It’s been five months since we began bargaining, and a few weeks since our last post. We figured we owe you all an update!

Do I know any indie game devs -- especially solo! -- who would be willing to speak to high school students in Washington DC next month?

Went to ihop drunk at 4am and asked them to make the pancakes Evil. Maybe one of the best escapades I’ve Ever been on LMFAOOOOO

Hey Bluesky? I have some friends who are going through the shit right now. And maybe you are too, or maybe your friends are... Can we pool or collective good energy here for a day? Just send all our positivity out to one another, to our friends who need good energy? Just for a moment...

Interesting!

This Labor Day, Kickstarter United is asking for your help preparing for a potential workplace action. You can read our full statement and join our efforts to win a fair contract here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-ki...

books are open for september

I am one of those people... at a convention if I see a table set up and reading a rulebook for a game I know? I'll just walk up and ask if they want me to teach them how to play. I'm not an extrovert (people exhaust me) but I trained myself to be outgoing and now I startle strangers with that. 🤗

It just kept going nonstop for the full 3 hours! A truly exceptional debut of indie tabletop @ PAXWest! This needs to stay! It was too good not to! Multiple folks SOLD OUT of their games, and the amount of energy and excitement for games so bespoke like this was unparalleled! Thank you so much @Pax

THE PNW INDIE GAME MARKET is in full swing at #paxwest !!! What a reception! You all are the best I swear!!!!

wait, while we're on the subject of libraries, can I present to you my favorite shirt. Instagram keeps offering for-profit brands that have completely bitten this design, but this is the one that actually raises money for a D.C. public library mtpfriends.bigcartel.com/product/what...

They don’t know what song the DJ will play. Sometimes the dancer gets something they really know and it’s amazing — like this one where The D Soraki, a Japanese dancer who at the time was 19, got Diana Ross “I’m Coming Out” & hit every syncopated drum break. All freestyle, not choreography.

SOUND ON i aspire to this degree of bizarreness

It’s time for a fair contract. Our union is fighting to protect what makes @kickstarter special, and we need your support. Sign onto our petition to show your solidarity: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ks...

It’s time for a fair contract. Our union is fighting to protect what makes @kickstarter.com special, and we need your support. Sign onto our petition to show your solidarity: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ks...

We know the 4-day workweek works. At Kickstarter United, we’re pushing to make it permanent because we’ve seen the impact. It helps us avoid burnout, make space for life, and still launch big wins. We’re better workers and better people because of it.

It’s been a while! Here’s what we’ve been up to ✨ We’re KSR United, the union behind Kickstarter. We’re organizing for a stronger, more sustainable workplace. We’ve made real progress, and there’s more on the horizon. Stay tuned.

Holy crap. These are officially licensed with proceeds going to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting! #PBSisPUNK twocrowcollective.com/collections/...

I need one!

gamedev be like

I appreciate the optimism of this parking validation machine

Hey @toitle.bsky.social, is that you under there?

Concurrently terrifying and erotic Goodnight

What the fuck is happening in this country

Also point this out to anyone you can. These were not planned protests. These were normies getting the supplies for their weekend projects or at a restaurant and saw their servers getting hauled off and were like this is some bullshit.

Here's a reminder that Trump campaigned, and his White House has taken action, on allowing cops to get away with terrorizing people by reducing oversight and accountability. Police oversight is more important than ever for this and a thousand other examples past/present/future.

I'm a believer in nonviolent resistance for moral reasons, and I think it can be incredibly powerful when well-planned and sustained, but don't tell me violence doesn't work. The people successfully rolling back my rights were sending bomb threats to children's hospitals.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

“i made my account indistinguishable from a troll’s sock puppet & wrote like centrist rumplestiltskin. shockingly, normal people found me repugnant. how is Bluesky going to fix this for me, personally?”

This is the funniest thing I have ever read lmao

I’m looking for work! 👁️👁️ I’m looking for storyboarding or revisionist positions, but I’m also open to work in games! I’m available immediately - I’m fast, funny, and friendly, & I’d love to work with you! Help me feed my cats, they won’t stop screaming!

For disability reasons, it's been somewhat rare that I make it out to actual picket lines when they happen, or that I would hold a sign (my hands are usually on my crutches), but thanks to @rattusrose.bsky.social, I was able to commission what I would look like out there

Love this campaign and it’s so close to funding!!!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sum...

having a house means you are always a brief moment away from unearthing some issue that will cost you 4-5 figures

I'm not doing good or bad. I'm a secret third thing (red dead redemption 2)

looking to draw something from your favorite videogame, your rpg characters, fantasy family/pet portraits, and anything else you think would look sick as hell email me at [email protected] for rates and timeline

a very happy “Forgot to Dust the Tops of Your Ceiling Fans” Month to all who celebrate

making a western must be so goated bc u don't have to make 35 city blocks feel populated, u just have to place one(1) random man doing something bizarre every 10 miles and it kills every time

Coming to Kickstarter soon! Looks at these freaks. Created by the mysterious and weird Mustafa Bekir, this is going to be our second set of wooden minis. Comment "Necro" and I'll send you more info.

"Our commitment to truth-seeking remains unchanged, though the definition of truth has been restructured to align with current federal guidelines."

This is not to say don’t go buy expensive shit or whatever, but I’m just gonna have a very visceral reaction to hearing that you’re holding a 1980s movie ransom worth of hobby in your hands

You can never be prepared for the let down of a guy showing you his very expensive collection Like my dude you paid car for this watch? You spent house on these guitars?

My favourite thing to do recently when playing an online game is, when someone is trying to grief or troll in chat, is to insult them in the silliest way and see how angry they get. Guy was going on a pro russian rant, so I told him putin was only 3 inches tall and ate farts Guy practically melted

I was doomscrolling before it was cool* *i am a dissociated collection of adipose tissue & atrophied muscles hydraulically powered by cortisol & adrenaline since 2013

But who? I won't begrudge anyone who writes for zombie Polygon, but I know there's no way they're paying a fair wage after laying off every single writer there. You can see our pay in the union contract. When offers/rates start going out, compare it there. www.wgaeast.org/wp-content/u...

Off to GDC! Hit me up friends 🥰💖