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Re: Eschaton: Congratulations On Scoring That Big Interview

spocko — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:21:58 -0000

I have a new hashtag #IftheFlorsheimsFit
Check it out. I was going to add circus music, but nah. https://bsky.app/profile/spocko.bsky.social/post/3mnfrxytegs26

Re: Eschaton: Happy Hour

spocko — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:55:37 -0000

Nice. What is it?

Re: Eschaton: Happy Hour

spocko — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:51:31 -0000

Rep. Madeleine Dean: "What is true is that the president has lied about being on Epstein's plane, and the unredacted files prove that. There's a lot in here. It's all covered up."

https://files.mastodon.online/cache/media_attachments/files/116/682/712/981/440/502/original/0280382e1a5c926f.mp4

"But I never went to the island!" Trump probably

Re: Eschaton: Happy Hour

spocko — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:45:28 -0000

I'm waiting for my drugs to kick in.

Re: Eschaton: Happy Hour

spocko — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:20:12 -0000

If you take out all the black people and women for voted for Biden, Trump would have won.

Re: Eschaton: Happy Hour

spocko — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:18:37 -0000

Oh, I can think of a lot of good things. But then I used to work in the tech industry doing PR ! :-)

Re: Eschaton: Happy Hour

spocko — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:17:00 -0000

Yes. I'm thinking that they need a way to have it shown to be bad in the short term. If I was in charge of getting data centers built I'd do the whole. "It's good for the community! It's good for jrbbs" and then also bribe the people for vote for it and huge kickback at the local & state level.
Also, I'd set up a whole fake grass roots group that makes it seem like by NOT building the data centers our state will be "left behind" and it will go to other states.

Re: Eschaton: Happy Hour

spocko — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:12:57 -0000

Sometimes I don't need to read the article. The headline is good.
Americans don’t know how to fight AI. So they’re fighting data centers.
The data center revolt is a symptom of our political failure on AI.

by Marina Bolotnikova
Jun 2, 2026, 3:00 AM PDT

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/490350/data-center-moratoria-ai-backlash

Re: Eschaton: Happy Hour

spocko — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:07:02 -0000

I love that spa!

Re: Eschaton: Happy Hour

spocko — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:50:48 -0000

I found this but not in time for the password post.
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Re: Eschaton: Have Some Passwords

spocko — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:29:46 -0000

I found this image so I posted it with this image someone here found
https://coffeeroastz.com/products/obama-undefeated
The UFC fight on the White House lawn is a proxy for Trump's idea of masculinity vs Obama & Biden.

Since in reality Trump is physically weaker than Obama, Trump would choose a "champion" to represent him.

But none of the fighters represent Obama, because if they did, & they won, that'd represent a loss for Trump.

The entire EVENT is WIN for Trump, no matter which fighters lose. It's an elevation of physical violence as the deciding factor vs. talking of a diplomat or the law. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

Re: Eschaton: Happy Hour

spocko — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:17:06 -0000

I don't want to do a video with AI!!! But I don't want to find all the clips i want to use.
Also, what do I want to do with it?
My idea is to make a promo video for the UFC fight using the same conventions of old drag racing video with the SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY announcing style.

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday
Sunday at Smoking U.S 30
drag strip watch the best rear engine
field dragsters in the country
try to push their brut machines
into the matching 5 seconds elasped time barrier
from Michigan, Jim Arnold's fierce hallucination
fueler.
From Ohio John Hilton's Motion Maker
rear engine field dragster.

Then I looked at the UFC promos and see all the quick cuts of people fighting and the slow images of them walking out of the helicopter that landed on the WH lawn.
I see the way they praise the people now

Ilia Topuria, one of the most sensational champions we've ever seen inside the Octagon. He has the chance to be the first to
successfully defend both the featherweight and lightweight UFC title.

But he is facing Justin Gaethje. He is a savage and he doesn't run away from anything. He has the highest performance bonus percentage in all of the UFC.

Those two at the White House should be insane.

I'm thinking that it should be Obama vs. Trump.
Showing Trump's decaying body
But it's really NOT about his body. IT'S about what he has done and said.
The whole The Land and the King as one thing.
I find it kind of boring and obvious to just show his body.
I don't feel it's clever or new.

But so much of Trump is destorying everything that Obama/Biden did.
Also, I thinking how he hurts people is not in the ring, it's on social media, it's in the courts, it's unleashing his mob on people
THAT is what I want to beat back.

Maybe showing Marc Elisa beating him in court. Over and over.
Or the failure of Trump's "champions."

