Kay And Skittles
@kayandskittles.bsky.social
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I make video essays: https://www.youtube.com/c/kayandskittles
Co-host of @vgatwtoe.bsky.social and @agabpod.bsky.social
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I make video essays: https://www.youtube.com/c/kayandskittles
Co-host of @vgatwtoe.bsky.social and @agabpod.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/kayandskittles
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Is "The Tragedy of the Commons" Real?
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Sorry but I came of age in the ‘00s, unless you have explicit proof otherwise, the safest course of action is to assume that every serious adult in the Democratic Party orbit feels pretty good about going to war in Venezuela.
December 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Sorry but I came of age in the ‘00s, unless you have explicit proof otherwise, the safest course of action is to assume that every serious adult in the Democratic Party orbit feels pretty good about going to war in Venezuela.
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Reactionary centrists are getting everything they wanted out of the UK's Labour party, a purge of trans people from society, a crackdown on immigration, austerity measures on social safety net programs. It's only made Reform more popular and decimated Labour's support.
December 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Reactionary centrists are getting everything they wanted out of the UK's Labour party, a purge of trans people from society, a crackdown on immigration, austerity measures on social safety net programs. It's only made Reform more popular and decimated Labour's support.
The answer, hard as it may be, is to grow up enough to not get mad about the idea of someone 'abusing the system' to get mild accommodations that won't even especially benefit them. It's a non-issue and making life harder for even a single disabled person to avoid it is obscene.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The answer, hard as it may be, is to grow up enough to not get mad about the idea of someone 'abusing the system' to get mild accommodations that won't even especially benefit them. It's a non-issue and making life harder for even a single disabled person to avoid it is obscene.
Many are saying 'everyone who so much as gets the coffee at GB News needs to be in prison for the rest of their lives for our society to ever function properly'. I hear it on the train every day.
I don't think I've ever gotten more pissed off while making a video in my life. I hate these people with every bone in my body
I F██████ HATE THESE C███S
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December 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Many are saying 'everyone who so much as gets the coffee at GB News needs to be in prison for the rest of their lives for our society to ever function properly'. I hear it on the train every day.
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It really is precisely the inverse of how much work you actually are doing
The numbers in here are hilarious.
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
December 1, 2025 at 4:26 AM
It really is precisely the inverse of how much work you actually are doing
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"Interpassivity is so dominant that doing+making are referred to as obstacles to pleasure. You don't read a book because reading is work, LLMs can summarize. You don't learn an instrument because practice is work. Skillsets distract from the time we might set aside for passive consumption."
This week I reach back to the 1990s and the concept of “interpassivity,” a critique of the widespread idea that “interaction” was inherently liberating for an audience. But to think in nuanced and critical ways about creativity with generative AI, the “gesture of disappearance” has new salience.
From Interactive to Interpassive
Where AI Art Meets Cognitive Offloading
There is the joke about AI: we wanted robots to do our dishes so we could have time to make art, but we got robots that make art while we do the dishes. We can...
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November 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Interpassivity is so dominant that doing+making are referred to as obstacles to pleasure. You don't read a book because reading is work, LLMs can summarize. You don't learn an instrument because practice is work. Skillsets distract from the time we might set aside for passive consumption."
Fascinated by the assertion that there's some system by which "cancelled" artists might earn redemption by making something really good. Wasn't familiar with that policy.
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
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Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
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November 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Fascinated by the assertion that there's some system by which "cancelled" artists might earn redemption by making something really good. Wasn't familiar with that policy.
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i showed you my casserole please respond
November 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
i showed you my casserole please respond
It took me way too long to remember thanksgiving exists and the American one is around now. Thought a lot of people were really turning around on the state of Turkey.
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
It took me way too long to remember thanksgiving exists and the American one is around now. Thought a lot of people were really turning around on the state of Turkey.
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“Colonialism demands history begin past the point of colonization precisely because, under those narrative conditions, the colonist's every action is necessarily one of self-defense. The story begins not when the wagons arrive, but only after they are circled.”
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August 7, 2025 at 10:31 AM
“Colonialism demands history begin past the point of colonization precisely because, under those narrative conditions, the colonist's every action is necessarily one of self-defense. The story begins not when the wagons arrive, but only after they are circled.”
