Stop Premier Smith’s Scapegoating of Immigrants Premier Danielle Smith is scapegoating immigrants to hide her own failures. Vote NO on her racist referendum.

Premier Danielle Smith is scapegoating immigrants to hide her own failures. Say no to her discriminatory referendum. Join me and sign up here. ouralbertaadvantage.ca

The Olympics Has a New Sex Testing Policy. The Evidence Doesn’t Add Up I’ve spent over 10 years obsessed with so-called “gender verification” tests. Proponents claim they have history and science on their side. They don’t.

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

NiNi Music x KUULAR - Victorious (Official Music Video)| Asian Folk Metal | Mongolian Throat Singing YouTube video by Nini Music

TIL that Mongolian folk metal absolutely slaps www.youtube.com/watch?v=iew7...

becoming-noise: becoming-noise: trans youth, queer spaces, and listening in deictic hope New work by Sean Groten Exhibition: March 9 – 20 Artist Talk: Wed, March 18, 5:30pm

My partner Sean Groten's dissertation project exhibition is currently up at the Sound Studies Institute, if you're at ualberta, go check it out! It is really cool and empoweringly gives you the ability to turn down the volume on Danielle Smith 🫥
soundstudies.ca/2026/02/23/b...

NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Truly a perfect news alert

Don't mind me, just spiralling over the "motivational" messages in my houseplant app 😫

Y'all I just heard about a couple having a gender reveal party where the baby's supposed gender will be revealed by, wait for it...

The gender of the stripper that pops out of a cake??!!? Not sure if this is the epitome of stupid gender reveal nonsense or maybe the one true correct way to do it 🤔

CBC's first few hours of Mexico coverage is so wild, just quoting any Canadian who happens to be in Puerto Vallarta - "Steve from Salmon Arm says, "This is the first time we've seen Mexico go up against the power of the cartels"" - shoot your shot at international political analysis, Steve!

Dear Colleagues & Peers, My name is Deanna Zarrillo (she/they), and I am a PhD candidate at Drexel University’s College of Computing & Informatics. I am conducting dissertation research on the experiences of trans and gender diverse authors who have changed their name on academic publications and perspectives around digital identity more broadly. This work is aimed at assessing the community impact of post-publication name change policies from major publishers and enhancing policy around author privacy in the publication process. As part of this work, I am recruiting eligible participants for a survey on this topic. If you are an academic and have changed your name in the past, whether on publications or not, please consider responding to this survey! As publishing policies evolve, your experiences can help shape more inclusive practices for current and future scholars. You’re eligible if you: You are an academic student or faculty member (current or previous) with a history of publications in academic journals You are transgender, gender diverse, or otherwise self-identify outside of the gender binary. You have changed your name and have used, or have considered using, a post-publication name change policy or have changed your name on a publication in another way. Are fluent in English. What to Expect: This survey includes questions about your experiences with post-publication name changes and utilizing publisher policies. Your participation in this survey is voluntary. You may refuse to take part in the research or to exit the survey at any time. Partial responses will not be retained. Should you volunteer as an interviewee*, further consent information will be provided via email prior to the scheduled interview in addition to a verbal consent agreement at the beginning of the interview. Your responses will provide vital information to help assess current policies, identify barriers and challenges, explore impact, develop recommendations for improvem…

please RT! if you've ever contacted a journal or publisher to have your name changed on a publication, a friend and colleague of mine wants to hear about your experience! drexel.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#phdchat #academicchatter

Baby Ghosts is now recruiting for the next round of our newly revised Cooperative Foundations program - if you're part of a co-op-curious Canadian studio, this is an amazing opportunity to join a hugely supportive community and maybe transform the way you work together 👻

a woman wearing glasses is making a funny face and saying `` gah '' . Alt: Tina Fey shouting 'gah'!

do I actually work better at home because several times a day I can scream 'GAH' when the volume of things becomes untenable... it's becoming a pretty core part of my workflow

🔥new report on debanking in Canada by @internetmaggie.com and @publicpubics.bsky.social

Text reads: KO_OP is Hiring! Our studio mascot, a dark blue genderless humanoid named ini, is at the bottom right corner, holding their face and smiling with hearts floating around their head.

Text reads: Responsibilities - Working closely with our QA lead, design, tech, and production to understand project goals and build test plans collaboratively. - Writing and iterating on test cases for a game actively in development, with a live player base. - Paired testing with other members of the QA department, with a focus on networked multiplayer testing. Requirements - Due to our small team and a significant number of our employees being international, we require potential applicants to be able to speak English. - Applicants in Canada will be given priority, however applicants outside of Canada are welcome to submit their application should we be unable to fill the role locally. Preferred experience - Experience with JIRA, Slack, Notion and Unity. - Experience with network testing and working on Live Service titles. - Having worked on released titles for Steam and Xbox. - Experience with Xbox Cert for XBPC, Series XS and Xbox One.

