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: stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world
Christian Selig’s Goodbye to Apollo (mastodon.social)
I wrote a short goodbye post on Reddit as we enter the last hours of Apollo. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for the support over the years, it’s truly been the journey and dream of a lifetime building this app and meeting so many people. 🥰💙...
Publishers need to stop announcing games that are still years away from launch, gamers agree (www.gamingbible.com)
Gamers are urging developers to stop the frustrating trend of announcing new games years before they’re scheduled for release.
Abortion Pills Are Now *Free* in States with Abortion Bans, Through Community Support Networks - Ms. Magazine (msmagazine.com)
Networks and companies are offering free abortion pills for women in states with bans and selling them cheap and affordable in all 50 states.
The parliament of the German federal state of Rheinland Pfalz stops posting to X/Twitter and will use Mastodon instead. (social.heise.de)
Germany once again leading the Mastodon Migration
Ohio, Michigan Republicans In Released Audio: "Endgame" Is To Ban Trans Care "For Everyone" (www.erininthemorning.com)
In audio released Friday evening, senators and representatives from Ohio and Michigan revealed the "endgame" is to ban transgender care "for everyone."
Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery” (theintercept.com)
According to the former president, Americans are now experiencing "a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors."
Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits: "It's amateur hour" - Waxy.org (waxy.org)
An "amateur hour" Javascript bug is self-DDOSing Twitter, sending infinite requests from users related to — or possibly even causing — Elon Musk's "temporary emergency measures" to stop web scraping.
‘People need to be riled up’: meteorologist names US heatwaves after oil and gas giants (www.theguardian.com)
Guy Walton has christened two previous heatwaves this summer Amoco and BP in attempt to name and shame fossil fuel firms
Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events (www.propublica.org)
Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.
Biden signs historic order moving prosecution of military sexual assault outside chain of command (www.cnn.com)
President Joe Biden on Friday ordered a historic change to the Uniform Code of Military Justice by transferring key decision-making authorities outside the military chain of command in cases of sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, murder and other serious crimes.
Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak' (www.rawstory.com)
Evangelical Christian leader Russell Moore revealed this week that many evangelical pastors have become alarmed that their Trump-loving congregants have become so militant that they are even rejecting the teachings of Jesus Christ.In an interview with NPR, Moore said that multiple pastors had told h...
Amazon deforestation dropped 34 percent, reversing trend (www.pbs.org)
Lula campaigned last year with pledges to rein in illegal logging and undo the environmental devastation under former President Jair Bolsonaro.
Reddit is Removing Mods Whose Teams Let Their Subreddits Post NSFW Content (www.quippd.com)
Things are moving fast again, so this is going to be another quick and dirty post… Reddit is now removing mod teams without any pretense of speaking for mode...
Woman Sues Anti-Abortion 'Pregnancy Center' After Her Ectopic Pregnancy Ruptured (jezebel.com)
The woman claims the Massachusetts facility failed to diagnose her pregnancy as ectopic and, as a result, she lost a fallopian tube during emergency surgery.
San Francisco bakery sparks debate by refusing to serve armed police (www.independent.co.uk)
Business says it doesn’t serve anyone who is armed
Oklahoma's top education official called out for Libs of TikTok ties after non-binary student beaten at school (www.dailydot.com)
Posters online are putting the death of non-binary student Nex Benedict on the hands of Ryan Walters, the state's anti-trans education head.
What happened to Vivaldi Social? (thomasp.vivaldi.net)
A deep dive into the events of Saturday 8 July 2023, when user accounts started disappearing from the Vivaldi Social Mastodon instance.
Leaked recording reveals Michigan Trump ally ranting about 'civil war' after fake elector wife is indicted (www.rawstory.com)
Michigan State Rep. Matt Maddock, the husband of one of the 16 fake electors in that state who were indicted on multiple felonies last month, is warning that MAGA loyalists could escalate their violence to the level of war in an audio recording reported by The Messenger on Friday.“If the government ...
Alex Jones must pay $1.1 billion of Sandy Hook damages despite bankruptcy - court (www.reuters.com)
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying at least $1.1 billion in defamation damages stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday.
Flipboard stops tweeting, launches new podcast about decentralized social apps (techcrunch.com)
Social magazine app Flipboard had already committed to joining the "fediverse" -- the decentralized social web, which includes apps like Mastodon. Now, it’s doubling down on those ambitions with an announcement that it will stop tweeting while also launching a new podcast devoted to exploring the topic of decentralized social...
'Suits' Was Streamed For 3 Billion Minutes on Netflix and the Writers Were Collectively Paid $3,000 (nofilmschool.com)
The sorry state of streaming residuals shows why SAG and the WGA are striking.
Elizabeth Warren Demands Probes of Elon Musk, SpaceX After Ukraine Revelations (www.bloomberg.com)
Senator Elizabeth Warren is demanding an investigation into SpaceX after Elon Musk acknowledged he had blocked Ukraine from extending the private Starlink satellite network for an attack on Russian warships near the Crimean coast.
Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike (www.vice.com)
In an email obtained by Motherboard, Google tells YouTube Music workers it will "not be participating in collective bargaining."
Man wanted on Jan. 6 charges arrested with weapons near Barack Obama's Washington home (mainichi.jp)
A man armed with explosive materials and weapons, and wanted for crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was arrested Thursday in the Washington neighborhood where former President Barack Obama lives, law enforcement officials said.