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Kolo
@helloitskolo.bsky.social
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UK based Gamer, wheelchair user and lover of strong narratives!

Sci-fi, accessibility, TTRPGs, plants, community and stopping to pet the cat🌻🌈♿ she/her

find me here: helloitskolo.com/links
work enquiries: [email protected]
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rnib.bsky.social
What day is it?
Images of a scene from the film Mean Girls. The top image text reads 'On October 3rd, he asked me what day it was', then on the picture below it says 'It's October 3rd, the day you start using alt text!' Both images show the character Aaron Samuels who's white with brown hair, a brown open shirt and blue t-shirt and is sitting at a school desk. Behind him is Lindsey Lohan's character Cady who is also writing notes in her book, has long fierce red hair and a grey open zip hoodie on. She's giddy and smiling as she confirms what day it is today.
October 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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topher.io
One thing I've changed recently - instead of using "visual", "audio" etc, I now prefer Microsoft's Touch / See / Hear / Speak.
It makes it clear that you're talking about the user.

e.g. does "audio accessibility" refer to those who have sight or hearing needs?
Microsoft Inclusive Design toolkit, showing a Touch/See/Hear/Speak vs Permanent/Temporary/Situational matrix
October 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys
September 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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troopersjp.bsky.social
We are live with a special 3-Shot of Drakonym! Come see our team...which starts a bit fractured...can we rescue someone important to us from a prison with no name? Let's get the gang back together for a new heist!
twitch.tv/Tablestory
tablestory.tv Tablestory @tablestory.tv · Aug 27
On September 3rd, the Drakonym adventure continues on Tablestory! 🐉Featuring @drakoniques.itch.io @helloitskolo.bsky.social @negaoryx.bsky.social @troopersjp.bsky.social and GM @pumpkinberry.tv. From the fine folks at @crossedpaths.co.uk.
September 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
helloitskolo.bsky.social
Silly business is my favourite kind of business
September 2, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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tablestory.tv
On September 3rd, the Drakonym adventure continues on Tablestory! 🐉Featuring @drakoniques.itch.io @helloitskolo.bsky.social @negaoryx.bsky.social @troopersjp.bsky.social and GM @pumpkinberry.tv. From the fine folks at @crossedpaths.co.uk.
August 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
helloitskolo.bsky.social
Got my hair cut and painted my wall. Hi Bluesky 🌱💖
Kolo, a white woman with curly ginger hair and glasses smiles at the camera in front of a dark green wall. A variegated monstera leaf is visible in the background. Kolo wears a white t-shirt with the sleeve rolled up and a red mushroom print on it. Same subject as before, slightly different post with Kolo's head at a slight angle Same subject, different pose. Kolo looks up to the top left.
August 21, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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sightlesskombat.com
ICYMI: I've been invited by the wonderful team at Sound Without Sight to present on #accessibility and audio innovations in gaming over the past few years!
Interested? More info and registration here!
soundwithoutsight.org/news/next-me...
Next Meet-up: SightlessKombat shares how audio innovations are improving access to gaming - Sound Without Sight
Next session: Thursday 21 August 2025, 7pm BST. SightlessKombat shares how audio innovations are improving access to gaming. We are very excited to announce our next Monthly Meet-up, a presentation…
soundwithoutsight.org
August 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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hfrayling.com
You mean this image here is part of what's causing the heatwaves?

Best not download it for your own private use!
Meme that has a pixelated photo of a possum in the background with vibrant word art style text in front that says: God gives his Toughest battles To his strongest soldiers I am not one of them Please make it stop
August 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
helloitskolo.bsky.social
Kinda wild that this is my job tbh
Text screenshot. It reads "looking forward to petting the cat, Kolo"
August 8, 2025 at 7:24 AM
helloitskolo.bsky.social
A baby!!!
A hand behind a tiny curled up baby leaf with white and light green colouring, on a variegated monstera plant. Part of a large mature, dark green leaf of the same plant is in the foreground.
August 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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djolder.bsky.social
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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tarjapk.bsky.social
Illustration of a hedgehog. Text above reads Hedgehog Anatomy. Head is marked with a word “hed”, and the rest of the animal is marked with “gehog”.
July 31, 2025 at 6:16 AM
helloitskolo.bsky.social
Finally answering my most FAQ....

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey

Today. Live on Twitch.

5pm BST/ 6pm CEST/ 9am PT/ 11am CT/ 12 noon EDT

It's been 5 years since I played. About time I got to grips with Space Legs!!!
Kolo, a white woman with ginger curly hair and glasses looks up to the corner with her head resting on her hand. Around her is a collection of screenshots of comments from YouTube, Twitch, Instagram and TikTok in which users talk about Elite Dangerous. The screenshotted comments request in various ways that that Kolo plays Elite Dangerous, or asks when she will be playing it, or if she still plays it, or specifically requests streams of Elite Dangerous: Odyssey
July 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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nothingwithoutus.bsky.social
✨TOMORROW'S STREAM PANELISTS✨

Tomorrow NWU will be on the front page of Twitch at 7:45pm BST!

Joined by incredible panelists, our Director,
@littlemotac.bsky.social, will be discussing disability inclusion, representation and accessibility within gaming!

