Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAJoshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 11/06/2026you don’t have to wait til a company does layoffs to have an adversarial relationship with it. it is weird to see games journalism do this Lucy and football routine when we all know how these companies work 4652105
Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 1hBeen going on about this for years. Stop listening to business owners and calling that the perspective of "game developers" 190
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAGame Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 2hUbisoft Montreal employees launch collective action to preserve hybrid work schedulegamedeveloper.comUbisoft Montreal employees launch collective action to preserve hybrid work scheduleA petition is the first action. 06123
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWACTIJ Montréal / GWU Montreal @gwu-montreal.bsky.social · 6hDay 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. 04326
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWASyndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo @stjv.fr · 10h🌀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‼️ 04727
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWASolidaires Informatique @solinfonat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Solidaires Informatique apporte tout son soutien aux camarades et collègues du GWU- Ubisoft Montréal, qui s'organisent pour maintenir leur droit contre une direction en roue libre.🔥✊ 0159
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAmerritt @merrittk.com · 28/09/2026there is only one major kind of business today and it is stripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society to buy more money before the world ends 71013165
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAStephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026NEW: In January, I was sent a threatening and absurd email by Bobby Kotick's lawyers It was unsettling I've wanted to tell readers about it, but didn't want to step on Mikhail's toes. Now that his report is out, here's my experience of standing up for my work www.gamefile.news/p/bobby-koti...gamefile.newsBobby Kotick’s lawyers sent me a bad email (and later apologized)Part of a broader strategy by the former Activision CEO to shape press coverage 2436149
Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026if i owned a business i would simply not make it everyone's job to perform love for me instead of anything productive, or punish anyone who brings up a problem or who risks being better than me at something, or turn it into a grand theatre functioning to protect me from ever facing my insecurities 0131
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWATyabann @tyabann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026is CONTROL 2 the Earthbound of Finland 094
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAAlison 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" 053
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWANathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i do think it’s funny that your games stand to have a longer life span if you make them in “dead” technologies, rather than using modern tools. like DOS games, Flash, gameboy, snes… all have emulation and continue on indefinitely. the lates UE games likely won’t. 1428930
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAworms cited @christa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026In the 1600s you could write treatises for your friends as a gift. But friends don’t want treatises anymore 1834752
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAUnited Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026UVW-CWA joins @cwacanada1.bsky.social, along with myriad other Canadian unions, in condemning proposed changes to the Canada Labor Code that would grant unprecedented power to the Minister of Labour to unilaterally kill strikes. canadianlabour.ca/canadas-unio...canadianlabour.caCanada’s unions united against new restrictions on the right to strike | Canadian Labour CongressOTTAWA — Canada’s unions are united in calling on the federal government to remove new restrictions on the right to strike from its proposed changes to the Canada Labour Code. “Last night, I met with ... 13815
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAAftermath @aftermath.site · 25/09/2026Why it took years for a story about Bobby Kotick sending journalists legal threats to come out aftermath.site/aftermath-hour... 429071
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA聖☆Alex Degen @adactivity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026That's a buffalo wildwings now, the gears place. And the place to the left was a wework but that closed and is a vape store now 6435100
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAChris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🧵Thread from one of the original reporters of the WSJ investigation here, again reiterating that their work was never corrected or altered, despite Kotick/Clare Locke pressuring other outlets to consider it "debunked". 117342
Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I for one understand the economics of game development (because i'm a marxist) 1170
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAAysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026(c:r) Finland lfg 07018
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWARachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Canada continues to be shameful on this issue. 52825230
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAD.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine. 2648541696
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWACarolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I haven't yet finished watching the PMG Kotick report, but I will say that the most grating aspect of the issue for me personally was the way our own craven management at the time framed compliance with the most egregious demands as good journalistic practice rather than as caving to a petty tyrant. 1252
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAUnited Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is what game workers are up against in this industry. And we will win. 17219
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAChris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Bullying 101. Intimidate people so they feel unable to discuss the out-and-out facts. So glad PMG has spotlighted this (and totally understand why editors felt wary—litigation is expensive!). 041
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAlex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 24/09/2026Bobby's legal threats have become an open secret in this space and it is a huge relief to see an outlet like PMG take him to task. 3354
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAChris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Full story from those who missed it. Required reading, even today.wsj.comActivision CEO Bobby Kotick Knew for Years About Sexual-Misconduct Allegations at Videogame GiantThe top executive didn’t inform the board of directors about some reports, including alleged rapes. The company is facing multiple regulatory investigations. 1132
Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026As someone who's been doing labour organizing in this industry for almost a decade, believe me when I say that Bobby Kotick's tactics are far from being exclusive to him, and that you see the same basic behavioural patterns from the small business bosses as much as the big ones. 0112
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAConor Caulfield @cptcorallis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Bobby Kotick's history-rewriting press tour in the wake of leaving ABK has been something to behold between puff piece press and podcasts where he alleges the unions made everything up, so seeing this breakdown of the shadow campaign on the other side is great. 041
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWARyan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 22/09/2026A friend sent me this one last night. 165061703
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAP-O Desbiens @podesbiens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026the 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 0154
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAIan @brocktoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The crisis in tech is ultimately a crisis of intersubjectivity. I'll bang this drum forever but I consider AI tech of this sort as arising from the historical logics underpinning social media, attention economy, influencing, etc down the line instead of some new, bespoke thing all its own. 110828
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAHarper Jay @dreamcastaway.bsky.social · 22/09/2026In retrospect, Obsidian getting Pentiment out there into the world before Microsoft exploded really feels like they pulled off the weirdest heist in gaming history. 61283240
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAzaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026is there anyone in game dev that worked harder to wreck their own reputation than jonathan blow 617741
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAThe Elder Memes @theeldermemes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026war of the first council but muppets 315455
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWANic Boone @nicboone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026slop existed well before AI, we saw it with advertising and journalism. the problem is exactly as you say, and it has made us actively avoid engaging with the world as a society 0382
Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026We 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. 9834308
Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026feels good to be winning the war of position 040
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWADana Nightingale 🏳️⚧️ @danaenight.northsky.social · 19/09/2026and so many men who know who the guilty parties are and would suffer no personal cost for calling it out remain silent or even join in the accolades because "it can't have been that bad" or "I'm sure he's changed" or "what if I'm guilty of the same thing? Better keep quiet" 116430
Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 19/09/2026i think my posts used to be a lot better and more funny before i moved to bluesky tbh 120
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWARhiannon 🇵🇸 @rhithewitch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I knew this industry had regressed into a rotten place over the past few years, but PR sending out an interview op with someone accused of abuse and pitching the interview around him telling "his story" might be my limit 66912
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAUnited Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026bro really saidstatic.klipy.comFrank Castle: WAIT WAIT WAIT WAITALT: Frank Castle: WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT 110314
Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026one thing i love to do after telling my students about huizinga is doing a show of hands of who identifies as a "rules-following player" (75%), a "cheater" (20%, but the real cheaters raised their hands in the first group), or a spoilsport (5%) 130
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAVeselekov @veselekov.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Ed Sheeran liberal zionist horseshit is actually super common in the games industry too 4423
Reposted by Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWAdaffodil 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 @daff.space · 15/09/2026The people are against Zionism. the billionaires think they can bully us into submission but they are wrong. If you stand up for liberation, everyone who matters will follow 0221
Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 15/09/2026my take is that planning is good, and good planning accounts for unknowns, uncertainty, research needs, and experimentation 160
