No matter how you feel about the situation, this update should terrify everyone in this country.

Y’all I ain’t gonna lie it’s pretty damn loud every time a car hits that hole.

How are people’s tires not blowing out?

Subaru of Austin owns a Golden Retriever named Rally for marketing purposes. For the last 3 years, Rally has been in the care of the person employed for marketing at Subaru of Austin. Due to a layoff, Rally's human lost their job and is now being forced to return Rally to the dealership. This dealership claims affiliation with the wonderful Austin Pets Alive rescue, yet is knowingly removing Rally from his loving home of the last three years. The injustice here is more than I could bare alone and a lot of folks have already begun trying to pressure Subaru to allow Rally to stay with his human. Subaru of Austin is obviously legally entitled to Rally, but we're all legally entitled to think this is incredibly nasty business and to shop elsewhere.

Rally's human made this post on Instagram:

"And just like that... Rally and I are no more. Unfortunately, I was let go from my company today and was separated from my boy. I'm completely heartbroken and I'm sure he is as well. THANK YOU to everyone who followed and supported our little journey together for the last 3 years! We grew a bond that no one will never really understand. It was a fun ride and I completely spoiled him every single day without regret. I often got asked "What will happen if you got let go? Would you keep Rally?" I honestly never knew how to answer that question. Now I know.

A little advice to any company looking to have a company mascot. Just know this is a long term commitment and NOT just a temporary thing. I originally took this marketing position cuz I was diagnosed with severe anxiety and depression a month before I had my interview. Once I met Rally, I knew he was the cure for that and he definitely was. He was my rock, my support animal and everything else in between. This will definitely have a long term effect on Rally and I for the rest of our lives. I'm proud of what I tuned him into... just a happy boy who never stopped smiling. I'll need a few days to cope with this empty void in my life for the next few days. Please wish Rally and I the best. We love everyone we met along the way."

Former Austinite and longtime Alamo Drafthouse fan Elijah Wood is once again taking aim at the movie theater chain’s mobile-ordering system, arguing the shift away from paper menus and order cards has made the moviegoing experience worse.

In a post on X this week, Wood said he recently used the system for the first time and came away unimpressed.

“For the first time yesterday, I experienced the new u/alamodrafthouse QR code ordering system and I can tell you it’s truly awful,” Wood wrote.

Well, we don’t have to worry about our Pride flag being torn down again!

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/life-in-the-city-church-vandalized-in-south-austin-pride-flag-torn-down

www.lifeinthecity.org

Wow

Earlier this year, Alamo Drafthouse rolled out a fully mobile ordering system at its theaters, replacing its signature pen-and-paper slips with QR codes and phone-based ordering.

The change has frustrated longtime patrons who see the new system as fundamentally at odds with the chain’s identity.

Now, a petition launched by film critic Brint Davy is calling on the company to reconsider the move. More than 7,000 people have signed it.

Some fans said they plan to cancel their “Season Pass” subscription to protest the change. Others said they will simply stop ordering food, calling it an “Alamo Hunger Strike.”

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Since Alamo Drafthouse switched to mobile ordering, the theater chain has found itself in a myriad of conversations about the change.

A billboard now calls on Alamo Drafthouse to ban smartphone ordering which changed one of the Austin-born theater chain’s best rituals: ordering food and drinks from your seat. The billboard is from Howdy.com, a technology staffing company based in Austin that recruits, hires and builds artificial intelligence engineering teams for U.S. companies.