Esther.

Law. Finance. Compliance. 🌻🦋🥂 Blossoming wherever I'm planted. A grateful recipient of God's undeserved kindness.

[Esther. @hey_astar]

On improving the human condition:

Sometimes you do it by inventing the airplane, sometimes you do it by painting a chapel ceiling.

Sometimes you do it by finding the cure to cancer, sometimes you do it by carving a naked King David.

[Keystone Bank @keystonebankng]

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[ISK @IyegereS]

unrelated but it's been years since I've seen that type of fowl

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Covering every blade of grass.

Dec's best moments from Monday's win over Burnley 📺

[Solyricon @Solyricon]

I love seeing men who are still madly in love with their wives. I pray that kind of love finds me.

[𓆩 GIO 𓆪 @tattedoc]

Im gonna be delusional and believe i will be living overseas in 5-10 years idgaf

[Ginger @Gboye_Rave]

Your first mistake in Life as a woman , is to assume a man doesn’t know what he is doing .

[UMabhayi, Cash No Credit 🤞🏽 @neliswa__ngada]

Girls night is a literal 10/10 man. Go hangout with your girls 🥺❤️

[Dura,coco money🎀 @ms0nigghaz]

I don’t be asking for too much but all I want is to be a successfulllllllll womannnnnnn getting paid, booking flightssssss,shoppingggggg, investingggggg and living the life that I be wantingggggggg.

[Urenna @BridgetUrenna]

I’m a materialistic woman. I like the nicest things, and I want to be able to afford whatever I want at any time without flinching. ‘I want it, I get it.’

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Kids dying of cancer almost always figure it out before anyone tells them. A 1978 study followed 40 children with leukemia, ages three to nine, and found that every single one of them had worked out they were dying. Most kept it secret, to protect their parents.

The researcher was an anthropologist named Myra Bluebond-Langner. She spent nine months living on a children's cancer ward, watching the kids put it together for themselves. Even the three-year-olds figured it out.

The most popular book on the ward was Charlotte's Web. When the kids understood what was coming, it became the only book they wanted read to them. They always picked the chapter where Charlotte dies.

There's a name for what was happening between those kids and their parents. Two sociologists, Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss, wrote about it in a 1965 book called Awareness of Dying. They called it "mutual pretense." Both sides know the truth, both pretend they don't, and nobody says the thing out loud.

The kids pick it up from their own bodies first. The fatigue gets worse week by week. They watch the nurses' faces tighten when they walk in. They see the kid in the next bed disappear one day and never come back. A pediatric psychologist named Barbara Sourkes calls this "the wisdom of the body," the part where your body can't lie to you about how sick you are.

The biggest study on this is from 2004. The New England Journal of Medicine published a Swedish survey of 449 parents whose children had died of cancer between 1992 and 1997. The researchers asked them whether they had talked to their child about death. Of the 147 parents who said yes, not one regretted it. Of the 258 who said no, 27 percent did. Among parents who could tell their child knew but stayed quiet, the regret rate climbed to 47 percent.

When a story like this goes viral, with the "beautiful lie" framing of a mother protecting her son, it sounds like the protection only goes one way. The data says it almost never does. The parent thinks they're shielding the child. The child has usually been shielding them right back.

[🫧 @lunecrumbss]

the earth showing off again

[Abuja President ⚖️ @AbujaPresident]

Being divorced or separated with your wife, doesn't concern your kids. Go & pay their school fees.

[Thea @thewatersideboi]

Sis to sis,
Just in case you are confused. God will never send you somebody's else's husband.

[Cxspxxr✘🧸 @_6signxxx]

exercise is a celebration of what you can do. not a punishment for what you ate.

[Sidonia P Alphonse @MinisterSidonia]

Getting married is an act of faith, because there’s no perfect partner and no perfect readiness to marry.

There’s only, “I have entered this covenant trusting that He who began this good work in us will bring it to completion.”

[Dura,coco money🎀 @ms0nigghaz]

The only thing that dims my spark is being broke. Not a man. Soon as the money’s right, I’m back like lightning.

[jindu✨ @jindu__]

Me once I enter this app

[ᴄʜɪɴᴇ̀ʟᴏ @chinexlo]

Please do everything within your reach not to get fat

[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.

[Retired Polysaccharide Patriarch @bigbrutha_]

The great japa of 2020/21 fucked us in ways we still haven’t recovered (or realized in some cases)