GinInAus🌿

Where are all the goodies? The world needs some.

[Mountain_Tui @Mountain_Tui]

Young Kiwi photographer Tom Rae's “Night at the Remarkables”

The Milky Way is arched over The Remarkables in the Southern Alps, while the lights of Queenstown glow far below.

Stunning & beautiful - the Earth is worth protecting

[Winston Peters @winstonpeters]

Why is the media not asking the most basic of questions to both National and Labour about what the Indian government have just said themselves about what the FTA means.

Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry Goyal:

“The fact that in New Zealand there is an accruing Indian diaspora currently at about 360k expected to cross 400k Indians very soon…more and more of our students going there because of a shortage of people…”

With all of these increasing number of visa holders able to bring in family members and ‘more and more’ students having a guaranteed ability to work during study and post study, these are the kiwi jobs being taken off desperate kiwis.

Indian Prime Minister Modi:

“The investment commitment of $20 billion by New Zealand will further strengthen our cooperation in agriculture, manufacturing, innovation and technology…”

Indian government Press Information Bureau:

“A Rebalancing Clause is incorporated into the Agreement to provide a framework for addressing any shortfall in investment delivery, thereby ensuring robust and tangible economic outcomes.”

The fact that the Indian government themselves are highlighting the INVESTMENT COMMITMENT then in the same breath outline the CLAWBACK clause if we don’t deliver USD$20 billion in just 15 years, highlights the absolute danger and inconsistency with which both National and Labour have signed our country’s future away.

[healthbot @thehealthb0t]

Does anyone else find it odd that $200 billion is spent on cancer research every single year and the only thing to show for it is a 75% increase in cancer deaths since the 1990s?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

They attacked wool. We got polyester.
Half a million tonnes of microplastic fibres enter the ocean from synthetic clothing annually.
Microplastics are now in human blood, lung tissue, and placentas.
Wool biodegrades in months.
Polyester persists for centuries.

They attacked leather. We got PVC.
PVC production releases dioxins.
The vegan leather peels within two years.
Both require petroleum.
Leather is a byproduct of food production.
It lasts decades.
It biodegrades.
The ethical alternative requires an oil well.

They attacked butter. We got margarine.
Trans fat disease for a generation.
Now on its third formulation.
Butter contains vitamins A, D, E, and K2.
Margarine contains seed oils and an ingredients list.
The butter never changed.
The butter never needed to.

They attacked beef. We got plant-based burgers.
Pea protein extracted with hexane.
Seed oils. Nineteen other ingredients. A supply chain across multiple continents.
Soy driving deforestation in Brazil at a scale that dwarfs British cattle farming.

Beef on British marginal land grows on hills that cannot grow crops.
Sequesters carbon. Fertilises without a factory.
Complete protein. Every fat-soluble vitamin. No dead zone.

In every case: the traditional animal product was nutritionally superior, environmentally lighter, and cheaper to produce.
In every case: the ethical replacement was industrially complex, petrochemically dependent, and worse for the body using it.

The ethics were the marketing.

[Raveena @raveena_aurora]

it’s crazy that 95% of people just want a nice normal life on our beautiful, already abundant planet where they can have their basic needs met and cute experiences with their loved ones and then we have these 5% of evil, narcissistic goons at the top fucking it up for all of us

[Simon Ree @simon_ree]

Australia was handed one of the greatest starting positions of any country in history

Massive mineral wealth. Abundant energy. World-class beaches. Amazing climate. No fault lines... no earthquakes or tsunamis

If you gave a 12-year-old this setup in a civilisation-building game, they'd build a paradise

Instead, we got decades of useless politicians on both sides of the aisle who couldn't run a sausage sizzle at Bunnings without a $4 billion feasibility study and a royal commission

Australia isn't unlucky. It's grossly mismanaged

[GinInAus🌿 @Mightjustgothen]

@BarkJack_ He should probably be in jail.

[Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️ @HippyMomPhD]

Amazon force updated our Alexa to have AI. My kids have been "talking" with it.

11yo: I don't like it.

Me: Why?

11yo: It's unsettling. It's pretending to be human, but it's not.

This reaction is fascinating.

My kids have had limited interaction with AI - never with a voice.

They have an innate distrust. Possibly, we've prepared them have that opinion - but possibly it's primal.

They mistrust this new entity "helping" them.

The voice is fake, its praise fake, its advice questionable.

Time will tell how things evolve, but sometimes children have better instincts than adults.

[Jim Hawk @JimHawk67327371]

A small band of mustangs consisting of a stallion and two hearty mares in the first snows of winter. Northern Nevada. It’s a rough life for them when the snow falls. We’ve become friends, mainly because I help them out a little with hay. I’m not supposed to, but who’s going to stop me? Those of you who continuously tell me I shouldn’t do that can kiss my feathered ass🥴

[ٰ @notsorealfgs]

i hope the trees know i notice them

[Earth @earthcurated]

morning ✨

[DA VINKI @VorosTwins]

Dear Santa,

This button everywhere

Please 🙏 🙏

[eisha 🍒 @meishato]

WE WERE LITERALLY BORN ONTO A PLANET THAT GROWS FOOD HOW DID WE FUCK UP SO BAD THAT I GOT A CREDIT SCORE

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

[Naomi Brockwell priv/acc @naomibrockwell]

Your child deserves to grow up without being tracked, tagged, and profiled before they can speak.
We owe them a better digital world.

[GinInAus🌿 @Mightjustgothen]

@TheFigen_ 💖

[Cormac's Coast @cormac_mcginley]

The Cliffs of Moher emerging from the morning mists.
County Clare, Ireland.

[GinInAus🌿 @Mightjustgothen]

Debt trap and then the interest rates will go up. It’s sad 😢

[Malcolm Roberts 🇦🇺 @MRobertsQLD]

A $1.5 million first home can be bought up with only a 5% deposit under the Government's new caps.

- A $1.5m home over 30 years with a 20% deposit:
$1,660.38 p/w
Interest total: $1,390,000

- A $1.5m home over 30 years with a 5% deposit:
$1,971.46 p/w
Interest total: $1,650,000

First home buyers are getting slapped with an extra $260,000 in interest.

The only people this scheme helps is the BANKS.