Re: Eschaton: Happy Hour

spocko — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:57:09 -0000

Damn it!

Re: Eschaton: Happy Hour

spocko — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:10:56 -0000

"IT'S A CELLO!!!" / as I was told when I posted this.

Re: Eschaton: Happy Hour

spocko — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:23:20 -0000

Oh no I meant Ho2 will make me Hydroleroxyl which is toxic to humans! I'll have Claude get the hydrogen Oxygen mix right! https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/65746/is-hydroperoxyl-radicalho2-toxic-to-the-human-body-or-even-flammable

Re: Eschaton: Happy Hour

spocko — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:19:35 -0000

I just need 2 tanks of oxygen and I'm good.

Re: Eschaton: Happy Hour

spocko — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:18:28 -0000

Did they carry Father Coughlin?

Dubbed "The Radio Priest " and considered a leading demagogue,[1] he was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience. During the 1930s, when the U.S. population was about 120 million, an estimated 30 million listeners tuned in to his weekly broadcasts.[2] https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

Re: Eschaton: Happy Hour

spocko — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:11:54 -0000

When dinosaurs roamed the Earth!

Re: Eschaton: Happy Hour

spocko — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:06:27 -0000

I'm buying dehydrated water and saving it in my bunker!

Re: Eschaton: Happy Hour

spocko — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:02:06 -0000

The Jetsons lied to us.

Via @twonks
Cartoons & comics by Steve Nelson.
Manager: michael.krell@sixteenth.com
http://linktr.ee/twonkscomics
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Re: Eschaton: When The World Briefly Ended

spocko — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:38:40 -0000

So I fact checked just one of Mike Flood's response to questions at his Nebraska town hall. He said that Congress restored the NIH , National Institutes of Health, Cancer Research Funding and General Research to Universities funding. I JUST looked up the NIH funding part.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27888131-stat-nih-funded-researcher-survey/

In a recent Stat survey of nearly 1,000 US-based NIH grantees, 35% saw all funding return after initial cuts, but 27% reported that none of their funding was restored and 26% said only some was.

“A lot of people in the US have said that science funding has been restored, grants are back and all the money’s out the door, so no harm, no foul, right?” he said. “Actually, no. There are probably thousands of people that are out of jobs and there are disruptions to the scientific enterprise more broadly that are just not as obvious. The idea that science in the US is back to full speed is just not consistent with what’s happening on the ground.” Scott Delaney former Harvard scientist

According to Grant Witness, more than 5,400 NIH grants, worth about $520 million (£390 million), and almost 2,000 NSF grants, worth $700 million, have been terminated or frozen.

At Town Hall:
The next question, Congressman, when will Congress take back the power of the purse?
Flood : Well, I would argue we have never given the power of the purse away and let me unpack that.
My first town hall last year was in Columbus and as you'll recall at the time, Doge was the very big issue and Elon Musk and the federal budget that was submitted by President Trump from the OMB. [He supported DOGE and Musk]
And as you'll recall, we had several folks that were very
unhappy about proposed cuts to the NIH, National Institutes of Health, Cancer Research Funding, General Research to Universities. [Flood supported the cuts]
And I want you to know that in January of this year, we passed 11 of the 12 appropriations bills on a bipartisan basis and we did restore that money. So the NIH did get funded.
Cancer research got funded. Ag research funded.
I met with the researchers at UNL. I sat down with them.
I explained the situation. The appropriations committee
together with all the Republicans and all the Democrats passed 11 of the 12 appropriations bills on a bipartisan basis and that has not been done since 2017.
So the proof is in the pudding.
The proof is in the pudding.
The House of Representatives is in charge of appropriations and we have not only directed a process but written the bills that were ultimately signed by the president with appropriate guardrails to ensure that things like medical research are conducted.

Re: Eschaton: When The World Briefly Ended

spocko — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:12:22 -0000

Ali Velshi reposted this comment. I had wanted to find the BS that Flood had spewed and then show that they were BS, but I just didn't want to expend the energy. Apparently Velshi's producers felt the same way. https://bsky.app/profile/spocko.bsky.social/post/3mn24elasqc2i

Re: Eschaton: When The World Briefly Ended

spocko — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:09:39 -0000

And it killed them at higher rates than non-Trump voters.

Re: Eschaton: When The World Briefly Ended

spocko — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:07:26 -0000

HA!HA

Re: Eschaton: When The World Briefly Ended

spocko — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:07:06 -0000

Good one!