Awesomely schools across NZ are seeing massive absenteeism spikes this winter (e.g. 140+ kids out at Pt Chevalier School with Flu A). So why the flying fuck is Health New Zealand is actively advising parents to send mildly symptomatic kids to school. 🧵/1

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Agree that needs to be questioned but we should all know by now hearsay doesn’t mean shit and can be damaging to someone’s reputation

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man it's a minor point but illustrative of how poorly thought-out all this is: NZF's gender definition bill would break a bunch of conservation/hunting/fishing legislation because 'adult human female' specifies 'human' and so suddenly female deer (for example) don't count as female

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One day, if Colossal Biosciences founder Ben Lamm has his way, there will be warehouses full of wombs. He’s starting with chickens. Colossal, the de-extinction company valued at $10.3 billion, announced this week that it has created an artificial egg

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A little bit of me (the biochemist) wants the laugh of how will they attempt to weasel the meaning of "biological" in a way that actually excludes trans people without also excluding cis people. But most of me is red hot angry that once again a small minority is targeted, so many ways from Sunday.

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