🏴Rich John🏴
@theboyrichjohn.bsky.social
Just an average middle-aged bloke. Into video games old and new. Left wing politics. Love stand-up comedy, but probably not the one you like. Will watch almost any sport that can be televised. Big motor racing fan, esp endurance/GT racing.
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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These puffins and kings have also just been added to the following gallery/shop. Lots of interesting resonant ghosty kinda stuff there, if you’re interested. And you should be dammit
www.chloecumming.com/monoprintdra...
www.chloecumming.com/monoprintdra...
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
These puffins and kings have also just been added to the following gallery/shop. Lots of interesting resonant ghosty kinda stuff there, if you’re interested. And you should be dammit
www.chloecumming.com/monoprintdra...
www.chloecumming.com/monoprintdra...
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
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I repeat myself but
Fuck Wes Streeting
Fuck Wes Streeting
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 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I repeat myself but
Fuck Wes Streeting
Fuck Wes Streeting
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Best case: The President of the United States knew about a pedophilia ring and did nothing to stop it.
Medium case: He also used his office to protect the perpetrators.
Worst case: Because he was one of the perpetrators.
Medium case: He also used his office to protect the perpetrators.
Worst case: Because he was one of the perpetrators.
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Best case: The President of the United States knew about a pedophilia ring and did nothing to stop it.
Medium case: He also used his office to protect the perpetrators.
Worst case: Because he was one of the perpetrators.
Medium case: He also used his office to protect the perpetrators.
Worst case: Because he was one of the perpetrators.
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PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY
There has been a noticeable reticence in left and liberal circles to voice full-throated support for pornography, even as it's become increasingly clear what the open end goals of the censorship movement are
In a lot of ways other leftists chose this path folks. They shrugged and didn’t care when Patreon banned a ton of hypnosis and TF creators, or when YouTube started their ASMR crackdown. Now it’s coming for queer porn creators, more and more. Who will stand up?
November 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY
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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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Morgan Freeman is taking legal action over AI clones of his voice
"I'm a little pissed off ... don’t mimic me with falseness. I don’t appreciate it and I get paid for doing stuff like that, so if you’re gonna do it without me, you're robbing me"
(via Guardian)
"I'm a little pissed off ... don’t mimic me with falseness. I don’t appreciate it and I get paid for doing stuff like that, so if you’re gonna do it without me, you're robbing me"
(via Guardian)
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Morgan Freeman is taking legal action over AI clones of his voice
"I'm a little pissed off ... don’t mimic me with falseness. I don’t appreciate it and I get paid for doing stuff like that, so if you’re gonna do it without me, you're robbing me"
(via Guardian)
"I'm a little pissed off ... don’t mimic me with falseness. I don’t appreciate it and I get paid for doing stuff like that, so if you’re gonna do it without me, you're robbing me"
(via Guardian)
An excellent piece, with first-hand experience and sources. The sort of things experienced journalists do.
Tim Davie may have gone, but the real rot still exists - Robbie Gibb and his cohorts. A highly articulate takedown.
Bravo, Lewis.
Tim Davie may have gone, but the real rot still exists - Robbie Gibb and his cohorts. A highly articulate takedown.
Bravo, Lewis.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
An excellent piece, with first-hand experience and sources. The sort of things experienced journalists do.
Tim Davie may have gone, but the real rot still exists - Robbie Gibb and his cohorts. A highly articulate takedown.
Bravo, Lewis.
Tim Davie may have gone, but the real rot still exists - Robbie Gibb and his cohorts. A highly articulate takedown.
Bravo, Lewis.
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Evergreen post.
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Evergreen post.
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Every company website is so desperate. You're on their page for five seconds and they want to send you notifications for the rest of your life. It's like if you asked somebody at an airport how to get to Terminal D and they told you, then got down on one knee and proposed.
November 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Every company website is so desperate. You're on their page for five seconds and they want to send you notifications for the rest of your life. It's like if you asked somebody at an airport how to get to Terminal D and they told you, then got down on one knee and proposed.
