Government employees caught using masks of colleagues to trick facial recognition & skip work

That seems like a lot of effort to get out of work. Maybe they should have re-directed their energy to finding a better job they weren’t so anxious to sneak out of. Most elaborate thing you’ve ever done to get out of work?

Mexican lawmakers filmed pulling hair and shoving each other during heated Congress floor debate

At least they were doing something. Or Congress just yells at each other on cable news shows

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Auditory Anthology

SCI-FI SHORT STORIES - NARRATED BY DARREN MARLAR & PRODUCED BY KEITH CONRAD

Tales From the Blue Line - The Engineer - On his first solo overnight shift at an old radio station, a young announcer is guided and mentored by the station’s kindly, veteran engineer, only to discover in the morning that the man who kept him company—and whose tools still sit on the console—died years ago in the locked transmitter room.

Tales From the Blue Line - The Engineer Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar Episode

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Also Worth A Look…

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• 250,000 packages stolen per day, study finds, as lawmakers push stiffer penalties - At this point its more of a surprise if you package actually gets to your house

• Chinese gaming billionaire reportedly sires more than 100 surrogate kids in US, hopes they’ll marry Elon Musk’s children - That’s a lot of birthdays to keep track of

• Did aliens abduct a former Russian governor? He says ‘yes, in yellow suits’ - Or, hear me out… maybe it was human beings in yellow suits

• Cops: Woman Drove Stolen Van To Court - Well, now they can take care of both cases all at once

• Pharaoh’s Temple to the Sun Unearthed - With everything else going on in the world, can we not disturb any ancient temples?

• Statue of Liberty replica falls over during major storm in Brazil - Pretty fitting symbolic end for 2025

• Fugitive in Italy arrested after hiding in nativity scene as fake statue - They counted the Wise Men and soon realized shenanigans were afoot

• A pretty penny: Last US cents sell for $16.7 million - I’ll sell you a penny for $8 million