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Hey, y’all! Just another random, loudmouthed, opinionated, Southern-fried nerdy American living abroad.

I’m moving off kbin to lemmy, so I won’t be posting from here (unless kbin social gets it together).

Mastodon: @stopthatgirl7 Lemmy: [email protected]

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www.nbcnews.com Black women are six times more likely to be killed than white women, data reveals

The paper included a decade’s worth of data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention among Black women ages 25 to 44 across 30 states.

Black women are six times more likely to be killed than white women, data reveals
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www.bbc.com Ghana's anti-LGBTQ+ bill: President Akufo-Addo to wait for Supreme Court ruling

Nana Akufo-Addo says he will not assent to the anti-LGBTQ+ bill until a Supreme Court ruling.

Ghana's anti-LGBTQ+ bill: President Akufo-Addo to wait for Supreme Court ruling
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www.rawstory.com Girls basketball team banned from boys league after reaching championship

A sixth-grade girls' basketball team from northern Kentucky was banned from a boys' basketball league after romping through the regular season to reach the championship.The squad from Next Level Girls Basketball notched a 7-1 record in a city-wide basketball league run by Southwestern Ohio Basketbal...

Girls basketball team banned from boys league after reaching championship

A sixth-grade girls' basketball team from northern Kentucky was banned from a boys' basketball league after romping through the regular season to reach the championship.The squad from Next Level Girls Basketball notched a 7-1 record in a city-wide basketball league run by Southwestern Ohio Basketball and was preparing for the championship when league president Tom Sunderman notified the athletic academy that it would be too risky to let them play for the title, reported WVXU-FM.

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RE: Is Ernest still here?
  • Agreed with all of this.

  • Trump’s White House Was ‘Awash in Speed’ — and Xanax

    www.rollingstone.com Trump's White House Was 'Awash in Speed' -- and Xanax

    Under Trump, the White House Medical Unit was “like the Wild West,” and staffers had easy access to powerful stimulants and sedatives, sources say.

    Trump's White House Was 'Awash in Speed' -- and Xanax
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    www.bbc.com Outrage over Brazilian tourist's gang rape in India

    The woman and her husband were on a motorbike tour in India when the alleged assault took place.

    Outrage over Brazilian tourist's gang rape in India
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    www.bbc.com Outrage over Brazilian tourist's gang rape in India

    The woman and her husband were on a motorbike tour in India when the alleged assault took place.

    Outrage over Brazilian tourist's gang rape in India
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    www.bbc.com Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images

    Faked images of black voters with Trump are a growing disinformation trend in the US election, the BBC finds.

    Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images
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    www.bbc.com Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images

    Faked images of black voters with Trump are a growing disinformation trend in the US election, the BBC finds.

    Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images
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    www.dailykos.com West Virginia's schools might be forced to pay for 'In God We Trust' signage

    West Virginia’s almost entirely Republican state Senate passed a bill in late January that would require schools in the state to display “In God We Trust'' signs—in every single classroom. ...

    West Virginia's schools might be forced to pay for 'In God We Trust' signage
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    Unmoderated and now extremely delayed federation - is it time to move?
  • Is there a list anywhere of different kbin instances? I don’t want to give up on kbin, but I might have to give up on social.

  • Is Ernest still here?
  • That’s about where I am, honestly. I’m starting to look for alternatives.

    I can deal with the site having the occasional problem, but I can’t deal with absolutely no communication at all when things break down. Kbin has gotten too big to be a one-person operation.

    This is now the fourth post I’ve seen about people starting to get fed up, and honestly, you know people are starting to hit their limits once people start making posts about their frustrations. I bet a lot of folks have just quietly given up or moved to lemmy or mbin because they’ve gotten frustrated with all the issues.

    I’m a pretty patient person and can put up with a lot of goofiness on a site, as long as there’s some kind of communication happening. But there’s none.

  • Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is expected to release "later this year", says industry insider
  • From what I heard, they were dropping from four companions to three, Mass Effect style, and wanted the combat to be more like God of War. So my fear is it’s gonna be like Andromeda, where you can’t control your companions’ abilities at all.

  • Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is expected to release "later this year", says industry insider
  • At this point, I won’t believe it’s actually coming out until it’s actually for sale. I also don’t have any high hopes for it being very good if it does come out.

  • where are kbin admins?
  • It’s really frustrating because kbin has gotten too big to still basically be a one-man operation. Unless he lets other people take over some things, the wheels are gonna fall off sooner rather than later.

  • Ethics bill would ban ‘pay-to-play’ political donations from companies with government contracts

    The state of Tennessee every year pays billions to private companies that have contracts to perform government work. And, in some cases, those companies then make sizable campaign contributions directly to the politicians who influence whether those agreements are approved. To the public, this looks like “pay-to-play” politics, according to Sen. London Lamar, D-Memphis, and Rep. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, who are introducing groundbreaking anti-corruption legislation to put an end to this practice.

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    www.nbcnews.com Arizona bill would make shooting and killing migrants on property legal

    A Democrat Latina lawmaker opposed to the legislation said it would "allow open season on migrants."

