thank you for supporting striking Starbucks workers, Comrade Hilary Duff

Free shovel to dig your own grave.

join @videogameworkers.bsky.social and meet other videogame workers, learn more about organizing, share stories and resources, and generally cause trouble with us. coming together to strategize is how we start to change this fucked up industry!

I have great news... YOU CAN. RIGHT NOW. uvw-cwa.org @videogameworkers.bsky.social

Our statement in solidarity with our fellow workers' ongoing protest against @rockstargames.com's gross union busting!

wish i could've seen this talk! interesting thread

i posted the entire devlog of one of my old games, and tbh if there's one thing to remember about making any artistic project, it's this timeloopdepressionstation.tumblr.com/tagged/log/c...

If you want to help uterus-havers and friends, might I suggest playing the PC version of This is Normal, free on Steam? store.steampowered.com/app/2825000/... Played already? Consider leaving a nice review as there's not many, and the rating is being dragged down by anti-abortion reviews.

I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

my bisexuality will unite the people and abolish gender. send tweet

Reinstate the workers, Rockstar.

The truth is, way too many journalists & content creators sat there and said nothing when SESTA-FOSTA passed, when OSA passed, when OF nearly lost porn due to paypros, even during this summer’s Collective Shout situation. A slow apocalypse for the free and open internet has been unfolding for years

nice white ladies (jessie daniels) white tears/brown scars (ruby hamad) they were her property (stephanie e. jones-rogers) the trouble with white women (kyla schuller) white feminism (koa beck) ain't i a woman (bell hooks) sisters in hate (seyward darby) white women, race matters (ruth frankenberg)

ATTENTION GAMERS Voting for the Hard Drive Game Awards is open from now until November 21st. Fill out the form below and be a part of the most prestigious award show in the history of media. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

you can have nuance when unions protecting employee rights are the norm. until then fight with all you've got folks

“average gamedev makes $142,000 a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average gamedev makes $0 per year. Executives Georg, who lives in cave & makes over $10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

Please read this in the gentlest possible voice but we HAVE to divest from mil-sims as gamedevs. Even before this AI bullshit in the latest Black Ops, these games have done so much harm and contributed massively to the dehumanization of several populations worldwide. It’s US foreign pol propaganda.

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct. That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

Many freelancers in the United States rely on ACA marketplace plans for their health insurance. In an industry that has already been working overtime to turn gamedevs into gig workers, freelance and contract devs are about to get even more squeezed. This is unacceptable.

Good morning! Just a reminder that the video games you play are made by living and real people who deserve to be treated as such and you need to demand for better and safer conditions for the devs behind your favorite games, especially if you ever want good games and not corporate slop!

Rockstar: tries to bust unions🦹‍♀️ Us: Hold my controller 🎮🔥🔥 We're fighting back 💥💥 IWGB organized a protest in front of the @rockstargames.com parent company Take-Two Interactive in London today We'll make sure the credits are rolling on their corporate greed ❌️ @gameworkers.co.uk

I'm sure I speak for many of my comrades when I say: We stand with the protestors and the fired employees. An attack on one is an attack on all www.dexerto.com/gta/protests...

This goes into that “deprofessionalization” of the game industry article that went around a few months ago. People who don’t understand the work or care about the value of the people doing the work or honestly even care about quality at all. They just want to not have to pay workers.

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.

you know, I never thought I'd buy a copy of the Post but I might need to frame this one

a timely political obit from yours truly 🫡 slate.com/news-and-pol...

live view from cuomo hq

Zohran Mamdani proves that proudly and genuinely standing up for trans people (along with all other oppressed and downtrodden groups) is not just morally necessary, but a winning strategy

Now comes the even harder work. But for tonight, let's celebrate.

Cheney was so evil that him dying actually lifted a curse

mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.

Mamdani has won more votes than the entire population of any of the 5 smallest states.

This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity. We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.

SAG-AFTRA stands in solidarity with the IWGB Game Workers Union exercising their right to organize following reports of union-busting at Rockstar. Our members’ union performances on Rockstar games are an integral part of the success and legacy of games like Grand Theft Auto.

Desde CSVI queremos dar toda nuestra solidaridad y apoyo a les compañeres de @gameworkers.co.uk afectades por represión antisindical en Rockstar Games. ¡Basta ya de este régimen del miedo contra la clase trabajadora organizada! ¡Exigimos la readmisión de nuestras compañeras! ✊❤️‍🔥

Today is only the beginning. Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.

One last time: Every time I post it he goes up five more points.

Sora 2 is not being “misused” when people use it to produce racist, transphobic, misogynistic, & otherwise vile images—it exists to make it easier to put these images out into the world. Calling it a “misuse” is a grave misunderstanding of what these companies are up to, & lets OpenAI off the hook.

Don’t forget to vote today if you haven’t, Californians. Feels a bit like willingly entering into a Faustian bargain but hey, what election isn’t these days

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

realized today that i have made or started 3 different projects re: sexuality and games THIS YEAR. take that imposter syndrome!!!!!!!!!

BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct. Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The weirdest thing about my layoff was going from thinking so constantly about this one story and group of people and then suddenly being completely cut off from it. It’s a really disorienting experience.

Calling all game developers working on making the future a better place, or addressing the bullshit of our current time in some creative way! Where are you? Let's connect and team up.

North Star - Polaris - I found my new favorite brush to use on just about everything ;u;