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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 4d

The last few hours of googling have convinced me that someone reallllly needs to write an article on Engels' "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State," patriarchy, and Crusader Kings II/III.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d

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.

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 7d

🙌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 · 7d

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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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 7d

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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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 7d

There are spontaneous protests throughout Italy for Gaza happening right now. This is in addition to calls for a general strike this Friday by the country's largest union (see above in thread)

Here Napoli/Naples

www.instagram.com/reel/DPRlQP9...

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 7d

BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.

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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 7d

A statement by David Adler from the Sumud flotilla.
"collective action really is a beautiful thing. When we refuse to accept the unacceptable, when we put our bodies between injustice and its victims, we really can alter the course of history, however modestly."

Screenshot of a statement on X by David Adler, the text reads: "Dear friends,

I fear this will be the final letter that I write to you from the Global Sumud Flotilla — now just 120 NM from the shores of Gaza.

Last night, several Israeli naval ships menaced our convoy. They attacked our vessels, intimidated our crew, and disabled our communications.

We recognize these tactics from previous flotilla missions. We know that they are the precursor to what we have long feared: illegal Israeli abduction in international waters.

As I write this, we are preparing ourselves for such an imminent attack. We know the procedures. We know the protocols. When they board our boats, we will not resist. We are ready.

From our cell phones and our CCTVs, we will do our best to document everything. We will transmit it to the world. And we will rely on you to spread the word about this criminal attack.

But before they intercept us, I want to say something — corny, I know; copium, possibly — but that I truly believe nonetheless: that even if we do not complete our mission this time, the Sumud flotilla has already achieved so much."

"The flotilla has rallied the world's attention once again to the suffering of the people of Gaza. The flotilla has joined land and sea in the mass mobilization of millions. And the flotilla has forced reluctant states into active confrontation with the illegal siege that has starved the people of Palestine and robbed them of their right to self-determination.

Above all, the flotilla has proven that ordinary people – doctors, fishermen, students, journalists, lawyers, clergymen, and retirees from 44 countries – can not only unite around a sense moral outrage, but also take matters into their own hands to do something about it.

We set sail from Barcelona not just as a symbolic gesture of solidarity — but as an act of construction: to build a permanent humanitarian corridor to reach the people of Gaza by sea. And while our boats may be intercepted, that idea cannot detained. The demand for a corridor will outlive this flotilla; a new fleet of ships is already on its way from Corsica to break the siege. Our movement only grows.

When Israeli authorities forcibly board our vessels in the coming hours, please know that they will be committing an act of piracy. They will be violating the sovereignty of the seas. They will be obstructing a peaceful humanitarian mission witnessed by the entire world.

Let them try to justify it. Let them explain to the international community why our humble effort to feed the starving people of Gaza represents some threat to their national security. No one will believe them. The Hasbara simply doesn’t hit anymore."

"From here on the Ohwayla, I can say that we are not afraid of interception, interrogation, or incarceration. What we fear is a world where such abductions become routine. Where humanitarians are treated as criminals. Where bringing food to hungry children is called terrorism.

So when you hear that we have been intercepted – and you will hear it, within the coming hours – please do not fear for us. We knew what we were sailing toward. We made this choice with open eyes and full hearts.

Instead, let’s raise hell! 😈

Make those Insta posts, yell at our pathetic representatives, and join our demand for a corridor now. Not as a dream, but as a concrete policy. The infrastructure we could not complete, states must build. The siege we came to break, they must end once and for all.

If there is one thing I have learned on this journey, surrounded by these extraordinary new friends from every corner of the earth, it is this: that collective action really is a beautiful thing. When we refuse to accept the unacceptable, when we put our bodies between injustice and its victims, we really can alter the course of history, however modestly.

I guess more than anything, I want to thank you all for your support, your love, and your company on this mission. I hope it is not too long before I see you on the other side.

Yours with love,
David"

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Al Quds Times @alqudstimes.bsky.social · 8d

🎥 “We are currently being intercepted by the Israeli occupation forces in international waters.”

