Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

As we wait for the Rockstar tribunal to resume, here's another speech from one of the fired workers as they demonstrated outside the hearing. This is Jacob Jones, formerly an Associate Game Designer on GTA VI's open world team:

Happy to say I just discovered the most 90's Inside the NBA segment possible

We're proud to share that in a few weeks' time, Rockstar staff will get to have their own say over union recognition. From pay and pensions to parental leave and overtime, this recognition agreement is a chance for workers to be involved in the decisions that shape their lives.

Wonderful photo, but my mind did for a split second interpret this as a cheesesteak.

Janet Hill@saskajanet.bsky.social · last wk.

11 days later, the colours have changed dramatically, and now that aspen stands out in a whole new way 🌿

There is something so soul crushing about creating art that pushes the needle in the games industry, only to be thanked by using the capital gained from said art to push the ones who created it out of a job.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 2w ago

Electronic Arts closing BioWare, laying off hundreds: aftermath.site/electronic-art...

I don't want to hear any whining about fixing certs from the information security types today. you chose to join the techno-priest caste, now shut up and perform the rites of exorcism

Why do we keep on doing this? Praising a 'small core team' for a game with 1100+ people in the credits is incredibly misleading. This PR narrative hurts, hides the massive shadow workforce of outsourced developers and testers, and sets impossible standards for actual indie teams.

GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Star Wars: Galactic Racer was made by a core team of 75 people. "What we wanted to do was keep that core small, smaller than perhaps you might have done in the past, and scale capacity and capability with what we call distributed development." https://bit.ly/4hT02qg

Remembered this classic Miga pic

There are so many different "not life-changing" amounts of money which the exorbitantly wealthy class whose system of exploitation fully defines your life, will absolutely never give to you on account of how much they value keeping it for themselves.

The IWGB has called a rally outside the Glasgow Tribunals Centre on October 15, the same day that Rockstar bosses Jennifer Kolbe and Rob Spampinato have been summoned to answer questions over alleged union busting. The legal battle is expected to conclude on October 16.

Vertical Slice@verticalslice.news · 3w ago

"Tell these execs exactly what the city thinks of union-busters:" IWGB to stage rally with Rockstar bosses set for questioning at employment tribunal

For his internship, Camiel dove into using TrustZone-M with Rust. In this blog, he describes how TrustZone-M currently helps you secure your embedded device and shares a minimal working example for the Raspberry Pi Pico 2: buff.ly/mrqtUs2 #rustlang #embeddedrust #security

Using TrustZone-M in Rust on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 — Tweede golf

Security on embedded devices can be tricky, but TrustZone-M can help. We'll explain how it works, what works well, and less well when using TrustZone-M in Rust. We'll also share a quick-start repo…

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Amsterdam police seize server of Italian internet service provider A/I on US request (translated from dutch) #autistici #autisticiInventati www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/... @nrc.nl @marloesdekoning.nrc.social.ap.brid.gy

Politie Amsterdam neemt op Amerikaans verzoek server in beslag van linkse internetdienstverlener A/I: organisatie zou ‘antifa’ faciliteren

Een eenheid van de Amsterdamse politie heeft dinsdag bij een datacenter op het Science Park in Amsterdam een server in beslag genomen van de Italiaanse internetdienstverlener Autistici/Inventati (A/I)...

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there was no force on this earth that was going to prevent me from helping our game studio get funded. this game fucking rules & i am so goddamn excited we get to finish building it on our own terms. plenty of hard work ahead, but so grateful I get to keep enjoy doing it at @gardens.dev

Gardens Interactive@gardens.dev · 4w ago

Equally thrilled and humbled to announce that our studio has secured $35M+ in our Series B to develop our upcoming "strandbox" game Gardens. Some new hints to what the Gardens grow, new key art, and a sign up for our Closed Pre-Alpha Playtests, in our new blog post! gardens.dev/blog/gardens...

Happening now! Border Patrol amassing forces after land defenders re-established a tree sit on the Mexican side of the border in La Noria, Sonora, this morning, stopping wall construction the day after DHS killed the Grandmother Tree.

Max Granger@maxgranger.info · 4w ago

Tree sit is back up in Mexico. Border wall construction is still stopped. La lucha sigue en La Noria / Lochiel ❤️‍🔥

Yeah, the imagined audience for these 3-day work weeks really matters.

Gianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 3w ago

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

Seventeen years later… The time has come for Machinarium 2 🦾🔧 Wishlist NOW on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1619280/...

you know, the voice actor for Biddy Blas has gotta be having the time of their life lmao

The death penalty shouldn't even be a thing.

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

KB₂

Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · 4w ago

I need to decide if 1KB means 1,000 bytes or 1,024 bytes in all of my software I was leaning 1,024 but it looks like macOS and Windows both define KB as 1,000 these days I want whatever people are most likely to understand (I do not think most people know what KiB or MiB means)

The Numbers Problem has been around for a long time...

They got a fucking woman to write this btw

BREAKING: Israel snatched an American teen from his West Bank home in the middle of the night — just days before his birthday and during his critical national exams. He's now been held for 3 months, with no charges. Netanyahu just came to the US for the *eighth* time since Trump took office.

First Draft: Israel Has Kidnapped Another American Teenager

Abdalkareem Issa Ahmed Safi has Texas roots but languishes in a notorious jail, one more victim of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cruel impunity. Donald Trump, meanwhile, is losing some of his most ardent fans.

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MacFarlane: The Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio has got the same issue. Last year, they paid $50,000 for diesel to transport their food. Now, they’re paying $150,000 for the diesel to transport their food.

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

ok i am officially logged into and attending one of the very few or possibly the only known ham radio classes for WOMEN run right here in oregon!

They are cutting SNAPS benefits. So if you can donate to food pantries please do. If you see people stealing food no you didn’t.

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

Absolutely untrue, for the same reasons you see regular attempts to reduce or even completely dismantle the mandated social benefits we actually do have in the US.

@darren32359.bsky.social · last mo.