Don Gates

🇦🇺 Seeking people that can change my mind, and after consideration, I may make up my own mind. I have no beliefs, just provisional understanding.

[Don Gates @GATESDK]

@ClimateWarrior7 I should have known better than to use that fowl terminology, Chickens. Is that better?

[Don Gates @GATESDK]

@timgortonz @bouta_nt He is, indeed a good bloke. I was less charitable about a Tiger snake in my house on a recent Christmas day.

[Don Gates @GATESDK]

@Rob409270337089 Much to their shame. trust once lost is very hard to restore. They managed to do it though.

[Don Gates @GATESDK]

@Rob409270337089 One of many examples. I identify as an an Elephant. I have a long memory.

[Don Gates @GATESDK]

As I recall, #vicpol behaved in the same despicable way a few years ago in Victoria, Australia. I never found out why some had different coloured patches on their vests. Mercenaries, paid for, and no respect for us here.

[Paul Weston @PWestoff]

Dear Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC)
@policeconduct - the @HantsPolice officers are using their shields as weapons, including the edges, as they mob beat lone individuals. Is this legal? Do you condone police officers shouting "I'm going to fuck you up" before they mob beat lone men?

You seem to have completely lost control of Hants Police who are operating well outside the law. I am a 63 year-old middle-class man. I admired and defended the British police for most of my life - up until Covid, actually.

But I fear you and hate you now. You have become something last seen in Ceausescu's Romania where his Securitate thugs gang-beat their victims. You have now lost the country and the consent of the British people. You are our enemy, and the enemy of decency, bravery, courage, and civilisation itself. God Damn all of you to hell you vicious sub-human scum. @elonmusk

[Don Gates @GATESDK]

@hoshizorarock @DerekSmythe7 I love cheese. This is a combination of other things I won't do. For my dietary health

[Don Gates @GATESDK]

@TheMuSinger The wood fire heater helps.

[Don Gates @GATESDK]

A cold and very rainy day here. I came out from my WFH office for a lunch snack and spotted Leila. I think I may just join her. For a short time.

[Don Gates @GATESDK]

I understand the concept of a Siesta. Seems appropriate on a cold day too no matter what time of day.

[Don Gates @GATESDK]

A cold and very rainy day here. I came out from my WFH office for a lunch snack and spotted Leila. I think I may just join her. For a short time.

[Don Gates @GATESDK]

@NoticerNews I agree. He articulates his point of view very clearly.

[Don Gates @GATESDK]

@Theblackfemini3 Not safe, even in the bush.

[Don Gates @GATESDK]

@DrewHutton45645 I applaud your integrity.

[Don Gates @GATESDK]

@ClimateWarrior7 Nah, I want to stay informed.

[Don Gates @GATESDK]

@Maddi0578PG @salltweets Could tell you how it's going.

[Don Gates @GATESDK]

@NzFubar I use one for star pickets, never a wooden post though.

[Don Gates @GATESDK]

@NzFubar Ouch!

[Don Gates @GATESDK]

Interesting!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Brown rice is what you order when you want the waiter to know you have made peace with joylessness in exchange for health points. The arsenic is the twist nobody puts on the menu.

Rice has a problem unique among grains. It grows in flooded paddies, sitting in standing water for months, and it draws arsenic out of the soil roughly ten times more eagerly than wheat or barley. That arsenic concentrates in the bran, the grain's outer layer. White rice has the bran polished off. Brown rice keeps it, because the bran is where the fibre and minerals live. It is also, inconveniently, where the arsenic lives.

A 2025 analysis found brown rice carries around 24% more total arsenic and 40% more inorganic arsenic, the form classed as a known human carcinogen, than white. You upgraded to the wholegrain and quietly upgraded your carcinogen dose along with it.

Then the ecology, which nobody ever pins on rice, because rice looks so very innocent. Those flooded paddies are anaerobic, and the microbes thriving in them belch methane on an industrial scale. Rice cultivation produces something like 10% of all human methane emissions and roughly a fifth of agricultural methane. Cattle get filmed for documentaries about their burps. Rice quietly produces a tenth of the world's methane while flooding entire landscapes and hoarding arsenic, then takes its place in the salad bar wearing a wellness halo.

Cows are dragged through the climate courts every week. The rice paddy, doing serious damage of its own, sits in your grain bowl with the expression of something that has never done anything wrong in its life. Curious, isn't it, which foods we decide to interrogate.

[Don Gates @GATESDK]

@gosporttomarlow 🤣

[Don Gates @GATESDK]

@gosporttomarlow Silly nephew. 😁