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@fw_naetoblaq I am still doing it!!

Ngl our parents really ate with printing out our pictures and putting them in albums.

Looking forward to knowing how the weekend is actually going to be looking!! ☀️

Having a baby physically shrinks part of a woman's brain. Having a second baby shrinks a totally different part. Scientists in Amsterdam just figured out why, and the explanation involves the same process that happens in teenage brains. This is from a research group in Amsterdam called the Pregnancy Brain Lab. They published their findings in Nature Communications on February 19, 2026. The team scanned the brains of 110 women. 40 were about to have their first baby, 30 were about to have their second, and 40 had never been pregnant. They scanned everyone before pregnancy and again after birth. The results were so consistent that a computer program could look at any of those brain scans and correctly tell whether the woman had been pregnant. Every single time. When a woman has her first baby, the biggest changes happen in the part of the brain that handles thinking about yourself and other people. The same region that runs daydreaming and inner monologue. That whole area visibly shrinks. And it stays shrunk for at least six years after birth, according to a 2021 follow-up study by the same team. When she has a second baby, that same area shifts a little more, but the biggest changes happen somewhere else. They happen in the part of the brain that controls what you focus on, and the part that controls how your body moves. Even the wiring between the brain and the muscles becomes more efficient. Lead researcher Milou Straathof said it looks like the brain rewiring itself for taking care of more than one kid at a time. The shrinking sounds bad. The lab compares it to what happens in teenage brains during puberty. Hormones flood the brain and trigger a kind of cleanup. Weak connections between brain cells get cleared away. The strong ones stay and get stronger. The brain ends up smaller, but the connections that remain work faster. The hormonal flood of pregnancy seems to do the same thing. Elseline Hoekzema, who runs the Pregnancy Brain Lab and has been studying this since 2017, told CNN: sometimes less is more. The pattern is layered. The first pregnancy does the deep work on identity and how a mom thinks about her baby. The second pregnancy adds a new layer focused on attention and movement. About one in five new mothers globally develops postpartum depression. The same brain circuits being remodeled here are the ones tied to mood and bonding with the baby. Mapping what a healthy maternal brain looks like is the first step toward catching when something goes wrong.

@TransLink Yup and I’m telling you ridership is higher 😂

@AliciaVPP Hey @AliciaVPP. Millenium Line trains are always 2 car trains for the Evergreen extension. This is based on ridership. Feel free to fill out a feedback form here: translink.ca/about-us/custo… ^dd

Why send your shortest trains on a busy sunny Saturday on the Millennium line? We are packed like sardines! @TransLink

🇨🇴 WTF!!!! A bomb massacre happened on a Colombian bus. 10 people were killed, and 17 more were injured in this explosion Straight-up carnage on the highway today

📣 Thanks to @POTUS’ decisive leadership, U.S. companies have new export opportunities in Venezuela! ITA is launching the Venezuela Business Information Center to accelerate commercial ties and support U.S. private sector engagement 🇺🇲 🤝 📦 🇻🇪. This new resource will help identify business opportunities, connect U.S. firms to those opportunities, and assist interested firms in navigating U.S. sanctions, export controls, and market dynamics to advance U.S. exports to Venezuela. Interested U.S. companies can visit the Venezuela Business Information Center on ITA’s website for information on exporting to Venezuela ➡️ trade.gov/venezuela

A Florida woman in a lifted Silverado just drove over a Lamborghini in a parking lot. The truck was so high off the ground she didn't even see the thing until it was under her tires 😂

Algo está pasando en la cárcel de Yare en Venezuela, uno de los centros de tortura del régimen. Los familiares se encuentran desesperados fuera de la prisión, se habla de varios muertos y detenidos. La propia dictadura chavista confirma al menos cinco muertos hasta el momento.

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BREAKING: Gunman kills Canadian woman, injures more at Mexico's Teotihuacan pyramids, according to authorities Read more: aje.news/8rupbu

Sale más barato viajar por toda Europa, que irse 7 días al pueblo de uno en Venezuela.

UPDATE: In an update to 1130 NewsRadio at 4:45 p.m., the WVPD says that officers are still on scene and that crews from partner agencies are assisting. vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/04/19/pol…

All ferries at Horseshoe Bay are suspended due to a “serious police incident” on board the Queen of Surrey. No vessels currently being loaded due to this “critical” incident. Police, fire and ambulance out here. ⁦@CTVVancouver⁩

@CTVNewsRob @CTVVancouver

While Delcy Rodriguez tries to imitate her by wearing blue, María Corina reclaims red (the color historically associated with chavismo) Something to think about

🇻🇪🇵🇦 COPA Airlines will resume flights between Panama City and Barcelona That will mean that you can visit Lecheria, Venezuela without a layover in Caracas