Amy-Leigh Shaw
@diveamydive.bsky.social
Loud Whisperer • Dragon Fanatic • 🍬Award-Winning Writer and Narrative Designer @ Sweet Baby Inc🍬 • Previously @ Rocksteady Games • ✨Limit Break Mentor✨ • She/Her 💖💛💙 🏳️🌈
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Amy-Leigh Shaw
@diveamydive.bsky.social
· Oct 18
Hey! 👋 I’m Amy-Leigh, and I’m a Writer & Narrative Designer at Sweet Baby Inc. 🍬 I like nature, bad jokes and weird stories, and I’ve heard I’m pretty friendly 👀 so if that sounds like your vibe, you came to the right place! 💛
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I just saw this instagram post from the incredibly talented and breathtakingly hilarious Kate Welch, who was laid off around a year ago, and I wanted to share it here. It’s an important message, and you deserve to read it:
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February 4, 2026 at 6:42 PM
I just saw this instagram post from the incredibly talented and breathtakingly hilarious Kate Welch, who was laid off around a year ago, and I wanted to share it here. It’s an important message, and you deserve to read it:
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always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
February 4, 2026 at 3:04 PM
always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
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Revealed: Israel bulldozed part of Gaza war cemetery containing allied graves
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Revealed: Israel bulldozed part of Gaza war cemetery containing allied graves
Satellite images and witness testimony show destruction as IDF claims it was forced to take defensive measures
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Revealed: Israel bulldozed part of Gaza war cemetery containing allied graves
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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February 4, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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Having internships without having jobs for them to enter when they complete the internship should be illegal.
Staffing your gutted dev teams with interns will not work out dudes.
Staffing your gutted dev teams with interns will not work out dudes.
February 4, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Having internships without having jobs for them to enter when they complete the internship should be illegal.
Staffing your gutted dev teams with interns will not work out dudes.
Staffing your gutted dev teams with interns will not work out dudes.
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Pretty much any work that relies on creative skill is taking a bad hit; too many people look at it and think, “that’s not hard, *I* can do that” - so (a) they don’t value it, and (b) they can’t tell the difference between good and bad quality. As a result, they’re happy to settle for “cheap.”
So many industries and career paths are going this way
February 4, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Pretty much any work that relies on creative skill is taking a bad hit; too many people look at it and think, “that’s not hard, *I* can do that” - so (a) they don’t value it, and (b) they can’t tell the difference between good and bad quality. As a result, they’re happy to settle for “cheap.”
I just saw this instagram post from the incredibly talented and breathtakingly hilarious Kate Welch, who was laid off around a year ago, and I wanted to share it here. It’s an important message, and you deserve to read it:
(thread)
(thread)
February 4, 2026 at 6:42 PM
I just saw this instagram post from the incredibly talented and breathtakingly hilarious Kate Welch, who was laid off around a year ago, and I wanted to share it here. It’s an important message, and you deserve to read it:
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„Hello sir do you have a moment to talk about horses in your game? Sir? SIR! Don‘t run from the horses you‘ll thank me!“
February 2, 2026 at 10:28 AM
„Hello sir do you have a moment to talk about horses in your game? Sir? SIR! Don‘t run from the horses you‘ll thank me!“
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"If y'all don't like it, then make your own games."
"Bet!"
Aerial_Knight's DropShot - Launches Feb 17th on PlayStation, Xbox, Steam, Epic, & Mobile
"Bet!"
Aerial_Knight's DropShot - Launches Feb 17th on PlayStation, Xbox, Steam, Epic, & Mobile
February 2, 2026 at 12:28 PM
"If y'all don't like it, then make your own games."
"Bet!"
Aerial_Knight's DropShot - Launches Feb 17th on PlayStation, Xbox, Steam, Epic, & Mobile
"Bet!"
Aerial_Knight's DropShot - Launches Feb 17th on PlayStation, Xbox, Steam, Epic, & Mobile
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once in a while I’ll see or hear about something like the linked blog and I realize if nothing else I do not have the mental fortitude to be a writer in games, where everyone thinks they could do your job despite not understanding it at all. The sheer frustration. sprints for fucking writers lol
For more on this, vide Michet 2024 blog.lauramichet.com/why-you-shou...
February 2, 2026 at 7:06 AM
once in a while I’ll see or hear about something like the linked blog and I realize if nothing else I do not have the mental fortitude to be a writer in games, where everyone thinks they could do your job despite not understanding it at all. The sheer frustration. sprints for fucking writers lol
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Drug laws have never stopped people from using drugs.
They've stopped people from using drugs safely.
It's time to legalise *and* regulate.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
They've stopped people from using drugs safely.
It's time to legalise *and* regulate.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Drugs policy approach needs to change, Zack Polanski says
The Green Party leader of England and Wales says there needs to be a
www.bbc.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Drug laws have never stopped people from using drugs.
They've stopped people from using drugs safely.
It's time to legalise *and* regulate.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
They've stopped people from using drugs safely.
