Was eating me up, so I had to dash off a letter to my federal member, Clare O’Neil.
So angry I sent it with registered post so I will know she gets it, if I get a pro forma response from one of her office apparatchiks I’ll be pissed.
I leaned into the grandfathers service, but fuck it, I live with the generational trauma, my dad met his father for the first time when he was 4, and never had a proper father son relationship, which was evident in my relationship with my father. he left as a tea totaling promising road cyclist and came back a chain smoking alcoholic, who died of lung cancer. My mums dad was worse, he saw shit in Borneo that would have him waking up screaming and when he was on the piss was violent, he died a slow death from oesophageal cancer. I cant accept that it was all for nothing.

Anyway, here is my letter and don’t get me wrong, I think Maduro is an authoritarian prick, and I know some will say what about Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, etc , but at least they tried to dress it up as something noble, this is a blatant, stripped-back resource grab and annexation, plain and simple.

Over the weekend, did you see the much-shared story on Reddit by a supposed whistleblower?

It started like this: "I’m a developer for a major food delivery app. The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it. I’m posting this from a library Wi-Fi on a burner laptop because I am technically under a massive NDA. I don’t care anymore."

Well, it was a fake.
https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/

#journalism #AI

Every Single Trans Person was once a trans kid.

And I've yet to meet a single trans person who transitioned as an adult who doesn't wish that they were able to come out and be themselves as a kid.

We're watching as one after another, politicians, hospitals and organizations and universities and schools are choosing to toss trans kids under the bus.

They're. Sacrificing. Children.

I will never forgive those who throw trans kids under the bus. Never.