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'We fought hard:' Raven QA union secures contract after three years of bargaining The agreement includes guaranteed wage increases and layoff protections.

'We fought hard:' Raven QA union secures contract after three years of bargaining

I don't play World of Warcraft Butters, you said you're on your computer all the time Yeah, but I'm playing Looking at traffic data after working hours

kotaku can finally see traffic data again after g/o took chartbeat away, and you know what that means

The Anti-Porn Crusade That Censored Steam and Itch.io Started 30 Years Ago Keywords and tags have never been a useful metric for distilling nuance. Pushing for regulations based on them is repeating a 30-year history of porn panic online.

The Anti-Porn Crusade That Censored Steam and Itch.io Started 30 Years Ago

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Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’ Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

“WIRED spoke with more than 150 current and former federal employees, experts, and Musk supporters across more than 20 agencies to expose the inner workings of DOGE.”

So many incredible reporters worked on this story that a separate skeet is required to list them all.

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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Stop payment processors from censoring games!

Hey, it would mean so much to me if y'all kept up the pressure with phone calls to payment processors to show to them how much people care and that they can't just ignore it—my livelihood depends on adult games not being censored!

You can find info and phone scripts here: stop-paypros.neocities.org

Murdoch and right wing media expanding into deep blue states. Meanwhile, Dem megadonors doing little to nothing to counter by investing in liberal media beachheads able to reach the masses (sorry, stuff like Crooked Media is niche content for Dem diehards.)

anything can be art. nothing you enjoy needs to be validated by a critic or the court of public opinion. and i wish people wouldn't entangle their own identities from the things they consume. but we've gotten to this point bc of so many different factors and it feels like we're never going back

nine times out of ten if there's a college in your town and the college goes away so does everything you liked about your town

definitive proof that all those miserable spam texts you hate and can’t get rid of aren’t even raising money for the candidates they say they are

shut the entire machine down immediately

i would simply like people to read books that make them upset

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut - Disco Elysium - FAQ - Inspiration & Recommendations - Steam News We regularly get questions from people asking about the inspirations and influences of Disco Elysium so we decided it would be a good idea show you some of them! This is by no means an exhaustive list...

The developers cited Dashiell Hammett, China Miéville and the Strugatsky brothers as inspirations - store.steampowered.com/news/app/632... - Miéville's The City and The City definitely came to mind playing it

every time i see gamers posting oh man nothing hits the same after disco elysium every game is shit now i wanna shake them and be like brother you like books now!!! big complicated russian ones!!! a whole new world is open to you

how is pritzker the only one who seems to remember that he's the governor of a sovereign entity too

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 14, Episode 01, Return of the King, Hank and Peggy sit in a car with a rideshare driver, Chyron reads “Directed By Kelly Turnbull”

Screenshot from King of the Hill season 14 episode “Peggy’s Fadeout”, Bobby shows a laptop with a spreadsheet open to Ted Wassonasong, Chyron reads “Directed By Kelly Turnbull”

Ayyyy 🖊️🦑

Are we allowed to acknowledge that Labour has a fascism problem now or are people still going to storm into your mentions, slam their head into the sand and claim they can't hear what Labour are clearly communicating?

The best and most effective fighters on the left side of the spectrum have to literally take a pay cut in order to keep doing the work

do not upload your photo to any ID verification service to BROWSE THE INTERNET i am being so serious id much rather buy a vpn. learn how to pirate. this data is so obviously going to be used in nefarious ways

All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.

As Trump Shrinks FEMA, State and Local Emergency Managers Say They’re Barely Getting By - Inside Climate News In a government survey, state and local officials said they were overworked, underpaid and underappreciated.

“You have to ensure that there is capacity at the state level in particular to make up for [federal resources]. And what the report very clearly shows is that capacity does not exist.”

3 years later... they won Call of Duty Workers Win 3-Year Battle For Microsoft Union Contract, Worker Goes On The Record For The First Time

Three years later, the first Call of Duty devs have won their union contract, @shannonliao.bsky.social reports.

It's the second contract at a Microsoft owned studio after ZeniMax developers ratified a contract in June just before mass layoffs hit.

shannonliao.substack.com/p/3-years-la...

i really wish i could point to the exact writer or piece of writing that helped me understand that the american south in particular is a great historical example of how eagerly capital will shoot itself in the foot to maintain white supremacy, like you can set your watch to it

“Ha ha you ain’t prosecuting SHIT!” - WWE

"WWE cancels post-PPV press conferences ahead of Summerslam" oh huh wonder why

Dating in my 30s. Alex says "I am not going to be mommy." To a disappointed woman. Alex closes her fists next to her head and repeats "I am NOT going to be mommy." Alex waits a bit with little determination and then relents "fine... I'm mommy." The other girl is delighted.

why discourse when you could be doing your annual post-evo “downloading a fighting game you’ll play for three days because watching fighting games played excellently all weekend has convinced you that you can also do that?”

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

This is a difficult conversation to listen to, but an important one. Samantha and Talia have both written recent excellent work on the politics of gender.

It is rather notable how often modern superhero films fail to make their villains an actual object of disdain because they’ve become too preoccupied with making their villains easily marketable characters for spin offs and antihero fandoms

I've been saying it for months at this point but if you are still watching WWE you are actively supporting both the Trump administration and sex trafficking nightmare people

Lesnar being back, HHH being on a Trump fitness council, Linda McMahon being backstage at shows, you can't just ignore it