“A lot of us in the games industry… we live in these bubbles. We think that what’s happening externally is not going to directly affect us, and that’s so incredibly untrue.” — Elaine Gomez, Chair of the Equity Committee for UVW-CWA, speaking to reporter @catbussell.bsky.social
This entire "industry plant" shit is based on the entirely false idea that some of the bands you see on a billboard and listen to on an exploitative streaming service will be Actually Revolutionary, they won't be, not an interesting question
For anyone interested in histories of the far-right or contemporary Celtic far-right movements, I have a substack now to get out thoughts that don't fit in my PhD thesis because apparently I can't stop writing.
My first post is here:
open.substack.com/pub/bobbikin...
Labour lost 41% of its vote to Plaid in this poll, yet continue to court the right as an attempt to gain votes, which is a losing strategy. There is a rapid rise of far-right sentiment across the UK and Labour are helping to enable that - need to fix people's living conditions to stop the right
Remembering the emotion and passion Welsh rugby inspired me in 2019 to the point I wrote my undergraduate dissertation on its history and gave part of the dedications page to that team. Just miserable now actually
Cofiwch Aberfan.
Another year on, one of the most harrowing and avoidable tragedies in our history still looms over us.
Still no real action on securing our tips, no real investment to prevent it happening again.
I spend a lot of time talking about all the things historical games do wrong when representing (or, mostly, not representing) women in the past - for a change, here I wrote about some games which I think do something better and more interesting in their depictions of historical women & girls!
!! this rules!
this is not an exaggeration
Image description: A poster with three colours, red, green and white. There is text in the top right and bottom left corner, and diagonally down the middle. There is a large star in the bottom right. Text reads: Republican Festival Clwb Y Bont 4th May 16:00-20:00 Radical Welsh Music, art, politics, stalls Music Rap artist Chrxn Talks ‘WHAT IS THE CROWN ESTATE?' 'WELSH FASCISM & ANTI-FASCISM'
🚩 REPUBLICAN FESTIVAL 🚩
Are you a Republican, a Socialist? Come and join us and our friends on the 4th of May at Clwb Y Bont in Pontypridd.
With music from the rapper Chrxn, talks on issues like who owns our land, and the history of fascism and anti-fascism in Wales!
Image description: a white background with red text at the top, on the left of the text is a red hammer and sickle with a dragons tongue, on the right is a crossed over hammer and pickaxe. Underneath, there is an image of a trans flag flying with a hammer and sickle on it. Underneath that are three words, the first has a pink background, the middle has a white background, the third has a blue background. Text reads: PLAID GOMIWNYDDOL CYMRU WELSH UNDERGROUND NETWORK JOINT STATEMENT LIBERATION NOT BIGOTRY
BRITISH NEUTRALITY The UK Supreme Court's ruling of April 16*h is a disgraceful assault by the British state upon the dignity, humanity, and rights of trans women. This is not the pursuit of justice. This is a calculated escalation of state violence, a ruling soaked in reaction, an act of patriarchal authoritarianism, executed under the pretence of safeguarding cis women but, in truth, exposing how little the capitalist state cares for any of us. The ruling was not impartial legal reasoning, but a show trial. Trans voices were silenced, a trans judge was denied the right to speak, and three of the four interveners are anti-trans bigots. The British state does not seek truth or equality, it seeks control.
BIOLOGICAL TRUTH The truth is that womanhood cannot be reduced to mere biology, and certainly not biology at birth. As Marxists we understand that essentialism will confine swathes of society to poverty and oppression. Throughout history, powerful men have used "biology" to argue that the Irish are prone to alcoholism, Black Africans are able to withstand more pain, and women are weaker. And now, to the shame of us all, so-called feminists are claiming that trans women are guaranteed to be devious abusers and "biological women" are defined by chromosomes alone. The British state seeks to divide the working class, to impose biological essentialism on us all. Not in the name of equality but to entrench class domination.
A SLIPPERY SLOPE This ruling will not protect women, it will harm them, especially those who are already most at risk. Trans women already face violence, poverty, medical neglect and housing insecurity. This worsens the oppression of trans women on the basis of biological essentialism. Already, the British Transport Police have already changed their policy so that a trans woman with a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) will be searched by men. This decision was taken within 2 days of the ruling. This emboldens every landlord, boss, cop and bureaucrat who seeks to discriminate and exclude. It will not stop with trans women, it will further marginalise intersex people, non-binary people and any woman who does not conform to gender norms.
🚩🏳️⚧️ JOINT STATEMENT WITH @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru
This ruling is an attack on trans women and the trans community. Transgender people are a vulnerable section of the working class and we reject all attempts to dismiss and sideline this ruling as irrelevant to the working class struggle.
A picture of a man with a keffiyeh holding a Palestinian flag, in front of a crowd who are shaded in red. They’re holding Welsh and Palestinian flags. Text reads: BLOC PALESTEINA RHAN OR ORYMDAITH ANNIBYTIRETH OYE SAOWRN 26-04-25 SCWAR Y BRENIN I2YP
A picture of a man with a keffiyeh holding a Palestinian flag, in front of a crowd who are shaded in red. They’re holding Welsh and Palestinian flags. Text reads: PALESTINE BLOC PART OF THE MARCH FOR INDEPENDENCE BARRY SATURDAY 26-04-25 KING SQUARE I2PM
✊🏴🇵🇸🚩 PALESTINE BLOC PART OF THE MARCH FOR INDEPENDENCE
Join us as we march for our right to self-determination and the right of Palestinians to self-determination.
Saturday 26th, April, 12pm, Kings Square, Barry
Palesteina Rhydd 🚩 Cymru am Byth 🚩 Yma O Hyd
this song has what i consider the perfect pop punk guitar tone
We already have one great confirmed panellist, @bobiking.bsky.social presenting the first results of their PhD research on Celticism and the contemporary right
Cyflwyniadau yn y Gymraeg neu'r Saesneg
I'm organising a panel at this September 2025 conference in Aberystwyth under the @carantes.bsky.social banner - papers to address egalitarian anti-fascist approaches to Celtic Studies (broadly defined), non-traditional ideas welcome, happy to chat details over DM
Including our government.
Reminder: UK police still report rape victims who are undocumented migrants to immigration. That scares victims, so they don’t report.
The only safe place for these rape victims is A&E.
Because Home Office has rejected all calls for an information firewall between police & immigration
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eira yn y cymoedd
Vimto from a can from the offy
gross! from the looks ours will all be sludge by tomorrow
bwrw eira heddi
he loves to sniff
i have been spending years trying to get my friends to play caravan cus i honestly love it
All classics cant fault em
he keeps shoving his nose in my face while i try to work
making a conscious effort to use twitter less now because its increasingly a hellscape
i guess im posting my art/propaganda
she metal my gear til i solid
sweep the cat is preparing to read lying in a sun puddle under his bookshelf
aah perfect reading weather
me and sweep have started attempting digital art recently. Sweep has requested a pen that is suitable for his lack of thumbs.