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Dan Sheehan
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Author (I Am Not A Wolf), Comedy Writer (The Onion, @SickofWolves), and occasional games writer (Magic: The Gathering). Contact me @ dansheehan.fyi
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One more plug for the piece I wrote this week about the escalating climate situation. Feels insane to exist right now!

full text at dansheehan.substack.com
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If you want to read the rest, it's at DanSheehan.Substack.com

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Took a swing at talking about The Horrors and attempted to draw some lines between the cascading climate disasters, bloated aid packages to the ongoing genocide, and reopening of nuclear plants to run AI data centers.

A few months ago, two kids threw soup on a painting to remind everyone that the thing they’re ignoring is happening. 

Two weeks ago, several uncontrolled wildfires raged around my home and shot columns of smoke into the sky as our two presidential candidates cruised past questions of climate policy into further mugging for the cameras on their side.

On Friday, the kids who threw soup were sentenced to two years in prison. That same day brought a storm so strong that a couple hundred years ago we’d have prayed to it.  

By Saturday, Florida was underwater. On Sunday morning, we saw the first images of whole towns in Appalachia swept away. 

All the while, American-funded Israeli hellfire expanded its scope from civilian targets in Palestine to civilian targets in Lebanon. Meanwhile, the CEO of a company that makes digital renderings of large-breasted astronauts briefed the president on how the Biden administration can help his company with its growing energy needs.
We’re an aging world power, struggling to reassert our dominance as decades of our own choices catch up with us. The control of this world power is firmly in the hands of the heirs to multigenerational fortunes and businessmen who’ve learned to thrive in a system that rewards the exploitation of loopholes above all else. 

So, when presented with the existential threat of climate change, the ever-shrinking number of people with the resources to do anything about it instinctually focus those resources on insulating themselves and those like them from what’s coming. They do this through a mixture of wealth hoarding and a quiet push towards the more easily controlled political right. There’s no grand plan, no one entity calling the shots, just a series of cascading acts of self interest.

Because there’s no one person to blame for our troubles, no single point of origin that we can fix, there’s no consensus on what needs to be done to course correct. All we have is a system, firmly entren
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Went to a bike shop once and a guy had a nametag that said "Demon" on it and my friend said "is that your real name" and the guy said "no, I wear it so people don't ask me about my name" and like sorry man but if that's the goal maybe just try putting Jeff on there or something

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No expensive spared on the lil man

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Many of your are speaking to me as though my cat doesn’t sleep in a little cardboard box next to my bed. Your tone does not imply the reverence one should have for a man whose cat sleeps in a little cardboard box next to his bed.

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We do not lose the ability or need to be burped in adulthood, we simply forget its importance

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Lesson learned, if I'd waited I'd have had a shot at the ol' 69,420

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Anyway, if you want to read the full thing, I made it and a few other recent favorites free to all. Feel free to sign up at dansheehan.substack.com, I haven't been writing every week because I've been stuck looking for work in a very dry freelance market.

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Dan Sheehan
@dansheehan.bsky.social
Author (I Am Not A Wolf), Comedy Writer (The Onion, @SickofWolves), and occasional games writer (Magic: The Gathering). Contact me @ dansheehan.fyi
2.1k followers235 following170 posts