The last few hours of googling have convinced me that someone reallllly needs to write an article on Engels' "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State," patriarchy, and Crusader Kings II/III.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

🙌The first recognised union for game devs in the UK! 🙌 Workers at ZAUM now have a say on their pay and conditions at work with the support of the @iwgbunion.bsky.social Work in games in the UK? Join our union today: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

The ZA/UM Workers' Alliance - a new union set up to represent a subset of UK-based employees at the company - discusses how it wants to help staff feel safe and comfortable in their jobs www.gamesindustry.biz/after-layoff...

There are spontaneous protests throughout Italy for Gaza happening right now. This is in addition to calls for a general strike this Friday by the country's largest union (see above in thread) Here Napoli/Naples www.instagram.com/reel/DPRlQP9...

BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.

A statement by David Adler from the Sumud flotilla. "collective action really is a beautiful thing. When we refuse to accept the unacceptable, when we put our bodies between injustice and its victims, we really can alter the course of history, however modestly."

🎥 “We are currently being intercepted by the Israeli occupation forces in international waters.” Yasemin Acar, Global Sumud Flotilla steering committee member, has reported that the Israeli military is intercepting Alma, the main boat of the Flotilla, 145 nautical miles away from the shores of Gaza

Kickstarter United has voted to STRIKE! We are fighting for a 32 hour work week, livable wage for all workers, and protections against AI. Our Seattle members are organizing a rally alongside OPEIU 8. Join us on Thursday in Cal Anderson Park! forms.gle/udwphKvnZDVG...

Meanwhile a soft zionist colleague told me that she does not have the bandwidth to care about the genocide done on her name because she is too busy with her own children and their drama. One of the drama was her child refusing to brush her hair

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

this is what fascism is

Imagine this: we have socialism and a planned economy. A new technology is invented that automates a ton including your job. No worries. You get paid to get retrained in a new field and you can keep living in your apartment cause you’re not charged to live there. All is fine.

UVW-CWA will be at the Queerness and Games Conference this weekend! ✊🌈 This Saturday, our worker-organizers will be running the workshop "Queer Organizing 101: Building Skills to Make Change as Marginalized Game Workers." We hope to see you there! #QGCon

Australian doctor in Gaza: "[The Israelis] are trying all types of weapons on these people... They bomb families at the beach, so families with the kids, moms, dads, aunties & uncles, they all arrive in pieces. And you don't know whose hand is this and whose leg is this. It's kind of a horror movie"

👀👀👀 www.readthemaple.com/unions-impro...

HAPPENING NOW: Alphabet Workers Union members are outside of the Google offices in NYC speaking out against the Trump administration’s H-1B visa proclamation! Tune in: www.facebook.com/AlphabetWork...

We are going to avoid worst case climate projections because of them…but at what cost?

We highly recommend attending the Queer Organizing 101 workshop by @videogameworkers.bsky.social that same afternoon at 4pm, an excellent hands-on followup to the topics we'll be discussing!

QGCon is coming in just over a week! Come to our talk GAY PEOPLE UNIONIZE - WHY NOW, WHY YOU on Saturday 26th at 2pm in the auditorium to learn about why you (gay) should unionize, now! bsky.app/profile/qgco...

La conférence QGCon arrive! Venez voir notre présentation (en anglais) GAY PEOPLE UNIONIZE - WHY NOW, WHY YOU samedi 26 à 14h dans l'auditorium pour apprendre pourquoi les travailleureuses queer doivent se lancer dans l'aventure syndicale dès maintenant! bsky.app/profile/qgco...

The US has been at war for over 90% of its existence since 1776, has over 700 military bases across its client states and overseas territories, and now it wants to send troops back to Afghanistan.

something that I’ve been thinking about since DICE is that a lot of highly skilled devs are subject to management labelling them as ‘difficult’ and sidelining them simply because they point out and want to solve a problem, mismanagement which I think has contributed to a lot of failed projects

lol

The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.

PANEL ANNOUNCEMENT📢 Giselle Francis Carolyn Jong Roland Quiros James F. Wright We’ll hear from labor organizers about their experiences making this industry do better by them and their fellow workers. We’ll explore what led them to organize, the victories, the defeats, the comebacks, and more.

Just a reminder that I wrote a whole PhD dissertation on the social and economic roots of Gamergate and the alt-right, in case you’re interested in understanding fascism and its connection to the games industry + academia from a materialist POV. spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/98...

The fact that both the WSJ and the Guardian have retracted their trans and leftist stories related to the shooter and now a day later a new one is being formed about a possible "trans roommate or lover" shows how desperate they are to pin this on someone who is LGBTQ+

"my god, it seems like the institutions and infrastructure that undergird our entire capitalist society from snout to tail are falling in line behind fascists with absolutely zero pushback?! why is that??" i say as occam's razor stops being a principal and starts bisecting my windpipe

crying for fascists is a mask off moment.

charlie kirk has received infinitely more sympathy and support from liberals than every single trans person, immigrant, and palestinian combined

Liberals are funny. BIPOC suffer centuries of capitalism and white supremacy, and today we’re still living under border fascism, imperialism, colonialism — both in the imperial core and the periphery. But the moment a fascist dies, or gets "Luigi'd", liberals cry about “peace” and “civility.”

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Attacked Boat Near Venezuela Multiple Times to Kill Survivors American officials said the repeat drone strikes were carried out by Special Operations Command, and more attacks could come soon. theintercept.com/2025/09/10/u...

Days after the US sanctioned The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), Israel bombed their offices in Gaza. PCHR has been documenting Israel’s crimes against humanity since the start of its genocide.

it's time uvw-cwa.org

this is definitely a sign of a well-functioning, healthy society right?

This is genuinely what a Labour government thinks terrorism looks like in the UK right now and I'm losing my god damn mind

The fact we produce as much as we do and have economic crises, the fact that people die from crises of overproduction, is fucking stupid

Capitalism requires economic crisis. Socialism with a planned economy does not.

A pretty good summary of the role of AI + automation in unemployment & the falling rate of profit. It's not machines that are driving unemployment, it's capitalism. The tech is just a means to an end: cheapening human labour and increasing profits (in the short term). www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoGL...

i’m gonna say it again and again: everything they do in Gaza is a test for what they want to do elsewhere, and eventually, here.

❤️ Wouldn't surprise me one bit if Italians are the ones finally doing it

Can we interest you in being radicalized rather than leading you into despair

Israeli forces commited a horrific massacre against innocent civilians this afternoon after bombing the Bseiso residential building west of Gaza City.

You have to organize. I don't know what else to tell people. And organizing is not sexy and it is difficult and it matters that you be persistent. We need long-distance runners right now.

Politicians offering the last scraps of the US empire to the capitalists

"This is just the first step for us joining a movement spreading across an industry that is tired of living in fear." ... "At some point you have to choose between fight or flight, and forming a union is us doing just that—standing our ground in the industry"

BREAKING: Over 450 game developers behind hit video-game series Diablo have joined CWA, joining the historic fight for a better video game industry. Hail to you, union champions 💪