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Katie

@kaitrielle.bsky.social
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Narrative Designer. Looking for work. Elf Enthusiast. 🖤🩶🤍💜 Thoughts & opinions are my own (as no one else would want them).

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Very rare to see someone like this with principles
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I didn't need 10 shows from Ed. I needed 2. Two chances to stand in front of 90,000 people and say the words that somehow became too dangerous to
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Free Palestine.
But if those words cost me the stage, while turning the conversation back to Palestine, then it was the most successful tour I've ever been on.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
‘You can’t own a game’ rendered like the old anti piracy ads
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Michael Legel @mjlegel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Mary Kenney @marykgames.com · 01/09/2026
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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
SCOOP: A few weeks before the launch of Star Wars Zero Company, most of the developers at its studio were furloughed The studio says they hope to secure funds to restore their pay. Some are skeptical it'll happen I learned about this via a bitter lawsuit: www.gamefile.news/p/star-wars-...
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‘Most’ of Star Wars Zero Company studio Bit Reactor was furloughed ahead of launch
The details emerged amid a legal dispute between company founders. The lawsuit also provides an unexpected look into a studio behind one of the best-reviewed Star Wars games in years
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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
i hate how correct we all were on this
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Gary, Indiana is 77% percent Black. Thousands have been without power for nearly two weeks. Many are without safe water. Yet every data center is operational & using enormous amounts of both power and water. This is what oligarchy looks like. Everyone suffers so the 1% can make even more.
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Sprouts 🌱 @ ASC @coolartcorner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Life just be that way all the time 🙃
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animal crossing pics @goj.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Animal Crossing Wild World (2005) #acww
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Asahi's Corrections Officer @ comm grind!!! @smuggestsage.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
butt slider
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Katie @kaitrielle.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I have officially become obsessed with Chinese vertical dramas on TikTok. There's something about having Chinese actors in Imperial China talking about the Qingpeng Dynasty but everyone is named Rosalind and Julian that scratches my lizard brain.
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James Wood @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I think it’s craven to run Todd Howard fluff pieces before the body is even cold on those thousands of jobs.
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Katerian @katerian.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We've seen what the OSA has done in the UK We've seen Texans locked out of BlueSky if they dont hand over their personal info Call your senators and tell them to vote no against KOSA and the KIDS Act Its not for the kids. Its for censorship and mass surveillance
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Bree, Captain of The Unreliable 🌌 @dhampirvampire.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I wanted to give a shout out to everyone who attended the @videogameworkers.bsky.social rally in Irvine, CA yesterday in solidarity w/ the Obsidian devs! 🫶🏻 Glad to see we had people stop by and genuinely listen & ask questions as to why we were out there too. #SaveOurDevs @cwaunion.bsky.social
Full group photo of everyone with the Labor Creates Games banner and various signs.Shot of the line up of devs listening during one of the speeches.Group gathering at the corner of the intersection.

The "Fallout No Wages" sign was one I chuckled at too. Loved that sign. ☠️☠️Photo of the group on the corner with myself holding the banner and my sign.
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A reminder that I’m STILL looking for work, either contract or FT, 18 months after Monolith was closed down by Warner Bros. Lemme put words in your characters mouths!!
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AK Fedeau @akfedeau.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I'm very sorry to announce that I was one of the devs affected by the Obsidian layoffs today. At least for four years, it was a beautiful dream. If you need a writer with experience in everything from the fog of war to romance - especially if you're open to remote - please get in touch.
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soojin @donotwander.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
i'm getting let go in september :^D (pained grinning) i'll be looking for work in any eligible field starting now, but especially then. if you need a concept artist / illustrator, i'm here <3
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Frankenroze @frankenroze.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Hello World, I'm open for employment once more, I was affected by the Microsoft/Xbox layoffs at Obsidian I want to thank my former co-workers for the last few years of unforgettable moments and fulfilling one of my childhood wishes in working for one of my favorite game devs growing up.
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Jay Turner @silopolis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I and a good number of very talented game devs were laid off by Obsidian as part of the Microsoft sacrificial rituals this morning. If you or anyone you know is looking for a Senior Writer/ND with more than two decades' experience in titles like Dragon Age and Mass Effect, please let me know!
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Bre S @bre-z.itch.io · 06/07/2026
Looking for work</3
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Katie @kaitrielle.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
So many amazing, wonderful people - and me - were laid off today. All of them deserve the world and I hope they get back on their feet soon. As for me? I suppose I'm open for work once the shock wears off.
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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
NOW PRESENTING ON THE OCCASION OF IT’S 250th ANNIVERSARY: THE HISTORY OF AMERICA (as told in Japan in 1851):
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Proud to announce our HARDSHIP FUND: uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fun... If you've been recently laid off and need support, we got you.
A red poster with a white logo (a polygonal heart lifted by 2 hands) and the title "United Videogame Workers – Hardship Fund", followed by this copy:

