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Flaming Hydra
about 13 hours ago
TODAY: a gorgeous photo essay from
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about Dia de Los Muertos in New Orleans
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Dead can dance / Lyrics live
Tod Seelieās exquisite photos of New Orleans, and a poem from the olden time by Harry Siegel
https://flaminghydra.com/r/9d595220?m=1e1ac67a-2f95-4752-aff2-5b0a9ee15876
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Maria Bustillos
about 2 months ago
Carrie Frye has the most lovely story today, and then there is a glorious
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photo feature. Writing and art made by real people!! is so good!!!!
flaminghydra.com/issue-405/
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Bills, bills, bills / What a lovely day
Carrie Frye recounts the tale of a North Carolina auction win; exquisite photos of a desert festival by Tod Seelie
https://flaminghydra.com/issue-405/
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Flaming Hydra
about 2 months ago
ALSO TODAY:
@todseelie.bsky.social
on the wildest desert festival youāve probably never heard of. āThere are truly no spectators, no one who isnāt participating to some degreeā
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Wasteland In Pictures
A few years ago, I packed my van and headed into the post-apocalypse.Ā Wasteland Weekend is a fully immersive dystopian festival held annually in the Mojave Desert, built around a theme and aesthetic...
https://flaminghydra.com/wasteland-in-pictures/
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
2 months ago
Keep up with the different surveillance technologies police are using across the U.S., from body-worn cameras to cell-site simulators. Stay informed using the Atlas of Surveillance.
atlasofsurveillance.org/
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Atlas of Surveillance
Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research
https://www.atlasofsurveillance.org/
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The Intellectualist
2 months ago
šØ Trump seizes control of DC police and puts Pam Bondi in charge as National Guard troops deploy. Critics call it a manufactured emergency amid record low crime, while the White House claims the city faces complete lawlessness.
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Flaming Hydra
2 months ago
TODAY:
@annamerlan.bsky.social
in conversation with
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, editor of the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction, on a perfectly insulting word. "I think that itās good to be skeptical of technology, as many SF writers have been from its earliest days"
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Machine language / Drive-by dining
Anna Merlan and Jesse Sheidlower talk 'clankers' and Joe MacLeod stops for a bite at Cracker Barrel
https://flaminghydra.com/r/6188a49d?m=1e1ac67a-2f95-4752-aff2-5b0a9ee15876
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Anna Merlan
2 months ago
For
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I talked to
@jessesword.com
, a lexicographer and, full disclosure, my friend, about the perfect word "clankers" and the extremely imperfect story that's being told about where it came from:
flaminghydra.com/clank-clank/
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Clank Clank
a fiery writer-owned cooperative
https://flaminghydra.com/clank-clank/
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Daniel Loxton šØš¦
2 months ago
Iāve followed decades of modern skeptical discourse and looked into its precursors back to antiquity. Some things are almost steady stateāthere are always frauds, quacks, and charlatans, and often fears of a ārising tide of irrationality.ā But elevating cranks to this level of power *is* different
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Death and Gravity
2 months ago
California is such a progressive state that we allow the private utility companies to decide what they do and don't do it's like gentle parenting: just because some towns get torched and people die doesn't mean you can discipline them harshly
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Anna Merlan
2 months ago
Please do not try to count for yourselves the number of times I have tweeted āthe F wordā as you will die of old age in the process
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Anna Merlan
2 months ago
The Trump administration says they're the "most transparent" in history. But when I asked the Department of Homeland Security who writes their social media posts, something extremely weird happened:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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āThe most transparent administration in historyā refuses to say whoās behind their batshit social media
Government trolls spread cruel memes and "textbook propagandaā on behalf of Trump.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/who-is-behind-trump-administration-social-media-posts/
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I shared some photos I've taken of the only good office Christmas parties: Tony Hawk's
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Tony Hawkās Holiday Office Parties Go to Extremes
Normally, photographers are not allowed to share private events that we photograph for celebrity clientsāweddings, birthdays, bar mitzvahs, engagement parties, etc. But in the case of Tony Hawkās holi...
https://flaminghydra.com/tony-hawks-holiday-office-parties-go-to-extremes/
2 months ago
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Maria Bustillos
2 months ago
Join Tony Hawk and his crew on adventures concocted by what must be the world's most soulful event designer, N.D. Austin, gorgeously photographed by Tod Seelie
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Flaming Hydra
2 months ago
TODAY:
@todseelie.bsky.social
on photographing Tony Hawk's very unusual office Christmas parties, where guests "climbed through drain tunnels to find a hidden pop-up omakase restaurant [and] traveled through the desert on handmade train cars"
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Festive photos / Literary launch
Tony Hawkās office parties, dazzlingly photographed by Tod Seelie; Efe Paul Azino and Kį»ĢlĆ” TĆŗbį»ĢsĆŗn discuss a NYC festival debut
https://flaminghydra.com/issue-391/#tony-hawks-holiday-office-parties-go-to-extremes
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The Intellectualist
3 months ago
šØ Ted Cruz vacationed in Athens as floods killed 100 in Texas, reviving criticism of absent officials during emergencies and raising questions about leadership accountability.
