i hope people see this recent microsoft news as proof of BDS' effectiveness; especially in regard to raising publicity and encouraging action from microsoft employees and it inspires more people to join in keeping the pressure on these unrepentantly imperialist tech companies

the only real upside i can find to all of this is that carney might be the first PM to shit all over the goodwill he was essentially gifted and that's gonna be really funny to see as his legacy just an astonishing hatred of the working class from all ends of our government

Fix your brain and heart

re: "Parks are for families" - Chow makes it clear who is and isn't granted personhood in the eyes of the state. Dufferin Grove is a huge park that's continued to be used for all sorts of shit throughout this encampment's life. these policies boil down to the City not wanting homeless people visible

The 7 residents holding their ground intend to stay together or leave together. They aren't doing the latter until they get actual housing offers from the City, and not refuse to be thrown back into the rinse > repeat shelter system www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-h...

Olivia Chow is saying "parks are for families" to defend carrying out a mass eviction of an encampment cbc.ca/news/canada/... Notable how this supposedly "progressive" mayor has abandoned all pretense and is now openly embracing reactionary, anti-poor rhetoric

More than 1,000 Canadian Jews have signed the open letter calling for rabbis and spiritual leaders to break their silence on Palestine! Read more and add your name today tinyurl.com/Call4Rabbis @jewssayno.bsky.social

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

Corporate media bravely continues Charlie Kirk's legacy by committing to destroy the careers of anyone who disagreed with him: www.404media.co/comcast-nbcu...

What's DC's pitch to a prominent non-comics creator right now, especially from a marginalized background? "You'll get to write a superhero! For very little money! An insane fanbase will bay for your blood! And not only will we not defend you, we'll look for an oppurtunity to throw you overboard!"

Tom King is a genuinely evil person who loved his job in the CIA so much he literally won't shut up about it, and also a hack writer on top of that.

The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures. This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Wild how political alliance with Zionism sweeps all sorts of wild statements about Jews under the table

Some Fucking Nazi: *dies* People Who Accepted the Genocide of Gaza and Police Brutality and Murders of Trans and Queer People as Unavoidable Parts of Society and Insisted For Decades You Simply Must Shrug Off For the Sake of Some Imaginary Sense of Harm Reduction: violence is never acceptable

KGLW exited the Spotify ecosystem as a moral protest to the CEO's direct involvement in funding the development of AI weapon systems and have taken the additional step of (at least for the time being) making a majority of their huge musical catalog free/pay as you like on Bandcamp.

Archive.org is being sued by record labels and they're asking people to sign this petition to help get the suit dropped. www.change.org/p/defend-the...

I'm at the AGO showing off and talking about GVH tonight along with some other great devs! If you're in Toronto, come through. facebook.com/events/s/vid...

If you're Canadian, please sign this! You'll have to confirm your signature via email but for good reason--this is a petition sponsored by an actual member of parliament. These petitions can lead to actual meaningful action here. Doesn't take very long, please add your support!!

In preparation for the upcoming high holidays, local groups are pressuring rabbis to actually provide some spiritual leadership and finally speak out against Israel's genocide of Palestinians. If you're a Canadian Jew, please sign. tinyurl.com/Call4Rabbis

The Palestinian-led BDS movement has updated our priority targets, pressure targets and organic campaign targets.

Have a lot of emotions about this but more than anything just feel a lot of gratitude for the kindness and love these folks have shown us. Thank you 🥺

Caitlin absolutely ASTONISHED me with this commission of our cats and could not have done a better job capturing their personalities. She was so so receptive to all my requests and quick too!!! HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, GET YOUR ANIMALS ILLUSTRATED BY CAITLIN

Literally imagine if any country’s military assassinated the Israeli Prime Minister

We're excited to announce the Games for Palestine charity page is now LIVE on Itch. Over 300+ games with proceeds going to UNRWA USA in support of Gaza relief. Thank you to everyone for your support. The bundle launches on Sept 2nd 9am PST. Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

I am excited to announce the Games for Palestine charity bundle page is now live!!! Over 300+ games with proceeds going to UNRWA USA in support of Gaza relief. Thank you to everyone for your support. The bundle launches on Sept 2nd 9am PST. Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain. Not this time. Not anymore.

The idea that 'AI can speed up dev cycles' would require a premise that dev cycles are long because people are taking forever to make assets (so you could replace them with shoddy slop and it'd go faster), which you could only believe is true if you've never actually tried to make a video game

hi all, thank you so so much for donating and sharing my friend Maisa and her family's previous fundraiser. the IOF is displacing them again and they're trying to raise funds to survive, can anybody match me for €20 or share? www.paypal.com/pools/c/9hgv...

SUGGESTION [Challenging: Failure] — The reporter hands you back the bag of Herr's Sour Cream & Onion potato chips, saying she can't accept your bribe. The red envelope inside falls out. 1. - "I make a mistake. I’m so sorry. I don’t know. I don’t understand. I’m so sorry. I feel so bad right now."

NEW: During an interview at the Xbox booth on the Gamescom show floor, I attempted to ask a veteran Obsidian developer for their thoughts on making video games at Microsoft amid layoffs and widespread criticism over the company's links to Israel. I was immediately shut down.

so much respect for cupe and air canada flight attendants. air canada can have planes back in the skies tomorrow, all they have to do is pay their workers fairly.

Hey canadians. Theyre continuing to dig in their heels on ID verification. Let them, and your govt, know how you feel about this issue and how it will not protect kids.

Fuck Air Canada. All my homies hate Air Canada. Pay your employees you greasy fucks

In an almost unthinkable display of conflict-of-interest, a former Air Canada legal counsel, Maryse Tremblay, will rule on whether to end job action by striking Air Canada flight attendants at the Canada Industrial Relations Board.

it should be illegal to print new editions of watchmen or v for vendetta without the vertigo stamp

we gotta send everyone, in turns, to spend six months at a nice quiet reeducation retreat where they are made to unlearn Customer Behavior

the 2nd one is to help a local indigenous family have a bright start to their new lives together. ✨ funds would cover kids room furniture, utilities, and a few grocery shops 🧺https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-an-indigenous-father-and-his-children-live-comfortably

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So good to see Arkane's workers push for this! Also a great example of one of the core benefits of unionization, which is just "creating a structure for discussion and systems to make collective decisions." Always much harder to get action at scale like this if there isn't already organization.

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

An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I think it needs to be pointed out as well that Visa is clearly losing money off these calls clogging their systems and still thought it was worth the money to re-train their employees/contractors. They're not scared enough to drop the issue altogether, people need to keep calling and snail-mailing.

And I've obviously been saying this a lot lately, but BDS does not expect anyone to drop everything made by Microsoft all at once. They pick very specific targets in order to get as wide a coalition as possible, and in the case of Xbox, even suggest different tiers of engagement.

I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity. "What service is Microsoft providing?" Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

Hey, it would mean so much to me if y'all kept up the pressure with phone calls to payment processors to show to them how much people care and that they can't just ignore it—my livelihood depends on adult games not being censored! You can find info and phone scripts here: stop-paypros.neocities.org

hi guys, my friend maisa and her family are trying to raise 1k in 8 days before their fundraiser closes. i just donated €20, can anybody match me or share? www.paypal.com/pools/c/9gnU...

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

Fuck you Carney "Canada will recognize Palestine at some point in the future so long as they do what we say" Don't forget the actually story is Canada got caught selling arms to Israel after lying to everyone about it

we here at IGDA leadership want you to know that at this pivotal moment we don't have any opinions and don't think anything should happen, because that might challenge our longstanding mission of redirecting energy away from unionization