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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 09/09/2026
After years of company stalling, Blizzard workers win mega-contract that applies to all unionized teams aftermath.site/blizzard-union...
the famous orc statue outside blizzard's HQ in irvine, california
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The reason why unions often say not to boycott something is because they’re saving that strategic action until it can make the most impact.
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 13/08/2026
Alright y'all, this is it! The final stretch for the game industry hardship fund. We've got $13k to raise in 14 hours to meet the final goal, I think we can do it. itch.io/b/3802/game-...
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UAW @uaw.org · 03/08/2026
ICYMI: UAW President Shawn Fain — "Democrats Must Pick a Side: Billionaires or Working-Class" 📰 www.newsweek.com/democrats-must-pic…
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Democrats must pick a side: billionaires or working-class | Opinion
"Over the decades, too many Democrats stopped listening to working people and started listening to political donors."
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 30/07/2026
All money, minus processing fees for itch, goes to out of work game developers to pay for food, housing, healthcare, and whatever they need to make it through. Neither we as the organizers nor UVW take any of the money from the bundle. Game developers can apply here: uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fun...
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Game Worker Hardship Fund
Who is eligible to apply for this fund?This fund is for game workers in the US and Canada impacted by record layoffs & other hardships in the games industry within the timeframe of January 2024 to the...
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 30/07/2026
In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 30/07/2026
Game devs start worker hardship fund for laid off colleagues: aftermath.site/uvw-cwa-game-w...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 30/07/2026
There's already so many ways to play N64 games without supporting a fashy little freak's pet project. Do not buy the war crime n64. aftermath.site/war-crime-n64-...
Palmer Luckey sitting behind his little M64 by ModRetro.
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Julia Lundman 🩵🧚🦄🧌 @paintkatt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Pixar's Layoffs Came Days After Receiving a $26 Million Tax Credit. So I Wrote California Officials.
State tax incentives should create and retain jobs for Californians, not subsidize corporate layoffs.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
In 2023 while in NOLA, a Lyft Driver and I had a conversation about leaving home. It led to him telling me about his terminal diagnosis. “An editor told me once that if you want to understand a war, interview the grave diggers. I’d add that if you want to understand a city, interview the drivers.”
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Mister Anthony
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The racist backlash to Chris Nolan’s Odyssey is a kind of stolen valor, an attempt by the right to claim credit for achievements they had nothing to do with in order to justify racial hierarchy in the present. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Fear of Black Greeks
White people don’t own the accomplishments of ancient Greece.
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
working on a new project for @aftermath.site: a semi-comprehensive, regularly-updated list of every game studio that refuses to use AI. if that sounds like your studio, message me with the reason(s) why as well as basic details about what you make. DMs open and email is nathan@aftermath.site
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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The main reparations committee for Caribbean nations has called on the UK to return the British Virgin Islands and for King Charles to commit to decolonising Britain’s remaining overseas territories, warning of a “resurgence of colonisation” around the world.
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Caribbean calls for return of British Virgin Islands – and for King Charles to back decolonisation
At London briefing, Caricom Reparations Commission decries fact region remains ‘most colonised part of world’
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 07/07/2026
Microsoft layoffs hit Bethesda, Obsidian, and id Software hard as workers brace for more aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 06/07/2026
"These are delusional, careless, and tedious people who will never suffer consequences like these, attempting to massage a bad message so they can get patted on the back for it" aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox...
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You Don't Have To Hand It To Microsoft For A Well-Planned Bloodbath
People are being laid off in a horrendous job market. You do not have to praise the muddled prose of the rich and insulated.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 06/07/2026
Xbox will lay off 3200 workers and cut four studios loose aftermath.site/xbox-layoffs-j...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 02/07/2026
We're fast approaching the point where 'downloading something and sharing it to keep it alive isn't piracy. It's all we've got left.' aftermath.site/video-game-pir...
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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Statement from VGHF director Frank Cifaldi on the discontinuation of physical PlayStation media, and the closure of the PS3 and PSP digital storefronts.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 25/06/2026
Sony laying off 'most of the Destiny team' aftermath.site/bungie-destiny...
Destiny
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 10/06/2026
Ubisoft embargoes journalists reporting on latest round of layoffs aftermath.site/ubisoft-layoff...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/05/2026
UK-based Rockstar game workers formally announce union: aftermath.site/rockstar-games...
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Ectoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.
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Count Trashula @trashmobminis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Here’s a cleaner Wildwood promo pic, without all the text on it. It really gives you a sense of what the Landscapes department did. We hand made every asset you see here.
A scene from wildwood where Prue and Curtis walk down a wooded path
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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 13/05/2026
Editor and media critic @esper.bsky.social counts down the top ten hottest games of 2025! insertcredit.com/opinion/espe...
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Esper Quinn's Top 10 Hottest Games of 2025
Editor and media critic Esper Quinn counts down the top ten hottest games of 2025!
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Hello. I’m writing a novel. @editrixemma.bsky.social @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social
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Deal Report
LEVEL UP FOR ROMANCE!
By Gita Jackson
Imprint: Mira
Aftermath co-owner Gita Jackson's LEVEL UP FOR ROMANCE!, a debut LitRPG romance in which an overworked game developer is transported to the cozy town featured in the farming simulator she's creating and falls for the town's snarky bartender-a character who wasn't even supposed to be romanceable
-as she's forced to confront the fact that her career in the gaming industry wasn't what she thought it was going to be and figure out how to get back home, to Emma Cole at Mira, in an exclusive submission, by Alex Land at Mad Woman Literary Agency (world).
