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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 10h

I just put ✨Fancy Jam✨ on my grocery list in gold pen.

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I love this! @ me if you can link people to how to get plugged into anti-ICE work in your geography and I'll repost you.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

100% agree My ma’s nursing degree meant stable, mostly union work for decades. My life would look very different without that stability and it’s one of the degrees barred from student loans because nurses don’t get paid enough. They are such numties.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

My mother got certified in cosmetology and that’s part of how she was able to raise my three brothers and I. These people are assholes who experience the world solely through “takes” hinging on misogyny and the like.

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

More than anything, this behavior is extremely concerning. These folks need some serious help.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As a loving member of your sentient meat-family, I graciously concur. Have fun at the indie comic book fair with Meat-Twin B!

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You can toss washed and well dried basil with oil, then freeze it on sheet pans and toss the frozen leaves in bags and they can be used like fresh. But the freeze dried we made in 4H tasted more like the dry herb, which is a very different flavor: toasty like the basil like in Annie’s noodles.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@ftrain.com immediately singing MM “I keep forgetting…” in the other room

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Comedy brunch this weekend to support Flatbush Family Mutual Aid Distribution and our neighbor who's welcoming a new baby soon! This was sooooo good last time I went. www.eventbrite.com/e/comedy-bru...

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Comedy & Brunch

Join us for an afternoon of brunch and comedy to support our weekly Flatbush distribution and a comrade starting a new career!

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On wet fallen leaves. When that grocery store was missing medium tortillas for breakfast burritos, it was easy to divert to a different store on the way back that never has parking nearby. One teen thinks being seen w/wagon is soooo embarrassing so the wagon’s name is WOE (Wagon of Embarassment).

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

out even on dry days & then I am limited on how much heavy stuff I can get. I just did my biweekly Big Shop at a store that’s just under a mile away, in the rain, & had a grand old time. I didn’t have to stress about crossing Flatbush to the weird parking lot that smells like pee or my bike sliding

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you live where you can walk to your grocery store and other errands, I emphatically recommend getting a collapsible wagon. I’d been Team Grannycart since my living in SF 30 years ago, but the wagons have gotten so good! Technically, I could bike to the store, but biking in Flatbush freaks me

A red and black fabric folding wagon filled almost to the top with groceries, covered by a clear plastic cover

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You could call your Senators today and ask them to extend TPS, but also we need to give up on this idea that “temporary” means “temporary” as all the FB bots love to bonus on every story, and allow people pathways to citizenship

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Gasp! I grew up with outdoor cats/ barn cats and soooo many died awful deaths. One kitten was carried away by a raptor! Multiple dog injuries, several car squishes. Fluffy1 survived the first car squish, but was never quite the same. Fluffy2 didn’t. We have indoor cats now.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Really? No. Last year was a Saturday night Halloween with good weather with the friday before it a school Holiday so we must be punished for enjoying it?

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I spy one of my progressive county committee reps, Gina Anderson. She must’ve worn out a pair of sneakers canvassing this year for Rep Your Block candidates and winning her own race! She spends time explaining this process to neighbors, is responsive and proactive.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thoughts and prayers (and hibaclens and bactine)! This derpalerp gave me cat scratch fever last winter by leaping onto my shoulders from the floor, missing, then digging his claws in to climb my back. I got to be the fun patient with an oozy wound the residents all wanted photos of.

A blurry tuxedo cat with cute white toes that contain disease ridden knives he is standing on a White woman’s shoukders. Her hair is frizzy with a gray streak and her rhinestone glasses are on her head. Red lipstick completes her harried look.

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 24/09/2026

The committee that makes up the Brooklyn Democratic Party held a chaotic meeting Wednesday to elect its leadership team using controversial new voting rules, as an appeals court deliberated on the legality of their actions mere blocks away. hellgatenyc.com/brooklyn-dem...

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As school and winter asks pile up, Anna Holmes’ new book felt VERY useful. Her points about giving a no or a pause when I don’t actually know how I feel about a demand on my time were wildly helpful. It’s a couple hour listen, read by Anna. 💙📚💡 libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

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The Power of No by Anna Holmes Narrated by Anna Holmes Audiobook on Libro.fm

A powerful, patriarchy-defying manifesto that will transform your relationship to saying “no”—from the award-winning writer, founder of Jezebel, and former New York Times

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What are you doing to do about it? This is limpid and drives zero people to action.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The kids who came up with Printer for this derpalerp also suggested SomeGoats and Stapler and Spoonie and Barbecue. I’m a fan of object names for cats.

