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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...

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Game industry hardship fund by Necrosoft Games and 109 others

Game industry hardship fund: 127 items for $10.00

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

There are only two choices on the table for the game worker right now: give up or get organized. And giving up repeatedly has only led us to this absolute shitshow, so let's take a look at what organizing really means (uvw-cwa.org, btw)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Microsoft is laying off 4,800 workers today. Its CEO made $96.5M in 2025, a 22% increase from the previous year. Microsoft made $101B in net income last year — and raked in up to $12.5B in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill. This is what a rigged system looks like.

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If you're sitting there wondering "how did we get here? How did the games industry get like this?" Cringe as it is to plug one of my own videos, I made a 40-minute video essay detailing exactly this. Labor has been a struggle since the dawn of time. Our sitch is not unique. youtu.be/g1rlCfaRT1I

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A Brief History of Labor in the USA and What It Has to Do With The Modern Games Industry (REUPLOAD)

YouTube video by Anna C. Webster

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If you are one of the many valuable workers callously laid off for corporate interests today, please consider applying to our hardship fund.

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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.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Can we interest you in being radicalized instead of being led into despair

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Banilla @banillae.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Can't sit in a chair normally on account of my GayDHD.

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Manders (she/they) @mandersdraws.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Wow I’m so inspired to draw for the first time in honestly years. I sure hope I can shake off the rust with this first piece back! The plan for this first piece back: depicts at least 5 hands. 💀🫠😭

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 10/06/2026

1/3 of the game industry has lost their job in the last two years. Ubisoft closed two more studios today. Everyone is out of work. To that end I'm starting a new bundle to benefit a layoffs hardship fund. Game devs: please consider submitting your PAID games to the bundle, which will launch in July.

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Game industry hardship fund

A game jam from 2026-06-10 to 2026-06-24 hosted by Necrosoft Games. PREMISE: The game industry has a problem. Too many people are out of work (reports say 33% of the industry lost their jobs in the la...

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It's true: we're organizing a games industry hardship fund! This is the kind of mutual aid that can happen when workers get organized, too. And we've got a lot of irons in the fire 💅

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Viv 🌲 @vivtanner.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Happy Pride month - with all the love, freedom, acceptance, respect, kindness and safety 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Brought to you by Bambi 🌈

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Manders (she/they) @mandersdraws.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It feels so good to *want* to draw 😭 it’s been so long. Trying to get my Rook’s likeness down.

Sketches of an elf character and the Lyrium Dagger from Dragon Age: The Veilguard, with the caption, “Hello, I am back on my bullshit”

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Game Workers Conference @gameworkerscon.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Our full schedule is now up on our website! gameworkersconference.org/2026-program

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Every day there are new reports of ICE detaining and targeting our communities. Video game devs and the workers who keep our workplaces running are not safe from this. That’s why we’ve launched WE DON'T PLAY WITH ICE, a campaign demanding companies commit to becoming 4th Amendment Workplaces.

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We Don't Play with ICE: Pledge to be a 4th Amendment Workplace

Many of us game workers -- as well as the building grounds, maintenance, and kitchen staff who care for the places in which we work -- are visa-holders and immigrants. In the current climate, we are v...

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Game Workers Conference @gameworkerscon.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Do you work in games? Are you tired of corporate greed taking over our industry? Do you miss when industry events were by workers, for workers? The United Videogame Workers of CWA, in partnership with other unions and worker-centered organizations, announce the #GameWorkersConference. May 22-23 ❤️‍🔥

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 08/03/2026

10/10 take. no notes

teewatterss on Threads:
“losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

At this year’s DICE Awards, Ghost of Yōtei VA @erikaishii.bsky.social used their platform to demand that video game workers are treated fairly and with respect. If you want to be part of our fight to build a better industry, reach out and get connected with an organizer. Congratulations, Erika! 💪

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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I love games and so many of the people who make them. It was an honor to accept the award on behalf of the team and a privilege to be able to speak to what I believe in. ♥️

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Responses to the We’re Done Playing Petition responses are often brutal. The layoffs game developers experience are shocking, callous, and wreak havoc on their lives, and the lives of the people closest to them. Have you signed the petition? Add your voice here: actionnetwork.org/forms/were-d...

