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An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

Hey it’s not every day a case that you had a hand in gets reviewed by the Supreme Court and the ruling is in your favor. (Only two days this year. 😶‍🌫️) @pghguild.com forever ✊

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Really feeling for my fallen comrades at USA Today Co. and McClatchy this week. These cuts may save those companies money but they continue journalism's death spiral.

As nice as it is to not have to watch Ozuna anymore, Ronny Simon is truly talentless. In all my years of watching this lousy baseball team I’ve rarely seen more of an empty jersey than 2025 Ronny Simon.

World Cup announcers talking about how heartbreaking soccer can be. They wouldn’t last four innings on any random Tuesday at PNC Park.

I wrote about the new ads on MLB TV promoting the owners' demand for a salary cap as the next lockout draws nearer: defector.com/mlb-is-now-p...

Every now and then you’re told something that is true but so unbelievably hilarious that it’s just actually hard to believe.

this is an incredibly good read that highlights what exactly the owners' M.O. has been the entire time!! it breaks down a lot of private equity's involvement is in MLB, too, which has been rising steadily in its presence in sports. it was never about competitive balance. this story says why!!

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a 7 unassisted double play until today and I’ve watched *a lot* of baseball in my life.

EXCLUSIVE My big behind-the-scenes look into how Gov. Josh Shapiro has courted Amazon amid the mounting backlash to data centers Complete with internal emails, memos, an “exclusive” offer for help with faster permitting and a NDA no one would explain to me. My latest for @heatmap.news 😌

If anyone wants to donate to a good (DIY / music / punk) cause

Anyone who can search the web should be able to realize that every institution with a faculty union creates better conditions for faculty, and by extension, better conditions for their students. Compare the before union & after union contracts yourselves - it couldn’t be clearer.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from 26 years in higher ed, it’s that having faculty governance and tenure is basically having a fake union. They are exploitable systems based on squishy policies that favor the admin, rather than legally-binding rules that represent the many & favor the workers.

There is no hell quite like 115 Federal Street.

My two-cents: It feels like the new PG owners are going to hire 40-50 of the people least likely to have issue with whatever bullshit management feels like pulling and then figure it out from there.

171 days away from Buctober.

I attended a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game and left not feeling any dread, despair, or anxiety. What is this feeling?

Every so often, one of the most infamously abusive men in the American labor movement gets one of his shitty blog posts picked up and the whisper network gets called back into service. Do not engage with Payday Report.

Bucs are back baby.

NEW: i took a look at legislation @sanders.senate.gov is intro'ing today to impose a data center moratorium “until legislation is enacted that safeguards the public from the dangers of AI" it's a major line in the sand for progressives looking to tie data center opposition w AI safety

Remember the bit "millennials get the big screen out to make important purchases?" I did that this morning with the Pirates ballpark pass. ⚾️

"I’m all for players’ rights but wonder if we’ve gone too far." same energy

one google data center in virginia two million gallons of water per day information only released under court order & risk of contempt

It's hard for me to think of two more unlikable sports teams than the 2026 US men's hockey and curling teams. Just two groups of 100% losers.

We at the @postguild.bsky.social are raising money for the hundreds of journalists the Post just laid off. This goes to the people who are hurting, not the Post. Or if you'd rather, go subscribe to an independent journalist. Support is hugely appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

The Washington-Baltimore News Guild strongly condemns the layoffs announced today at The Washington Post. These cuts represent yet another blow to a newsroom that has already been pushed to its limits and a disservice to the readers who rely on The Post for rigorous, independent journalism.

Fuck scabs. Yesterday, today, and forever, fuck scabs.

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I liked Pittsburgh better when it wasn’t run by a Baby Boy mayor who will sell the municipal naming rights to any corporation looking to dodge taxes.

You truly love to see it, folks. #FuckScabs

Some days you read something so bootlickingly hilarious that you actually laugh out loud at the thought of their raw tongues. Today is one of those days.

Fuck scabs. Yesterday, today, and forever, fuck scabs.

Shoutout to a yinzer neighbor, whom I’ve never met, stopping in the middle of the street to tell my dog and I, “Big fire over there, lotta black smoke.” “Oh damn, where?” “Over there.”

Here's a fantastic list of journalists to never ever hire postgazettescabs.com

NEW: Post-Gazette to shut down 240-year-old paper after SCOTUS slaps down company’s bid to evade court order “Instead of simply following the law, the owners chose to punish local journalists and the city of Pittsburgh,” said Goldstein, president of @pghguild.com newsguild.org/pittsburgh-p...

The newspaper of record of my entire childhood would literally rather die than pay its unionized workers the wages and benefits that the actual Supreme Court of the United States of America decided were owed to them.

RIP Pittsburgh Post Gazette, you'd rather close than pay your union employees, I guess!

NEW: Publishers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announce they are shutting down the newspaper on May 3, 2026. Hours ago, the Supreme Court of the US declined to extend a stay on a court order for the paper to pay its journalists following the end of a 3-year strike.

BCI just announced to the staff the closure of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as of May. Unbelievable.

This company wasted who knows how much money to pay a lawyer who clerked for Alito to try and vacate our victory and even that didn’t get it done. Shocking that the workers are right again. Shocking!