Lee Kenny
@leekenny.bsky.social
(He/him) UK based PGR, writing my PhD thesis about Interactive Spectatorial Dynamics; Clown, Street Performer, and more!
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This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country
A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings
A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country
A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings
A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings
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Labour is about to announce atrocious new legislation on asylum - sign this to show them a different approach is possible!
Lift the Ban: Open letter
Sign an open letter calling on the Home Secretary to #LiftTheBan on people seeking asylum being able to work. It’s time to unlock talents, supercharge the economy, and let people thrive.
act.refugee-action.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Labour is about to announce atrocious new legislation on asylum - sign this to show them a different approach is possible!
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Even suggesting this should be so far beyond acceptable that her political career is ruined forever.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Even suggesting this should be so far beyond acceptable that her political career is ruined forever.
We were told "they're acting this way to attract voters, but they will steer left once they're in power".
How's that one working out?
How's that one working out?
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
We were told "they're acting this way to attract voters, but they will steer left once they're in power".
How's that one working out?
How's that one working out?
Kid: Mum, can we buy Reform UK
Mum: No, we have Reform UK at home.
The Reform UK LTD at home:
Mum: No, we have Reform UK at home.
The Reform UK LTD at home:
On Monday, Shabana Mahmood will announce an overhaul of the asylum system, here’s why ⬇️
November 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Kid: Mum, can we buy Reform UK
Mum: No, we have Reform UK at home.
The Reform UK LTD at home:
Mum: No, we have Reform UK at home.
The Reform UK LTD at home:
It should be illegal for employers to make you fill out 60+ question psychological screenings during the application process. Absolutely ridiculous.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
It should be illegal for employers to make you fill out 60+ question psychological screenings during the application process. Absolutely ridiculous.
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The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting says that the British Medical Association, which represents Britain's doctors, is a threat to the NHS. Streeting took a record £225k from private healthcare-related donors in just two years.
British Medical Association ‘threat to future of NHS’, says Streeting ahead of doctors’ strike
Health secretary accuses doctors’ union of ‘cartel-like behaviour’ and tells it to ‘get real’ over pay demands
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.
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No, MS Word, I do NOT want you to summarize the document I AM LITERALLY WRITING MYSELF. Why would I need that? God, I hate how intrusive this s--t is. I just want to make it go away and it appears that our institutional version of the software does not have any of the off switches for it.
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
No, MS Word, I do NOT want you to summarize the document I AM LITERALLY WRITING MYSELF. Why would I need that? God, I hate how intrusive this s--t is. I just want to make it go away and it appears that our institutional version of the software does not have any of the off switches for it.
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Beyond fed up with how MPs have leapt on the chance to turn a transphobic murder into something to do with children's access to mobile phones, completely washing their hands of the transphobic radicalisation of adults that has driven this hate.
It's our version of school shootings and video games.
It's our version of school shootings and video games.
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Beyond fed up with how MPs have leapt on the chance to turn a transphobic murder into something to do with children's access to mobile phones, completely washing their hands of the transphobic radicalisation of adults that has driven this hate.
It's our version of school shootings and video games.
It's our version of school shootings and video games.
This is true of many art forms, but my interdisciplinary wander into game studies has shown this to very much be the case for games and play in particular.
It both interests and frustrates me when I see academia struggling to grapple with ambiguity in art! Spoilers: it's usually due to colonialism.
It both interests and frustrates me when I see academia struggling to grapple with ambiguity in art! Spoilers: it's usually due to colonialism.
the word "game" predates people's attempts to define it and it has always described categories of activities that lie outside the strict academic framework. any attempts to define "game" are regionally and linguistically locked and predicated on cultural norms
November 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
This is true of many art forms, but my interdisciplinary wander into game studies has shown this to very much be the case for games and play in particular.
It both interests and frustrates me when I see academia struggling to grapple with ambiguity in art! Spoilers: it's usually due to colonialism.
It both interests and frustrates me when I see academia struggling to grapple with ambiguity in art! Spoilers: it's usually due to colonialism.
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Tech wythout heart ys harmful.
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Tech wythout heart ys harmful.
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
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Beckett stage props found on Mullaghmore.
November 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Beckett stage props found on Mullaghmore.
Trying to find a balance between [writing a literature review about spectator agency that includes play and ludonarrative loops] and [writing a literature review about play that focuses on agency] is a tricky balancing act that I fear I might have been doing a bad job at so far...
November 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Trying to find a balance between [writing a literature review about spectator agency that includes play and ludonarrative loops] and [writing a literature review about play that focuses on agency] is a tricky balancing act that I fear I might have been doing a bad job at so far...
On Saturday I had a mysterious email from the library informing me that a book (which was on my office desk) had been returned.
I get in this morning to find said book still firmly on my desk.
Spooky...
I get in this morning to find said book still firmly on my desk.
Spooky...
November 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
On Saturday I had a mysterious email from the library informing me that a book (which was on my office desk) had been returned.
I get in this morning to find said book still firmly on my desk.
Spooky...
I get in this morning to find said book still firmly on my desk.
Spooky...
