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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Amazon wants your kids! Rememeber poring over the Sears Christmas toy catalog, circling everything you wanted Santa to bring you? Well now Amazon has their own toy catalog full of action figures, huggy bears, and building sets - all ready for Mom and Dad to scan for prices. NO THANKS!

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Musk says Mars is our future - the answer to an aging Earth. Why does he say that? Because there's no money to be made in fixing our planet - only breaking it.

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How do I delete Gemini from my phone? Today my husband was cleaning out a game drawer in the living room, and said something about finding a bag of dice. Sitting across from him, I accidentally leaned on my phone, and out of it came a voice giving us the definition of "dice."

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's always suicide when a whistleblower comes out with the truth. Just like in the communist dictatorships Tr@mp likes so much.

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When a Kansas high school junior reported her golf coach for sexual harrassment and inappropriate touching, he quit that post but was allowed to remain as superintendent with just a warning. Months later, amid community outrage, he resigned. But what about his victim? hutchpost.com/posts/f847ff...

hutchpost.com

A Kan. student reported her coach for harassment, touching. School leaders kept it quiet.

Comanche County School District Superintendent Ty Theurer, photographed with the 2019 grad

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Marianne Dashwood: "It is not what we say or feel that makes us what we are it is what we do... or fail to do." ~ From Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Where the hell are people supposed to shop for household goods these days if private equity is buying up retailers like Bed, Bath & Beyond and Tuesday Morning and running them into the ground? I object!!

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm looking at Tuberville's head, and wonder if his brain isn't fully developed by the way it narrows toward the top. Just sayin'.

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not only dental and vision, but hearing. I'm meeting seniors who don't have the funds for hearing aids, and this has a dramatic effect on their lives.

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And we wonder why we can't have nice things.

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The "quincineara candidate," Tejano singer Bobby Pulido, who is running for the US House from TX's 15th District, has turned his Republican opponent's criticism of the traditional Hispanic 15th birthday party into a campaign bananza, making over 80 guest appearances. www.youtube.com/shorts/nGxTL...

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When Sense and Sensibility's Willoughby of Allanham's licentious behavior is discovered by his wealthy aunt, she denies the libertine his inheritance. Will the rich parents of the Cornell rakes do as much?

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh, but he's so transparent! The most transparent president in the country's history. And probably the whole world.

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Machiavellian missed the attachment stage during infancy. Blame Elon's mother.

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Donald despises women. He will never heal from his mother's lack of attachment to him.

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Get money out of the election equation, then maybe Democrats will stand a chance of creating real change. RIght now, candidates from both parties are vulnerable to corporate donations that put pressure on policy.

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This person should not be in charge of a boiled egg, let alone the entire country.

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Seven frat boys at Cornell are just older versions of the jocks at Glen Ridge High School - the subject of Our Guys, Bernard Leftkowitz's 1997 award-winning portrayal of America's jock culture. The truth about their crimes would never have been told without the dogged investigation of journalists.

goodreads.com

Our Guys

In March 1989 a group of teenage boys lured a retarded …

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Jack Smith is a class act. I doubt he would ever retaliate against a lawmaker in anger. He'll just keep holding all the cards.

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Predatory/Smart enemy mode...is what happens whan all the levels are running except the Level 1 Attachment level. In this state, we come across as caring and kind...but we build relationships with the end-goal of getting what we want. We can call this crafty mode..." (Joy Switch appx.)

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Only people operating at a subcortical level would vote not to report on the rising violence in the West Bank. There is no such thing as sitting back to watch.

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Enemy mode is what happens when the Level 2 Assessment Center takes over. We lose access to... Level 3 Attunement and Level 4 Action. Without these two upper levels working...we become reactive, non-relational and our focus turns to problems and winning conflicts and arguments." (Joy Switch Appx.)

thrivetoday.org

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

According to Lawrence O'Donnell, it was the 93-year-old chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Charles Grassley. Smart move, huh?

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah, and they called this obvious truth "weaponization."

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Didn't Schmidtt's smoking gun backfire?

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

May the three ghosts of Christmas appear to him as soon as possible.

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Online influencers are working for the food industry - like lobbyists, only cooler - to try and convince us that all the things we thought were bad for us are actually "safe." Check out my recent Family Field Guide blog post for my take on the food wars. familyfieldguide.com/2026/09/30/o...

theguardian.com

A ‘freaked out’ US food industry is hitting back at Maha – with social media influencers

Cross-partisan support in Washington on issues like pesticides and food additives pose a threat to the industry’s bottom line

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In the first part of the twentieth century, Eastern Europeans, the Chinese, and Mexicans, were the targets of deportation due to the Immigration Act of 1924. I would not be writing this today if FDR had not granted amnesty to my Hungarian grandfather - an illegal immigrant - who was a gravedigger.

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank you, Senator Klobuchar!! You got to the bottom of that one in a rapid hurry!

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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 · 29/09/2026

And didn't we already know that looting the US Treasury was Tr@mp's goal?

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, and they didn't have to register as a sex offender because of you, Mr. Paxton.

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He's lulled to sleep when in the comforting presence of his protectors, much like an infant in his mother's arms. Too bad he missed the all-important attachment stage of development, when the brain experiences exponential growth.

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flashflood505.bsky.social @flashflood505.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's target audience is the brainless masses.

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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

When you're in a cell in a third-world country prison, without the ability to communicate with family, you have no rights.

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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

One answer is to make a simple lunch available on-site: homemade hearty soup or stew, homemade bread with butter, and salad - with locally grown greens and veggies when possible. Like "Soup 'R Salad. No fake food. My kids' friends loved to eat at our house, because they'd never had to dishes I make.

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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

Correct. Perhaps their lack of exposure was caused more by intellectual laziness more than anything else, and an obsession with social media and video games. Maybe that's why so many are not registered to vote.

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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...

facebook.com

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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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