Amazon Levi's and Walmart Agreed on Increased Retail pricing for Khaki Pants Amazon sent Levi’s links to Khaki pants that were priced lower on Walmart.com [$25.47 to $26.99], saying it “hop[ed] these can get resolved over the next few days.” The next day, Levi’s reported that “I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to … take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to…$29.99 immediately” and provided links to show the increased Walmart price. Amazon acknowledged that Walmart raised its price and confirmed it had matched that higher price: “the updated pricing of $29.99 is now showing up on [Amazon].”

Amazon, Hanes, and Target Worked to Raise the Price of Apparel: Amazon sent Hanes links to Target.com and Walmart.com showing lower prices than were on Amazon, and Hanes confirmed that it “reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased.”

Amazon, Agrothrive, and Home Depot Worked to Raise the Price of Plant Fertilizer: Amazon complained to vendor Agrothrive about lower prices for Agrothrive’s products at Home Depot, to which Agrothrive responded: “Yes, just got out of a meeting with the Home Depot manager and she has agreed to raise the prices this time.”

Amazon, GlobalOne, and Chewy Agreed on Increased Retail Prices for Pet Treats: The plan was written in an email between Amazon and its vendor, GlobalOne. For its part, Amazon would raise GlobalOne’s Canine Naturals pet treat prices to get Chewy to follow, then GlobalOne would “reach out to Chewy” to let them know that Amazon was increasing the pricing and “would ask that [Chewy] follow.” In other words, if Chewy agreed, Amazon would increase its retail pricing for the Canine Naturals pet treats and Chewy would match the price increase. The plan materialized. Amazon told GlobalOne that the pricematch override was in place, and to “let Chewy know to update [pricing] immediately.” That same day, GlobalOne confirmed the “ones that went up on Amazon immediately went up on Chewy [happy face emoji] … Overall this looks like it’s working!” The result of Amazon, Chewy and GlobalOne’s price fixing agreement was to increase the retail prices of over ten Canine Naturals pet treat products on Amazon and Chewy.

We’re sharing new evidence in our case against Amazon clearly showing the megacorporation is involved in price fixing.

It’s clear as day: Amazon is colluding with vendors and other retailers to make your life more unaffordable.

We’ll see them in court.

I’m happy to announce that my new book Stranded in the Future is out on July 7 and is now available for pre-order here: www.hachette.co.uk/titles/robyn...

It’s about how I became a songwriter by channeling my obsessions; with 16 illustrations of various characters, some more real than others.

Best possible way to celebrate my birthday... would love to hear Robyn and Emma's cover of Drive-In Saturday, Ordinary Millionaire or Birds In Perspex.

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts.
(Luis Buñuel)

I think a 20 minute session of doing an expressionist painting of Bert was the break down I needed to have today.

Hello dear reader,

My new album, THE CONFUSER is out on July 24 on Tiny Ghost Records.

It’s a rockin’ affair, with a few ballads for romantic waltzing & a dystopian psychedelic rant. Guaranteed to float your chimes & ring your boat!

Available now for pre-order here:

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I was once charged (unsuccessfully) by a Highland bull in Scotland because I had the audacity to try to photograph him. I was amazed how quickly he crossed an entire pasture. They're cute but feisty, as is Nessie, I'm sure.

I did - it’s all true! Fun reminiscences here…

The Scottish version not only eschews any derry derry nonsense but pointedly tells us that none of the knight's former fame will change the fact that his hawk, hounds and lady have moved on and forgotten him so the crows can make their 'dinner sweet'. Loved the Steeleye Soan version as a teen.

Shutout

I had fun drawling through the history of the Soft Boys and how beautifully we didn’t fit into the British Punk/New Wave picture: you can hear it here, intercut with flashes of our now-legendary ‘Underwater Moonlight’ album. Yaysville!

lifeoftherecord.com#/the-soft-bo...

a woman is covering her face with her hands while a crowd of people applaud . ALT: a woman is covering her face with her hands while a crowd of people applaud .

Punishing the ballet thing but not the cat-hating-and-getting-rid-of...

An EXCELLENT reason never to use AI tools in your writing. It doesn't just change HOW you express yourself, it can prompt you to change what you mean in the first place.
What I'm suggesting is: you should not be using Grammarly.

If only we could micro-dose empathy…

Gestapo (points to 'Guernica' ): 'Did you do this?'
Picasso: 'No, you did.'
(True story).

Life’s too short to carry grudges, so I’ve started pushing mine around in a wheelbarrow…

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Hello Groovers!

There will be a short livestream of Lou Reed songs played acoustic on my Instagram tonight (Thursday March 5) at 6pm Central Time 🖤

www.instagram.com/robynhitchco...

See ya there!

Call your reps about this. Every time a book ban has been overturned or shut down, it's because the vast majority of people who believe in the freedom to read spoke up.
Find your reps' info at reps.fyi.

Robyn Hitchcock - "One Long Pair of Eyes" (Live at Acheron Studios) Recorded in Nashville in 2025Live at Acheron is out on Tiny Ghost Records on July 3, 2026 in the following fab formats: LIMITED EDITION RED VINYLLIMITED EDIT...

"One Long Pair of Eyes" 

Recorded at Acheron Studios in Nashville, TN 

man in 3 piece suit and round glasses, he is smoking a cigarette

"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think."

Aldous Leonard Huxley

As State Restricts IDs and Bathrooms, Some Trans Kansans Think of Leaving ADD TIME ON GOOGLE Rebecca Schneid by Rebecca Schneid

Trans people deserve IDs that reflect who they are. Bills like this undermine the basic rights of trans people and put them at risk of serious harm. No one can erase trans peoples' existence.

Google with AI buttons

Google without AI buttons

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

I'll second, third or fourth (or whatever it is) that request for 'Beware of Darkness', but maybe 'Wreck of the Hesperus' if you're feeling like something lighter.

The Sunday Guardian headline: Big Tech Loses $1.3 Trillion in 2026 as AI Spending Fears Trigger Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia Stock Plunge—What’s Happening? Follow-up says: Big Tech loses $1.3 trillion in 2026 as AI spending fears hit Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Apple and Alphabet. Investors demand profit visibility. TSMC, Samsung, Walmart gain. The article is written by Prakriti Parul and was last updated yesterday morning.

genAI is dying repost to make it die faster

This amused me greatly 😂 especially the fox painting 😂

Thank yoooo @cheekybudgie.bsky.social

The Strangers’ Case I don’t normally say this, but if you watch one thing on kottke.org today, this week, this month, make it this speech written by Shakespeare and performed by

The full clip, including McKellen's setup of the scene, is here, along with info about the riots (Evil May Day) and the text of the speech itself. kottke.org/26/02/the-st...

This should be front page news. There should be hearings about it.