Yasemin Acar, Global Sumud Flotilla steering committee member, has reported that the Israeli military is intercepting Alma, the main boat of the Flotilla, 145 nautical miles away from the shores of Gaza

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Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 9d

Kickstarter United has voted to STRIKE! We are fighting for a 32 hour work week, livable wage for all workers, and protections against AI. Our Seattle members are organizing a rally alongside OPEIU 8. Join us on Thursday in Cal Anderson Park! forms.gle/udwphKvnZDVG...

Kickstarter United Seattle Strike Rally
Our union has voted to STRIKE! We are fighting for a 32 hour work, livable wage for all workers, and protections against AI. Join us! Thursday, 10/2 @ 6

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Limón de Beauvoir @ottomanvampire.bsky.social · 9d

Meanwhile a soft zionist colleague told me that she does not have the bandwidth to care about the genocide done on her name because she is too busy with her own children and their drama. One of the drama was her child refusing to brush her hair

Metaphor Man @metaphorman.bsky.social · 9d

Their memory will haunt you

The scars on our children’s faces

Will look for you

Our children’s amputated legs

Will chase you

substack.com/@mosababutoh...

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 12d

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 · 13d

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

heated.world

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Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 11d

this is what fascism is

strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 12d

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 · 13d

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 12d

Imagine this: we have socialism and a planned economy. A new technology is invented that automates a ton including your job. No worries. You get paid to get retrained in a new field and you can keep living in your apartment cause you’re not charged to live there. All is fine.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 13d

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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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 14d

Australian doctor in Gaza: "[The Israelis] are trying all types of weapons on these people... They bomb families at the beach, so families with the kids, moms, dads, aunties & uncles, they all arrive in pieces. And you don't know whose hand is this and whose leg is this. It's kind of a horror movie"

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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 14d

👀👀👀
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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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 16d

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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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 17d

We are going to avoid worst case climate projections because of them…but at what cost?

The New York Times
What Will China's Green-Tech
Ambitions Cost the World?
3 days ago

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CTIJ Montréal / GWU Montreal @gwu-montreal.bsky.social · 18d

We highly recommend attending the Queer Organizing 101 workshop by @videogameworkers.bsky.social that same afternoon at 4pm, an excellent hands-on followup to the topics we'll be discussing!

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CTIJ Montréal / GWU Montreal @gwu-montreal.bsky.social · 18d

QGCon is coming in just over a week! Come to our talk GAY PEOPLE UNIONIZE - WHY NOW, WHY YOU on Saturday 26th at 2pm in the auditorium to learn about why you (gay) should unionize, now! bsky.app/profile/qgco...

The QGCon Collective @qgcon.bsky.social · Aug 29

Please have a look at our schedule for #QGcon including our streaming sessions, which will be on our discord!

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CTIJ Montréal / GWU Montreal @gwu-montreal.bsky.social · 18d

La conférence QGCon arrive! Venez voir notre présentation (en anglais) GAY PEOPLE UNIONIZE - WHY NOW, WHY YOU samedi 26 à 14h dans l'auditorium pour apprendre pourquoi les travailleureuses queer doivent se lancer dans l'aventure syndicale dès maintenant! bsky.app/profile/qgco...

The QGCon Collective @qgcon.bsky.social · Aug 29

Please have a look at our schedule for #QGcon including our streaming sessions, which will be on our discord!

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 18d

The US has been at war for over 90% of its existence since 1776, has over 700 military bases across its client states and overseas territories, and now it wants to send troops back to Afghanistan.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 18d

President Trump threatens the Taliban, demanding that Bagram in Afghanistan be returned to U.S. control.

Donald J. Trump & + @realDonaldTrump • 2m
If Afghanistan doesn't give Bagram Airbase back to those that built it, the United States of America, BAD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN!!! President DJT

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 19d

something that I’ve been thinking about since DICE is that a lot of highly skilled devs are subject to management labelling them as ‘difficult’ and sidelining them simply because they point out and want to solve a problem, mismanagement which I think has contributed to a lot of failed projects

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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 21d

lol

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22d

The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

www.404media.co

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