BrokeShep
@brokenshepherd.bsky.social
He/him.
Husband, adoptive dad, writer and spin doctor from up North somewhere. 🇨🇦
Magnificent avatar art by deviantart.com/jacemathem
Husband, adoptive dad, writer and spin doctor from up North somewhere. 🇨🇦
Magnificent avatar art by deviantart.com/jacemathem
@kirkhamilton.com I do hope you got your wife a Big Red Dog. (No doubt she got a bunch of these jokes as a kid…)
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October 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
@kirkhamilton.com I do hope you got your wife a Big Red Dog. (No doubt she got a bunch of these jokes as a kid…)
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@billsimmons.bsky.social Kids on the beach in the ‘70s = Rush’s “Lakeside Park”. A better time.
“Everyone would gather on the 24th of May
Sitting in the sand to watch the fireworks display
Dancing fires on the beach, singing songs together
Though it's just a memory, some memories last forever”
“Everyone would gather on the 24th of May
Sitting in the sand to watch the fireworks display
Dancing fires on the beach, singing songs together
Though it's just a memory, some memories last forever”
July 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
@billsimmons.bsky.social Kids on the beach in the ‘70s = Rush’s “Lakeside Park”. A better time.
“Everyone would gather on the 24th of May
Sitting in the sand to watch the fireworks display
Dancing fires on the beach, singing songs together
Though it's just a memory, some memories last forever”
“Everyone would gather on the 24th of May
Sitting in the sand to watch the fireworks display
Dancing fires on the beach, singing songs together
Though it's just a memory, some memories last forever”
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when you realize that life is meaningless and you still have eight more to go
February 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
when you realize that life is meaningless and you still have eight more to go
Toad is my spirit animal.
February 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Toad is my spirit animal.
FAFO
Staggering sales drops, swastika-daubed EVs, companies culling fleet models, and fan-forum owners selling their cars—Elon Musk's alt-right antics are seriously impacting his electric car business.
Elon Musk’s Toxicity Could Spell Disaster for Tesla
Staggering sales drops, swastika-daubed EVs, companies culling fleet models, and fan-forum owners selling their cars—Elon Musk's alt-right antics are seriously impacting his electric car business.
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February 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
FAFO
Next they will take down the pages entirely, and the memorial. They are already scrubbing content from course curricula. They are erasing references to the people so nobody will notice when they erase the people. A familiar fascist playbook.
Oh my god.
They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service.
"Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights"
WOW.
They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service.
"Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights"
WOW.
February 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Next they will take down the pages entirely, and the memorial. They are already scrubbing content from course curricula. They are erasing references to the people so nobody will notice when they erase the people. A familiar fascist playbook.
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Not sure how I missed it, but Joe Bennett (Scavengers Reign) and Steve Hely (VEEP) have a fascinating new animated series, #CommonSideEffects. Incredibly thoughtful concept and story. The hand-drawn animation style (like Scavengers Reign) is perhaps an acquired taste, but it’s used to full effect.
February 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Not sure how I missed it, but Joe Bennett (Scavengers Reign) and Steve Hely (VEEP) have a fascinating new animated series, #CommonSideEffects. Incredibly thoughtful concept and story. The hand-drawn animation style (like Scavengers Reign) is perhaps an acquired taste, but it’s used to full effect.
Classic blitz tactics: attack points of weakness, inflict maximum damage and move on before the “enemy” (the American people and their elected representatives) have a chance to react.
Elon Musk's takeover of US government agencies has happened at remarkable speeds. That's the point.
DOGE's Race to the Bottom
Elon Musk's takeover of US government agencies has happened at remarkable speeds. That's the point.
wrd.cm
February 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Classic blitz tactics: attack points of weakness, inflict maximum damage and move on before the “enemy” (the American people and their elected representatives) have a chance to react.
And for anyone who’s thinking “unintended consequences”, nope: this is working *exactly as designed*. Social policy changes like this are targeted attacks.
🧵 US states that implemented abortion bans saw higher than expected infant mortality rates, with larger increases among Black infants and those in southern states, according to this analysis of US national vital statistics data from 2012–2023.