"UVW-CWA stands for every game worker: for those still employed and fighting for union contracts and those who have been callously treated as disposable by executives who've never shipped a title. 

We are proud to announce our launch of a hardship fund for game workers across the US and Canada who have been subjected to layoffs. If you are a game worker in need of support, please apply."

Below the text is a link to the initiative (as in the post) and the UVW-CWA logo.
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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 30/06/2026
As of March 2026 Microsoft had $78.2 billion cash on hand btw. Not revenue or stock value or whatever. Just walkin' around money.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
He signed an unconditional surrender at Versailles? Come the fuck on.
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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
UE6 removing Blueprints but adding AI is stupid.
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Jay Turner @silopolis.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The main problem I see with the game industry is that the people who control the money are convinced that it's the devs and the players who are the villains here.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026
I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”
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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.
LA Times headline: "Retailers say thefts are a crisis level. The numbers say otherwise."
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 26/05/2026
All this "well if we can't do it all at once it isn't worth trying" is loser shit and God, I wish the GOP had felt that way about overturning Roe but they didn't and here we are.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.
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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🌳⚕️🏡🏫
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 08/05/2026
"none of us can cancel everything but everyone can cancel something" is the heart of this. Sometimes it feels like folks on here are more interested in yelling at each other over the ways we're all struggling to navigate this system instead of figuring out what parts we can do.
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Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
🚨Emergency Update 🚨 @theonion.com
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Reb @rebeckeronie.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Happy Neil banging out the tunes day!!
Illustration of Neil the rat banging out the tunes on his little piano
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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 30/03/2026
This is also why abolishing ICE does not go far enough. The entire department must be dismantled because by and large, ICE is just one tentacle of the sea monster.
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Kala Elizabeth 🐙 @kalaelizabeth.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I hate this idea that gen ai in the early stages of development is okay as long as there isn't gen AI assets in the final game. Everything in early development informs the final game. I don't want this to become the norm 🫩
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
"After No Kings, Indivisible, one of the lead organizers of the "No Kings" protest, is pivoting to building support for...May Day Strong. The May Day Strong coalition is calling for "No Work, No School, No Shopping" on May 1st." reporting by @mikeelk.bsky.social paydayreport.com/no-kings-org...
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“No Kings” Organizers & Indivisible Pivot to May Day General Strike
Dozens of unions and Indivisible have backed the May Day Strong walkout
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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
🍔📖❤️🙅‍♀️
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"What's the charge? Eating a meal? The thrown out leftovers from a succulent Chinese meal?"
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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The makers of Inside Out want you to believe that they have zero interest in encouraging conversations about things that might be difficult emotionally.
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Karla P Zimonja @eternal.observer · 05/03/2026
[gamepad emoji] What Does a Game Designer Actually Do?

By now, most of us have played a game. [...more]
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”
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Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.
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mspwhistles.bsky.social @mspwhistles.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
It’s day 81 of the ICE occupation of MSP. Yesterday Rep. Aisha Gomez spoke for so many of us on the floor of the MN house. All the clips in this thread are great, but we especially love this one:
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 20/02/2026
New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF
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A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors
A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 18/02/2026
These groups are exploiting the real pain & anger people rightfully feel towards Big Tech while positioning Section 230 as the problem when their true aim is to restrict resources/online free speech of groups they don’t like. Please sign + share: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/jose...
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Listen to Queer Youth on Section 230
Repealing Section 230 would be dangerous or deadly for thousands of young people, activists, and journalists
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