Nubiana ✨

🇲🇿 but 🇿🇦born. Holistic Lifestyle Advocate

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years.

The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and botulism in the carcasses they eat. A flock strips a cow to bone in about 45 minutes.

India had 50 million of them. Free sanitation at national scale, in a country where religious custom means most cattle die natural deaths and every dead cow becomes a carcass someone has to deal with.

Then the patent on diclofenac expired in 1994. Farmers started using the cheap painkiller on livestock. Trace amounts left in a carcass cause kidney failure in vultures. Within a decade, 50 million birds fell to a few thousand. The fastest collapse of any bird species since the passenger pigeon.

The carcasses didn't disappear. Feral dogs took the vultures' place and brought rabies with them. Rotting remains leached into waterways. In districts where vultures once thrived, human death rates rose more than 4 percent. Economists at Chicago and Warwick put the toll at 100,000 extra deaths a year and $69 billion in annual damages.

So yes, the goofy bird sprinting down the walkway is adorable. It's also a disease firewall that evolution spent millions of years building and one generic painkiller nearly erased in ten.

[Nubiana ✨ @Whitney1706]

@NeleeOzone Love what you did with these pieces.

[Nubiana ✨ @Whitney1706]

@creole_pisces22 Valid grounds. I’d do the same

[Nubiana ✨ @Whitney1706]

@amukelani_02 @Zic_mabz This is the truth!!!!!

[Nubiana ✨ @Whitney1706]

@LelioAdriano Glad that missed us

[John @rademan666]

Ground Beef Is Not Beef Mince
Braaiwors Is Not Boerewors

Did you know that in South Africa these terms have a clear legal difference? Next time you spot a special, pay close attention to the wording on the pack.

Beef mince is 100% minced meat with no additives or fillers allowed.

Ground beef, on the other hand, is typically mixed with soya or other fillers.

Boerewors must contain a minimum of 90% meat and a maximum of 30% fat to legally use that name.

Braaiwors (or braai wors) needs only 40% meat content.

The name on the label matters more than you might think.
#boeriewors
#wors
#mince

[Nubiana ✨ @Whitney1706]

Blue the one on damp skin before moisturiser 🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾

[Rato_Ruby-Rose🌹 @MsRuby_]

If I mix all this together what happens.
I have scars on my legs, stretch marks on my waist, I definitely want soft skin and also hydrating it😭😭😭😭

[Manzi @ClixWell]

“A way forward.”

[Nubiana ✨ @Whitney1706]

@JaneDoeXhe @GirlTalkZA I love body wash @bairskincare salicylic wash or Laroshe Posay micro peel gel wash. Retinol from your dr (the body can handle 1%) and niacinamide body lotion is also @bairskincare (they have a smooth and glow combo with the wash)

[Nubiana ✨ @Whitney1706]

Me messaging myself on Teams 🤞🏾

[toye! @iloveyoutoye]

Whoever thought of letting us message ourselves on WhatsApp deserves an award

[Nubiana ✨ @Whitney1706]

@destiny_ndlovu @MaxduPreez I need him to be mentoring several officials while he’s doing this good work. So that when he retires it stays the same.

[Nubiana ✨ @Whitney1706]

@callingoutshxt @MelloFelicia1 To add: Glycolic acid body wash with African net and glycolic toner (every other day) before body lotion

[Nubiana ✨ @Whitney1706]

@saintleeuw 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Nubiana ✨ @Whitney1706]

@ross_rori * there are also not as many black donors.

[Nubiana ✨ @Whitney1706]

@ross_rori You should read profiles of speed donors. The white donors have so much more to offer (they donate more) than the POC.

[Nubiana ✨ @Whitney1706]

@MpiloKhumalo_ They were actually triplets and one passed away.

[Nubiana ✨ @Whitney1706]

@gauta_ngcobo The modern room divider😂😂😂😂 across all income levels

[Mteto Nyati @mteton]

Proud of Dan Marokane, Junaid Munshi and the entire Eskom team.
We have now eliminated load reduction in 6 provinces – real, tangible progress for the communities and networks that need it most.

Load reduction is not load shedding. It is a targeted intervention that protects local networks from overload due to illegal connections. That distinction matters.

At the same time, the generation side continues to deliver: daily EAF of 80.24% (highest since September 2017) and unplanned outages at their lowest level since July 2018.

What a difference. Keep going, Team Eskom.
#Eskom