Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 6hGod, you remember that movie THE HUNT? The one that claimed to be a clever satire about the divide between the left and the right in the US, but which was actually just "rich MAGA vs. working-class MAGA"? Yeah, that sure was a movie that happened without anyone ever reading a book 170
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 11hI know that conspiracy theories are soooo funny and all, but one reason why I take their existence very seriously is b/c in many cases they are also incredibly racist, including when they insist that brown people couldn't possibly be good enough to have made things of wonder and intrigue themselvestheguardian.comFalse claims about Aboriginal rock art and aliens were once fringe. Researchers fear AI could push them mainstreamArcheologists warn AI summaries can repeat false claims about 12,000-year-old rock art from Western Australia’s Kimberley region being painted by aliens 040
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 18hI'm in a workshop to develop a heritage charter for how to engage with Pasifika heritage. People from across the Pacific are here giving their diverse perspectives, and the task is for us all to try distilling this complexity into something that will serve us all. I feel like I was born to do this 182
Reposted by Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21hstrongly agreed. fines and criminal penalties should not merely communicate a finger wag but actually change the strategic situation of a would-be white collar criminal 16768154
Reposted by Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 28/09/2026This "it's all about the context" shit from disingenuous worms who have actively gone out of their way to gut any kind of engagement with the social sciences and humanities in their industries. It's too late to pretend you know how this works 072
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 28/09/2026Odd - the byline implies the lawsuit is about Black employees using the N-word, but when you read the article there's no mention of this. The article describes the lawsuit as being about the racialised environment faced by Black employees, with Tesla's lawyer using Black use of the word as a defense 1133
Reposted by Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Rahul Rao reviews Pankaj Mishra's The World After Gaza alongside Esmat Elhalaby's Parting Gifts of Empire, recovering a forgotten history of anticolonial solidarity: www.himalmag.com/pankaj-mishr...himalmag.comThe limits of Pankaj Mishra’s reckoning on Gaza and ZionismPankaj Mishra’s ‘The World After Gaza’ searches for common ground between diverse histories of suffering, but his centring of Jewish trauma leaves Palestine diminished. Esmat Elhalaby, by contrast, re... 011
Reposted by Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In January 2025, Chintan Girish Modi wrote about the tension between long-standing Palestinian solidarity and India's expanding relationship with Israel: www.himalmag.com/india-israel...himalmag.comCan India ever return to a principled Palestine policy?Three new books demonstrate how India’s position on Israel–Palestine is determined by a careful calibration of geopolitical ties and its own image and interests 021
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 28/09/2026Is the past-tense of "enshittification" "enshat"? 082
Reposted by Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026You don't have an inalienable right to be an antisocial dipshit because you're doomscrolling all day and it makes you feel terrible. There are no qualifiers to this. You are not released from the obligation to try to be decent just because Elon Musk is lighting the world on fire. 9848197
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 27/09/2026lmao the best part about working your arse off to make high-quality, research-based videos about complex topics is watching the dough just rolling in 191
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 27/09/2026I'm not used to my videos continuing to have traction after a few weeks, but I have continued to get a really lovely trickle of comments on the MIDSOMMAR video almost a month later. People are still reflecting, still connecting it with their own lives, still adding nuance. I couldn't be happier!static.klipy.comKevin Hart CryingAlt: Kevin Hart bawls as he kisses his hand and extends it in front of him, very clearly moved by something 1262
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 26/09/2026I finally got around to watching OBSESSION after resisting all the hype, but my goodness, it actually lived up to it. An entire film channeling the energy of this one moment from GET OUT:static.klipy.comGeorgina from Get Out: Emotional SmileAlt: A close-up of the face of Georgina from Get Out. She is smiling widely and stiffly not quite masking the veins on her forehead standing out with exertion while a single tear trickles down her cheek 090
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 26/09/2026Watching this without sound made my day Look at their little cheeky white wiggles Look at their little synchronized gestures This was choreographed to a mad degree A whole team worked on this 053
Reposted by Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026isnt it only "rogue" because OpenAI designed it to be 2547
Reposted by Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 25/09/2026So, I bought a bundle of deck-building games, but I already own half of them, so if anyone would like one please let me know! Here's what's up for grabs: - Cultist Simulator - Hadean Tactics: Deluxe Edition - Monster Train and The Last Divinity DLC - Wingspan - SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech 154
