🙌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...

I am so, so inspired by the workers at ZA/UM who unionized. This is such a fantastic step for @gameworkers.co.uk in the UK. Our first recognized union! www.gamesindustry.biz/after-layoff...

So impressed by this lad from my local Croydon doing incredible journalism https://youtu.be/ShYgr-dHAOw?si=bKWtCykgJfyi9QVu

God I love how when I Google something these days if the result is a US government website I literally can't trust it anymore

Maybe they misspoke and Tylenol causes Autumn

Boy it's interesting to see the demographic here @rperezrosario https://mastodon.social/@rperezrosario/115234900863397017

At this point pirating Andor is basically a moral duty

What it's like using closed source software

It's 2025 and some things still don't support webp as a normal image format

If you're in the games industry, I've written a short guide on next steps you can take to learn how to organize in unions. www.gameworkersolidarity.com/start-organi... Reach out to a union for training, read some articles or a book, queue up a podcast. Take some steps to learning how to organize.

My steam account is old enough to be an adult and Steam seems to want me to go out and get a credit card just to prove I'm an adult. C'mon now.

with each successive round of layoffs and buyouts, IGN staff have found themselves increasingly overworked. so now, in an effort to get laid-off colleagues rehired, they’ve resolved to do their fair share — and no more

Huge security leak today, you might want to check if your uuid is in here https://everyuuid.com/

The fact that Google may be ending sideloading apps on Android forever is another reason we should donate more to @postmarketOS With 1-2 more years of work, it could reach a state similar to Desktop Linux or Android ROMs, where everything works, at least on a good number of devices. Can't […]

Games that mute when alt tabbed, but don't pause? Actual war crimes.

Here is my essay on Video Game Worker Unions and Revolution. Revolution is not a one-time event, it is more a culmination of many, many experiments. So what better way for us to experiment, than with video games? notesfrombelow.org/article/vide...

How's your day going? I've just had to remind someone to answer my question I sent 7 weeks ago and have been pinging about every fortnight.

I’m looking for my next challenge in some intersection of open source, community, and developer advocacy! I am passionate about helping others and doing good with technology, in particular—thus I’m especially interested in working with a non-profit or strongly value-aligned organization. I’ve […]

Pokémon TCGP code if anyone wants to trade: 1404547048943074

For the love of god can we stop anthropomorphising LLMs. No, ChatGPT did not "come up with an excuse" or "think about its mistakes". Gemini did not "lie about its reasoning" or "struggle to understand basic concepts". Grok didn't "decide to praise Nazis" or "express it's support for genocide" […]

#OtD 3 Aug 2020 Blizzard workers launched anonymous wage spreadsheet in response to wage disparity. https://www.gameworkersolidarity.com/action/2020-08-blizzard-workers-create-wage-spreadsheet

I ust need you all to understand that my steam client has better tabs than yours

We've always been shopping with TGJones, who told you otherwise?

The whole stupid debate around whether a wealth tax would scare the ultra rich away assumes that is somehow a bad outcome. Let any leech so afraid of contributing back to society go, in fact please scare them off, we don't need them.

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A council made of CEOs will represent the views of the CEOs, not the majority of people of the sector. For that we have @[email protected] https://mastodon.social/@GIbiz/114827389510374519 #gamesindustry #gameworkers

Imagine a universe without C++? Glorious isn't it. Now imagine a universe without balsamic vinegar. You can't, right? Makes you think.

TIL that in C23 a realloc(ptr,0) is undefined behaviour uwot

Imagine designing a game launcher that can restart itself to update *while you're playing a game*, and take focus away from the game. This brought to you by my personal-best run in Trackmania that was cancelled near the end by Ubisoft Connect. RIP o7.

Child of Omelas? That’s thinking too small. What if like eight billion people suffered so a few dozen guys could live lives so insane they convinced themselves it’s more likely they’re inside a computer simulation

I really don’t understand the push to for a computer replicate what goes on in the human brain. I mean, I know what goes on in mine and it just seems ill advised for a computer to be thinking those thoughts.

One mistake people make with these letters is assume they're written for humans, but they're not. There's no contrast. They're written for shareholders, & for them, this text is just a non-stop parade of good news. Record numbers? All verticals up? Layoffs?! What a feast, for them, what a feast.

In light of the 9000 person layoff from Microsoft, I want to talk about what a games industry could look like that is fully unionized and why I push for that so much. I am not exaggerating when I say I believe it could be world changing. 1/

[UK Pol] It seems to me so deeply antisemitic to call hatred for the IDF (or even the government of Israel) antisemitic. If you're the one linking people committing a genocide to their Jewishness then maybe it's you who needs to look inward a bit. BBC News - Chief Rabbi calls 'vile Jew-hatred […]

The protests in Budapest should be a prime example against "why should I care about privacy? It's not like I have anything to hide". Well, the day wil come that you do, where something as basic as a peaceful protest for your own rights may be made illegal. The law is not moral. Privacy […]

Protections against arbitrary dismissals, a policy around AI and credits for QA workers? 😍 Every game dev deserves a union! Congratulations to @codecwa.bsky.social for achieving union recognition with ZeniMax. 🙌 If you work in the UK games industry, join our union at: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

I don't believe most game developers know how to collectively make decisions by group consent, and I think that's a barrier we'll need to overcome before we can make games that teach players how to do it.

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The YouTube Android app devs have had the disgusting audacity to make the "subscription" tab now show an algorithmic selection of videos from your subscribed channels first, before actually showing the sub feed. Get in the sea you bellends.

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Alright, this is quite lovely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sPO7jqJpU

Good thread. I'd say this applies to most industries. I've seen too many people working themselves to death for their team to then get endlessly exploited, skipped for raises and laid off. Enforce your own boundaries!

If you didn't know, the unionization effort in the games industry is very much an international effort. Over at @gameworkersolidarity.com, we track everything we can find, and I'm sure we're missing a lot, too! www.gameworkersolidarity.com

If you weren't already worried about what AI generated media is going to do, go look at what Veo 3 can do. We've crossed the rubicon. Nothing is real. Think I'll just go touch grass.

Feel like I'm gonna be linking this a lot... It's just so hard to encompass everything in a single post and this does a great job. @ben https://m.benui.ca/@ben/114513754479983813

Languages that don't let you have a trailing comma when writing lists need to learn it's 2025

We live in a time of resistance. You don't have to pick all fights, nobody can, but for the love of all that can still be saved, pick a fight. Make the effort to be informed. Make the effort to make a stand. If our window of resistance slips by, it'll be behind us for years and years.