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Big Spooky ColBosch

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Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 6d

The new and improved for sale thread! Prices as noted, minimum order $100 with free shipping. Commissions are also available. DMs are open! All miniatures will be matt varnished before shipping.

Starting off, House Davion Dawn Guard Lance, $200.

Four BattleTech miniatures - Blood Asp, Nova Cat, Timber Wolf, and Regent - in yellow and white.

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Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 2h

I wonder what would happen if I tagged disc horse and endless screaming into the same thread?

Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 2h

No, let's hear the horse out.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 6h

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

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Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 1d

I also accept direct support via paypal.me/colbosch.

Pay Colonel Bosch's Mech Hanger

Tap to finalize your purchase. No PayPal account? No worries.

paypal.me

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Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 2d

The response the past few days was amazing. I really appreciate how much y'all have helped me out, and I can't wait for everyone to get their little robots. But I still need a bit more assistance with bills, food, and meds. So here's the last few pieces I have for sale at the moment: 🧵 #BattleTech

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Kierdale Models @kierdalemodels.bsky.social · 3h

Rival to Warhammer, choose the THG-11E life and serve the Dragon.
#battletech #battletechhobby #housekurita #draconiscombine

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · 2h

Overgrown

A linocut print of a girl carrying an oversized carrot on her back. It's printed on off-white paper with black and orange ink.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 3h

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 2h

King shit.

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Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 2h

I don't think George Soros needs the money.

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 3h

They should give the Nobel Peace Prize to antifa.

Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 4h

(This is a JOKE, don't use GenAI for anything.)

Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 4h

"I drew my character!" Jesus Christ, that's dreadful. Have you considered using Midjourney instead?

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Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 4h

Okay, look, I try to be supportive of people's fan art, but these Warhammer Fantasy Bretonnians are just fucking awful.

The Amanda Lee Mystery House @amandalee.bsky.social · 5h

people need to be drawing your armor more historically accurate

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Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 4h

I was working. Did the Phillies win?

Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 5h

...I'm kidding. It's me who appreciates you!

Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 5h

Y'all better appreciate the art I'm making here.

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Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 5h

Oh boy, my neck and upper back are beginning to ache from my scrunched-up little goblin painting posture.

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love2pronk.bsky.social @love2pronk.bsky.social · 6h

Here are some alternate shots of the Venters Mad Cat without the background! #nerdlings #paintingminiatures #battletech

Mad cat from kickstarter painted in the Steve Venters scheme

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 7h

Tomorrow: The AI Bubble is built on impossible promises. GPUs die in 5 years, nobody has built a 1GW data center, and they have the power to do so. Stargate Abilene won't have enough power before 2028.

Here's a link for $10 off premium.

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Everybody is very casual with how they talk about Sam Altman’s theoretical promises of trillions of dollars of data center infrastructure, and I'm not sure anybody realizes how difficult even the very basics of this plan will be.
Nevertheless, everybody is happily publishing stories about how “Stargate Abilene Texas - OpenAI’s massive data center with Oracle - is open,” by which they mean two buildings, and I’m not even confident both of them are providing compute to OpenAI yet. There are six more of them that need to get built for this thing to start rocking at 1.2GW - even though it’s only 1.1GW according to my sources in Abilene.
But, hey, sorry - one minute - while we’re on that subject, did anybody visiting Abilene in the last week or so ever ask whether they’ll have enough power there?
Don’t worry, you don’t need to look - I’m sure you were just about to, and had simply been busy! - but I did the hard work for you and read up on it, and it turns out that Stargate Abilene only has 200 megawatts of power - a 200 megawatt substation that, according to my sources, has only been built within the last couple of months, with 350 Megawatt of gas turbine generators that connect to a natural gas power plant that might get built by the end of the year in the event that one of the multiple construction firms involved . Said turbine is extremely expensive, featuring volatile pricing (for context, volatility fell in Q2 2025…to 69% annualized, meaning that if you had these prices across the entirety of a year you’d see swings of 69% up or down) and even more volatile environmental consequences, and is, while permitted for it (this will download the PDF of the permit), impractical and expensive to use long-term.
Analyst James van Geelen, founder of Citrini Research recently said on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast that these are “not the really good natural gas turbines” because the really good ones would take seven years to deliver due to a natural gas turbine shortage.
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$Stargate Abilene does not have sufficient power to run at even half of its supposed IT load of 1.2GW, and at its present capacity - assuming that the gas turbines function at full power - can only hope to run 370MW to 460MW of IT load. I’ve seen article after article about the gas turbines and their use of fracked gas - a disgusting and wasteful act typical of OpenAI - but nobody appears to have asked “how much power does a 1.2GW data center require?” and then chased it with “how much power does Stargate Abilene have?” The answer is not enough, and the significance of said “not enough” is remarkable. Today, I’m going to tell you, at length, how impossible the future of generative AI is. Gigawatt data centers are a ridiculous pipe dream, one that runs face-first into the walls of reality. The world’s governments and media have been far too cavalier with the term “gigawatt,” casually breezing by the fact that Altman’s plans require 17 or more nuclear reactors’ worth of power, as if building power is quick and easy and cheap and just happens. I believe that many of you think that this is an issue of permitting - of simply throwing enough money at the problem - when we are in the midst of a shortage in the electrical grade steel and transformers required to expand America (and the world’s) power grid. I realize it’s easy to get blinded by the constant drumbeat of “gargoyle-like tycoon cabal builds 1 gigawatt data center” and feel that they will simply overwhelm the problem with money, but no, I’m afraid that isn’t the case at all, and all of this is so silly, so ridiculous, so cartoonishly bad that it threatens even the seemingly-infinite wealth of Elon Musk, with xAI burning over a billion dollars a month and planning to spend tens of billions of dollars building the Colossus 2 data center, dragging two billion dollars from SpaceX in his desperate quest to burn as much money as possible for no reason. This is the age of hubris - a time in which we are going to watc…$

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Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 18h

PROTIP: If a photograph of cops has them wearing "Polizei" or "Policia" or "Gendarmie" patches, then the photo wasn't taken in the US in 2025. Or ever.

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 9h

Boosting this again!

It's gone pretty well so far, but there's still people I keep seeing wishing out loud for a forum for art and discussion... It's here!!

🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 6d

okay. I've tried this before but maybe it'll stick.

WG is a forum where you can discuss at length tv, movies, books, new releases, metatextual topics, post and discuss art, post tutorials etc, read up in threads, which will not just vanish but stick around for a bit. try it!

wg.jcink.net/index.php

screenshot of Walled Garden, a new forum for general discussion.

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Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 7h

I just hope we don't see a guy in a frog costume executed on Tiktok.

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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 1d

"3 (buttons down)", oil on watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025 - $150 (Cdn) #art

A small painting of part of the front of a white button down shirt showing 3 white buttons. It consists of 2 sheets of paper, the buttons side on the left overlapping the right.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 7h

the epstein files aren’t dropping & this isn’t a distraction from them.

this is a fascist setting up the field to eliminate every point of friction that might impede an attempt to seize absolute power.

quippy posts about epstein are delaying your realization of, & motivation to fight, that fact.

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Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 8h

Not pictured is the driver, but you know what he looks like.