Ben Grubb 🐛

⚠️📸 📱 I've been wanting to write a PSA article on this for a while, but this will do: We touch our smartphone camera lenses a lot, so when taking a photo you should clean it with your T-shirt at a bare minimum or a microfibre cloth. It'll make the images look so much better.

Stonewall Hotel Pty Ltd, the company behind the Oxford Street gay bar Stonewall Hotel, which was recently acquired by US-based Pride Holdings Group, has fallen into administration gaysydneynews.com.au/news/stonewall…

Sydney Gay and Lesbain Mardi Gras has been accused of stripping two sitting board directors of access to their official email accounts after they sent messages supporting transgender rights to members. | By @bengrubb gaysydneynews.com.au/news/mardi-gra…

@techAU True haha

If it really is an emergency, are you walking or running?

@SydneyMetro hi, can you please provide an update on the situation at Victoria Cross station, where a metro staffer is advising commuters of an “active fire”?

New from me: The Albanese government launched its new SMS "Sender ID" register less than three weeks ago without document-based ID verification, allowing anyone to register trusted sender names without the regulator verifying who they are afr.com/companies/tele…

Wow

@nickvrnn It's good now after installing the betas to try to get a fix faster. I think it came good after beta 1.

@bengrubb How is it going now? I got weirdly slowed down my mac on Sonoma and was not 100% sure if I should update to Tahoe or not. Mac m1 pro 16gb.

What’s everyone’s Mac OS upgrade to Tahoe OS 26 been like? I’ve been battling slowness, power drain and bugginess on an M1 MacBook Pro. User reports on Reddit seem to indicate others are facing similar issues. I’ve now jumped on the 26.1 public beta which has helped a little.

@bennyypr Did it get better? Mine started got much better after beta 1. I had to switch to the betas to try to get a fix quicker.

@bengrubb My MacBook Pro m1 2020 has been restarting by itself ever since i did the tahoe update…. It’s ridiculous

Doh. Had replies turned off 🙃

Police say they now want a jail sentence imposed on a 32-year-old man who has repeatedly used Grindr to catfish and defraud victims – only after the extent of his past offending was raised in court by a journalist (me) gaysydneynews.com.au/news/police-se…

New and exclusive from me: As resignations mount at Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, a blistering letter signed by nearly all staff raising concerns about the board’s appointment of a controversial interim CEO has leaked gaysydneynews.com.au/nsw/mass-exodu…

Review: Flash, a new weekly Sydney club night geared towards gay men, proves that a warm, sweaty, pop-infused, multi-level dance party still has a place in Sydney’s wintry months | By @bengrubb gaysydneynews.com.au/nsw/dark-sweat…

About 16 minutes in they’ve opened the door for people to get out. Metro remains stuck

Metro staff are now manually trying to open the doors to let us out

On a stuck metro train at Barangaroo towards Sydenham. Lights dimmed before we got to the station. Doors opened fine, then after they closed we’ve been unable to move. Eleven minutes and counting. Person on PA says mechanical issue.

Breaking: Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras CEO Gil Beckwith will step down in June, having made the decision to leave after a two-year period marked by community-focused initiatives, financial strain, and governance scrutiny | By @bengrubb gaysydneynews.com.au/nsw/sydney-mar…

Police will prepare a report for the coroner following the death of a 41-year-old woman at the Colombian Hotel in Surry Hills | By @bengrubb gaysydneynews.com.au/nsw/woman-foun…

Breaking: Brandon Bear has stepped down mid-term as co-chair and board director of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, just months after being re-elected at the organisation's most recent annual general meeting in December gaysydneynews.com.au/nsw/mardi-gras…