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Audrey Y
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Game dev, science enthusiast, 🏳️‍⚧️
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videogameworkers.bsky.social
The Avarice Awards holds a mirror to the hollow glamour of The Game Awards, as workers continue to have their livelihoods upended by mass layoffs. We are speaking truth to the powers ruining the game industry with their greed!

Stream begins on December 10th at 7pm PT / 10pm ET on twitch.tv/UVW_CWA
A stained glass-style depiction of The Game Awards trophy, emerging from a bank safe with green bills pouring out the opening. Two large ominous hands hover around the trophy, one holding a scythe to its torso. The depiction is headlined with THE AVARICE AWARDS, with details below: PRESENTED BY UNITED VIDEOGAME WORKERS, A CODE-CWA UNION LIVE ON DEC. 10TH AT 7 PM PT AT HTTPS://TWITCH.TV/UVW_CWA
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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videogameworkers.bsky.social
Help create the future of the games industry! On Dec 3, workers will be coming together to draft a Game Workers' Bill of Rights. All game workers are welcome — union members or not. Sign up here:
Bill of Rights Town Hall
Help create the future of the games industry! Workers across the games industry are coming together to draft a Game Workers' Bill of Rights — a shared set of principles to set a standard for fair trea...
actionnetwork.org
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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miamidsa.org
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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miamidsa.org Miami DSA @miamidsa.org · 12d
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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davekeating.substack.com
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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ko-op.com
We're excited to announce YOUNG SUNS: a new narrative-rich co-op life sim set on Jupiter. Experience life in an optimistic future full of colorful characters. Play solo or with up to 3 friends. Visit planetoids, ruins, and stations. Craft and decorate. Help society heal.

youtu.be/rVEWbp1FiKg?...
KO_OP Game Reveal & Presentation
YouTube video by KO_OP
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
kindaaudrey.bsky.social
Ok after shelving this project for a while I'm back at it. Gonna finish it before 2026
November 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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maggie-lee.bsky.social
the amount of people who will say something like "they went to tech so you know they're smart"

YALL

math science engineering is a certain kind of skill that some ppl study but lolll plz do not defer to stem folks on all the things, just on stem things
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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davidsirota.com David Sirota @davidsirota.com · Oct 21
Every now and then I go back and read the Citizens United ruling to see if it is as unhinged as I thought, and every time I do that I see it is actually far more deranged than I remembered.

levernews.com/book
Supreme Court ruling: "This Court now concludes that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption. That speakers may have influence over or access to elected officials does not mean that those officials are corrupt. And the appearance of influence or access will not cause the electorate to lose faith in this democracy."
October 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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forbes.com
This week’s Fresh Take covers the former CDC head’s take on her firing, the state of venture funding in food tech, and how we *really* feel about pumpkin spice season.
Jerry Of Ben & Jerry’s Resigns In Protest
This week’s Fresh Take covers the former CDC head’s take on her firing, the state of venture funding in food tech, and how we *really* feel about pumpkin spice season.
www.forbes.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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drspacejunk.bsky.social
The twist in this book was amazing.
lavietidhar.bsky.social Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · Sep 17
A good* book about the current political climate in the UK and the US, really www.bloomsbury.com/uk/man-lies-...

* by good I mean "masterpiece" but I'm too modest
Adolf Hitler, private eye, caught in the glare of a light behind barbed wire in A Man Lies Dreaming, a masterpiece, go on, read it.
September 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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ckjong.bsky.social
Just a reminder that I wrote a whole PhD dissertation on the social and economic roots of Gamergate and the alt-right, in case you’re interested in understanding fascism and its connection to the games industry + academia from a materialist POV. spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/98...
September 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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awalkerinla.bsky.social
Extremely excited about this! Join Ed Begley Jr., @adamconover.net, @metrolosangeles.bsky.social's Stephanie Wiggins, @billwearsties.bsky.social and me for a very special SoCal Transit Month event.

