For the morning crowd: I published some new fiction over at Flaming Hydra. flaminghydra.com/the-paramete...

When they say masculinity they mean status and power.

I loved @winterjessica.bsky.social's review of the new Scott Galloway book (www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...), so much so that I kept right on yelling about it all in @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/alone-in-the...

Whenever someone says "Scott Galloway has some good ideas" I immediately exit the conversation, this is a nice validation of that practice.

It’s a restrained work, I hope, but I have put my whole self into this. flaminghydra.com/the-paramete...

This is the last guy who should be telling anybody how to Be a Man imo better alternatives abound flaminghydra.com/issue-439/#a...

TODAY: @csmcgowan.bsky.social with new short fiction on the parameters that govern our lives. "What I take from this is that work sucks. This is too complicated to verbalize, and I know she’s just about out of patience with me." flaminghydra.com/r/2c030af1?m...

I should add that this ownership structure was devised specifically to prevent attacks based in equity control. It's not possible to buy Flaming Hydra because there is nobody to buy it from.

For sure @flaminghydra.com is a 100 percent human publication. So thrilled you are coming over! A small sample of our views on the subject of artificial intelligence: flaminghydra.com/yakkin-about... flaminghydra.com/movie-review... flaminghydra.com/issue-176/#s...

Are you a @flaminghydra.com subscriber?? if YES don't forget to VOTE for your favorite HYDRANYM on the theme: FLY some hilarious ones this week, people are getting really good at this flaminghydra.com/hydranym-no-...

@flaminghydra.com: only $3/month for moving, beautiful and informative writing and art that you will not see anywhere else.

Best thing I’ve read this week. A fullhearted defense of real, human art. “The truth is I had come looking for this. That my days and maybe yours too all feel terrorized by the synthetic, by impostors, by preening frauds spouting homilies… I had come looking for dispatches from real places.”

The coop also accepts donations to advance our work, especially in the area of digital ownership rights for libraries. Get in touch with us at editors at flaminghydra.com if you'd like to arrange to make a tax-free donation.

I always love a Tod Seelie photoessay and not just because it’s my legal obligation

TODAY: a gorgeous photo essay from @todseelie.bsky.social about Dia de Los Muertos in New Orleans flaminghydra.com/r/9d595220?m...

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Flaming Hydra is a coop. All you can do with your share is sell it back to the coop (for $1), and nobody can have more than one. You have to be ready for growth to take a long time. Journalism is a public trust that should be accountable to readers alone, and that means readers alone pay for it.

If you’d like a little slice of joy this evening, I wrote about seeing Chappell Roan for @flaminghydra.com!

an essay on real art very GOOD essay subscribe and support real artists at @flaminghydra.com

So many thanks to @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social for taking the time to talk with me about Tales of Militant Chemistry @flaminghydra.com. @ucpress.bsky.social

TODAY: @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social enters the land of Chappell Roan. “My friend who is somehow a heat-seeking missile for fun had invited me to attend.” flaminghydra.com/r/9a9cfe10?m...

If you want to live in a nice world you have to support independent media and independent journalists that are doing the work and saying what needs to be said. @404media.co @defector.com @marisakabas.bsky.social @theflytrapmedia.com @flaminghydra.com @aftermath.site Probably missing quite a few!

ALSO TODAY: The latest installment of ACE GOES TO Hollywood, in which Jack Pendarvis interviews his friend Ace about the series of events that led him to work on a Pauly Shore movie. " I got to ask you, though, do you think people know who Carrot Top is?" flaminghydra.com/ace-goes-to-...

TODAY: @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social in conversation with Alice Lovejoy, on Kodak's strange and largely unknown foray into the war machine. "This is one of the bigger ironies in the book, a question about safety—whose safety matters?" flaminghydra.com/gadget-works...

Kodak was deeply involved in the Manhattan Project wat

Today at Flaming Hydra, I interviewed film and media historian @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on her deeply-researched new book uncovering the role played by Kodak—the household brand that popularized the snapshot—and other film manufacturers in industrial warfare.

TODAY: @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social in conversation with Alice Lovejoy, on Kodak's strange and largely unknown foray into the war machine. "This is one of the bigger ironies in the book, a question about safety—whose safety matters?" flaminghydra.com/gadget-works...

What a glorious day to subscribe to @flaminghydra.com and read about trans rights, responsible media, and press freedom! I love this talk. #yay

Over at @flaminghydra.com, I have a new interview with @jael.bsky.social about working as a reporter in DC and her band's new song "horseglue" flaminghydra.com/d-c-journali...

I love to support journalists & worker owned outlets directly! @marisakabas.bsky.social @stevanzetti.bsky.social @404media.co @theflytrapmedia.com @flaminghydra.com

this episode contains shoutouts to the good people at @flaminghydra.com and @defector.com !

p.s. the maestro of headlines dazzles yet again

Ekko Astral's Jael Holzman with the media perspective that democratic societies need to get with right away. A piercing and valuable talk between her and @parkermolloy.com

[email protected], @raxkingisdead.bsky.social, and @tomscocca.bsky.social at Saturday's @flaminghydra.com party (flaminghydra.com/a-flaming-hy...). Plus me, stuffing my mouth with a cookie in the background.

TODAY: @parkermolloy.com in conversation with @jael.bsky.social, a musician and a senior reporter at Heatmap News. "I do think we need to start boycotting news outlets that take fossil fuel money." flaminghydra.com/issue-435/#d...

Another absolute banger from @rbuas.bsky.social - Subscribe to @flaminghydra.com, punk! flaminghydra.com/caravaggio-s...

it's all true

TODAY: @rbuas.bsky.social comes face-to-face with the thundering depths of Caravaggio. "It feels like something holy and cataclysmic is happening on that wall but also a little like walking in on a mob hit." flaminghydra.com/issue-434/#c...

It sounds like an exaggeration that I read most things John publishes immediately and say to myself "yet another banger," but that is what I actually do. You too can live in this glorious reality. Subscribe to Flaming Hydra.

Wrote about Italy, Caravaggio and man against the machine flaminghydra.com/caravaggio-s...

Try some modern donuts idiots

ah, @flaminghydra.com and @rbuas.bsky.social today. My favorite thing about reading Saward is how he can make these mundane or macho things seem at times emotional, even romantic his gorgeous essay today concerns "real" art and everything that comes with it - and what you notice in its absence

Hang on to your socks what a @flaminghydra.com we have got for you today. Subscribe, if you've been meaning to, and revel in the powerful and vivifying work of @rbuas.bsky.social and @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social flaminghydra.com/issue-434/

TODAY: @rbuas.bsky.social comes face-to-face with the thundering depths of Caravaggio. "It feels like something holy and cataclysmic is happening on that wall but also a little like walking in on a mob hit." flaminghydra.com/issue-434/#c...

Thank you everyone who turned up at the unforgettable @flaminghydra.com soiree Lolll a fabulous time was had by all incl. me

Was worried I might get detention at the @flaminghydra.com shindig but then my teachers relented, whew

Maria bought us falafel

ill be at the @flaminghydra.com thing tonight dressed like its 1999

I will not be at this. (Selling point or not, you decide.) But if you're around, you should swing by.

TODAY: we are having a party tonight in New York City, please come hang out!!! luma.com/i5q45r3h