A quote on a black background with a crowd of cartoon raised hands at the bottom. The quote reads, "I’ve been laid off 12 months after moving my family to another continent."

A quote on a black background with a crowd of cartoon raised hands at the bottom. The quote reads, "During my first games role out of college, I experienced a medical event 6 months into my role, and was let go while in the hospital."

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Union-Made Game Jam is now open for sign-ups! Next week, UVW members and friends are making some bite-sized, union-themed games to show at our GDC booth! We hope you’ll join us! #UnionMadeJam itch.io/jam/union-ma...

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Union-Made Game Jam

A game jam from 2026-02-16 to 2026-03-02 hosted by UVW-CWA. Union-Made Game Jam 2026 Hosted by United Videogame Workers-CWA · #UnionMadeJam Union-Made Game Jam is a week long game making event for mem...

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Briggsy @briggsy.blacksky.app · 27/12/2025

Hi, all. In panic station mode right now. I have to get $1595 by Monday or I’m on the street. I’m sorry to keep asking, but I’ve nowhere to go, and I’m sending homemade cookies to anyone who donates $25 or more. Please spread the word. ❤️ PP: www.paypal.me/Briggsycakes CashApp: $briggsycakes

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Pay Brittany Gonzalez using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/Briggsycakes and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

We gather here at PEACOCK SQUARE, 2-4 PM PT TODAY to celebrate the life of a once vibrant game industry, killed far too soon by greedy bosses. Wear your mourning fit, and join us for a candlelight vigil in front of The Game Awards, because THE INDUSTRY IS DEAD! actionnetwork.org/events/the-i...

Workers struggle to carry an oversized trophy as sinister ghostly hands swirl around them trying to claim it.

THE GAME INDUSTRY IS DEAD: A VIGIL @ THE PEACOCK THEATER, DEC. 11th 2025, 2-4 PM

WE NEED ANSWERS FOR ALL THE LAYOFFS WHILE VIDEO GAME COMPANIES TURN MASSIVE PROFIT

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The Avarice Awards holds a mirror to the hollow glamour of The Game Awards, as workers continue to have their livelihoods upended by mass layoffs. We are speaking truth to the powers ruining the game industry with their greed! Stream begins on December 10th at 7pm PT / 10pm ET on twitch.tv/UVW_CWA

A stained glass-style depiction of The Game Awards trophy, emerging from a bank safe with green bills pouring out the opening. Two large ominous hands hover around the trophy, one holding a scythe to its torso.

The depiction is headlined with THE AVARICE AWARDS, with details below:

PRESENTED BY UNITED VIDEOGAME WORKERS, A CODE-CWA UNION

LIVE ON DEC. 10TH AT 7 PM PT AT HTTPS://TWITCH.TV/UVW_CWA

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Manders (she/they) @mandersdraws.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Vote to tell UVW whose layoff announcement was the most cringe! 😂😭

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Help create the future of the games industry! On Dec 3, workers will be coming together to draft a Game Workers' Bill of Rights. All game workers are welcome — union members or not. Sign up here:

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Bill of Rights Town Hall

Help create the future of the games industry! Workers across the games industry are coming together to draft a Game Workers' Bill of Rights — a shared set of principles to set a standard for fair trea...

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sirocyl @sirocyl.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

having a normal one right now

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🐟 cafe 🏳️‍⚧️♿️ @cafeesh.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

thursdays are now weekly calls to action to strike for palestine so if you're able to, please take a bit of time to do some actions & share some gfms/info/resources today (and every day). if you don't know where to start, check out our linktree: linktr.ee/brewcrewforl...

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brewcrewforliberation | Twitter, Twitch | Linktree

list of links for awareness / social justice / mutual aid!

