Samantha Fry

Reminder for UK employees (and employers for that matter): Union recognition is important and supporting ppl's fight for it is great, however employees without a recognition agreement are still protected and can still be represented by their union.

I can't bring myself to buy any smeg kitchen appliances because of Red Dwarf.

Timeline cleanser

My god... the coffee scale is screaming

this game fucking sucks what am i supposed to do

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If the door is closed, it's on. If the door was not there, it would be functionally the same as being open, therefore the doors "on" state is closed!!

Convinced that home assistant is a covert operation to sabotage productivity of people who would otherwise spend weekends inventing things

I think the creator of this list mixed up leads and leeds lmao

The licence fee is the biggest bargain in the UK. Not only do you get dozens of TV channels, radio stations, websites, apps, educational resources etc but it supports the infrastructure that enables all terrestrial TV.

Sorry I dont normally follow football world cups, does this mean we get Miku now? We can give her one of the fancy "woman who goes to the races once a year" hats and make her eat crumpets

Say it louder for the executives in the back

imagine if they fired every band member every time an album came out

Sat next to a girl on the train whose Spotify playlists were all "My playlist #1", "My playlist #2", "My playlist #3" and so forth up to #22. Absolutely chaotic evil personality trait 😭😭😭

I turned on a cooking show and the chef said "we are making a super simple dish - only 10 ingredients plus salt and spices" > Super simple > "Only" 10 ingredients plus salt and spices 🤨

Unions don’t necessarily protect you from layoffs. BUT they do give you leverage when one does happen. I’ve heard from unionized folks how it helped them secure better severance, benefit extensions etc. The last few years have shown there is no reason not to unionize!

Music should not be added to Audio Books. If the narrator's reading of the author's word's cannot invoke the appropriate emotional response without some horrific incidental music playing at least one of them isn't doing their job properly.

Watched 20 minutes of day of the devs compared to the two hours of SGF and already saw more games I am interested in with more interesting teams behind them... Indie devs rule

So long story, but my partner bought too many creme eggs. And in true bored nerd weekend fashion, we made an entire website dedicated to tracking our creme egg consumption, with a working RSS feed! egg.hiralot.dev

I don't get how so many software folks cling to LLMs, like, I'm sorry but every time I've given them a try the result is dogshit. & I promise I'm not holding it wrong! Even excluding externalities, it's just not good at what it's sold to do! If you think it is, I worry about your judgement.

real rough day in the office for the developers of “Good Pizza” once they found out what the third Apple Arcade May release was

Apparently some people need to hear this... Regardless of whether you're a CEO of a failing games company or Prime Minister of an entire country, "taking responsibility" requires more than simply saying "I take full responsibilty" and firing other people for your shortcomings!

Got myself a new camera, now I just need to go out to interesting places to take photos 😅

Every time I notice someone at work who looks cool it turns out they're in the union. This has happened half a dozen times now. Clear proof: joining a union makes you cool.

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

What's the most exciting part of connecting up a new PC? Plugging in the power supply, it's electrifying!

*taps the "profit losses are the fault of executive leadership, who are conveniently never affected by profit loss" sign*

Over 1000 workers laid off, while Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games is worth billions. By forming a strong union in your studio, we can fight for job security and more. The alternative is our livelihoods at the whims of out of touch CEOs. Join our union today: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

In HMV and someone held up a vinyl and asked "What does it do? Is it a poster?" And I think I aged 30 years when the staff member explained "It plays music" 😭😭😭😭

It’s called ‘vs code’ because the code is an enemy you are fighting

Just played the first 15-20 mins of E33 and I gotta take it back. I don't think we gave that game enough awards actually. We should invent more, and give them to E33. Like right now. Holy crap. I think that's the second or third time a game has ever made me just... stop and sit there for a minute

What in the AI Generated hell is this?

I love this time of year. Do I know what day of the week it is? No! Do I get up at 1am because I fancied a bit of cheese? Absolutely!

Me logging into this website so that I can “get a sense of what’s going on in the world”

I guess the view of the penguins from here is... Fine? IYKYK.

I did not expect Silksong to be an answer on University Challenge. That was absolutely not on my bingo card for the next 10 years at least

Union busting has consequences! UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the government will look into @rockstargames.com's dismissal of 31 union members.

the Michelin man is kinda like a Greek god in the sense that he presides over tires and which restaurants are good

CEO Georg is an outlier and should not be counted

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity. We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.

As recent waves of layoffs impact our fellow workers and union members, we see again and again how little the word of your boss means when it is not backed up by a union contract or challenged with collective action.