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FLAMING HYDRA READ IT πŸ”₯πŸ”₯β˜„οΈπŸ”₯ Primarily a stan account

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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.

27.06.2024 16:04 πŸ‘ 249 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 13
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Classy basketball / Dollars to donuts Today: Tommy Craggs, late of "Game Theory" on HBO and writer and editor at Mother Jones, HuffPost, Slate, Gawker Media, and Deadspin; and Hamilton Nolan, author of the newsletter How Things Work and t...

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/

02.07.2024 21:30 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

18.06.2024 19:24 πŸ‘ 186 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1
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Dumb Asian Smart Blonde by Shirley Wang I began rewatching The Suite Life of Zach and Cody again recently, a Disney show I loved as a tween. It’s about mischief-making identical twins who live in the Tipton Hotel in Bosto...

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...

15.06.2024 00:37 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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

10.06.2024 20:35 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s right John Mountain Goats.

06.06.2024 21:49 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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

30.05.2024 20:32 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

@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

24.05.2024 17:14 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

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

22.05.2024 12:49 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
No Matter How Your Heart Is Grieving: Disney for the Sad -The Toast A willing foe, and sea room.

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...

22.05.2024 12:32 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

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.

17.05.2024 18:39 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Flaming Hydra a collective of 60 writers, on fire and hard to kill

Will today’s @flaminghydra.com newsletter have comics, serious news, podcasts or reviews, diatribes or diaries??? It’s a SURPRISE and there’s only one way to find out β†’ flaminghydra.com/subscribe

10.05.2024 17:02 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Flaming Hydra a collective of 60 writers, on fire and hard to kill

If you miss the good websites

flaminghydra.com

08.05.2024 19:25 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

04.05.2024 13:31 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

03.05.2024 21:37 πŸ‘ 75 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2

Aneurysm much??

03.05.2024 21:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™€οΈ

03.05.2024 21:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It Looks Like You Need Help by Tom Scocca I was on my way up and out of town, following Google's orders to get to the Palisades Parkway in a rented Toyota Prius, when I hit a little bit of trafficβ€”hardly any traffic, the bare...

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...

02.05.2024 20:15 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

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

30.04.2024 21:14 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

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!

01.05.2024 12:49 πŸ‘ 88 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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Friends of Learning! THIS IS THE PLACE FOR Are You a Student? Apply for a free student subscription to Flaming Hydra, courtesy of readers and friends of students, writers, Hydras, artists, journalism, enlightenment, an...

STUDENTS! People who WANT STUDENTS TO BE ABLE TO READ FLAMING HYDRA FOR FREE! Both types of people should click on this link! flaminghydra.com/students/

30.04.2024 19:57 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

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.

26.04.2024 01:44 πŸ‘ 920 πŸ” 72 πŸ’¬ 66 πŸ“Œ 8

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

23.04.2024 21:17 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Blank book Today: Carrie Frye,Β writer and book editor atΒ Black Cardigan Edit. Issue No. 61 The Journalist and the Other Murderer Carrie Frye The Journalist and the Other Murderer by Carrie Frye In July ...

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...

23.04.2024 19:55 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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22.04.2024 20:34 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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'NPR is cool!' How Tiny Desk Concerts became a pop culture phenomenon With more than 1,100 tapings, Tiny Desk has drawn heavy comparisons to MTV’s groundbreaking β€œUnplugged” series of the ’90s.

"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?

05.02.2024 21:18 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Flaming Hydra: An Idiosyncratic Writing Community That’s Built to Last January of 2024 was a β€œbloodbath” for the media industry. Hundreds of journalists were laid off, outlets like The Messenger and Vice.com stopped publishing, and others like Pitchfork

@davidjroth.bsky.social, on why he helped found flaminghydra.comΒ 
studyhall.xyz/free-newslet...

β€œI 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.”

16.04.2024 15:11 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0