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YouTube video creator http://youtube.com/c/rockinchimp who loves film, gaming and cars He/Him #TransRightAreHumanRights #FreePalestine

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rockinchimp 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @rockinchimp.bsky.social · 22d

I have decided to start selling off parts of my film collection, mainly due to running out of space. So, if you are in the UK, please take a look. There are two listings available now, but many more will go up soon #FilmSky www.ebay.co.uk/usr/rockin_c...

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rockinchimp 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @rockinchimp.bsky.social · 1h

I enjoyed this so much, I actually went and bought it haha #FilmSky

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Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 1h

Rosebank forced to admit its climate impact would be 50x greater than it initially claimed. Clear evidence that this climate-wrecking oil field must never be developed

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Controversial UK oil field reveals climate impact if approved

The impact from the Rosebank oil field is estimated at nearly 250 million tonnes of planet warming CO2.

www.bbc.co.uk

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rockinchimp 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @rockinchimp.bsky.social · 1h

Been reviewing a horror film a day on my YouTube channel for this October and been really enjoying talking about a random assortment of films, some of which I don't feel are talked about enough #FilmSky

rockinchimp 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @rockinchimp.bsky.social · 1h

It depends on whoever does the TMDB entry for a film, as that is where Letterboxd gets it film data from, and it doesn't seem like it is looked at for accuracy all that much

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1h

uh, if it's no longer protecting consumers, it's because Russell Vought decimated it

Reuters @reuters.com · 2h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14h

Banks make $26bn in a decade of financing deforesting companies.

Destruction of the world’s forests reached the highest level - agricultural expansion, mining, infrastructure, logging.

Profits before climate change, human lives and the planet.

The cult of deregulation will make matters worse.

Banks make $26bn in decade of financing deforesting companies

US, EU and UK banks have made over $10 billion in income since Paris Agreement by financing companies involved in deforestation, new analysis ahead of COP30 reveals

globalwitness.org

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rockinchimp 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @rockinchimp.bsky.social · 4h

Proudly showing your ignorance like every other yank who doesn't know what a fucking atlas is

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rockinchimp 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @rockinchimp.bsky.social · 4h

Pigs can murder an unarmed person and are clearly able to get away with it www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jermaine Baker shooting: Misconduct case dropped for Met officer - BBC News

The misconduct proceedings involving W80 came after years of legal battles over the case.

www.bbc.co.uk

rockinchimp 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @rockinchimp.bsky.social · 4h

Watching, talking about and finding out about films has never been the same since

rockinchimp 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @rockinchimp.bsky.social · 4h

Hahaha, nope.

rockinchimp 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @rockinchimp.bsky.social · 6h

The Strangers – Chapter 2 (2025) #FilmSky

My first cinema trip for this spooky season, didn't like the last one or the first so not expecting much.

rockinchimp 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @rockinchimp.bsky.social · 6h

The Strangers – Chapter 2 (2025) #FilmSky

My first cinema trip for this spooky season, didn't like the last one or the first so not expecting much.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 7h

Ok but why does it look like David Cameron

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7h

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“In financial markets, a bubble occurs when the level of investment in an asset becomes persistently detached from the amount of profit that asset could plausibly generate,” Jared Bernstein and Ryan Cummings write in a guest essay. “A.I. investment fits that pattern.”

Opinion | The A.I. Bubble Looks Real

The A.I. boom is likely a speculative bubble. Like the dot-com bust and the housing crisis, its pop is going to hurt.

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sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social · 20h

good news! we've successfully addressed the problem where people were getting too emotionally entangled with our chatbot. we're happy to announce you'll be able to fuck it soon

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 7h

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h

Legalise *and* regulate drugs.

This morning on @jeremyvine.bsky.social:

youtu.be/kBjqQAFdBRQ?...

Should we legalise all drugs? feat. Zack Polanski & Carole Malone | Jeremy Vine

YouTube video by Jeremy, Storm & Vanessa On 5

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 8h

A fox was trapped underground in London.
Instead of helping, LBC presenter Ian Payne laughed about it live on air, calling the fox “vermin” and joking that he might “let it waste away down there.”
This isn’t just one moment of cruelty. It is part of a wider culture that treats wildlife as a joke.

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rockinchimp 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @rockinchimp.bsky.social · 7h

One is useful, the other isn't

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 13h

One from the archives.

The number of vet practices owned by large corporations rose from 10% in 2013 to 60% in 2024, & over a similar period the prices they charge have increased by 70%- 80%. Entirely coincidence, I'm sure.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 12h

A reminder that Israel has used the dead bodies of Palestinians as bargaining chips for decades.

Last year Mustafa Barghouti explained that Israel is holding over 500 bodies.

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rockinchimp 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @rockinchimp.bsky.social · 12h

It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) #FilmSky

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 1d

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1d

katherine dee is herself a reactionary who has written for TERF blog fairer disputations. her bio there cites her work at american conservative, unherd, and the washington examiner. interesting how the bio she chose here doesn’t reflect that bias. the work itself features no actual citations

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 2d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

www.gq.com

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rockinchimp 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @rockinchimp.bsky.social · 21h

No surprise a transphobe is a big fan of a misogynist

rockinchimp 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @rockinchimp.bsky.social · 21h

Anyone who does this is a pathetic loser

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Creature from the Jack Lagoon @jacklikesfilms.bsky.social · 22h

Nigel Farage said he was going to ‘don khaki, pick up a rifle and hit the frontline’ against the government if Brexit didn't happen.

Amazing whose threats get taken seriously, isn't it?

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 1d

Man jailed for five years for threatening to kill Nigel Farage on TikTok

The Reform UK leader has described the threats made in a TikTok video as "pretty chilling".

www.bbc.com

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