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Writer, "Mimi" of seven and crunchy person. Proper child-nurturing changes everything. Former newspaper journalist and remedial reading teacher. Won't follow people who repost stories without writing at least a few cogent thoughts. SPAM blocked.

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This really happened: Meta's AI agent Muse gave out a Facebook Marketplace seller's home address without permission, making an appointment with a buyer to pick up an item when the actual seller wasn't at home. A FREAKING AI personal assistant! Now, that's scary. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house
The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
FCC Communications Director Brendan Carr: Just another Tr@mp sycophant who needs to please his "daddy." The Guardian hits the nail on the head with a quote at the end of the article, written in a letter by a former Carr friend who was trapped in the same AA cult.
theguardian.com
Brendan Carr was a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group some labeled a ‘cult’
Carr was a member of the group in his teens and 20s. There is no evidence Trump’s powerful FCC chair participated in any inappropriate conduct
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why doesn't this gov't. webpage open? "Overview of human health effects related to glyphosate exposure... Glyphosate is a chemical compound derived from glycine, marketed as a broad-spectrum herbicide...For a long time, it was assumed that glyphosate was harmless..."
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Overview of human health effects related to glyphosate exposure
Glyphosate is a chemical compound derived from glycine, marketed as a broad-spectrum herbicide, and represents one of the most widely used pesticides in the world. For a long time, it was assumed that...
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump tv, aka "state tv," is bombing out. The Guardian compares the effect of watching the While House YouTube channel, which has no schedule, no on-screen description of what is being shown, and zero context..." to "a 24-hour fever dream of self-soothing propaganda for the Maga faithful."
theguardian.com
‘Literally state-run TV’: Trump launches YouTube channel amid boycott by US networks
White House press coverage row continues while anchor-less channel of the administration’s ‘latest and greatest’ streams propaganda for the Maga faithful
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What the hell is going on with Facebook?
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What the hell is going on with Facebook? It opens, but it's not normal. White space with type to the far left indicating my groups and homepage. Not normal.
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So now Tr@mp is asking our military for "creative and unconventional ideas to punish Iran." Wow. What a $hit $how. www.facebook.com/share/r/1Dsj...
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Peter Thiel and JD Vance are Curtis Yarvin disciples. IMO, they all missed the attachment stage in infancy, and don't know why they have empty holes for souls. "Yarvin is the chief thinker behind the 'Dark Enlightenment'...that openly promotes dictatorships as superior to democracies."
newrepublic.com
Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas
Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society.
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Don't even bother trying Hobby Lobby for Halloween cupcake sprinkles and paper cups. Duh!
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Joy is what you experience when you can see in another person's face and eyes that they are happy to be with you." (Dr. Allan Schore, UCLA Psychiatry)
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lovingly lifted from Our Revolution: New Mexico for Bernie Sanders on FB.
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
First thing this morning I told my husband about a good review of books on AI published in The Guardian, on AI's founders, their eugenicist orientation, and where they think the world is headed. My husband said he had more important worries: last night's rain might have washed away his carrot seeds.
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Help! When I open gmail, I can't get into my mail because of a page telling me I need to sign up for AI powered email. WTF?
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It was 7:20 p.m. - kind of late - when a new mail carrier pulled up at our house, opened the mailbox door, and inserted a single letter. She didn't just close the door, she made sure it was secure, pushing on it twice. That's what our mail carriers do. They ensure that our mail is safely delivered.
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Friends, what we're up against is ignorance and prejudice.
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Texas legislature has banned 1, 738 books, including US Senate candidate James Talerico's favorite - Lonesome Dove, the Texas classic by Larry McMurtry. Why? Because one of his characters, Lorena Wood, is a prostitute - a profession Tr@mp's grandfather had absolutely no problem exploiting.
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Oh, no! What to do with leftover fudgy frosting that somehow didn't wind up on the cupcakes, about a quarter of an inch of peanut butter at the bottom of the jar, and some apple slices that my husband didn't take to work? I'll give you one guess.
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When people spread conspiracy theories about 9-11, it tells me they have no desire to help find solutions to anything in this world, and would rather sit on their cans listening to modern-day Right Wing prophets of doom. Yeah, I just got off the phone with my brother.
