KB 🌊 UVW-CWA

UVW-CWA members are forming unions at their own studios to make better games and to build a better industry.

Solidarity to the Heart Machine devs - if you’re interested in organizing, this is your sign! Reach out to us either in our DMs or at GDC this week 💪

Sex education is self-defense against a system where this kind of violence has been enabled by power long before Epstein built his network. Read our blog by Director of Public Affairs, Alison Macklin 👇
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This moment demands fierce leadership against sexual exploitation and the forces that allow it.

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."

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...

Fight and Ye Shall Receive: How CWA's Game Worker Union Campaigns Are Changing the Industry! (Presented by Campaign to Organize Digital Employees (CODE-CWA)) | Agenda | GDC Festival of Gaming The GDC Festival of Gaming program blends expert insight with interactive formats designed to spark ideas, sharpen skills, and connect communities.

I'll be at GDC on a panel with a bunch of amazing worker organizers talking about how union campaigns are changing the industry for the better. If you'd like to learn more about workplace organizing come check out the talk on Wed. March 11 from 3:40-4:40pm!
schedule.gdconf.com/session/figh...

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img

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I've reported 2-3 stories in my career that have sucked the spirit out of my body and this was one of them. But! Seeing the response of the fgc to help their brother genuinely put it right back. Im humbled to have been trusted with this. Help your neighbors friends those in need are all around you.

anyway labour exploitation is labour exploitation. acting like thats gonna go away when AAA companies collapse is wilfully naive at best. only actual organzation can change things. if you're the owner of a studio of any size who wants real change put your money where your mouth is, make it a co-op

Trump's Racism Carries No Consequences—And That's Scary Opinion: Trump’s attacks on the Obamas reveal what happens when open bigotry no longer disqualifies a president—and how that shift could endanger civil-rights protections.

🧵 Trump posted a video depicting the Obamas as apes. He deleted it. A handful of Republicans objected. Most said nothing. Nothing changed.

My most recent column isn’t about shock. It’s about consequences.

I'm auctioning off two of my New York Rangers jerseys to benefit the @nilc.org. Auction is open for two weeks.

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The problem is many of us don't see a lack of racism as an access need for Black people.

I actually do think that a nonBlack person who can't help themselves from screaming the N word qt Black people should probably be kept away from us

And I'm okay if that means they gotta stay out of the public at times, we've had our free movements restricted for literal centuries, y'all will live.

A SKELETTEN WHO WAKES UP EVERY DAY TIRED OF "DA BULLSHIT OF DA EARTH" WHO IS BEING ASKED ABOUT IF THEY DO VIBE CODING AND IT SAYS "HAVE YOU HEARD OF VIBE CODING ? YOU TELL THE COMPUTER WHAT DO DO AND IT DOES WHAT YOU TELL IT - CONGRATULATIONS , YOU HAVE JUST INVENTED "CODING" - THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF COMPUTER'S AND THE INTERNET WAS THAT THE MACHINE DID WHAT YOU FUCKEN TOLD IT TO DO, AND WE TOOK THE CODE FROM MAGAZINE'S , AND USENET , AND FORUM'S, AND STACK OVVERFLOW, AND NOW MFS GET THERE CODE FROM CLAUDE , SAME SHIT AS ITS ALWAYS BEEN SO DONT PRETEND THE DAMB THINGS DOING YOUR JOB FOR YOU, AND EVERYTHING BEFORE CLAUDE WAS FREE TO USE, AND IF YOUR USING THAT SHIT YOUR SENDING YOUR MONEY UP HILL TO "AI BASTERDS" WHO SMILE A SHIT EATING GRIN WITH DEAD EYES AS THEY TELL US WE WILL NEVER HAVE TO HAVE FUN AGAIN BECAUSE THE COMPUTER WILL DO IT FOR US , AND NOW WE CAN FOCUS MORE ON OUR JOB'S - A CLEANSING FIRE WILL COME FOR THE DEMON'S OF THIS EARTH AND WHO EVER LIGHTS IT WILL RULE WHAT COMES AFTER AMERICA FALLS - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

