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CTIJ Montréal / GWU Montreal @gwu-montreal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you can't make it to the march in person, you can also join the @nogamesforgenocide.com political education workshop on October 10 from 1-3pm EDT and read their article on the role of militarism and propaganda in the videogame industry: nogamesforgenocide.com/blog/call-of...

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Call of Duty's Propaganda Machine

The role of militarism and propaganda in the video game industry

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CTIJ Montréal / GWU Montreal @gwu-montreal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We're organizing a contingent to attend the March for Palestine on Saturday, October 10 at 2pm at The Ring (730 Cathcart Street). We encourage other game workers to join us to take a stand against the ongoing war and genocide! Keep an eye out for our banner.

A Montreal protest poster reads “March for Palestine,” with a large Palestinian flag above a crowd, urging solidarity for the living, martyrs, and land.

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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wow congrats, that's so cool!

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The primary purpose of an Israeli ‘ceasefire’, whether in Gaza ir Lebanon, is decreased media coverage. And Israel was proven right on that.

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Chloē @comrad-chloe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Do you ever think about how there are 8 billion people on this planet but the ones who get the most nuanced consideration are the ones who do fucked-up shit? I do.

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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Ah yes, the imperialists truly are paper tigers”

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 03/10/2026

"Yes, he may have made a mistake, but he's changed. He's a good man who does good things. He's a pillar of the community. Surely it's not worth ruining a man's life." Dressing this up in leftist jargon and invoking "rehabilitative justice" doesn't actually change what you're saying btw

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No Games For Genocide @nogamesforgenocide.com · 02/10/2026

We’re excited to launch No Games for Genocide’s blog, with our first post by yours truly, exploring Call of Duty’s role in the imperialist war machine. Read below - and remember to join us for our political education & action session on Saturday 10 October! 👇🏽 nogamesforgenocide.com/blog/call-of...

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Call of Duty's Propaganda Machine

The role of militarism and propaganda in the video game industry

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CTIJ Montréal / GWU Montreal @gwu-montreal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Day 3 of the petition "Preserve Hybrid Work" and the Ubisoft Workers of Montreal have already hit the symbolic milestone of 500 signatures! If you're a Ubi MTL employee and are still on the fence about signing, go meet your colleagues during break hours!

A person in a black cap holds a French protest sign calling to resist arbitrary power and preserve hybrid work, outside a sunlit office building.

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Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo @stjv.fr · 30/09/2026

🌀Les travailleureuses d'Ubisoft Montréal rendent public leur campagne de syndicalisation du plus gros studio mondial de jeu vidéo et lancent une pétition pour préserver le travail hybride. ‼️Si vous connaissez des travailleureuses à Ubisoft Montréal, informez- et encouragez-les à signer la pétition‼️

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Memorial Cloth is a 60-metre commemoration the honours the names of thousands of children that died as a result of residential schools in Canada. It is displayed each year as part of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation event on Parliament Hill.

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CTIJ Montréal / GWU Montreal @gwu-montreal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Day 2 starting and the Ubisoft Workers of Montreal already collected 300+ signatures for their “Preserve Hybrid Work” petition! Most of the signatures were collected in person, so if you’re a Ubi employee, go meet your colleagues during break hours! Not an employee? Share this post to show support.

Button design: "Results matter. Not location."

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Tagg the Otter🌻🍁 @taggtheotter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Unionizing in the game industry is important to be able to push back on things like this. If you live the work game devs do, support this however you can

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CTIJ Montréal / GWU Montreal @gwu-montreal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today marks the public launch of the Ubisoft Workers of Montreal (UWM) campaign, with a first action: a petition to preserve hybrid work. Every Ubisoft Montreal employee is invited to sign the petition and every supporter encouraged to reach out to their network to encourage them to sign!

Poster from Ubisoft Workers of Montréal on a pole, with a link to a petition, and text reading "we made our mark from a distance - preserve hybrid work"

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Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

👀👀👀‼️

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Alison Veneto @vermilionpearlgirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“We would really like to see this contract extended throughout the video game industry and for other studios to look at what Blizzard has done and follow suit"

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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Under capitalism homelessness not only has to exist, it has to be as miserable as possible for the people experiencing it, because it's the threat of homelessness that keeps the working class in line and desperate for jobs. Human suffering is an essential component of capitalist profit.

