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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

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 · 1h

Ok but why does it look like David Cameron

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2h

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 · 15h

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 · 2h

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 · 3h

Legalise *and* regulate drugs.

This morning on @jeremyvine.bsky.social:

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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 · 2h

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 · 2h

One is useful, the other isn't

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 7h

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 · 7h

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

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 19h

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 · 22h

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 · 22h

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 · 1d

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 · 16h

No surprise a transphobe is a big fan of a misogynist

rockinchimp 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @rockinchimp.bsky.social · 16h

Anyone who does this is a pathetic loser

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Creature from the Jack Lagoon @jacklikesfilms.bsky.social · 16h

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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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 16h

The freedom of speech lovers are at it again

WSJ headline that reads "breaking news: The U.S. has revoked the visas of at least six people for their comments on the death of Charlie Kirk, the State Department said"

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 18h

they don't make right wing freaks like this anymore, that pie would've put andy ngo into the ICU

gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 18h

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 19h

Zack Polanski and Chlöe Swarbrick, co-leader of Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, discuss the similarities and differences of striving for fairer societies on opposite sides of the planet. Tonight on this week's episode of Bold Politics.

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rockinchimp 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @rockinchimp.bsky.social · 17h

No, I don't want to see anyone in anything that they don't at least consent to and do for real. AI slop deserves to be derided and put in the trash.

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Stone Cold 𓅃 @bisexualmorpheus.bsky.social · 18h

[sat upon a pile of corpses 750,000 deep] yes but how does this poll

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 22h

Labour MPs reckon that if the ceasefire holds it will be harder for opponents to mobilize against them over the Israel-Palestine issue in the next election. There are concerns though about whether the fragile agreement will hold. More in London Playbook PM.

London Playbook PM: Has he Don Keir a favor?

Presented by Rolls-Royce By EMILIO CASALICCHIO with NOAH KEATE PRESENTED BY Send tips here | Subscribe for free | Listen to Playbook and view in your browser SCOOP — LOBBY TO LOBBIED: Sky News Poli…

www.politico.eu

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 2d

Cookie Monster is not an animal

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 2d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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onion person @junlper.beer · 21h

israel has already broken the ceasefire

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

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) #FilmSky

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Barbara @barbaracrazycat.bsky.social · 1d

Media organisations printing false or misleading information should be required to print their apologies/retractions in the same place with the same prominence as the original article....
Please sign the petition to make it a legal requirement.

James Latimer awaiting sequel to The Wolf and the Wild King 🐺👑 @jameslatimer.bsky.social · 1d

If only more people cared!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Petition: Require media retractions be made as visible as original headlines or articles

We think media companies should not be allowed to get away with printing false, misleading and malicious headlines, only to hide the retractions on interior pages or fine print some days later. Retrac...

petition.parliament.uk

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Peace & Justice Project @peaceandjustice.bsky.social · 1d

Despite the ceasefire agreement, Israel continues to slaughter Palestinians in Gaza.

The egregious breaches of the so-called peace plan cannot be ignored and those responsible must be brought to justice.

Israel kills several Palestinians in Gaza strikes

Attack on Gazans inspecting homes comes days after fragile ceasefire goes into effect

www.ft.com

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