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06.03.2026 22:43
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The cartoon factory turned out an unanticipated BONUS CARTOON this week, which will run on @flaminghydra.com later today.
Workers have been warned about the destabilizing impact of exceeding quota; management apologizes for any inconvenience.
crazy week, worked through the weekend because of the Iran thing, and somehow (I am very slow) came up with two cartoons for next week , one will be in the usual places and one will be on @flaminghydra.com
gonna try to take a couple days off now
“The sun should set on the ocean, silhouetting the sailboats. The glow of the full moon should cast a faint silver on the rustling fronds of swaying palm trees.”
People either love or hate LA. It will always be home for me. And for 10 years, it has been for @milesklee.bsky.social too.
Great essay.
I have only one complaint about this - it’s too short. I wanted to keep reading!
I wrote a follow-up to my story about the police attack on the Eris Parade. 8 years later it was a very different story. "The parade takes on a life and logic of it's own, and being within it is to be, for a time, part of a creature much larger than yourself."
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for @flaminghydra.com i wrote about observing my ten-year anniversary of moving to LA and finally reading City of Quartz
Awww I love LA (SF Baseball Giants fans, dni) and I love my Flaming Hydra sub, the easiest way to read my faves
Reflections on a decade in Los Angeles by @milesklee.bsky.social, a natural-born Angeleno even if he is from the East Coast
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A golden-costumed figure with chain mail and a jester's headdress and baton riding high in a parade against a silvery, darkening sky
Images of beauty and elation in New Orleans at Mardi Gras, the characteristically soulful, arresting work of @todseelie.bsky.social
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Just subscribed to @flaminghydra.com so I can read this @katewagner.wehwalt.net piece.
Lots of good twt/bsky threads out there on contemp fascist aesthetics & some longer form work, but I'm so stoked for Kate's series bc this shit is RANCID and needs mucho analysis
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ALSO TODAY: @todseelie.bsky.social on photographing the joyous 2019 Eris Parade after a previous one ended in police violence. "The parade takes on a life and a logic of its own, and being within it is to be, for a time, part of a creature much larger than yourself." flaminghydra.com/encore-in-ne...
TODAY: @milesklee.bsky.social on ten years in the maddening, mythical Los Angeles. "That disaster, in fact, is possibly what made us come to see ourselves as Angelenos, no longer quite so naive about our paradise that rests on the edge of oblivion." flaminghydra.com/ten-years-be...
I interviewed the incredible Keeonna Harris for Flaming Hydra. We talked about incarcerated pen pals, literary moms, bacon wrapped hot dogs and more. 💚
Author and prison abolitionist Keeonna Harris, interviewed by @lesbrains.bsky.social today at @flaminghydra.com
Cheering to know good women are out there doing what is needed
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TODAY: @lesbrains.bsky.social in conversation with author and memoirist Keeonna Harris. “Women shoulder the burden of male incarceration. Prison forced me to mother my children without their father. Prison forced me to mother my incarcerated partner.” flaminghydra.com/im-from-the-...
For my debut at @flaminghydra.com, which I have just joined, I wrote about the utter weirdness of finding out your dentist was in the Epstein Files. flaminghydra.com/issue-514/
Fully concur, a GREAT debut from @katewagner.wehwalt.net
at @flaminghydra.com
join us for the feast of reason and the flow of soul
Thrilled to welcome @sarahweinman.com to @flaminghydra.com; her fine debut has dentistry, criminal misogyny and abuse, and Shel Silverstein
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REALLY good issue today WOW we're a great website!!!! 🔥
ALSO TODAY: @sirosenbaum.bsky.social on the man tracking a frightening collapse between church and state. "On Monday, Weinstein received an email from a non-commissioned officer who had been frightened by the words and behavior of his ultra-Christian commander." flaminghydra.com/the-state-of...
TODAY: our NEWEST HYDRA @sarahweinman.com with an examination of Epstein's dentist, who was also, yikes, Sarah's dentist. "Everyone is powerless in a dental chair. Supine, with a mouth full of rubber dams or painful X-ray cards, you cede every iota of autonomy." flaminghydra.com/issue-514/#s...
If the Nazi vibes of Substack are (understandably) keeping you from clicking, I got you covered—get out your @flaminghydra.com login and check out @katewagner.wehwalt.net's "toward an understanding of fascist aesthetics" series
yoooo Flaming Hydra KEEPS WINNING
It's so good to have them back!
Vampiristic. Fascists rarely make art. Instead, the fascist aesthete’s job is to appropriate existing art for the purpose of aestheticizing a political goal. Because fascism relies on the fetishization of the past—whether real or imaginary—nothing truly new can come from fascist art. Violent. Dehumanization, augmented by technological abstraction—the sublimation of man into machine—creates under fascism an extreme predilection for violence. In Italian Fascism, this role was played by the automobile, as evidenced by the fascination of Futurist artists like Marinetti with car crashes. (Today, AI deepfakes play a similar role.) Fascist aesthetics are ruthlessly hierarchical and their satisfaction is derived from the maintenance of that hierarchy. They are antisocial and rely on shock value.
Good one by new @flaminghydra.com @katewagner.wehwalt.net
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Kate is always brilliant, always correct, and I will read pretty much anything they write even esoteric Ring Cycle stuff I do not really understand
Fascist aesthetics expertly fileted by @katewagner.wehwalt.net the newest member of @flaminghydra.com
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One of the best pieces on fascism I’ve read. By @katewagner.wehwalt.net.
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Just gonna take this opportunity to plug @flaminghydra.com again because they're dope, and they do dope shit that doesn't use AI