Flaming Hydra

Flaming Hydra

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A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem. $3/month https://flaminghydra.com

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⭕️ lady of noBOOlity, gentility, and rage ⭕️
@cubsgirl1825.bsky.social

if you’ve never read a rather haunted life about shirley jackson, I highly recommend it

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ALSO TODAY: @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on Shirley Jackson suffocating as a faculty wife at Bennington. “Locals whispered about her and her family—even the trash collector gossiped about how many liquor bottles he collected from their house.” flaminghydra.com/the-friends-...

flaminghydra.comThe Friends of Shirley JacksonShirley Jackson was delighted and relieved when her husband, the literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, accepted a teaching job at Bennington College in Vermont in 1945. According to her biographer Ruth...

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patthebook.bsky.social
@patthebook.bsky.social

Shirley Jackson you were the greatest.

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ALSO TODAY: @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on Shirley Jackson suffocating as a faculty wife at Bennington. “Locals whispered about her and her family—even the trash collector gossiped about how many liquor bottles he collected from their house.” flaminghydra.com/the-friends-...

flaminghydra.comThe Friends of Shirley JacksonShirley Jackson was delighted and relieved when her husband, the literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, accepted a teaching job at Bennington College in Vermont in 1945. According to her biographer Ruth...
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ALSO TODAY: @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on Shirley Jackson suffocating as a faculty wife at Bennington. “Locals whispered about her and her family—even the trash collector gossiped about how many liquor bottles he collected from their house.” flaminghydra.com/the-friends-...

flaminghydra.comThe Friends of Shirley JacksonShirley Jackson was delighted and relieved when her husband, the literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, accepted a teaching job at Bennington College in Vermont in 1945. According to her biographer Ruth...

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J.D. Connor
@jdconnor.bsky.social

@flaminghydra.com is an absolute bargain, full of bangers. A Bangain? A Barnger? A Berghain? It's late.

Hedwig@hedinthecloud.bsky.social

I gotta say, one of the best 3 bucks I spent recently was for Flaming Hydra. Not everything is in my wheelzone, but it's never boring, and every once in a while there's a real banger (with some oblique You Can See Everything and Digger and full Whalefall spoilers, fwiw) flaminghydra.com/issue-675/

flaminghydra.comOpen wideYou like to watch, says J.D. Connor, whether you like it or not

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Camoot
@camoot.bsky.social

A must-read before or after watching the new doc!!! No spoilers at all, simply a fantastic analysis of his journey as a tv personality/performance artist???

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TODAY: @lindseyadler.bsky.social on Nathan Fielder and the iconic 'Smokers Allowed' episode. "You might say that the only straightforward element of Fielder’s work is that if your head doesn’t spin, he has failed to execute his vision." flaminghydra.com/dork-victory/

flaminghydra.comDork Victoryby Lindsey Adler This piece does not contain spoilers for the film that is spreading like wildfire across American movie theaters.  The canonical origin of Nathan Fielder’s most effective shtick—ree...

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Guerrilla Glue Gun
@heyguerrilla.bsky.social

My brother made me watch this specific episode, highly catered to my interests, and that’s how I learned about Nathan fielder

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TODAY: @lindseyadler.bsky.social on Nathan Fielder and the iconic 'Smokers Allowed' episode. "You might say that the only straightforward element of Fielder’s work is that if your head doesn’t spin, he has failed to execute his vision." flaminghydra.com/dork-victory/

flaminghydra.comDork Victoryby Lindsey Adler This piece does not contain spoilers for the film that is spreading like wildfire across American movie theaters.  The canonical origin of Nathan Fielder’s most effective shtick—ree...

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MoreBad
@todseelie.bsky.social

That one time some lady (who would become my wife) and I followed a coalition of white supremacists to a private gathering in the hills of Kentucky and crashed the party (for work). flaminghydra.com/among-the-th...

flaminghydra.comAmong the Thugs of 2017Nearly a decade ago, in late April of 2017, my future wife and I set off on a reporting trip to eastern Kentucky, following a tip about a planned gathering of various white supremacist groups. I was o...
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TODAY: @lindseyadler.bsky.social on Nathan Fielder and the iconic 'Smokers Allowed' episode. "You might say that the only straightforward element of Fielder’s work is that if your head doesn’t spin, he has failed to execute his vision." flaminghydra.com/dork-victory/

flaminghydra.comDork Victoryby Lindsey Adler This piece does not contain spoilers for the film that is spreading like wildfire across American movie theaters.  The canonical origin of Nathan Fielder’s most effective shtick—ree...
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ALSO TODAY: @todseelie.bsky.social revisits an uneasily relevant white supremacist gathering he photographed in 2017. "Looking back at these photos now, they don’t feel like the record of a different time. They feel like a preview and a warning shot." flaminghydra.com/among-the-th...

flaminghydra.comAmong the Thugs of 2017Nearly a decade ago, in late April of 2017, my future wife and I set off on a reporting trip to eastern Kentucky, following a tip about a planned gathering of various white supremacist groups. I was o...

