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To anyone from Aotearoa reading this. Please, sign this petition. Share this cause with your followers, or anyone you know who may sign. Thank you.

A mining company, Bathurst, wants to turn Denniston Plateau into a giant open-cast mine. The nearby Stockton mine is pictured below.

Denniston is home to incredible ecology found nowhere else. Tiny plants. Fossils. Ancient sandstone landscapes. Odd-coloured geckos, flatworms, kiwi, fernbirds, peripatus, and the infamous Avatar Moth.

If this plan goes ahead, they are all lost forever. Along with any chance for study or scientific advancement.

It will also poison major waterways. Runoff from the nearby Stockton mine can, quite literally, dissolve a car.

The money is flowing into the pockets of overseas investors, and they are mainly employing overseas workers. This plan will not 'strengthen the nz economy'. It will weaken tourism, worsen our climate, and make the town of Westport even more dependent on Bathurst.

This mine will cost Aotearoa far, far more than what Bathurst pays us. The human cost, and the environmental cost, is even worse.

Denniston is on stewardship land. This mine will set a dangerous precedent for all protected spaces.

Bathurst proposed this plan a decade ago. (They are now appealing under the fast-track bill.) We beat them before, and we will beat them again!

Anyone in Aotearoa, please, sign this petition. Every signature helps.

It takes no time at all---you only have to input a name and email. An additonal comment is optional.

(and if anyone wants more details, hit me up. I have many more reasons that you should sign!)

tagging people I know are in aotearoa:

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counting dates

keeping time equal or "fair".

primary/secondary dynamics

being better at X than metamour

Life fluxes and changes. Numbered comparison fails the test of time. Instead, here are ways to grow relationship security with a partner:

proactive quality time, and tell each other what you love about it.

craft rituals and special things you do together. Example, a parting ways ritual, we hug, kiss and say each other's names three times before heading off to do our own things.

grow trust by talking about hard feelings without laying blame. "I feel X, I need Y". (Y cannot be controlling another's behaviour)

Explicitly agree on your dynamic and balances of care. Frame the relationship as a team.

Assume each other's best intent.

Share reassurance based on the people in the relationship, what about them lights you up, that it's okay to have messy feelings, etc.

make plans, dream together, be silly.

There's another secret way to grow relationship security! Reflect on what you want to offer in relationship, decide, and do it. Do it imperfectly, and do it often. This overlaps with the last one, but you can grow it in your own time too. Exact details will vary by relationship. Examples could be:

Choosing your personal relationship values to orient towards: Graciousness, freedom, love that is open handed instead of grasping, kindness, playfulness.

Tend to your partner regularly, with food, massage, sex, anything that suits you both.

Commit to taking space, reflect and rest when you can't embody your values

Gifts, scheming cute surprises, regular lovenotes, whatever feels romantic to you

Respecting a partner's autonomy as a sovereign being

Focusing on what one can give instead of what one can get

Reminding myself that I want the world for my partners, everything I can give them, and then some!