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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6h

why is anyone allowing these arseholes to do this?

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The UK economy has three major industries: Warhammer, Onlyfans and Little Alex Horne

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Aron Durkin @arondurkin.bsky.social · 11h

Rare entry level role here folks!

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 12h

This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.

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Giada Zavarise ➡️ AdvX @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 22h

The funniest/saddest reaction to this amazing article has been people going "wait, Stellaris has WRITERS?" Yes folks, if a game has words... someone probably got paid to write them... even if that game isn't an RPG or a visual novel...

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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.

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AdventureX @adventurex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Heads up! Only 25% of #AdvX26 tickets remain. Reserve your spot at the UK’s convention dedicated to narrative and adventure gaming! Grab your ticket now at buytickets.at/adventurexconferencescic/2339289. Find games and talks information, schedule and FAQs at adventurexpo.org.

AdventureX 2026, 7-8 November. Only 25% of tickets left. Photos from previous AdventureX conferences in circles, from left to right on the top: voice actor Dominic Armato in a suit jacket and red t-shirt smiles with a fan. A speaker with shoulder-length black hair holds a mic while speaking and holding up their hand. From left to right on the bottom: a person in a sweater, beanie and AdventureX lanyard smiles while talking to another attendee. A person with long curly hair smiles while two people behind them play computer games.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think our main aim over the next few years (apart from releasing magazines every 4 months and not losing money for once) is to aggressively try and push tabletop games into these more interesting, art spaces that video games so often comfortably exist in today. It will probably be a struggle as...

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Rendered From Memory Exhibition: Curated by Heavy Duty Games

RENDERED FROM MEMORY is a contemporary group art exhibition exploring the lasting emotional connection between artists and video games.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 02/10/2026

So, basically, admitting that they've uploaded the book into a data centre for a LLM to train on, then query because you couldn't be arsed to read or listen and use your imagination. Fuck off.

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Imagine looking at the media landscape—music, books, movies—and concluding that it would be better if it were all simply infinite reflections of yourself, if you never had to be exposed to another personality, another experience, another life. Just you, you, you. Sounds fucking horrifying.

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Mags D. @magsthepirate.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's that time again! I'll be playing video games for 24 hours to raise money for the Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity. It's my 15th year of doing this! www.justgiving.com/page/magsisr...

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Mags Games for Charity 15 - I'm Old and Tired

Help Mags D raise money to support Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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Stark Holborn @starkholborn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nivalis Nights is out... today! Come watch us (3/4 of the writers room) play it and talk about how some of the weird and wild stories came to life. TONIGHT 8pm BST 👇 m.twitch.tv/calmdowntom/... @karlpoyzer.bsky.social @calmdowntom.bsky.social

Poster for a stream of Nivalis Nights, 8pm BST on twitch.tv/calmdowntom, with Thomas Welsh, Stark Holborn and Karl Poyzer

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If Anthropic would like to give me $12.6 billion in order to receive $4.6 billion back, I'd like to make it known that I have a gap in my schedule that could work well for both of us.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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Vaida @vaida.me · 26/09/2026

I'm helping a friend look for a job in games, and thought I'd share job openings that seem decent as I find them! I'll be posting: - permanent roles - (primarily) UK companies that allow for full remote - not a mobile game slop factory - preference for indie, or smaller-sized AA #gamejobs

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 25/09/2026

"There was a time when science fiction made a bet on humanity. A bet that humanity was worth rooting for. We need storytellers willing to make that bet again. I don’t think we have an innovation problem. We have an inspiration problem." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

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Contributor: We need more of the hopeful sci-fi that 'Star Trek' gave us 60 years ago

Today's dystopic warnings have value, but we also need inspiration and a vision to work toward.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026

Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.

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Elias Daler @eliasdaler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Who are the most well-known/influential programmers who are still anti-AI/anti-slop, btw? (Please don’t tag them directly to not annoy them)

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julia 🪻 @romanhyacinths.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

looking for five (paid!) voice actors for my next #indiegame project, a short, underwater sci-fi visual novel inspired by games like Subnautica and In Other Waters! if you're a VA or know someone who is, more info is here: www.castingcall.club/projects/how...

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 24/09/2026

okay, today’s spicy hot take because I’ve seen this three times already this morning: The U.K. does not have any such thing as a ‘legal name’ this is a good thing! unequivocally! this means it also applies to people we don’t like

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cannot express enough the speed at which I would turn the game off, put down the controller and immediately sell the console.

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Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 23/09/2026

if you’re a games company that wants to survive it has been proven over and over again you need to do whatever it takes to stay away from being publicly traded. you’ll be turned into wood chips the moment it’s convenient.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

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Jake Gaule @submergedtapes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

*screams in games industry*

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026

I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.

