Brianne West

🐛 It’s Bug of the Year time! 🐛 Aotearoa’s Bug of the Year voting is live, and these tiny legends need our support. From slugs that look like gherkins to worms that turn prey into soup, the competition is fierce.
#biodiversity

Yes, if you are already one of those absolute ballers on our newsletter list, you will have seen this. (It looked very different because in between then and now I got bored with it. All the designers in the room are currently rolling their eyes.)

People do know they can stop watching a movie, or put down a book if it’s rubbish right?

I admire your tenacity, but life is too short! If you are not so gripped by it that you have to stay up to 3am to finish it (and regret that decision the next day), then is it really worth it?

#books

It’s a ‘no plastic, no problem’ kind of day I reckon.

If we want to change the world, we’ve got to change business!

And if we’re gonna change the drinks industry with @incrediballsdrinks.bsky.social in even a small way, then we need to build a brand that people love that inspires them to act.

#startup #founder #plasticfree
#sustainablebusiness

So the podcast this year is going to be a bit more… sassy. With a sprinkle more business. And it might even contain (shock horror) politics 😱🤭

But as always, it will be full of evidence, experts and actual science.

#sustainability

The whole "carbon footprint" idea wasn’t made to save the planet. BP (yeah, that BP) came up with it to shift the blame to us while they keep polluting. Genius. Since 1988, 100 companies have been behind 71% of global emissions.

I’ve had three (men) tell me to stop talking about politics in the last 24 hours - because it’s ‘cringe’, or ‘doesn’t look good on me’.
1. Politics impacts everything, whether you notice it or not.
2. Er, this isn’t new? I’ve always been like this.
3. I can talk about wtf I like thanks ✌️

We’ve known for a while that teabags release a butt load of microplastics and this latest study shows it’s actually 1.2B particles per ml of water. Whilst we definitely need more research, the study showed that the MPs made their way into human intestinal cells and even as far as the cell nuclei. 🙃

I do not understand people who force books that they’re not into. Or movies. What are you doing?!

Building @incrediballsdrinks.bsky.social publicly has been an interesting experience.

I bounce between 'how can this fail' and 'OMG, terrible idea' daily, which is super fun to do in front of everyone. But it's worth it - it creates your loudest supporters. It'll make launch easier... right..?!

Isn’t it bizarre! I will take cats over cannabis though.

Why is this app basically just showing me cats? They’re the one animal I’m kinda meh about. Where are my raccoons, or sharks. I don’t know how to use this yet and clearly I’ve set it up wrong 🤷🏻‍♀️

$1,131,794,901

That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.

Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.

Guys, your only child tropes are BS with no evidence (and yes, there are studies). Move on.

Friend: ‘So how many kids do you want?’
Me: ‘I don’t, but if I did, just one.’
F: ‘You can’t do that, only children are selfish and lonely.’
Me: ‘Awkward, you know I’m an only child’ 🤨
F: *panic* ‘Oh, but you grew up in a big city.’
Me: ‘I grew up in the Isle of Man. 60,000 in the entire country.’

Photo of a big eye fish on Fijian coral reef.

I did improve though…

Really terrible blurry photo of a striped zebra fish

At what point can I claim to be a wildlife photographer? My first ever underwater shoot last year went… about as well as I expected. #underwaterphotography

Just a friendly reminder; spiders and snakes aren't poisonous, they've venomous. (Okay, they might be poisonous too, but that's another post).

Something is poisonous if you bite it and you die.
It's venomous if it bites you and you die.

It doesn't matter... but... it does.