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Max "Local Restaurant Chain" Eddy
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Sweaty security journalist. Former write-in candidate for Washtenaw Country Drain Commissioner. Recently of PCMag, currently of Wirecutter. Union strong.
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cyan.com
Fun Fact: 2026 is the year the original 1998 Riven Wall calendar can be used again. Try hanging up both to double your Riven experience!
December 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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shoomlah.bsky.social
@gilespink.bsky.social and I spent probably way too much time designing an old school-style Riven calendar for Cyan complete with new tidbits of lore, very proud of this thing ♥️

(also some blankets with my PS classic trophy art that we're making solely because I PERSONALLY WANT THEM)
cyan.com Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 24d
Winter snow has arrived at Cyan HQ, so to celebrate we're adding several cozy new blankets to the store!

Grab them today, along with our brand-new 2026 Riven calendar featuring 12 gorgeous scene captures and never-before-seen journal entries!

https://store.cyan.com/s/holiday25soc
Riven 2026 Wall Calendar Riven & Myst Fleece Blankets
December 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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zdcreatorsguild.bsky.social
TODAY alone, Reuters Guild and @insiderunion.bsky.social are fighting for say in AI, IRL at their NYC offices.

TONIGHT, NewsGuild is hosting a town hall all about how we are FIGHTING and WINNING on AI. Register here! 6 p.m. ET us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Poster reading: News Not Slop! Rally for people-powered journalism Thursday, Dec. 4 @ 1pm ET One Liberty Plaza, across from Zuccotti Park Rally in solidarity with Insider Union members to protect the integrity and reputation of the newsroom, job security, and HUMAN-powered journalism! Wear red and/or your best union swag! Poster reading: NEWS NOT SLOP Dec 4th 6 PMET Al Town Hall On Thursday, December 4th at 6 pm ET, hear from journalists who are fighting Al's creep into America's newsrooms.
December 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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zdcreatorsguild.bsky.social
Our fellow unions are fighting back too! The @siunion.bsky.social sent a letter to management, signed by more than 80% of its members, and secured a provision ensuring the disclosure of AI in generating editorial content. The unit is continuing to press for job protections in collective bargaining.
December 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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zdcreatorsguild.bsky.social
Our hard work paid off! We won no layoffs due to generative AI implementation, transparency over AI usage, a special AI subcommittee, and reasonable advance notice of AI implementation at the company.
December 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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zdcreatorsguild.bsky.social
FIGHTING BACK AGAINST AI with worker action AND solid contract protections.

Last year, ZDCG took action online and in-person to gain AI guardrails. We swarmed Slack, spoke out at the bargaining table, and took to the streets to picket.
Members of the Ziff Davis Creators Guild holding picket signs in front of Scabby the Rat in NYC. Members of the Ziff Davis Creators Guild with picket signs and red shirts. Members of the Ziff Davis Creators Guild with red shirts.
December 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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condeunion.bsky.social
Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.
Statement from The NewsGuild of New York and Condé United on illegal firing of four union leaders who demanded answers about this week’s layoffs at Teen Vogue, other brands Late Wednesday night, Condé Nast’s VP of Labor Relations notified the Guild that the Company was immediately terminating four Condé United leaders for engaging in the protected concerted activity of gathering in their 1 World Trade Center office to demand answers on this week’s abrupt layoffs at multiple brands including WIRED and the consolidation at Teen Vogue. These egregious terminations are a flagrant breach of the Just Cause terms of our contract and an unprecedented violation of their federally protected rights as union members to participate in a collective action. Through these illegal terminations, Condé Nast management is attempting to intimidate and silence our members' advocacy for the courageous cultural and political journalism of Teen Vogue, as well as diverting attention away from the obvious lack of corporate leadership at the company. Condé United members illegally fired are: Alma Avalle: Writer, digital producer at Bon Appetit; NewsGuild of New York first vice president, trans activist, and union leader Jake Lahut: Wired senior reporter covering the Trump White House Jasper Lo: Senior fact checker at The New Yorker and US Army veteran: outgoing first vice chair of The New Yorker Union Ben Dewey: Videographer at Condé Nast Entertainment, former vice chair of the CNE unit “Management’s attempt at union-busting, using intimidation and grossly illegal tactics to try to suppress protected union activity, will not stand,” said Susan DeCarava, president of The NewsGuild of New York. “The NewsGuild of New York has zero tolerance for bad bosses who harass, target and disrespect our fellow Guild members. We represent nearly 6,000 media workers across the tri-state area and we stand firmly in solidarity, ready to fight for the rights of our members illegally fired from their jobs at …
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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cyan.com
Thirty-two years ago today, Myst was released.
Happy Birthday, little guy!
🎂
September 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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cyan.com
More Myst birthday week fun:
Now until Oct 1st, get 10% off Myst Collection merch in the Cyan Store! Plus, our Riven Animal Sigils Stained Glass Coasters are BACK IN STOCK (and also 10% off!)

