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Former motion picture sound mixer. Kayak paddler. I used to be tall and slim. 

Union & proud since 1984, though I now carry a retired membership card.

https://imdb.com/name/nm0318355

I got my NPS/Recreational Lands Senior Pass back when it was still $10, but even at today’s $80, we would still save the cost every year. Campsites end up costing half the regular fee and we generally go out for a few days a couple of times a year and take lots of day trips to NPS sites with user fees.

@drdrang San Antonio tv station KENS 5 is reporting that the closure was over misidentification of an escaped party balloon.

https://youtu.be/GRgeWW6MdYQ?si=y19SuJGKBrSmFUhs

FAA shutdown of El Paso airport lasts few hours, tied to anti-drone tech, cartel, party balloon

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@hotdogsladies puts me in mind of a poster Panavision released a while back.

Real life imitating the Onion?
The Sandy Hook families agreed to a smaller settlement in order to ensure Infowars is controlled by friendly folks.

https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/

Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’

Today we celebrate a new addition to the Global Tetrahedron LLC family of brands. And let me say, I really do see it as a family. Much like family members, our brands are abstract nodes of wealth, interchangeable assets for their patriarch to absorb and discard according to the opaque whims of the market. And […]

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@marcoarment As an election judge, the best job in the place is handing out the stickers. Here it usually goes to high school students working for community service hours since you have to be registered to do anything official. Second best is handing the first ballot to a new voter, which I got to do lots in 2022. I had to sit out this time, I’m recovering from eye surgery and can’t do the 15 hour day of mostly clerical work chief judges do. Hopefully I’ll be back in ‘26.
@reckless1280 Great work, thank you for that. My only critique is that it could do with a few more fucks.
@gtconway3 and the disgraced and defeated former president wants him to be the government’s go-to for efficiency?
@jeffjarvis Trump’s fake reality competition show is mostly memorable for me because he showed how much he values working people by crossing my union’s picket line, outside Alice Tully Hall back in 2004. The kicker is that he wasn’t even brave enough to look the pickets in the eye. https://aflcio.org/2016/9/16/open-letter-donald-trump-you-lost-my-vote-when-you-crossed-my-picket-line
An Open Letter to Donald Trump: You Lost My Vote When You Crossed My Picket Line | AFL-CIO

Dear Mr. Trump:My name is Dan Mahoney. I was born and raised in New York. I am a proud member and employee of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees...

@jeffjarvis Keeping government out of people’s healthcare choices and keeping religion out of government are the Holy Grail of democracy. I’m all for the old school filibuster, you can gum up the works for as long as you can keep talking. The Senator from the coal industry is as much an independent as Larry “I vote for dead Republicans” Hogan.
@jeffjarvis @TerpieCat Unfortunately school kids aren’t protected by the US Marshals Service.