It's time to legalise *and* regulate.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Brother Gregor is concerned
February 2, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Brother Gregor is concerned
DAYS after a flight with an unpopped ear 😭 I’ve had sweets, I’ve pinched my nose and blown, I’ve yawned and yawned and yawned and YAWNED
February 2, 2026 at 11:32 AM
DAYS after a flight with an unpopped ear 😭 I’ve had sweets, I’ve pinched my nose and blown, I’ve yawned and yawned and yawned and YAWNED
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The Ancient War continues
February 1, 2026 at 9:09 PM
The Ancient War continues
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i am fundraising for the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund at the link below! should be live all day 🐋
twitch.tv/shaun_vids
twitch.tv/shaun_vids
shaun_vids - Twitch
hello everyone https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ6o36XL0CpYb6U5dNBiXHQ
twitch.tv
February 2, 2026 at 8:51 AM
i am fundraising for the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund at the link below! should be live all day 🐋
twitch.tv/shaun_vids
twitch.tv/shaun_vids
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Absolutely shocked that scottish newspapers decide to post anti trans front page on the day they decided it probably wasn't worth reporting that JK Rowling was in the Esptein files inviting him to dinner in 2018. "Defending women"
That's Labour kicking off Scotland's 2026 anti-trans election in the paper that campaigned to keep Section 28.
February 2, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Absolutely shocked that scottish newspapers decide to post anti trans front page on the day they decided it probably wasn't worth reporting that JK Rowling was in the Esptein files inviting him to dinner in 2018. "Defending women"
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Top tip: to avoid having the British Union of Fascists logo on the side of your mock-up train, don't use horrible text-to-image AI slop instead of actual designers and artists.
www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...
www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...
February 2, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Top tip: to avoid having the British Union of Fascists logo on the side of your mock-up train, don't use horrible text-to-image AI slop instead of actual designers and artists.
www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...
www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...
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The British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters.
#archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history
#archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history
February 1, 2026 at 3:19 PM
The British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters.
#archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history
#archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history
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Thank you to the *surprisingly numerous* amount of gamers at the gay bar tonight who were… so excited to hype me up and give me detailed compliments on my work? What an out of body experience 😅
February 1, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Thank you to the *surprisingly numerous* amount of gamers at the gay bar tonight who were… so excited to hype me up and give me detailed compliments on my work? What an out of body experience 😅
Thank you to the *surprisingly numerous* amount of gamers at the gay bar tonight who were… so excited to hype me up and give me detailed compliments on my work? What an out of body experience 😅
February 1, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Thank you to the *surprisingly numerous* amount of gamers at the gay bar tonight who were… so excited to hype me up and give me detailed compliments on my work? What an out of body experience 😅
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a good way to combat this (although not fool proof because the algorithm really does suck ass) is to write extremely insightful takes on games if you’re leaving a positive review - i think people are often not inclined to list a positive review as helpful because they’re rarely detailed anyways
Even on hugely popular games with 95%+ Steam user review scores, you will almost always see some interminable, essay-length negative rant flagged as the 'most useful' and put front and center on the store page.
Part of it is Steam's upvoting system being busted. Part is human nature being stupid.
Part of it is Steam's upvoting system being busted. Part is human nature being stupid.
One negative review killed Pendragon. It was posted within hours of release: a detailed "objective" explanation of why they didn't connect with it.
But it's ticked as helpful by passing people *who have not played the game*. This keeps it pinned to the top.
It's longer than our description text.
But it's ticked as helpful by passing people *who have not played the game*. This keeps it pinned to the top.
It's longer than our description text.
January 31, 2026 at 3:21 PM
a good way to combat this (although not fool proof because the algorithm really does suck ass) is to write extremely insightful takes on games if you’re leaving a positive review - i think people are often not inclined to list a positive review as helpful because they’re rarely detailed anyways
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I hang out with so many game devs and marketeers that I always (mistakenly) assume this is common knowledge. If you want to do a gamedev a gigantic favor that costs you literally nothing but 3min of your time, write them a Steam review. ESPECIALLY if they have less than 500 or so.
RE that RT.. it’s wild how steam reviews are still so damn important to getting visibility. If you play and like indie games, the most generous and helpful thing you can do is spend an hour popping positive reviews onto anything you like with <500 or so reviews.
January 31, 2026 at 10:33 AM
I hang out with so many game devs and marketeers that I always (mistakenly) assume this is common knowledge. If you want to do a gamedev a gigantic favor that costs you literally nothing but 3min of your time, write them a Steam review. ESPECIALLY if they have less than 500 or so.
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ok there are some pretty interesting conversations happening that I don’t want to miss because I caught a ban so you can all use your imaginations about what might be reasonable consequences for the people embedded in these networks of influence and power
January 31, 2026 at 5:22 AM
ok there are some pretty interesting conversations happening that I don’t want to miss because I caught a ban so you can all use your imaginations about what might be reasonable consequences for the people embedded in these networks of influence and power
Bin workers do some of the most fundamental work there is and they should be safe and well compensated in that work!
Before Gorton and Denton today - an early morning start with the bin strikers in Birmingham on the picket line.
Solidarity. ✊🏼
Solidarity. ✊🏼
January 30, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Bin workers do some of the most fundamental work there is and they should be safe and well compensated in that work!