KB 🌊 UVW-CWA
@square2mom.bsky.social
✨ creator of (VAL)IANT (https://valsguide.com/)
✨ organizer @videogameworkers.bsky.social
✨ weirdo lefty feminist game designer
✨ square2mom.carrd.co
✨ organizer @videogameworkers.bsky.social
✨ weirdo lefty feminist game designer
✨ square2mom.carrd.co
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KB 🌊 UVW-CWA
@square2mom.bsky.social
· Oct 21
(VAL)IANT
or, val's guide to having a broken vag
valsguide.com
yooooo whatsup bluesky, my name is KB and i made a game about vaginas! it's called valsguide.com and if you're making games about sex, sexual health, relationships, consent etc (ur typical sex ed topics) I'D LOVE TO MEET YOU!!!!!!!!!! :')
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thank you for supporting striking Starbucks workers, Comrade Hilary Duff
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
thank you for supporting striking Starbucks workers, Comrade Hilary Duff
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Free shovel to dig your own grave.
OpenAI made a free version of ChatGPT for teachers
OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teachers is a secure version of the AI assistant designed for school employees.
www.engadget.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Free shovel to dig your own grave.
join @videogameworkers.bsky.social and meet other videogame workers, learn more about organizing, share stories and resources, and generally cause trouble with us. coming together to strategize is how we start to change this fucked up industry!
GDC survey indicates over half of U.S. game workers want to join a union
Half of U.S. game workers want to join a union
According to the 2025 Game Industry Salary Report, 64 percent of developers support unions and 56 percent want to join one.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
join @videogameworkers.bsky.social and meet other videogame workers, learn more about organizing, share stories and resources, and generally cause trouble with us. coming together to strategize is how we start to change this fucked up industry!
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GDC survey indicates over half of U.S. game workers want to join a union
Half of U.S. game workers want to join a union
According to the 2025 Game Industry Salary Report, 64 percent of developers support unions and 56 percent want to join one.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Our statement in solidarity with our fellow workers' ongoing protest against @rockstargames.com's gross union busting!
November 21, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Our statement in solidarity with our fellow workers' ongoing protest against @rockstargames.com's gross union busting!
wish i could've seen this talk! interesting thread
16% of women gamers surveyed kept their gaming a secret; this correlated positively (!) with being proud of their gaming achievements.
Women who consider themselves good at videogames are the most ashamed to admit it.
Women who consider themselves good at videogames are the most ashamed to admit it.
November 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
wish i could've seen this talk! interesting thread
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i posted the entire devlog of one of my old games, and tbh if there's one thing to remember about making any artistic project, it's this
timeloopdepressionstation.tumblr.com/tagged/log/c...
timeloopdepressionstation.tumblr.com/tagged/log/c...
![-in general just struggling bc i get thoughts like “this has to be the next undertale… nay, the next mother 3!!!” which is dumb, hey brain it doesnt have to be a masterpiece it can just be a fun little thing. i think im mostly thinking like that bc its my first game, i dont feel like that with comics but also i have dozens of those…. im pretty sure when i was making my first comic i also had those perfectionist thoughts like “oh man it has to be the next [insert cool comic here]…. it has to be perfect…” no brain it just has to be finished. anyway art is fun i love creating things](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rsoeggcs2y5cuv3py6i4xiuy/bafkreidtpesab3cbiwqrmxey7ph5oox7yn2amfumouk6cgalkynu34fgga@jpeg)
November 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
i posted the entire devlog of one of my old games, and tbh if there's one thing to remember about making any artistic project, it's this
timeloopdepressionstation.tumblr.com/tagged/log/c...
timeloopdepressionstation.tumblr.com/tagged/log/c...
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If you want to help uterus-havers and friends, might I suggest playing the PC version of This is Normal, free on Steam? store.steampowered.com/app/2825000/... Played already? Consider leaving a nice review as there's not many, and the rating is being dragged down by anti-abortion reviews.
This is Normal on Steam
An educational game that teaches about Self Managed Abortion.
store.steampowered.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
If you want to help uterus-havers and friends, might I suggest playing the PC version of This is Normal, free on Steam? store.steampowered.com/app/2825000/... Played already? Consider leaving a nice review as there's not many, and the rating is being dragged down by anti-abortion reviews.
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I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
my bisexuality will unite the people and abolish gender. send tweet
November 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM
my bisexuality will unite the people and abolish gender. send tweet
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Reinstate the workers, Rockstar.
I attended the protest outside of Rockstar North in Edinburgh this evening to stand in solidarity with the more than 30 workers across the UK, including a number of my constituents who have been sacked.
November 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Reinstate the workers, Rockstar.
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The truth is, way too many journalists & content creators sat there and said nothing when SESTA-FOSTA passed, when OSA passed, when OF nearly lost porn due to paypros, even during this summer’s Collective Shout situation. A slow apocalypse for the free and open internet has been unfolding for years
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The truth is, way too many journalists & content creators sat there and said nothing when SESTA-FOSTA passed, when OSA passed, when OF nearly lost porn due to paypros, even during this summer’s Collective Shout situation. A slow apocalypse for the free and open internet has been unfolding for years
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nice white ladies (jessie daniels)
white tears/brown scars (ruby hamad)
they were her property (stephanie e. jones-rogers)
the trouble with white women (kyla schuller)
white feminism (koa beck)
ain't i a woman (bell hooks)
sisters in hate (seyward darby)
white women, race matters (ruth frankenberg)
white tears/brown scars (ruby hamad)
they were her property (stephanie e. jones-rogers)
the trouble with white women (kyla schuller)
white feminism (koa beck)
ain't i a woman (bell hooks)
sisters in hate (seyward darby)
white women, race matters (ruth frankenberg)
I'd be really curious if someone better versed in feminist theory wrote about what's happening on the right. Because between Greene, Mace, and Bobert, we've got this bloc forming of women who seem tired of serving a patriarchy of sex criminals. And their rhetoric is starting to lean that direction.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for 6 years for. I gave him my loyalty for free. I've never owed him anything. Let me tell you what a traitor is -- a traitor is an American that serves foreign countries."
