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Writers Guild of America West

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Theorist Media creatives announce joint union drive with Motion Pictures Editors Guild and Writers Guild of America West. #TheoristsUnite @mpeg700.bsky.social @iatse.bsky.social @teamtheorist.bsky.social

Los Angeles, Calif., Nov 13, 2025 — After building overwhelming support, creative workers at Theorist Media are calling on owner Lunar X to recognize their unions. The organizing effort includes workers performing a wide range of work — from editing and writing to sound design to thumbnail creation and digital production.
Workers first reached out to the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), while the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) joined the campaign to coordinate organizing efforts for writers. The Motion Picture Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, is leading the effort for the IATSE-represented classifications.
This signals a major step forward for workers across the fast-growing digital media sector.

“For more than 20 years, we’ve watched terrific creators and their content shape YouTube into one of the most powerful platforms on Earth,” said Nicole Cepeda, who works in graphics at Theorist. “Now it’s time for Theorist and other production companies to take it to the next level.
“By unionizing, our goal is to help raise professional standards and bring them in line with the broader entertainment industry. The work we do is real, and it deserves real protection.”
"My aunt was the first female president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers, where she fought for collective bargaining rights for educators. She was a force to be reckoned with, and I'm proud to be continuing her legacy by helping bring the labor movement to YouTube,” said Daniel Zemke, Writer at Theorist. “We're fighting for fair wages, better working conditions, and a voice on a platform that is sorely lacking in worker rights.”

Despite being petitioned by a supermajority of its relevant workers, Theorist Media — now owned by Lunar X — has declined to voluntarily recognize the unions and is pushing for an NLRB representation election.
“All workers have a right to union representation,” said WGAW President Michele Mulroney. “The creatives behind Theorist programming are bringing audiences, advertisers, and profits for Theorist — it’s time for the good union jobs to follow.”
Theorist workers remain undeterred and will continue to demand that Theorist Media and Lunar X do the right thing and voluntarily recognize the unions and quickly negotiate fair contracts for their workers.
“With all its successful enthusiast sites, Theorist has proven that a huge audience exists for professionally produced content on YouTube,” said Alan Heim, ACE, president of Motion Picture Editors Guild. “Now it’s time for management to prove that they will do the right thing by the hard-working craftspeople who make all that great content possible.”

November 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM

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Long_Painter

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Sitting at a campfire staring at another campfire. 5”x5” oil

November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM

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Rebecca Watson

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Graham Platner is running for US Senate as a progressive Democrat. He also had a Nazi tattoo for 18 years. Is he a Nazi? Is he a government plant? Or is he just a shady, lying little PR disaster who will only damage the Palestinian cause? skepchick.org/2025/11/grah...

Graham Platner is an Embarrassing Liar

Last month, I talked about “cointelpro,” the secret US government plan to infiltrate leftist groups in order to discredit and disrupt them. I specifically brought it up in reference to the Trump ad…

skepchick.org

November 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM

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Armchair Brain

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New Disco Elysium video essay up on my channel in case you missed it:

Why Reaction Speed Might Be The Most Disappointing Disco Elysium Skill | A Disco Elysium Video Essay -
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#DiscoElysium #videogames #gaming #indiegame #gamer #RPG #indiegaming #indiegames #SteamDeck

Why Reaction Speed Might Be The Most Disappointing Disco Elysium Skill | A Disco Elysium Video Essay

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November 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM

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Armchair Brain

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Why Reaction Speed Might Be The Most Disappointing Disco Elysium Skill | A Disco Elysium Video Essay -
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#DiscoElysium #videogames #indiegame #indiegaming #RPG #gamer #videogaming #games #DetectiveGame #ReactionSpeed #ArmchairBrain

Why Reaction Speed Might Be The Most Disappointing Disco Elysium Skill | A Disco Elysium Video Essay

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November 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM

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Claude Monet

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While others glorified kings and battles, Monet glorified mornings, mist, and poplars.🌳

As art critic Séverin Faust put it: “He made the ordinary eternal.”

November 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM

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disco elysium physique quotes

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INLAND EMPIRE - It's the stale smell of rubber, the squeaky sound of sneakers, your bruised knee against the mat. And a whistle…then the feeling is gone.

ENDURANCE - A memory from another life -- when you were young and fit.

November 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM

Armchair Brain

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New Disco Elysium video essay up on my channel in case you missed it:

Why Reaction Speed Might Be The Most Disappointing Disco Elysium Skill | A Disco Elysium Video Essay -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKDk...