Details and RSVP for the livestream here: www.socaltransitmonth.org/virtual_pane...
A flyer for the event at the link: showing the title rendered with the Hollywood sign in the background PRESENTED BY METRO TRANSIT AND HOLLYWOOD STORIES THAT MOVE US Join us for a conversation that will shine a light on the intersection of entertainment, sustainability and the stories that move us all. Ed Begley Jr. ACTOR/ ACTIVIST FEATURED SPEAKER Adam Conover Stephanie Wiggins Bill Wolkoff COMEDIAN METRO. CEO SCREENWRITER/ PRODUCER Monday, September 22 - 1:30-2:30 MODERATED BY Alissa Walker TRANSPORTATION JOURNALIST
September 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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evcurvefuturist.com
It feels slow not because of facts, but because the doom-narrative drowns out reality. 📉 The truth: solar doubled from 1,000 → 2,000 TWh in just 3 yrs, wind’s surging too. Fossils took decades. The fastest energy leap in history is here—don’t let fear blind you. ⚡🌞 #EnergyTransition #BESS #EVs #LFP
Climate action can feel slow – but the fastest energy leap in history has begun
Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels is glacially slow – isn’t it? This pessimistic narrative doesn’t stack up against evidence of very rapid change in the real world.
theconversation.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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pukicho.bsky.social
Biodiversity is bad, actually. I think there should be one big bug that rules everything.
September 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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mattbernico.bsky.social Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social · Sep 1
Since it’s Labor Day, you know I’ve got to post the chart.
The gap between productivity and a typical worker’s compensation has increased dramatically since 1979 Productivity growth and hourly compensation growth, 1948–2025
September 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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codecwa.bsky.social
BREAKING: Over 450 game developers behind hit video-game series Diablo have joined CWA, joining the historic fight for a better video game industry.

Hail to you, union champions 💪
Hundreds of Diablo Game Developers Join Communications Workers of America
Today, over 450 game developers behind the popular video game series Diablo have voted strongly in favor of union representation with CWA.
cwa-union.org
August 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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jakemanger.bsky.social
Every “free” file converter online = your files sent to some random server.

So I made my own. Runs locally as an app on Mac, Windows and Linux.

Now 1,100 users use it for 3,742 types of conversions.
August 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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hookcity.bsky.social
Night Sky on Mars

#nasadailyupdates
August 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
My statement on the Trump administration's illegal military actions and the wars that must end.
Donald Trump ran for President promising to end wars, not start new ones. Today’s unconstitutional military action represents a new, dark chapter in his endless series of betrayals that now threaten to plunge the world deeper into chaos. In a city as global as ours, the impacts of war are felt deeply here at home. I am thinking of the New Yorkers with loved ones in harm’s way. While Donald Trump bears immediate responsibility for this illegal escalation, these actions are the result of a political establishment that would rather spend trillions of dollars on weapons than lift millions out of poverty, launch endless wars while silencing calls for peace, and fearmonger about outsiders while billionaires hollow out our democracy from within. For Americans middle aged and younger, this is all we have known. We cannot accept it any longer.
June 22, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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videogameworkers.bsky.social
This past weekend, as hundreds of game workers flew into LA to attend Summer Game Fest, Immigration and Customs Enforcement terrorized the Los Angeles community, raiding neighborhoods, separating families, assaulting citizens, and detaining SEIU President David Huerta. Many of us in the game industry call Los Angeles our home, and we feel these attacks on a deep and personal level. United Videogame Workers-CWA stands in solidarity with SEIU, UNITE HERE, United Farm Workers, SAG-AFTRA, The Animation Guild, IATSE, and all our fellow unions and organizations condemning these ongoing federal raids targeting workers. We are thrilled that David has been released and echo SEIU’s calls to drop his unjust charges and for ICE to immediately end their violent raids against us and our neighbors. The United States is built on the backs of immigrant workers, documented or otherwise, and the Trump administration’s racist and violent oppression serves only to undermine our labor and strike fear in our communities. As workers of an anti-racist union; as workers with H-1B visas; as workers with immigrant families and friends and colleagues; we condemn these abhorrent acts of outright fascism and colonial subjugation. Our game industry is a deeply international one, and our art is built from cultures and perspectives that simply cannot and will not be contained by borders. UVW-CWA exists to protect all game workers across the US and Canada, regardless of immigration status, and we strive to extend that reach to all corners of the globe through connections and shared struggle. When solidarity transcends nations, no human is illegal!
June 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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aclu.org
NEW: We're asking a court to expand our clients' recent legal victory to ensure that all transgender, non-binary, and intersex people can be issued passports with the correct gender marker.
April 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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erininthemorning.com
Lol. They released their 400 page US version of the Cass Review and refused to even name who the authors were. It's a glorified book report.

Anyway, this is out now y'all. I'll be looking it over today.

opa.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
May 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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ko-op.com
i want gayer games with gayer graphics made by the gayest people and i'm not joking
February 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
A reminder that on this site folks may be aware that Trump got basically nothing new or substantive from Mexico or Canada but over on the other place, and out in parts of the real world, the GOP are successfully and ruthlessly spinning these as wins. They are messaging masters, Dems aren’t. Sorry 🤷🏽‍♂️
February 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM