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Brent Shepherd (he/him)

@shepcatzero.bsky.social
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Down these mean skeets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.

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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 1h
Kenneth Walker III. You can’t stop him. Youcanonlyhopetocontainhim. #KCvsLV #ChiefsKingdom
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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 4h
I hate shortsighted candidates taking this position to win the center instead of moving to the left and standing for something. If you support the existence, autonomy and basic human rights of literally the most vulnerable minority, you signal to every other minority that you'll have their back too.
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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 5h
As the story goes, Jack Lemmon heard her laugh, unseen, on the other side of a soundstage wall and had to meet her. The rest is history.
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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 5h
“Woozy Sunday” would be a great Samberg-Parnell follow-up rap. Older now, with wives and kids, but meeting up to get their flu and COVID boosters together. NBC could turn it into a “The More You Know” PSA.
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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 6h
Colson Whitehead. Harlem, 1986. A work of fiction, yes, but a prescription for our times, a broader interpretation of “termination for cause.”
From COOL MACHINE by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday, 2026):

Last week Carney had fired Jerome the sales associate after he admitted that he had voted for Reagan, not once but twice. “What this country needs is a good kick in the ass, you know.” Carney showed him the door. What message did it send to the community to hire people of such low character?
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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 8h
YES. But for any of this to happen, two things: 1. Besides flipping the House, we need 51 Democratic senators, not counting Fetterman. 2. Hakeem and Chuck must be removed from leadership with votes of no confidence. They don't have the cholesterol for this fight. We need wartime consiglieres.
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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 22h
I guess that would be the actual opposite of Big Dick Energy.
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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 23h
Wells gets credit for the bases he DIDN'T get thrown out on? Seriously, what kind of participation trophy bullshit is that? #NYYvsTB #ALDS
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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 23h
Someone please explain to me like I'm 5 how Wells gets credited with a double and breaking up the no-hitter when he's thrown out at third. If it was a double he'd be on second base and the inning wouldn't be over. That's horseshit. #NYYvsTB #ALDS
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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That's OK. I'm rooting for the Dodgers enough for both of us.
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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you believe in the Holy Spirit and the existence of angels, you may have a natural predisposition toward compliance with the surveillance state. This post is about Christian nationalism and Flock cameras.
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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Al Roker just said this is the first year since 1814 that there hasn’t been a named hurricane in the Atlantic, which is great, but also I imagine, at least in terms of the continuity of seasonal cycles, some climatologist has posited, “Is that a harbinger of something we should be worried about?”
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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.
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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Doctor, I am GASSED.”
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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.
On the logo for a commercial brand of cleaning products, emerging over the top of black-outlined yellow lettering against a green background, a black-and-white line drawing depicts the top half of a sealed steel drum, which has been anthropomorphized with a broadly smiling, poorly proportioned face (eyes uneven, one ear larger than the other, wide nose shaped like a bell pepper) and totally fuckin’ jacked biceps and forearms ending in clenched fists. Beside the drawing is a registration mark (®️), because you wouldn’t want anyone trying to poach this Boschian phone pad doodle in the public domain.
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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
K9's basically a running back who came with Waze already installed. #ChiefsKingdom
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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
[in the style of Terence Stamp in THE LIMEY] A horse. ... A horse. ... My kingdom for a fucking hooooorse!
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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
K9? To the house? Already? OK, I'll allow it. #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
A 4-hour doc ... about a massive dipshit ... that uses A.I. ... I'm gonna stop you right there. Thanks for saving me the trouble, Steven.
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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
You are the first person I've ever seen or heard call him by his government name.
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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s always lovely to see glamorous photos of Julie like this, as many of us of a certain age first conjure an image of her in nurse’s whites. It was a revelation learning later (likely in a History of Jazz course I took in college) that she and Bobby Troup were both singers, and married.
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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reader’s note: The new Whitehead is, predictably, excellent so far.
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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 · 25/09/2026
Are a lot of them on the waterfront? Some earlier casinos were loopholed in states where “riverboat gambling” was permitted by existing law, so casinos were built on moored boats at the riverside.
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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Then bet the under on him escalating from “fake news,” “low IQ,” “terrible person” to just deadass saying the N-word on live air or even lashing out physically at a reporter, as we’ve aleady witnessed his mounting rage. Either of those would be the final test of his Cabinet to invoke the 25th.
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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
The #Royals are now 19-26 in one-run games this season. #KCvsPIT #FountainsOff
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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
... and SCENE. #KCvsPIT #FountainsOff
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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
Casting my vote for Angelyne pink instead of Mary Kay pink.
Famous-for-being-famous Hollywood billboard legend Angelyne performs the splits atop her signature pink Corvette.
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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Snow White and the Dwarf
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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I've always argued she's a smoke show with them on, but duly noted.
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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 · 19/09/2026
I’ll always love the story of her and Alfred Molina hanging off the side of a building during a setup between takes and her casually remarking, “I’m classically trained, you know.”
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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
it's about time we heard from the newlywed. KELCE! #DENvsKC
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Brent Shepherd (he/him) @shepcatzero.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You know, just in case one of them throws a pick to a guy STANDING ALL ALONE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD. #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 · 15/09/2026
Man starts off the season tearin' the roof off the dump like that, it's only a matter of time before Spagnuolo's defense lets me down, but I'm actually hyped right now. #DENvsKC #ChiefsKingdom
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