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Every time you say "actually Frankenstein was the name of the scientist" you're just replicating his damnable act of disavowal and abandonment that drove his creation to murder but okay
November 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Every time you say "actually Frankenstein was the name of the scientist" you're just replicating his damnable act of disavowal and abandonment that drove his creation to murder but okay
Oh look: Bridget Phillipson is boasting that she is willing to pour another can of diesel onto the education bonfire despite the unions (that are filled with actually trained educators) very clearly telling her it will make things worse
Once again… testing is not teaching.
Testing children does not teach them to read and it doesn’t encourage schools to teach children to read. It encourages schools to teach to the test.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Testing children does not teach them to read and it doesn’t encourage schools to teach children to read. It encourages schools to teach to the test.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Bridget Phillipson ‘ready to take on unions’ over year 8 reading tests
Education secretary says mandatory test needed to tackle ‘shocking outcomes’ for many working-class children
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Oh look: Bridget Phillipson is boasting that she is willing to pour another can of diesel onto the education bonfire despite the unions (that are filled with actually trained educators) very clearly telling her it will make things worse
I think it's important to remember: the scary thing isn't that AI is becoming so pervasive, but rather the fact that so many people are so easily manipulated that they believe what AI says over their own critical faculties.
October 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I think it's important to remember: the scary thing isn't that AI is becoming so pervasive, but rather the fact that so many people are so easily manipulated that they believe what AI says over their own critical faculties.
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No one on earth ever de-escalated a situation by saying “calm down” or “it’s not that deep”
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
No one on earth ever de-escalated a situation by saying “calm down” or “it’s not that deep”
Index Card Watercolours #12: Toadstools at Night
October 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Index Card Watercolours #12: Toadstools at Night
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Was reminded of PACE, an LGBT mental health charity that shut down due to funding cuts a decade ago.
And since then the UK has given two anti-trans hate groups charity status, LGBA and Sex Matters.
www.thepinknews.com/2016/01/22/l...
And since then the UK has given two anti-trans hate groups charity status, LGBA and Sex Matters.
www.thepinknews.com/2016/01/22/l...
LGBT+ mental health charity PACE shutting down after 31 years
A charity that has specialised in mental health services for LGBT+ people is closing down after 31 years, citing the financial climate.
www.thepinknews.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Was reminded of PACE, an LGBT mental health charity that shut down due to funding cuts a decade ago.
And since then the UK has given two anti-trans hate groups charity status, LGBA and Sex Matters.
www.thepinknews.com/2016/01/22/l...
And since then the UK has given two anti-trans hate groups charity status, LGBA and Sex Matters.
www.thepinknews.com/2016/01/22/l...
Index Card Watercolours #11: Spooktober Friends
(Note, it's very early for the ghost, hence the latte...)
(Note, it's very early for the ghost, hence the latte...)
October 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Index Card Watercolours #11: Spooktober Friends
(Note, it's very early for the ghost, hence the latte...)
(Note, it's very early for the ghost, hence the latte...)
It's 2025, can we stop telling people that they "need to come out of their shells?"
It is neither your place nor within your skillset to deconstruct whatever trauma makes a person feel that they have to hide who they are around people they aren't comfortable with.
It is neither your place nor within your skillset to deconstruct whatever trauma makes a person feel that they have to hide who they are around people they aren't comfortable with.
October 19, 2025 at 11:06 AM
It's 2025, can we stop telling people that they "need to come out of their shells?"
It is neither your place nor within your skillset to deconstruct whatever trauma makes a person feel that they have to hide who they are around people they aren't comfortable with.
It is neither your place nor within your skillset to deconstruct whatever trauma makes a person feel that they have to hide who they are around people they aren't comfortable with.
I'm fed up of job applications for minimum wage work asking "why do you want to work here" - what do you think you're measuring with this question? My ability to lie to you? Or should I be honest and tell you 'I need a job and you're hiring"?
October 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I'm fed up of job applications for minimum wage work asking "why do you want to work here" - what do you think you're measuring with this question? My ability to lie to you? Or should I be honest and tell you 'I need a job and you're hiring"?
Looking for some good sources, particularly books or articles, on player agency in various modes of gaming (video games, tabletop games, LARP, etc...) for my thesis!
Any and all recommendations welcome 😁
Any and all recommendations welcome 😁
October 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Looking for some good sources, particularly books or articles, on player agency in various modes of gaming (video games, tabletop games, LARP, etc...) for my thesis!
Any and all recommendations welcome 😁
Any and all recommendations welcome 😁
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Belonging to the misogynistic and anti-LGBTQ 'gender critical' hate movement does not make you a 'gender studies' scholar @waterstones.bsky.social.
Whichever bigoted staff member curated that hateful, filthy display cost your company £60.
Whichever bigoted staff member curated that hateful, filthy display cost your company £60.
October 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Belonging to the misogynistic and anti-LGBTQ 'gender critical' hate movement does not make you a 'gender studies' scholar @waterstones.bsky.social.
Whichever bigoted staff member curated that hateful, filthy display cost your company £60.
Whichever bigoted staff member curated that hateful, filthy display cost your company £60.