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📚Assistant Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. 🕹️Studying videogame history and creative industry labour.
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@michaeliantorno.comOh wow, good for Pierre.
@michaeliantorno.comI would recommend that everyone stops doing business with Boots. The Westons are well known in Canada for scamming customers, including *two separate* bread price-fixing scandals.
@hetanshah.bsky.socialReposted by @michaeliantorno.comArchive of @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Stuart Hall is now live. Includes looking at his impact on the history of communication theory, culminating in the architecture of contemporary AI models
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Archive link: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
@gamehistoryorg.bsky.socialReposted by @michaeliantorno.comPreserving digital indie games in libraries/archives? The latest Video Game History Hour podcast features Dr. Colin Post and Marisa Marzilli from University of North Carolina at Greensboro: https://gamehistory.org/episode-164-national-virtual-forum-for-digital-games-in-libraries-dgil/
@michaeliantorno.comI'm seeing a lot of people surprised by this, but it is unfortunately a common practice in the media industries. Companies can force workers to sign contracts with this clause because of job scarcity and poor labour protections. There really aren't that many big companies that make TTRPGs and CCGs.
@michaeliantorno.comCredit to @lincodega.com on this article. Follow Lin! They're great!
@jamesomalley.co.ukReposted by @michaeliantorno.comHoly shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source.
Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update.
@michaeliantorno.com"Currently, if an employee makes anything creative in their free time, with their own resources, Hasbro can claim ownership. What we do in our free time should not be dictated by the company, and what we make in our free time should belong to us.“
@michaeliantorno.com"Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in solidarity to form a union with the Communications Workers of America (CWA)!"
@michaeliantorno.comReposted by @michaeliantorno.comMy union, IFUT, began limited strikes this week. ✊ We've been without a deal since June 30. The government has been unwilling to address cost-of-living measures at the start of any negotiations, which is disappointing amidst an inflation/housing crisis.
@rossignol.bsky.socialReposted by @michaeliantorno.comThis gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
@kerrblimey.bsky.socialReposted by @michaeliantorno.comTalking to a few folks about this but still keen to hear more views!
@michaeliantorno.comMy union, IFUT, began limited strikes this week. ✊ We've been without a deal since June 30. The government has been unwilling to address cost-of-living measures at the start of any negotiations, which is disappointing amidst an inflation/housing crisis.
@moxiest.artReposted by @michaeliantorno.comit's one one day a week we actively try to pay bills (we're very sorry)
welcome back to ✨Shameless Self Promotion Saturday✨
support artists and help show the world that a Voluntary Profit way of life is better
just please buy things. it's rough out there
here's a bunch of shirts
@trinitynews.bsky.socialReposted by @michaeliantorno.comIFTU members vote overwhelmingly to back industrial action On September 22nd, the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) published the results of the latest Union’s Public Service ballot, with 93% of those voting backing industrial action, saying that “education staff expect a credible…
@michaeliantorno.comThe @gamerella.bsky.social game jam is now open for registration!
GAMERella is the world’s longest running annual game jam and workshop series focusing on supporting equity-deserving game creators and aspiring game makers.
The jam takes place from Nov 14-15 in Montreal and online.
@michaeliantorno.comThe Mad Lib of our time: Modern ________ smart features could be used to spy on you, ________ warned.
@michaeliantorno.comI don't like to spam on Bsky, but I'd like to connect with someone at @gwuireland.bsky.social and all the emails I've tried have bounced back. Does anyone know who is available to chat from Game Workers Unite Ireland?
@michaeliantorno.com"[Some students] are refused because they cannot explain interruptions in their education, even though their universities have been bombed, their lecturers killed, and their campuses reduced to rubble."
