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Shay Thompson
@shay-thompson.bsky.social
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Presenter, host, tastemaker. Seen/heard on BBC, BAFTA and more
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Shay Thompson @shay-thompson.bsky.social · Oct 24
Hello! I'm Shay, a presenter and host working in games. I was a regular contributor on BBC Sounds' Press X To Continue (RIP) and hosted a show with McLaren where Lando Norris once abandoned me at the MTC.
Shay Thompson on stage at Gamescom ONL Shay with the Call of Duty Black Ops 6 cast Shay with members of the Press X To Continue podcast Shay with Lando Norris
shay-thompson.bsky.social
i normally stop watching/playing/reading everything when i'm prepping for a big hosting gig. but my nearly completed ball x pit playthrough is calling my name so hard
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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ivgorchestra.com
🚨Stream Announcement!🚨

We'll be playing the upcoming game from @newtales.bsky.social, @fadingechogame.bsky.social joined by the wonderful @samanthabeart.bsky.social!

2pm BST this Tuesday 21st October

This is our first ever Twitch/YouTube stream, in aid of @mndassoc.bsky.social #GameOver! 🎮♥️
Fading Echo Upcoming game Fading Echo with Samantha Béart! 2pm BST Tuesday 21st October With IVGO members Phoebe, Louis, and Adam Youtube + Twitch @IrishVideoGameOrchestra In aid of the Motor Neuron Disease Association
October 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
shay-thompson.bsky.social
Black History Month in the UK is largely ignored by the games industry anyway but this has to be the quietest I’ve ever seen it. No panels, no events, nothing. Damn.
October 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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bdsmovement.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
shay-thompson.bsky.social
I can’t believe I get to say this but I’m going to be interviewing Michaela Jae Rodriguez on the Charlotte Tilbury twitch channel 🥹

We’ll be chatting all things Pose, gaming and make up ✨

twitch.tv/charlottetilbury
October 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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mollyberry.bsky.social
I had the pleasure of hosting & streaming with @indiearenabooth.de at #gamescom this year, and I got to share my top 10 picks from the entire line-up at 2025 IAB. Here they are, and here's me attempting to quickly describe them to @shay-thompson.bsky.social😍 www.twitch.tv/videos/25528... #indiegames
Twitch
Twitch is the world
www.twitch.tv
September 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
shay-thompson.bsky.social
I'm gobsmacked at how awful this reporting of Guild Esports' closing is

No mention of the exploited and unpaid players, presenters and talent. Instead, the writer decides to focus on a conversation they had with the *former* CEO for some reason?

www.forbes.com/sites/mattga...
Guild, Beckham’s Former Esports Team, Folds After 6 Years
Just 13 days short of its iron anniversary, British competitive gaming outfit Guild Esports, once backed by David Beckham, has announced it’s shutting shop.
www.forbes.com
August 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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austinwalker.bsky.social
So good to see Arkane's workers push for this!

Also a great example of one of the core benefits of unionization, which is just "creating a structure for discussion and systems to make collective decisions." Always much harder to get action at scale like this if there isn't already organization.
August 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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sammgreer.bsky.social
New trailer from me! For the critically acclaimed, cool as hell, Neurocracy.

Making a trailer for a game about delving through fictional wiki pages and making conspiracy boards was an interesting challenge, so hopefully I've done justice to a supremely interesting, compelling game
playthroughline.com joannes @playthroughline.com · Jul 9
✨ NEUROCRACY ✨

A sci-fi hypertext game

🌐 Fall into a wiki hole from the future
🔎 Solve a murder and other mysteries
👀 Your theories influence what happens [citation needed]

📅 The third — and final — season launches JULY 16!

Check out our new trailer, courtesy of @sammgreer.bsky.social 👇
Neurocracy 3.0 Release Trailer
YouTube video by Playthroughline
www.youtube.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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grapedosmil.bsky.social
For this week's VGIM, do video games have an auteur problem?

I sweated buckets at the Death Stranding 2 launch event to find out.
vgim.bsky.social Video Games Industry Memo @vgim.bsky.social · Jul 3
Do auteurs like Hideo Kojima increase the understanding of how we make games, or obscure it?