CONGRAT'S - dashare.zone ADMIN

A vertical panoramic painting against an off-white background. Painting depicts a blue seascape with a large star bursting from a tall cumulonimbus cloud hanging low above the horizon

Meridian Star

maybe just speaking as a CSA survivor here but it's very easy to glimpse at the kind of excuses an average person can make to ignore victims and continue to be close with abusers. it's an already very bad and widespread societal dynamic made much worse when people have a lot of money.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

The video game industry decided to discontinue their product, the video game, in exchange for trying to make Fortnites. They have in recent years found out this doesn't work, so they have pivoted from making Fortnites to making ????????????????? nothing I guess

Despite relentless attacks, union representation hit a 16-year high in 2025. Nearly half a million more workers are covered by a union contract. Even as the Trump administration tried to weaken our rights, we kept organizing and building power.

Words by Funkit Toys from their thread https://bsky.app/profile/funkittoys.bsky.social/post/3mdtky5ug4s2r written Feb 1, 2026, art by Erika Moen. An illustration rendered to look prehistoric, as if it's on a stone tablet or stretched hide, shows an assortment of drawings depicting pieces of the following text. Narration: For anyone who may be losing faith in human progress, remember this: We invented the dildo 27,000 years before the gun. Image: A stone phallus with several cracks and intentionally carved penis-head at one end. Caption: Hohle Fels Phallus, 28,000 years ago Text: We invented pornographic art tens of thousands of years before written language. Image: A simplified cave art painting depicting a couple having sex in doggy-style. Caption: Cave art, Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria, 12,000 years ago. Text: We invented the condom before steel. Image: An off-white, aged, sock-let with a long, ragged belt attached to it. Caption: Oil-soaked linen condom of King Tutankkamunn, 1332-1323 BCE Text: Bread is older than war. Beer is older than borders. Image: A fancy loaf of bread, referenced from Pompeii, even though it's not the same time period as the caption, but it looks nice, ok?. Caption: Bread, 14,600-11,600 years ago. Text: We're better at making good things than bad. We've had more practice. Image: A barley field. Caption: Beer, 5,000 years ago. Text: Words by Funkit Toys, Art by Erika Moen, 2026

"We invented pornographic art tens of thousands of years before written language." (Full size image)
Words by @funkittoys.bsky.social, images by @erikamoen.bsky.social (and various uncredited prehistoric artists, craftspeople, and caveperverts)

Full post: www.patreon.com/posts/150935...

Tunic, Night in the Woods Publisher Says TikTok Is Creating and Running Racist GenAI Ads for Its Games Without Permission - IGN Publisher Finji says that TikTok has been using generative AI to modify its ads on the platform without permission and pushing those ads to its users without Finji's knowledge, including at least one ...

Dug into this absolutely wild thing happening to Finji. The deeper I read into their increasingly baffling conversations with TikTok "support" the more I felt like I was on something.

www.ign.com/articles/tun...

illustrations of a cat using various computers in different positions (open book with front paws, while a back paw uses the keyboard, angry and point to the right, happy and holding up two fingers in what looks like a peace sign, concentrating with both hands on the keyboard, etc.

illustration, oh!x, magazine (1990) archive.org/details/OhX1...

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

drawing of a queen covering the eyes of her champion who is holding a blood-soaked sword

the blind champion

now, when the little sphere fellow puffs up all full of air, is he not able to simply float above the dangers down below? he can? does this not present some type of contradiction, as the friction of violence is the intended purpose of this amusement?

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

the Black Panthers were right

Don't Torture Puppies A story game about the promises that capitalism makes, the compromises it demands, and the complicated shapes people shape themselves into, to make those two things make sense.

My friends and I designed a lil TTRPG about the absurdities of capitalism called "Don't Torture Puppies" and we're fundraising for a print run as part of Zine Month. I'll also be making some art for it! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/g...

United Brothel Workers | CWA Local 9413 A historic fight is underway at Sheri's Ranch. Courtesans are standing together to demand safety, better working conditions, and control over their own futures.

Sign the petition to support these workers as they fight back against union-busting and relation! unitedbrothelworkers.org