True but also we don’t have a huge population, and there have been a number of newer surgeons taking on the challenge in the last couple of years

Yeah, notable that he was thrown out in a landslide partially due to being way too overtly conservative-Christian for the population

Pretty sure that was under the previous overtly religious right-wing government that the country threw out after covid. Current government is disappointingly centrist and cowardly about things but isn’t hostile to queer people in the same way

In particular they’ve tried with the uk version in a couple of ways and so far it has been shut down by courts. They have sadly made progress with the ‘but the kids’ us variant in Queensland but hopefully that will get overruled by the move to have national standards of care that’s underway

Seconding that re vibes, I’ve been out in public as trans since covid lockdowns ended in several cities and only ever had transphobic incidents from obviously drunk people, and only a couple of times overall

To be clear I don’t mean they are suspicious of trans people re. Drugs, I mean the general stance is to avoid handing out needles you can use that way for *any* medical purpose if they can

Notable also that while you can get hrt pretty easily most surgeries people would want aren’t covered by national healthcare or fully by private healthcare so you end up paying a lot out of pocket for them. There is an ongoing process to potentially change that though

As an Australian (using pellets, which have been great for me), I think it’s mostly a generalised dislike of giving people access to those kinds of needles due to paranoia they will get used for drugs

The TERFs consider ‘doing nothing’ offensive if trans people have any rights at all. Albo not following other countries into being officially transphobic is therefore enough to upset them

That one in red is the palatine hill, where the imperial palaces looked over the circus maximus

It gives some grounding to the portrayal while still having the flexibility to tell whatever story the current murder requires

I also appreciate how internally consistent the flashes we get are, no surprise that a gay man from the south would have a complicated relationship with a religious mother and ended up an atheist. It gives the sense that Rian and Daniel know who he is, they just aren’t focused on sharing the detail

I do think glass onion is the most quotable, but it felt less surprising. The mockery of the deeply mockable was fun but not as interesting as a commentary on more day-to-day awful people 🤷‍♀️

I liked it more than at least glass onion, which was fun but didn’t feel as interesting

Yeah pretty much

The account musk claimed was him was very high on the leaderboard for progress in the active season at the time it came out

It was Path of Exile, and I forget the details but the person who was playing the account had to have been quite skilled to progress it as fast as had happened, so a specialist on the payroll is more likely