World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.

Sending love to my Iranian and Persian friends today. May we live to see the end of US imperialism.

absolute coward. bootlicking garbage. our country is run by an absolute choad.

The secret hero of Moore's Swamp Thing run.

nah try again get this bullshit chatgpt shit out of my face, I don't care how many human editors you had

“I wish the game industry would leave behind its obsession with tech that sees it keep making more bloated and less original games. But I also wish they would completely remake my favourite 11-year-old game that still works on current devices.”

all these major musicians and bands being like "please fascists don't use my music in your video" but none of them threatening to sue. what are we doing guys.

When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast. They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

anyway labour exploitation is labour exploitation. acting like thats gonna go away when AAA companies collapse is wilfully naive at best. only actual organzation can change things. if you're the owner of a studio of any size who wants real change put your money where your mouth is, make it a co-op

you dont have to be annoying about it but you really gotta hammer in your basic messaging how class struggle works and make educating your supporters a priority because if you don't your base is gonna see the epstein files and run off a fucking cliff into conspiracy theory nonsense

epstein files are an extreme case but they do demonstrate why any viable left wing opposition to the status quo must be open about its support of marxism, and make communicating basic marxist theory a core part of its messaging. you cant just skip to the end unfortunately

yes, the wheels of justice are slow. agonizingly, excruciatingly slow. and oftentimes they miss or go off the tracks entirely. in fact most of the time. but occasionally, very infrequently, that big wheel of justice delivers theoretical remuneration for a handful of vested business interests

I don't normally comment on stuff like this because I've given up on understanding this business, but I'd have to think the remasters Bluepoint was known for are maybe the closest thing we had left to a predictable business model?? I get that everything is volatile but that part feels pretty safe???

bought the first two for my 7 year old niece. kid approved!

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Incredible victory! After years of organizing across Canada, Scotia Bank has divested from Elbit Systems! Elbit is Israel's largest weapons company, arming the occupation and genocide of Palestine. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Reminder that I'm looking for work, particularly in narrative or game design, games writing, marketing writing, any kind of writing really, data entry, whatever. ryanmcdiarmid.com

nice anti-communist talking points you got there. did the pedophilic capitalist class give them to you?

It’s not about whether you personally like or dislike remote work - it’s about executives trying to strip options, jobs & rights away from *everybody*. Working remotely is not just a better setup for many disciplines: it allows teams to include different people w/ different strengths & experiences.

The US campaign to starve Cuba of fuel should be understood as genocidal. They are targeting a whole nation, deliberately destroying conditions necessary for life, in flagrant violation of international law. Pure barbarism, there is no other way to describe it.

this is willful, blatant bigotry. you can't even claim this is in the interest of countering scams, because they're equating being in Gaza with being a spam bot

it is apparently the 25th anniversary of the greatest piece of art Denton, Texas, has ever produced

The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.

I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

spending a decade - that’s ten years, or 12.5% of an average human lifetime - making a fighting game only to immediately go ohhhhh wait a minute fighting games don’t make as much money as league of legends and we already own that let’s fire everyone

it's genuinely stunning to me you'd keep a game in the hopper for a decade and then do huge layoffs after a single month. a month is nothing in live service terms. less than nothing.

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

The government is giving a loan to a Crown corporation that should just be a public service that we pay for because it provides an essential task that Canadians depend on. We don’t provide loans to the health care system or schools; we just pay for them.

Epic made provably incorrect statements about the game’s content, refused to provide details supporting their claims, and has not shared their claimed AO IARC certificate, which normally includes a link for the developer to appeal. They do not ‘love that studio’, they have effectively ghosted us

Just launched a redesign of my website. Updated portfolio section coming soon! As a reminder: I'm urgently looking for work in the Narrative Design, Writing, and Game Design fields, though I have plenty of other talents as well. ryanmcdiarmid.com

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

FYI bill c12 goes into senate for debate TOMORROW. please email or call!

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

I turned three cans of Monster and a sleepless weekend into a tiny videogame for the Global Game Jam. It's about escaping a room full of procedurally generated masked weirdos, something I'm sure we all can relate too. Play it now on your Windows personal computer: khorrorshow.itch.io/i-dont-know-...

Kamala Harris's National Security Advisor Phil Gordon angrily replies to criticism from Israeli journalist Amit Segal that Biden didn't do enough for Israel. He states that Biden went out of his way to violate US law in support of Israel.

This is bullshit. This is everything wrong with the industry right now. Look me in the goddamn eye and tell me 'Biblically accurate lesbian makeout Devil May Car' is a game without an audience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoSn...

insisting on calling every mass day of protest or one-day boycott a "general strike" is not the move. it's good to see people rallying around the cause, it matters, but if you want to be part of a large-scale labor action that shuts down the gears of capital, start by unionizing your workplace!!!

come work with us! an extremely rare well-paid qa position. i used to be the qa lead at the studio so i'm open to answer any questions about this role!

baffling that the media isn’t making more of an issue out of how carney is gutting key federal agencies/depts and what that’s going to mean for gov capacity when we’re supposed to be more independent and capable. food inspection, health canada, statscan, global affairs — all being cut, and more

did you know that this is about the percentage of support among your coworkers you want to aim for to go to a union certification vote? makes u think......

Anyone who paid attention knew that there was no doubt about the official number from the GHM being an undercount due to its historically conservative approach and due to inability to keep pace with the actual death rate. IDF now admits, like it did in 2021 and 2014, that it has an accurate record.

'We are shutting it down:' Ubisoft unions call for international strike

Worth noting that years later, the team that worked on Beast Breaker is now getting revshare from day 1 of this re-release, because it was negotiated by Vodeo Workers United! 🥲 bsky.app/profile/dkmo...

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a really cool debut from the first unionized game studio in north america. tragic that Vodeo shut down early and never got to make more stuff, but nice to see this get a wider release; well worth checking out!

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition. We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:

I have felt increasingly out of step with mainstream Judaism over the past several years, but I cannot imagine how you could work at a Holocaust Museum and envision your role in this way. I just cannot imagine.

Resisting the might-makes-right order, in solidarity with the peoples of Palestine, Venezuela, Cuba and Greenland. Boycott, divest from, or exclude from contracts these complicit US companies.