Been meaning to take the leap and join us at @flaminghydra.com, the journalist-owned coop dedicated to press freedom, fun, etc.? Today is the PERFECT day Enjoy @joemacleod666.bsky.social's glorious U!S!A! essay, and @lindseyadler.bsky.social on the new Jackass movie flaminghydra.com/issue-599/

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just in love with this @lindseyadler.bsky.social piece. what a great set of wonderful, horrible memories it evokes. a proustian madeleine secretly filled with poop

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What an absolute treat for our 250TH U!S!A! celebratory post at @flaminghydra.com @lindseyadler.bsky.social on the new JACKASS movie; a magnificent review flaminghydra.com/issue-599/

and @joemacleod666.bsky.social: "Well, I believe in the fucking Idea, and I also contend that this country has had its moments, good ones, and the masses who try to get to these shores for a better life could have one..." flaminghydra.com/issue-599/#m...

I wrote about growing up and growing old with Jackass. At @flaminghydra.com: flaminghydra.com/issue-599/#y...

TODAY: Lindsey Adler on the new, presumably last-ever Jackass movie. "Watching it over the weekend... caused me to tear up from sentimentality. I was also experiencing vicious nausea from watching these guys defecate on each other one last time." flaminghydra.com/issue-599/#y...

Until someone I know and trust (Dave K.!!) went to this thing and took photographs, I couldn't quite be sure what was going on. @flaminghydra.com is made up of real people who know one another, writing and publishing each weekday.

After a long break to finish two (!) books, I am very happy to be back in @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-598/?a...

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Here is my new essay in the writers’ collective @flaminghydra.com. In today’s issue, you’ll also find a new essay by @supremenothing.myatproto.social. My essay is about my grandfather Leon, his three-wheeled bike, and krówki. flaminghydra.com/margarine/

TODAY: @benehrenreich.bsky.social watches the seasons change. "Except for the growing number of us who have already been overtaken by catastrophe, we sit with ankles crossed in air-conditioned rooms, if we are lucky" flaminghydra.com/issue-598/#a...

A wild, very personal remembrance from @g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social of his late grandfather in Poland flaminghydra.com/issue-597/

Absorbing thoughts on the music of #loveislandusa and reality TV from @supremenothing.myatproto.social "... the ultimate blurring of fact and fiction" flaminghydra.com/the-music-of...

I thought about wearing my (white) Sierra Club tshirt to this event, but I don’t want them to arrest me. So instead I’m here repping @flaminghydra.com. Because writing on the internet isn’t illegal in this country. Not yet, at least!

TODAY: @g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social on a time of mourning. "We were greeted by a jovial worker from the funeral home. He showed us different people, different bodies, and turned it into a kind of guessing game: was this him or not?" flaminghydra.com/issue-597/#m...

the kicker: flaminghydra.com/hillbilly-bl...

wait "rod" are his initials???? like "jeb"????? or "GNU"??????

Turns out a Yiddish language intensive really is the best way for me to stay offline But while I am here briefly, please please subscribe to @flaminghydra.com! All cylinders really firing over there, and very proud to be a contributing writer there.

@katewagner.wehwalt.net has a magnificent series on this at @flaminghydra.com (very small paywall; worth it) Toward an Understanding of Fascist Aesthetics Part I: Introduction Part II: Fascist Art as Vampire Part III: Fascism and Women flaminghydra.com/contributor/...

TODAY: @elongreen.bsky.social on the friendship between JD Vance and “socially conservative Minion” Rod Dreher flaminghydra.com/hillbilly-bl...

“Coins meant for rice or kerosene slid across the counter and came back white rum hot as apology,” reads a line from Jamir Nazir’s “The Serpent in the Grove.” It’s a short story full of strange and overwrought metaphors & flourishes bordering on the incomprehensible. flaminghydra.com/the-ai-trial...

The best thing about bikes and the best thing about NYC is sometimes you get to meet and eventually be friends with your favorite artists or weirdos

The rot is very old, even though I lived through it I can hardly believe Wrote a little bit about the Reflecting pool fiasco at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-594/

WHAT happened when @kolatubosun.bsky.social, innocently mowing his lawn, came face to face with a beast in the garden. flaminghydra.com/issue-595/

TODAY: @kolatubosun.bsky.social encounters the garter snake. “It was a battle between what I feared was something truly sinister, and my likely future guilt at having wasted lethality on something quite undeserving.” flaminghydra.com/r/ad6eada0?m...

On @flaminghydra.com today I wrote about looking back at my photo book Bright Nights over ten years later. flaminghydra.com/bright-nights/

For those not on this, @mariabustillos.com 's response to a prompt from @amandamull.bsky.social is all the argument you need to subscribe to Flaming Hydra. flaminghydra.com/through-a-po...

Read Maria Bustillos on the reflecting pool spectacle, and illuminating the oft-forgotten truth that MAGA was preceded by conservative talk radio, cheered by Republicans. A clutch @flaminghydra.com essay

Challenge accepted ('really good' tbd) flaminghydra.com/issue-594/

The most extraordinary photos of the vanished 2000s and 2010s you ever saw, by @todseelie.bsky.social Eye-addictingly beautiful like always from this artist flaminghydra.com/bright-nights/

Yup.

Japanther mentioned - so stellar

This essay describes my ex-brother-in-law right down to his Covid death a month before the author’s brother. It is not new, just louder and without any shame.

Good one from our fearless @flaminghydra.com leader @mariabustillos.com today flaminghydra.com/issue-594/

TODAY: @mariabustillos.com considers The Pool and its equally murky antecedents. "After so many years of watching this deep-rooted plant bear its filthy harvest I came to see clearly that what MAGA offered my brother back then, what it has always offered" flaminghydra.com/through-a-po...

They have a real strict firewall set up so it’s basically none of my concern. flaminghydra.com/weve-all-got...

The genAI wars are at least giving literary scholars a chance to make themselves heard. What constitutes 'quality' and 'authenticity'? What distinguishes the human? @jidesalawu.bsky.social has a fine analysis of the Commonwealth/Granta debacle at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-593/

My two cents about the AI kerfuffle in the newsletter @flaminghydra.com Read the rest below, flaminghydra.com/the-ai-trial...

Good one on @flaminghydra.com from @lukeoneil47.bsky.social, not regretting my subscription

Here is @jidesalawu.bsky.social with fine analysis of the Granta / Commonwealth Prize fiasco, b/w fine new fiction by @lukeoneil47.bsky.social flaminghydra.com/issue-593/

Is it magical realism, or just gibberish? The hill is talking; the bush is growling; the grove has a mind of its own. Every phrase is either hackneyed or hallucinatory, reaching for something beyond, something visceral. flaminghydra.com/the-ai-trial...

A few new short pieces of mine up today at @flaminghydra.com including this little number thank you for reading them and sharing the post.

TODAY: @jidesalawu.bsky.social on the suspicions of AI surrounding a prestigious fiction prize. “One thing we can say with certainty is that undiscovered writers of the future have already been harmed by the poorly-understood, breakneck development of generative AI.” flaminghydra.com/the-ai-trial...

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