Simon Winter
@simonwinter.co.nz
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Aotearoa New Zealand
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
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There is money - it's about priorities. Low value roads or healthcare? Taxcuts for tobacco companies and landlords or education? These are real options that the govt has had.
There is money - it's about priorities. Low value roads or healthcare? Taxcuts for tobacco companies and landlords or education? These are real options that the govt has had.
"They know they can’t deliver all of these projects, but they want to pretend they still can. It seems that whatever the question, this government’s answer is 'More RoNS'. But more RoNs will bankrupt the nation."
In today's post, Matt Lowrie gets real on the costs of Roads of National Significance.
In today's post, Matt Lowrie gets real on the costs of Roads of National Significance.
Reality bites: RoNS will bankrupt the nation - Greater Auckland
The government’s Yesterday’s funding announcement on preparatory work includes this for the East West link: Funding of $102m to progress design, consenting and route protection. Hamilton Southern Link...
www.greaterauckland.org.nz
October 21, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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There is money - it's about priorities. Low value roads or healthcare? Taxcuts for tobacco companies and landlords or education? These are real options that the govt has had.
There is money - it's about priorities. Low value roads or healthcare? Taxcuts for tobacco companies and landlords or education? These are real options that the govt has had.
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Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Hundreds of teens with a health condition, disability may be cut from Jobseeker benefit
The government is ending Jobseeker payments to 18- and 19 year olds whose parents earn more than $65,000.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 8, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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This is a policy with no basis in any analysis. It's designed to look tough. It actually makes them look thoughtless and out of touch. It's arbitrary, mean, and simply designed to disguise the fact that the government is failing young people. Is this what being back on track feels like?
October 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
This is a policy with no basis in any analysis. It's designed to look tough. It actually makes them look thoughtless and out of touch. It's arbitrary, mean, and simply designed to disguise the fact that the government is failing young people. Is this what being back on track feels like?
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Shades of the ferries and Dunedin hospital and the polytechs. Scrap the existing programme without warning or planning, create an expensive muddle, then replace it with something less good and more expensive. All for the sake of ideology.
#nzpol
#nzpol
Education Minister Erica Stanford accused of 'manufacturing a crisis'
Reforms will unleash a "tsunami of work", says a former school principal and NZQA executive.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Shades of the ferries and Dunedin hospital and the polytechs. Scrap the existing programme without warning or planning, create an expensive muddle, then replace it with something less good and more expensive. All for the sake of ideology.
#nzpol
#nzpol
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This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.
interestingengineering.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
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Countries that recently recognised Palestine e.g. UK, Canada, Australia, France etc. ALL put in conditions to exclude Hamas - our NZ govt is using it as a shield for their moral failures #nzpol
September 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Countries that recently recognised Palestine e.g. UK, Canada, Australia, France etc. ALL put in conditions to exclude Hamas - our NZ govt is using it as a shield for their moral failures #nzpol
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To the surprise of no-one, async Svelte of course works in @astro.build islands as well!
I just published a note with today's learnings and links to the lab: fubits.dev/notes/svelte...
I just published a note with today's learnings and links to the lab: fubits.dev/notes/svelte...
September 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
To the surprise of no-one, async Svelte of course works in @astro.build islands as well!
I just published a note with today's learnings and links to the lab: fubits.dev/notes/svelte...
I just published a note with today's learnings and links to the lab: fubits.dev/notes/svelte...
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Luxon himself handed me the Prime Minister's science prize last year. Let me say this in plain English: he's an idiot for running a govt who budgeted more for AI than for the Marsden fund. any journo reading this can quote me on it #nzpol
September 18, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Luxon himself handed me the Prime Minister's science prize last year. Let me say this in plain English: he's an idiot for running a govt who budgeted more for AI than for the Marsden fund. any journo reading this can quote me on it #nzpol
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I may be leaving parliament, but I’m certainly not leaving the kaupapa. Ka whawhai tonu mātou, ake ake ake! 🌿💚
September 8, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I may be leaving parliament, but I’m certainly not leaving the kaupapa. Ka whawhai tonu mātou, ake ake ake! 🌿💚
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I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
August 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
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rnz’s strategy under thompson has essentially been to make the people who actually listen to the station hate it in order to attract an audience that will never listen to it. genius lol
August 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
rnz’s strategy under thompson has essentially been to make the people who actually listen to the station hate it in order to attract an audience that will never listen to it. genius lol
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This is unforgiveable incompetence: NZ has spent $671m to get no ferries, rather than $551m to get new ferries that would be arriving within months to replace clapped-out ferries. This sort of mismanagement should bring down a government; amazingly, it's not even the worst example of their failings
Final cost of breaking South Korean ferry contract revealed
Final cost of breaking South Korean ferry contract revealed
The bill is now more than $600 million, after another $144m was added to the scrapped iReX ferry project cost.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 15, 2025 at 3:53 AM
This is unforgiveable incompetence: NZ has spent $671m to get no ferries, rather than $551m to get new ferries that would be arriving within months to replace clapped-out ferries. This sort of mismanagement should bring down a government; amazingly, it's not even the worst example of their failings
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Soooo the NZ Govt is now being criticised by internationally acclaimed climate scientists in the @financialtimes.com. Why? Because Luxon & co are manipulating maths to hide NZ's grossly oversized methane emissions instead of taking action to cut #climate pollution.