#DiscoElysium #videogames #gaming #indiegame #gamer #RPG #indiegaming #indiegames #SteamDeck

Why Reaction Speed Might Be The Most Disappointing Disco Elysium Skill | A Disco Elysium Video Essay

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November 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM

Armchair Brain

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Why Reaction Speed Might Be The Most Disappointing Disco Elysium Skill | A Disco Elysium Video Essay -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKDk...

#DiscoElysium #videogames #indiegame #indiegaming #RPG #gamer #videogaming #games #DetectiveGame #ReactionSpeed #ArmchairBrain

Why Reaction Speed Might Be The Most Disappointing Disco Elysium Skill | A Disco Elysium Video Essay

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November 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM

Armchair Brain

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#DiscoElysium #videogames #gaming #indiegame #gamer #RPG #ReactionSpeed

Why Reaction Speed Might Be The Most Disappointing Disco Elysium Skill | A Disco Elysium Video Essay

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November 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM

Armchair Brain

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God, Blue is just killing it with these speedruns...

BlueSR @bluesr.bsky.social · 14d

Another Silksong True Ending world record!!

Sub 3:20 approaches and i think sub 3:15 is super doable right now as well!!!

November 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM

Armchair Brain

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Looks like @fireb0rn.bsky.social is going to have to rank Elder Hu higher on his HK boss tier list after this revelation.
#HollowKnight #Silksong #HollowKnightSilksong

November 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM

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unhinged leftist ☭🔻

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hope zohran’s dad is screaming at him ‘kid i teach de-colonial studies , not re-colonial studies!’

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Nepo baby and Eric Adam's crony, Jessica tisch, family is donating millions to Andrew Cuomo against Zohran mamdani.
Yet, Zohran still wants to keep her as head cop. Absolute buffoonery going on behind
DSA curtains.
Jeff Coltin @JCColtin • 1d
Will this stop Tisch family members from donating thousands of dollars to stop Mamdani? ($950k in the general!) My guess is no.
Contributor/Lender
Name
Abigail M Tisch
Maude R Tisch
Harriet Tisch
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09/11/2025
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$100,000.00
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$100,000.00
$500,000.00
$100,000.00
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10/21/2025
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Fix The City, Inc.
Fix The Gity, Inc.
Fix The City, Inc.
Fix The City, Inc.
Fix The City, Inc.
Fix The Citv. Inc.

HAYDAR @chronicalihere
So I'm guessing this means Zohran won't be closing the NYPD's overseas branch in Kfar Saba, Israel, which is used for intelligence gathering and consulting services— where American personnel routinely engage in joint training and exercises with Israeli police and military.
Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani • 10h
Zohran Mamdani says he'll keep an NYPD commissioner who teaches cops that watermelons and keffiyehs are antisemitic symbols. Everyone who told us to quiet down until he wins better be ready to protest him ...
6:59 AM • 23 Oct 25 • 1,420 Views

October 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM

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oleks🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️

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lace with lace #silksong #hollowknight

October 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM

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lepaondu

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Tribute to the charity event from this weekend
raising money for Palestine Children's Relief Fund and hosted by the Hollow knight community and a lot of amazing speedrunners !

#hollowknight #silksong #freepalestine

digital illustration of the Silksong's characters regrouping around a Palestinian flag. This piece is a tribute to the charity event hosted by the hollow knight community, raising money for Palestine Children's Relief Fund.

October 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM

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GamGyuls

@gamgyuls.bsky.social

awooo #silksong

October 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM

Armchair Brain

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think i found the new theme song for the @fireb0rn.bsky.social youtube channel 😉
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFhm...
#hollowknight #silksong

Greenpath (Removed Version) - Hollow Knight

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October 15, 2025 at 4:03 AM

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Rudy Flores - Helix Run

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Pixel hornet
#pixelart #silksong

October 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM

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burkicle

@burkicle.bsky.social

Asking for retweets cuz its my bday 🎂

#hollowknight #hollowknightart #hollowknightzote

Gray Prince Zote from Hollow Knight laying in his boss room surrounded by muscle heavy paintings of himself

October 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM

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Guggenheim Collection

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Mime by Man Ray, 1916
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137695

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Gift, Peggy Guggenheim, 1979

© 2016 Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

October 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM

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Dylan

@drhspoliticalcafe.bsky.social

A lot of us know what this is, but for the average person on here: circa 2015 the Alt Right (the explicitly NeoNazi wing especially) appropriated the obscure McDonald’s mascot from the 80s, and made it into a NeoNazi ridden meme.

So yes, this is straight NeoNazism being posted.

October 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM

Armchair Brain

@armchairbrain.bsky.social

Funny and *very* convenient how Zombie ZA/UM allowed their workers to form a union *after* the owners kick out Kurvitz, Helen, Rostov, Martin, Argo, aka the original ZA/UM art collective.

GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · Oct 2

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...