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Chris Butler
@avalix.bsky.social
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Lead Programmer @ ZA/UM on Disco Elysium for Mobile | Ex-Freelance Indie Dev |🟥🟪🟦|🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️| Unity/C#/C++ | Board games | Cat Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights are Human Rights 🏳️‍⚧️
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Chris Butler @avalix.bsky.social · 6d
www.gamesindustry.biz/after-layoff...

So proud to have been a small part of this <3
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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Chris Butler @avalix.bsky.social · 2d
Oh also our Black bin got stolen/accidently taken by the rubbish collection peeps... so i guess that step 3 on the 10 plagues of mildly annoying british problems
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Chris Butler @avalix.bsky.social · 2d
We also only got partial water prasure because of a broken water main

This feels like a 5p version of the plauges of egypt
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Chris Butler @avalix.bsky.social · 2d
huh... the ladybirds are swaming today, just had to evict a whole bunch that came in while the door was open O_O
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Chris Butler @avalix.bsky.social · 6d
www.gamesindustry.biz/after-layoff...

So proud to have been a small part of this <3
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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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 6d
🙌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...
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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 6d
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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Rayna @queenrayna1337.bsky.social · 12d
Every time I see a transfem post a transition timeline on here it’s always this meme
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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · Sep 5
Spider-Man asking dinosaur mad scientist Sauron why he is using his 170 seat majority to constantly fuck up instead of fixing Britain and Sauron saying that’s the way he likes it
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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 13d
I thought I'd try out @hthrflwrs.bsky.social's new game, but I think I got a bootleg edition or something, this doesn't look right.
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ZA/UM Studio @zaumstudio.bsky.social · 13d
ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies.

Arriving 2026:

linktr.ee/zeroparades
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 14d
just found a bullet casing with the entire bee movie script on it
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 14d
Zero Parades (ZA/UM) out in 2026
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 16d
Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 16d
I can't stop laughing.
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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 16d
Entire non-US games industry
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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 16d
Are you or someone you know skipping GDC (or considering doing so) because of worries about coming to the US/San Francisco in the current environment?

If so, I want to hear from you for a piece. DM me here or kyle DOT orland AT arstechnica DOT com.

Please spread the word
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 16d
https://x.com/keysmashbandit/status/1970204769009512721 keysmashbandit @keysmashbandit How much Tylenol do I have to take to make sure my baby wants to play Factorio with me 3:13 PM · Sep 22, 2025 · 42.1K Views
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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 22d
It would be a start if senior politicians and political commentators in the UK would even use the word genocide.
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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 22d
Governments should not wait for international bodies to state the blindingly obvious before acting but now the UN has Labour must use every means at its disposal to stop the wicked genocide.
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Chris Butler @avalix.bsky.social · 22d
God the futuristic designs just slap so hard
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Chris Butler @avalix.bsky.social · 22d
Man - Suddenly woke up remembering that the first anime i techincally watched was a VHS my gran bought me in ireland for ThunderSub (Space Carrier Blue Noah)

Found the whole thing with dub online to watch 👀
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 25d
Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social
This is fine, but Keir Starmer surrounded by violent, foreign money funded bigots waving flags
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Chris Butler @avalix.bsky.social · 25d
Happy MKPride <3 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 - This event is so healing <333
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 26d
“There is no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign, and refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins ‘Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.’”

Fucking wonderful piece.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 26d
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 26d
I’m sure there’ll be corrections in equally prominent positions in each of these papers, yeah?
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Chris Butler @avalix.bsky.social · 26d
Also new metroid prime just in time for my long christmas break? 👀
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Chris Butler @avalix.bsky.social · 26d
They gave samus a bike??! Heck yeah
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 27d
rest in piss
Kirk’s death, like much of his life, took place on a stage. Despite the artificiality of such a setting, that makes him more real to some Americans – and clearly to those eulogizing him. More real than the Democratic lawmaker and her husband who were killed just a few months ago. More real than the 11 people killed last week by the US government in what was almost certainly an illegal strike on a boat in the Caribbean. More real than tens of thousands – or, more likely, hundreds of thousands – of Palestinian civilians. Kirk’s violent rhetoric helped shape this world, and yet, it has been deemed “civil” by those on both sides of the political divide. This is the mark of a sick society, one that is perfectly fine with an unconscionable body count as long as none of the disfigured, barely recognizable faces are ones we know from a screen. Some of the pundits fake-crying for Kirk probably found his views privately appalling. Again, networks made the deliberate choice to shy away from engaging with the substance of his debates. They were almost certainly aware, at least on some level, of the kinds of things he regularly said. But that didn’t matter. They had to put on a show. The show, after all, is what keeps the meat grinder that is America moving, and it must – at all costs – go on.
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