Huge Ancient Red Worker
@malcolmsheppard.bsky.social
Writer, RPG designer/developer and weirdly enough, semiprofessional swordsman. Currently primarily engaged by Green Ronin but all opinions my own.
You can tell it's AI because Superman's a sport and would definitely take off his shirt.
February 17, 2026 at 10:28 PM
You can tell it's AI because Superman's a sport and would definitely take off his shirt.
Ah yes, the thing that is extremely true that we have to pretend isn't true.
Remember: When you playtest a game, never take players’ feedback/suggestions at face value. Figure out what emotion is underneath what they’re telling you, and then figure out what in the game is causing that emotion
there u go, bless
February 17, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Ah yes, the thing that is extremely true that we have to pretend isn't true.
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the time of Good Stancil has passed
somehow, Bad Stancil returned
somehow, Bad Stancil returned
Watching the Bluesky Elite settle into the position “you are not allowed to criticize left-wing electoral abstentionism, even now” makes me realize that one of the best things to happen to progressives would be Bluesky dying completely
February 17, 2026 at 12:56 PM
the time of Good Stancil has passed
somehow, Bad Stancil returned
somehow, Bad Stancil returned
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Someone tell Hillary that this is her husband’s legacy too
February 17, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Someone tell Hillary that this is her husband’s legacy too
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Matt Walsh whose followers sent repeated bomb threats to multiple children's hospitals has thoughts on violence
The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.
February 17, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Matt Walsh whose followers sent repeated bomb threats to multiple children's hospitals has thoughts on violence
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Scapegoating trans people is morally wrong, but that's not the only reason cis people should be offended by it. When someone asks you to hate someone, it's because they think you're a sucker. I'm no mark and these people can fuck off if they want me to jump on their hate bandwagon.
February 17, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Scapegoating trans people is morally wrong, but that's not the only reason cis people should be offended by it. When someone asks you to hate someone, it's because they think you're a sucker. I'm no mark and these people can fuck off if they want me to jump on their hate bandwagon.
This should be no surprise. Dems started making noises about how it's time for them to betray trans folks immediately after they lost.
Yeah, so about your claim that The Argument wouldn't be running anti-trans pieces @jerusalem.bsky.social... I knew it.
February 17, 2026 at 10:14 PM
This should be no surprise. Dems started making noises about how it's time for them to betray trans folks immediately after they lost.
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A conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories.
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
February 16, 2026 at 12:16 PM
A conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories.
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
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Mark Carney has committed Canada to spend 5% of GDP on defence—more than double NATO’s target.
No serious debate. No scrutiny. Just consensus from a political class sleepwalking into permanent militarization while public services decline.
No serious debate. No scrutiny. Just consensus from a political class sleepwalking into permanent militarization while public services decline.
Military spending groupthink and Canada’s left
The vast majority of Western politicians have boxed themselves into too much of a corner after having demonized Russia to such an extent to really raise serious questions about the need for increased ...
canadiandimension.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Mark Carney has committed Canada to spend 5% of GDP on defence—more than double NATO’s target.
No serious debate. No scrutiny. Just consensus from a political class sleepwalking into permanent militarization while public services decline.
No serious debate. No scrutiny. Just consensus from a political class sleepwalking into permanent militarization while public services decline.
But consider that converting a building to wreckage can be quite inexpensive.
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 16, 2026 at 12:14 AM
But consider that converting a building to wreckage can be quite inexpensive.
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I love Democrats because they’re always like “we did the bad thing better than republicans”
February 15, 2026 at 4:20 PM
I love Democrats because they’re always like “we did the bad thing better than republicans”
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The MMR shot really is the minimum for attending school at all levels. Parents can‘t expect their kids to be in social environments while they make deliberately antisocial decisions about the kid’s health.
February 15, 2026 at 12:54 PM
The MMR shot really is the minimum for attending school at all levels. Parents can‘t expect their kids to be in social environments while they make deliberately antisocial decisions about the kid’s health.
