

When my daughters were born I remember my Mom telling me how much better being a Grandma is than being a Mom. I remember feeling hurt. Now that I am a Grandma I understand how right she was and I wish I could tell her 💔 He nailed exactly why we feel this way!! Do you agree?

[Favour @GylezManylez]

@ThembaM60 @Bunny_ngl I would like to submit Leonidas as well

[Nomandla Bobo @nomandlabobo]

UJ actually offers a free course in Microsoft Excel for the workplace.

https://t.co/BYBvuDTHqK

[Favour @GylezManylez]

@Sophia_Sophi01 Suriname?

[Favour @GylezManylez]

@lerrykins_ I think he needs them to agree in order for the marriage to be legally valid. Legally, you can't marry another wife without the approval of the other wives

[Ananth Rupanagudi @Ananth_IRAS]

Worth a read! 😍

My mom wanted to send me homemade pickles. But I said ‘no’.

I was 27, living in New York, working on Wall Street. I didn't need pickles shipped across the world. The shipping would cost more than buying them here.

Three years later, I read the psychologist take on what I'd actually done. When you reject someone's offer to help, you're not just declining assistance. You're declining their need to matter to you!

Benjamin Franklin figured this out in 1736. He had a rival in the Pennsylvania legislature who hated him. Instead of trying to win him over with favors, Franklin asked the rival to lend him a rare book.

The rival agreed. They became lifelong friends. It's called the Ben Franklin effect.When people do something for you, they convince themselves they must like you. Otherwise, why would they help?

My mom didn't want to send pickles because I needed them.
She wanted to send them because SHE needed to feel useful to me. To feel like despite the ocean between us, she still had a role in my life.

Every time I said "I'll manage," I was taking that away from her. Here's what I learned after a decade of living away from home:

→ Accepting small favors isn't about you needing help.

It's about letting people you love feel needed.

Your dad wants to transfer ₹5000 even though you earn well?

Let him.

Your friend wants to pick you up from the airport even though Uber exists?

Say yes.

Your partner wants to make you tea even though you can make it yourself?

Accept it.

The people who love you don't want to solve your big problems. They want to matter in your small moments.

Let them. #lifelesson

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

I feel attacked

[Winebae @AuntyScoobyDoo]

Bafazi

[Camus @newstart_2024]

New UK screen time rules just dropped — and they’re stricter than most parents expected.

From 27 March 2026, England says: zero solo screens for under-2s (except quick video calls with family), and max one hour a day for 2–5 year olds — no screens at meals or the hour before bed. Co-view everything, stick to slow-paced content, and ditch fast social-media clips and AI toys completely.

The science is sobering: toddlers’ brains process info up to 10 times slower than adults. Fast-paced screens push them into fight-or-flight mode — racing heart, surging energy — while they’re sitting still. Researchers at the University of East London say this mismatch can wire kids for more tantrums and emotional struggles later. Using screens to calm meltdowns? It often backfires long-term.

As a parent, it’s brutal — we all know that explosion the second you take the tablet away.

But this feels like evidence finally catching up with what our gut has been telling us.

How are you handling screens with little ones — strict limits, co-viewing, or mostly winging it?

[Nilson Marcelo | @TopGrafx @TopGrafx]

6 coisas que os filhos fazem só por um tempo... e depois desaparecem para sempre 😞

1. Um dia eles param de correr até você assim que acordam.
Aquele barulho de pezinhos no corredor, o abraço na cama... aos poucos dá lugar ao silêncio e à porta fechada do quarto.

2. Eles param de dizer: "Mamãe, papai, olha!"
Já não correm mais para te mostrar cada pedrinha ou cada desenho.
Pouco a pouco, o mundo deles fica mais silencioso... e mais deles.

3. Um dia eles param de segurar sua mão enquanto caminham.
E de repente você sente o vazio.
Não porque o amor acabou... mas porque eles estão crescendo.

4. Um dia eles param de dormir nos seus braços.
Aquele apoio no seu ombro, a respiração ficando calma...
são momentos que, sem aviso, acabam.

5. Em algum momento, eles deixam de acreditar que o seu beijo resolve tudo.
Antes bastava um curativo.
Depois, as feridas mais profundas começam a se esconder na música e no silêncio... não mais nos seus braços.

6. Eles param de te trazer seus "tesouros".
Folhas, papéis, pequenas descobertas.
Aquele amor puro e espontâneo... simplesmente diminui.

A infância não é um ensaio. Acontece agora e, enquanto ainda pedem colo e chamam você o dia inteiro, aproveite cada momento. ❤️

[EWN Reporter @ewnreporter]

BREAKING: South African arts icon Cynthia Shange has died at the age of 76. The former Miss Africa South and acclaimed actress passed away in a KwaZulu-Natal hospital following illness. @MongeziKoko

[M.A. Franklin @FoundationDads]

You child's desperation for outside approval is a measure of your home's weakness.

Two things every father must build:

1. A home culture so strong your kids know who they are before they walk out the front door. Where they belong. Where they matter more than the random kid down the street. Children who are secure at home don't beg for acceptance from strangers.

2. A pattern of saying "yes." Say yes more often in small things. Let them pick the movie. Let them stay up an extra thirty minutes. Then when you say "no" to the friend who's rotting their character, that "no" lands like a velvet hammer instead being another "no" amidst the background noise.

Build the house, then guard the door.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You already have the fix for overthinking. Takes 30 minutes, costs nothing. Stanford tested it by putting people in brain scanners and watching what happened. The catch: it doesn't come in a bottle, so nobody takes it seriously.

