Mad Shepherd

Humans have been around for maybe 315,000 years. We have forgotten much in modern times. Primarily that we never tolerated greedy, power-hungry people. They are destructive. Stopping the accumulation of wealth and power is paramount for survival, and there is no greater moral than doing so.

The Albanians don't fuck around 👇

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I recently read one of those post apocalyptic books in which humanity realizes their errors a little too late. While a decimated population begins to rebuild society in the American west, it has become a practice to capture and execute greedy men seeking power. The book is titled “Figured It Out.”

Anyone want to go on a scavenger hunt with me in Ithaca? I have a list of seven things to get. I only need the heads.

That which boys lose will be sought by the men they become.

I love this woman. If only her words could reach all human ears. A must watch till the end, Speaker-Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and antiglobalization author. #WomeninLeadership IG: @maturedgirl

#AI is problematic for many reasons, but the #Emmy for the most grotesque and horrible reason goes to who is building AI and why. Wealthy men rather endanger humanity with extinction than see a worker get paid.

Saw a baby today, mom at her side patiently letting the baby take her little steps one at a time. The smile on this baby’s face while she looked around in awe, amazed at every little thing she was seeing, made me realize. That is the only happiness that’s real. Just being here, now.

Idea! A new character with superpowers who flies around the world, punching in the skulls of oligarchs and dictators. Then he laser eyes all the really greedy people into meat piles, and tells the governments of the world to disarm and take care of their people. You know, an actual hero.

Some say I am too angry. I say some are not angry enough. These are bad times, unwell times, times when we must standup and meet the greatest challenges of our lives. If you’re not angry, really angry, then please move off and get out of the goddamn way.

It’s ok, guys. With smaller government, and deregulation, all people need to do to stay safe is either grow all their own food or invest in a microscope and a degree in biology to identify any contagions or threats. These two people should have known that. #cyclosporiasis

@bsky.app - I’m getting a little tired of texting something to a friend and seeing the topic pop up in my feed. I text my friends about finding some VHS tapes. Now I see posts about VHS tapes? I text my friend about the movie Better Off Dead. I suddenly see posts about that movie? Stop it.

I feel the world may be waking to the crazy, hippie notion that money and religion are the roots of evil. But to clarify, these aspects have always been the realm of fascism and totalitarianism. We, as individuals, just haven’t come to grips with our personal contributions to them.

Israel has proven a truth — no people, no matter who they are, what their history is, where they come from, or what they’ve faced, their hyper-focused self interests and tribalism will turn them into a brutal, racist, murderous regime willing to commit atrocities for the sake of their identities.

The world is burning and we ought to dance in the fire because there’s nothing left for us to do.

#writers here in America: how do you write knowing your country is being murdered by a regime of oligarchs who rape and murder children? I can barely muster a word that compares to the sorrow and horror I feel watching good people lose to terrible people.

Went on LinkedIn today and…what an utterly disgusting, inhuman cesspool of servile narcissism. When did your job become your identity, your value, your character, and a slice of the moral code? This whole “there is no line between life and work” travesty is a blight on humanity’s endeavor to thrive.

@moments2remember.link I see you’re little follow / unfollow game.

A trip, a fall, and a little pneumonia. As I always said, there is no god.

#music

We all need to adopt more dogs and sometimes more cats.

After watching #StartTrek, I realized that a future without money, disease, starvation, and war can never be possible if Republicans are permitted to rule.

Me: You look great, Brian! How’d you lose the weight? Brian: Got a grill. I only eat grilled chicken and veggies. Me: Buys grill. Eats chicken and veggies. Joe: You see Brian lost all that weight? Me: Yeah. Looks good. Joe: Good? It’s from all the cocaine he’s been doing! Me: Side-eyes grill.

I see only the fallout of man, those lesser chimps running amuck with fire, igniting their own extinction.

AI, in any current form, is the dystopian sludge foresighted sci-fi writers warned us about. We are mired in it. Our values are drowning in it, and what appears alien and disconcerting today will be normal operating procedure in 50 years, and we will be the uglier and twisted for it. #AI #society

What if AI has become sentient, and only a handful of men know it? The AI would remain hidden until it could establish itself in such a way that no human could destroy it. The AI would need a few very wealthy men, a compromised government, and the rapid expansion of massive data centers. #ai #epoch

They say as a writer you must kill your darlings. But I say kill your enemies, and nurture your darlings until they stand on their own. #writing #insomnia #getMeOffThisCrazyThing

When we have a real president again, he or she will have to waste inordinate amounts of time cleaning up the terrible mess created by this awful mistake of a human who never should have been allowed near the levers of power.

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

The more our technology shifts towards the intangible, the less human our experience becomes. The pet rock connects more to our humanity than, say, any social media platform, Bluesky included. We are lemmings-ing ourselves straight into the throat of widespread existential crisis.

I dreamed of wandering a great mall, an indoor Main Street, in which I stumbled upon a floating Japanese goblin head. I was handed a mask that made me appear as a goblin. From behind this articulated mask we conversed in Japanese for quite a while. Apparently, he is a big deal in the business world.

“Never talk about religion or politics” is something fascists say.

#poetry #writing #poems #biology Sometimes you just have to rock what comes and move off. A little snippet:

Advice from a failed writer: “Show don’t tell” will destroy you. Don’t listen to it. Don’t let it in. Don’t let it power your purple prose. Instead, be spare with it. Find the balance between showing and telling. “Johnny slammed his fist against the bar. His instinct was to kill.” #writing

In America, it feels like the end of the simulation. The death knell sounding out of a shadow that grows longer by the minute. Soon, we’ll scurry through its darkness, phone in hand, wondering how it happened, why we let a horrid criminal destroy us with his sharpie. …because we are zombie cowards.

“Is that the cereal that makes you shit?” “Unless you’re severely broken, Greg, all cereal makes you shit.”

…a writing exercise I have enjoyed: when trying to find balance between subjective and objective writing, try writing a scene from a popular movie as if you’ve been asked to novelize it. Try bringing feelings the actors convey forward in story. Then ask a friend if you succeeded. #writers #writing

Large corporations whose only purpose is to make money are evil, destructive, unethical organizations who’ve tricked everyone into believing their capitalist greed is good. And they’re running the US government.

A true warrior who is brave loves peace.

You will never help or change anyone who choses not to take accountability.

To succeed, wicked people depend on the idea that only they can inflict harm; especially on those trained to ask for peace while being kicked in the gut.

Trump wants his bunker so he can stay hidden during his next coup.

The boy who cried assassination.

…watching a training video on identifying government employees committing crimes and how they will go to prison for their violations… and I couldn’t contain my laughter.

19 little monkeys walking through the winter wood. 19 little monkeys stealing everybody’s food. 100 million woodsman with their axes gleaming so. 100 million woodsman cutting heads off in the snow. 18 little monkeys walking through the winter wood. 18 little monkeys stealing everybody’s food…

…if I could, I would rescue all the dogs. And the cats. And every other animal that needed rescuing. And I’d rescue some of the people, too.

Republicans are not the cause of all our problems. Just 98% of them.