Fonctions - Collaborer étroitement avec notre responsable de l’assurance qualité ainsi que l’équipe de conception, l’équipe technique et l’équipe de production pour comprendre les objectifs du projet et élaborer les plans de mise à l’essai. - Rédiger et exécuter des scénarios d’essai pour un jeu en cours de développement avec une base active de joueurs. - Réaliser des essais en collaboration avec d’autres membres du service de l’assurance qualité, notamment des essais de jeux multijoueurs en réseau. Exigences du poste - Connaissance de l’anglais (nous formons une petite équipe dont bon nombre des membres se trouvent à l’étranger). - Nous accorderons la priorité aux candidatures canadiennes. Cependant, les personnes qui résident ailleurs sont également invitées à soumettre la leur, au cas où nous n’arriverions pas à pourvoir le poste localement. Atouts - Connaissance de Jira, de Slack, de Notion et d’Unity. - Expérience avec les essais en réseau et le développement de jeux-services. - Expérience de travail sur des jeux publiés sur Steam et Xbox. - Obtention passée de la certification Xbox pour PC, Xbox Série X|S et Xbox One. Rémunération - 90 069 $ CA/année (1 732 $/semaine) - Télétravail uniquement (travail hybride ou au bureau à Montréal, si désiré) - Semaine de quatre jours et horaire flexible Il s'agit d'un poste contractuel de six mois. Lien dans la bio pour plus d'informations.

We’re hiring a QA Analyst! $90,069 CAD/year, remote 6-month contract, 4-day work weeks with flexible hours! 🫶

Apply now: www.workwithindies.com/careers/ko-o... ✨

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

bots swarmed an online game dev survey we did and it sucks but also their answers are 🌟🌟🌟, today's winner "My cisgender identity let me focus purely on game dev coursework-no identity-related distractions, just mastering Unity and C#."

i'm dying and also why hasn't being cis led me to master C#

Hey Canadians! Your taxes subsidize these big game companies and you should be furious about this.

Caroline Bem at UdeM and I were interviewed by @beurkeek.bsky.social for this episode of Random Encounters about the ongoing sexualized violence in games drama - it sounds really cool (cannot vouch because cannot German), check it out (if you can German!) insertmoin.de/random-encou...

Super cool perk of doing a doctorate is that mortgage lenders don't count t4a income as "income", great news for our double-SSHRC household trying to renew when 70% of our income apparently isn't real 💵 🫠

Reinstate Rockstar Toronto workers now! On October 30th, three Rockstar Toronto employees were fired with immediate effect and without investigation. They were swept up in a brazen and ruthless union busting effort to terminate over 30 work...

Hey labor-aligned folks in Canada - have you signed UVW's petition to reinstate the Canadian Rockstar workers unjustly fired for their union organizing efforts? Why not??? actionnetwork.org/letters/rein...

Edmonton Police Service just launched this pilot with their body cameras without approval from the Privacy Commissioner, to give you an idea of the institutional approach to adopting tech which violates Charter Rights.

We are recruiting game makers affected by the 'NSFW' policy changes on Steam and itch.io for a survey. This survey is part of a broader project on the factors that shape the production, distribution, and consumption of porn games. More info about the project and survey at www.pppproject.com

‘Having a hard time getting food’: Nunavut hunger crisis continues ‘People are having a hard time now getting food’: Nunavut hunger crisis continues as Indigenous Services Canada refuses to answer questions

Canada cancelled its northern food program over the summer and is refusing to answer APTN’s requests for why. Canada continues to Canada…

I recently played Wednesdays as part of our research project on sexual violence prevention games and it is INCREDIBLE, A++, one of the GOATs 🐐 highly recommend checking it out and today it's free!

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Shifting Perspectives A Collective Framework for Anti-Violence Work Through Collaboration. This workshop for service providers and anti-violence advocates.

If you do gender-based violence prevention work in Edmonton, Sexual Assault Voices of Edmonton will be running our Shifting Perspectives training on anti-carceral approaches to violence prevention in partnership with CIAFV next week - there are still spaces open! www.eventbrite.ca/e/shifting-p...

I hate watching a whole country fail its Constitution saving throw

"Games for Gender-based Violence Prevention" with Kenzie Gordon

I have an upcoming guest lecture at UDelaware on my usual schtick - violence prevention in games both commercial and serious. Come hang out if you want to hear me on my soapbox! (do I need more than one headshot plz say no) 🫥 events.udel.edu/event/games-...

Dear #AdultGame devs:

For the upcoming episode of our podcast "Random Encounters", we're looking for developers who'd like to share their perspectives on depictions of sexualised violence in interactive fiction.

We'd need your answers, either in writing or as voice recordings, until October 31.

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing