Stephen Lea Sheppard
@stephenls.bsky.social
"Harris" on Freaks & Geeks; "Dudley" in The Royal Tenenbaums. (Why is one "on" a TV show but "in" a movie?) Developed/wrote/edited various White Wolf/Onyx Path Tabletop RPG books. No one special now. @SLSheppard on Twitter. He/him
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“Then we must do without hope.”
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RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
December 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
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WANTED TO STAY UP AND SEE SANTA! WANTED TO SEE AND I SAW! JOLLIER THAN YOU THINK, DAD! JOLLIER THAN YOU THINK!
December 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
WANTED TO STAY UP AND SEE SANTA! WANTED TO SEE AND I SAW! JOLLIER THAN YOU THINK, DAD! JOLLIER THAN YOU THINK!
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Merry Christmas! This is your yearly reminder that mistletoes, uniquely among ALL known multicellular life, do not have working mitochondria. What the fuck? Biology is fake.
The Mystery of Mistletoe’s Missing Genes
Mistletoes have all but shut down the powerhouses of their cells. Scientists are still trying to understand the plants’ unorthodox survival strategy.
www.quantamagazine.org
December 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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I’ve decided not to do anything else with my Raven Guard infantry until GW releases the full suite of refreshed armor marks, so in the meantime, I painted a rhino. #SpaceMarines #RavenGuard #HorusHeresy #warmongers #miniaturepainting #WarhammerCommunity
December 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I’ve decided not to do anything else with my Raven Guard infantry until GW releases the full suite of refreshed armor marks, so in the meantime, I painted a rhino. #SpaceMarines #RavenGuard #HorusHeresy #warmongers #miniaturepainting #WarhammerCommunity
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Ten thousand fucking percent.
Like, I get it. I get that you're despairing. Shit is rough. But skeeting "we're so fucked" ten times a day accomplishes nothing, alleviates nothing, and contributes to learned helplessness.
In all seriousness, if you feel that welling up? Log off. You need a break.
Like, I get it. I get that you're despairing. Shit is rough. But skeeting "we're so fucked" ten times a day accomplishes nothing, alleviates nothing, and contributes to learned helplessness.
In all seriousness, if you feel that welling up? Log off. You need a break.
Most of all, drop that "we're fucked" mindset. Time to leave that doomerism bullshit behind and focus on doing good.
I want 2026 to be the year where we collectively stop rewarding negativity. Stop bringing others down to bring yourself up. Stop bringing attention to genuinely awful people. Stop ignoring people bringing positive changes to the world. We need more kindness and empathy. I’m dead serious
December 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Ten thousand fucking percent.
Like, I get it. I get that you're despairing. Shit is rough. But skeeting "we're so fucked" ten times a day accomplishes nothing, alleviates nothing, and contributes to learned helplessness.
In all seriousness, if you feel that welling up? Log off. You need a break.
Like, I get it. I get that you're despairing. Shit is rough. But skeeting "we're so fucked" ten times a day accomplishes nothing, alleviates nothing, and contributes to learned helplessness.
In all seriousness, if you feel that welling up? Log off. You need a break.
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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.
December 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.
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Perhaps the cat version of people going "Vromm". 😆
December 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Perhaps the cat version of people going "Vromm". 😆
Becoming the world champion at a competitive activity by being so disliked that everyone else in the world concedes to spite me instead ow actually playing.
December 19, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Becoming the world champion at a competitive activity by being so disliked that everyone else in the world concedes to spite me instead ow actually playing.
So like I am a horror fan but not a gorehound; I find torture porn uninteresting and don’t watch it. And I actively avoid real gore. But I saw the Divinity trailer and was like “Yes that seems appropriately gory for the subject matter” and it didn’t shock me in the slightest. Whatever.
December 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
So like I am a horror fan but not a gorehound; I find torture porn uninteresting and don’t watch it. And I actively avoid real gore. But I saw the Divinity trailer and was like “Yes that seems appropriately gory for the subject matter” and it didn’t shock me in the slightest. Whatever.
In practice everything is necessarily always negotiable and always up for renegotiation at any time, but God damn do I wish a lot of it weren’t.
