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Podcast host/producer: @FictitiousPodcast.com, @scoreography.show, Nerd For A Living.
Writer, speaker, musician, RPG gamemaster.
He/him. (AY-dren BUS-kee)
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I think that’s generally true here in the St Louis metro, too. The white people who mask are very often observably neurodivergent, disabled, and/or queer, though some normie-looking older folks are mixed in.
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I haven’t encountered open hostility while masked for awhile now, mostly bemusement. There are still just enough maskers in our area that it doesn’t feel fully outlandish.
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I was thinking about this while at a library book sale this morning, where I was the only person masked. I have the “advantage” of being both large and generally normie-passing, so when I get the occasional odd look, it’s mostly confused.
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The world is not a stage, it's a middle school cafeteria.
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It’s time to disrupt Silicon Valley, and not gently
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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.
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I would like to see more of these round tables with the title: “We talked with some average American voters, and it turns out they have no idea what they’re talking about or voting for.”
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Sure, Americans famously don’t know or care much about how the rest of the world works. But it would take 40 seconds of research to learn American exports are everywhere (not the least of which is media). This is just a “sounded true in my head/facebook timeline” level of certainty.
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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.
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Willful ignorance is a helluva drug, man
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Goes a bit beyond that…
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As someone with an entire Bunnicula collection, I applaud this!
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Same, but it was worth it
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Points for the Basket Case reference.
I somehow (thankfully) don’t know who these people are. Siblings? Married couple? Married siblings? Why does that last one feel so believable here?
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The problem with being sarcastic in 2025 is that every preposterous analogy you propose has already happened.
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A close friend used to operate a popular online crafting biz. Some of their fans grew very parasocial. Found their non-biz home address, dropped "gifts" at their door, made specific references to their house online, tried to invite themselves over to "camp" with their family. Still happens.
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This past Sunday, I sat in our bedroom and wept for 20 minutes because I missed our girl, Domino.
She’s been gone 3 years.
Our constant companion for 16 years, I think about her everyday. Most of those days are easier now, but once in awhile a wound that doesn’t fully heal still aches a bit.
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Nice to see you here, Marisa! Hope you're doing well (despite and in-spite of, well, everything)
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propaganda doesn't need to be profitable, just effective
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Yep. And also there’s a non-zero chance these guys are using ChatGPT to help “write” some of these songs.
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I started grade school in Florida. It was wildly diverse, fun, reading levels way more advanced. Most people I speak with can’t tell I have a stutter, and I have Florida teachers to thank for that.
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Modern country is like comic book artists and writers who learned their craft only and entirely from comics. With no outside influences, they just regurgitate the same slop, devolving further into caricature, creating for an unimaginative audience complacent with “more or the same”.
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While I don’t think there’s anything wrong with celebrating a simple life, most country lyrics simply have no aspirations beyond a bigger truck and a better party. They’re cynical identity-affirming nostalgia, terrified of any introspection. No thoughts, just vibes.