A derpy tuxedo cat in loaf formation with wide eyes on a gray duvet with yellow and white flowers and books in the background. There are zero thoughts present, but the vibes are snuggly.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026

The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...

Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The websites are terrible & conspire against us. Like why do they reset the whole itinerary every time you mistype your credit card & have to prove you’re human?!? If this whole NYT thing doesn’t work out for Paul, you can be the first client of the Paul ford travel agency.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And now Paul is in charge of travel and I am released of responsibility forevermore. I’m going to refer to him as the Paul ford travel agency. (Fiascos included sending family to area plagued w/wildfire smoke, a tornado, one wildly expensive hotel with moldy room and a massive power outage).

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When I was a legal secretary, I would email a travel agent bracketed travel dates and preferences, hotel wishlist and even concierge requests. And I’d get it all back with color coded options and a list of choices to be made and it was GLORIOUS. I made fiasco-level mistakes on last two bookings

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Abolish ICE. This cannot be reformed.

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you know anyone who works for DHS or for a law enforcement, probation, etc. agency that cooperates with ICE, read this to them and ask them questions. If you work for a prosecutor/sheriff/police/governor/mayor that says it does not cooperate with ICE, but also does not investigate it, same.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

But fruity pebbles are just so good.

Fruity pebbles and Rice Chex
in a blue bowl with milk and a good spoon and a thumb there’s a purple T-shirt in the background

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

go rogue, they do what fires do: they burn until they hit a barrier, run out of fuel or are suppressed. If you design AI software without barriers, don’t limit its fuel & don’t supervise it in a way to easily suppress its ability to harm people, you’re lighting fires in houses with no sprinklers.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’ve been trying to put this in context of my work in construction. NYC building codes are very clear: if I renovate a building & remove the fire alarm system & sprinklers to put up new wallpaper, but don’t put a new fire safety system in place, I go to jail if people die in a fire. Fires don’t

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 18/09/2026

Another must-read from @ftrain.com, a profoundly informed (and undeceived) writer on all things A.I. (n.b. Paul is an Ellie award-winning writer, an entrepreneur and businessman, an insightful theorist of the internet of the olden time, etc. etc.) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

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Opinion | A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. (Gift Article)

Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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Sylvia Pellicore @roenok.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just to clarify for everyone: large language models can ONLY output text and images. That’s it. Period. When one of the big companies says “our agent went rogue” what they mean is “we hand-wrote software that blindly executes any code an LLM outputs and let it run completely unsupervised.”

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One of my friends just wished my twins a happy 15th birthday and then said “it’s like you’ve been a parent for 30 years!” Suddenly I am sooo extra tired.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh wow I had that sticker. I think i put it maybe on the beast of a sewing machine I found on Steiner. That magnificent machine could sew anything.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And I’m grateful for the excuse to beachcomb without filling my house to the ceiling with treasures!

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The tides truly don’t line up with my schedule this week, but I needed a walk. I rarely even walk the high wrack line until winter because of biting flies Picking up big chunky bits for @marymccarthy.bsky.social and lamp glass for my mosaic making friends and spotted this new friend.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’ve only had success with red noodle even though I’ve planted a dozen varieties! They’re not as meaty as the green ones but they’re still so good. Welcome to long bean town! ———————-~___________~_________________________~____________________*

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Checked the vows: they said to bring you a sweater and a book to the emergency room, not a giant yellow beep boop.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Pulling back the intensity. You’re right: it totally helped, and when if flares up, I restart my dumb little exercises and bust out theragun.

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Maureen Flaherty @maureenflaherty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I had similiar issue to PF but the adjacent attachment point and when it was acute, my PT absolutely did sustained, hard pressure massage (excruciating). He told me that to resolve it faster, I should use a theragun between sessions because most people can’t do the hard massage without instinctually

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I would like to stress that Americans from marginalized groups are letting America know about these mother****ers WAY in advance specifically so we do not find ourselves in a situation where they are the only choice.

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