@scilion.bsky.social
Master of Science with Distinction (Biochemistry)
Kāi Tahu / Pakeha
She/Her/Ia 🏳️🌈
Kāi Tahu / Pakeha
She/Her/Ia 🏳️🌈
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Both NZ Health Minister Simeon Brown and NZ PM Christopher Luxon complained about the Labour led Coalition and their "nanny state policies"
Of course, that was before they got into power and then dictated what therapies qualified doctors could use some drugs for "for safety reasons"
#nzpol
Of course, that was before they got into power and then dictated what therapies qualified doctors could use some drugs for "for safety reasons"
#nzpol
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Both NZ Health Minister Simeon Brown and NZ PM Christopher Luxon complained about the Labour led Coalition and their "nanny state policies"
Of course, that was before they got into power and then dictated what therapies qualified doctors could use some drugs for "for safety reasons"
#nzpol
Of course, that was before they got into power and then dictated what therapies qualified doctors could use some drugs for "for safety reasons"
#nzpol
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“Trust us! Marginalising these communities more will absolutely bring down the cost of a KG of Mince and get your job back!”
November 20, 2025 at 4:47 AM
“Trust us! Marginalising these communities more will absolutely bring down the cost of a KG of Mince and get your job back!”
Hence why I'm only surprised to not have heard from the greens as a collective
People are saying how Hipkins should say something about the anti trans policy that came out. However we need to remember his is the party who didn't ban Posie Parker who didn't include anti LGBTQ hate speech on the hate speech laws and who didn't stand up for Benjamin Doyle besides Verrall #nzpol
"Labour care deeply about the queer community"
Meanwhile Ted Greensmith-West who had multiple roles within Labour:
No one can convince me yet they won't go the Starmer Route.
Meanwhile Ted Greensmith-West who had multiple roles within Labour:
No one can convince me yet they won't go the Starmer Route.
November 20, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Hence why I'm only surprised to not have heard from the greens as a collective
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“For anyone who believes that Aotearoa is a country worth living in, this cannot stand.”
Puberty blockers banned: The reality of raising a trans child in 2025
Puberty blockers banned: The reality of raising a trans child in 2025
A parent shares their experience and fears as the government bans new prescriptions of puberty blockers for gender-affirming care....
thespinoff.co.nz
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
“For anyone who believes that Aotearoa is a country worth living in, this cannot stand.”
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Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa (PATHA) condemns decision by Minister of Health Simeon Brown to ban new prescriptions of GnRH analogues (puberty blockers) for transgender children and young people who are not currently on them.
#NZpol 💗🤍💙⚕️
Full release at patha.nz/news
#NZpol 💗🤍💙⚕️
Full release at patha.nz/news
November 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa (PATHA) condemns decision by Minister of Health Simeon Brown to ban new prescriptions of GnRH analogues (puberty blockers) for transgender children and young people who are not currently on them.
#NZpol 💗🤍💙⚕️
Full release at patha.nz/news
#NZpol 💗🤍💙⚕️
Full release at patha.nz/news
This! It will be very intentional
Government bans puberty blockers on the day before trans day of remembrance after soliciting public feedback on trans medical care and then sitting on it for months and months and months.
#nzpol
#nzpol
November 19, 2025 at 6:01 AM
This! It will be very intentional
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Government bans puberty blockers on the day before trans day of remembrance after soliciting public feedback on trans medical care and then sitting on it for months and months and months.
#nzpol
#nzpol
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Government bans puberty blockers on the day before trans day of remembrance after soliciting public feedback on trans medical care and then sitting on it for months and months and months.
#nzpol
#nzpol
This is not "following evidence" or "best practice". It is nothing but politics it is intentionally ignoring all the countries who are doing the opposite including neighbours like Oz. The evidence is simply that this is another way the government is interfering with PRIVATE medical decisions.
The Government is banning new patients from being prescribed the most common form of puberty blocker and is explicitly aligning NZ's future policy on this matter to the UK's. PR below.
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
This is not "following evidence" or "best practice". It is nothing but politics it is intentionally ignoring all the countries who are doing the opposite including neighbours like Oz. The evidence is simply that this is another way the government is interfering with PRIVATE medical decisions.
And how many redundancies have happened over the last say 18 months? Less overall $$ to buy more expensive locally made essentials
#nzpol
The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of:
- Food prices up 4.7%
- Fruit up 11%
- Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2%
- Bread up 11.4%
- Cheese up 14.8%
- Eggs up 16.2%
- Electricity up 11.8%
Laser-focused on the cost of living
The minimum wage increased by 1.5% this year. Data today from Stats NZ shows annual increases of:
- Food prices up 4.7%
- Fruit up 11%
- Beef up 17.4%, Lamb up 32.2%
- Bread up 11.4%
- Cheese up 14.8%
- Eggs up 16.2%
- Electricity up 11.8%
Laser-focused on the cost of living
November 17, 2025 at 7:01 AM
And how many redundancies have happened over the last say 18 months? Less overall $$ to buy more expensive locally made essentials
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And now we're supposed to believe roadside 'drug testing' won't be heinously abused by them to garner revenue and to target poor ppl 🤪👍👍
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 AM
And now we're supposed to believe roadside 'drug testing' won't be heinously abused by them to garner revenue and to target poor ppl 🤪👍👍
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Tamatha Paul speaking for the Greens; starts with acknowledging the mana of mcSkimming's victim.