Fiction: Romance
April 21, 2026
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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 17/04/2026
People are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience? www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
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Our Longing for Inconvenience
People are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience?
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tired @coffeetime.myatproto.social · 17/04/2026
I blame orthography, not the language itself
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
every superhero movie should run with a PSA about how all the cool shit they’re about to see is based on the work of freelancers unsupported by the companies that have exploited their work for decades
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Daily bunny no.3285 made it home safely
Bunnies in a raft pull up next to a spaceship capsule, which has just splashed down and is floating in the open sea. Visible in the capsule, two bunnies wave at the ones in the boat.
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tired @coffeetime.myatproto.social · 28/03/2026
Thank you for the recs!
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tired @coffeetime.myatproto.social · 27/03/2026
Do you have a current favorite film stock you’d recommend?
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I’m back in the Guardian, with a piece on how there’s no such thing as a hit anymore when it comes to live service games www.theguardian.com/games/2026/m...
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In the killer world of online gaming, there are no hits any more – just survivors
The fates of two ostensibly similar online games released this year, Marathon and Highguard, prove that success is becoming close to unattainable
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Jaws🎃 @jaws-stone.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Hi'a - I'm Jaws, a completely independent artist scraping to get by. If you enjoy character designs, story driven drawings and comics, it would mean a lot if you pledge to P. 🖼️ jawsstone.com ✉️ jawscommission@gmail.com 👛 patreon.com/only_jaws 📺 www.twitch.tv/jaws_stone 🎙️ @theartofpod.bsky.social
An illustration of a woman laying on the floor, asleep inside a big coat. A pair of shoes stands next to herA man standing in a field of hydrangeas. He's wearing a skull jacket and striped pants A teenage boy running, wearing punk-adjacent clothes and carrying a bass guitar on his backAn illustration depicting the plague, covered in rot, skulls and rats
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 16/03/2026
This is proving to be a popular sentiment, so if you want to play a game that was 100% made by human beings, check out Demonschool. (it is an RPG with puzzle-y tactical battles, so make sure you like that kind of thing first) store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
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Demonschool on Steam
Demonschool is a new-style tactics RPG where motion equals action. Defeat big weirdos in between the human and demon worlds as Faye and her misfit companions, while navigating university life on a mys...
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 16/03/2026
One of the fired Subnautica 2 developers is getting their job back aftermath.site/subnautica-2-k...
Subnautica 2
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 16/03/2026
I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!
From the article: 
"I think that until the bubble bursts, AI will be used by quite a few game companies, and perhaps even beyond the bubble," says Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft Games, which released the RPG Demonschool last year. "Look, I am not a fool – I understand that AI has some uses. Primary among those being the devaluing of work, the cheapening of labour, the laying off of creatives, and the generation of busywork for humans to fix whatever AI generates."

"It's also useful for burning through water, raising the prices of RAM and chipsets globally, and poisoning anyone near the data centres that run them. So there are a lot of use cases for AI. From spurring on the death of the creative endeavour to dissolving our economy, AI is absolutely gangbusters at what it does. We don't use it in our studio though."
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Chef's kiss: "I would love to see an AI do my job. I am professionally stupid in a way that a machine could not even dream of." www.gamesradar.com/games/fallou...
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A Fallout 4 QA tester nuked the RPG so hard that Zenimax executives got emails about it: "I was running around super-nuking the entire wasteland and found 4 crashes in a single morning"
"I am professionally stupid in a way that a machine could not even dream of"
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Dan K @zdp189.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I have a hundred+ rolls of freshly produced KikiPan 320 BW film to give away in lots of 3. Free shipping & duty paid. In the next 24h, send me a DM with Kikipan as the text. I'll notify the first 35 for shipping details. In return please post a pic taken with the film or of the received rolls.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 11/03/2026
The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art) Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...
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Federal Reserve Board - Proposal Details
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
No they’re good
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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
What makes me so fucking mad is I never hurt anyone. The vast, overwhelming majority of nsfw creators and sex workers dont. We get cut off from the ability to use-the-dollar but all the sick fucks that hurt people, both directly and indirectly, every single day, never get even a slap on the wrist
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 09/03/2026
lol I understand the spirit, but at the end of the day, the wealthy should just pay their fair share so that we can use the tax revenue to improve and build public goods.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 09/03/2026
lol reducing the size of the tax base and not taxing billionaires MORE will not solve the problems he claims to care about. 🤷🏿‍♀️
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Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I used Timothée Chalamet's comments about opera/ballet as a jumping off point to discuss the existential and material crisis Hollywood (and film in general) is mired in but refuses to reckon with. Stardom, Hollywood history, and more are explored. angelicabastien.substack.com/p/film-is-in...
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Film Is In Its Own Existential and Material Crisis, Timothée
Timothée Chalamet’s comments about opera and ballet are condescending. But there’s an anxiety underneath the surface — about the film industry’s future — that deserves scrutiny.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 05/03/2026
When Duolingo let me down, I went back to the old ways: aftermath.site/duolingo-ai-la...
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Unnamed Press @unnamedpress.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
A MARSH ISLAND, the newest S&T Classic is on shelves now! !🌻🌾 Thank you to the hosts of @onebrightbook.bsky.social for your conversational afterword to the book! A Marsh Island is available anywhere books are sold, including unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/...
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Every time a theoretical Bloodborne remake is talked about I get a headache. Just make the game we already have run not run like ass. I will pay money for this. aftermath.site/bloodborne-r...
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I Don’t Need A Bloodborne Remake, I Just Need It To Not Run Like Ass
I love Bloodborne. I'd love to see it updated, but I don't need an entire remake. Just make the game that's there sing.
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