    Arizona bill would make shooting and killing migrants on property legal
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    thehill.com Georgia state House passes bill allowing police to arrest anyone suspected of being in country illegally

    The Georgia state House passed a bill that allows for anyone suspected of being in the United States illegally to be arrested. The state House voted 97-74 to approve House Bill 1105, which would al…

    Georgia state House passes bill allowing police to arrest anyone suspected of being in country illegally
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    www.thedailybeast.com Victim’s Family Slams Gov. for Pardoning NFL Coach’s Son

    “How would the governor feel if this was his daughter?” Ariel Young’s mother told The Daily Beast after the son of Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid had his sentence commuted.

    Victim’s Family Slams Gov. for Pardoning NFL Coach’s Son
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    arstechnica.com AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET’s reliability rating

    Futurism report highlights the reputational cost of publishing AI-generated content.

    AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET’s reliability rating
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    Racial Turnout Gap Has Widened With a Weakened Voting Rights Act, Study Finds
  • Which is exactly what the Republicans wanted.

  • apnews.com Oregon lawmakers pass bill to recriminalize drug possession

    The Oregon Legislature has passed a bill that recriminalizes the possession of small amounts of drugs. The Senate approved the measure Friday.

    Oregon lawmakers pass bill to recriminalize drug possession
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    Alleged cult leader 'Natureboy' learns his sentence after being found guilty of rape

    DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A judge sentenced alleged cult leader Eligio Bishop to life without parole plus 10 years after a jury found him guilty of rape and other charges Friday.

    The 40-year-old, known as "Natureboy," is the alleged leader of the "Carbon Nation" group. He was arrested in April 2022. A grand jury later indicted him on five charges, including rape in July 2022.

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    plus.flux.community The right wing freakout about a viral dance video is about so much more

    There's a war inside the Republican party over how many rights to take away from women

    The right wing freakout about a viral dance video is about so much more
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    A young woman’s killing in Georgia stokes a familiar rightwing war
  • The second I saw the guy who killed her was an immigrant, I just KNEW the shit was gonna hit the fan.

  • Federation Delays
  • I don’t actually mind stuff not getting seen, it’s more not knowing if the site is going to error out when I try to look at it or check replies. Trying to access the site, or trying to upvote things, and getting error messages that are less than useful gets old fast.

  • Federation Delays
  • I really like kbin, but honestly, with as unstable as it is and how little information is coming out about what’s going on (seriously, there needs to at least be a Mastodon account we can check for updates or information when kbin social is down), I’m seriously considering making a lemmy account and moving over. It’s frustrating, because I do really prefer kbin, but this is beyond frustrating.

  • ‘Switch 2’ is targeting March 2025 and was delayed to avoid shortages, new report claims
  • Why would they? What Nintendo is doing works really well for Nintendo. They’re over 100 years old (which is considered a young company in Kyoto!) and are not about chasing the best and shiniest, but what works best for their continued long-term survival. They will always do their own thing and at their own pace.

  • Hobbycraft refused to sell paint to black man as ‘he may use it for graffiti’
  • Please try to be a serious person.

    I never once claimed to be a “victim,” so don’t put words in my mouth. But racism is real and it happens, no matter how much some folks really want to pretend it’s just folks looking to be “victims.”

  • Hobbycraft refused to sell paint to black man as ‘he may use it for graffiti’
  • Dude is literally the same color as I am, a light-skinned Black person, going by the picture, and yes, I’ve had clerks follow me in stores and white women clutch their purses when I pass, and every man in my family, all of whom are that color, have a “being pulled over by the cops” story, so I’m not exactly sure what you’re trying to do here.

  • Larian is working on official mod support for Baldur's Gate 3 and it'll be cross-platform: 'We love our modding community and we want to support them'
  • You can skip those. I’m not sure what the keyboard command is, but on controller, hit triangle or Y when you roll. It goes straight to the final result.

  • Disturbing AI Images of Children Found for Sale on Shutterstock
  • A “young girl” would be a “child,” And multiple young girls would be children. 🤨

  • Alabama Supreme Court Cites the Bible in Terrifying Embryo Ruling
  • The Fourth Great Awakening is the worst thing to have happened to modern America.

  • Murder victim Kelly Wilkinson repeatedly visited police in fear. They said she was ‘cop shopping’
  • It was incel nonsense blaming the murdered woman for not picking a nice guy and complaining about nice guys being lonely. You missed nothing by not being able to read it.

  • Murder victim Kelly Wilkinson repeatedly visited police in fear. They said she was ‘cop shopping’
  • Please go to therapy to work out your weird issues with women.

  • Nintendo Is Telling Game Publishers Switch 2 Will Be Delayed
  • I’m not really surprised. Nintendo tends to run on its own schedule. They also might be hoping the yen strengthens so it won’t cost them as much to produce new consoles. Knowing Nintendo, they’ll want to have enough in stock to not have supply problems like Sony did with the PS5.