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Raven of
@theravenof.bsky.social

"A better world is possible if we can continue to explode (and/or devour) the narratives promulgated by powerful and malevolent people." i want that to be true

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TODAY: @supremenothing.myatproto.social on the toxic, misleading framing of "Woke 1." "Even if you have nominally good ethics and values, it’s strikingly easy to take right-wing framing like 'Woke 1 failure' as a given." flaminghydra.com/eat-their-wo...

flaminghydra.comEat Their WordsThe purported “failure” of “Woke 1,” the series of movements for social justice that took place from the late 2000s to 2024, is a major topic on my social feeds; this “failure” sees Trump’s second pre...

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Raven of
@theravenof.bsky.social

i enjoy woolever's writing a lot sometimes but i am wondering if i should read Essentially Basque maybe it's great!

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ALSO TODAY: @lauriewoolever.bsky.social on eating potatoes in Ireland and also at the Aer Lingus lounge at JFK, " where the vibe is 'Catholic funeral home that will also host a shotgun wedding reception.'" flaminghydra.com/i-say-patatas/

flaminghydra.comI Say ‘Patatas’It is necessary and right to use whatever voice one has to rail against the irresponsible and destructive use of AI, against the enshittification borne of media consolidation, against the global rise ...

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Maria BOO!stillos
@mariabustillos.com

possibly the most shocking essay ever published at @flaminghydra.com by @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

JOE MACLEOD 666@joemacleod666.bsky.social

IT'S APPLE CIDER DONUT SEASON FUCKOS flaminghydra.com/apple-cider-...

flaminghydra.comApple Cider Donuts = BSThe time: 1,300 B.C. The setting: Ancient Egypt. By the banks of the Nile, the first apple trees in recorded history bloomed. Long before the reign of Jesus, ancient heathens had a bright idea: making...
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ALSO TODAY: @lauriewoolever.bsky.social on eating potatoes in Ireland and also at the Aer Lingus lounge at JFK, " where the vibe is 'Catholic funeral home that will also host a shotgun wedding reception.'" flaminghydra.com/i-say-patatas/

flaminghydra.comI Say ‘Patatas’It is necessary and right to use whatever voice one has to rail against the irresponsible and destructive use of AI, against the enshittification borne of media consolidation, against the global rise ...

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Luke O'Neil
@lukeoneil47.bsky.social

Few new pieces by me

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TODAY: New fiction from @lukeoneil47.bsky.social. “They were all little fucking pricks. And gunning for me by the way. Every single one of them a walking symbol of my impermanence.” flaminghydra.com/our-own-live...

flaminghydra.comOur own lives specificallySuccession  It was expected I would have designated an heir by now. Not the boy no. No one was clamoring for the boy. The little prick. Don’t tell anyone this but I had become acutely aware of my own...

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Maria BOO!stillos
@mariabustillos.com

Entirely stunned by @tinylittleoffice.bsky.social. Free office software (docs, spreadsheets, charts, animations) that makes whole encrypted files that LIVE IN A URL. hwa Invented by IRL magician @ftrain.com

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TODAY: @mariabustillos.com talks to @ftrain.com about his amazing privacy-focused new invention, Tiny Little Office. “My dream future is that people can make things and share them or throw them away or print them on QR codes on stickers if they want.” flaminghydra.com/new-super-pr...

flaminghydra.comNew Super Private Internetmuch documents . so privacy . Wow

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Evan Simko-Bednarski
@simko-bednarski.bsky.social

"In treating the influencer operation as almost a 1:1 replacement for the news media, Rowland isn’t saying that there shouldn’t be gatekeepers; she’s implying that she and her fellow friendly influencers (some of whom might occasionally be on the payroll) should be the gatekeepers."

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TODAY: @felipedlh.bsky.social on the relationship between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the influencers covering his office. "Informing the public is not what they signed up for. Reporting is complicated, expensive, messy, and opens you up to potential liability." flaminghydra.com/who-will-inf...

flaminghydra.comWho Will Influence the Influencers?Among his many talents, the New York City mayor is a social media savant, with a flair for friendly, informative, approachable communications that pretty much single-handedly led him, in a matter of m...

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Raven of
@theravenof.bsky.social

"Women like Owens demonstrate that women and children do not need men, that we can survive in their absence. That is the wordless tune I hum to myself when cold winds try to knock me down. These days, those winds are strong. But they won’t last forever."

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TODAY: @lesbrains.bsky.social on the murky folk and country music of her youth. “Though these malevolent balladeers were usually crooning from a jail cell, I understood that my job was to withhold harsh judgement. It was the girl’s fault she was dead.” flaminghydra.com/the-blood-we...

flaminghydra.comThe Blood We Were Swimming InBy raising his children on folk and country music, my green-eyed father created a sonic environment that exposed my brother, sister, and me to one of the most macabre, and American, categories of song...