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Master of Science with Distinction (Biochemistry) / Māmā Kāi Tahu / Pakeha She/Her/Ia 🏳️‍🌈 Will not engage with TRASH I will continue being "political" for at least as long as mere existence remains political. Thoughts are my own not any employers.

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scilion.bsky.social @scilion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Clean bias there, and I didn't even think they covered enough issues. #nzpol
Results card from "on the fence" for SciLion showing how they matched up with political parties on questions asked. 90.7% Greens, 88.5% Te Pāti Māori, 84.7% Labour, 81.9% The Opportunity Party, then a sharp drop to National 29%, NZ First 28%, and ACT 23.7%.
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scilion.bsky.social @scilion.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Decided to try emails in the sun. Said distraction says no.
Grey cat lying on a blanket in the sun.
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scilion.bsky.social @scilion.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Get home from seeing a group of rainbow kids & their friends living life/avoiding the politics coming for their existence. To then see this kind of rant from our own government. Especially about a proposed law that mentions gender identity by name. It is heartless, demoralizing, & vile. #Nzpol
Screenshot of Winston Peters Facebook
Text:
For all those rent-a-crowd protesters in Auckland today protesting against NZFirst’s bill to define in law what a man and woman is - this isn’t about you. 

You egotistical mouth-breathers can’t even figure out which flag to fly - is it Palestine, rainbow, or the Maori flag?

It may come as a surprise to you all but the universe doesn’t just revolve around you. Your egos are only matched by your learning difficulties. 

This bill is about protecting women and girls’ rights, freedoms, and safety. Not about what you decide to do with your private lives. 

You’re right about one thing, for us to have to legislate this basic biological reality shows how much the woke mind virus has spread in our society.
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scilion.bsky.social @scilion.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
remembered! Does this look like one of yours?
Beautiful square glass pieces necklace on a background of a palm/fingers. Glass pieces are greens and blues on a black base.
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scilion.bsky.social @scilion.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
And sadly as expected - seeing many of these on my feed now too. #nzpol
Picture of empty shelves at Stanmore New World. With a sign saying " Water temporarily sold out. Due to the water contamination, we are currently sold out. Restock coming in as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding.
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scilion.bsky.social @scilion.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The area of Ōtautahi currently known to be affected by bacteria. Those local will notice a lot of this is also areas where the smell from the poo ponds plant (effected by fire a few years back) is causing nausea and headaches to residents still.
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scilion.bsky.social @scilion.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Who needs 3 waters... #Nzpol
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scilion.bsky.social @scilion.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
alt text for remainder of letter see image above for the first two paragraphs.
third paragraph and signoff from Te ORA statement on banning puberty blockers by the NZ government. Rest in first image alt text.

The local and global condemnation of this decision by medical groups, advocacy groups and community providers is warranted. We wish to extend our complete support and advocate for our colleagues working in this space, including PATHA, who work to mitigate the immense harm this decision has caused and will continue to cause communities already experiencing the marginalisation that comes from hateful and oppressive ideologies. To the medical community, we urge all our colleagues to resist the move toward authoritarianism over our work, and to Rainbow, trans, and queer communities we say, Te ORA remains unmoved in our commitment to supporting gender affirming care.
Mauriora ki a tātou.
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scilion.bsky.social @scilion.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Support our trans youth. But even if you somehow don't the middle paragraph here from Te Ohu Rata o Aotearoa (Māori Medical Practitioner's Association) should concern EVERYONE. note the alt text only allowed first two paragraphs rest in next post. If someone knows a better way please share #nzpol
first two paragraphs from a letter from Te ORA statement on banning of puberty blockers by NZ government
Te Ohu Rata o Aotearoa (Te ORA), the Māori Medical Practitioner’s Association, wishes to express its condemnation of the unprecedented decision of the coalition government of NZ to ban the new prescribing of GnRH analogues as part of the life-affirming care of young New
Zealanders. This decision has removed the long-held responsibility of GnRH counseling and prescribing from health professionals who are trained in gender affirming healthcare with decades of local experience, who assert that GnRH analogues remain a useful and important adjunct to a broad range of care as part of a well-established component of gender affirming care for young people and their whānau.
It is astounding that a government should make such a direct decision about the regulation of a specific medicine, and Te ORA does not support such action. The medical profession is charged with facilitating careful and considered decision making regarding the implementation of medications into the care plan of a patient, including a discussion of the risks and benefits of a medication. Public trust in this process is a vital part of this. It has never occurred that a cabinet itself take on the role of medicines regulator. Foregoing established pathways for the regulation of medicines, the decision to single out and ban a
specific medication in this way would ordinarily be perplexing, given that it is completely at odds with the normal processes involved with reviewing medications – with that in mind, Te ORA can only conclude that the decision making process was purely political in nature.
Te ORA asserts that gender affirming care is a human right.
third paragraph in next image due to word count limits
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scilion.bsky.social @scilion.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Think I caught a peeping tom
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scilion.bsky.social @scilion.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
good old google found me a picture of him
low quality scanned image from Nelson paper in 1961 of a man (John Holloway) on a road bike winning a cycle race on a NZ street. With the caption "Holloway wins easily"
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scilion.bsky.social @scilion.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Thanks team I'll email today. Just letting you know it doesn't look like this account is set up to get pm from followers at this stage
Screenshot from @scilion showing chat functionality greyed out for the @tepaatimaori account for them
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scilion.bsky.social @scilion.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
And then there is this. The pick me up needed.
Comic strip by How Baby #416: universal advice with url howbabycomic.com
Top left pane: main adult character looking at cellphone with fire imagery coming from it. Top right: same scene but death imagery.
Middle pane: main adult character spying child character irl being happy with a love heart in child's speech bubble.
Bottom/last pane: child and adult holding hands adult smiling, child sharing wonder/thoughts. With inset words of
If the end times arrive while you have a sapling in your hand, finish planting it. - paraphrased from the Musnad Ahmod ibn Hanbal
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scilion.bsky.social @scilion.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This was an odd line up on my wall
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scilion.bsky.social @scilion.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Often found with a road cone added too - very NZ.
Gore fountain with big trout statue, with a typical orange road cone thrown up onto it.
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scilion.bsky.social @scilion.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Again asking if anyone knows where I can follow māori media over here as it looks like even sharing the census stats over on fb gets removed from my wall for breaching standards ...
Screenshot of Facebook post of mine that was removed for breach of community standard. It was Tahu News sharing infographics of māori statistics from the latest NZ census.
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scilion.bsky.social @scilion.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #428,017!
Bluesky generated picture showing the platform now has over 10 million users, and I was #428,017. Which is in the first 10% still.
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scilion.bsky.social @scilion.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
Oh and now its officially on my transcript yay.
Screen shot of University of Canterbury Student Transcript with the text: Awards 2024 Master of Science with Distinction Main Subject: Biochemistry
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scilion.bsky.social @scilion.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
This sadly fits in well with my Facebook memory that came up today.
A picture of a Facebook memory showing a lot of poorly spelt, racist words in a letter delivered to a number of mailboxes in Feilding, NZ in 2022.
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scilion.bsky.social @scilion.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
I got my grading back for my thesis and it's an "A". So I now can say I have a Masters in Biochemistry yay!
Congratulations!
The examination of your master's thesis has now been completed and you have been awarded a grade of 'A' for your thesis. Please find attached the examiners' reports. If you have any questions about your reports, please contact your supervisor or Graduate Research Coordinator (copied in here).
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