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Arden 🏳️‍⚧️🐇

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Arden 🏳️‍⚧️🐇 @hemkesa.bsky.social · Oct 17

Im back in full force on bsky! Im Arden and Im a 3D animator currently working cinematics at Iridium Studios, looking for work early 2025! (remote or in MTL)

This is a little old at this point but everything else is under NDA hehe

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United Videogame Workers-CWA

@videogameworkers.bsky.social

Sometimes I think it'd be a good idea for CEOs to be scored, Metacritic-style, based on how others evaluate how they run a company. I like to imagine it would encourage more restraint. Their incompetence does real damage. You shouldn't have to suffer executives just because you want to be a gamedev.

James Galizio @theswweet.myatproto.social · 18h

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January 28, 2026 at 3:16 AM

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Ed Lynch

@goatburgler.bsky.social

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This image is a meme using characters from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine to express a strong opinion on labor strikes within the video game industry.
The first character asks if game developers should strike.
The second character responds that all exploited workers should strike.
The first asks if this is true even if it disrupts the industry.
The second emphasizes that it should happen especially if it causes disruption.

January 28, 2026 at 1:12 PM

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Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️

@usili.bsky.social

Bilbo looking at his phone top

on bottom is ChatGPT

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

January 28, 2026 at 1:51 AM

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nessie is home…

@nessiemooo.bsky.social

you met me at a very sleepy time in my life.

January 28, 2026 at 12:52 AM

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David Gilbert

@davidgilbert.bsky.social

SCOOP

Meta has started blocking links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram and Threads

www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

Meta Is Blocking Users From Sharing Website Listing ICE Agents

Users of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.

www.wired.com

January 27, 2026 at 6:25 PM

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Luke Plunkett

@lukeplunkett.com

Thank you to everyone who helped out on this. The video game industry is a global one.

This story isn't a comprehensive survey of the thousands of international workers potentially affected by the United States' authoritarian turn; we won't get even a rough idea how many regular attendees opted not to show up until after GDC 2026 is over and the ticket sales can be counted. But as someone personally affected by this (as an Australian, I've had to skip Aftermath functions in New York because of border concerns), I didn't want to collect numbers, I wanted to hear people's thoughts and concerns.

Each one is telling a different side of the same story: Much of the games industry, much like the rest of the world, has spent decades centred around the United States of America, its people and its politics. To see that centre of gravity spun off its axis in a matter of months has been shocking, an upheaval few could have expected, and it's impacting games workers the same as it's hitting families, governments and companies the world over.

The world as GDC once knew it in 1988, when the show first began as the Computer Game Developers Conference and the video game industry revolved in large part around America, is gone. In 2026 the USA is not a safe nor welcoming country for international visitors, particularly marginalized ones, and so for these former attendees, neither is GDC.

January 27, 2026 at 9:01 PM

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✨XIXI✨ COMMISSIONS OPEN

@xixiriima.bsky.social

2026
#MIKU

January 26, 2026 at 10:52 PM

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Micah

@rincewind.run

for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence

hope that helps

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Harry Potter because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents,” writes Louise Perry. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”

Opinion | Why Gen Z Doesn’t Love ‘Harry Potter’

The wizarding worldview is naïve.

nyti.ms

January 26, 2026 at 9:47 PM

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Star

@starlightskyes.bsky.social

"how it feels to still want to pursue a creative career during all of this" horses looking at an active volcano

January 25, 2026 at 10:12 PM

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Ant-one

@ant1draws.bsky.social

“-All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us”

January 25, 2026 at 10:44 PM

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Xavier

@xavierck.com

This latest ref pack is a love letter to all my hard surface artist friends

It contains 400+ (3.1GB) photos from the CAF SoCal airplane museum, including 100+ shots of tiny details from the cockpit of a MiG-21MF

Use them for anything, just make sure to credit me!

drive.google.com/file/d/1nsib...