Myst Collection:
https://store.cyan.com/s/myst32soc
Riven Coasters:
https://store.cyan.com/s/sigressoc
September 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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anarchyasf.com
Went to ihop drunk at 4am and asked them to make the pancakes
Evil. Maybe one of the best escapades I’ve Ever been on LMFAOOOOO
September 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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rogue.site
Rogue.site is now a reality! Thank you to everyone along the way who helped make it possible.

If you like what you see, and want more of it. Consider pledging your support with a subscription. Your funds will go to support independent games journalism written by humans, for humans.
Rogue
Ad-free video game news, guides, opinions, history, culture, previews, interviews, and reviews written by humans, for humans
Rogue.site
September 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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robertloerzel.bsky.social
What a shame. "WGBH … has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series 'American Experience' and announced that no new documentaries will be produced for the show until further notice." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...
As PBS Stations Confront Cuts, American History Takes a Hit
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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ignunion.bsky.social
Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain.

Not this time. Not anymore.
FROM NOW UNTIL FEBRUARY 13TH IGN CREATORS GUILD IS GOING TO... DO OUR JOB! OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, IGN MANAGEMENT HAS GOTTEN AWAY WITH LAYING OFF OUR COWORKERS OVER AND OVER. MEANWHILE, MANY OF OUR COLLEAGUES HAVE LEFT THE COMPANY IN NO SMALL PART DUE TO BUYOUTS, OVERWORK, AND FEELING UNSUPPORTED, EACH TIME, THE COMPANY HAS REFUSED TO BACKFILL MANY ESSENTIAL ROLES, CLAIMING WE'RE ON A HIRING FREEZE, IT'S NOT IN THE BUDGET, OR THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO LESS WORK THIS TIME. AS A RESULT, IGNCG MEMBERS HAVE BEEN FORCED TO TAKE ON MORE OF THEIR FORMER COLLEAGUES' WORKLOADS. MANY OF US NOW WORK LONGER HOURS THAN WE USED TO. A LOT OF US RARELY TAKE LUNCH BREAKS. SOME OF US DO NOT TAKE ADEQUATE TIME OFF DUE TO THERE BEING NO ONE TO PICK UP THE SLACK. OTHERS OF US ARE STUCK DOING WORK WE WERE NEVER HIRED TO DO IN THE FIRST PLACE. UP TO THIS POINT, WE'VE ALL ACCEPTED THIS AS NORMAL, BECAUSE WE CARE DEEPLY ABOUT IGN AND THE WORK WE DO. BUT WITH SO MANY OF US STRUGGLING MORE AND MORE AS EACH NEW WAVE OF OUR COWORKERS ARE DEPRIVED OF A LIVELIHOOD, THIS CYCLE CAN'T CONTINUE. MANAGEMENT IS UNWILLING TO STOP IT, SO IT FALLS TO US. WITH THE LAYOFFS OF EIGHT OF OUR COWORKERS, IGNCG HAS NEGOTIATED A SIX-MONTH RECALL LIST. WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT, FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS, IF IGN WANTS TO FILL ANY OF THOSE ELIMINATED ROLES AGAIN, THEY MUST REHIRE OUR LAID-OFF COLLEAGUES. WE WANT THEM TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET THEIR JOBS BACK IF THEY WANT THEM, AND IF NOT, WE WANT THOSE ROLES BACKFILLED TO EASE THE BURDEN ON THE REST OF US. SO STARTING TODAY, LENCE MEMBERS ARE COMMITTING TO DO OUR JOBS. NO MORE, NO LESS. WELL SHOW UP TO WORK ON TIME AND LEAVE ON TIME. WE'RE TAKING ALL OF OUR LUNCH TIME, EVERY DAY. IF WE WORK LATE, WE WILL FIRMLY ASK FOR OUR RIGHTFULLY EARNED COMP TIME. AND IF IGN WANTS OUR LAID-OFF COWORKERS' WORK TO GET DONE, THEY'LL HAVE TO REHIRE THEM TO DO IT INSTEAD OF FOISTING IT UPON US. HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT IGNCG IN ALL THIS? SHARE THIS POST, AND TELL IGN MANAGEMENT THAT Y…
August 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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robinjohnson.bsky.social
i'm sorry
Altered screencap from "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", showing Captain Sisko (Avery Brooks) looking out of the window to see his alter ego, 1950s sci-fi writer Benny Russell, reflected in the window, only now Benny has the word "SISKOS" on his jersey in the style of the "SICKOS" meme and is saying "YES... HA HA HA... YES!"
August 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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cyan.com
You know you've made it big when you've landed in a @nytimes.com crossword puzzle. 😮🩵

From Tuesday's crossword:
A New York Times crossword puzzle grid is partially filled in. The vertical answer in the first column is highlighted in blue and spells out the word "ISLAND" from squares 1 to 28. This is the answer to the clue at the bottom of the screen: "Setting for the game Myst." The intersecting horizontal words at the start of each row are partially filled: "LOANS" across row 1 and "ISLAND" runs downward starting at square 1. Most of the puzzle remains blank.
August 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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radamssmash.bsky.social
My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.
A shitty map created by ChatGPT5. it purports to be US States with an R in their name, but it's wrong and dumb and worthless just like LLMs.
August 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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ignunion.bsky.social
Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition.

Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:
Today, IGN Entertainment announced that it would be laying off eight members of the IGN Creators Guild. This is 12% of our bargaining unit, and comes just days after our sister union, the Ziff Davis Creators Guild, underwent similar layoffs impacting 15% of their members. It also comes just months after our multibillion-dollar parent company, Ziff Davis, instituted a company-wide buyout that shrunk our unit numbers, with the express intent of avoiding future layoffs. And it comes just a little over one year after three of our members were laid off almost immediately after our union went public. The company has told us that the reason for this layoff stems from a Ziff Davis-mandate to cut costs despite several quarters in a row of year-over-year revenue increases, to which IGN Entertainment responded by coming for our members' jobs. This is perplexing to us, as we are told again and again that IGN Entertainment has had a tremendously successful year thus far thanks to their hard work. In just the last few months, our members have been absolutely essential to major events and livestreams, including San Diego ComicCon, Summer of Gaming, and IGN Live. Every single person impacted today was involved in and critical to the success of those events. Meanwhile, IGN Entertainment continues to spend money on costly acquisitions, only to turn around and gut those companies in the same way it is cutting away at IGN itself. For instance, last year, it acquired Gamer Network, and almost immediately laid off a number of staff critical to making those sites successful. The company has not responded to the union's questions about whether its budget for future acquisitions is being reconsidered as a cost-saving measure alongside these other apparently necessary personnel cuts. At a time when it is more necessary than ever to support its creators, IGN Entertainment is choosing to eliminate the individuals who ensure IGN remains competitive as generative AI threatens our reach. We have been told that expert opinion pieces, original interviews, and work that leverages our staff's deep knowledge of gaming, tech, and entertainment are all essential to combating AI summarization and regurgitation of our work. Management has responded by cutting several individuals who do that exact work, as well as others whose job it is to ensure that these written and video pieces are published in a speedy manner — another component of combating AI we're told is critical. This continued cycle of repeated, aggressive cuts to our staff and being asked to do more with less, only for management to continue to spend on new business it isn't interested in sustaining cannot continue. We will enforce our interim agreement that guarantees better severance and other protections to laid off members, as well as demand additional support for those impacted. We will continue to bargain over our first contract with the aim of enshrining even better protections against further layoffs, working conditions continuously degraded by understaffing, and the encroachment of generative AI. And we won't stop fighting to ensure IGN remains the best destination for trustworthy, original, exciting, and creative work covering video games, entertainment, and tech. While IGN Entertainment management may not value us, we value one another and the incredible work we can do together. Behind the articles, videos, social posts, playlists, and maps of IGN are human beings, not just numbers on a spreadsheet to be pushed around when some number at the top isn't big enough. Without us, there is no IGN.
August 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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opalescentopal.bsky.social
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
July 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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meowthiroth.bsky.social
"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones
July 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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jordanwminor.bsky.social
By swapping the little plumber for the big ape, Donkey Kong Bananza delivers a potent blend of action, creative level design, and environmental destruction that boldly reinvents the blockbuster Nintendo platformer formula.

Read my full review! www.pcmag.com/reviews/donk...
Donkey Kong Bananza Review: An Amazing Ape Odyssey
By swapping the little plumber for the big ape, Donkey Kong Bananza delivers a potent blend of action, creative level design, and environmental destruction that boldly reinvents the blockbuster Ninten...
www.pcmag.com
July 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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tiffanyleigh.bsky.social
There are people for whom Catan is their favorite game of all time, which baffles me
July 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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friede.bsky.social
I execute this AND THEN IMMEDIATELY ROLL SEVEN.

Everyone is pissed at me.
July 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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friede.bsky.social
Meanwhile, I (who love to Human Salmon and turn games into Pacifist Runs) have a Knight Card and am proposing to shove the Robber back in the fucking Desert, so that all can flourish.

@tiffanyleigh.bsky.social "this game is NOT fun"
July 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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cyan.com
Hi all—we're sorry to say that we've had another round of layoffs at Cyan.

We've updated our previously shared sheet to reflect folks still (or newly) looking for opportunities:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NURnVwfeqolPAVN-Dn44UpXZS3bRVMaCNQczIzhIpdc/edit?usp=sharing
Cyan Alumni - PUBLIC Contact Info - Responses
docs.google.com
June 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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tinselman.bsky.social
If it were not for Bill Atkinson’s HyperCard, Rand and I would have never begun making games and we would have never made Myst and Riven. He was a gentle soul and a brilliant human. We owe so much to him.
macsees.bsky.social Mac Sees @macsees.bsky.social · Jun 8
Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74. QuickDraw, MacPaint, HyperCard ... Bill changed the world www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74
www.nytimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM