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Rochus Wolff

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Folgen Sie mir, ich gehe ins Kino. (Editor, author, film critic, feminist, working dad. Online since 1994. Specializes in children's films, runs @kinderfilmblog.de. Cis. He/Er.) Also on Mastodon: @[email protected] - https://letterboxd.com/rrho/

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Rochus Wolff @rrho.bsky.social · Nov 18

#Hallo Ich bin Rochus, hauptberuflich Redakteur und Berater für Online-Texte, nebenberuflich Filmkritiker, vor allem zu Kinderfilmen, Autor, Dozent. Hier schreibe ich über Filme, Politik, Feminismus, Blödsinn und alles mögliche. Und von mir gibt es schon zwei Bücher, zum Beispiel dieses hier: #hello

Kinderfilmblog @kinderfilmblog.de · Oct 18

In meinem Buch 33 BESTE KINDERFILME stelle ich eine krumme Zahl von geradeaus großartigen Filmen für alle Altersstufen vor. www.dreiviertelhaus.de/reihen/eka/k...

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 3h

Husband wrote a new essay on horror themed animated shorts. There's so much more than THE SKELETON DANCE to watch during this season.

T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 1d

In the mood for some weird horror-y cartoon viewings for Halloween? Check out my new post highlighting 20 animated shorts from Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.

Halloween Animation: Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks

Greetings, all. It’s that season again. It’s funny, as someone who regularly spends time watching horror movies, and reading horror books and comics year-round just as one of my default…

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 6h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 20h

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about Peter Thiel’s lectures on the Antichrist and how the fact that there’s a strong chance Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg is the literal Antichrist isn’t even the weirdest thing about them — at the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

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Christina Clemm @clemm.bsky.social · 15h

Wenn der Staat Care-Arbeit anerkennen und bezahlen würde, wäre ein Großteil meiner Mandantinnen sofort raus aus dem Bürgergeldbezug.

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Arne Maibaum @arnemaibaum.bsky.social · 2d

I had a small role in this documentary about a lost song from the '80s. It's pretty fun (German/English Subtitles):

The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet / ARD Kultur

www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZD...

The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet - hier anschauen

Ein mysteriöser New-Wave-Song, in den 1980ern vom Radio auf Kassette aufgenommen, sorgt Jahrzehnte später für das größte Musikrätsel des Internets. Millionen User weltweit suchen nach der Herkunft der...

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Kinderfilmblog @kinderfilmblog.de · 14h

Letztes Jahr hatten wir LIVING LARGE für das LUCAS ausgewählt und ab 13 Jahren empfohlen. An der Empfehlung hat sich nichts geändert, der wunderbare Animationsfilm ist jetzt bei @filmfriend.bsky.social verfügbar: www.filmfriend.de/movies/hungr...

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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 1d

„Papst Leo zitierte in diesem Kontext die Philosophin Hannah Arendt(…): „Der ideale Untertan totalitärer Herrschaft ist nicht der überzeugte Nazi oder engagierte Kommunist, sondern Menschen, für die der Unterschied zwischen Fakten und Fiktion, zwischen wahr und falsch, nicht länger existiert.“

Papst und Pressefreiheit: Vatikan warnt vor KI und Faschismus

Leo XIV. sorgt sich um die Information. Er warnt mit Hannah Arendt vor einer totalitären Gesellschaft, die Fakt und Fiktion nicht unterscheiden kann.

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Tagesschau Bot @tagesschau.bsky.social · 16h

Zahl der erkrankten Kleinkinder um die Hälfte gesunken#RSV#Impfungen#Säuglinge

Zahl der erkrankten Kleinkinder um die Hälfte gesunken

Seit einem Jahr gibt es eine Impfempfehlung gegen das RS-Virus, das die häufigste Ursache für Krankenhausbehandlungen von Säuglingen ist.

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Für sachliche Politik @sachlichepolitik.bsky.social · 1d

Ich liebe dieses Video so sehr. 🥰💪🏼🥹

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

Say no to drugs, kids

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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 1d

Nevertheless, Sensei’s most important moment nearly passes unrecognized. When Bob laments the trouble he’s brought to Sensei’s door, Sensei softly chides: “We’ve been laid siege to for hundreds of years. It’s not your fault. Don’t get selfish.” The quiet denouncement of Bob’s martyrdom complex points to people of color’s self-sufficiency.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 1d

Hmm what does that remind me of?

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1d

You have to really *try* to convince a 20-year-old that it’s not worth asking what justice or freedom or social good is. They don’t come by that incuriosity naturally.

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Rochus Wolff @rrho.bsky.social · 1d

"Es ist das Alter, Kind, das Alter."

an elderly woman is blowing out candles on a cake with the number 102 on it

ALT: an elderly woman is blowing out candles on a cake with the number 102 on it

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 1d

This is a really good thread.
Keep asking why!

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1d

"'You have to admit, AI is here to stay.' Well, no, I don’t. Not unless you say what you actually mean. What’s the claim you’re making? Herpes is here to stay too, but you probably wouldn’t brag about it."

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 1d

@davidgerard.co.uk already had the best piece on this pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/10/a...

‘AI is here to stay’ — is it, though? What do you mean, ‘stay’?

When some huge and stupid public chatbot disaster hits the news, the AI pumpers will Kramer into the mentions to say stuff like “you have to admit, AI is here to stay.” Well, no, I don’t. Not unles…

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Sebastian Bohrn Mena @bohrn-mena.at · 1d

Maria Corina #Machado wurde also der #Friedensnobelpreis verliehen. Und viele jubeln jetzt: Ein "Zeichen gegen Trump" sei das, eine Hoffnung für die Welt. Das Gegenteil ist der Fall. Bitte informiert Euch. Als Nachkomme chilenischer Faschismusopfer ist mir das wirklich wichtig. Ein Thread: (1)

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

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Ann-Katrin Müller @akm0803.bsky.social · 1d

AfD-Bundesvorstand und MdB Stephan Brandner hatte mich auf X ja mehrfach als „Faschistin“ bezeichnet. Ein Gericht verbot ihm das, doch er wiederholte die Beleidigung und versprach sogar eine großzügige Belohnung, wenn es ihm andere nachtun. Danach erstatteten wir Strafanzeige.

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Miriam Vollmer @miriamvollmer.bsky.social · 1d

Sehr gut verständliche Analyse, wieso angesichts der Rechtsprechung des BVerfG der Plan der Bundesregierung bedenklich ist

Andrea Kießling @andkiessling.bsky.social · 1d

Hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht 2019 entschieden, dass Sanktionen beim Bürgergeld in Höhe von 100% in jedem Fall verfassungswidrig sind? Nein. Sind die von der Regierung geplanten Sanktionen unproblematisch verfassungsgemäß? Wohl auch nein. 1/

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

How A Publisher Almost Killed The Book I Waited My Whole Life To Write: a thread

My novel Villager came out in 2022. It was published by Unbound, who had little marketing/sales power. But I was excited & proud, since I worked so f-ing hard on it.

Here's an extract: www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...

our cat Charles with Villager, shortly after it was published

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 1d

Call it hybrid warfare, gray-zone tactics, or whatever euphemism helps you sleep at night. But semantics won’t save you.

It’s war. Russia is at war with you, dear Europe. Whether you like it or not.

Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 1d

Nice info graph of #hybrid attacks on Europe by The Economist.

www.economist.com/briefing/202...

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Volker Weber @vowe.net · 1d

Es ist wirklich die am meisten gestellte Frage. Wie schalte ich Copilot ab?

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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