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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 27/08/2026

Today, the world saw a highly anticipated preview of GTA VI. Meanwhile, the people who made it are preparing to appear in court after unionising and being fired en masse. Buy a t-shirt to help GTA workers win justice: bit.ly/4xLc4IP Orders close Sunday 30 August!

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 26/08/2026

We have a couple of regional socials coming up in the next couple of weeks! Both events are open to members and non-members alike, as well as those from outside of the areas who are willing to make the trip. Come along, bring your friends, and stay as long as you like!

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 25/08/2026

Listen to the workers.

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Pablosaur @kednar.itch.io · 20/08/2026

Dystopian realisation: When you search something and land on a generated website, at least it's already been generated. When you ask an LLM something, it's going to waste resources to make up an answer, and it does that for every single person who asks the same question, even if they ask it many […]

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 12/08/2026

Workers at Rowan, Rook and Decard have secured the first union recognition agreement in the UK table top games industry! 🙌 iwgb.org.uk/en/post/tabl... Work in the UK games industry? Join our union today!

Graphic showing Voidheart Symphony, a table top game produced by Rowan, Rook and Decard and a caption "Union Recognition! Workers at Rowan, Rook and Decard secure the first tabletop games union recognition agreement in the UK."

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

🐛 Hawaii's 'bone collector' caterpillar wears the body parts of dead insects as camouflage The caterpillar, a newly described species of Hyposmocoma found only on a single mountainside on Oahu, builds a silk case and decorates it with beetle wings, ant heads, and spider legs scavenged from […]

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Pablosaur @kednar.itch.io · 18/07/2026

It's silly but I'm so tired of the loop of needing to buy something, going to the shop, they don't have it, look online, there's a million products and reviews, going back to the shop, realizing it's all the same shit quality, going back online, realizing I need to increase the budget, but do I […]

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 01/07/2026

Crunch and overtime in the games industry is pervasive because executives and upper team leadership will ALWAYS want more work in the same amount of time. I believe there's only one way to push back against that and it's to stop all overtime. www.austinkelmore.com/blog/how-to-...

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How to Eliminate Crunch in the Games Industry

Crunch has existed in the games industry for decades, I'd like to lay out my idea for a plan to eliminate it entirely.

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 30/06/2026

"We want to sit down with management and build a future where both the games and the conditions of the people who make them are as strong as possible." Today we applied for union recognition at Rockstar! Work in the UK games industry? Join our union today: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 17/06/2026

"Rockstar thought they could control the narrative. They're wrong, and we look forward to proving it. Our case will now be heard in full and put to the test as it should be. The world will get to see for itself the evidence as to what happened last October."

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Pablosaur @kednar.itch.io · 14/06/2026

Internet search is dead. Can we do directories again?

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Pablosaur @kednar.itch.io · 30/05/2026

The Fraksl app got an update since I last used and it's got "modulators" to for example drive the scale with a sine or microphone input. I was thinking I could use it for live coding and then I realized I could recreate Fraksl on Hydra! […]

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Pablosaur @kednar.itch.io · 13/05/2026

I'm off to Berlin! Looking forward to seeing my friends at A Maze, getting mind-blown by art house games and letting it all out at Panke Club. I did not take my laptop, will I regre yes probably

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 09/05/2026

This is fantastic news for Double Fine workers. The documentary which came out after Psychonauts 2 clearly showed how much they needed to unionize. aftermath.site/double-fine-...

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Double Fine Is Unionizing

The Psychonauts developer is the latest Microsoft studio to unionize

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Pablosaur @kednar.itch.io · 29/04/2026

AI can be fun and it can be useful somewhat. But for all that it does, is it really worth it? Is it worth the human cost? The exploitation and traumatization of workers in Kenya, India, Philippines? Is it worth the energy use? Is it worth giving up on environmental goals to power massive data […]

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Something shocking and out of the ordinary is happening in the UK. While in most comparable countries, healthy life expectancy is rising, here it is plunging steeply. Q. So what marks us out? A. 47 years of extreme neoliberalism, culminating in austerity. www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...

