Journalist and daddy to Instagram account @gaysydneynews. Runner, piano player, plane enthusiast, bad tweeter.
Sydney, Australia
Joined October 2007
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⚠️📸 📱 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.
Billionaire Lachlan Murdoch’s jet (N888NC) heads off to Melbourne from Sydney Airport earlier this afternoon globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao…
Qantas flight QF139 from Sydney to Christchurch just hit a bird shortly after take-off from Sydney Airport. "We hit it pretty square on," the pilot tells air traffic control.
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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/st…
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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/ma…
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/telecommun…
Wow
Sydney reached 42.2°C today, making this the city's hottest day in seven years and equal hottest December day on record.
Details here: weatherzone.com.au/news/sydn…
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) gaysydneynews.com.au/news/po…
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/mas…
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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/dar…
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.
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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/syd…
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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/wom…
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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/mar…
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 gaysydneynews.com.au/nsw/i-s…
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 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_O…
Someone at TPG cocked up. 1 million BGP announcements. Suspect no prefix filtering. That’s circa 30% of Australia offline and it’s gonna be down for a long time.. radar.cloudflare.com/routing…
TPG statement: xitter.cf/bengrubb/status/188892…
