Ah, well!

At this rate, someone I follow is probably going to be named a college football head coach.

Until you’ve participated in union contract negotiation it can be hard to conceptualize that an owner or manager would care more about screwing their workers than keeping a business profitable or indeed open at all, but it’s actually not so uncommon!

An update: management has chosen not to recognize our Product, Engineering, and Humble Bundle colleagues as part of IGNCG, instead insisting on a time-consuming NLRB hearing, which took place last week.

Help us spread the word: we will not be divided. We are IGN, and we will always stand together.

Well, well, well. If it isn't our old nemesis deadly heatwave.

CLARIFICATION :

The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.

They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY

So spread this around

They can be texted. They can be called.

This literally life-saving advance weather warning program is under attack because it's part of NOAA. When you're calling and writing to your reps, please consider putting a word in for it too.

inside.nssl.noaa.gov/nsslnews/202...

Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...

The thing I want the future to know about life right now is the fact every single day I find something new to be infuriated by in the people we so-call “leaders,” I find new despair about what humans can and will do to each other, and I find new awe in the art and kindness that miraculously appears

It's not discussed in all the stories. But a key feature of the revocation of student visas is that there's no notification. This has forced universities to do regular online reviews of current visas to see which have disappeared since the previous query. The lack of notification is by design.

The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers.

AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege

I was watching CSPAN and just switched to the Weather Channel.

Getting older rules.
Standing up for what is right rules.
Predictive meteorological science rules.

Spanish language broadcaster Univision also aired a US Homeland Department advertisement advising people to self deport if they are in the country illegally.

Unprecedented around a soccer match.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

GASP I HAD NO IDEA -H

Shout out to whoever is in charge of the McDonald’s music today.

It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out.

They gut the FAA.
Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted.
Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

Waiter: I’m so sorry to make you feel rushed but the sooner you get food in, the better, crowd-wise

Me: I’ve been ready to order since 2pm this afternoon.

The heart wants what the heart wants and today…the heart wanted carbs.