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Lvl 43. upser, unionist. Gay agenda. The Star Treks are my religion. All my friends are gay furries.
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benwinslow.bsky.social
INBOX: @sltrib.com's newsroom employee union announces its first contract. #utpol #Utah
SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake Tribune’s newsroom workers unanimously ratified the Salt Lake News Guild’s inaugural labor contract Monday — a first in the 155-year history of Utah’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, flagship newspaper. The vote was open to every member of The Tribune’s bargaining unit, which also includes staff at The Tribune-owned Moab Times-Independent and The Southern Utah Tribune. By the time voting closed Sunday afternoon, 93% had participated. Each of them voted in favor of the two-year agreement, which includes provisions that guarantee increased pay and benefits and bar management from disciplining employees over content engagement metrics, like page views. “We are grateful to all employees of The Salt Lake Tribune for the dedication they bring to our journalism every day. The bargaining process was respectful and thoughtful, and now we look forward to diving in on critical work together, ahead of The Tribune removing its paywall in 2026,” Tribune management and the Guild said in a joint statement. The members of the Guild’s bargaining committee (Bethany Baker, Jeff Dempsey, Paighten Harkins, Andy Larsen and Trent Nelson) met with Tribune CEO Lauren Gustus on Monday morning at The Tribune offices to sign the contract, surrounded by Tribune staffers. Negotiations began in February. We couldn’t be more excited to have come to an agreement on a contract with Tribune management,” said Andy Larsen, a member of the Guild’s Bargaining Committee. “We believe this contract adds significantly to the long-term strength and stability of The Tribune and for the workers who make independent news in Utah possible.” “When Tribune workers voted to unionize more than a year ago, we said we wanted to ensure a supportive workplace, where talent is nurtured and cultivated and staff is paid enough so that our chief concern is how to best cover Utah — not how to afford to live here,” Bargaining Committee member Paighten Harkins said. “We rejected discipline over page views, and we wanted a seat at the board table where decisions are made. With this contract, we got all that and more.” Key contract provisions: • A standard salary floor of $60,000 for new hires of The Tribune and $54,000 for The Moab Times-Independent, as well as higher salary floors for experienced staff based on tenure at the paper; • Across the board annual cost of living raises and merit-based raises, with the opportunity for up to 5% total in annual raises if all goals are met; • Revenue share with employees if The Tribune beats annual financial targets; • Guaranteed protections against unjust discipline and severance pay in the event of layoffs; • Restrictions against disciplining or terminating employees based on page view quotas; • Increased employer contributions to employee retirement plans and more parental leave, personal days and vacation; • Guarantees that staff will be included in developing new artificial intelligence and social media policies, as well as in selecting health insurance policies; • A seat for a Guild representative to take part in Tribune Board of Directors meetings We couldn’t be more excited to have come to an agreement on a contract with Tribune management,” said Andy Larsen, a member of the Guild’s Bargaining Committee. “We believe this contract adds significantly to the long-term strength and stability of The Tribune and for the workers who make independent news in Utah possible.” “When Tribune workers voted to unionize more than a year ago, we said we wanted to ensure a supportive workplace, where talent is nurtured and cultivated and staff is paid enough so that our chief concern is how to best cover Utah — not how to afford to live here,” Bargaining Committee member Paighten Harkins said. “We rejected discipline over page views, and we wanted a seat at the board table where decisions are made. With this contract, we got all that and more.” Key contract provisions: • A standard salary floor of $60,000 for new hires of The Tribune and $54,000 for The Moab Times-Independent, as well as higher salary floors for experienced staff based on tenure at the paper; • Across the board annual cost of living raises and merit-based raises, with the opportunity for up to 5% total in annual raises if all goals are met; • Revenue share with employees if The Tribune beats annual financial targets; • Guaranteed protections against unjust discipline and severance pay in the event of layoffs; • Restrictions against disciplining or terminating employees based on page view quotas; • Increased employer contributions to employee retirement plans and more parental leave, personal days and vacation; • Guarantees that staff will be included in developing new artificial intelligence and social media policies, as well as in selecting health insurance policies; • A seat for a Guild representative to take part in Tribune Board of Directors meetings
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
kosenbear.bsky.social
Marriage, Friends, Boyfriend.
Throuple?
Compound?
exciting. Can't wait to avoid people at home too.
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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radobrien.myatproto.social
This is the stupidest fucking meme I've ever seen and I love it
Leslie Nielson recreating one of the Airplane! bits in the cockpit of the Phoenix from star trek first contact the movie
November 23, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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earlgreymemes.club
Captain Picard drinking his tea nonchalantly, with top text: I drink my Earl Grey hot; and bottom text: because FUCK ICE
November 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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iflscience.com
74 sweaty T-shirts reveal that your BO is broadcasting more than you realize.

www.iflscience.com/testosterone...
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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davidleavitt.bsky.social
Computer, end program

Fuck
November 23, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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ferengirules.bsky.social
Saw Wicked: For Good today, and the Ferengi Star Alliance is looking forward to receiving millions in royalties for the repeated use of our 285th #RuleOfAcquisition

"No good deed goes unpunished"
November 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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thespaceshipper.com
Rix Road, the season finale of Andor Season 1, was released three years ago today.