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L (biggest breath I can possibly hold in my middle aged lungs) MAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 15, 2026 at 12:30 AM
L (biggest breath I can possibly hold in my middle aged lungs) MAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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yeah anyone who thinks this is a great idea wants a five year old victim to have to choose if they want their relative to die
As a child protection professional, I can tell you the death penalty is NOT an awesome solution to child sexual abuse. Most children are abused by family members; they will not report if their family members will die as a result.
February 15, 2026 at 3:33 AM
yeah anyone who thinks this is a great idea wants a five year old victim to have to choose if they want their relative to die
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I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.
You ever stop and think about CASABLANCA? You ever stop and think about "Welcome back to the fight, this time, I know our side will win?" You ever think about a bar full of people defiantly singing La Marseillaise, played by a soundstage full of Jewish refugees? You ever think about CASABLANCA??????
February 15, 2026 at 3:17 AM
I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.
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Apparently we’re at the (preventable) infectious disease outbreak at a camp where disfavored ethnic groups are concentrated stage.
February 2, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Apparently we’re at the (preventable) infectious disease outbreak at a camp where disfavored ethnic groups are concentrated stage.
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Once more: Columbia could have fought; it chose not.
NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Trump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. But it ...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Once more: Columbia could have fought; it chose not.
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This is blackout poetry to me
February 14, 2026 at 2:26 PM
This is blackout poetry to me
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I've just remembered that in the Amber TTRPG, you can become more powerful if you promise to write poetry about every session of the game, but if you don't actually do it, the GM gets the universe to bully you. This is very unrealistic, because IRL, the universe bullies you if you do write poetry.
February 14, 2026 at 4:15 PM
I've just remembered that in the Amber TTRPG, you can become more powerful if you promise to write poetry about every session of the game, but if you don't actually do it, the GM gets the universe to bully you. This is very unrealistic, because IRL, the universe bullies you if you do write poetry.
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i think about this constantly. tradwife culture absolutely is a kink and no one will acknowledge that it's basically a 24/7 BDSM arrangement but done in an extremely unsafe and dangerous way.
kinksters who can't/won't acknowledge they're participating in kink are a huge social problem right now, imo. ai gooners, trad influencers and breeding-obsessed politicians are all (among other things) perverts who insist they hate perverts.
February 11, 2026 at 4:59 PM
i think about this constantly. tradwife culture absolutely is a kink and no one will acknowledge that it's basically a 24/7 BDSM arrangement but done in an extremely unsafe and dangerous way.
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On the Patreon, which is a HUGE part of keeping me eating, I've recently done Rambo, I've done toy merchandising, I've done Japanese monster movies. Now it's time for the serious stuff.
As ever, subscription is cheap and gets you access to a huge archive.
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February 13, 2026 at 11:30 AM
On the Patreon, which is a HUGE part of keeping me eating, I've recently done Rambo, I've done toy merchandising, I've done Japanese monster movies. Now it's time for the serious stuff.
As ever, subscription is cheap and gets you access to a huge archive.
www.patreon.com/posts/150644...
As ever, subscription is cheap and gets you access to a huge archive.
www.patreon.com/posts/150644...
Ah, Trump wants an arch, just like Hitler did for Germania.
February 14, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Ah, Trump wants an arch, just like Hitler did for Germania.
I think you can count the part where she spent two years lying for Joe Biden about his physical and cognitive health as well as his actions on Gaza. It takes a village to kill a hundreds of villages worth of kids, is that the saying?
Kamala Harris didn’t run a “great campaign,” a “good campaign,” or a “terrible campaign.” She ran a mini campaign. ‘Twas fun-size. A 90-day campaign-ita. Love her, hate her, or tolerate her, legitimately criticizing her campaign starts and ends with the fact that it was two years too short.
February 14, 2026 at 1:05 AM
I think you can count the part where she spent two years lying for Joe Biden about his physical and cognitive health as well as his actions on Gaza. It takes a village to kill a hundreds of villages worth of kids, is that the saying?
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liberals doing voter outreach on Bluesky
February 13, 2026 at 8:20 PM
liberals doing voter outreach on Bluesky