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Mother Jones
3 months ago
Ghislaine Maxwell has asserted that she never saw the man she is hoping will spring her from a 20-year prison sentence āin any inappropriate settingā throughout the years he spent hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Ghislaine Maxwell absolves Trump, and everyone else, in DOJ interviews
āI never, ever saw any man doing something inappropriate with a woman of any age,ā
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/ghislaine-maxwell-absolves-trump-and-everyone-else-in-doj-interviews/
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"rent a campsite?!?ā why? I can try falling asleep to a loud generator at home for free
3 months ago
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Flaming Hydra
4 months ago
TODAY:
@todseelie.bsky.social
visits a pretend war zone deep in the California desert
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Built for violence / Left for dead
Tod Seelieās visit to the pretend war zone, and Zito Madu, missing the departed
https://flaminghydra.com/r/ba58dd52?m=1e1ac67a-2f95-4752-aff2-5b0a9ee15876
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Anna Merlan
5 months ago
Amazing photos from a still banged up and bruised
@todseelie.bsky.social
, but at least we finally got the tear gas out of his clothes
flaminghydra.com/issue-344/#n...
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Show of strength
Tod Seelie photographs No Kings in Los Angeles
https://flaminghydra.com/issue-344/#no-kings-los-angeles
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Flaming Hydra
5 months ago
TODAY:
@todseelie.bsky.social
on photographing Los Angeles' No Kings protest, and the cop-created chaos afterwards. "What the LAPD, Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, and California Highway Patrol lack in numbers, they make up for in sheer violence."
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Show of strength
Tod Seelie photographs No Kings in Los Angeles
https://flaminghydra.com/r/f8c77e46?m=1e1ac67a-2f95-4752-aff2-5b0a9ee15876
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Death and Gravity
5 months ago
amazing photos (as always) of the No Kings march in DTLA from
@todseelie.bsky.social
in
@flaminghydra.com
(ps: you should totally become a subscriber)
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Tod Seelie photographs No Kings in Los Angeles
https://flaminghydra.com/issue-344/?attribution_id=685481db3ee0000001eee0a2&attribution_type=post
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Mother Jones
5 months ago
An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house." The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.
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An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"
The practice, an expert warns, could lead to "reprisals and retribution by the police for your politics.ā
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/los-angeles-ice-protests-helicopter/
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Flaming Hydra
5 months ago
TODAY: Introducing BRAND NEW HYDRA, photographer
@todseelie.bsky.social
, with a photo essay on crashing the Venice Biennale with a bunch of art punks on rafts made of junk
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Art Bateau
Itās a long story that started with a dream and some junk rafts.Ā Four years after setting off on a journey that started on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis and took us as far as the Hudson River...
https://flaminghydra.com/p/f071b948-c640-403d-986d-3607b7fdf29b/
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Ben Mullin
5 months ago
scoop: Business Insider is reducing staff by 21% as it reduces its reliance on ātraffic-sensitive businesses.ā Memo from CEO Barbara Peng:
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Mother Jones
6 months ago
Welcome to the age of the hyper-aggressive, doggedly loyal flack, who is fluent in one language: Trumpese.
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The hyper-aggressive, comically loyal government flacks who talk like Trump
Spokespeople are defending the administration in a language pioneered by the president.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/trump-spokespeople/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=slack&fbclid=IwY2xjawKUJpJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETE1ckJOdDdQNFFHNjdyTFlRAR5tykwsz7ZV1COw-jflYnW4euGLv_SjfvALdGPIkk8EmnVj7-HUVf741dQuGg_aem_YsOFkwXJM8XPa79kMAywqQ
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Julianne McShane
6 months ago
āIn the end, Trumpese doesnāt say much: instead, itās a kind of blustering white noise designed by turns to provoke, batter, smear and, above all, shut down questioners,ā
@annamerlan.bsky.social
writes.
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Mother Jones
6 months ago
Trumpese is used by government spokespeople, who provide absurdly aggressive (and often comically untrue) responses.