See you there!
twitch.tv/NothingWitho...
Graphic with geometric and gaming icons along the sides. At the top is text that reads "Panelist Announcement". Underneath is a photo of Annabel Ashalley-Anthony with text attached that readsd "Annabel Ashalley-Anthony. @melaningamers. she/her" Underneath is text that reads "Annabel is a writer, gamer and sickle-cell superhero. She is also the CEO/ Founder of Melanin Gamers, a gaming community that promotes inclusion and diversity in the video games industry. She is a Women in Games Ambassador and International Relations for the Ghana Esports Federation." Graphic with geometric and gaming icons along the sides. At the top is text that reads "Panelist Announcement". Underneath is a photo of Laura with text attached that reads "Laura Dale. @LauraKBuzz she/her" Underneath is text that reads "Laura Kate Dale, an autistic accessibility consultant, speedruns the past, present, and future state of autistic player accessibility in video games." Graphic with geometric and gaming icons along the sides. At the top is text that reads "Panelist Announcement". Underneath is a photo of MeleeMira with text attached that reads "MeleeMira @MeleeMira any pronouns" Underneath is text that reads "meleemira (any pronouns) is a Black, queer, neurodivergent creator, voice actor, host, and disability advocate based on the east coast. their lifelong passion for gaming led her to start a career in streaming in 2019. mira enjoys story based, simulation, and indie titles and is a community driven creator who advocates for important topics such as racial equity, LGBTQIA2+ rights, accessibility, inclusivity, and more, all while still finding time for genuine joy and camaraderie." Graphic with geometric and gaming icons along the sides. At the top is text that reads "Panelist Announcement". Underneath is a photo of Mollie with text attached that reads "Mollie Evans @littlemotac she/her". Underneath is text that reads "Mollie is a disabled content creator and Director of NWU. She has worked to increase inclusion within gaming through videos analysing diversity within games and through her work on Disability Pride events and at NWU."
July 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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helloitskolo.bsky.social
I want to use my human brain to make content for other human brains, not for an algorithm, not with AI. I'm aiming for HUMAN, not perfection.

I just want to make something REAL. To actually connect with real people, is that so unusual? I truly cannot understand why that's become so impossible.
July 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM
helloitskolo.bsky.social
YouTube is using AI to suggest responses to comments people make on my videos.

It's must be trained on previous responses as it's using words & emojis I regularly use.

I hate it. I just want to be a human making content for humans & can't find the off switch

Does anyone know how to turn this off?
screenshot of a YouTube AI feature showing the reply button and then a diamond symbol next to the text "replies made with AI". The suggested reply reads "I love that! Volo is such a treaure, so glad you're enjoying the content and the channel! 💖"
July 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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mcroft07.bsky.social
I'm proud of this one!!!!
July 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
helloitskolo.bsky.social
No way?! Thanks Twitch!
Screenshot from Twitch Dashboard showing the cover artwork for Baldur's Gate 3, alongside text that reads "Did you know? 3% of your viewers also watch Baldur's Gate 3. If you also like it, try it out on a stream!" Then lower down it asks "was this useful?" Screenshot of the website Twitch Tracker. Text reads "List of games streamed by HelloItsKolo", then underneath it shows Baldur's Gate 3 with a total stream time of 242 hours.
July 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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gortz.bsky.social
I have been affected by the recent restructures at Bethesda, After an amazing 8 years i am on the lookout for new opportunities in Community, Marketing, and beyond. Slide into those DM's for a chat.

It's been an incredible run. Very proud of what was achieved.
July 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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jessicacalarco.com
Art is inefficient. Care is inefficient. Joy is inefficient. Humanity is inefficient. Don't let them take that away.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 7
Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...
What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business? The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday. The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times. That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working. You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step. If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.
July 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
helloitskolo.bsky.social
Just rolled credits on Blue Prince.

What a game... and I've barely scratched the surface.

If you have any recommendations of games where you play/puzzle the narrative in a non linear order, like Subnautica, Outer Wilds, Blue Prince etc... please send them my way!! I love this format!
July 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
helloitskolo.bsky.social
Baldur's Gate 3 is possibly the best AND the most absurd game I've ever played.

Last night I got Sarevok down first try after 90 mins, suuuper clutch. Hardest fight in the game so far... but now I have to re-do the entire thing because I accidently upset a flying elephant 😂

I love this game 😂
screenshot from Kolo's stream showing Baldur's Gate 3 gameplay and Kolo's facecam in the top right. Kolo has her head in her hands. The gameplay is very dark but shows the character Valeria; a flying elephant with wings and a little hat, flying in the air. At the bottom of the screenshot the text reads "Narrator: This individual doesn't seem particularly fond of you. Perhaps a gift would improve their sentiment"
June 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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laurakbuzz.bsky.social
Accessibility Tags are Now Live on Steam - How Are They? - Access-Ability

Text: access-ability.uk/2025/06/20/a...

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nb...
Accessibility Tags are Now Live on Steam - How Are They? - Access-Ability
YouTube video by LauraKBuzz
www.youtube.com
June 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
helloitskolo.bsky.social
New haircut, new profile picture, still very ginger ✨
Kolo, a white woman wearing glasses looks to one side and smiles. She has freshly styled curly finger hair with a fringe that looks much tidier than it has in recent weeks!
June 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM