After 40 workers signed a collective grievance, management removed Teramind from employee devices last month! But now, workers are demanding to know what data was collected and why the software was installed. Work in games in the UK? Join our union: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

At this point the only reason to call it the Labour Party is it lasts too long, hurts like hell, and people keep popping in and out to check on your genitals.

aaarrrrgggghhhh

NEW: IWGB union workers have taken legal action against MindsEye creator Build A Rocket Boy over alleged privacy violations. Separate legal claims have also been filed against the studio accusing it of mishandling a redundancy process that took place last summer.

Yes the name is boring but thank GOD I can stop saying "I've been reviewing models for Goonhammer" to normal people who react normally to atrocious sentences

another thing which irks me about the Cis People Taking Hormones columns is trans folk have long said "maybe a lot of folk would be happier with a slightly different hormonal setup to what their body produces"

I'm in awe of the Rockstar workers who've continuously fought back against their unjust firings by Rockstar. @nershly.bsky.social did an incredibly good job capturing what the past couple of months have been like for her and what we should all learn from it. scottishleftreview.scot/the-rockstar...

Do people in relationships with men called Gary identify as being "happily Gary'd"

Hey Edinburgh peeps! @ancientrobotgames.bsky.social / @arworkshop.bsky.social are teaming up with The Dismissed (hi! 👋) to run a series of fundraising events for our Fighting Fund, the first of which is a tabletop game jam this Saturday, 25th April! Sign up on Luma: luma.com/mqyg8kqh

Gloomy headline here obscures a genuinely heartening stat: the latest enquiry found that almost 500,000 lives were saved in the UK, by vaccines developed here within a year of the start of the pandemic. 90% uptake. A tremendous success amidst the clusterfuck that was the UK's response to the crisis

never kill yourself you might see Masayoshi Takanaka live

being on mushrooms and seeing this 73 year old man walk on stage with a surfboard guitar to a screaming crowd of 20 year olds was the exact opposite of how everything in the world has felt lately

Scottish Labour manifesto is out, don’t vote for them

Can’t believe it. The video games industry is in such a dire state that the Valve logo is moonlighting as a bog roll holder. 😔

Life, Now rachelnertia.github.io/personal/202...

im tired boss

i eepy

This is Cathy Rutherford, Glasgow born trade unionist. I love this clip, but even more for knowing that it stems from a core of lifelong political activism

so I'm back to working on Magewinds v2 (I know, I know, move on Rachel...) and I keep just bumping up against the feeling that I can't get one of the core-adjacent systems to work perfectly and that I should just rip it out...

the only people who are allowed to say anything and do anything to affect positive change are powerful people, but everything they have to do to get to that position is in opposition to the idea of being principled and have values. but it's still your fault if you have principles!

we'd better start treating the idea of living in alliance with your own values as necessary, not 'indulgent', and stop acting like just getting in line and going to work and being a good soldier, having a good credit score, not disappointing your parents etc is something worth celebrating. sorry!

In a wonderful moment of touching grass I spent the day working on my freerunning game Project: MV with my girlfriend @nershly.bsky.social and then had a beach bbq together in the sun!* *the beach took 5 of our sausages but otherwise most successful bbq yet!

I refuse to be hopeless. I would rather be delusional.

I have sort of been offered a job but can't breathe out til I've signed the thing and been given a start date and I've been stuck in this holding pattern for over 2 weeks now. It is messing me up!

Need to get back into regular tabletop gaming in some form because I am definitely depressed af and it would definitely help

Saving this classic

science fiction is when you chop parts off of the letters and fantasy is when you add things onto them.

uuuughghghgh

It's finally happening!

i think you should support trans women on the basis that discrimination against us hurts us. when things are done to hurt us we feel it. we feel pain. we are real people. we want to be treated fairly right now, not in the future, but now, because it hurts now.

I have been enjoying drawing and only using a few colours of marker pens.

And don't forget about the ladder engagement. Ask for a low lift thing, then a medium lift and then the harder lift. Don't start with the hard lift first.

If you're engaged in organizing that needs more people to join, share those opportunities in every way you can. Invite people to join in. Keep making the invitations because most people don't join the first time you ask. For every 10 people you invite, you might get one person who will take it up.

it is not a good feeling to be nervous all the damn time

Any time you see a UK character pretend they're making a reasonable point about north sea drilling, remember: - Won't help with oil price. - Only renewables guarantee energy security. - Renewables happening anyway, they're going to have to accept this at some point. - That might as well be now.

some folk are more at risk than others but there's no way of being individually safe. there's only all of us protecting each other or nothing

what a week

this weather has got me thinking about camping again...

I yearn for job. I long for the videogame mines.

The UK Government is really running out of reasons not to crack down on the bad actors in tech. It's not like there's any American relationship worth saving. It's not like they can ever be more than a bad day away from Trump burning trade on a whim.

They will often burn everything to the ground before giving into worker demands, even if those demands would make them more money.

really fuckin depressed today lads. everything just feels really frustrating and uncomfortable

Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

the defining aesthetic of gaming in the 2020s is that uncanny shimmer to an image drawn of temporal AA and DLSS upscaling, an obliteration of the feeling that anything on-screen is tangible.

This has always *broadly* been the core of DLSS - that it was hallucinating new images between those a computer rendered itself, but we called it Good because it was solely used to fix performance through magic. But even existing forms of DLSS have this grim sense that nothing on the screen is real.

DLSS stands for “Damn, Looks So Shit”

this saturday, I’m gonna be on a panel about labor organizing in the video game industry at NYU alongside other very cool people! RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/labor-orga...

i love my gf!

Are you an organizer or head of a games dev community, based in the UK? (Can be design, audio, composers, artists, games course leaders, entire studios, whatever!) If so, DM/reply to this post. I'm organizing a cool event in the warmer months with an emphasis on bringing folks together Plz RT!