@grapedosmil.bsky.social headed to a star studded event in London to investigate

www.videogamesindustrymemo.com/p/the-kojima...
July 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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indiearenabooth.de
🌶️🧑‍🍳 Feast your eyes - the Indie Arena Booth 2025 lineup trailer is served! 🌶️🍽️

Our Theme? “Watch us cook.” We’re bringing 200+ blazing-hot indie games to gamescom 2025!

You will want a taste 😋

🍽️ Full lineup here: indiearenabooth.de

#IndieGame #GameDev #IAB25
July 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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gameonysus.bsky.social
Wrote about SGF, ICE, and covering the event as first-generation US born person.
pentopixels.com Pen to Pixels @pentopixels.com · Jun 11
My feelings covering Summer Game Fest, in LA, as the daughter of a Mexican immigrant.
pentopixels.com/article/summ...
Summer Game Fest logo
June 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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sammgreer.bsky.social
World's shit, am feeling like shit, so if you could take a minute to cheer me up by checking out ma comic I am working very hard on, that would be cool.

There's a new page today and it's even got a robot in it

➡️ iteatsplanets.com/page/29
A comic page with three panels. Panel one. An industrial elevator arrives at a concrete corridor where a top heavy robot stands by outside. As the doors part open, a three armed prisoner slips out from a crowd of inmates while a one eared man cries after her "Hey!" Panel two. A rounded green stained concrete tunnel from above, prisoners in various states of undress marching in a line along the metal floor under the watch of CCTV and a towering robot, past a security booth built into the wall. "Inmates, proceed single file." the robot orders Panel three. Three armed woman down to her underwear, staring into the booth through the thick glass window at a guard enjoying a cup of something, next to three hanging uniforms and lockers.
April 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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shazleenmkhan.bsky.social
If you're in the UK, appalled by the supreme court's decision and would like to MATERIALLY help trans women TODAY, consider literally donating to helping my girlfriend to get gender affirming care:

www.gofundme.com/f/help-ishaa...
Donate to help ishaani get FFS gender affirming surgery, organized by Is Dexter
i work 9 to 5 but live paycheck to paycheck, paying rent for a flatshare in ou… Is Dexter needs your support for help ishaani get FFS gender affirming surgery
www.gofundme.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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oldenoughtosay.com
regardless of today’s outcome, it is morally indefensible to have a court ruling on something that affects a population, using evidence and findings that did not consult a single member of that population.
April 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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headfallsoff.com
the BDS requests on microsoft are extremely clear and also targeted. they aren't "uninstall windows now and change your entire life," they aren't even a huge ask for games media outside of like exclusive world of warcraft streamers. there is no reason for the near total silence other than shame
April 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
shay-thompson.bsky.social
did they just slide in silksong really casually
April 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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hollynielsen.bsky.social
Great thread about ROMchip and why it’s so important!

I will be part of that fundraiser stream on Saturday, playing Dragon Age: Origins with @shay-thompson.bsky.social and talking about history, worldbuilding, narrative design, and which characters we fancy the most 🫡
lainenooney.bsky.social Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · Feb 19
In 3 days, ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories [ @romchip.bsky.social ] is gonna try and raise $7K-11K w/ a 12-hour Twitch fundraiser.

I'm the Managing Editor of this journal, and one of its cofounders. Here's a 🧵 on why ROMchip matters, what it stands for, & how u can help.
donate.romchip.org
February 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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borderless.bsky.social
This may be the end of the fighting. It certainly won't be the end of the genocide.

