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Soccer Mom? No, Chess Dad! 👑 ♟ ( www.freep.com )

First posted last week here, 18-year-old chess champion—the highest-rated African American female chess player in history—Jessica Hyatt's visit to the DIA in an organized simul against 27 opponents "outed" a whole bunch of Detroit dads and grandfathers who have introduced their daughters and granddaughters to the analytical...

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Here to add that, thanks to this jumping-bean bug, crossposting is difficult: once you confirm to which community to crosspost, focus is lost, the page jumps to the top and the post title and any URL are lost. Ouch!

@oleorun (or anybody, really), if you do file a bug report, would you mind posting the Github link? Thanks!

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts. -- Gautama Buddha
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Ford kept graffiti from Michigan Central Station's years of vacancy ( www.freep.com )

Critics refer to the kids who covered the iconic Beaux Arts-style building as vandals and hoodlums. But graffiti writers look back and describe it as sort of a gritty community center viewed as a safe space for children who loved to draw and paint but didn't have art programs like students who attended elite schools in the...

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DWI? DUI? What's the difference? The drunks alcohol enthusiasts over at Forbes magazine explain the difference…for those of you who don't have to cover one eye to focus.

Stay sick, scratch glass, turn blue, climb walls…but don't get caught!
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Is this a first in history: a true Onion article that could be posted in !nottheonion? 🤣 😭

What We Want Now
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🤔 Sarcasm? It's so hard to tell these days.

What We Want Now
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Instead of electrification of Northern Michigan, DTE proposes methane ( michiganadvance.com )

And why not? DTE says there's plenty of money still to be made on Michigan's abundant methane resources, global warming be damned, and compared to northern Michigan's propane jones, it's almost half the cost and at least a stop-gap measure....

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Uhmm...that's certainly an interesting talking point to concentrate on.

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Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do

~Gautama Buddha

Sinéad O'Connor - Take Me To Church ( iv.datura.network )

Like many of us are equally guilty, she let dogma get in the way. No excuses. This nation of cowboys and the philosophically cowardly just couldn't handle the little Irish woman with the voice five times her size—not even that 20^th^ century "cultural icon," Madonna Ciccone—and Sinéad (or her management) just didn't factor...

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I just wanted to say thank you for this. It shouldn't ever be an invitation for violence, the topic is far from being black-or-white and I'm sorry you feel threatened daily by, for lack of a better term, the ignorant.

Stay sick, scratch glass, turn blue, climb walls…but don't get caught!
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2024 Motor City Comic Con ( motorcitycomiccon.com )

Ciao, comic book fans! Late to the game with this one, but you probably already knew…it's the inaccurately-named 2024 Motor City Comic Con in far-from-the-Motor-City Novi all geekend weekend long! Lots of movie/TV celebs there selling autographs (and not cheap either!), merch, swag, memorabilia and even some stuff that...

Chinese EVs “could end up being an extinction-level event for the U.S. auto sector.” ( apnews.com )

The car [christened the Seagull], launched last year by Chinese automaker BYD, sells for around $12,000 in China, but drives well and is put together with craftsmanship that rivals U.S.-made electric vehicles that cost three times as much....

Six down, three to go: Gov Noem banned by two more SD tribes ( apnews.com )

The Yankton Sioux Tribe voted Friday to ban Noem from their land in southeastern South Dakota just a few days after the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate tribe took the same action. The Oglala, Rosebud, Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Sioux tribes had already taken action to keep her off their reservations. Three other tribes haven’t...

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Didj'all know that that's inherent behaviour in all felines? No, not to put their puss up close to the camera lens…to sit in boxes or, more correctly, delineated spaces? Don't believe me?

Then again, mental as cat owners are, y'all probably did know this already. 🤦‍♂️

Everything I say is a lie.
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Michigan AG announces charges tied to breach of 2020 voter data in Hillsdale County ( michiganadvance.com )

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced charges on Wednesday against former Adams Township Clerk Stephanie Scott and her attorney, Stefanie Lambert Junttila, alleging the pair permitted an unauthorized computer examiner to access voter data concerning the 2020 election, which included non-public information....

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From BridgeMichigan: Pro-Trump attorney, former clerk face Michigan election tampering charges…

The new charges could result in up to 20 years of jail time for Scott and 15 years for Lambert.

Scott, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday, previously claimed she’d “done nothing wrong” before Adams Township voters recalled and removed her from office in May 2023.

In October 2021, Scott was stripped of her ability to conduct elections by the Department of State after refusing to turn over her voting machines, assigning her duties to the Hillsdale County Clerk. […] At the time, Scott told Bridge Michigan that she did not trust the machine and wanted to preserve any old data on it, echoing unfounded claims that tabulators may have been rigged against former President Donald Trump in 2020.

Today in History: May 4, four killed during anti-war protest at Kent State University ( apnews.com )

With all the National Guard surrounding many university campuses nationwide, it came to mind how potentially similar outcomes could be to the infamous day on the Kent State University grounds…and wouldn't you know it?, the incident happened 54 years ago today!...

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Screw, tin man.

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