if you hate unmediated AI use at your workplace without worker input, if your boss is speaking over you & for you, consider unionizing. shop and industry unions are bargaining and ratifying real, material AI protections RIGHT NOW.

#kingdomcome Here's my full piece for the Devil's Den zine! You can find the fic it goes with (along with some sillier drawings) here: tinyurl.com/wr5fpmjb

I think I'm gonna have to turn this Frinos flash into a sticker

Yes, Dual Wield Studio is making more Dragon Age merch! We have lots of ideas ourselves (I alone have... too many ideas;;;), and we want to get input from our fellow fans to help inform what we make. Please share your thoughts on the merch you'd want in the survey linked here (sharing welcome!!):

Why is the blonde boy on owl house always so sad in fanart? He keeps being served to me on Pinterest and I am worried.

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

Fun day at work today 👀

EVERYONE'S DOING IT claims guy who is definitely guilty of it and has no proof anybody else is doing it really 😂

Percy Bysshe-sparkles Shelley, send tweet

LOOK at this dog

Check out the Dare to be Rare shot, they've got cool merch made by a cool cat (my friend) and it's for a good cause. daretoberare.org

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!! 💖🎉 The nicest thing y'all could do for me (if you're so inclined 😊🫶🏾) is to share + signal boost our growing DnA Codex of Game Dev resources so it finds the folks who need it most Contributions to the Ko-Fi also welcome as they help us devote more time to it amidst our projects!

I was like THIS close to crashing out about something stupid earlier today but managed to chill, then I fucking lactosed myself so i guess crashing out is BACK ON THE MENU BOYS

The Hunter's Funeral Procession

Even in the dark, there's always a light. The Sacred Blood Capsule Collection Pin by @kevinjaystanton.bsky.social: bit.ly/4nfu2xq

🗣️The Future Of The Tech Industry Is Unionized! “The way layoffs happened at Google, where it wasn’t clear what the reason for people getting laid off was, definitely created a sense of job insecurity & mistrust,” said AWU Prez Parul Koul @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Huge news!!!

Today, nearly 400 workers with Blizzard's Platform & Technology department have formed a union with @cwaunion.bsky.social! “We are forming a union to hold leadership accountable and to ensure that we can focus on building amazing experiences for the gaming community.” 💪

I want to shout about this thing I'm helping to run, because it's cool and the website is (finally, oops) up and we're going to a conference next week, but I also want to say: this is just the beginning and we're gonna make so much really cool, fun stuff next year!! YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW

Banned Books Week Read-In 📣 We’ve teamed up with @librofm and @silentbookclub to host a #BannedBooksWeek Read-In on Oct 5th-7th in protest of censorship. Attendees will receive a free audiobook copy of Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books 📘🎧

I am amused daily by strangers who look at me skeptically when I say I love organizing. I file as a hobby. My husband has been subject to countless house rearrangements and has benefited from each one.

You can now ready my essay on content warnings in adult video games! This expands on the fandom segments of my GDC talk on content warning systems to talk specifically about the joyous tradition of tagging in fandom and how it can be used for adult games specifically.

Something sacred is on the way! Just a hint for now!

✊ Happy Labor Day, Gamedevs! 🎮 A month ago I released a video called "A Brief History of Labor in the USA and What It Has to Do With the Modern Games Industry" and have been absolutely floored by the response from players and devs alike. Check it out??? youtu.be/g1rlCfaRT1I?...

On our 7th anniversary, we look back with former CEO and co-founder Rowan Rowden on the origins of Dual Wield Studio with a never-before-seen interview. Thank you for your support this year! More to come soon on our store reopening and the future! dualwieldstudio.com/blogs/news/a...

We know that's right 💅 Congrats to Blizzard's Story and Franchise Development workers. Welcome to the CWA family! cwa-union.org/news/release...

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Fenton better watch out

Baby with a knife

Still pondering this particular orb 24/7

It is midnight in Gotham City. A city transformed by the Riddler, left dangling on the precipice of the paranormal! Only one man stands against the abyss... This is BATMAN: BUMP IN THE NIGHT! A new Patreon-exclusive podcast from me and @corpserevivers.bsky.social! www.patreon.com/posts/batman...

Thinking about THEM

Hey Pudd, how's it going? Thank you for asking, my label maker is not working in the middle of a organizing spell/purge so I'm barely keeping it together.

"Are you wearing th—" "The Tecovas x Chili’s cowboy boots made from Chili’s booth leather? Yeah, I am."

Translation: executives would prefer to gamble on the plagiarism machine that kills the planet (which cannot make video games by the way)... rather than just compensate and treat their employees better.

I’ll be masking all throughout GENCON, and I think you should too! If you need a high quality mask on short notice consider going to your local hardware store to grab a pack of n95s

If you don’t want to get plain old sick after a convention you should consider wearing a mask at the con!

all my queer romance and horror stories are pay what you want on itch, and i think you should grab them for free before they get taken down ❤️ caitrincasey.itch.io

Big games companies when they say how "difficult" it has been to "make the decision to part with a number of talented individuals" due to "changing industry conditions" in their layoff announcements

WORMS WORMS WORMS WORMS #destiny2 (Important info to follow.)

A fun way to make the median worker salary go down is to lay off a bunch of longtime employees who were senior enough to cost some money but not senior enough to be part of the protected executive class!

HEAR YE HEAR YE 🎺

"Chat, we are so back" --> sorry, this is what our (millennial) Marketing Director really wanted to go with The site is LIVE again! We're almost done setting things up with our new warehouse and we'll let y'all know when we start taking orders again :) Thanks for your patience!

I am entering my Victorian widow era. The windows are shuttered (its hot fuck off), spend all day in my starched white nightgown and brush my hair wistfully before writing depressing drabble about my OCs

IT'S TIME FOR MUTANT CITY BLUES! Join me, @kendomakesfilms.bsky.social @highgainsad.bsky.social @straynerdboy.bsky.social and @knitnack.bsky.social as we solve a superhuman murder mystery, and donate to Advocates to Trans Equality! www.twitch.tv/gmjeffstormer

I would like a gold star for reading 11 books in the first half of the year and beating my reading goal. Were they all good? No, but a lot of them were I will now sit in this white room with my pack of saltines awaiting patiently the next Saint of Steel release

Yooooo we are looking for a Senior Art Director!!! I know some of you would be interested in this! Please share! Great team! 🧡 apply.workable.com/jackbox-game...

🚨 IN JUST UNDER AN HOUR 🚨 It's not too late to RSVP!

Another cinematic DRACULA adaptation, another set of COWARDS too afraid to do right by the source material and include a RANDOM, INEXPLICABLE COWBOY