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

As recent waves of layoffs impact our fellow workers and union members, we see again and again how little the word of your boss means when it is not backed up by a union contract or challenged with collective action.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Help create the future of the games industry! On 8/20, workers will be coming together to draft a Game Workers' Bill of Rights. All game workers are welcome — union members or not. Sign up here: uvw-cwa.org/townhall-reg...

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Katie Bernt @berntkat.com · 13/08/2025

Prints are up in the shop! I’ve got a few more cons this season but I’ll put up the remainder after those. www.etsy.com/shop/berntkat/

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Yuri Heart @yuriheart.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

[0027] Hex Maniac #VTuber #YuriLife

Yuri is shown in feudal japanese armor, weilding a pokeball, with a mimikyu with a cute bow jumping in the air

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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

If you're mad about these layoffs (and every other layoff that's happened over the last few years in this trashfire of an industry) please sign & share this petition. Channel that rage into action. It's just a small 1st step, but it's an important one. actionnetwork.org/forms/were-d...

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We’re Done Playing

Video game workers strike back. Over the last few years, game workers have been struck by unprecedented mass layoffs, driven by corporate greed and short-term profit seeking. While employers treat us...

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Crow's Nest Comics @crowsnest.quest · 07/04/2025

Seattle area comic artists (esp folks who have gone thru traditional publishing) a local org is putting on an event for low income teen and is looking for comic artists to volunteer to come chat with them. Evening of 4/18. If you're available and interested dm us and I'll forward your contact info!

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

We need to pay $2314.47 in back rent by the 4th. We still have our ko-fi goal which is now at 90%! We started this in January and it's been helping us to pay rent and 20% of this has also gone to help pay off a loan we took to help with my medical care last year. ko-fi.com/johnniejae/g...

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Support Johnnie Jae ❤️

Support Johnnie Jae

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SOVKA ✶ @monstersovka.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

TRANS RIGHTS 🏳️‍⚧️

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Artists! TrueRef has some new things to test. First, our new timed gesture drawing tool and then our improved free gallery! Both are still WIPs, but their base functions are there and I want to know what's good, bad or broken. Links below! 🤍

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Manders (she/they) @mandersdraws.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Online enough to know about the cursed boycott gofundme, offline enough to have never seen the url for the cursed boycott gofundme come across my feed 🙏🏻

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House Our Neighbors @houseourneighbors.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Amazon (owned by the oligarch Jeff Bezos who was at Trump's inauguration) just dropped $100k against social housing. The wealthiest are trying to buy this election. We can't let them! Get involved at letsbuildsocialhousing.org and make sure all your Seattle friends Vote Yes on Prop 1 & Prop 1A

Picture of Amazon's Jeff Bezos at Trump's inauguration

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You can call me Maggie. She/Her/FemiNazgûl @maggieliz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Signal Boost: All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive Let people know, download your own copies. Don't let this digital book burn continue. #Feds #Health #WHO #CDC #AMA #USPHS #FDA #NIH #NCHS #PCORI

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All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive

Here's all the information you might need. Official website: https://eotarchive.org/ Wikipedia:...

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Manders (she/they) @mandersdraws.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I am so excited for this snailtuber! 🙏🐌Snamen to all those who donate/boost

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Nova & Mali @novamali.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

ONE WEEK LEFT TO BACK STAR CROSSED: A QUEER TAROT! Just 1 week left to make this amazing inclusive and so very queer tarot deck! We've worked with ~80 artists from all over the world and we need your help to make sure we can print these decks <3 (did I mention it's gay??? it's really really gay)

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Jinx Peregrine|Poet|Kickstarter @jinxperegrine.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Cinnamoroll says Protect Trans Folks! 💜🏳️‍⚧️💛 #cuteart #art

An adorable fan illustration by Jinx Peregrine of Cinnamoroll from Sanrio, floating with three balloons in pink, white and blue and holding a big, pink, heart-shaped balloon infront of his chest. He is on a light blue background with many stars in trans colours and above him is the caption "Protect Trans Folks"

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