53-year-old actress Tracee Ellis Ross, the daughter of Diana Ross, has taken to her Instagram story to announce that she’s officially pregnant, which will be her first child.
According to sources, she reportedly became pregnant through an anonymous sperm donor, as she didn’t want to have a child with any man,preferring to raise her child alone.
Raisa said:
"Aku memilih melepaskan yang membingungkan, karena aku tidak se-kurang itu untuk diragukan. Aku layak dicintai dengan jelas, sepenuh hati dan tanpa ragu."
You make a cancer-fighting chemical in your brain every night. It kills tumor cells and fixes broken DNA while you sleep. Only works in the dark. The hormone is called melatonin, and when you flip on the lights at 2 AM, your brain stops making it.
Melatonin is the sleep hormone. But it moonlights as your body’s overnight cancer patrol. It chokes off the blood supply to tumors and wakes up your natural killer cells (the white blood cells that hunt down cancer). Melatonin also flips on genes that order damaged cells to stop dividing. Researchers at Tulane ran an experiment where they exposed rats to dim light at night. Not bright light. Dim. The tumors lost their natural growth rhythms and grew nonstop.
The WHO classified night shift work as “probably carcinogenic” in 2007. Reviewed everything again in 2019. Kept the classification. Same risk category as UV radiation.
Your body’s internal clock controls more than when you sleep. It schedules DNA repair. There’s a repair protein called XPA that rises and falls on a 24-hour cycle, timed by your clock genes. When scientists knocked those genes out in mice, DNA repair went haywire and tumors grew faster. The same clock decides when damaged cells kill themselves off before they turn cancerous. Wreck the clock, you lose all of that.
Denmark started paying workers’ comp for this. In 2008, the Danish government said: if you worked night shifts at least once a week for 20+ years and got breast cancer, that’s an occupational disease. Between 2007 and 2011, 110 women got compensated. One was a flight attendant who did 30 years of overnight flights for SAS airlines. No other country has followed.
1 in 5 workers worldwide works night shifts. In the US, that’s around 15 million people, mostly in healthcare, factories, and trucking. The exposure tilts hard toward people who can least afford it: 20% of workers without a high school diploma pull non-daytime shifts vs. under 2% of college grads.
I’ll be straight with you, the science isn’t totally settled. A big 2020 analysis pooling 57 studies and 8.5 million people found no clear overall link between night shifts and cancer. But a 2024 study tracking how risk changes with time on the job told a different story: 9% higher breast cancer risk after 20 years of night work. 13% higher after 30. The lab evidence in animals is clear cut. The human data is messier, the way it always is when you’re studying something millions of people do in a thousand different ways.
Pernah nampak depan mata.
Kalau kita tengok dari mata orang lalu-lalang, kita akan rasa laki dia ni penyabar, bini dia pula jenis tak relax.
But me, spending 30mins with them faham kenapa bini dia macam tu. That guy is slow SLOWW i’d turn mad too 🙃💔
Siapa tau disela-sela kesendirianmu ini, tiba-tiba datang laki-laki pintar, punya wawasan yang luas, soft spoken, family man, paham agama, pekerja keras, loyal-royal, gak patriaki, gak drama, gak kasar, gak main judol, dan gak gila perempuan.
Jangan pernah menormalkan kembali berbicara dengan orang yang sudah jelas-jelas tidak menghargai kamu. Jangan pernah menganggap wajar memberi akses lagi kepada orang yang pernah meremehkan, merendahkan, atau memperlakukan kamu seenaknya. Dan jangan pernah merasa bersalah karena memilih untuk memutuskan hubungan dengan siapa pun yang sudah menyakiti, mengabaikan, atau memperlakukan kamu dengan tidak pantas.
Menjauh bukan berarti kamu lemah. Diam bukan berarti kamu kalah. Memutuskan komunikasi bukan berarti kamu tidak dewasa. Itu adalah bentuk batasan. Itu adalah cara kamu menjaga kewarasan dan harga diri kamu sendiri.
Menurutku, orang-orang yang nggak punya circle pertemanan khusus, sering ke mana-mana sendirian, tapi tetap hangat dan nyambung di berbagai lingkungan, biasanya adalah orang yang hidupnya sudah secure.
Mereka nggak tergantung pada satu geng atau kelompok buat merasa cukup. Bisa makan sendiri, nonton sendiri, jalan sendiri tanpa merasa rendah diri. Tapi tetap ramah, tetap terbuka, dan tetap bisa bergaul dengan siapa saja tanpa kehilangan diri sendiri.
I saw a TikTok of a man that said:
"If my wife can't help but overthink, then I'm going to over-explain everything, I have no problem with helping her mind feel at peace"
Don't settle for less.
I had a friend who used to call me at 4am crying about her boyfriend. I’d wake up, listen, let her vent, and then go back to sleep, more than once. One night I couldn’t sleep, so I thought I’d return the favor and called her at 4am. She answered and told me she was sleeping, & I should call back tomorrow. Moral of the story: always remember that energy you give isn’t always going to be reciprocated, set your boundaries, even with “friends.”
My mom’s older brother passed away a few years ago. He was the quiet type. Lived in the same modest house for decades. Wore old flannels. Fixed his own car. No one ever thought of him as “well off.”
After he died, we learned he had been buying small life insurance policies over the years. Not for himself. For his nieces and nephews.
In his will, he left each of us a payout that would only be released for one thing: education, starting a business, or a down payment on a first home.
No speeches. No “remember me” letter. Just paperwork and signatures.
Turns out he had also been anonymously paying for one cousin’s trade school tuition when their parents couldn’t afford it. None of us knew.
He never posted about helping anyone. Never brought it up at dinner.
He just quietly positioned the next generation a few steps ahead.
Sometimes love looks like preparation no one sees coming.
girl, you didn’t fall in love with him.
you romanticized him.
you romanticized the way he reveals himself slowly. the way he makes you feel chosen in moments, but not in permanence.
you romanticized his potential. his almost. his someday.
but you need to understand that someday is the safest place for a man who has absolutely no intention of becoming who you need.
because someday allows you to stay. to wait. to keep investing in a man who doesn’t actually exist.
and while you keep hoping he will finally choose you fully, the only version of him that is real is the one in front of you.
the one who never did.
the one who never was going to.
right now.
This year I’ve realised that things that “aren’t that deep” are actually 6ft deep. Friends not supporting you, not saying happy birthday to you, not making an effort with you or congratulating you on your achievements. All that shit is deep and i’m not having anymore of it