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Ben Newbon @bennewbon.itch.io · 23h

This is something I have been deeply involved in over the last few months. The behaviour of my former employer has been callous and despicable and they have to held accountable. If not only by the legal system, by the public they want to be buying their games!

IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 23h

We stand in solidarity with employees and ex-employees at Build a Rocket Boy as they file legal claims through our union and publish an open letter, condemning the way in which they’ve been mistreated and discarded by the studio’s millionaire executives.

www.gameworkers.co.uk/barb-open-le...

Open Letter to the Executive Leadership at Build A Rocket Boy

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2d

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Mystery Ape @lasers.bsky.social · 24d

a great variety of morbid but also very stupid symptoms are appearing

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Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 2d

more and more people are saying this

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Kris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 4d

Greta Thunberg annoys the right because she's a reminder that it's possible to stay true to your moral principles even when it's inconvenient, and they fucking hate that

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alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 5d

deleting *this* post is such incredible "put it in the paper that i'm not mad" energy—it doesn't even tag Jay. i'm so serious: deeply cooked website

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Ty @tys.work · 6d

The only way we can do this in the USA is if you start a union this year, and the only way you can start a union this year is if you talk to your coworkers about their working conditions today.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 7d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

bit.ly

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 6d

looking into the article, important part to it is this was initiated by italian unions, making it possible to organize such action at all. which reinforces for what and why such union restrictions exist in america. keeping labor down doesn't just generate wealth, it also suppresses other movements.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 7d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

bit.ly

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Emmy Cumslutress @emma.meangirls.online · 7d

not to armchair extrapolate, but ngl once i read jay's deranged post about how she "reads" fiction and how books are "there to serve her and not the other way around," her entire worldview sort of clicked

tech ceo ego + a complete inability to understand other human beings = narcissistic crashout

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mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 7d

always good when the biggest crashout in the history of a website is its CEO

mad radhu @madradhu.garbage.computer · 7d

no way

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 9d

🙌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...

GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 9d

The ZA/UM Workers' Alliance - a new union set up to represent a subset of UK-based employees at the company - discusses how it wants to help staff feel safe and comfortable in their jobs

www.gamesindustry.biz/after-layoff...

After layoffs, cancellations, and controversy, ZA/UM UK staff unionise as the Workers' Alliance

"We like being here. We want to continue being here. So let's try and get a seat at the table in the big management meetings."

www.gamesindustry.biz

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 11d

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 11d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 11d

The only core American desire is to want to be a baby again

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Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 13d

this is what fascism is

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 14d

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 15d

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 14d

Morning walk

Wheat paste poster that says the all the world is dying and the new world struggles to be born now is the time of monsters. There's a picture of Elmo

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kindra!!✨✊UVW-CWA @kindradantone.bsky.social · 14d

I'll be one of the speakers for our union workshop at #QGCon tomorrow!!! :]

United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 15d

UVW-CWA will be at the Queerness and Games Conference this weekend! ✊🌈

This Saturday, our worker-organizers will be running the workshop "Queer Organizing 101: Building Skills to Make Change as Marginalized Game Workers."

We hope to see you there! #QGCon

Flyer that reads: "Queer Organizing 101: Building Skills to Make Change as Marginalized Game Workers" with QGCon and UVW-CWA logos at the bottom.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14d

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died

Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

www.whatimreading.net

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 14d

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

BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 15d

But this win means our collective pressure is working. Palestinians call for increased global BDS and shareholder pressure until Microsoft adheres to international law and ends all complicity in Israel’s atrocity crimes.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 15d

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

www.theguardian.com

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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 16d

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www.readthemaple.com/unions-impro...

Excerpt from the linked article. The text reads "Across all measures, the study controls for the influence of other factors that may influence inequality and poverty, GHG and TPM emissions, and mortality. In this way, the authors are able to single out the influence that unionization has.

As they conclude, 'The evidence presented here suggests that when unionization rates are higher in Canadian provinces, the environment is cleaner, inequality is lower, and health is better.'"

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Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 17d

As a permalancer: if you are EVER verbally offered ANY kind of promise (a raise, a contract extension, full-time employment), IMMEDIATELY ask for it in writing and be low-key relentless about it. As someone who has been strung along too many times: they can't keep getting away with this.

"QA tester Jessica Gonzalez, formerly a workplace organizer for A Better ABK at Activision Blizzard, told Game Developer she recalls being "strung along" for a job at ProbablyMonsters after receiving a verbal offer from Martin in 2024. Martin remembered making the decision to hire Gonzalez and telling her she'd have an offer letter soon—and then being told not to send it. The position was closed a few weeks later."

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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 18d

Don’t reward corporations for doing the bare minimum. They’re not your husband 🥰

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Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 18d

maoist wuxia ttrpg with a disco elysium-style skill system, this rules!!

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kira @snowkittykira.bsky.social · 18d

(sound on) wind update from this weekend: now the simulation controls the wind sound, so you can hear other ships flying by!

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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 18d

HAPPENING NOW: Alphabet Workers Union members are outside of the Google offices in NYC speaking out against the Trump administration’s H-1B visa proclamation!

Tune in: www.facebook.com/AlphabetWork...

AWU members hold a press conference outside google in nyc

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