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Author and activist Zukiswa Wanner talks with @kolatubosun.bsky.social about being captured with the Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza

and @emilyflake.bsky.social observes 'Charlie Kirk Day'

today at @flaminghydra.com

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Abduction afloat / Day of remembrance

Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún talks with released Sumud Flotilla captive Zukiswa Wanner; Emily Flake’s notes on a new holiday

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 1h

AND FINALLY: please celebrate the victors of HYDRANYM 20!! flaminghydra.com/issue-422/?a...

Abduction afloat / Day of remembrance

Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún talks with released Sumud Flotilla captive Zukiswa Wanner; Emily Flake’s notes on a new holiday

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 2h

ALSO TODAY: Emily Flake on a few ways to observe Charlie Kirk Day. flaminghydra.com/ways-to-obse...

Ways to Observe Charlie Kirk Day

a fiery writer-owned cooperative

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 2h

TODAY: @kolatubosun.bsky.social in conversation with newly released flotilla captive Zukiswa Wanner. “The sooner we realize that what happens there affects the rest of us, the better.” flaminghydra.com/a-flotilla-c...

A Flotilla Captive, Released

Zukiswa Wanner is a South African writer who lives in Nairobi, Kenya. In 2020, she became the first African woman to receive the Goethe-Medaille, a prize given to “non-Germans who have performed outst...

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Maria Bustillos @handle.invalid · 2d

Yes, we have free samples at

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Share these stories freely, no paywall! If you love them, please subscribe to Flaming Hydra to receive more each weekday.

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Maria Bustillos @handle.invalid · 1d

ARE you a @flaminghydra.com subscriber??!

IF yes please remember to vote in the HYDRANYM! There's some real good ones.

Voting is extended one extra day since we're observing the holiday:

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HYDRANYM No. 20: Vote!

by The Editors Judges, reflect on the theme of: SWITCH and render your verdict below. HYDRANYM is the Creative Writing word game especially for Flaming Hydra subscribers (here’s the RULES). J...

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 1d

TODAY: No newsletter today in observation of Indigenous People's Day! Have a meaningful holiday and we'll be back tomorrow!

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Maria Bustillos @handle.invalid · 2d

Flaming Hydra IS the name of a great band
(of writers and artists)

Check out some free work at flaminghydra.com/free

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jen see @iamjensee.bsky.social · 2d

This @davidjroth.bsky.social joint @flaminghydra.com is the kind of culture writing I love. It’s about One Battle After Another and the film serves as a starting point for a bunch of interesting ideas.

If you like good writing on the internet, Flaming Hydra is pretty great, actually.

Struggle cinema

David Roth on 'One Battle After Another'

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 3d

Who owns money, and who owns the representations on that money? Check out this fascinating deep dive into the history and cultural meaning of the Naira, the Nigerian note, from Yemisi Aribisala. Only on @flaminghydra.com! flaminghydra.com/the-naira-re...

The Naira Redrawn

إلى تجديد (trans. 'iilaa tajdid: “to renew”) It’s noteworthy that we’ve never had a Nigerian woman—dead or alive—on front face of the Nigerian legal tender, on the Naira note; there’s been only one ...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3d

“The struggle against the forces of repression in One Battle After Another is quite probably lost, but it is not over.”

This is so good.

Maria Bustillos @handle.invalid · 4d

pls read @davidjroth.bsky.social's review it is SO good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Struggle cinema

David Roth on 'One Battle After Another'

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 3d

I’m always saying this!

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Maria Bustillos @handle.invalid · 4d

pls read @davidjroth.bsky.social's review it is SO good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Struggle cinema

David Roth on 'One Battle After Another'

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Maria Bustillos @handle.invalid · 4d

Flaming Hydra writers own their own rights absolutely! This is a real important part of what we are trying to do at @flaminghydra.com, is build a place that HELPS everyone do the work they want and get paid for it

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 3d

Clout Chasing Will Be the Death of Us All
by @littlewow.online for @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-420/

Opportunistic infection

Jennie Rose Halperin on the career twists and turns of Instagram influencer Jessica Reed Kraus

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Jide Salawu @jidesalawu.bsky.social · 4d

One who, like you, has been in the game for years, knows that this crowdfunding project requires strategy and calculation. You may have thought about the risks involved in improving the intellectual life of your country... Latest for @flaminghydra.com

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How to Crowdfund a National Library Like a Queen

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 4d

ALSO TODAY: Please VOTE for HYDRANYM volume 20!! flaminghydra.com/hydranym-no-...

HYDRANYM No. 20: Vote!

by The Editors Judges, reflect on the theme of: SWITCH and render your verdict below. HYDRANYM is the Creative Writing word game especially for Flaming Hydra subscribers (here’s the RULES). J...

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 4d

TODAY: @jidesalawu.bsky.social on the queenly appraoch to crowdfunding for a national library. "A bragging point for the nobles in your court to say, 'Oh yes! Ten million to this!' Perhaps they will even compete with one another in their generosity." flaminghydra.com/how-to-crowd...

How to Crowdfund a National Library Like a Queen

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 5d

some good writing about some bad (anti-trans) writing

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Purity Tests

Among the cornucopia of horrors pouring out in our daily news, you may have missed this one. It’s an amicus brief, though it’s not at all friendly, arguing that trans girls shouldn’t play sports on gi...

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Maria Bustillos @handle.invalid · 5d

Clout Chasing Will Be the Death of Us All, new (and harrowing) from @littlewow.online at @flaminghydra.com

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Opportunistic infection

Jennie Rose Halperin on the career twists and turns of Instagram influencer Jessica Reed Kraus

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 5d

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 5d

ALSO TODAY: a very mature curation of blogs to help us celebrate issue 420 🌿🌿🌿 flaminghydra.com/issue-420/?a...

Opportunistic infection

Jennie Rose Halperin on the career twists and turns of Instagram influencer Jessica Reed Kraus

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 5d

TODAY: @littlewow.online on MAGA gossip blogger Houseinhabit. “In the new tradition of other disgraced figures … who swerved to the right, she’s found open arms (and wallets) when no one else would have her.” flaminghydra.com/clout-chasin...

Clout Chasing Will Be the Death of Us All

The New Yorker’s Clare Malone recently published a long profile of Jessica Reed Kraus, the QAnon-adjacent mommy blogger who played an instrumental role in Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s successful bid to be...

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