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@chadabarringer149.bsky.social

Late 50s Trade Unionist, Curmudgeon, and community volunteer. Fan of music, Baseball, Illini, EMU baseball and Miami RedHawk sports. “Those of us who can have an obligation to our community to give back. A hand up, not a handout.” - me

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Quincy, MD

31.10.2025 17:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The headline will read “Shohei homers as Jays beat the Dodgers 11-4”.

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❤️

17.10.2025 13:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

FANTASTIC!

16.10.2025 19:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

✊🏻 smoke the Domers. And BEAT IU as well!

20.09.2025 15:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Reliving some of the Zellar show Murphy and I saw in March.

09.08.2025 21:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Consolidating my CDs to conserve space, 200+ in and I need to go grab more cases. I grossly underestimated what I accumulated over the last 4 decades. Jewel cases may go, but I can’t rid myself of most of the physical media itself.

09.08.2025 20:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Playing here in the Flats today.

09.08.2025 20:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Not on that platform, but I do on others. I’ll make sure to do so tonight.

04.08.2025 20:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Can someone please fix the glitch in the matrix?

24.07.2025 15:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Even better.

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And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

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youtu.be/LxaAw2viEIQ?...

04.07.2025 16:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Everyone loves a “perade”. How many people could have been fed and housed for those millions?

15.06.2025 00:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Be safe, MN. A pox on all who support such evil.

14.06.2025 17:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s a bit early, but Thursday is the 80th anniversary of VE Day. Not the end of WWII, but Victory In Europe. There was another theatre of operations (the Pacific) still active for a few more months, despite what we may be hearing/reading. Education matters. History matters.

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The Cities are great.

07.04.2025 02:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

DFA Mikolas now

06.04.2025 23:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Early morning, April 4
shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride...

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The PBS special on this was fantastic. And so sad.

25.03.2025 19:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop them from forming. Keep up the fight.

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Quite frankly, I’m surprised we still have a Dept of Transportation.

06.03.2025 13:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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