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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 10d

🙌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 · 10d

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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Micah @themicahsmith.bsky.social · 25d

Not something I've done before but open to it!

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Micah @themicahsmith.bsky.social · 25d

I think I must be at this point 😅

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Micah @themicahsmith.bsky.social · 26d

RTs appreciated

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Micah @themicahsmith.bsky.social · 26d

For the second time in a year I have woken up to being very suddenly made redundant from my job

It's all still very raw but If anyone knows of any opportunities in games QA i'd really appreciate you getting in touch

I'm passionate, good at what i do, and i won't let this industry beat it out of me

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Micah @themicahsmith.bsky.social · 27d

Breaking News: Cis person who did a bad thing once knew a trans person! Trans people as a group to blame for bad thing? Read this story now on...every news site

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Micah @themicahsmith.bsky.social · 27d

I'd say I'd warm you up but I did the same 😅

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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · Aug 1

Our statement on the actions at Wes Streeting's office last night.

We refuse to sit and watch as trans young people have their healthcare stripped from them. We refuse to allow Streeting to cover up their suicides. We refuse to endure the violence and humiliation. They will have to go through us.

A photograph of the front of Wes Streeting's office in Ilford. there is pink paint on the window, reading CHILD KILLER, although a car is parked in front of it, and white paper on one side barely hiding a puncture in the glass. Wes' name is also covered in pink paint on the email at the bottom of the red banner-style sign

$A different angle of Streeting's office, showing the CHILD KILLER text more visibly. Three punctures with spider-fractures are visible across the front of the office windows.$

JUSTICE FOR TRANS YOUTH

On July 31st, a group of activists representing BASH BACK took action against Wes Streeting's office in Ilford, in response to his continued abuse of trans people in the medical system, and attempts to cover up the suicides of trans young people under his watch as Health Secretary.

In the months since the puberty blockers ban, we have seen huge backpedals in the healthcare rights afforded to trans people - and young people especially - in an NHS system that was never kind to us in the first place.

Under Streeting's rule, GPs have been banned from conducting blood tests on trans patients accessing HRT, and trans people have been banned from accessing hospital wards that fit their gender, leading necessarily to poorer quality of care across the board. Streeting, along with NHS England, the EHRC, and Hillary Cass, have paved the way for state-mandated conversion therapy, which has since led to the Department of Education's proposed introduction of a "Section 28" style bill, preventing discussion of transness in the classroom.
It is clear now that Wes Streeting and the Labour government intend to erase trans people from public life, and will go out of their way to do so, no matter how many bodies lay in their path.

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Micah @themicahsmith.bsky.social · Jul 30

Lies!

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yaoi bunny breastfeeding @sexgaming.bsky.social · Jul 17

loading some estrogen into one of these

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Micah @themicahsmith.bsky.social · Jul 26

1 gift sub 4 five minutes of puppy cam 😈

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · Jul 26

“One in three Gazans goes multiple days without eating, the World Food Programme said this week. Malnourished mothers can no longer produce milk to breastfeed their children, the injured are unable to heal and hospitals have run out of nutritional supplements to treat gaunt babies.”

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · Jul 26

‘There is nothing to buy’: Gaza’s descent into mass starvation www.ft.com/content/e5d7...

‘There is nothing to buy’: Gaza’s descent into mass starvation

Israel’s offensive and aid curbs tip enclave of 2.1mn Palestinians into famine

www.ft.com

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Micah @themicahsmith.bsky.social · Jul 8

a man in a black coat is standing in a snowy forest and yelling at someone .

Alt: Kylo Ren in a black coat is standing in a snowy forest and yelling "Traitor!"

media.tenor.com

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Micah @themicahsmith.bsky.social · Jun 29

The flight of dragons!!! Was one of my favs too! 🧡💚

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Empress Jessica😻👻🏳️‍⚧️ | Nekomata VTuber @empressjessicavt.bsky.social · Jun 26

What an amazing night!
Love to @ferwynaarianrhod.bsky.social and @tiavt.bsky.social for a lovely 5 hours of Hour glass! Joined by our secret weapon Micah!

So glad we got both paintings, and pushed @themicahsmith.bsky.social over the edge to the wonderful ghost curse!

Till the next HG boost 💞

Empress Jessica😻👻🏳️‍⚧️ | Nekomata VTuber @empressjessicavt.bsky.social · Jun 25

It's the last day of Fight Nights in Sea of Thieves, and I haven't fought a single match, TIME TO CHANGE THAT!

Join myself, @tiavt.bsky.social and @ferwynaarianrhod.bsky.social as we win every match and have a goofy time.

And day 3 of our gilded crest giveaway!
www.twitch.tv/empressjessi...

The sea of thieves Season 16 banner for Reapers Rule, defaced with numerous pictures of Empress over the reapers, in the bottom right is the Gilded Phoenix Ships crest, with text mentioning its being given away

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Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · Jun 9

It’s been almost a year since I hosted Detroit’s first and largest video game launch party! We introduced so many kids to game development, showed them they could actually make their own games. Still one of the most meaningful things I’ve ever done as a Detroit-based game developer.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · Jun 11

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN

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Micah @themicahsmith.bsky.social · Jun 10

Yeah, I made sure to set aside my first day to try to be present and listen to my body, but life loves to get in the way 😅

Happy to chat ADHD anytime if you need someone to bounce off. I hope you start seeing the outcomes you're hoping for soon!

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Micah @themicahsmith.bsky.social · Jun 9

(Trip sitter is usually a term used around recreational drug use, which I know this isn't but I can't think of another term 😅)

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Micah @themicahsmith.bsky.social · Jun 9

I can't talk to the interactions, but if you're worried, until you get comfortable with the medication, you could have a friend essentially be a trip sitter? To have someone stay with you to be a calm presence and to look out for you 💜

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The Pride Brigade @thepridebrigade.bsky.social · Jun 9

It is with great #Pride to announce that The Pride Brigade has joined the @seaofthieves.com Affiliate Alliance team!

Our vibrant pirate community holds LGBTQIA+ inclusion and safety at it's core and we are so excited for what the future holds!

#seaofthieves #bemorepirate #lgbtqiaplus #lgbtq #beyou

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Micah @themicahsmith.bsky.social · Jun 1

That's gaaaaaaaaaaaay

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Micah @themicahsmith.bsky.social · Jun 1

It...is not a good movie

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Empress Jessica😻👻🏳️‍⚧️ | Nekomata VTuber @empressjessicavt.bsky.social · May 16

So I can happily announce, I’ve now officially had bottom surgery.
Recovering in my room now.
Thus the weird count down and vagueness.

Amazing art by @starsinmycoffeeart.bsky.social 💞

So yeah, no streams for a few weeks while I recover, but expect posts while I’m bored in hospital

A fake sms showing Jessica in a hospital gown doing the peace sign, with the text “I lived bitch”

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Micah @themicahsmith.bsky.social · May 12

Jeans with fake pockets should be illegal

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