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I was listening to Vermont Public Radio, washing the breakfast dishes, but the story seemed unreal. Then just before the second tower was struck, the station went live to New York. It was real. We were under attack. My daughter's school was miles away, and I flew out of the house to find her.
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
To be frank, I'd have to change my name.
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Donnie, you're looking more like your mother every day.
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
To paraphrase the great British prime minister, Winston Churchill, We shall FAKE FLOCK on the beaches, we shall FAKE FLOCK on the landing grounds, we shall FAKE FLOCK in the fields and in the streets, we shall FAKE FLOCK in the hills. We shall never surrender. www.facebook.com/share/p/19En...
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Tr@mp will probably ignore this reseach out of CU Boulder, or else denounce it as fake news. But that's probably a good thing - for us.
sciencedaily.com
Excess weight, obesity more deadly than previously believed
New research finds that overweight populations have a 22% higher mortality risk than those of healthy weight, while obese populations have as much as double the risk. The study counters prevailing wis...
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"The other 9/11"- the Chilean coup d'état of Sept. 11, 1973: Pinochet's military overthrow of the democratically-elected socialist Pres. Salvador Allende - likely aided by the CIA. Over 3,000 were "disappeared" or killed and many more imprisoned and tortured. Pinochet refused to restore Democracy.
youtu.be
Chile - The Other 911 (BBC 2003)
YouTube video by Kastistos2000
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wendell Berry Aug. 5, 1934 - Aug. 31, 2026 (via Our Revolution: New Mexico for Bernie Sanders)
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
When a moving truck pulled up next to investigative reporter Alisa Valdez-Rodriguez's NM home, "[N]o one on our street was moving," says the writer in her latest Substack post. A man got out, and the driver, and took cover as Alisa watched from the window. Then she was "hit with severe pain..."
alisav.substack.com
Yolanda Jones King Invented and Patented the Technology Making Directed Energy Weapons Possible
Her husband Gary King is the two-time NM AG whose family sold Jeffrey Epstein his NM ranch, took donations from and never investigated the pedophile despite knowing about his conviction in Florida.
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thanks to Rachel Maddow for this: Tr@mp's new pneumonic device for helping kids remember the Great Lakes: Superior Heron America Michigan Erie SHAME!
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Shocker - I just learned that Bertha, the Mexican cook I've been following on YouTube, is a figment of my imagination. Or maybe I'm just going through a delayed "AI awakening:" youtu.be/4qMXyIKHdM0
youtu.be
The OLD-FASHIONED Way to Make Flour Tortillas — Soft & Puffy Every Time (The Mexican Way)
YouTube video by Bertha Cooks
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I am fed up with the long wait-times at the grocery store because management can't or won't hire enough employees. Employees' hours, I've heard, are being cut left and right, leaving stores with skeleton crews, even at busy times. All the while, the companies' shareholders are making bank.
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Okay. So I've been cooking with Bertha, the sweet-salt-of-the-earth lady who calls her female viewers "mija" and shows you how to cook the Mexican way. Today's brunch was so damned good!
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
How an this happen? The Dean family of Castlerock, CO, is facing $300K in medical bills after a neighbor's police K-9 mauled their daughter at her own birtday party. Her father was also seriously injured trying to save her. Unfortunately, turning to the court proved futile. youtu.be/2jojgGtJtSo
youtu.be
Castle Rock family still reeling 2 years after police K-9 attack on toddler
YouTube video by 9NEWS
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
For decades, Republicans have railed against what they call the "nanny state." Truth is, there's no money providing needed services like healthcare and food. But there is money to be made by venture capitalists pushing surveillance: the biggest nannies of all time, watching over us night and day.
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
While Israel's security has been a cornerstone of American foreign policy, this conversation between trauma expert, author Gabor Mate, MD, and sons Aaron and Daniel, raises questions over whether the modern Jewish state should even exist. We cannot not be a-historical. youtu.be/azxtxKyHntA
youtu.be
Gaza Besieged, Jews Divided, & a World in Pain: Gabor, Aaron, & Daniel Maté in Conversation
YouTube video by Dr Gabor Maté
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Two-and-a-half years ago, when a distracted driver (with a suspended license and expired registration) plowed into our Accord doing 65 in crawling rush hour traffic in the middle of a crowded construction zone, I might have thought these cameras were a good idea. Not anymore.
youtu.be
Colorado's New AI Speed Camera Trap Just Got Way More Aggressive
YouTube video by Car Coach Reports
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"We Are The Mighty spoke with the spouse of a sailor currently deployed aboard the (USS Abraham Lincoln) who requested anonymity...Their account offers a more complicated picture than the headlines alone can provide—one in which the challenges are very real..." www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-milsp...
wearethemighty.com
My spouse is deployed aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. This is what's really happening
We talked to a sailor's spouse about videos on social media that say conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are dire and getting worse.
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Nothing is inevitable, with the exception of death and taxes, as my daddy used to say. www.facebook.com/share/p/19ZC...
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I call Elon Musk and his ilk "anti-nurturers." They themselves were not well-nurtured as children. and therefore cannot abide people who were and who want to care for something beside themselves. Make sense?
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Katie Paris, founder or Red Wine and Blue (and maker of good trouble since 2018), just released a video on Flock cameras! Computer scientist and privacy researcher Jen Golbeck reveals how this technology works, how the data moves between agencies, and what it means for our privacy rights.
youtu.be
Flock Cameras 101: The Threat to Privacy and How to Fight Back
YouTube video by Red Wine and Blue
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is where we're at: A cult of tech nerds who basically know nothing about anything, believe the country, world and universe are destined to be ruled by rich, white men at the expense of democracy, women, and the poor. Thanks to Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman for covering what matters.
youtu.be
"The Nerd Reich": Author Gil Durán on Big Tech Fascism, Peter Thiel, JD Vance & the War on Democracy
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Didn't Tr@mp just say he is aligning with North Korea now, and not South Korea?
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Lawrence O'Donnell, 8-13-26: A member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard said Iran may choose to prolong the war for the rest of Tr@mp's presidency, "[T]o cause attrition, so that anyone else who wants to attack Iran will know there is a cost." I'm thinking, why would they negotiate with a fool?
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
As if waving guns in their victims' faces isn't enough, now ICE will be getting $20m worth of "shock gloves" with which to intimidate our neighbors into submission. "According to manufacturer, shock 'is usually effective in bringing individuals into compliance in less than three seconds.'"
theguardian.com
ICE to spend up to $20m on gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
According to manufacturer, shock ‘is usually effective in bringing individuals into compliance in less than three seconds’
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
So, not even a court order could force ICE to turn over video footage?
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
On Aug. 9, John Phillips, an American citizen, was ambushed by ICE at Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson Int'l. Airport. "I walked down the empty jetway and mere feet from the aircraft door, 3 young men jumped out from their hiding spots." He wasn't their man. www.facebook.com/share/p/1EnP...
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I wasn't expecting to see the roadside memorial on a road in where I went walking this evening. His name was Ashton, age 24 - an uncle, son, brother, and friend. He was riding his motorcycle on the shoulder when a 20-year-old drunk driver came along and hit him. Too many lives destroyed. So sad.
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Old slogan. Same problem. Corporations profiting off the injury and death of common people.
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
When she finished cleaning my teeth this morning, I told my dental hygienist, "Did anyone ever tell you that you look actress Allison Janney?" The whole time I was in the chair, mouth agape, I had to keep from cracking up. I kept thinking, "Don't you touch my canned tuna!"
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
ICE is separating families! The day after he applied for a Green Card, Mariachi singer Herbert Ibarra Castro, 20, was stopped by police on his way home from a gig. Detained by ICE for two weeks, prison guards forced him to sing the National Anthem. Castro was released July 11 on a $15,000 bond.
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'It was like a movie' | Moment San Antonio Mariachi Herbert Ibarra Castro released by ICE
YouTube video by KENS 5: Your San Antonio News Source
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Has America always been a Democracy with a Fascist characteristics? DO NOT MISS this new episode of Politics Girl on the Meidas Touch Network. Diving into his new book, The Biggest Lie, professor Joseph Kelly says our founding fathers knowingly made concessions that "kicked the can down the road."
youtu.be
Trump Threat Reveals DARK PAST of USA | PoliticsGirl
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Chef Joe Gera is smearing egg all over Rand Paul's face. In early 2022, Gera personally catered an event Rand Paul attended where the venue required people who wanted to come unmasked to be vaccinated AND to provide a negative COVID test. Rand Paul did it all! www.facebook.com/share/p/1Bqn...
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