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Every cloud has silver lining | Joshua 1:9 | VHOPE ♡

[Ria @pewls_]

#CHAEUNWOOMANILA2019
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#CHAEUNWOO

[Ria @pewls_]

77 DAYS!!

[Jr @levy_wong]

A masterclass in journalism. She proves time and time again why she won that Peabody award. No vlogger/influencer/propagandist who claims he/she is “real news” can even be a quarter of what she and other journalists are.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

He removed one plastic bag… and nature rewarded him instantly

[𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑒 @purelivn]

how do people even go back to regular life after experiencing something like this?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Japanese neuroscientists spent years working out how to put a crying baby to sleep. They wired 21 babies to heart monitors, tested different ways of being held, and landed on a 13-minute routine. The grandma in this video has been doing it for three generations.

Three labs working independently arrived at the same answer from different angles. The first piece came from a pediatrician named Harvey Karp who published it in 2002 after years of studying how parents around the world calm their babies. Babies are born with a built-in calming switch in their brain. The switch flips on whenever something mimics the womb: warmth, snug pressure, gentle movement, a steady whooshing sound. Once it flips, fussing stops and sleep takes over. Karp called it the calming reflex. Every parent has set it off dozens of times without knowing it has a name.

The second piece comes from a sleep lab in Geneva. In 2019, researchers there put adults on a bed that rocked gently, about one sway every four seconds, and watched their brains all night. People fell asleep faster. They also dropped into deeper sleep, the kind where the brain locks in memories from the day. The part of your inner ear that senses motion is wired directly into the parts of your brain that handle sleep. Rocking syncs your brain waves.

The third piece is the most direct. A 2022 study put tiny heart monitors on 28 babies at home and watched how their bodies reacted to different kinds of touch. Only four kinds of touch worked: rocking, patting, bouncing, and stroking. Each one triggered the calming response within seconds. Heart rate dropped. The body shifted into rest mode.

The 13 minutes came from a team at RIKEN, one of Japan's biggest research institutes. They tracked how different ways of holding babies affected their heart rates and figured out the exact recipe. Walk around with the baby in your arms for five minutes. Then sit, still holding them, for another five to eight minutes. Only then put them down. The wait was the surprise finding. Put the baby down too early and they wake up. Give them eight full minutes of held sleep first, and they stay asleep.

All of this lived inside grandmothers' arms for thousands of years before anyone hooked a baby up to a sensor. Passed quietly from mother to daughter to granddaughter. The neuroscience just caught up.

What you're watching is roughly the same protocol a Japanese lab might publish in 2026. Grandma already knew. The citations are optional.

[shipz ✧ @heyshipz]

To anyone who retweets: May tomorrow be your luckiest day.

[goma @soigomaa]

A man's desire to become a father is always paid for by a woman with her body, her health, her career, and her freedom.
But when a woman expects a comfortable life, she is somehow shamed for wanting too much

[໊ @xoeeie]

creating a HUMAN that carries pieces of both of you with the person you love.. i still can't believe this concept, it's unbelievable

[⁹ @filenine]

men gets surprised when their daughters are not as forgiving as their wives. i say deserve!!!! bigyan ng astig cap yan

[𖤐 @vapefuls]

i have a colleague who lives her life like this and she’s the most well adjusted person i know.

[Rory Gilmore do Ketu @carinapoc]

Eu reconheço uma divindade ancestral quando vejo

[Ria @pewls_]

I can’t wait to finally say, “I made it to Blue and Gray!” 💙🩶💂

[Triiad ୭୭ @triiadxx]

I have a weakness for kind men, it's so much more attractive.

[Lisa @lisathebeauty1]

i honestly think the most beautiful kind of love is when someone is sure about you, no mixed signals, no confusion, just consistency, effort, and a feeling that they truly want you in their life.

[Maira @maira4yo]

If abortion is illegal, men leaving their pregnant
partners should be illegal too. If women can't back out from pregnancy then men can't back out from their responsibility as fathers either.

[𐙚 @ijanedoll]

the older i get the more i understand why some people disappear and never explain.

[Kia 🧸ྀི @xevekiah]

Two weeks after our wedding, my mother in law finally came to visit since she had missed the ceremony due to a flight issue. It was my first time meeting her, but we instantly got along.

One day, while we were in her room, my husband walked in looking irritated and asked where the laundry I had done was. He was specifically looking for a shirt I had washed. I excused myself to find it for him, but when I came back, my mother in law questioned me.

“Why do you let him talk to you like that?” she asked, clearly surprised. “You already did his laundry, and he still can’t find his own clothes? What does he think you are, his maid?”

She pulled me closer and added, “Listen, don’t let him treat you like a house girl. Since I got married, I’ve never done your father in law’s laundry, he actually does mine. That’s how I raised him to be. If he can’t even appreciate your effort enough to look for his own clothes, then let him wash and fold them himself.”

That was the last time I ever did his laundry in that house and now he’s the one doing mine.

Good mothers in law really do exist.

[o(⁠｡⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)┛ @NINJAYEWOLF]

extinct species reemerging in the philippines is my drag path. grabe, despite all the people in power corrupting every place where these animals and plants could thrive, their eagerness to exist is a beautiful protest to the modern world. sana talaga mamamatay na mga kurakot 🥹

[ʇuᴉɐS📍 @saint_cloudy]

This is a great thesis statement for an argumentative essay

[blue @bluewmist]

according to philosophy, the highest form of peace is to have zero desire to be understood, admired, pitied or even known.

[Ria @pewls_]

never knew muabot ug 6km akong baktas karon.