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Trans-exclusionary and “gender critical” takes are extremely prevalent in the British media. So I wrote this with the assumption that many readers might not realise that such views are seen as fringe and extreme by the vast majority of feminists outside the UK (and by many within the UK too).
This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
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Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
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Trans People Deserve Better
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
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November 20, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Trans-exclusionary and “gender critical” takes are extremely prevalent in the British media. So I wrote this with the assumption that many readers might not realise that such views are seen as fringe and extreme by the vast majority of feminists outside the UK (and by many within the UK too).
Smoking that shit that made the furtive pygmy so easily forgotten.
November 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Smoking that shit that made the furtive pygmy so easily forgotten.
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One of the things that the “immigration debate” in the UK really reveals is how little people actually know about how other people live. So much of immigration policy fails to work, even on its own terms, because it’s trying to solve problems that mostly exist in peoples heads
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
One of the things that the “immigration debate” in the UK really reveals is how little people actually know about how other people live. So much of immigration policy fails to work, even on its own terms, because it’s trying to solve problems that mostly exist in peoples heads
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Been playing the Batman Telltale games. First one was fine but the second one is absolute cinema. Spending time with my good friend the Joker who just wants to find love in this crazy world. Hope things work out for him.
November 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Been playing the Batman Telltale games. First one was fine but the second one is absolute cinema. Spending time with my good friend the Joker who just wants to find love in this crazy world. Hope things work out for him.
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This rancid trash understands the significance of Labour's anti-refugee policies.
November 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
This rancid trash understands the significance of Labour's anti-refugee policies.
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
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My latest reprinted in @truthout.org. "If you’re hurting, struggling, or sputtering inside right now, I want you to take a moment to see what I see."
Chicagoans Refuse to Be Cowed in the Face of Unrelenting State Violence
Chicago is giving the US “a stellar example of how to fight back against these xenophobic pogroms,” said one organizer.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
My latest reprinted in @truthout.org. "If you’re hurting, struggling, or sputtering inside right now, I want you to take a moment to see what I see."
All the shit the BBC has pulled in the past few years and the director and CEO are stepping down because they made Trump look bad 4 years ago. Whatever dude.
November 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
All the shit the BBC has pulled in the past few years and the director and CEO are stepping down because they made Trump look bad 4 years ago. Whatever dude.
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Arming and organising a bunch of people and giving them the right to deploy force in civil spaces is not an effective remedy to the vast majority of the things we consider to be "crime" and the application to this kind of thing is at best a backwards attempt to justify the police's continuation.
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Arming and organising a bunch of people and giving them the right to deploy force in civil spaces is not an effective remedy to the vast majority of the things we consider to be "crime" and the application to this kind of thing is at best a backwards attempt to justify the police's continuation.
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We have to talk more how transphobia has taken strong root among well-to-do journalists & politicians when in both the UK & US, the evidence is that voters do not share it.
The demographics of transphobia are people least likely to suffer prejudice in their lives. Richer, maler, whiter, straighter.
The demographics of transphobia are people least likely to suffer prejudice in their lives. Richer, maler, whiter, straighter.
Spanberger’s GOP foe spent 57% of her ad budget on anti-trans attacks. Spanberger focused on the economy. You see what won. trib.al/fkMmsR4
The simple truth told time and time again in the polls: The public doesn’t care about trans issues. Voters care deeply about the economy, inflation, & prices.
The simple truth told time and time again in the polls: The public doesn’t care about trans issues. Voters care deeply about the economy, inflation, & prices.
November 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM
We have to talk more how transphobia has taken strong root among well-to-do journalists & politicians when in both the UK & US, the evidence is that voters do not share it.
The demographics of transphobia are people least likely to suffer prejudice in their lives. Richer, maler, whiter, straighter.
The demographics of transphobia are people least likely to suffer prejudice in their lives. Richer, maler, whiter, straighter.
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New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
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Enthusiasm level update: the woman handing out Cuomo flyers on the corner said “you can just throw it away if you want”
November 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Enthusiasm level update: the woman handing out Cuomo flyers on the corner said “you can just throw it away if you want”
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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The premium segment for episode 80 is now online, enjoy ❤️
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Videogames Are OK Maybe? - Episode 80 - Friendslop | VGATWTOE
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November 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The premium segment for episode 80 is now online, enjoy ❤️
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