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Come check out our photo booth!! #weredoneplaying #uvwcwa #codecwa #gdc2025

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Having fun at the CODE-CWA booth #weredoneplaying #uvwcwa #codecwa #gdc2025

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I'm super excited to finally share our union for the games industry that you can join RIGHT NOW!! As a freelancer, the idea of unions felt out of reach for us - but now we have a union that any worker in the entire industry can join!

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Hard to express in words how much this means to me. If you’ve ever felt disrespected or angry at the injustices workers in our industry suffer on a daily basis, if you’ve ever thought “things could be better”, now is the time to do something about it!

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This is what we're at GDC for, come find us and let's chat! 😎

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Cat's out of the bag! This is what we've been working on!

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so incredibly fucking stoked for the announcement today!!!! WE'RE DONE PLAYING. game developers deserve better-- let's build an industry that sustains us and lets us grow & thrive. TOGETHER ✊♥️✊♥️✊ @videogameworkers.bsky.social

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I hope everyone understands that this is by design and that management is keeping you in that state on purpose and not just making the same innocent planning oopsie over and over forever

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at the summit of bold visions www.noncanon.com/comics/2025-...

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actually all the left-leaning women in my life are doing union organizing right now

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Really interesting watching a wave of comfortable late Millennial / Gen X columnists come out and insist that young ppl go out of their way to never advertise their politics beyond the status quo, even online. Sounds like the speech of people that don't have the balls to lose anything themselves.

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The same way that this Economic collapse was just waiting for Deepseek to come, but didn't know it. The Summer is looking for another 'George Floyd' moment already to tip shit over, and it doesn't even know it yet.

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People forget that when the USSR "collapsed" even the US still thought they were fine. The fact that the world already knows we're cooked this bad should be enough to let us know that the US Empire is already dismantling as we speak.

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Please check out my talk tomorrow that I am giving with @squinkifer.bsky.social and @jessromarcotte.bsky.social ! schedule.gdconf.com/session/inde...

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in all seriousness please please play INDIKA, it's best to go in blind, I'd also recommend the original Russian dub surrealist art house cinema through the lens of video games, incredibly unique and refreshing, can be experienced in one sitting, this will stay with me for a while

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or they were the fascists who fled the communism after the fascism

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When Mao said “women hold up half the sky” he was talking about how wokeness keeps the planes from crashing

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ok sorry . my lawyer has advised me to say that drinking israeli diarrhea is good actually no matter how many kindergartners they murked

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americans finding out about canada's horribly violent history is second only to americans finding out about chinese material conditions being great

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I don't know if I've ever been exploited as badly as my first job - a small business with three employees - where my boss would underpay and berate his staff while complaining about how he was "the little guy" and that the world was out to get him.

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Have, unfortunately, seen this happen first hand. Don’t trust your boss, no matter how small time they are. Join a union, or join or form a co-op. We keep each other safe.

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as the games industry labor movement grows, expect the first line of reactionary response to be indie business owners complaining about how they're smol beans who can't afford to run a business if they have to recognize their employees' rights and allow them to have decent conditions

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why is everyone saying publishers should be taking more risks, didn't they understand the true meaning of balatro??

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oh sick we can do longer videos now 💛

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Not quite. Freelance unions can be formed by other means, such as joining an existing local, or working with a union which is willing to put the resources into growing a freelancing campaign. This IS how WGA and SAG-AFTRA have started: mass mobilization of studio workers and contractors

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It’s disappointing how many people I consider at least kind of smart took until now to radicalize against the democrats and now see them as controlled opposition that enables fascism. the genocide of others was not enough. these same people yelled at others calling dems fascistic during the election

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I hate them whole concept of a giant dev con as a fulcrum for career development!! I dont give a shit about Networking and I dont have any business to sell but if you want to talk about UNIONIZING YOUR INDUSTRY you should find me and get me a beverage.

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Decided to try 7DRL this year. Didn't end up finding much time to work on it during the week, but i still made a thing! jdespland.itch.io/weiqi-dungeon

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they are talking this way about gamers because they know that without modern gaming online culture, starting out with gamergate, the current cultural rightwing movement wouldn’t be what it is. without gamergate there wouldn’t be paid ads for adolf hitler on twitter

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it's the big one youtu.be/DoaM5tvOq3Q?...

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all the indie games small business owners blocked me on twitter for saying this 5 years ago

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many such cases

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This one features me and @jessromarcotte.bsky.social!

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if you're at gdc let's meet up i'll be there (for top secret reasons)

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just a reminder that the degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth they can accept about themselves without running away

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I'm burnt out because I have to keep telling you all that to avoid burnout and breakdown we need to organize this industry

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If you're going to #GDC2025 this year here are 4 different union and worker coop related talks to check out. 🧵

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My general advice to game developer would be to consolidate your position as an industry leader by buying up smaller companies and firing up their workforce to streamline the revenues of their IP while building new billion dollar franchise your competitor can't outmatch.

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