December 18, 2025 at 4:21 AM
In practice everything is necessarily always negotiable and always up for renegotiation at any time, but God damn do I wish a lot of it weren’t.
Very funny that Voltann grudge tokens are evolving into the perfectly fine mechanic markerlight, while markerlight is evolving out of being markerlight because markerlight is an outdated mechanic that needs to be replaced.
December 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Very funny that Voltann grudge tokens are evolving into the perfectly fine mechanic markerlight, while markerlight is evolving out of being markerlight because markerlight is an outdated mechanic that needs to be replaced.
I can comfortably make assertions like “If they ever do a third season of Haruhi, one of the episodes — but, crucially, only one — should randomly be another Endless Eight” because I know they’ll never do a third season of Haruhi.
December 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I can comfortably make assertions like “If they ever do a third season of Haruhi, one of the episodes — but, crucially, only one — should randomly be another Endless Eight” because I know they’ll never do a third season of Haruhi.
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
Chairon being officially dead in the lore feels like such an obvious setup to have him show up halfway through Space Marine 3 miraculously alive to save Titus's ass so the entire playerbase stands up and cheers and points, and then he gets a mini.
December 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Chairon being officially dead in the lore feels like such an obvious setup to have him show up halfway through Space Marine 3 miraculously alive to save Titus's ass so the entire playerbase stands up and cheers and points, and then he gets a mini.
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This is your occasional reminder that, if you like Neil Gaiman's stuff, but can't bring yourself to like it anymore for justifiable reasons, Tanith Lee is the author he is credibly accused of extensively cribbing from, and her work is on Audible, and AMAZING.
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This is your occasional reminder that, if you like Neil Gaiman's stuff, but can't bring yourself to like it anymore for justifiable reasons, Tanith Lee is the author he is credibly accused of extensively cribbing from, and her work is on Audible, and AMAZING.
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That one, Only Nation Where This Happens, and Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity are all in a three-way tie for first.
December 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
That one, Only Nation Where This Happens, and Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity are all in a three-way tie for first.
This one forever haunts me.
December 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This one forever haunts me.
God, Hbomberguy’s “Foreshadowing is a literary device that—“ clip was a true gift to all video essayists.
December 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
God, Hbomberguy’s “Foreshadowing is a literary device that—“ clip was a true gift to all video essayists.
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
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Baudrillard is basically "don't build the torment nexus" for humanities majors, though I guess in his case maybe it's closer to "can we please stop building the torment nexus, whose blueprints I have included herein as a reference so you will know what not to keep building"
Like, when Baudrillard describes a process wherein we lose access to the Real entirely and get trapped in an infinite discursive hall of mirrors, that's supposed to be understood to be bad! You're not supposed to do it on purpose!!
December 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Baudrillard is basically "don't build the torment nexus" for humanities majors, though I guess in his case maybe it's closer to "can we please stop building the torment nexus, whose blueprints I have included herein as a reference so you will know what not to keep building"
The wonderful [1] thing about blaming immigration for societal problems is it’s non-falsifiable—if you crack down on it and problems persist, you can always disingenuously claim you just haven’t cracked down hard enough yet.
[1] God-awful
[1] God-awful
November 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The wonderful [1] thing about blaming immigration for societal problems is it’s non-falsifiable—if you crack down on it and problems persist, you can always disingenuously claim you just haven’t cracked down hard enough yet.
[1] God-awful
[1] God-awful
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BRB, starting discourse about how viewing art on the Internet is morally bankrupt regardless of its origin because even if it was made by human hands, what you're seeing on your screen is not the ORIGINAL human-made digital file, but a soulless machine-made replica in your browser's Internet cache.
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
BRB, starting discourse about how viewing art on the Internet is morally bankrupt regardless of its origin because even if it was made by human hands, what you're seeing on your screen is not the ORIGINAL human-made digital file, but a soulless machine-made replica in your browser's Internet cache.
I really miss being funny.
November 22, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I really miss being funny.
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Trans rights are human rights, even if Alberta is using the notwithstanding clause yet again to try and claim otherwise.
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Trans rights are human rights, even if Alberta is using the notwithstanding clause yet again to try and claim otherwise.
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The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.