Your brain has a specific part that controls overthinking. Scientists call it the default mode network, but think of it as your brain's screensaver. When you're not focused on a task, it boots up and starts replaying old arguments, imagining worst-case scenarios, picking apart things you said three years ago. Normally it shuts off when you focus on something. In overthinkers, it gets stuck on.

Stanford ran a study on this in 2015. They took 38 people, put them in brain scanners, then sent half on a 90-minute walk through a grassy field with oak trees. The other half walked the same 90 minutes along a loud, busy, multi-lane road. When they scanned both groups after, the nature walkers showed less blood flow to the exact brain region that drives repetitive negative thoughts. The city walkers showed zero change. Same amount of walking, completely different effect depending on where.

Exercise does something similar but faster. A late-2025 study put EEG caps (those things that read your brain waves) on patients with depression and had them do 30 minutes of moderate exercise. Researchers could watch their brains switch out of overthinking mode in real time. By minute 10 it was already happening. By minute 30, their brains had fully shifted from overthinking to what the researchers called "distraction mode." When you exercise, your brain redirects processing power to keeping your body moving, and it can't run the overthinking loop and coordinate your muscles at the same time. Something gives. The overthinking drops.

Rutgers tested what happens when you combine both. 30 minutes of sitting meditation, then 30 minutes of running or cycling. Twice a week, for 8 weeks. The 22 people with diagnosed depression saw symptoms drop by 40%, and all 52 participants reported spending less time trapped in their own heads. Meditation calmed the overthinking circuit from one direction, and exercise interrupted it from the other. Same off switch, two ways in.

The fix for overthinking already exists. It just doesn't come in a pill bottle, so we keep scrolling past it and wishing for one that does.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The research behind this is wild. Your sperm carries a set of instructions that tell your genes when to turn on and off. A Duke University study found that THC rewrites those instructions. The more weed in your system, the bigger the changes. It goes straight for the genes your future embryo needs in its first week of life.

I had to read the "day 3 crash" part twice. For the first three days after fertilization, an embryo runs entirely on the mother's DNA. Day 3, the father's genes switch on. If those genes carry cannabis damage, the embryo just stops growing. Fertility doctors see this happen in their labs: embryos that fertilized fine and looked healthy on day 2 go completely still by day 5.

Boston University tracked 1,535 couples trying to have a baby. Men who smoked weed once a week or more doubled their partner's miscarriage risk. That number held up even when the woman herself never touched cannabis. And the miscarriages clustered in the first 8 weeks, right when the father's damaged DNA would be doing the most harm.

Duke also found that the specific genes THC alters in sperm overlap with genes linked to autism. One of those genes, called DLGAP2, helps brain cells communicate with each other. It was changed in cannabis users' sperm. When researchers bred THC-exposed male rats and checked their offspring, the same altered gene pattern showed up in the pups' brains. The damage crossed a generation.

Weed has gotten way stronger over the last 30 years. THC content was about 4% in the 1990s but nearly quadrupled to 15% by 2018, and modern dispensary strains regularly sit at 20-30%. Concentrates go up to 95%.

Quitting for about 11 weeks (one full cycle of sperm production) reverses some of the DNA changes. Not all of them. Duke's lead researcher says men should stop at least 6 months before trying for a baby. Half of your kid's genetic blueprint comes from you, and right now, THC is editing that blueprint before conception even happens.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

She just reverse-engineered the psychology of every high-performer who can't turn off.

You can't tell a firefighter to nap. Their entire identity is built around staying alert when everyone else is asleep. Telling them to rest triggers the same resistance as telling them to quit.

"Let's watch a show" works because it reframes rest as togetherness. He didn't agree to sleep. He agreed to spend time with her. Sleep was just the side effect.

The best people in your life don't argue with your stubbornness. They just build a trap you walk into willingly.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The scariest finding in this paper: the subjects couldn't tell it was happening.

UPenn ran this study on 48 healthy adults. One group slept 8 hours. Another slept 6. Another slept 4. For 14 straight days. They tested cognitive performance every 2 hours from 7:30am to 11:30pm.

The 6-hour group's reaction times, working memory, and sustained attention deteriorated on a near-linear curve. By day 14 they were performing at the same level as someone who hadn't slept at all in 48 hours. The 4-hour group hit that threshold by day 6.

Here's the part that should unsettle everyone who thinks they "do fine" on 6 hours: the subjects' self-reported sleepiness flatlined after the first few days. Their brains kept getting worse. Their perception of how impaired they were stopped updating. The cognitive decline was invisible to the person experiencing it.

The researchers found a hard threshold. Any wakefulness beyond 15.84 hours in a day produces cumulative neurobiological cost. That cost compounds every single day you exceed it and does not reset with a weekend of sleeping in.

About 35% of American adults sleep less than 7 hours a night. 40% of those get 6 hours or less. In 1942 that number was 11%. We built an entire professional culture around a sleep schedule that this paper says is functionally equivalent to pulling consecutive all-nighters.

"I'm fine on 6 hours" is the most common response to sleep research. The first thing chronic sleep debt destroys is your ability to notice chronic sleep debt.

[Trevor Noah @Trevornoah]

Looking back, I realize we didn’t just survive that day—we carried it with us.

My biggest regret isn't what happened; it’s that we didn't talk to anyone about it afterwards.

Trauma doesn't care how old you are. It stays in the shadows until you bring it into the light. Therapy isn't just for 'problems'; it’s for healing the things you didn't even know were broken.

#MentalHealth #Healing #whatnowpodcast