"Its particularly stinging to have to discuss this matter on this day" - because its meant to be about remembering victims of abuse and instead we're again talking about abusers #nzqt
"Its particularly stinging to have to discuss this matter on this day" - because its meant to be about remembering victims of abuse and instead we're again talking about abusers #nzqt
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Tamatha Paul speaking for the Greens; starts with acknowledging the mana of mcSkimming's victim.
"Its particularly stinging to have to discuss this matter on this day" - because its meant to be about remembering victims of abuse and instead we're again talking about abusers #nzqt
"Its particularly stinging to have to discuss this matter on this day" - because its meant to be about remembering victims of abuse and instead we're again talking about abusers #nzqt
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Created Google NotebookLM instance on IPCA Report 'Review of Police handling of complaints against Jevon McSkimming'. notebooklm.google.com/notebook/13f... Has a number of resources for New Zealanders to grasp what's in 135-page PDF. Important to render this material accessible to widest audience.
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Created Google NotebookLM instance on IPCA Report 'Review of Police handling of complaints against Jevon McSkimming'. notebooklm.google.com/notebook/13f... Has a number of resources for New Zealanders to grasp what's in 135-page PDF. Important to render this material accessible to widest audience.
100% I could tell many stories, but not my place, except my own. Despite a signed confession of multiple sexual acts & rape. Our recounts matched except for where the cis man admitted prior acts when I was too out of it to have known. Not only did he walk out of the police station uncharged 1/2
The problem for women in NZ has always been cis men & the lack of consequences for them if they commit SA/DV/abuse - especially men in positions of power at work or in sports.Their prospects, potential, promotions, reputations, businesses come 1st - it’s said out loud, it’s not even a secret. #nzpol
“The belief appears to be based on the proposition that Police are justified in not undertaking, or in curtailing, an investigation into a sexual assault allegation if it would jeopardise a suspect's work or promotion prospects “
A belief that’s entrenched in the police and in NZ. #nzpol
A belief that’s entrenched in the police and in NZ. #nzpol
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
100% I could tell many stories, but not my place, except my own. Despite a signed confession of multiple sexual acts & rape. Our recounts matched except for where the cis man admitted prior acts when I was too out of it to have known. Not only did he walk out of the police station uncharged 1/2
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If you'd told me that a speaker at the Free Speech Union conference would call for banning non-Christian public expressions of faith to an applauding crowd, I would have said yes, obviously that is going to happen newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/10/t...
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
If you'd told me that a speaker at the Free Speech Union conference would call for banning non-Christian public expressions of faith to an applauding crowd, I would have said yes, obviously that is going to happen newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/10/t...
I'm really confused TPM have infighting & suddenly it's "Māori aren't ready for parliament"
There are many "pākeha" based parties & them all fighting internally & externally doesn't get framed as "pakeha aren't ready for parliament"
Why do too many consider only pakeha allowed diversity of thought?
There are many "pākeha" based parties & them all fighting internally & externally doesn't get framed as "pakeha aren't ready for parliament"
Why do too many consider only pakeha allowed diversity of thought?
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I'm really confused TPM have infighting & suddenly it's "Māori aren't ready for parliament"
There are many "pākeha" based parties & them all fighting internally & externally doesn't get framed as "pakeha aren't ready for parliament"
Why do too many consider only pakeha allowed diversity of thought?
There are many "pākeha" based parties & them all fighting internally & externally doesn't get framed as "pakeha aren't ready for parliament"
Why do too many consider only pakeha allowed diversity of thought?
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November 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 6:22 AM
sigh and the subtle or not so subtle triggering of not only rainbow kids but think are the higher % of boys with long hair this may have happened to - Māori & Pacifica.
What the effing fugging hell is this crap????
Ok, so who writes this stuff..pedophiles???
#nzpol #NCEAlevel2exams #educationnz #EricaStanford
English exam asks students to write about long-haired boy being bullied, forced to drop pants www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Ok, so who writes this stuff..pedophiles???
#nzpol #NCEAlevel2exams #educationnz #EricaStanford
English exam asks students to write about long-haired boy being bullied, forced to drop pants www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
English exam asks students to write about long-haired boy being bullied, forced to drop pants
A student and teacher spoken to by RNZ said the text, which appeared in the NCEA level 2 exam, made them feel very uncomfortable.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
sigh and the subtle or not so subtle triggering of not only rainbow kids but think are the higher % of boys with long hair this may have happened to - Māori & Pacifica.
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Aotearoa, 2025, Indigenous people have to ASK for their language to be taught in school? This govt will ignite all sorts of racism & ‘culture wars’ to distract us all from theft of public good & their path to full alignment with far right authoritarian regimes #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...?
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...?
Schools only legally obliged to teach te reo Māori if parents ask for it under law change
Some teacher and principal groups have reacted angrily to the government's sudden change which took them by surprise.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Aotearoa, 2025, Indigenous people have to ASK for their language to be taught in school? This govt will ignite all sorts of racism & ‘culture wars’ to distract us all from theft of public good & their path to full alignment with far right authoritarian regimes #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...?
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...?