Adron Buske
@adronbuske.com
Podcast host/producer: @FictitiousPodcast.com, @scoreography.show, Nerd For A Living.
Writer, speaker, musician, RPG gamemaster.
He/him. (AY-dren BUS-kee)
https://fictitiouspodcast.com
Writer, speaker, musician, RPG gamemaster.
He/him. (AY-dren BUS-kee)
https://fictitiouspodcast.com
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I would like to share something.
A year ago, Trump won and I was furious and scared so I sent a text to a few of local women I knew and asked them to join me at a meeting and invite like-minded women they knew. A few showed up, then a few more. We became a group called The Salon and we meet monthly
A year ago, Trump won and I was furious and scared so I sent a text to a few of local women I knew and asked them to join me at a meeting and invite like-minded women they knew. A few showed up, then a few more. We became a group called The Salon and we meet monthly
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I would like to share something.
A year ago, Trump won and I was furious and scared so I sent a text to a few of local women I knew and asked them to join me at a meeting and invite like-minded women they knew. A few showed up, then a few more. We became a group called The Salon and we meet monthly
A year ago, Trump won and I was furious and scared so I sent a text to a few of local women I knew and asked them to join me at a meeting and invite like-minded women they knew. A few showed up, then a few more. We became a group called The Salon and we meet monthly
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I love this movie bc when you're five it's a cute story about a mouse reuniting with his family, and when you're an adult it's "HOLY SHIT this movie is about pogroms and immigration and enfranchisement and the labor movement and electoral corruption and tenements and industrializiation and AHHHHH"
It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I love this movie bc when you're five it's a cute story about a mouse reuniting with his family, and when you're an adult it's "HOLY SHIT this movie is about pogroms and immigration and enfranchisement and the labor movement and electoral corruption and tenements and industrializiation and AHHHHH"
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Today's newsletter is about the awful and extremely political decision to gut Teen Vogue for parts www.readtpa.com/p/teen-vogue...
Teen Vogue's Award-Winning Journalism Was Too Much Trouble for Condé Nast
The outlet just won recognition for speaking truth to power. Condé Nast responded by eliminating its entire politics staff and folding it into Vogue.
www.readtpa.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Today's newsletter is about the awful and extremely political decision to gut Teen Vogue for parts www.readtpa.com/p/teen-vogue...
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Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
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Good reminder to liberally use one of Bluesky’s best features, the nuclear block. Don’t get baited just move on.
October 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Good reminder to liberally use one of Bluesky’s best features, the nuclear block. Don’t get baited just move on.
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It is important to see this sort of straight talking, precisely because of the executive order last week that conflated criticism of the government with terrorism.
Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
September 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
It is important to see this sort of straight talking, precisely because of the executive order last week that conflated criticism of the government with terrorism.
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TikTok will be co-owned by China and Trump allies, Paramount was sold to a pro-Trump billionaire who's also set to buy Warner Bros, X is owned by an apartheid-bred fascist, WaPo and Meta are owned by Trump-cowering billionaires, and Murdoch owns the Fox empire. Here's why media has a liberal bias.
September 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
TikTok will be co-owned by China and Trump allies, Paramount was sold to a pro-Trump billionaire who's also set to buy Warner Bros, X is owned by an apartheid-bred fascist, WaPo and Meta are owned by Trump-cowering billionaires, and Murdoch owns the Fox empire. Here's why media has a liberal bias.
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One of the strangest things conservatives try to pull is creating this fake character of a Democrat/liberal who abandoned the party/leftist ethos and went to the right, because of how the left behaves. Such folks don't exist, so they have to invent them.
If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.
September 21, 2025 at 5:31 AM
One of the strangest things conservatives try to pull is creating this fake character of a Democrat/liberal who abandoned the party/leftist ethos and went to the right, because of how the left behaves. Such folks don't exist, so they have to invent them.
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The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.
New: FCC chair threatens ABC and Disney over Jimmy Kimmel’s remarks about Charlie Kirk
www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/m...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/m...
FCC chair threatens ABC and Disney over Jimmy Kimmel’s remarks about Charlie Kirk | CNN Business
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr warned. “These companies can find ways to change conduct and take actions on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
www.cnn.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
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When you cancel your Disney, Hulu, ESPN, etc. subscriptions, you will likely find “Other” as one of the options to provide a reason. Upon clicking that, it opens a field where you can expound. I typed “Kimmel”
<submit>
Our money. Our choice. Our voice.
<submit>
Our money. Our choice. Our voice.
September 18, 2025 at 1:28 AM
When you cancel your Disney, Hulu, ESPN, etc. subscriptions, you will likely find “Other” as one of the options to provide a reason. Upon clicking that, it opens a field where you can expound. I typed “Kimmel”
<submit>
Our money. Our choice. Our voice.
<submit>
Our money. Our choice. Our voice.
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Sally, are you not familiar with the concept of rhetorical violence?
One of the reasons I'm not familiar with his views is that I find they've been inaccurately or incompletely reported. When I do listen to him in full, he speaks with civility, and his full context has usually been lost. This disappoints me in my profession. That is what I'm saying.
You admitted you're not familiar with his views but are saying he argued with civility. Which one is it, Sally?
Cuz it sounds to me like you're defending him, and that's pretty disgusting and embarrassing.
Cuz it sounds to me like you're defending him, and that's pretty disgusting and embarrassing.
September 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Sally, are you not familiar with the concept of rhetorical violence?
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Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
September 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
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If you're still not sure who the baddies are, they're ones who fire rounds at disabled women.
Update from outside Broadview ICE facility in Chicagoland—
Even after feds killed a man a few towns away today, a small group remain to finish their 7am-7pm protest.
SRT takes the dwindling numbers as an opportunity to unleash less lethals on a protester with a mobility aid sitting on the ground.
Even after feds killed a man a few towns away today, a small group remain to finish their 7am-7pm protest.
SRT takes the dwindling numbers as an opportunity to unleash less lethals on a protester with a mobility aid sitting on the ground.
September 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
If you're still not sure who the baddies are, they're ones who fire rounds at disabled women.
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The world is not a stage, it's a middle school cafeteria.
June 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The world is not a stage, it's a middle school cafeteria.
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once again I must tap my own sign
June 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
once again I must tap my own sign
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This is such a perfectly condensed little parable of the horrors of the bullshit machines: a completely ignorant and illiterate shibboleth against standard punctuation, born from nothing and threatening to take over in no time—meme as prion chewing holes in the brains of a generation
Working with a student on her story, I recommend using an em-dash. She says she can't, because professors will think she's using AI. She says that's a tell now. Is it? Is the hopeless race to outsmart AI causing us to lose bits of language and punctuation?
June 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This is such a perfectly condensed little parable of the horrors of the bullshit machines: a completely ignorant and illiterate shibboleth against standard punctuation, born from nothing and threatening to take over in no time—meme as prion chewing holes in the brains of a generation
If this was true, then wouldn’t this indicate a profound failure of “social networks” ostensibly designed to promote friendship and connection? A confession that “we made billions while being remarkably awful at our stated purpose, and only made things so much worse”? Galactic self own.
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)
May 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
If this was true, then wouldn’t this indicate a profound failure of “social networks” ostensibly designed to promote friendship and connection? A confession that “we made billions while being remarkably awful at our stated purpose, and only made things so much worse”? Galactic self own.
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The whole “Is he serious?” debate is poison.
It’s a politician’s job to talk seriously to us. It’s our job to take them seriously, and to judge accordingly. If you want fun play Minecraft.
It’s a politician’s job to talk seriously to us. It’s our job to take them seriously, and to judge accordingly. If you want fun play Minecraft.
April 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The whole “Is he serious?” debate is poison.
It’s a politician’s job to talk seriously to us. It’s our job to take them seriously, and to judge accordingly. If you want fun play Minecraft.
It’s a politician’s job to talk seriously to us. It’s our job to take them seriously, and to judge accordingly. If you want fun play Minecraft.
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I am exhausted with people who can't admit when they were wrong--whether they misspoke or made a misstep. I am exhausted by the doubling down and the unwillingness to change. The idea that altering your course if it's not working is "flipflopping" is a fucking plague on politics.
April 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I am exhausted with people who can't admit when they were wrong--whether they misspoke or made a misstep. I am exhausted by the doubling down and the unwillingness to change. The idea that altering your course if it's not working is "flipflopping" is a fucking plague on politics.
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This, from a woman in Oklahoma talking to her local news station, is better than the vast majority of political speeches you'll hear today.
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
April 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This, from a woman in Oklahoma talking to her local news station, is better than the vast majority of political speeches you'll hear today.
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Read this thread. Especially if you aren’t an artist.
And then we're back to people who don't understand the system destroying people's livelihoods. Because to you or me, enamel pins are a luxury item. But to my independent artist friends, enamel pins have been the thing that made their careers sustainable.
Enamel Pins are mostly made overseas. Most 'US based' companies that make pins are just middlemen.
Also I understand that enamel pins are not a critical item, but a lot of artists make a good chunk of money from selling them.
Also I understand that enamel pins are not a critical item, but a lot of artists make a good chunk of money from selling them.
April 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Read this thread. Especially if you aren’t an artist.
What do you mean, I *am* smiling
April 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
What do you mean, I *am* smiling
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Y’all, Amazon is bad for writers, bad for publishers, bad for customers, bad for workers. bad for democracy. Would be wonderful if we could break its stranglehold.
Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies.
Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
April 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Y’all, Amazon is bad for writers, bad for publishers, bad for customers, bad for workers. bad for democracy. Would be wonderful if we could break its stranglehold.