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TODAY: a FREE PERIOD to catch up on our wonderful blogs before we have a really good one on Monday!!! What a week! Thank you as always for your support of Flaming Hydra! Stay safe out there! 🫠

ALSO TODAY: @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on a shockingly successful “pseudo-country jam on YouTube about what a blast it is to drive drunk,” co-authored by AI flaminghydra.com/the-robot-dr...

In November I wrote about Trump’s obsession with the golden age of late night TV for @flaminghydra.com through the lens of his friendship with Joan Rivers. He hasn’t been invited back since 2016, but was once a regular; he appeared on Letterman more than 30 times. flaminghydra.com/the-trump-er...

I wrote about blood donation, Vanderpump Rules and astonishing cookies for @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/its-not-abou...

Now more than ever support independent and/or local media I subscribe to Racket, ProPublica, Flaming Hydra, Defector, and The Handbasket Open for more recs if there’s something crucial I’m missing

My inbox has been greatly improved by dispatches from the Flaming Hydra collective. The most recent included a tale of someone getting 22 ducklings at an auction, and then photos and a scene report from a post-apocalyptic cosplay gathering a la Burning Man. flaminghydra.com#/portal/signup

TODAY: @lauriewoolever.bsky.social on the joys of giving blood and specifically Lorna Doones, “the unofficial cookie of medical settings” flaminghydra.com/its-not-abou...

get the physical book with a digital sub- your life will be enriched. it’s like getting the vinyl

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No more ALIEN: EARTH recaps from us on account of ABC/Disney etc sucking! Sorry! Take it up with them!

IT'S TOO BAD @mariabustillos.com & THE REST OF THE *ALIEN: EARTH* GANG AT @flaminghydra.com AREN'T DOING ANY MORE RECAPS ON ACCOUNT OF ABC/DISNEY/HULU/FX/ETC IS BEING UNFAIR TO @jimmykimmel.com BECAUSE WE WOULD BE HAVING A SERIOUS *BOY KAVALIER* DISCUSSION BEHIND THIS INFO

40,000 followers!! WAHOO! Please celebrate with us by subscribing to Flaming Hydra! flaminghydra.com

Independent sites I check weekly, if not daily: see-saw.fun (@see-saw.fun) www.dontrocktheinbox.com (@marissarmoss.bsky.social @natalieweiner.bsky.social) www.hearingthings.co (@hearingthingsco.bsky.social) flaminghydra.com (@flaminghydra.com) Give them your time and money!

Forgot to repost earlier this month--but I wrote about the duality of the Internet for @flaminghydra.com, which serves up both images of cute animals and of death and destruction, then we turn to the former as a salve for the latter

Carrie Frye has the most lovely story today, and then there is a glorious @todseelie.bsky.social photo feature. Writing and art made by real people!! is so good!!!! flaminghydra.com/issue-405/

TODAY: Carrie Frye’s friend deals with a simply delightful situation. “There’s one duckling in the basement that’s so small it’s no bigger than a thumb. It has the tiniest, wee-est bill sticking out from its down.” flaminghydra.com/make-way-for...

You subscribe to @flaminghydra.com yet? Some great writing today (and most days) flaminghydra.com/issue-405/

haven’t seen anyone mention @flaminghydra.com yet, but it’s the best deal in independent media

TODAY: Jack Pendarvis continues his road trip with his friend Ace where they discuss Ace’s work on JURY DUTY. This time: a brief digression on haunted stuff! flaminghydra.com/ace-goes-to-...

Alien: Earth fans, I’m off to watch today’s new episode and then post the must listen podcast from @flaminghydra.com

New at @flaminghydra.com: The story of an American dad, living an American life in an American town, until the government told him he wasn't an American at all.

Here's @markyarm.bsky.social's recent talk with @karenattiah.bsky.social in @flaminghydra.com. It's a hopeful, intelligent, insightful talk about media. Free to read, no paywall. flaminghydra.com/an-antidote-...

