G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿

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G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿

@BioinfoTools

Computational biologist & science writer. See pinned thread. New Zealander, traveller, cyclist. Joined 2009. NotJustDNA in other forums. New website coming.

Dunedin, New Zealand Joined Ekim 2009
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G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿
Science writer and computational biologist. Available internationally for comp. biology, writing, editing. Enquiries welcome: DM me, or email nzibis (gmail). RTs ≠ endorsements. Opinions are my own. Currently I'm in New Zealand🇳🇿 (Previously in SE Asia and Europe.) 1/
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G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿
@nzfirst The goal posts shift further! First "they closed it", then "approved it", now "allowed it"😄 The shareholders closed the refinery. Fact. Govt chose to not *take over* it using tax payer $$ Your lot dropped more storage to balance it. Trying to deflect… x.com/BioinfoTools/s…
G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿@BioinfoTools

@winstonpeters Slipping even further away. This is nothing to do with closing a plant; it also HAS to be presented as both sides: the cost of *taking over* the plant using taxpayers money v. what you might get from it. Presenting only one side is a form of lying, too. x.com/BioinfoTools/s…

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@winstonpeters Slipping even further away. This is nothing to do with closing a plant; it also HAS to be presented as both sides: the cost of *taking over* the plant using taxpayers money v. what you might get from it. Presenting only one side is a form of lying, too. x.com/BioinfoTools/s…
G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿@BioinfoTools

@mangonui08 Interesting language "shifts" on this. Originally it was "close", now it’s "approving of" closure – by the commercial shareholders. That’s not even right either. I’m wondering what shift will be next! Good background on what actually happened: stuff.co.nz/politics/36095…

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Winston Peters
Winston Peters@winstonpeters·
Do you remember this? We do.
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Shane Jones
Shane Jones@mangonui08·
This is a consequence of the last Government approving the closure of the refinery
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Shane Jones@mangonui08·
The only reason we're having to recommission Marsden Point storage is because Megan Woods closed it down.
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Iris Shackleton
Iris Shackleton@irisshackleton·
It’s that time of yr when I qualify for another free trial of Prime tv. I’ve already binge watched Lioness, what a show! 4 eps in & it occurred to me it was female dominated. How good is it to see a military/action show & it’s not gender struggle drama, just powerful characters?
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New Zealand First@nzfirst·
WATCH NOW: Shane Jones blasts Labour for closing Marsden Point: "Megan Woods said 'We have the option of maintaining a refinery capacity, but it requires an active decision by Government.' Well, that Government made an active decision to close the refinery." Watch the full head-to-head in the comments below👇
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Nicola Willis
Nicola Willis@NicolaWillisMP·
We know that the conflict in the Middle East is adding pressure to hardworking New Zealanders. We are delivering temporary, timely support that is targeted to low-to-middle income working families with children. It is a $50 per week boost for eligible households (those earning up to $89,000 for a family with one child, $112,000 for a family with two children, and $135,000 with three). It's temporary support from the start of April for 12 months, or until the price of 91 drops below $3 a litre for four consecutive weeks. We cannot control global oil markets or international conflicts. And we also can’t risk repeating Covid mistakes, where too much spending more than doubled debt and pushed inflation and mortgage rates too high. Kiwis are still grappling with the effects of that today. But we can get the balance right - softening the impact on working families who cannot easily avoid higher fuel costs in a responsible and well-targeted way.
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New Zealand First@nzfirst·
Shane Jones: The last Labour Government made a reckless decision and approved the closure of Marsden Point.
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G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿
G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿@BioinfoTools

@DrAseemMalhotra This position is not *New Zealand’s*. This is the work of a single MP who has gone rogue that a lazy Prime Minister will not address, presumably on the lame excuse that the PM "has" to allow this because of the coalition agreement he struck to gain power.

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Rebekah Barnett
Rebekah Barnett@dystopian_DU·
It is ironic that the island nation that made world headlines for going off the deep end during Covid under Prime Minister and ‘single source of truth’ Jacinda Ardern is now one of the few member states pushing back on WHO pandemic reforms.
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G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿
@FmrRepMTG Rubbish. The committee set out to frame some researchers to create a political target to "blame", using false claims. The vaccine wasn’t developed until after the first DNA sequence of the virus was available—in the second week of January 2020. No way to make it before then!
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Matthew Horncastle
Matthew Horncastle@matt_horncastle·
New Zealand should exit the World Health Organization. Not because we reject science or medicine, but because we reject outsourcing sovereignty. We pay around ten million dollars a year to an unelected international bureaucracy that has no democratic accountability to New Zealanders, yet increasingly seeks influence over our domestic health policy. That is not cooperation. That is submission. Health decisions should be made in New Zealand, by New Zealanders, with full responsibility for the outcomes. Not by officials in Geneva who bear none of the economic, social, or civil liberties costs when policies are wrong. The United States has already left. The largest economy in the world has decided that national sovereignty matters more than compliance with global institutions. That should give small countries pause. Advice is fine. Data sharing is fine. Cooperation is fine. Authority is not. No international body should ever have standing power over our laws, our people, or our bodies. Once decision making leaves the nation state, it rarely returns. Freedom is not negotiable. Sovereignty is not divisible. New Zealand should leave the WHO.
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G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿
@Apple I used to like your products. Now they feature endless fails. Try to display AppleTV+ on an external screen? Amateur hour effort. FAIL. Try mask a numberplate in a photo? – it insists on altering the brightness. That’s for *me* to choose. FAIL. And on it goes. Fail after fail 😔
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Apple
Apple@Apple·
The wait is over. Introducing the new iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone Air, iPhone 17, Apple Watch Ultra 3, Apple Watch Series 11, Apple Watch SE 3, AirPods Pro 3, and more.
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Robby Starbuck
Robby Starbuck@robbystarbuck·
If the person holding this camera has both the 2nd amendment and a gun, both of these filthy terrorists would be dead and lives would have been saved. I’ll never live in a society where I as a law abiding citizen can’t carry a gun for protection.
Visegrád 24@visegrad24

BREAKING: Full 10-minute video of the terrorist attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney against the Jewish community on the first day of Hanukkah. The attacker fired continuously for over five minutes, discharging more than 75 rounds. 🇦🇺

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G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿
@winstonpeters TBC: I don’t have a strong position on the issue itself, as I don’t think that’s for me to have. I do object strongly to the political process used (and its undemocratic nature). This should to be between the patient, doctors, & parents for younger patients, not sweeping overrule
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Winston Peters
Winston Peters@winstonpeters·
Puberty blocker legislation is not based on politics. It’s based on keeping our kids safe from woke ideological ferals who think it’s ok to expose vulnerable children to unsafe and unproven chemicals. It’s based on letting kids be kids and stopping turning our society into a plaything for extremist lefty losers.
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