Reposted by Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026HUGE UPDATE: we halted Amazon's panel at Climate Week. We shut it down so hard that every guest and every speaker had to leave the premises. No one was able to return. Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break. 25750252
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 25/09/2026Alright. I'm in Sydney for a week. What's here besides a weirdly-shaped house for singing 040
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 25/09/2026It's great man theory thinly veiling a sales pitch. Surely it takes a real genius to create a life-threatening technology. Such innovation! All hail the hypno toad! 171
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 25/09/2026Fortunately I've not experienced this in Melbourne (literally masked up right now) but I wonder where this ridiculous stigma comes from. Do we think it's antisocial? Does it feel like an moral judgement against us? Masking hasn't been a phenomenon in the West for long - how did this prejudice form? 2162
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 25/09/2026My good colleagues at Extinction Rebellion DRC are fundraising to train local residents in the Democratic Republic of Congo to fight back against predatory oil & mining companies encroaching on crucial biodiversity areas. I'm going to help out & I hope you will too! www.gofundme.com/f/xr-rutshur...gofundme.comDonate to XR Rutshuru continue la lutte en RDC face aux fossiles !, organized by Romain Morizot(French and Italian below, other languages will follow soon) … Romain Morizot needs your support for XR Rutshuru continue la lutte en RDC face aux fossiles ! 022
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 25/09/2026So, I bought a bundle of deck-building games, but I already own half of them, so if anyone would like one please let me know! Here's what's up for grabs: - Cultist Simulator - Hadean Tactics: Deluxe Edition - Monster Train and The Last Divinity DLC - Wingspan - SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech 154
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 24/09/2026There's a video I've been sitting on writing for such a long time & it almost feels like it's well overdue now. I want to do a complete Alan Partridge bio from the perspective of how to make a provocative comedy character age gracefully without losing its edge. I'll call it "How to Be an Arsehole"static.klipy.comAlan Partridge Spitfire: 'Why we bothered winning the war'Alt: An older Alan Partridge sits in an air-borne spitfire with old-fashioned flying goggles. He shakes his head and mutters "Sometimes wonder why we bothered winning the war" 040
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 24/09/2026Woohoo! Series 3 of THE #CREEPTAPES franchise is coming out! If you need a primer for the series before jumping in, I made a video a little while back exploring how the series unpacks some of the mythologies of serial killers that just don't seem to want to correct themselves #FilmSkyyoutube.comThe #CREEP Franchise is about (Yes) All Men #creeptapesYouTube video by Kav P 030
Reposted by Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 23/09/2026The far right in France has accused Thélyson Orélien, a Haitian writer whose novel has been widely acclaimed, to have used AI to write it The accusation is, unsurprisingly, based on shaky grounds as described in this excellent article but the damage is done www.mediapart.fr/journal/cult...mediapart.frThélyson Orélien : mécanique d’une polémiqueLa campagne accusant l’écrivain canado-haïtien d’avoir eu recours à l’IA est orchestrée depuis l’extrême droite médiatique. Mais elle prend aussi son essor dans le vertige de ce que l’usage des outil… 315273
Reposted by Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In memory of Refaat Alareer on what would have been his 47th birthday. My last email exchanged with Refaat on 12 Oct 2023, less than 2 months before he was martyred in a targeted Israeli strike. I had hoped to work with him on a project on free speech and academic freedom in Palestine & beyond. 01810
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 23/09/2026I honestly kind of feel like right-wingers and GenAI imagery are a match made in heaven because neither of them are capable of fully thinking through their ideas before farting them or into the void. Love too put windows on my Trojan horse 3254
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 22/09/2026The finished parts of the script for my next video (comparing THE DISASTER ARTIST with DOLEMITE IS MY NAME to unpack the concept of 'the toxic auteur') are currently ~40 minutes, and there's a chunk left to do. If this ends up being another 1-hour video I'm going to fire my editor. Which is me 080
Reposted by Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 22/09/2026Famous political speeches: "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up" "Tear down this wall!" "The lady's not for turning" "We need somebody who will fight back against the fart left. Now, you may not have even heard that, but I just called them the fart left, not the far left" 162
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 22/09/2026When your lowest common denominator joke is so poorly delivered that you still have to explain it for it to land 4152
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 22/09/2026Aww yiii ready to quit my day job and become a full-time YouTuber. This working relationship clearly benefits me more than YouTube (And yes, that's Australian dollars, that powerhouse of the global economy) 3131
