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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kash Patel's girlfriend says she fell in love with him because he made her feel seen.

Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Client: We’re hoping you can help us out. We don’t have a lot of money left in the budget after the logo, but we’d like to add sort of a mascot for our product line that’s just, like, absolute fuckin’ nightmare fuel. Graphic Designer: I got you, fam.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, I have violent thoughts all the time, too, but I have impulse control, and my whims aren't bolstered by unlimited law enforcement resources and the most powerful military in the history of the world as I struggle in vain to the fill the void in my life left by a dead father who never loved me.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's OK. It's early in the season. Sooner or later Andy will understand that blockers are an impediment to K9, a diversion he goes AROUND, not a phalanx he runs behind. #KCvsMIA #ChiefsKingdom

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Jake, I'm still waiting on the proposal for your book about Trump's diminished mental capacity to complement the one you wrote about Biden's. Waltz, you literally shared classified plans to bomb Yemen with the executive editor of a news outlet in real time. Both of you, go fuck yourselves.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Speakeasy unisex restroom, in lieu of a mirror over the sink.

Against a red-painted wall, a gilded frame around a printout of the following words:

YOU

ARE

BEAUTIFUL.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My grocery shopping regularly takes me past the specific Sonic Drive-In — now defunct, its stalls empty, its landscaping grown rampant and weedy — that was the villain of my tater tot origin story. In this economy and political climate, all schadenfreude matters, no matter how minor it may seem.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The occupational hazard dictates that one is momentarily stopped in one’s tracks by the question of Stevens’s vs. Stevenses’ (the latter being the correct plural possessive) before allowing that an apostrophe also serves to indicate omitted letters. A technicality. #ShepcatEditsEverything

The upper left corner of page 138 of Colson Whitehead’s COOL MACHINE, the image centered on the following snippet:

the Stevens’s July Fourth cookout

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As long as Trump is denying access to MSNOW, CNN and Politico, the remaining media outlets should push back by ensuring that once a week he has to face a press corps composed entirely of women of color. Just straight-up bait the misogynistic racist motherfucker.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As the old adage goes, "It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask for permission." But because legal procedure and congressional oversight move so slowly in any case involving his demolition, renovation, construction, and renaming efforts in D.C., Trump's M.O. is "Third option: Go fuck yourself."

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

PASQUATCH! Because you've got to have a lead before you can blow a lead. #KCvsPIT #FountainsUp

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#LSUvsMISS was closer than it needed to be. Certainly Ole Miss has national championship aspirations, but that was their Michigan–Ohio State game. They could go 0-for–the rest of the season now that they've beaten Kiffin and probably say it was worth it.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

OK, the 2-run Lowe blast is not optimal, but props to the Pirates for the welding mask being their home run celly. That may be my new favorite thing in baseball. #KCvsPIT

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

At my niece's soccer match earlier I saw a dad at least a decade and a half my junior repping a Lou Whitaker home jersey in the wild — your periodic reminder that Lou and Tram should have been enshrined together and Lou's absence in Cooperstown remains a traveshamockery. #Tigers #BlessYouBoys

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Find someone who loves you as much as Seth Lugo loves giving up a first-inning bomb. #Royals #KCvsHOU

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Can anyone in the Trump administration ever truly be cancer-free?

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The sing-songy Farmers Insurance commercial is No. 1 with a bullet for Thing I Hate Most on TV right now. The jingle is what would elevate the charge to AGGRAVATED assault.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The #Chiefs did not fill me with rage and/or existential dread tonight. Kenneth Walker III is ... satisfyingly competent. I will likely watch them next Sunday night. #DENvsKC

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hear me out: What if we had TWO Super Bowl MVPs in the same backfield? HELLYEAHK9! #ChiefsKingdom #DENvsKC

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The variety of xenomorphs is also a great design/character aspect. Facehuggers, chest bursters, eggs, the queen — we're not merely being jump-scared by their appearance; we're being shown something different each time so we don't become inured to the sight of them. #Aliens #HATM

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Another subtle but great dramatic device: Anytime time is mentioned — Bishop's 16-minute ETA; the system countdown announcements — makes the tension even more unbearable. #Aliens #HATM

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

One comforting aspect of the sci-fi future: In the most fraught circumstances, we'll always be able to rely on duct tape. #Aliens #HATM

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Reiser was a stand-up comic who played a prominent role in Barry Levinson's DINER in 1982. Carter Burke was a bold career move that he managed to rebound from the following year when he started a three-season run on the sitcom MY TWO DADS. #Aliens #HATM

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When I saw this opening weekend in 1986, I exhaled sharply at the end of the medical lab sequence and realized I had held my breath for at least 3 minutes. #Aliens #HATM