F the Empire. All of them.
Andor | Maarva Andor’s Monologue | Disney+
YouTube video by Star Wars
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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woodlandparkzoo.bsky.social
Floof-appreciation Friday! Ears come in all shapes, sizes and colors, adapted for collecting specific sounds such as predator or prey, independent rotation to pinpoint location, thermoregulation, balance, and even defense—check out the false eye coloration on the snow leopard.
Four close-up images of the top of animal heads and ears, from top to bottom: a snow leopard, Mexican gray wolf, brown bear and red panda
November 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
It's the weekend, baby
Star Trek Voyager scene. Seven of Nine (tertiary adjunct of unimatrix 01) is pictured. She has a dolphin shaped metal robotic implant around her left eye because she is a borgs. Closed caption reads, "Fun will now commence."
November 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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wolf.observer
update
[photo of Rutabaga, a big tortoiseshell cat next to a 16" Surface Laptop, on the floor] Rutabaga has her kitty music back, with much better fidelity 5:00 PM Listening to Vivaldi having 4 seasons 5:01 PM When I plugged it in she came over, reached out her paws and started pressing keys 5:02 PM Photo of Rutabaga sent at 5:58 PM, asleep with her head on her paw, both on the palmrest of the laptop Rutabaga was playing with the buttons and watching what the screen does but now she is blissed out on KDFC! 6:07 PM
November 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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trekgeekbill.trekgeeks.com
I turned on the bacon dispenser on my steering wheel, but I'm not getting any bacon. How disappointing.
Heated steering wheel button in my car
November 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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humanisttrek.bsky.social
Hear, hear!

“The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity.”
Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

That’s the world I want to live in. Capitalism is killing us.
November 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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eomproject.bsky.social
"The Deep Space Fleet".

Advance Striking Force (Krenik) over Mastocal, Summer 2266.

The Advance Striking Force represented the vanguard of the Klingon Naval Fronts: composed of a mix of battleships, cruisers and destroyers,its role was to eliminate minor opposition ahead of the battle line.
November 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Do Senate Democrats really believe that Americans will hurt any less when the government is reopened and Trump and his sycophants can hack away at whatever programs they dislike?

Deals with this regime and MAGA Republicans are worthless. [Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad]
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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cheryllynneaton.bsky.social
In times like these, links are needed because it's far too easy to throw up a faked headline. So I'm sliding in to assist with the receipts: www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/tuesday-november-11th-we-cave
November 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
kosenbear.bsky.social
It's pretty amazing we can figure out the diameter of atoms, down to each electron orbit.

Still can't figure out how to treat each other nicely or take care of each other.

But hey, atoms size is a good start :)
November 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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nytimes.com
A felon whose sentence President Trump commuted in the final hours of his first term was sentenced to 27 months in prison on Monday after being accused of a range of criminal conduct — including physical and sexual assault — since Trump freed him. nyti.ms/3LSL8nC
Jonathan Braun, Felon Freed by Trump, to Be Sentenced Again in Brooklyn
A Brooklyn federal judge found that Jonathan Braun had violated the rules of his release by assaulting a nanny, swinging an IV pole at a nurse and dodging tolls in luxury cars.
nyti.ms
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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npr.org
The challenge to the court's 2015 ruling came from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex licenses after the court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. n.pr/47yOyEH
Supreme Court declines to revisit gay marriage decision
The challenge to the court's 2015 ruling came from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex licenses after the court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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trekkiebill.bsky.social
I propose a new group of more trustworthy leaders than what the Democrats currently have:
Ser Janos Slynt (Game of Thrones) Admiral Augusto Nguyen (The Expanse) Jimmy Altieri (The Sopranos) Mister Reagan, aka Cypher (The Matrix)
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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chrise1701.bsky.social
Be less Bartlet.
Be more Avasarala
atiredgay.bsky.social Cody @atiredgay.bsky.social · 16d
I’m not taking any politician seriously unless they have energy that comes somewhere close to this…
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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theonion.com
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM