⚠️📸 📱 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.

Doh. Had replies turned off 🙃

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.

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)

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

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

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

They are telling passengers to not press the emergency alarm unless there’s an emergency as it can “delay the process”.

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

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

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

Exclusive from me: Aidan Maese-Czeropski, also known as the “Senate Twink”, has broken his silence for the first time since becoming embroiled in a scandal involving allegations he had sex in a US Senate hearing room

TPG statement:

"Connectivity is being gradually restored for customers, although some business platforms continue to be affected. We are working on restoring all services as soon as possible. We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused customers and thank them for their patience."

TPG statement: "A storm related power outage and generator failure at our Sydney datacentre disrupted broadband services for our consumer and business customers this evening.

I haven't been able to turn on my smart lights since about 5.30pm. Smart lights, man - Smart, but also very dumb when the internet goes down and they can't connect to their central server. Maybe there is something to the local hub model...

TPG fixed-lined services — including Vodafone, iiNet, Internode and Kogan — have been down for multiple hours now in Australia. Preliminary information, quote tweeted below, suggests its cause is similar in nature to that of the Optus outage of 2023

Despite strong hints from Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras on Friday suggesting that Australian singer-songwriter Troye Sivan would perform at its official after-party, his Australian record label’s publicist has denied any such plans | @bengrubb

Sydney Mardi Gras members have narrowly rejected a proposal to lobby for Mardi Gras parade day to be recognised as a public holiday, voting 483 to 468 against it during the organisation's annual general meeting on Saturday | @bengrubb