TODAY: @zachrabiroff.com on one man’s discovery that he is essentially stateless. “The obvious solution to Roddy’s unsettled citizenship was for his new stepdad to adopt him, but something always seemed to get in the way of the paperwork.” flaminghydra.com/an-american-...

I really loved this piece in today's @flaminghydra.com, first time in a long time I read an essay that resonated and also wasn't ~ for ~ me. I had never heard of Emma Chamberlain before but this captures the moment of Gen Z coming into their professional lives/power

What is like to suddenly discover you have no country? Maybe? @zachrabiroff.com with a haunting profile in @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-403/

Please do not forget the Epstein Birthday Book in all this maelstrom!! (and subscribe to journalist-owned media like @flaminghydra.com)

This cheered me up so much (@flaminghydra.com podcast about KPop Demon Hunters with @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social @carmenjohns.bsky.social and @joemacleod666.bsky.social) flaminghydra.com/hot-male-res...

If you're frustrated with the absolute garbage pouring out of prestige media today, great time to support indie media! Consider subscribing to @theflytrapmedia.com @404media.co @defector.com @flaminghydra.com @hearingthingsco.bsky.social @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social and other fine publications!

Such a refreshing weird and lovely meditation on Emma Chamberlain from @camoot.bsky.social I love it 'Me and Emma Chamberlain are Scared to Fly' flaminghydra.com/issue-402/

I hadn’t heard of Emma Chamberlain until Amy’s @flaminghydra.com essay, and when I watched this interaction she described I blurt-laughed. youtu.be/cpFc1RPOF7s?...

TONIGHT: @camoot.bsky.social on the celebrity she feels the closest to. “We don’t share any traits of background, race, or class, but still, I’m sometimes struck by the similarity of our anxieties and wants.” flaminghydra.com/r/c6352daf?m...

Every person with brains and a conscience who speaks out makes room and more safety for the next one to speak.

TONIGHT: Misha Angrist talks about the responsibility of scientists to speak up and push back in these bad times. “Researchers are not disengaged monks in white lab coats, aloof from worldly cares, nor are they a tribe of panicked, long-suffering Beakers.” flaminghydra.com/speak-out-sc...

TODAY (erm, kind of yesterday, it's your poster's fault for getting to this really late): Harry Siegel tries to find some half-remembered gorgeous writing on an AI-rotted Google. "That’s not quite right, though the autocompletion AI did correctly attribute the quote" flaminghydra.com/frightened-b...

this piece by harry siegel for @flaminghydra.com is fucking beautiful. love a celebration of ross macdonald, who wrote noir as well as chandler and could also write plots that make sense flaminghydra.com/issue-400/?a...

This is why we are doing @flaminghydra.com, someone has to be able to say the obvious flaminghydra.com/issue-399/

Listen to Maria. Subscribe to @flaminghydra.com.

@mariabustillos.com is making me think, and I love it. People should subscribe to @flaminghydra.com.

Hi y'all should subscribe to @flaminghydra.com and read this phenomenal conversation

Corporate media is not demanding the shriekingly obvious: These gross predators have got to go flaminghydra.com/issue-399/

TODAY'S FLAMING HYDRA IS FULL OF MONSTERS flaminghydra.com/issue-399/

Jeffrey Epstein was put in the box of “conspiracy theory“ because people cannot deal with the abject horror of it

"This soul-poisoning book"

TODAY: @mariabustillos.com reviews Epstein’s horrid little birthday book and how legacy media is handling it. “The result is a document so depraved and so vile as to cause any regular person to want to defect from the human race as a result of reading it” flaminghydra.com/book-review-...

Camoot’s ballet short is why I became a paid subscriber of @flaminghydra.com. I’m a sucker for animated shorts 🤩

FLAMING HYDRA!!! @camoot.bsky.social FALL FORECAST!!! STANLEY CAULDRON!!! YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST!!! flaminghydra.com/vogus-trend-...

new @camoot.bsky.social day is always my favorite day at @flaminghydra.com

TODAY: @camoot.bsky.social with some fall fashion trends!! flaminghydra.com/r/4faeee4c?m...