Writing is not linearly productive. You can write something no one wants and spend months or years on it; it’s not wasted time. It’s time spent learning how to do things you’ll put into practice elsewhere, so long as you don’t get discouraged and stop.

Check to make sure you're not around any open gas lines when you click this link, because @tcraggs22.bsky.social drops some fire about the WNBA, Caitlin Clark, and class in this @flaminghydra.com piece: flaminghydra.com/issue-110/

This has been a fun outlet for me, and I've written some stuff there I'm really happy with. More than that, though, it has been reliably excellent to read every day, with a wide array of posts from a very diverse and talented group of people. I'm biased, but I think it's a steal for the price.

ALSO TODAY: @shirleyw.bsky.social on the sneakily subversive message of London from The Suite Life of Zach and Cody (deep cut!!) flaminghydra.com/dumb-asian-s...

When a former Pitchfork editor stops you in the hallway of your building asking if you saw @flaminghydra today, you know you’ve crossed that elusive nerdy Brooklyn underemployed writer rubicon. Classical Fo-Fo-Fo-evah @csmcgowan.bsky.social

That’s right John Mountain Goats.

I cannot stress strongly enough how much you need to read this immediately

@katzonearth.bsky.social has the sharpest political sense of anybody, I always learn a lot when we talk, and also he should be running the NYT op ed page BONUS: a crazy Sarah Palin anecdote

People really liked this one and I’m always glad when it pops back up.

Came across an article about Disney World by @thielman.bsky.social that helped me better understand why I love the art that I love the-toast.net/2014/11/25/d...

Congrats as always to those who made it to the end of the thread, and to me for not forgetting what I was doing mid-task and then jolting up from the couch in horror to finish writing it 20 minutes later. Have a lovely weekend, FH friends.

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It reminds me of a bar that always has good bands. You just show up when you can and see something good you wouldn't have been able to find on my own. It's a beautiful thing to feel like you're in community with talented people making wonderful stuff.

Part of what's been fun about the Flaming Hydra experience is the opportunity to do the sort of work that mainstream publications won't. That includes service journalism like this.

Aneurysm much??

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TODAY: @tomscocca.bsky.social on terrifying "assistance" features: "Support! Not the first word I would have chosen to describe a car that slows down, without consulting the driver, in the crowding on the way to the George Washington Bridge." flaminghydra.com/it-looks-lik...

congratulations to you, Flaming Hydra. I have resisted a number of your headlines but this is the one that makes me a subscriber.

Kind of shocked to see flaming hydra with less than 2000 followers, are you guys even aware of how much good work these guys are doing? Follow their account, read their stuff, this is the good stuff!

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Onion updates: @leilza.bsky.social Brillson, Flaming Hydra writer and former exec at the communist app TikTok, is our Chief Marketing Officer. Danielle @strle.bsky.social, Tumblr alum from when Tumblr was the best, is our Chief Product Officer. The chairman of The Onion is overlord Jeff Lawson.

i have enjoyed a lot of what @flaminghydra.com has published since subscribing but today's essay is the first i've read that i've thought, "I MUST TEACH THIS" sooooo good

Really stunning read today from Carrie Frye in @flaminghydra.com , about why a writer w a fat publishing deal would abandon a book flaminghydra.com/r/772fb32f?m...

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"NPR is cool!" because of Tiny Desk. NPR is crushing it on TikTok... AND still laying off journalists and canceling shows. What exactly is all this brand awareness good for if it's not keeping the core product of NPR afloat?

@davidjroth.bsky.social, on why he helped found flaminghydra.com  studyhall.xyz/free-newslet... “I need to believe that there’s another way that things can be instead of just endless layoffs and retrenchment that you see everywhere else in the industry.”

We're talking Civil War, zombies, Weezer, Oppenheimer, and more on this week's @flaminghydra.com podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

I have been loving my subscription to @flaminghydra.com, a collective of writers publishing quirky, smart, moving, provocative writing every day. This essay is a great example of one of my favorite genres and so hard to pull off. Pop philosophy. t.co/qjNoeSJaMC

I'm at Flaming Hydra with a piece about the ways widespread sports betting has warped the games, how it might eventually ruin them altogether, and how little anyone in charge seems to care. flaminghydra.com/the-sports-b...

Who says u gotta watch the entire movie to write a review?? lol @katzonearth.bsky.social

They should relax, because it cannot do either Also yes, I wrote one popula.com/2023/10/22/w...

According to the New Yorker newsletter, John McPhee finally experienced his first earthquake today. link.newyorker.com/view/5ee1731...

I rly need people to stop trying to “revolutionize” industries (read: fire as many people as possible)

Arwa Mahdawi, a half-Palestinian journalist, writes with grief, generosity and heart about her life right now flaminghydra.com/how-to-be-pr...

These past few months have been bleak af, but I’m fighting to stay hopeful www.thenation.com/article/soci...

For @flaminghydra.com, I return to the muddy banks of the Wishkah for a Q&A with Nirvana's first drummer, Aaron Burckhard. flaminghydra.com/i-need-my-re...

The thing about Bluesky is that the philosophy and tech behind this project is pretty mind-blowing and may well usher in a fundamentally new approach to social media, but the reason most people are on here is because this is where the funny people went

It is certainly difficult to talk about, but @hafizah.bsky.social makes a solid case for refusing to vote for Biden in today’s issue of @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-44/

Lots of unpaywalled pieces in this, a lovely sampling

Propaganda wants to be free Information wants to be paid for For the @thenation.com I wrote about journalist-owned media; exhilarating www.thenation.com/article/soci...

@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Due to an editor not getting the point that I had quit after I had stopped answering emails for 3 weeks I posted this to them. It is A3 sized.

For my latest @flaminghydra.com piece, I wrote an essay about surviving the DoorDash Wars: flaminghydra.com/issue-43/

@kolatubosun.bsky.social imagines a trip where he visits Nigerian diaspora writers across the US!!

Flaming Hydra WOW Sam Thielman suitably on fire today, extremely satisfying raging against the machine Hop the paywall!! $3/month super CHEAP excellent and convivial place to hang out and read good writing flaminghydra.com

also today! Another installment of Flaming Hydra roundtable, where writers crawl out of their holes and try to be sociable together while talking about our work: pod.link/1734067425