i love it when a house of cards comes tumbling down
09.03.2026 23:12
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i love it when a house of cards comes tumbling down
Video Game Developer Heart Machine Voluntarily Recognizes Staff Union www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
wild to see a studio voluntarily recognize a union. almost as if that's something every company could do!
I am so, *so* fucking proud of the work folks have done to unionize at Heart Machine. 🖤
Iran calls the United States the Great Satan, but would the Great Satan turn the day into night, create rivers of fire and poison the rain?
"A supermajority of workers at the studio asked management to voluntarily recognize the union in February 2026. Leadership agreed to the request, paving the way for employees to organize under the CWA banner."
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 💪
a poster from the pflp with a woman carrying a kalashnikov over her shoulder holding a baby wrapped in a keffiyeh with a sun motif behind
pflp poster for international womens day is incredible
So true. I have a huge issue with Americans. I’m one of the very few people I know who apologize. Most would rather stick a fork in their eye.
"Apology is a sign of dignity in our culture," Araghchi says. The US doesn't have that culture. They just bomb, kill, and move on.
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This problem isn’t unique to Trump. Capitalism has created an entire class of overpowered emotional babies who are completely shielded from the consequences of their actions.
i expect that some stuff in it will feel familiar to you as it did to us, and it's nice to see it all laid out and confirmed like this
yeah i'm just getting started but i definitely recommend it!
an interesting angle i hadn't really considered before is how the "union avoidance" business is in a way a grift scamming the bosses themselves, by preying on their ego and need for control, manipulating them and taking advantage of their narcissism to get them to spend tons money on union-busting
In 1922, Vladimir Lenin and Alexandra Kollontai made International Working Women's Day a Soviet holiday on March 8. Later co-opted by bourgeois states in order to placate social issues perpetuated by class warfare, the holiday persists sanitized of its revolutionary and class character.
Reading "Confessions of a Union Buster"
see the thing about this is that the americans are correct and the canadians are incorrect
Me and @jdespland.bsky.social have started a new little worker co-op game studio, follow our newsletter to get updates and an invite to a playtest for our upcoming project!
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With GDC only a few days away, I added @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social's brilliant gaming union zine/explainer to archive.org. The previous host for the PDF added a monthly subscription.
Please feel free to print and share as you wish!
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! 💪
READ: Israel developed a doctrine of total societal destruction that is used in Gaza — and is now deploying it in Lebanon and Iran with full US backing.
This is one of the most important things you'll read today: mondoweiss.net/2026/03/isra...
daggerfall said houses are not investments, they are for living in 💪
At the meeting, I talk about Good Boss/Bad Boss/Sad Boss as the kind of menu of tactics the company will draw from. I said some version of a thing I have now said thousands of times in meetings and house calls: Good Boss is when they buy off or try to buy off workers, with favors and fixes or even pay raises, to quell the anger that drives the organizing, to make it seem as though workers don't need a union after all. Bad Boss is when they terrify or try to terrify workers through threats, like plant closure and rumors like "Wherever the union goes, Immigration follows," so that fear overpowers the driving anger. Sad Boss is when they play the strange game of pretending to suffer a deep, personal heartbreak as the result of workers deciding to organize, in hopes that the workers' anger will be confused or blunted by empathy for the boss.
Genuinely the best description I've ever seen about how CEOs and bosses respond when you try to form a union or improve the workplace.
From Daisy Pitkin's book - On The Line: Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union.
at some point one has to accept that the us and isreal consider children to be priority targets, and admit what that reveals about their ultimate goals
This is from one of the former Infinity Ward/Call of Duty co-founders:
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. ♥️
