Half the battle is realizing nothing is inevitable, no matter how hard the sell. The harder the sell, the more dubious the value. When folks say “the genie is out of the bottle”, it doesn’t mean “and now we must invite him to all of our parties.”

Videogames performer? Join our open meeting at the National Videogames Museum Sheffield, 4 November. Whether you’re an Equity member or not, join us to make a plan for how to change the games industry for the better. #VideoGames www.equity.org.uk/get-involved...

Last chance to have your say! If you’ve been a participant on a UK reality TV show, improve working practices in the sector by taking this anonymous survey⬇️ Your answers will support the work of ReCARE-TV, a major academic project investigating reality TV and duties of care tinyurl.com/225meets

🎮 EQUITY GAMES NETWORK ACTION DAY Equity member working in games? Want to share yr experiences of the industry with fellow workers? Come to @equityuk.bsky.social's Games Network Action Day, Thurs 6th Nov 10:30am - 4pm in Bloomsbury, London. Register here: tr.ee/oNz2hRQDg4 ✊🏻🎮

🎙️ AUDIO ARTISTS BEWARE Scammers are targeting audio artists more than ever. We’ve received real stories from @equityuk.bsky.social members who lost work and money to fake clients. Learn the red flags 🚩 and how to protect yourself...

🎮 EQUITY GAMES NETWORK ACTION DAY Equity member working in games? Want to share yr experiences of the industry with fellow workers? Come to @equityuk.bsky.social's Games Network Action Day, Thurs 6th Nov 10:30am - 4pm in Bloomsbury, London. Register here: tr.ee/oNz2hRQDg4 ✊🏻🎮

Our colleague, activist & AI rights expert, Dr. #MathildePavis has created a vital AI Deal Checklist on what artists and agents should look for when engaging. Even better, she has authorised us to share it for free. 🥹🙏🏻 Find it via our linktree here: tr.ee/j8XL0IketP

Time for tech companies and producers to strike a collective agreement on performers’ rights. AI companies need to know that Equity will be putting in subject access requests en masse. They have a statutory obligation to respond. 👇 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"It's terrifying." 🚨 AUDIO ARTISTS LIVING IN FEAR OF AI This weekend's article in The Telegraph featuring Equity Audio's #MarcusHutton and @equityuk.bsky.social Screen & New Media's #LaurenceBouvard. Thank you to both for highlighting this issue so eloquently. www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/actors-...

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🚨AUDIO JOBS SCAM ALERT🚨 We're aware of a recent increase in scammers advertising fake jobs trying to exploit and extort money/fees from @equityuk.bsky.social members. Be on the alert for anything from our watchlist below and if you have any doubts at all, email [email protected]. Please RT

Good. Thank you, @equityuk.bsky.social.

🚨 THIS MORNING AT 11AM 🚨 Do come and ask us anything you like about our new Audiobook Recommended Minimum Rates and Best Practice. We'd love to see you. 😊

And there are more rate guides to follow. 🤫🤭✊🏻

You asked and here it is. 📖 For the very first time, the #EquityAudio Committee's Recommended Minimum Rates & Best Practice Guidelines For AUDIOBOOKS. You (and your agent) can use these to negotiate your fee. The journey towards fairer rates starts here. ✊🏻 #DemandBetter #UnionStrong

Proud to be present at @developconference.com Brighton! Come and have a chat with us about how we can *all* benefit from #UnionContractsInGamingNow ✊🏻🎮✊🏾

Later today! Come join us. 🙌🏻🎮✊🏼

Heading to the #DevelopConference in Brighton next week? 🎮 Join fellow games performers at The Lion & Lobster Pub BN1 2PS for an @equityuk.bsky.social Games Network Mixer on the upstairs terrace 4-8pm, WEDS 9TH JULY. You don’t need to be an Equity member to join, so pls spread the word. ✊🏻

PLEASE SIGN @equityuk.bsky.social's OPEN LETTER TO #PACT - DEMAND *BETTER* IN AI. Takes 30 secs and will send a strong message during our current negotiations with PACT. Thank you. 🙏🏻✊🏻 www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/op...

🚨 VOTE NOW IN THE @equityuk.bsky.social COMMITTEE ELECTIONS As outgoing Audio Committee member Louise Barrett says, for the first time *all* committees are contested so it's really important to make your voice heard. Search your inbox for 'ukevote' to get your ballot link. #YOUareTheUnion

Thinking of all our @equityuk.bsky.social audio artists working in unairconditioned soundbooths today or booths where the aircon can't be on during recording. 🙄 Thank you to all the studios that accommodate a heatwave and *shakes finger* at the ones that don't!

