Hey everyone - #XP26 Indie Pods are filling fast. There are a limited number left.
Deadline is Monday, but remaining spots will likely be claimed before then.
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XP Game Connect Atlantic docks in Halifax on June 5
Meet publishers, investors, & partners
Learn from game dev experts
#XPATL26 is built for developers growing their game business.
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🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US. Shut the backdoor: openmedia.org/StopC22-bsky #BillC22
A banner that reads "Game Workers Conference" in white text on a pink and blue background, alongside the ball and threads logo.
Do you work in games? Are you tired of corporate greed taking over our industry? Do you miss when industry events were by workers, for workers?
The United Videogame Workers of CWA, in partnership with other unions and worker-centered organizations, announce the #GameWorkersConference. May 22-23 ❤️🔥
UPDATE: 🇨🇦's house just REFUSED to accept a Senate amendment that would put a sunset clause on PERMANENT immunity to privacy law for federal political parties!
LPC, CPC, and NDP did not have the courage to defend their choice; only @elizabethemay.bsky.social spoke to the obvious issues in #BillC4.
That's going to look cool! I think line boil technique will really complement your art style. I'm so curious about your animation project. Are you just experimenting with animation or is this for a project?
Andy dropping Woody in Toy Story. Andy is labelled "Europeans" and Woody is "US Big Tech". Below it says "I don't want to play with you anymore".
Our recent survey shows that Europe is ready to ditch US technology, in favour of private alternatives.
Check out our write-up and the stats here: proton.me/blog/europea...
Momentum for a return to the OPEN web is gathering steam!
It's time to break down the walled gardens Big Tech locks us into and bring back the interoperable web. A new report from Goodbot explains why.
www.goodbot.ca/tech-policy/...
Good to know! So probably not something I can squeeze in after (if) I finish Expedition 33 lol
Ooooh, a puzzler I haven't heard of yet. Adding it to my vacation backlog.
Is 🇨🇦 a sovereign country? Are we prepared to do what it takes to be one?
We just released a five point plan to getting there – and YOU can review and endorse it!
Read the Digital Sovereignty Charter and add your voice: www.openmedia.org/DigitalCharter
🇬🇧📢 At least 1200 workers from Ubisoft were on strike today !
Workers are rejecting the Guillemot dynasty's loser strategy and demanding the freedom to make good games in good working conditions. The strike will continue tomorrow and the day after ✊
After signing in for the first time in over a year, I checked some of my followers/ following accounts. So far ALL of them appear like mine, no activity for years, usually with a note re: bsky or mastodon handles.
If we ALL deleted our accounts... those user / audience numbers would be way smaller
Answering my own Q for future reference:
- looks like it's still split, but after seeing a couple more security /privacy pros deleting and more importantly announcing it, I'm deactivating both my personal and business Twitters.
Ubisoft is no more, long live Ubisoft! On January 21, 2026, Yves Guillemot announced the end of remote work, closure of several studios, cancellation of projects, and a new 200€ million “cost-cutting” plan. We were informed of this at the same time as the press — as none of these changes had been discussed during the mandatory consultations with the works councils a few days earlier! On January 26, 2026, management announced the implementation of a voluntary departure plan that will affect 200 people at Ubisoft’s headquarters. We are promised autonomy for « Creative Houses », but what about autonomy for employees? We have been negotiating for over a year on remote work policy, sometimes under difficult conditions. An agreement has been in place since September in some studios. Trampled underfoot! We are told about responsibilities, but those who wield this word so easily do not take any responsibility for the consequences of their catastrophic management.
We are not fooled: rather than taking financial responsibility for layoffs, they prefer to push us out by making our working conditions unbearable. It’s outrageous. It is because we love Ubisoft that this situation revolts us. Ubisoft’s unions are calling for a massive international strike by all Ubisoft employees on the 10th, 11th and 12th of February 2026. NO to their anti-remote-work obsession to “cost-cutting” plans on employees’ backs to top-down decisions to coercive control on our working conditions YES to our leaders truly taking their responsibilities to management’s duty of sincerity in the face of its failings It is time for our management to understand that they cannot do whatever they want, whether with public money or the work of hundreds of people! Without us, Ubisoft would never have conquered and transformed video games as it has. WE ARE UBISOFT.
🇬🇧✊🌀 Ubisoft : enough is enough! Faced with the arbitrary decision of the CEO who doesn’t even dare talking to employees anymore, unions are calling for a strike on February 10th, 11th and 12th.
🍕 The inaugural Atlantic Canadian worker co-op event for the videogame industry! Free pizza and travel grants available! 🍕
Register now at this link: gm4coopfutures.civicrm.org/civicrm/even...
#gamedev #coops #cooperatives #atlanticcanada
Serious Q for #Privacy #CyberSecurity & #Tech peeps. I (like many) have been keeping my Twitter account around mainly to avoid scammers from scooping up my handle to scam others. Is that still the prevailing recommendation or should we 100% delete those accounts?
Drop the names of any Canadian companies you’ve seen working with ICE in the comments.
I’m aware of Gardaworld, Roshel, Hootsuite.
Would love to gather any and all other names.
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
For those of you who wondered if Elbows Up was ever coming back…. It’s not. At least not as it was. But if you haven’t deserted the feed yet, you’ll find something new in your podcast app tomorrow morning. Hope you’ll check it out!
Opening post for GM4CF!
This all got kickstarted by layoffs abound in the game industry
Then... our Ubisoft studio (local to Halifax, NS) was closed mere weeks after unionizing!! 😱😡
The writing is on the wall - we need more alternatives to big investor driven business!
Let's learn how together
Still boycotting in my circle of friends and family. 🍁
Still boycotting here in NS. Also haven't been to Superstore since May 2024. Sadly haven't found a Canadian replacement for some Celiac approved cereals and breads yet so not 100% US free yet. 🍁
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
This is the weekend I install Linux Mint and start testing it as my main gamedev machine. Still trying to sort out if VM or dual boot is the best option for my windows-only tools...
Either way, I'm pretty excited about this!
Josh Strife Hayes presenting the Debug Indie Game Awards, sponsored by GameMaker
We will be announcing the 2026 Indie Game Awards later this month.
So this is a pre-announcement, we guess? Quite a few people have asked in recent days!
And thanks to our generous sponsors, it’ll be free to attend ❤️
Go here for updates: @debugawards.com
Surprise layoffs are wrecking morale - and productivity - more effectively than any union ever could.
People will feel unsafe because of this, the most experienced ones, able to find a job elsewhere will seek to escape that suffocating atmoshpere, leaving the juniors and yes-men, alone.