www.ft.com/content/2ea6...
#nzpol
www.ft.com/content/2ea6...
#nzpol
Scientists accuse New Zealand and Ireland of trying to cover up livestock emissions
‘Accounting trick’ to support methane-emitting sectors undermines fight against climate change, say researchers
www.ft.com
June 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Soooo the NZ Govt is now being criticised by internationally acclaimed climate scientists in the @financialtimes.com. Why? Because Luxon & co are manipulating maths to hide NZ's grossly oversized methane emissions instead of taking action to cut #climate pollution.
www.ft.com/content/2ea6...
#nzpol
www.ft.com/content/2ea6...
#nzpol
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The coolest thing I've ever done at the TT: a full, highly detailed, hour-long insight into riding the 37.73 mile course, recorded two-up on a bike with TT podium finisher Dom Herbertson! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMsc...
Onboard at the Isle of Man TT: Our ultimate circuit guide
YouTube video by The Race MotoGP
www.youtube.com
May 31, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The coolest thing I've ever done at the TT: a full, highly detailed, hour-long insight into riding the 37.73 mile course, recorded two-up on a bike with TT podium finisher Dom Herbertson! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMsc...
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As the UK and EU carve up fishing rights, I don't give a damn which party gets to trash our marine ecosystems by overexploiting fish populations, ripping up the seafloor and killing vast numbers of "non-target" animals. I just want this orgy of destruction to stop.
May 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
As the UK and EU carve up fishing rights, I don't give a damn which party gets to trash our marine ecosystems by overexploiting fish populations, ripping up the seafloor and killing vast numbers of "non-target" animals. I just want this orgy of destruction to stop.
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Hold on. It's unethical for the elected Mayor to do her job, because an unelected private citizen wants to be mayor one day and do it differently?
Unethical for Wellington council to sign more Golden Mile contracts, Andrew Little says
Unethical for Wellington council to sign more Golden Mile contracts, Andrew Little says
The Labour Party's candidate for Wellington mayor said he'd be disappointed to see the council march ahead with the plan.
www.rnz.co.nz
May 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Hold on. It's unethical for the elected Mayor to do her job, because an unelected private citizen wants to be mayor one day and do it differently?
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#nzpol The pay equity decision today – just before Mothers Day – takes employment law back decades. It will likely impact the earnings of hundreds of thousands of women, often working in some of the most poorly paid work. It will cost us all in the long-run. A 🧵 www.beehive.govt.nz/release/chan...
www.beehive.govt.nz
May 6, 2025 at 5:30 AM
#nzpol The pay equity decision today – just before Mothers Day – takes employment law back decades. It will likely impact the earnings of hundreds of thousands of women, often working in some of the most poorly paid work. It will cost us all in the long-run. A 🧵 www.beehive.govt.nz/release/chan...
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Deeply concerning that Israeli Govt has determined to conquer #Gaza & occupy it militarily. What of the hostages? What of humanitarian relief for a starving population? What of a peace process to end the deadly cycle of violence? Why is world just watching? www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/m...
Netanyahu vows to relocate Gaza’s population after security cabinet approves plan to ‘conquer’ the enclave | CNN
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the population of Gaza will be displaced to the south after his security cabinet approved an expanded military operation in the enclave that a minister d...
www.cnn.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Deeply concerning that Israeli Govt has determined to conquer #Gaza & occupy it militarily. What of the hostages? What of humanitarian relief for a starving population? What of a peace process to end the deadly cycle of violence? Why is world just watching? www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/m...
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Intellectual discourse in Mt Cook
March 1, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Intellectual discourse in Mt Cook
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Nominating Zelenskyy for a Nobel Peace Prize for not punching that orange prick in the face.
March 1, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Nominating Zelenskyy for a Nobel Peace Prize for not punching that orange prick in the face.
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I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date
February 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date
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