Grounded Ginger.

ginger of all trades

[Grounded Ginger. @li_berated]

📌 https://t.co/9RaUBxLpPy

[the circus @LovelyFilters]

that girl wasn't born, she came out of a tree one day, that's why she misses the forest so much

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I am sick and tired of people mocking those who care about the planet. Clean air matters. Living forests matter. Healthy oceans matter. Animals matter. Biodiversity matters. Wanting a livable world for future generations should not be controversial.

[Brent Faiyaz’s Disciple ❤️‍🩹🥀 @educatedhashira]

I am pro-black. That means I am anti-everything that tries to destroy black people; even if it’s other black people.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

You reduce crime by eliminating poverty. You reduce crime with universal healthcare, public housing, livable wages, and free college. You reduce violence by creating happy, healthy communities that aren’t constantly fighting over basic needs and material resources.

[Grounded Ginger. @li_berated]

@rirokpik @xclsiiiv_ Greek mythology is in the same vein. At least biblically.

[Vhasa 🍉🇧🇮 @JayFromVenda]

A 20 year old apartheid soldier who was deployed on this day is currently still working and still 5 years away from retirement. That's how recent these atrocities are.

[Kwame @realKwameOffei]

It is a profound sorrow that our neighbour Sudan bleeds profusely, while the entire continent of Africa watches in deafening silence.
Where is Africa’s solidarity and support?

[masha @masha_slp]

Ever since I was little I knew I wanted people to watch how they speak to me.

[اليكس @Tusk8rman]

Stop calling people plundering your country‘elites’ please. They’re thieves. All of them including their children.

[Mirah 🇿🇦 @mirah_japhta]

I hate our government so much, man. All this disrespect we're getting is because of their failure to enforce our laws.

[Dwayne Omowale @DOmowale]

Many of us have become so indoctrinated by colonialism that we cannot even conceptualize what being a truly sovereign and free people looks like because it’s been stripped from our historical memory. We think we have to replicate colonial systems because we know so little about what we had before colonialism.

[Special Investigating Unit (SIU) @RSASIU]

#KnowYourSIU| 1. The SIU does not target people nor do we investigate people. We investigate procurement processes in State Institutions and all levels of government departments, and it's through these processes that we find people who are responsible. In simple terms, we follow the money and the money leads us to people.

2. The law that governs the SIU states that the SIU does not identify its own investigations. We receive allegations, which we then assess to see if falls within our mandate, and we write a motivation for a proclamation to the President for authorisation.

We rely on whistleblowers or people reporting to our hotline, which is 0800 037 774.

[Tired Peasant @HorrorGorl]

Police don’t prevent crime. They show up after it happens. Crime prevention starts with funding social programs and creating opportunity.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Picture a thick rope pulled tight across your chest for years. This whale shark has been living it. His skin is six inches thick, the thickest armor of any animal on Earth. The rope in this video sawed through years of it.

Most whale sharks in this shape never get found. This one got lucky.

Scientists in Indonesia spent 13 years studying 268 whale sharks in a stretch of ocean called the Bird's Head Seascape. It's supposed to be one of the safest places on Earth for them because fishing is restricted. The study came out in August 2025, in Frontiers Marine Science. Out of the 268 sharks, 206 had visible scars. Just over three quarters. And 80% of those scars came from humans: boats, ropes, nets, fishing platforms.

And this is inside the protected area. Outside, things get worse.

Every year, about 2% of the world's fishing gear is lost or dumped into the ocean. That adds up to around 25 million crab traps and fish pots sitting on the seafloor. Enough fishing line to wrap around the equator 18 times. Commercial nets covering an area the size of Panama. And somewhere between 500,000 and 1 million tons of rope and netting.

The rope doesn't rot. Nylon hangs around in seawater for centuries, long enough to outlive the people who tied the knots. It just drifts, catching whatever swims into it. The WWF figures almost half of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is old fishing gear.

Whale shark numbers are down more than 50% in the last 75 years. In the Indo-Pacific, it's 63%. These animals don't start having babies until they're about 30. They can live to 130. So a rope around a young whale shark is a 20-year wound. If it survives.

The rescue you just watched took a diver maybe five minutes. That rope had been on the shark for years. Around 300,000 whales and dolphins die every year from getting tangled in fishing gear. Almost none of them get a camera crew.

[Scion (PanAfroCore) @ScionofCulture]

I find it fascinating that people can understand why the Chinese might actually hate the Japanese due to historical war crimes, but then have a complete brain fart when it comes to understanding why Africans might hate Europeans due to the historical violence dealt against them.

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

"I will not rest until Black children are taught to love themselves, as themselves."

[Timothy Selikem Korku Donkor @DonkorST]

Your ancestors were not dumb.
Your ancestors were not backward.

The foreigners only tricked them. And that happened based on presumed trust rather than intellectual deficit.

Your ancestors were smart people. They approached fundamental questions of their time intellectually. Their proverbs say it.

They were socially conscious. Their cultures and institutions affirm it.

Your ancestors were not stupid.

[Fiona Laker ✊🏿 @fioneezy]

Oppressed people have a right to resist in all ways including armed resistance.📌

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They will teach you that colonialism was wrong.

Past tense.

Was.

A historical wrong that has been acknowledged and overcome and we have all moved on.

They will not teach you that the wealth transferred during colonialism continues to compound in the same institutions and countries that transferred it.

They will not teach you that the borders colonialism drew continue to produce the conflicts colonialism designed.

They will not teach you that the legal structures, the debt instruments, the intellectual property systems, the currency arrangements colonialism's successor institutions built, these are not a new order.

They are colonialism that learned to wear a suit.

Teaching you that colonialism was wrong is safe.

Teaching you that colonialism is ongoing requires a different verb tense and a completely different conclusion.

They teach colonialism in the past tense because the present tense would indict them.

[iza @izamamaa]

It will never cease to trouble my mind just how recent segregation was.