Honestly, every company who started advertising their Christmas food already can get fucked. It's not snowing, there's no carollers at my door, no-one's buying their turkey and stuffing yet. Get a grip.
I'm already sick of Dawn French. And in general I like Dawn French. That's how annoying it is.
I'm already sick of Dawn French. And in general I like Dawn French. That's how annoying it is.
November 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Honestly, every company who started advertising their Christmas food already can get fucked. It's not snowing, there's no carollers at my door, no-one's buying their turkey and stuffing yet. Get a grip.
I'm already sick of Dawn French. And in general I like Dawn French. That's how annoying it is.
I'm already sick of Dawn French. And in general I like Dawn French. That's how annoying it is.
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i love that he just says it.
no skirting around, no ums and ahhs. we all know they should pay it, Zack is finally saying it
no skirting around, no ums and ahhs. we all know they should pay it, Zack is finally saying it
The Spectator are confused.
It's not going to be cost free.
Billionaires are going to pay more.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
It's not going to be cost free.
Billionaires are going to pay more.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
i love that he just says it.
no skirting around, no ums and ahhs. we all know they should pay it, Zack is finally saying it
no skirting around, no ums and ahhs. we all know they should pay it, Zack is finally saying it
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Worked with a guy called Austin Healy; I kept calling him Vauxhall Nova thinking it was hilarious but it seemed he didn't as I was given a verbal warning by HR.
November 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Worked with a guy called Austin Healy; I kept calling him Vauxhall Nova thinking it was hilarious but it seemed he didn't as I was given a verbal warning by HR.
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FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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This is tough for me, I had thought clowning was an artform pretty well protected from AI.
November 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This is tough for me, I had thought clowning was an artform pretty well protected from AI.
Exploded? Don't you mean "fell apart"? Being able to smell mustard and onions is so clearly an assault. There must be a conviction on the horizon 🙄
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Exploded? Don't you mean "fell apart"? Being able to smell mustard and onions is so clearly an assault. There must be a conviction on the horizon 🙄
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Christ, he is supernaturally good at this.
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Christ, he is supernaturally good at this.
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Mr Cheney has now joined Mr Kissinger in that special circle of Hell reserved for those who have caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of their fellow humans.
“Let me ask you one question / Is your money that good? / Will it buy you forgiveness? / Do you think that it could?”
“Let me ask you one question / Is your money that good? / Will it buy you forgiveness? / Do you think that it could?”
November 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Mr Cheney has now joined Mr Kissinger in that special circle of Hell reserved for those who have caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of their fellow humans.
“Let me ask you one question / Is your money that good? / Will it buy you forgiveness? / Do you think that it could?”
“Let me ask you one question / Is your money that good? / Will it buy you forgiveness? / Do you think that it could?”
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At this point, every single journalist needs to have a simple one-sheet of the major news events that Mike Johnson and his toadies claim to have not seen, or know nothing about.
Like, hand it to them. "Okay, here. Take your time. I can wait." Call their bluff, ffs. This is absurd.
Like, hand it to them. "Okay, here. Take your time. I can wait." Call their bluff, ffs. This is absurd.
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 AM
At this point, every single journalist needs to have a simple one-sheet of the major news events that Mike Johnson and his toadies claim to have not seen, or know nothing about.
Like, hand it to them. "Okay, here. Take your time. I can wait." Call their bluff, ffs. This is absurd.
Like, hand it to them. "Okay, here. Take your time. I can wait." Call their bluff, ffs. This is absurd.
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He should have died in The Hague.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died, his family said in a statement. He was 84 abcnews.go.com/Politics/for...
November 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
He should have died in The Hague.
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The government has shut down refugee family reunion — turning in effect a “temporary pause” into a permanent ban.
Cruel. Heartless. Inhumane. 🧵
reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...
Cruel. Heartless. Inhumane. 🧵
reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...
November 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The government has shut down refugee family reunion — turning in effect a “temporary pause” into a permanent ban.
Cruel. Heartless. Inhumane. 🧵
reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...
Cruel. Heartless. Inhumane. 🧵
reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...