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#MedSky
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#MedSky
February 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
And for anyone who’s thinking “unintended consequences”, nope: this is working *exactly as designed*. Social policy changes like this are targeted attacks.
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Fish Hammer
For when you need to beat the carp out of someone.
For when you need to beat the carp out of someone.
February 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Fish Hammer
For when you need to beat the carp out of someone.
For when you need to beat the carp out of someone.
Happy birthday Peter!
(Nice job, Ron - bet you played that more than a few times at the Lion Tavern!)
(Nice job, Ron - bet you played that more than a few times at the Lion Tavern!)
February 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Happy birthday Peter!
(Nice job, Ron - bet you played that more than a few times at the Lion Tavern!)
(Nice job, Ron - bet you played that more than a few times at the Lion Tavern!)
Just noticed “Sacramento Athletics” in print for the first time, and had to suppress a gag reflex. ⚾️
February 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Just noticed “Sacramento Athletics” in print for the first time, and had to suppress a gag reflex. ⚾️
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The future is coming.
February 13, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The future is coming.
Credibility is not for sale. Good for you, Ben.
Given developments at the Kennedy Center, effective today I am resigning as artistic advisor to the NSO.
Not for me.
It’s been a wonderful 8 years working with Kennedy Center President Deb Rutter, fellow artistic advisor Renee Fleming, NSO artistic administrator Justin Ellis, and the entire NSO
Not for me.
It’s been a wonderful 8 years working with Kennedy Center President Deb Rutter, fellow artistic advisor Renee Fleming, NSO artistic administrator Justin Ellis, and the entire NSO
February 13, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Credibility is not for sale. Good for you, Ben.
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The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.”
Huge.
Huge.
Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US. The decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.
Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US
The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.
wrd.cm
February 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.”
Huge.
Huge.
The best part is that he *thinks* he has, but he’s actually changed it to “Hairy Bowls” (ō is a long o sound, as in “no” or “go”).
I don’t particularly want to picture a hairy bowl, myself, but I do know it’s only something an idiot would choose as a handle.
I don’t particularly want to picture a hairy bowl, myself, but I do know it’s only something an idiot would choose as a handle.
The man currently destroying the U.S. government has changed his name on Twitter to Harry Bolz
February 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The best part is that he *thinks* he has, but he’s actually changed it to “Hairy Bowls” (ō is a long o sound, as in “no” or “go”).
I don’t particularly want to picture a hairy bowl, myself, but I do know it’s only something an idiot would choose as a handle.
I don’t particularly want to picture a hairy bowl, myself, but I do know it’s only something an idiot would choose as a handle.
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“Alas, I am surrounded. You must fight on, gentlemen, I fear that it is too late for me. Now come and get me you savages, we shall travel to Hell together!”
February 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
“Alas, I am surrounded. You must fight on, gentlemen, I fear that it is too late for me. Now come and get me you savages, we shall travel to Hell together!”
That is literally the outcome these people want: to victimize a tiny minority in order to assuage the baseless fears of an ignorant majority.
February 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
That is literally the outcome these people want: to victimize a tiny minority in order to assuage the baseless fears of an ignorant majority.
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This is from a 2020 presentation. Now it's just the chaos we live in, and no such description is needed.
February 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This is from a 2020 presentation. Now it's just the chaos we live in, and no such description is needed.
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Hearing that @indivisible.org and @moveon.org are pissing off house dems by mobilizing their constituents to call them too much is frankly the single best endorsement I've ever heard for a political action groups.
February 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Hearing that @indivisible.org and @moveon.org are pissing off house dems by mobilizing their constituents to call them too much is frankly the single best endorsement I've ever heard for a political action groups.
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With all due respect to MLB and other sports social media managers (and importantly, to those providing direction to them):
You have to let go of X. The inflated social media impressions you get are not worth you being surrounded by racist flaming garbage.
You have to let go of X. The inflated social media impressions you get are not worth you being surrounded by racist flaming garbage.
February 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
With all due respect to MLB and other sports social media managers (and importantly, to those providing direction to them):
You have to let go of X. The inflated social media impressions you get are not worth you being surrounded by racist flaming garbage.
You have to let go of X. The inflated social media impressions you get are not worth you being surrounded by racist flaming garbage.