Tomás Grau de Pablos

Ubisoft is no more, long live Ubisoft! On January 21, 2026, Yves Guillemot announced the end of remote work, closure of several studios, cancellation of projects, and a new 200€ million “cost-cutting” plan. We were informed of this at the same time as the press — as none of these changes had been discussed during the mandatory consultations with the works councils a few days earlier! On January 26, 2026, management announced the implementation of a voluntary departure plan that will affect 200 people at Ubisoft’s headquarters. We are promised autonomy for « Creative Houses », but what about autonomy for employees? We have been negotiating for over a year on remote work policy, sometimes under difficult conditions. An agreement has been in place since September in some studios. Trampled underfoot! We are told about responsibilities, but those who wield this word so easily do not take any responsibility for the consequences of their catastrophic management.

We are not fooled: rather than taking financial responsibility for layoffs, they prefer to push us out by making our working conditions unbearable. It’s outrageous. It is because we love Ubisoft that this situation revolts us. Ubisoft’s unions are calling for a massive international strike by all Ubisoft employees on the 10th, 11th and 12th of February 2026. NO to their anti-remote-work obsession to “cost-cutting” plans on employees’ backs to top-down decisions to coercive control on our working conditions YES to our leaders truly taking their responsibilities to management’s duty of sincerity in the face of its failings It is time for our management to understand that they cannot do whatever they want, whether with public money or the work of hundreds of people! Without us, Ubisoft would never have conquered and transformed video games as it has. WE ARE UBISOFT.

🇬🇧✊🌀 Ubisoft : enough is enough! Faced with the arbitrary decision of the CEO who doesn’t even dare talking to employees anymore, unions are calling for a strike on February 10th, 11th and 12th.

I a little bit feel like the locking down of the internet, the destruction of the freedom that allowed us to find out who we are, was inevitable. We should fight against it but we should also develop new pathways for the kids this is gonna hit hardest, the kids who we used to be

i have been looking to antifascist art from the post-WWII era for perspective. recently i learned about a great queer Czech artist, Toyen, who did antiwar work and also delved into bodies and roles. as in our era, you can't question the machinery of the world around you without questioning gender.

if i know discord for anything is that they can and will pussy out if people bully them enough for something. get fucking loud about this

Maravillosa tira de Spirit la de esta noche, en la que se parodia la creciente paranoia que había en torno a los comics de terror del momento. Y diría que imitando el estilo de EC Comics!

Discord is going to demand every account use facial recognition or give them our real ID in March.

Let's write them right now and explain how much "no."

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Folks really should be doing it semi-regularly anyways (alongside their other services), but I'd always recommend requesting your data from Discord in advance of certain changes.
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Reminder that neither Discord nor any of the governments that first enforced this provided any assistance to those who's ids were compromised during the breach in October nor has Discord gotten any punishment for deliberately changing their TOS to absolve them of responsibility

I got an email saying that they cannot review email submissions, and only receive customer support questions through this form: dis.gd/contact

I would try submitting a complaint through there.

Vivimos en una época en la que ya no es que las proveedoras desconfíen de que los usuarios sean capaces de regularse, es que ni siquiera se dignan a darles herramientas. Todo debe aprobarse por un comité selecto de "monitores" que a saber quien los ha puesto o cuales son sus criterios de moderación.

No le tengo tanto apego a Discord como para regalarle mis datos, sobre para que al final se acaben filtrando "accidentalmente" a alguna base de datos que ICE seguramente usará para saber si merezco poner un pie en Estados Unidos.

Un desarrollo bastante divertido ha sido comprobar que muchas de las cuentas dedicadas a lo retro o a la preservación han redirigido sus posts sobre política hacia X y se limitan a hablar de lo que van escaneando, leyendo, estudiando, etc...por aquí. Creo que yo hago lo mismo sin darme cuenta.

every single "principled libertarian" put on the red hat in 2016 and i don't think we should let them take it off and pretend like they're real intellectuals again now that he's unpopular

Well, good thing we didn’t silo off a bunch of important game knowledge in individual discords instead of forums or wikis or gamefaqs for some reason

The Girl at the End of the Line speculates breaking free from expectations | scrmbl Fascination turning into obsession, twisted with the desire to esca...

The Girl at the End of the Line explores obsession and forbidden love through two students drawn toward Enoshima. Tender and uneasy, the film stands out as one of 2025’s most surprising coming-of-age stories.

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Esta noche de Lunes a las 22:00
🎙️AQUELLOS MARAVILLOSOS AÑOS🎙️
⌛1997 Y 2000🕰️⏳

Hoy viene Mariela González, redactora, marketing, novelista y autora entre otros de Más allá del tiempo de @heroesdepapel.bsky.social
Perfecto para nuestro Especial Chrono Trigger.

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I really wish we had a well funded, power critical fourth estate interested in investigating the source of this clearly coordinated effort by payment processors.

Like, we keep seeing the impact of it, but I really want to know the "who" and the "why" beyond nebulous surveillance/puritanism forces.

its february 9 and you know what that means. its tasogare's 25th anniversary! maybe ill write down my thoughts and stuff i thought was interesting. i feel like i should because theres almost no english information about this game online

Parece que el sistema se está actualizando constanemente, porque he probado a buscarme dos veces y me han salido dos cosas completamente distintas. Diría que la primera es más correcta que la otra.

A post on threads from user stephens_bens. It reads 'I'll always remember an interview with Steve Buscemi on Bulleye, Jesse Thorn asked him "As an actor with many decades of varied and outstanding roles across your career, does it ever bother you that one of the things you will most be remembered for is a 3-second gif in which you're wearing a backwards baseball cap and carrying a skateboard?" And without missing a beat, Buscemi replied "I'm carrying *two* skateboards." And you know what? He is.' Below that is a screen cap of Buscemi's famous "fellow kids" moment.

I never noticed this either.

lot of bad news coming out of the japanese election so lets appreciate this w for a moment

HEARTBREAKING: The old mecha series you just found interest in watching was handled by AnonymousRussianRippers

I made a whole guide about finding free-to-use, openly licensed and public domain images! pressbooks.cuny.edu/studentguide...

everyone, drop what you’re doing and run - do not walk! - to hear Colleen discuss the discrepancy in reception between the manga and anime of Sailor Moon, a franchise whose runaway global popularity contributed to the systematic overshadowing of its creator, down to this day.