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I talk a lot of shit about Cameron as a screenwriter, but the burgeoning romantic tension between Ripley and Hicks demonstrates that he paid attention to a Billy Wilder film at some point. #Aliens #HATM

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The most chilling dialogue in the film is consistently delivered by a 7-year-old girl. #Aliens #HATM

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It occurs to me watching these patrol scenes that a lot of this comms chatter is probably ADR mixed in post. There's a quality to Apone's commands in particular that sounds dubbed in a way I never really noticed before. #Aliens #HATM

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

That Bill Paxton established himself as such a strong dramatic actor after breaking through in cartoon dipshit roles like Pvt. Hudson here and Chet from WEIRD SCIENCE is a testament to how great he was and how missed he is. #Aliens #HATM

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Chekhov's Freight Loader: Establish Ripley's profiency in Act 1 as foreshadowing to the Act 3 showdown. #Aliens #HATM

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"We also have Ripley's entire report on disk ..." So no cloud-based wireless IT in this version of the future either. #Aliens #HATM

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If only our present emerging technologies were as enlightened and fail-safe as Bishop. #Aliens #HATM

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Apone waking from cryosleep and immediately reaching for his cigar stub is one of the greatest character introductions of all time. #Aliens #HATM

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

$42 million as the cost of a destroyed star freighter just seems quaint as the price of something that far into the future. Cameron should maybe have consulted an economist before the final draft. #Aliens #HATM

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Burke's popped collar is the immediate tell that he's the villain. #Aliens #HATM

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Everything's a tradeoff. We can never just rack up a win, enjoy it, and get away clean. Yes, Ohio State lost in an utterly humiliating 4th quarter collapse last night, but now we've got another fucking Manning to deal with.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Make a band edible. Moo Goo Gai Pantera

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Strictly in terms of vocation and resourcefulness, you can draw a straight line from Hendley in #TheGreatEscape to Charlie Madison in #TheAmericanizationOfEmily. #TCMParty

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I need one (1) lime for gin & tonics later, and before I light out for the store I'm trying to think of other legitimate grocery needs so I don't end up being the Dude writing a 69-cent check for half & half at Ralphs.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The 437 area code serves Toronto, Ontario, so naturally I blame Trump’s ill-conceived trade war with our neighbors and traditional allies for this unprecedented instance of a Canadian phisher attempting to start shit from 1,000 miles away. It’s alarming. They’re ordinarily so polite.

+1 (437) 233-4786
Text Message • SMS
Today 3:07 PM

This parking spot belongs to me. I need you to move your vehicle NOW, or I'll contact property management and request a tow.

If you did not expect this message from an unknown sender, it may be spam.

Report Spam

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm presently making my way through the text of the bipartisan Protect College Sports Act, and I'm thinking this provision should be applicable to all American wage earners and not just student-athletes engaged in NIL agreements, particularly given the stagnation of the Federal minimum wage.

8 (B) ADJUSTMENT FOR INFLATION.—An
9 intercollegiate athletic association shall adjust
10 the amount described in clause (i) for inflation
11 by the percent increase, if any, in the Consumer
12 Price Index for All Urban Consumers published
13 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the De-
14 partment of Labor for the most recent 12-
15 month period for which applicable data is avail-
16 able.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m streaming some music from the ‘30s when a very familiar tune plays and two things occur to me at once: Steely Dan’s “East St. Louis Toodle-oo” is a cover (I knew it but I’m reminded), and if you could choose only one composer to represent all of American music, it’s Duke Ellington. Final answer.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“Siri, show me two people I’ll never waste one minute of my one precious life on.”

At left in a split screen, Stephen A. Smith in a pale blue suit, his lips parted in a brief pause, possibly for oxygen, in the midst of his never-ending pursuit of never shutting the fuck up, loudly.

At right, Skip Bayless in a dark blazer and open-collared white dress shirt, his mouth open wide in the middle of a loud hot take nobody asked for, probably something low-key racist having to do with Dak Prescott.

Below, the caption: “Skip Bayless returning to ‘First Take’ with Stephen A. Smith every Friday”

Credit: Awful Announcing (on Facebook)

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I get that Netflix is still relatively new to live sports, but they really need to figure out how to mix sound for these events. At least pretend you work in television. #SFvsLAR

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sometimes “trusting the process” means not freaking the fuck out when you turn on the kitchen light at 11 p.m. to discover that the liquid bait traps you set out earlier have attracted ALL THE TINY HOUSE ANTS IN YOUR ZIP CODE to the area around your sink and just going back to bed.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So when I tell you that, with a gun to my head, you can't make me care whether I'm creating value for shareholders ...

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