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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 24/09/2026

After calling for a multi-union strike against the company, Candy Crush developers at King in Sweden have officially won a collective bargaining agreement. kotaku.com/candy-crush-developers-w…

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Candy Crush Developers Win Contract After Strike Threats

'Without the fantastic engagement of our members at King, it would have been much more difficult to reach this agreement'

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Gersande La Flèche @gersande.com · 24/09/2026

Voilà 45 photos qui décrivent la manifestation «All Out contre l'enfer de l'IA», la brutalité policière envers les journalistes @williamwilsonphoto.bsky.social, Isaac Peltz, et moi-même (entre autres!) et un enregistrement qui montre ce que j'ai aussi vécu photos.gersande.com/la-manif-all...

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La manif « All Out contre l'enfer de l'IA » se termine par une intervention policière brutale à Place des arts le 16 septembre 2026

Le 16 septembre 2026, rendez-vous à Place Jean-Paul Riopelle pour le début de la manif « All Out contre l'enfer de l'IA » à 16h30. La première heure de la manifestation, incluant quelques discours, eu...

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

in a week that saw microsoft give activision the reins to halo and bungie pivot back to destiny, one thing has become abundantly clear: the people in charge do not have a long-term, overriding plan. they’re just reacting. the result, when times are bad, is chaos

"Things are still very chaotic," a current id Software employee who was granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly told Aftermath. "While there has been an attempt to communicate to the studios, it is still entirely in bullshit corporate speak. I still don't believe they have a clear vision for the future. The only concrete thing they have communicated is they want higher profits, and they want it now. Aggressive goals are being set that would have been unrealistic even before the layoffs. ... To say the workers within Xbox have a dim view of the future is putting it mildly. We keep thinking morale can't sink lower but the obvious incompetence of Xbox management somehow keeps driving it down worse."
This mirrors shifts in strategy that have come to dominate the still-new Sharma era, including others outlined Tuesday. Rare is joining Activision, Turn 10 and Playground are fusing, and—most gallingly, considering their history—Obsidian is being folded into Bethesda to work on Fallout instead of its own original series. As with the previous round of layoffs, details betray Microsoft's haphazard approach: A Halo developer got promoted and laid off in the same week. Gears of War: E-Day's story director is out of a job days after celebrating that the game had gone gold. Hellblade developer Ninja Theory, now without a buyer after a brief glimmer of hope, is once again on the chopping block.
All of this betrays a simplistic mindset that does not accurately reflect the reality of game development: People are disposable, studios are interchangeable, and series can be traded like sports teams. Nothing matters more than franchises and their money-printing prowess. Unless, evidently, you are Hideo Kojima, in which case Microsoft suddenly has money to burn.

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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'd love to watch a documentary about all the games that were either watered down to the point of being unrecognizable, or cancelled outright, because they were "too political" aka too threatening to the interests of people who own and control capital.

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P-O Desbiens @podesbiens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the montréal police is by far the most dangerous and violent gang of thugs in town seen it with my own eyes time and time again

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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is probably a secret third option that has something to do with building worker power in the games industry, but we haven't unlocked it yet.

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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You either need to 1) do a deal with shady financial criminals who will eventually destroy you and everything you love or 2) spend 20+ years building an illustrious career and then hold a metaphorical gun to your head and threaten to shoot if they don't let you make the game you want.

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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Every time I think "why aren't there more well-made games with left politics" I remember how much of a fucking miracle it is that games like Pentiment or Disco Elysium exist at all, despite capitalism doing everything it can to nip projects like this in the bud.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We got rid of the goose that lays our golden eggs to save money on feed costs... why are we not producing more golden eggs???? - Bungie

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

WE are the off switch, but we've gotta learn how to actually use it by organizing to withdraw our labour en masse, and then build a new economic structure to take capitalism's place.

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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Capitalism's on life support and it's about to decimate the middle + working class in order to keep itself going just a few years longer. There's no built-in off switch for the profit motive, just an endless incentive for growth at all costs.

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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The same neoliberal austerity and privatization that's wreaked havok on countries in the global south is now devouring the imperialist core. Eventually people here will revolt (hopefully), but the question is how much damage will be done in the meantime?

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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Privatizing public assets is pretty much the one source of untapped profit capitalists have left. Sure it'll make most services inaccessible and completely destroy society, but who cares as long as number goes up, amirite?