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Pablosaur @kednar.itch.io · 01/04/2026

A poem: Go Artemis go go go (fuck Trump) go Artemis go go go (fuck fascism) go Artemis go go go (fuck capitalism) go Artemis go go go

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Pablosaur @kednar.itch.io · 01/04/2026

Let's go Artemis! I hope the mission brings a bit of hope and perspective in these awful times. ... I'm really struggling to not be cynical here. ... Space brought us closer once. An international Moon mission and even a Moon base could do this again. ... Anyhow space is cool. Let's fucking go!

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 27/03/2026

Pretty huge they won a required notice for layoffs and minimum severance pay considering how the games industry has been the past couple of years.

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None Hitwonder @nonehitwonder.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

Does anyone know a good instance for hosting a little bot? I moved my text adventure bot from Twitter to botsin.space, which no longer exists, and I want to dust it off and have it mix silly adventure prompts again.

A screenshot of Mastocom, my Mastodon text adventure bot. The posts read as follows:

You awaken in an interesting department store. You notice a catapult in the distance.

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You are in a basement. You see what appears to be a strange catapult.

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There is a small monolith to the north. It reeks of mold here.

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You awaken in a chilly forest. You see a chilly time machine. Everything smells like dust.

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You are in a drab tunnel. You notice a fragrant squirrel to the north.

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 20/03/2026

My favorite union organizing podcasts include Kickstarter Union's Oral History and Starbucks Workers' Heat the Ground Up. So I'm very excited that Clarissa is crowdfunding for one about the Mapbox Workers, which I've just backed. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla... Maybe you'd like to as well?

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The Mapbox Workers Union Oral History

A podcast about worker organizing, at a venture capital darling, in the world's most powerful industry.

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 13/03/2026

Starbucks workers unionizing is one of the most inspirational campaigns I've seen recently, and I'm in awe of the Heat the Ground Up podcast which details their experiences. It's made by the same person who did the Kickstarter Union podcast, which is also a favorite. Check it out! strike.kitchen

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🔪 Let's Make a Strike Kitchen 🍿

The Mapbox Workers Union Oral History

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Mathias Fußenegger @fussenegger.pro · 13/03/2026

Hadn't seen this one before: www.scientificamerican.com/article/… > Overall, the study participants who saw the biased AI text shifted their positions toward those espoused by the AI. > Interestingly, the people […]

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Pablosaur @kednar.itch.io · 12/03/2026

This is the terrible, hidden human cost of AI. I wonder if even the so called "ethical" AI is free from this human harm, and if it's even possible for an LLM to be built without this kind of data labeling. www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intel…

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Pablosaur @kednar.itch.io · 03/03/2026

I don't know if I'll perform tomorrow because I'm very low on energy. But I know that just by going to algorhythms I'm going to charge my battery and get some good feels. It's such a sweet community and I'm thankful for it! luma.com/1db23uki #algorave #algorhythms #pastagang oh also […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026

I love love love love (in a sarcastic, dark humour sort of way) the title of the article Dr. Laura Revell, Dr. @astrokiwi.bsky.social and I wrote last week theconversation.com/a-new-space-rac…. But one thing got cut in […]

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Javier de la Cueva @jdelacueva.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

Actions speak louder than words. I am unable to install EU Login app in my phone because I use LineageOS and not the Google Spy Android. Thus, I cannot use the double factor authentication, mandatory from the 25-02-2026 on unless I tell Google. Stupid, no? […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 18/02/2026

I say this with all the love in my heart because Blue Prince is incredible - working 80 hours a week for 8 years very likely made this game take longer to make than without crunch. More time spent working does not always equate to making forward progress. Crunch often equates to negative progress.

