All aboard the P.S.S. Trunks!

BREAKING: Blizzard union workers have ratified a historic contract that has secured guardrails around AI usage, layoff protections, remote/hybrid work benefits, and much more.

Blizzard union workers ratify contract covering 1,900 employees

Union members have secured guardrails around generative AI usage, layoff protections, remote and hybrid work benefits, and more.

gamedeveloper.com

Fun fact: "Reviewing an AI made translation" is more work for translators than just translating it themselves, because AI translations do not pass the sniff test beyond the most superficial. It's a loophole companies use as an excuse to underpay translators, and nothing else.

Kyrie Page@kyriepage.bsky.social · 3d ago

GOD DAMMIT

See also AI captions - I used to work as a captioner and they introduced AI to "make workflow faster" and it ended up being more work because I had to keep fixing the fact a computer does not understand the nuance of language context Now it's all AI and it's garbage

Dawnlight🌞Neni / ART COMMISSIONS OPEN!!@nenilein.com · 3d ago

Fun fact: "Reviewing an AI made translation" is more work for translators than just translating it themselves, because AI translations do not pass the sniff test beyond the most superficial. It's a loophole companies use as an excuse to underpay translators, and nothing else.

Amazing news, thanks to decades of unrelenting advocacy by the Yurok, Karuk and Klamath Tribes. It’s heartening to see the collaborative nature of the salmon restoration effort reflected in this paper’s authorship, which includes all three Tribes, state & federal agencies, NGOs & private entities.

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 3d ago

Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

UBC Oceans@ubcoceans.bsky.social · 3d ago

For the first time in over 30 years, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Northern cod stock has been deemed “healthy” by Ottawa. www.canadianaffairs.news/2026/09/05/i...

Once again when you actually stand up to the fuckers and bring the lawyers, they tuck tail and piss themselves. Mainly because all of their lawyers are hired for obsequiousness and not skill or intelligence.

CNN@cnn.com · 2d ago

The White House has removed from its website an arcade-style "Build the Wall" game closely styled like Tetris, which comes after the gaming company warned of copyright infringement. https://cnn.it/4yuyuhL

anyway love trans women more than you hate transphobes 💜

View of Truce Village in the Middle Ages, 600 AD. 🎮 Chrono Trigger #chronotrigger #gaming #virtualphotography #wednesday

Just for fun this is a little King Dodongo sketch I did in my sketchbook early this year that I dont think I ever posted

A perfect example of what AI is really for: removing consent, removing the social safeguards that used to keep the worst ideas at bay, and doing racism at scale. theplaylist.net/paul-schrade...

Paul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People”

Paul Schrader explains why he turned to AI actors for ‘Three Guns At Dawn’ after Black actors rejected the original roles.

theplaylist.net

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Stop being afraid of your own sincerity. Write the stories that come from your heart. It doesn't matter if they are too kinky, too cringe, too niche or too dark. A story written from the heart will always stand out. AI will never be able to replace the sincerity of a human soul.

#ficwip@ficwip.bsky.social · last wk.

it's been a while since we last did this, so please quote this post & say something encouraging to other writers!

The AI slop app “Talkie AI” illegally stole my voice & MANY coworkers’ voices, and is actively profiting off of our stolen work. Good news is the App Store banned em! Bad news is Google Play hasn’t replied to a single DCMA takedown request. If you use this app, please stop now. It’s harming us. 💔

It's the International Day of Charity! For us, PRIDE is year-round, and with your help we've raised OVER $5,000 for LBGTQ Charities this year! Whether you want to show off your own pride or stand tall as an ally, you can still grab your own PRIDE shirt over on Shark Robot. buff.ly/ML5LGx4

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

CANADIANS: RUIN THE FUCK OUT OF THIS ANTI-AI PETITION. this is an OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT PETITION and it needs you to verify an email and that's it. do this right now please. thaaaaanks.

Ruby (ft. Jimin)@lapsedbard.bsky.social · last wk.

CANADIANS, this petition to regulate data centers in Canada is open until September 24, please sign! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

the universe must think my name is Peter Parker considering how much it wants me to suffer -R

‘Spider-Noir’ Canceled by Prime Video After One Season

Amazon Prime Video has canceled 'Spider-Noir' after one season, but is developing more series in the Sony Marvel universe.

variety.com

98% of whiny YouTube gamers suffer from this phenomenon.

gamera obscura@ohrobin.bsky.social · 6d ago

There’s a term in psychology called naïve realism, which is the tendency to experience your own perception as an objective reading of reality. Instead of thinking, “I do not find this funny,” they conclude, “this is not funny, and therefore the person who posted it must account for the discrepancy.”

I did not have Tetris needing to put out anti-fascist statements on my bingo card, but here we are

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · 7d ago

Gen-AI controversy aside, after 30 minutes with Crazy Taxi: World Tour, it feels like classic arcade Sega - and it's an absolute blast www.eurogamer.net/crazy-taxi-w...

"You cannot do age or identity verification safely. It always creates some sort of record and that set of records will always become a target. That’s what happened here. And it’s what will happen with any such systems."

Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · last wk.

Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.

Saw this attack in the wild for the first time, in a purported ebooks site claiming to be using Cloudflare. I expect many (most?) of you use Linux or Macs, but just in case: This is trying to get you to run a Windows program that will infect your computer. If you ever see this, run away fast.

What gif shows up when you type in your name.

Millie Bobby Brown: Emotional Damsel Scene

ALT: Millie Bobby Brown: Emotional Damsel Scene

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Roosa Jokiaho 🔜 TGS@rjokami.bsky.social · last wk.

What gif shows up when you type in your name.

Nice to have a citation for the stuff we all sort of assume to be true but question if it's just our own biases making it look that way

Mark Crail@markcrail.bsky.social · last wk.

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

So, in the SAG-AFTRA video game strike of 2016--not the most recent one--SAG-AFTRA attempted to codify residuals to voice actors for games. The game companies--predictably--fought back against that. What was interesting, though, was the behind-the-scenes talk of *why* they fought back. <cont'd>

Lia@liasae.bsky.social · last wk.

To me this has been in the works for a while (we just called it outsourcing and ignored it while it affected more niche professions like 2D artists on large projects). And if we had solid guilds and a revenue model with residuals that support time spent between projects it might even be almost good!

This has a permanent place in my brain and my heart 🍄🍄

Once Upon A Time On The Internet@newgroundsdoc.newgrounds.com · 2w ago

23 YEARS AGO TODAY, @mrweebl.bsky.social posted BADGERS to @Newgrounds.com

🕯️ Kyiv is mourning 25-year-old paramedic Yeva Roiter, killed in a Russian double-tap strike while saving lives. An artist and an art historian, she worked in game dev before dedicating herself to evacuating the wounded and aiding animals. 📷: hromadske