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 20/09/2026

“privatization doesn’t mean prices will go up,” they told us last week. but of course they will, and they’re starting to have to admit it. the reason why investors are so desperate to get our airports is precisely because they know they’ll be able to make monopoly profits.

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Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We don't live in slop world because of AI, we live in slop world because the purpose of everything is to generate a return on investment for capital. We evaluate everything along metrics designed to serve that purpose over any other. AI is just the best way we found of optimizing for these metrics.

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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Good old neoliberal transfer of wealth to the rich. "We already have one year of data from the prime minister’s latest round of corporate handouts. Investment has not budged. What has increased is corporate profits, which have once again reached record highs." canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

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Trickle down hasn’t worked for the last 40 years. Why does Carney want to try it again?

Instead of ensuring our sovereignty, the Carney government is auctioning off more and more control over Canada’s economy to whichever foreign oligarch has the deepest pockets. If Canada wants to incre...

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 16/09/2026

solidarity is a beautiful thing to witness. ten years ago if you told a Palestinian that multiple artists would drop out of a career-changing tour in solidarity with their people against genocide, they would not believe you. never give up hope in any struggle for liberation, never stop fighting.

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

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This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com · 15/09/2026

Workers at Candy Crush maker King are set to go on strike if they cannot reach a collective agreement with studio leadership after over a year of negotiations. The notice of strike action comes after King denied a collective bargaining agreement brought forward by employees in August 2026.

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King Staff Threaten Strike Action if No Agreement is Reached With Candy Crush Maker

King president Tood Green said the company's “current operating model is the right fit for King, including our operations in Sweden, at this time.”

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 14/09/2026

I do wish he'd included my answers to these two questions, they're really important, especially the last one!

What's the biggest barrier that remains and how can we overcome it?
The largest barrier we face is not unique to the games industry, it's baked into capitalism. The incredible power imbalance between capitalists and workers means they can make decisions that impact us in ways that are incredibly difficult and time consuming to respond to. Rockstar executives can decide to fire 34 union organizers in a moment, and it takes months if not years to fight. Companies can do redundancy after redundancy and there is little the workers can do to stop that from happening in those moments until we build up enough collective power to apply enough pressure against company owners and executives.

There's no single answer as to how we overcome the power imbalance. We try and experiment with many different things to solve and address issues. We build relationships and trust and work together to take action. We improve things bit by bit and slowly, ever so slowly we build our power together. Overcoming capitalism is a generational project and one that may not complete in our lifetime, but it's worth working towards now so those who see it come to fruition will reap the benefits. Unions are an integral part in building up the knowledge, skill, and confidence to change the world on a local to worldwide scale.

Anything you'd like to add? Anything people are NOT talking about enough?
The amount of care work that people in unions do is absolutely astounding. Imagine someone who has just been severely mistreated or laid off and has their world turned upside down. The thing they need most is someone to be there for them, listen to them, and help them figure out what their options are. When mistreatment happens on the scale of an entire industry, it takes an overwhelming amount of care work to respond to each incident. We need to build up our individual and collective caring abilities so that we can get through it instead of being constantly dysregulated and overwhelmed.

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 14/09/2026

I answered some union related questions for @gibiz.bsky.social and they did a good write-up of it!

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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The first time I read this line from Disco Elysium I was basically jumping up and down pointing at the screen like "yes, I know those people!!" and it has haunted me every since.

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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We need to invent a word to express the feeling of being overwhelmed with love and respect for your fellow organizers, because I feel that a lot.

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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Spent a lot of time in meetings today, and I'm very tired, but also organizing is the one thing that feels like it gives meaning to my life and helps me believe that a better world is possible, so there's that.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Never be a scab. You'll betray your fellow workers and the company STILL won't respect you. It's a lose-lose.

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Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Feeding screenshots of the union discord to management to get the organizers fired. It is still incredibly difficult for me to imagine what can motivate anyone to abuse and betray the trust of their fellow workers in such a way. Except for maybe a deep hatred of and contempt for oneself.

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'll be looking for work soon and am in the process of crafting a portfolio website for the first time in a few years, but in the meantime if you know of anyone in need of a narrative designer (or illustrator, even) please keep me in mind 🥲

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Kevin Maxon @sonofbadru.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

noé is a fantastic programmer and coworker, extremely sharp, kind, patient, communicative and calm under pressure, a hard worker, a dream collaborator. If I were hiring they'd be on my shortlist.

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