Palestinians will need massive amounts of aid as they begin to recover and rebuild. Gazans will still be living in the world's largest open air prison.
nickjbrumfield.bsky.social Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · Jan 15
Oh God please let this be the end of it. Fifteen months of genocide. Fifteen months begging supposedly moral people to do the moral thing. Fifteen months watching people who know better lie or be silent when they knew what was going on.
A Gaza ceasefire agreement has been reached, Hamas official tells Sky News
A ceasefire agreement has been reached, a Hamas official has told Sky News, after more than a year of fighting in Gaza.
www.google.com
January 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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sammgreer.bsky.social
My queer sci-fi comic IT EATS PLANETS will launch publicly in just two weeks(!), on the 28th of January
A three armed woman from the shoulders down, with chemical burn scars on her shoulders, wearing a black vest and blue tracksuit pants with a red accent, is handcuffed and escorted by two people who are off-screen except for their gloved hands gripping her arms. The background is a dark green gradient. The text "Two Weeks To Go" is at the top of the image in bright red. "IT EATS PLANETS" at the bottom, also in bold red, with the colour dripping down like blood from the text.
January 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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sammgreer.bsky.social
The walls are closing in for trans folk. Really feels great how little of a shit most cis folk give. I couldn't even persuade my own friends to join trans pride this year, don't think there's much hope of widespread action against any of this shit
esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Dec 18
The UK's Crown Prosecution Service has issued guidance that failure to disclose trans status before sex could be considered rape.

This will undoubtedly be used to baselessly charge trans people with sexual offenses in otherwise consentual sexual encounters.

www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/pro...
Prosecutors publish updated ‘deception as to sex’ guidance | The Crown Prosecution Service
www.cps.gov.uk
December 19, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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hollynielsen.bsky.social
Sharing this thread again as March just keeps getting closer
hollynielsen.bsky.social Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · Nov 16
With my PhD thesis deadline coming up I’m faced with what’s next. I have some projects lined up, but I’m going to be available for work from March 2025!

I’m looking for:
Game dev work- writing, narrative design, historical consultancy

Academic work- research, public history, post doc positions
December 16, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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pillowfort.bsky.social
the ridiculousness of this question is only matched by the jumpscare of the two people it's being asked to
December 12, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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sammgreer.bsky.social
The cruelty of this is hard to fathom. Children deserve so, so much better. Section 28 days are back

More cis people need to be vocal & hardline on trans issues, this is undoubtedly another step towards legislating all trans people out of existence. This is happening. People are going to die
hleehurley.com Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Dec 11
BREAKING: I have seen confirmation that the indefinite puberty blocker ban for trans kids that was passed by the NI Executive yesterday will be UK-wide. It will come into effect on January 1 2025 when the temporary ban expires.

It is being laid before Parliament today.
December 11, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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raquelwillis.com
Nikki Giovanni staunchly supported trans folks, especially trans youth. Her encouragement is a balm.

“I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation.”
A white square with black text reading, “I remember in a recent interview you spoke about your support of the trans community, because you said: "I see that transgender youngsters are the ones who are helping to take planet Earth into the galaxy because we're going to run into other life forms that our gender does not matter." Can you speak about that a bit? I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation. They're breaking down —I don't have the word for it right now-but it's gender prejudice, and [the idea that] somebody has decided that they can tell you who you are, what your name should be, and how you should look.” A white square with black text reading, “And those youngsters are saying, "No, I can decide who I am, what my name should be." Everybody's mad at me like, You should be a girl because we've decided you're a girl. And they say, "Well, who the hell are you?" I can decide that I'm a boy. And if it makes me happy, what does it mean to you? And I can decide that my name is John. And if you don't like that my name is Geraldine, why can't you name yourself? And if the people who know you and love you— or have to talk to you, maybe they don't even love you but they have to talk to you-you can tell them, "This is my name, and I would like to be referred to in that way." A white square with black text reading, “But when we go into the galaxy, a life-form may say, "Who are you?" Well, there's no point in talking to another life-form and [saying] "I'm a boy or a girl," because it may have no meaning. That may mean nothing to them. So what you're going to say is, "I am a life form from the third planet, from the yellow sun," therefore giving yourself an identity. You don't have an identity because you say, "I'm a boy, I'm a girl, I'm a Jew or Gentile, I'm a Catholic or Baptist." That doesn't mean anything once you get beyond the prejudices of Earth. So yeah, I think the transgender students are really brave because they're taking a lot of flack for just wanting to be themselves and to have the right to have their own name. I think that's incredibly brave, and I think that they're absolutely right to want to do that. To want to own themselves.”
December 10, 2024 at 3:10 PM