November 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
nice white ladies (jessie daniels)
white tears/brown scars (ruby hamad)
they were her property (stephanie e. jones-rogers)
the trouble with white women (kyla schuller)
white feminism (koa beck)
ain't i a woman (bell hooks)
sisters in hate (seyward darby)
white women, race matters (ruth frankenberg)
white tears/brown scars (ruby hamad)
they were her property (stephanie e. jones-rogers)
the trouble with white women (kyla schuller)
white feminism (koa beck)
ain't i a woman (bell hooks)
sisters in hate (seyward darby)
white women, race matters (ruth frankenberg)
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ATTENTION GAMERS
Voting for the Hard Drive Game Awards is open from now until November 21st.
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Voting for the Hard Drive Game Awards is open from now until November 21st.
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The Hard Drive Game Awards will return December 12th from 7-10PM EST on twitch.tv/harddrivemag!
Fabulous guests, prestigious awards, virtue signaling! The Hard Drive Game Awards will have it all!
Most importantly, we are fundraising for The Palestine Children's Relief Fund! tilt.fyi/qKf4ZQh2b0
Fabulous guests, prestigious awards, virtue signaling! The Hard Drive Game Awards will have it all!
Most importantly, we are fundraising for The Palestine Children's Relief Fund! tilt.fyi/qKf4ZQh2b0
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Hard Drive is the only trustworthy news source for video games and pop culture.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
ATTENTION GAMERS
Voting for the Hard Drive Game Awards is open from now until November 21st.
Fill out the form below and be a part of the most prestigious award show in the history of media.
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Voting for the Hard Drive Game Awards is open from now until November 21st.
Fill out the form below and be a part of the most prestigious award show in the history of media.
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you can have nuance when unions protecting employee rights are the norm. until then fight with all you've got folks
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
you can have nuance when unions protecting employee rights are the norm. until then fight with all you've got folks
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“average gamedev makes $142,000 a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average gamedev makes $0 per year. Executives Georg, who lives in cave & makes over $10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
The average salary for games industry professionals based in the United States was $142,000 in 2025, according to a new report from GDC Festival of Gaming.
www.gamesindustry.biz/gdc-survey-a...
www.gamesindustry.biz/gdc-survey-a...
GDC Survey: Average salary for US games professionals was $142,000 in 2025
Findings reveal 33% of workers feel employers are "working to close existing pay gaps," while one-tenth report no efforts are being made
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
“average gamedev makes $142,000 a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average gamedev makes $0 per year. Executives Georg, who lives in cave & makes over $10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
frvr.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
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Please read this in the gentlest possible voice but we HAVE to divest from mil-sims as gamedevs. Even before this AI bullshit in the latest Black Ops, these games have done so much harm and contributed massively to the dehumanization of several populations worldwide. It’s US foreign pol propaganda.
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Please read this in the gentlest possible voice but we HAVE to divest from mil-sims as gamedevs. Even before this AI bullshit in the latest Black Ops, these games have done so much harm and contributed massively to the dehumanization of several populations worldwide. It’s US foreign pol propaganda.
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I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
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Many freelancers in the United States rely on ACA marketplace plans for their health insurance. In an industry that has already been working overtime to turn gamedevs into gig workers, freelance and contract devs are about to get even more squeezed. This is unacceptable.
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Many freelancers in the United States rely on ACA marketplace plans for their health insurance. In an industry that has already been working overtime to turn gamedevs into gig workers, freelance and contract devs are about to get even more squeezed. This is unacceptable.
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Good morning! Just a reminder that the video games you play are made by living and real people who deserve to be treated as such and you need to demand for better and safer conditions for the devs behind your favorite games, especially if you ever want good games and not corporate slop!
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Good morning! Just a reminder that the video games you play are made by living and real people who deserve to be treated as such and you need to demand for better and safer conditions for the devs behind your favorite games, especially if you ever want good games and not corporate slop!
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Rockstar: tries to bust unions🦹♀️
Us: Hold my controller 🎮🔥🔥
We're fighting back 💥💥
IWGB organized a protest in front of the @rockstargames.com parent company Take-Two Interactive in London today
We'll make sure the credits are rolling on their corporate greed ❌️
@gameworkers.co.uk
Us: Hold my controller 🎮🔥🔥
We're fighting back 💥💥
IWGB organized a protest in front of the @rockstargames.com parent company Take-Two Interactive in London today
We'll make sure the credits are rolling on their corporate greed ❌️
@gameworkers.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Rockstar: tries to bust unions🦹♀️
Us: Hold my controller 🎮🔥🔥
We're fighting back 💥💥
IWGB organized a protest in front of the @rockstargames.com parent company Take-Two Interactive in London today
We'll make sure the credits are rolling on their corporate greed ❌️
@gameworkers.co.uk
Us: Hold my controller 🎮🔥🔥
We're fighting back 💥💥
IWGB organized a protest in front of the @rockstargames.com parent company Take-Two Interactive in London today
We'll make sure the credits are rolling on their corporate greed ❌️
@gameworkers.co.uk