Belle
@ebocal207.bsky.social
🧠 doctoral student in human development
✨ curious about… how you take your coffee, what’s in your 📝 app + your go-to cry-in-the-car song?
✨ curious about… how you take your coffee, what’s in your 📝 app + your go-to cry-in-the-car song?
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You can no longer order free COVID tests from the government. Despite still having $500 million worth of COVID tests stockpiled, covidtests.gov is closed.
March 10, 2025 at 6:39 AM
You can no longer order free COVID tests from the government. Despite still having $500 million worth of COVID tests stockpiled, covidtests.gov is closed.
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Last fall, thousands of people took part in a stress reduction study, learning skills that can improve mood and reduce anxiety. The results are in: Here's what they show.
From blah to buoyant, these skills can improve your mood and optimism
Last fall, thousands of people took part in a stress reduction study, learning skills that can improve mood and reduce anxiety. The results are in: Here's what they show.
www.npr.org
March 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Last fall, thousands of people took part in a stress reduction study, learning skills that can improve mood and reduce anxiety. The results are in: Here's what they show.
Well, thanks for coming to my TED talk while waiting for OHK to pick me up 🥸 (a Vietnamese street dog for the dopamine)!
March 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Well, thanks for coming to my TED talk while waiting for OHK to pick me up 🥸 (a Vietnamese street dog for the dopamine)!
I literally can’t sit for the entirety of a movie (a fun fact an ex would remind me of like— ok it’s the length of half a series season, NO, I cannot!) but on this long-ass grievous ✈️ I saw the new to me Deadpool, Quiz Lady, Knives Out, and Moana 2 😏
March 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I literally can’t sit for the entirety of a movie (a fun fact an ex would remind me of like— ok it’s the length of half a series season, NO, I cannot!) but on this long-ass grievous ✈️ I saw the new to me Deadpool, Quiz Lady, Knives Out, and Moana 2 😏
Shortest stint to ancestral land of my life— five? Six? Days in country. But! I did finish 2 books, started 2 more, and study for my boards (a little over a week!). THE THOUGHTS I HAVE on how we did Britney wrong 😫
March 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Shortest stint to ancestral land of my life— five? Six? Days in country. But! I did finish 2 books, started 2 more, and study for my boards (a little over a week!). THE THOUGHTS I HAVE on how we did Britney wrong 😫
Little joys: The luggage carts are now free at PWM 🌲 Dirigo, indeed.
March 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Little joys: The luggage carts are now free at PWM 🌲 Dirigo, indeed.
Thought drivel since I’ve been traveling back from Asia the past day+ 🤔 is it ever okay to cut your fingernails (with clippers if that matters) on a flight? #SeatmateSorrows
March 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Thought drivel since I’ve been traveling back from Asia the past day+ 🤔 is it ever okay to cut your fingernails (with clippers if that matters) on a flight? #SeatmateSorrows
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I love this devastating piece from Andrea Cohen.
March 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I love this devastating piece from Andrea Cohen.
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From @seanthomasd.bsky.social's book, The Second O of Sorry. Published by @boa-editions.bsky.social.
Get it here: bookshop.org/a/862/978194...
#poetry #books #writing
Get it here: bookshop.org/a/862/978194...
#poetry #books #writing
March 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
From @seanthomasd.bsky.social's book, The Second O of Sorry. Published by @boa-editions.bsky.social.
Get it here: bookshop.org/a/862/978194...
#poetry #books #writing
Get it here: bookshop.org/a/862/978194...
#poetry #books #writing
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From @victoriachang.bsky.social's book, The Trees Witness Everything.
Get it here: bookshop.org/a/862/978155...
#poetry #books #writing
Get it here: bookshop.org/a/862/978155...
#poetry #books #writing
March 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
From @victoriachang.bsky.social's book, The Trees Witness Everything.
Get it here: bookshop.org/a/862/978155...
#poetry #books #writing
Get it here: bookshop.org/a/862/978155...
#poetry #books #writing
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thinking of Mary Oliver writing, "We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power"—and there really is so much in how a culture responds to loss, to mortality & vulnerability. do we try (endlessly, violently) to "conquer" it? suppress/erase/export it? or do we face it? do we grieve?
February 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
thinking of Mary Oliver writing, "We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power"—and there really is so much in how a culture responds to loss, to mortality & vulnerability. do we try (endlessly, violently) to "conquer" it? suppress/erase/export it? or do we face it? do we grieve?
cười / rire (Vietnamese + French) 🍓 🌙
February 28, 2025 at 8:59 AM
cười / rire (Vietnamese + French) 🍓 🌙
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normalize reframing "holy shit this comment thread has gone feral" with "oh neat, this comment thread has become a helpful attractor to find people I'd like to block"
February 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
normalize reframing "holy shit this comment thread has gone feral" with "oh neat, this comment thread has become a helpful attractor to find people I'd like to block"
“Could these two pleasures—in naming our emotions and in realizing those names will always be inadequate—even be mutually reinforcing?” ❤️🩹
Over thousands of years, South Asian philosophical debate produced some of the most sophisticated thinking about language ever seen.
There’s a Word for That - Boston Review
Can language describe everything we feel—and should it?
www.bostonreview.net
February 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
“Could these two pleasures—in naming our emotions and in realizing those names will always be inadequate—even be mutually reinforcing?” ❤️🩹
Feeling tender about cut fruit—while many have in recent times expressed interest in this as a new care language, children of Asian parents may keenly feel this quiet, but strong love (e.g. “It’s her way of making sure that the bitter moments of my day can be instantly fixed with pure sweetness.”).
February 28, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Feeling tender about cut fruit—while many have in recent times expressed interest in this as a new care language, children of Asian parents may keenly feel this quiet, but strong love (e.g. “It’s her way of making sure that the bitter moments of my day can be instantly fixed with pure sweetness.”).
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Sigh, c'est comme ça? 🖖
"We assure you that eliminating DEI initiatives will have no negative consequences—except for anyone who isn’t already perfectly positioned for leadership."
Starfleet Eliminating All Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs
To all Starfleet personnel, It is with great enthusiasm that we announce Starfleet’s commitment to moving beyond so-called diversity, equity, and i...
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February 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Sigh, c'est comme ça? 🖖
There is headiness (+heaviness) in the perfumed air of the first of the street flowers in the morning market run #DurianDiaries 🥀
February 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
There is headiness (+heaviness) in the perfumed air of the first of the street flowers in the morning market run #DurianDiaries 🥀
In another life, street dogs have fuller bellies + my heart feels a little lighter ❤️🩹 #DurianDiaries
February 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
In another life, street dogs have fuller bellies + my heart feels a little lighter ❤️🩹 #DurianDiaries