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The hyper-aggressive, comically loyal government flacks who talk like Trump
Spokespeople are defending the administration in a language pioneered by the president.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/trump-spokespeople/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=slack
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Tim Murphy
6 months ago
why everyone talks like that now
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The hyper-aggressive, comically loyal government flacks who talk like Trump
Spokespeople are defending the administration in a language pioneered by the president.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/trump-spokespeople/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=slack
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Anna Merlan
5 months ago
I spent five weeks talking to federal workers about knowledge loss and brain drain across the federal government, and its implications, both right now and for decades to come. Their stories are frightening, but I think it's important to know what we're facing:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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When it comes to Trump's brain drain, āthe damage is already doneā
How the DOGE-triggered attack on government research left America in the dark.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/trump-administration-knowledge-loss-research-cuts/
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Mother Jones
5 months ago
āHealth governance tools and resources and materials and trainings that were the gold standard for this type of workātheyāre all gone. Just gone off the Earth. They took them away," says one former government employee.
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When it comes to Trump's brain drain, āthe damage is already doneā
How the DOGE-triggered attack on government research left America in the dark.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/trump-administration-knowledge-loss-research-cuts/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=slack
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No one: The Art World: you can only be talented if you're conventionally attractive
5 months ago
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Thank you President Trump for FINALLY returning wealth and prosperity to the United States!
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Hoodlum šŗšø
7 months ago
Fox removed the stock market ticker from their broadcasts.
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The Daily Show
7 months ago
CNN: Stock market plummets MSNBC: Stock market craters Highlights for Children: Stock market down big FOX News:
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Which weapons do you think the trump admin will give us in their hunger games? I wanna start practicing
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That's the whole plan
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Gutting US health agency will allow for private sector takeover, experts warn
Robert F Kennedy, Trumpās health secretary, said he will be laying off nearly 20,000 workers, imperiling crucial services
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/health-department-private-sector-takeover
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The Intercept
7 months ago
Around 10 drone journalists were working in Gaza at the outset of the war. Five have been killed, and one was severely injured.
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sarah
8 months ago
read this great disneyland essay in
@flaminghydra.com
yesterday and am still thinking about this line: "I couldnāt help thinking that Disney would probably be preserved even if the government collapsed and American democracy ceased to exist, a little diorama of what normal used to look like."
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Too much joy
Anna Merlan, agog in the Happiest Place on Earth
https://flaminghydra.com/issue-285/#garden-of-earthly-delights
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Flaming Hydra
8 months ago
TODAY:
@annamerlan.bsky.social
goes to Disneyland and has a mild meltdown about it. āItās like being plugged directly into the collective unconscious, like climbing into the thrumming electrical grid that underpins the American imagination.ā
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Too much joy
Anna Merlan, agog in the Happiest Place on Earth
https://flaminghydra.com/r/40537637?m=1e1ac67a-2f95-4752-aff2-5b0a9ee15876
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nick andersen
8 months ago
an eerily gorgeous essay on Being a Guest and Having Fun -- every day i am reminded why flaming hydra is a subscription worth supporting
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Matt Ufford
8 months ago
loved this essay on Disneyland from
@annamerlan.bsky.social
for Flaming Hydra. less cynical than my own view, but not sugary either. clear-eyed and perfectly constructed.
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Anna Merlan, agog in the Happiest Place on Earth
https://flaminghydra.com/issue-285/#garden-of-earthly-delights
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the Mountain Goats
8 months ago
Anne Merlan is so, so good. If you donāt know how Flaming Hyrdra works ā give them an email to sign in and read. Youāll see how good they are ā they are very worth the small price of subscription. Iām a big fan and recommended them & Merlanās work is one reason why.
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anothercultland
8 months ago
this level of writing is why i'm happy to be a subscriber of
@flaminghydra.com
@annamerlan.bsky.social
's "Too much joy" is a kickass piece of work and (obviously) highly recommended š¬
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Anna Merlan, agog in the Happiest Place on Earth
https://flaminghydra.com/issue-285/#garden-of-earthly-delights
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Maria Bustillos
8 months ago
A glorious treat today at
@flaminghydra.com
:
@annamerlan.bsky.social
went to Disneyland. Ravishing photos by
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flaminghydra.com/issue-285/
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Anna Merlan, agog in the Happiest Place on Earth
https://flaminghydra.com/issue-285/
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It seems that if you follow the changes the GOP wants to implement in this country to their logical results their motto turns out to be "make America the Taliban"
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Hey you guys remember eggs?
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Heartwarming scenes of NYC: a truck with the Monster logo painted on it giving away free energy drinks on 7th Ave. Not a single person stopping to take one.
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Heartwarming scenes of NYC: pigeons having a great time feasting on a giant pile of chunky puke at the bus stop. Sigh
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