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Chalk Scribblers @chalkscribblers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Would you like to hear Charles Stross @cstross.bsky.social read from his latest novel, The Regicide Report, and then pester him with questions without leaving your home? Of course you would. So join us free online on Wed 7th Oct: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2000172679...

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Chalk Scribblers meet the author: Charles Stross

An evening with leading science fiction novelist Charles Stross.

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Very excited for Scottish Silent Hill

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What I want is a TV documentary channel entirely devoted to documentaries with no quick-cut montages of everything about to happen, which don't give a fuck about keeping my attention, presented by extremely knowledgeable people in a terrible mood who have no interest in trying to make me like them

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Lua Garo ~ @somniacrawler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s my bday! 💗 Leveled up, another round around the sun, a year older! Can I ask for a lil share? 🥺 ft. @narney.bsky.social Lyuu 💗 #wip #characterart #oc #originalcharacter #3Dart

Lyuu, Narney oc. Jet black haired elf, with very long ears, looking past camera, longing. She has balck dots under her eyes, her iris are a deep green color.

Tove, a tanned skinned elf with dusted dark violet colored hair. They are looking slightly past camera towards their right. They have a pained expression.

Dee a tanned half oni girl. She seems bubbly and she’s posing to camera with her hands on the sides of her face. She’s slightly smiling. Her hair is tied in two buns, and her bangs cover a lot of her forehead.

Nara, a medium olive color skinned orc. They look angry and they seem to be raising their voice.

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.

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RossyDoesDrawings (commissions open) @rossydoesdrawings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Strong goblin, very mean and tough.

drawing of a goblin in heavy armour with three swords.

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Chump Monty @seductighoul.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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Aviv Or 🔜 MCM London AA H-24 @avivor.com · 18/09/2026

The next stretch goal in the Good Society 2e kickstarter adds 5 connection cards, and I would LOOOOVE to get to draw them. Back it back it back it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sto...

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Good Society: A Jane Austen RPG – 2nd Edition

Navigate the pitfalls of romance, reputation, manners, and marriage in the sumptuous new edition of this award-winning regency rpg.

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titsay 𓆏 @titsay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

stuck with u (happily) 🕷️♡

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alexis @steppinlazer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

it would be helpful to mention japanese labor laws re: layoffs as a factor in these types of stories

Quiet Restructuring vs. U.S.-Style Layoffs

In Japan, U.S.-style sudden mass layoffs are rare by law and custom. Instead, firms practice a "quiet change". They curb hiring, redeploy staff internally, and expand early-retirement schemes. For example, Tokyo Shoko Research reports that 46 listed companies in FY2025 offered early retirement to over 20,000 workers. Notably, many announcements emphasized retraining and redeployment over firing. A consultant's study notes that Japanese companies are focusing on "eliminating redundant tasks" to boost productivity, rather than simply cutting headcount.

What, if any, additional considerations apply if large numbers of dismissals (redundancies) are planned? How many employees need to be affected for the additional considerations to apply?
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In cases of layoffs, courts tend to determine the validity of the dismissal by comprehensively considering the specific circumstances related to the following four elements (Tokyo District Court Decision, January 21, 2000; Osaka High Court Judgment, March 24, 2016, etc.).Since restructuring dismissals are dismissals based on the employer’s circumstances, stricter standards are applied in determining their validity than for dismissals attributable to the employee’s fault. These standards apply regardless of the number of employees targeted for dismissal.

(i) Necessity of Personnel Reduction: The implementation of personnel reduction must be based on sufficient necessity arising from corporate management issues such as recession, decline, or poor business performance, or be recognised as an unavoidable measure.

(ii) Efforts to Avoid Dismissal (Necessity of Selecting Layoffs as a Means of Workforce Reduction) : Measures to avoid layoffs must have been implemented, such as reducing expenses (including cutting overtime pay by stopping overtime work), reducing temporary workers, reducing or eliminating executive compensation and employee bonuses, not renewing fixed-term contracts, halting new hires, suspending pay raises, reassigning employees, or offering voluntary retirement programs.

(iii) Rationality of Selection: Objective and reasonable criteria must be established for selecting employees subject to dismissal, and these criteria must be applied fairly.

(iv) Fairness of the termination process: Conducting labour-management negotiations, individual interviews, and other procedures to provide explanations, disclose information, and engage in consultation with workers.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Carney telling the European Parliament that what's needed is an alliance - his word, repeated - where nobody gets to tell the EU and Canada what to do. Good *LORD*. And met with a standing ovation. Well, that's that for the previously-existing form of Atlanticism, then.

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible

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