Leitner bequeathed by the victim’s deceased grandmother: an old, fragile leather-bound book with brittle pages, affiliated with the Lonely. Its pages seem unusually sharp.
Bishop Curry V may be young (10 years old, to be precise), but the little kid from Texas has some big ideas. He’s currently working on a device that could help prevent children from dying in hot cars.
The number of children who died in hot cars increased across the country last year, and Texas had the highest number of cases. Sadly for Bishop, the issue also hits close to home because a baby died in a minivan last summer outside a home near his own family’s home in McKinney.
Bishop was inspired to create a device he calls “Oasis,” which would attach to a car seat and detect if a child is left inside the vehicle, prompting it to blow cool air until parents or the police are notified.
“It would be a dream to have lots of inventions that would save many lives,” the precocious 10-year-old told the news station.
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A lot of people don’t realize how easy it is to leave something in a hot car. It’s easy to forget something when it’s not in your daily routine, especially if it’s asleep or under a blanket or something. This is a nightmare. I don’t have kids myself, but I can absolutely understand how this could happen- everyone’s sick so you’re probably kind of out of it, you run in thinking you’re just going to be a minute, get distracted with the task at hand… and then your child dies in a horrific way because of it…
I’m all for any methods or technologies that can help prevent it from turning tragic.
If I wasn’t completely dead inside at the moment I might find it humorous that I was just asked where my “statement” was regarding the TERF Who Shall Not Be Named, and her latest transphobic, racist, 900 page fictional spiral into radical white nationalism and general mediocrity, and Gods willing, eventual obscurity into the footnotes of history as someone who had great cultural impact and influence with endless potential to be a platform for kindness, but ultimately chose to piss it away one tweet at a time in favor of being a hateful bigot.
But instead I’m just tired. I’m tired of so many things, including the aforementioned sack of sentient arseholes above who it now looks like went on a transphobic tirade as a marketing spin for her new book. Presumably because her career as a crime writing author has about as much integrity and substance as a wet paper bag; largely made up of recycled materials and easily shredded.
Anyway, here’s the donation page for The Trevor Project.
And here’s a list of over 100 books by Trans, Non Binary and Gender Non-Conforming authors.