Reposted by Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/09/2026Hate to say it folks but all the megatonnes of emissions from fossil-fuelled data centres might just be worth it for this: 32611
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 20/09/2026One surprising thing in the response to the MIDSOMMAR video is the ppl praising me for not censoring the gore as if I did something daring. This was a genuine oversight on my part that I regret! The last thing I want is for the message of my video to be lost bc I traumatised someone for shock value 190
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 19/09/2026For anyone who's interested in actually voting on this, the post is now live:youtube.comPoll from Kav P - YouTubeAhoy-hoy! First of all, after over 10 years since YouTube arbitrarily changed the criteria, I'm back on the YouTube Partner Programme, thanks to everyone wat... 052
Reposted by Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is an extraordinary story and the FT has more here giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comReform UK’s mega-donor backed a friend’s libel claim. Now he controls her homeCrypto billionaire Ben Delo loaned more than £300,000 to former academic Nina Power 38650
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 18/09/2026Lovely writing from Violet, as always. This one is for all those of you who might genuinely be anxious about an AI uprising and need an easy-to-understand breakdown about how it actually works, but are too afraid to ask because online spaces these days tend to be toxic cesspits of rage 030
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 18/09/2026I was writing up a poll about which video I should work on after the one I'm making now, and it's a truly fascinating look into my brain: 3613
Reposted by Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 17/09/2026#AutisticiInventati “Twenty thousand blogs are going dark and there has been no outcry, because people are asking themselves whether it is wise to defend an organization the US has designated as terrorist…internet.exchangepoint.techWhat It Means to Lose Autistici/InventatiA terrorism designation is forcing Autistici/Inventati to shut down operations, and forcing its blogging platform NoBlogs off the internet. 12616
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 17/09/2026"AI is not actually exceptional, nor is it disrupting life in a ‘new’ way. Quite the opposite. Contemporary AI expressions are simply an updated model by which unethical human behaviours are perpetrated at greater speed and with further reach" Amazing Indigenous jab at both settler-colonialism & AIpublishing.monash.eduThe AI (R)evolution - Monash University PublishingHow can we walk along the path already led by First Nations communities to generate technology that is supportive of, and not at odds with, all life? AI has quickly... 162
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 17/09/2026I know that this is too late, but it's certainly not too little. Accountability too late is still accountability, and him speaking out now is inevitably going to impact his career prospects going forwards, so I don't take for granted the weight of his words here. I recommend reading the whole thing! 0228
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 17/09/2026Me whenever I bite the bullet and sit in on another workshop on how to set up my decolonial museum consultancy and it's full of neoliberal 'free marketplace' hypeyoutube.comTim Curry is escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.YouTube video by geoff EXE 050
Reposted by Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead. 4644255
Reposted by Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 16/09/2026"Guys, before we put this live, should we check if there's any symbolism to the closing date?" "Nah, should be fine." 27648149
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 16/09/2026Ha ha ha ha, I'm attending a seminar & at the end the facilitator plugged a 3-week course they're holding about using AI to develop ideas. I had my camera on, and I couldn't help myself; my face immediately twisted into the sad face emoji It took me about 10 seconds before I saw my face & realised 090
Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 16/09/2026BREAKING: Zorak and the Original Way Outs will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran 040
Reposted by Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Democrats really do not think marginalized groups are serious about their civil rights and I am so sorry for them that they keep having to learn the hard way. 145062
Reposted by Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉polqat @polq.at · 16/09/2026Ed was just following orders 031
Reposted by Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 14/09/2026"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" Excellent from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app www.wired.com/story/one-of...wired.comOne of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. 07028
Reposted by Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Take note of how many of these articles refuse the ask the very obvious and necessary followup -- "scared of what, precisely." 310838
Reposted by Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 14/09/2026Hey folks, I'll do a hunt myself, but in case any of you have come across any really insightful videos by Black Youtubers about DOLEMITE, DOLEMITE IS MY NAME, Rudy Ray Moore, or any combination thereof, please send them my way! I want to shout out some of them in my next video 😄 #FilmSky 142