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The FTC and 20 states are suing Dollar General, accusing the giant chain of overcharging customers in their more than 20,000 stores. The suit alleges Dollar General has a pattern of deceptively and illegally overcharging customers. Millions of purchases may have been affected.

obviously cursed, and a bad omen to anyone who thinks they can engage in HP fanfiction without being associated with full-on fascists. but also, the fact that they're promoting this with a gender-changed central character, you couldn't make this up

Fully realize I'm stating the obvious but really, when was the last time anyone saw the C-suite take the fall for poor management decisions? It's always always the workers, the people actually creating value, who get laid off and lose their livelihoods.

NEW: I spoke with current and former EA employees to understand how the latest layoff round played out and the realities of daily life at the U.S. publisher. The short version? EA is controlled by an executive class that "cannot fail, only be failed." Workers, then, will always pay the price.

Big news from the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain: Employees at Rockstar Games in the UK will hold a union vote next month, just as they release Grand Theft Auto VI

30 years of raiding tombs, happy 30th Tomb Raider.

Bluesky has three kinds of users

Bluesky has ten kinds of users.

me: mom, what was I like as a little girl? my mom (completely fucking braindead): hey alexa describe a human kid or something

it is my deepest and most fervent wish that the tech oligarchs suffer consequences for openly allying with fascism the world over maybe we can extradite zuck in 2029

People abroad don't understand the level of interference Meta & bots had in these elections. 5 days before the election a far-right politician posted a fake news video that got 157 MILLION views on Instagram in 24hs. For reference, GTA 6's reveal trailer got 90 million views on YouTube in 24hs.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

@zhandlen.bsky.social had a good line in his review of the second season of Lower Decks where he wrote, "This is a show that is just so damn excited to be a Star Trek that you can’t help but be happy for it."

Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale, my all-time dream project. For the last couple years I'd been in discussion w/ BioWare & EA to take on the project & as part of that I wrote close to 20 minutes of music to explore where the franchise can go next, may as well share it!

The closest I’ll ever get to being up in lights in Times Square That phrase isn’t Keelah Se’Lai It’s the Quarian phrase I created for #MassEffect Annihilation. The name of my ship Not “by the homeworld I hope to see one day” but “by the homeworld I hope to find one day” I have a lot of feelings…

RIP Walter❤️

amogus

Can't sleep, clown will eat me

Something I spoke about before was how transphobia is often an expression of misogyny, it gives people who hate women an outlet and sets trans women up as a class of women it's socially okay to be misogynistic towards, while also providing an ideological justification for that misogyny.

hey it's me when the news of whatever it was happened like 5 people in my various feeds started talking about this rando like I was supposed to know who he was. and I am NOT an offline person.

“you think you have an idea of the character and then you start writing them and they start to tell you who they are”

The Tom Swoony dartboard seems popular in Selaco this week

Remembering the late great VINCENT PRICE — who left us 33yrs ago today, aged 82.

no one cares about trans women in women’s sports and you are, most generously, the worlds biggest idiot if you take it at face value as an earnest concern had by real voters

Malon at Lon Lon ranch

How'd he get in there?

a UK food delivery service experimented with AI-generated images for restaurant menu items that lacked pictures. they stopped when customers reported seeing some unusual new dishes. a tiger-prawn dish became a bowl containing actual tiger cubs. friends, i think the tech may not be ready.

Happy 62nd birthday to the talented Kevin Michael Richardson. The voice of Gantu in ‘Lilo & Stitch,’ Trigon in ‘Teen Titans,’ the Joker in ‘The Batman,’ Cleveland Jr. in ‘The Cleveland Show,’ Principal Lewis in ‘American Dad!,’ Shnitzel in the ‘Chowder’ pilot and more.

every male college professor apparently needs to be given a starter pack here is your office, here is your chair, here is a buzzer that will shock you every time you think about fucking one of your students

There’s cosplay and then there’s this. This is beyond cosplay. Well done to whoever made this costume for #TFCon. #beastwars #terrorize

Something I wish more people would realize.

My grandmother is actually to blame for this, since she taught me to sew in the first place! 💚💚💚 #otgw #overthegardenwall #overthegardenwallcosplay #thebeast #cosplay

There are individual cats with 3 billion views

Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in