Mad Shepherd

@themadshepherd

In these difficult times, remember this: Everything humans do is fiction; Corporations aren’t real; War is not real; Religion and the gods are not real; They are fictions and constructs of bad men and their childish fear of death. You can change it.

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Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· 6d

Closeup of a Morlock’s face from the 2002 movie “The Time Machine.”

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· 16d

Wasn’t he Barkley on Sesame Street?

Picture of Sesame Street’s Barkley and Big Bird standing on the Great Wall with a little kid.

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· 29d

Well, it’s 89% real.

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Jul 3

This one?

Image of a book cover for a book titled Book: A Novel, by Robert Grudin

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· May 30

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· May 9

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

The Organism

I am the organism
like any other…
Had a mother
I left behind
Energy in
is energy out
I swim about
Confused at times
I chase my snout
Maybe small
Maybe big
But like the rest
I do my best—
The function of my parts
Often working hard
Why, it’s a test,
a horrible test, oh
A dreadful measure
With little pleasure
Then, my friends,
…it’s death.

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Apr 22

This guy gets it.

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Apr 21

Why tempt fate? There are also recipes out there. Now you can live life totally carefree and without regrets.

Product photo of a tub of Eat Pastry’s vegan, edible, raw cookie dough.

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Apr 6

Excellent Movie.

Hang’em High movie poster with a solo Clint Eastwood standing before a faded background, holding a hangman’s noose.

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Apr 3

Sorry for your loss. I think I had his twin brother. Finn.

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Mar 31

black and white photo of a young Peter Falk in navy uniform.

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Mar 28

Agave and stevia. 10 calories. Very similar to Dr. P. No artificial sweeteners. I switched. It’s good.

Can of Liquid Death, Doctor Death flavor.

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Jan 20

Sometimes, looking at it from a different perspective can be helpful. We call this “reframing.”

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Jan 9

Image of a post from Frank Conniff on Bluesky: Let's not forget, millions of Americans voted for Trump. They are our fellow citizens. So regardless of where we stand politically, it is imperative to reach out and tell each and every one of them that they are stupid fucking assholes.

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Dec 25

He’s enjoying the holidays… #cat #saturnalia #orange #christmas #holidays

Orange cat sitting in a black oak chair on top of a white decorative pillow.

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Dec 20

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Dec 18

#prose #poetry #regret and full of #anger, I am sure this feels familiar to some, or many. Are we all something else dying while trapped in the belly of the machine?

Experimental Ink

I was an artist dying inside a box. They told me, they said, get yourself that corporate money. Go’on, now. You deserve it. You should have an hour-long drag to work, on a good day. Surround yourself with people you’re not very fond of, for reasons not entirely their fault. Slam on your dad-blue jeans and gingham button down shirt, the one that still smells like someone else’s Armani from last year’s Christmas party, the one that sits entombed in your closet, waiting like a spirit to curse the rest of your surrendered life. Be the man’s man with tonic in hand. No, make it a whiskey, a double. Neat. You’ll want cigars and football tickets with that, and to forget about art for a while. Your art. Ignore the way things are shaping out, and disregard the colors, the cool gray blue shadow beneath hostile and rosy cheeks that drowns the heart. Drop your music full of grace. Scale back your writing to a dispatch and a micro-post. Practice twitter craft and rotten poetry. Apply for that new position where you stand all day for nothing. Wrap yourself in Amazon packaging and kneel before another rich man’s totem. Now beg for more. Beg for it. Get in. Get in the box and grovel. Get in and die. Rage against the opinions of others. You will never know who you are, they said, they told me, until you are half way through the side door, looking back, wishing you had done more of the other things. That was you, with wonder in your eyes, when the light of day moved you on, fueled your hunger, when you saw clear as blue who you wanted to be. And that sure as hell wasn't no artist dying in no box.

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Nov 7

What’s up, New York! #landscapes #autumn #hudsonValley #mountains

Narrow river stretching into the horizon, flanked by trees covered in autumn foliage. A blue mountain lies low and flat in the distance. Glooming gray-blue clouds ripple like tufts of cotton across the sky.

A bleak blue-gray blanket of heavy cloud looming over a narrow body of water. Clouds reflected in the water’s mirror shine. Overcast. Dense copse of water grasses sprout up into the horizon, driving the background trees away. Small rays of sunlight punch through in the distance, but vanish beyond the foliage. A low mountain lays in the backdrop, far away.

Sleepy low mountains, curved like hips, lying across the mid ground. A thin line of bright green grass cuts across the foreground, and a heavy blanket of gray clouds hovers above. From the left, a few bands of sunlight break through the muted earth tones of autumn, and a strip of sunshine lies across the hills.

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Oct 21

You can find me here Something like a heart Made of iron and white cedar Looking for his Autumn People Waiting in the October Country Carving my way through New England’s precious red gold #poems #poetry #nature #bradbury

Dense woods in autumn, with a narrow tannin stained stream the color of rusty tea winding up the middle. Trees tucked away behind billowing green brush flank the sides of the image. Dappled sunlight spots the iron-clay banks.

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Oct 18

For a second I thought you meant A grabber… from GRABBERS, and thought… how the hell are a bunch of kids going to pull this off? Also, I recommend this flick if unseen.

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Oct 5

More right wing violence, as this boy ran over and killed two young girls on an Ebike to get revenge for Charlie Kirk, as stated in his own live stream. But where’s the coverage? www.cnn.com/2025/10/04/u...

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Sep 23

Reads more like a police lineup. “I know this is difficult, America, but can you identify the individual who raped and destroyed you?”

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Sep 12

This is what domestic terrorism look like. This is what Kirk, Trump, and FOX, et al of the right wing propaganda apparatus, foment and manifest with their rhetoric. He’s not a democrat. He’s not a leftist. He is a Trump supporter. American Terrorist, Vance Luther Boelter.

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Sep 7

Leaked photos from the secret White House dinner on the rose-atio. #Trump #whitehouse #Fascism

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Sep 1

What’s up, America? #poetry #guns #fascists #NRA

Poem: America is a gun, by Brian Bilston:

England is a cup of tea.
France, a wheel of ripened brie.
Greece, a short, squat olive tree.
America is a gun.
Brazil is football on the sand.
Argentina, Maradona's hand.
Germany, an oompah band.
America is a gun.
Holland is a wooden shoe.
Hungary, a goulash stew.
Australia, a kangaroo.
America is a gun.
Japan is a thermal spring.
Scotland is a highland fling.
Oh, better to be anything than America as a gun.

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Aug 13

Thought I would try learning to draw faces. No ref material. Just trying to learn facial anatomy. It’s hard. #art #skech

Pencil sketches of six different faces: from left: a woman, a goblin, a demon, a dude with puffy hair, a greaser type, and a sad clown with horns.

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Jul 20

Some Carruth for the toothsome. #poetry

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Apr 20

Nearby hive. Every spring, the swarm grows. This year, thousands rally before they split off and venture out. Usually due to excess food or too many worker bees in the hive. This year they made a column. Could hear them from inside the house. #bees #nature #wildlife

A 6 foot long column of honey bees hanging from a backyard pine tree during a swarm.

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Apr 10

They know

Can of Liquid Death. Flavor is Dead Billionaire.

Mad Shepherd@themadshepherd· Apr 6