HOW WE WIN IN GAMES 🎮 A powerful, energising day with fellow gamechangers. From raising minimum rates to fighting for protections around AI & growing our collective strength, this was more than just a meeting, it was the beginning of a movement. #EquityGameOn #GamePerformanceMatters #UnionStrong ✊🏻

Listen to #GayannePotter and @Equityuk.bsky.social's Gen Sec #PaulFleming talk about the case, and #ScotRail & @readspeaker.com's unethical use of AI and Gayanne's voice, with @rosatkins.bsky.social on #TheMediaShow here (23mins in): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #StopAIStealingTheShow

Vote, vote, vote. Link in your inbox. And good luck, Comrades. ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻

👀 @ScotRail @readspeaker.com 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

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ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER UNETHICAL AI EXPLOITATION EquityAudio calls on @readspeaker.com - who claim to "empower accessibility & inclusion" - and #ScotRail to reconsider selling and using Gayanne's voice without her consent. #StopAIStealingTheShow✊🏻 @equityuk.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

. @sagaftra.org GAMES STRIKE UPDATE! Vital reading for all performers and agents working in games. 🎮 www.equity.org.uk/advice-and-s... cc @equityuk.bsky.social

#AUDIBLE TO ROLL OUT END TO END AI VOICE NARRATION ON THEIR AUDIOBOOK CONTENT. We call on Audible to engage with us over this decision and its repercussions. Read our statement below and PLEASE RT if you agree. 🙏🏻 #StopAIStealingTheShow @equityuk.bsky.social

LAST CHANCE TO STAND FOR COMMITTEE. The deadline is this Monday 28th at noon. We would love as many new & diverse voices as possible, so please consider making yours heard. All the info is here, but do just ask below or DM with any queries. www.equity.org.uk/about-us/how...

If you work in the Creative sector and have worries about AI's impacts on Intellectual Property and Copyright, please fill in this short survey/questionnaire ahead of an IMPORTANT Parliamentary debate. t.co/FtvtSYHnUQ Some background: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Yes, yes, yes, yes, YES. 👏🏻 🎮 ✊🏻

Equity members outside New Scotland Yard this morning demanding justice for Heklina and safety for all LGBTQ+ nightlife workers! 🏳️‍🌈 #JusticeForHeklina ✊

🚨 YOUR UNION NEEDS YOU 🚨 Want to know more about standing for any of @equityuk.bsky.social's 11 committees? Come to our online Audio Committee Elections Open Meeting THIS THURSDAY 27th at 1930. Register for the meeting here: equity-org-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... All welcome. 🙌🏻

🚨 YOUR UNION NEEDS YOU 🚨 Want to know more about standing for any of @equityuk.bsky.social's 11 committees? Come to our online Audio Committee Elections Open Meeting THIS THURSDAY 27th at 1930. Register for the meeting here: equity-org-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... All welcome. 🙌🏻

Equity has created the AI Toolkit for its' members, with contract templates and suggestions for what to look out for in contracts performers receive. It is also working with its' sister union @sagaftra.org to push for Transparency, Consent, Compensation and Control.

Hello! Yes, @equityuk.bsky.social was instrumental in stopping the former Conservative government's proposed copyright exemption for AI companies. It's working just as hard to stop the current Labour government from enacting an opt-out policy for AI training (www.theguardian.com/technology/2...)

A great show of solidarity with our colleagues at @sagaftra.org at the meeting last night. Please find the Games Status Search here (and share it with your agent!). SAG-AFTRA are available for any further queries: www.sagaftra.org/contracts-in...

🚨 STAND FOR AN EQUITY COMMITTEE 🚨 The noms are now open to stand for @equityuk.bsky.social's 11 Industrial, Equality & National Committees including the @EquityAudio Committee! Get involved & BE the change you want to see in your sector & your Union. Here's how: www.equity.org.uk/about-us/how...

A big step in the right direction. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Last chance to fight back. Consultation closes midnight Tuesday. Take action here: www.equity.org.uk/campaigns-po...

Bravo to Equity Audio Vice Chair, @leonorlemee.bsky.social. One week left to fight back! ✊🏻 Reposts appreciated. 🙏🏻

We'd love to see what audio drama means to you.

🎙️ Today is World Radio Day, but audio drama is under serious threat! 🎙️ Please sign and share our petition to save audio drama at the BBC. Let’s reach 10,000 ✍️👇 www.change.org/p/save-audio...

If you haven't already, do please sign and share the petition to save longform audio drama at the BBC. Thank you. ✊🏻🎙️✊🏻

UK creatives need to let the government know how bad this is. They are proposing to make *all* our public data scrape-able by aye eye, unless we 'opt out'. We shouldn't have to manually opt-out from having our property used, especially if it'll be used to compete with us. Please email your MP! 💙

⚠️ Performers are facing industrial scale theft by AI companies. We’ve written to entertainment bosses today calling for an urgent conversation over AI use. Full story 👇 www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/en...

🚨 THIS JUST IN 🚨 To give @equityuk.bsky.social members a little more time - and because it's a certain other deadline today 😭 - you now have all weekend to fill this in. 🙌🏻 We particularly want to hear more from members who have recorded audio for APPS DOCUMENTARIES AUDIO GUIDES TOYS

🚨 @equityuk.bsky.social's BIG AUDIO AUDIT CLOSES THIS FRIDAY 31st, FOLKS 🚨 Help us to help you by gathering information to better our negotiations. Find all the survey sections in our Insta Highlights here: www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2... RTs appreciated. Thank you. 🙏🏻