DUTCH GP 2025 🇳🇱 - RACE DAY: Toto and his wild hair did a post-race interview with Ariana Bravo on F1TV.
Prior to the interview, he was speaking with Kimi who we know ultimately finished P17 after receiving a 10-second penalty for his race incident with Charles Leclerc and a 5-sec penalty for speeding in the pit lane. He added that for young drivers, it can be difficult to strike the right balance between going for it and the possibility of an incident (as happened for Kimi)
Toto spoke about how the team wants this year to be a 'learning year' for Kimi and for him to be able to learn from any mistakes he may make along the way. He said: "Mistakes this year is one thing, but next year, we don't want to do them anymore e.g Speeding or Collisions." But for now he says, mistakes are allowed.
Ariana asked him about the overtaking incident that also occured between George and Charles Leclerc (George ultimately finished P4, despite damage to the floor) and the pending investigation into the incident.
Toto said that they obviously don't want Charles to end up with a grid penalty in Monza, especially because he ultimately got taken out by another one of their Mercedes cars. But on the other side, he doesn't believe it was an overtaking spot and he'd rather say it was Charles' fault.
I typed this out whilst listening to the interview @ 4am on a Monday morning (NZ Time) so I apologize if it might not make complete sense. But hopefully, you get the jist 🩵
Fellow authors: Cursed Morsels opens tomorrow (March 7th through March 21st) for submissions for their upcoming zines!
It's open to all writers who write horror and weird fiction, as well as poetry and nonfiction so long as it sticks to the themes. Max word count is 500 and they pay 0.10c per word.
You can go over their submission guidelines on their site.
Note: I am in no way affiliated with Cursed Morsels. I just know a lot of folks aren't on BlueSky and I wanted to spread the word because they're a real neat indie press.
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Issue #11: Liminal Workplaces (Weird fiction, nonfiction, and poetry). 500 words max.
Issue #12: Endlings (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about the last living individual of a species). 500 words max.
Issue #13: Strange Entries in the Guinness Book of World Records. 500 words max.
Issue #14: Inside Thoughts (horror and Weird fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about the “inside thoughts” we experience during times of apocalyptic capitalism and fascism, thoughts too taboo or dangerous to share out loud or online). 500 words max.
Issue #15: Sexy Ghosts (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry). 500 words max.
Special Issue for Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces: Family Legends (horror/Weird fiction and nonfiction). 500 words max. This special zine will be co-edited by D. Matthew Urban.
Ray of Hope wishes to raise S$375,000 to allow Sherry to receive treatment. This treatment will allow Sherry to maintain her quality of life
cross-posted from my facebook:
To borrow from the legendary Taylor Swift on her Eras Tour: it’s been a long time coming. For the past six months, after realising that SMA is progressing at a rapid rate in my body now and having a breakdown in part due to that, my mum and I reached out to Ray of Hope. We asked if they could help me with financial access to a $375,000/yr treatment that will halt the disease progression the way they helped baby Zayn and Devdan. We asked if we could fundraise for enough to stabilise my condition for a year, while we see what MOH does with supporting the treatment for SMA patients. Last Friday, my fundraiser was posted: https://rayofhope.sg/campaign/sherry/
It wasn’t an easy decision to ask Ray of Hope for help. At several points, I nearly pulled out. Firstly, it’s a sensitive issue to ask people for money, and doing so is intensely stigmastised in Singapore because healthcare and finances are seen as highly personal responsibilities. Second, I was worried about the impact public recognition might have on myself and my family. And third, did I really want to put a price tag on my life?
But facts are: I wasn’t the one who put a price tag on my life. The manufacturer of the treatment, Roche, was the one who put the $375K/yr price tag on my life and the lives of other SMA patients. (Which, by the way, is more than five times what the average non-disabled Singaporean earns.) And I’m fundraising because of my family as well. My brother Gabriel reminded me of that when he told me that, when I almost died in the hospital last September, he was afraid I’d die without seeing him fulfill his dream of becoming a doctor.
I want to be there for Gabriel at his med school graduation. I want to take my dad to Taylor Swift’s latest tour after he took me to her last Singapore show and said her music makes him feel young again. I want my mum to see me achieve greater things in my career after seeing she was far more ecstatic than I was about me contributing to Not Without Us, Singapore’s first Disability Studies anthology. I want to be there when my best friend Brianna Albers, who has used every opportunity she’s had to advocate for me to be treated, is a published novelist. I want to go to all the family events I’m invited to for years to come. I want to see who else God wants me to meet, because almost everyone I’ve met so far have been lights in the darkness.
It’s important to remember that time with our loved ones and fulfilling our dreams is a right every SMA patient should have. Without treatment or a miracle, the odds of us having those things decreases significantly with time. It used to be something we had to accept, but that’s not true anymore. And it’s why, if I don’t raise enough to fund the minimum span of time it would take for the treatment to stabilise me, whatever I’ve raised will go towards the next SMA patient fundraising through Ray of Hope. Because there will be more, and I want to do my part. And even if you can’t or don’t want to donate to me, I hope you do your part by spreading awareness of SMA, this life-saving treatment, and the injustice of its cost.
