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caddy ₍✌‧ꀈ˙✌⁾

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NB (any pronouns)・28・Ozzie・Art & crafter, nature enthusiast, semi-retired Gamer™, general enjoyer of media, and all-around standard bloke. Thanks for having me!

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Conor Caulfield@cptcorallis.bsky.social · 2d ago

Fascinating story about how the social dynamics of people who don't think of themselves as a management class torpedoed the unionisation efforts at Double Fine, and how that meant the majority of the staff fired this summer were attempted union members.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 2d ago

Back in May, Double Fine employees petitioned for a union. Two weeks later, that petition was withdrawn. What happened? https://kotaku.com/inside-the-failed-fight-to-unionize-one-of-gamings-most-idealized-studios-2000742755

Anfor@anforsorrow.bsky.social · 3d ago

Gef also told them that he was "an extra extra clever mongoose," an "Earthbound spirit" and "a ghost in the form of a weasel." The story became popular in the British tabloids. Investigators visited the Irving home, but found no proof of Gef. Some believe it was a hoax, using ventriloquism.

Newspaper article on Gef the talking mongoose claiming that trickery and ventriloquism from the Irving's daughter, Voirrey, may have been the cause of the phenomena. 1932.
Anfor@anforsorrow.bsky.social · 3d ago

In 1931, the Irving family, who lived on a farm on the Isle of Man, claimed to have been visited by Gef, the Talking Mongoose. Gef supposedly told them "I am a freak. I have hands and I have feet, and if you saw me you'd faint, you'd be petrified, mummified, turned into stone or a pillar of salt!"

A sketch of Gef the talking mongoose by George Scott. From "The Haunting of Cashen's Gap: A Modern "Miracle" Investigated" 1936.