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 13/02/2026

This isn't quite the employment law update most of us wanted, but some of the things in here are huge. * E-balloting for strikes instead of physical mailed ballots * Simplified industrial action rules * Lowered required threshold for recognition www.gamesindustry.biz/how-the-empl...

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How the Employment Rights Act 2025 empowers unions and employees, and how the games business must prepare

Over the next few months, the UK will see sweeping changes to laws governing unionisation and industrial action

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Pablosaur @kednar.itch.io · 11/02/2026

Here's a tip for Signal: You can add chats to folders, which appear as filter tabs. This is so useful when you want to organise a community which consists of several group chats. Suggest members to add all of those to a folder and it'll be nice and tidy : :blobfoxuwu: There's a few more […]

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 02/02/2026

Raises, protections against AI, a fair crediting policy and restrictions on overtime! 😍 If you work in the UK games industry and want a better industry for you and your co-workers, join our union at: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 30/01/2026

We stand with the workers at Ubisoft. @stjv.fr @solinfonat.bsky.social

We were incredibly disappointed and outraged to hear about the layoffs and cancellations announced by Ubisoft last week. Hundreds of workers have been put into an incredibly stressful and precarious position.

We stand in solidarity with our fellow game workers at CFE-CGC, CGT, Printemps Écologique, Solidaires Informatique, and STJV as they prepare for a massive international strike in February.

Game workers are the backbone of the industry, yet they continue to face an unstable and unfair working environment.
The games we love cannot be made without the hard work of game workers around the world.

Solidarity with those at Ubisoft.

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 28/01/2026

Redundancies and forced return to office measures are something game devs know all too well. By forming a strong union across the games industry, we'll be able to hold employers to account - nothing should be decided about us, without us. Join our union today at: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026

@kednar ditto if Pablo is too busy ;)

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Pablosaur @kednar.itch.io · 25/01/2026

Hey folks if you're fed up with Microsoft and are curious about running Linux but need a little push, hit me up! Best advice I ever got was to replace your software first. Start by using the software that you'll find on Linux in your current OS so that when you swap, there's less to learn […]

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Pablosaur @kednar.itch.io · 25/01/2026

I hit the fourth and final ending in Citizen Sleeper and I'm so in love with the game. Can't wait to start the sequel, although perhaps I need a little time to heal from the gut-wrenching decisions I had to make. Incredible mis-en-scene and beautiful writing. I'm so inspired by it! […]

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Pablosaur @kednar.itch.io · 23/01/2026

Allow me a moment of silliness in this absurd, terrible world

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 13/01/2026

PMG have just released their excellent video covering the situation at Rockstar. Thanks to @chrisbratt.bsky.social for this great and important piece of journalism. You can check it out here: youtu.be/dnuipPQDd_w?...

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Rockstar vs. Union: We Went to Court and Saw the Evidence

YouTube video by People Make Games

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 08/01/2026

We are extremely appalled and shocked at the recent news of the closure of Ubisoft Halifax - we stand in solidarity with all of those affected.

We are appalled to hear about the closure of Ubisoft Halifax and the loss of 71 workers' livelihoods, less than a month after the formation of a union with CWA Canada Local 30111.

We stand with our fellow game workers—profit will never trump people, and the games we love cannot be made without the dedicated workers who continue to deal with precarity and unfair treatment because of their love and passion for games.

However, every day more and more game workers realize this does not have to be the way. Unions in the games industry are getting stronger and will not be silenced.

Solidarity with those at Ubisoft.

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 07/01/2026

My talk from last month is up! I cover the history of radicalism in Glasgow, unions in the games industry and why they're important, my opinions on Rockstar firing 34 union organizers, and somehow tie all 3 of those together. I really enjoyed giving this talk, I hope you all like it!

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Pablosaur @kednar.itch.io · 02/01/2026

I've been trying to convince my family to use a password manager for years. They keep struggling with passwords and even though I've shown them how easy it is, they still see it as a hurdle. Any tips?

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