Flaming Hydra
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A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem.
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I should add that this ownership structure was devised specifically to prevent attacks based in equity control. It's not possible to buy Flaming Hydra because there is nobody to buy it from.
Flaming Hydra is a coop. All you can do with your share is sell it back to the coop (for $1), and nobody can have more than one.
You have to be ready for growth to take a long time. Journalism is a public trust that should be accountable to readers alone, and that means readers alone pay for it.
You have to be ready for growth to take a long time. Journalism is a public trust that should be accountable to readers alone, and that means readers alone pay for it.
How does one invest in left-wing media without a far-right billionaire coming along in a few years, buying said media, and remodeling it in his own image?
That seems to be a recurring problem.
That seems to be a recurring problem.
November 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I should add that this ownership structure was devised specifically to prevent attacks based in equity control. It's not possible to buy Flaming Hydra because there is nobody to buy it from.
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For sure @flaminghydra.com is a 100 percent human publication. So thrilled you are coming over!
A small sample of our views on the subject of artificial intelligence:
flaminghydra.com/yakkin-about...
flaminghydra.com/movie-review...
flaminghydra.com/issue-176/#s...
A small sample of our views on the subject of artificial intelligence:
flaminghydra.com/yakkin-about...
flaminghydra.com/movie-review...
flaminghydra.com/issue-176/#s...
November 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
For sure @flaminghydra.com is a 100 percent human publication. So thrilled you are coming over!
A small sample of our views on the subject of artificial intelligence:
flaminghydra.com/yakkin-about...
flaminghydra.com/movie-review...
flaminghydra.com/issue-176/#s...
A small sample of our views on the subject of artificial intelligence:
flaminghydra.com/yakkin-about...
flaminghydra.com/movie-review...
flaminghydra.com/issue-176/#s...
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Are you a @flaminghydra.com subscriber?? if YES don't forget to VOTE for your favorite HYDRANYM on the theme:
FLY
some hilarious ones this week, people are getting really good at this
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FLY
some hilarious ones this week, people are getting really good at this
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November 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Are you a @flaminghydra.com subscriber?? if YES don't forget to VOTE for your favorite HYDRANYM on the theme:
FLY
some hilarious ones this week, people are getting really good at this
flaminghydra.com/hydranym-no-...
FLY
some hilarious ones this week, people are getting really good at this
flaminghydra.com/hydranym-no-...
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@flaminghydra.com: only $3/month for moving, beautiful and informative writing and art that you will not see anywhere else.
Today at Flaming Hydra, I interviewed film and media historian @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on her deeply-researched new book uncovering the role played by Kodak—the household brand that popularized the snapshot—and other film manufacturers in industrial warfare.
Kodak, for the Wartimes of Your Life
Kodak, the company that popularized the “snapshot” and made photography accessible to the world, produced much more than the friendly, once-ubiquitous film rolls sold worldwide in their small, vivid y...
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November 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
@flaminghydra.com: only $3/month for moving, beautiful and informative writing and art that you will not see anywhere else.
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Best thing I’ve read this week. A fullhearted defense of real, human art.
“The truth is I had come looking for this. That my days and maybe yours too all feel terrorized by the synthetic, by impostors, by preening frauds spouting homilies… I had come looking for dispatches from real places.”
“The truth is I had come looking for this. That my days and maybe yours too all feel terrorized by the synthetic, by impostors, by preening frauds spouting homilies… I had come looking for dispatches from real places.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Best thing I’ve read this week. A fullhearted defense of real, human art.
“The truth is I had come looking for this. That my days and maybe yours too all feel terrorized by the synthetic, by impostors, by preening frauds spouting homilies… I had come looking for dispatches from real places.”
“The truth is I had come looking for this. That my days and maybe yours too all feel terrorized by the synthetic, by impostors, by preening frauds spouting homilies… I had come looking for dispatches from real places.”
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The coop also accepts donations to advance our work, especially in the area of digital ownership rights for libraries. Get in touch with us at editors at flaminghydra.com if you'd like to arrange to make a tax-free donation.
November 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The coop also accepts donations to advance our work, especially in the area of digital ownership rights for libraries. Get in touch with us at editors at flaminghydra.com if you'd like to arrange to make a tax-free donation.
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I always love a Tod Seelie photoessay and not just because it’s my legal obligation
TODAY: a gorgeous photo essay from @todseelie.bsky.social about Dia de Los Muertos in New Orleans flaminghydra.com/r/9d595220?m...
Dead can dance / Lyrics live
Tod Seelie’s exquisite photos of New Orleans, and a poem from the olden time by Harry Siegel
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November 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I always love a Tod Seelie photoessay and not just because it’s my legal obligation
TODAY: a gorgeous photo essay from @todseelie.bsky.social about Dia de Los Muertos in New Orleans flaminghydra.com/r/9d595220?m...
Dead can dance / Lyrics live
Tod Seelie’s exquisite photos of New Orleans, and a poem from the olden time by Harry Siegel
flaminghydra.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
TODAY: a gorgeous photo essay from @todseelie.bsky.social about Dia de Los Muertos in New Orleans flaminghydra.com/r/9d595220?m...
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Flaming Hydra is a coop. All you can do with your share is sell it back to the coop (for $1), and nobody can have more than one.
You have to be ready for growth to take a long time. Journalism is a public trust that should be accountable to readers alone, and that means readers alone pay for it.
You have to be ready for growth to take a long time. Journalism is a public trust that should be accountable to readers alone, and that means readers alone pay for it.
How does one invest in left-wing media without a far-right billionaire coming along in a few years, buying said media, and remodeling it in his own image?
That seems to be a recurring problem.
That seems to be a recurring problem.
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Flaming Hydra is a coop. All you can do with your share is sell it back to the coop (for $1), and nobody can have more than one.
You have to be ready for growth to take a long time. Journalism is a public trust that should be accountable to readers alone, and that means readers alone pay for it.
You have to be ready for growth to take a long time. Journalism is a public trust that should be accountable to readers alone, and that means readers alone pay for it.
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If you’d like a little slice of joy this evening, I wrote about seeing Chappell Roan for @flaminghydra.com!
Tinseltown treat / Puzzle pro
Diana Moskovitz at the Chappell Roan show, and Carrie Frye talks game design with Dan Kois
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November 7, 2025 at 4:56 AM
If you’d like a little slice of joy this evening, I wrote about seeing Chappell Roan for @flaminghydra.com!
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Wrote about Italy, Caravaggio and man against the machine flaminghydra.com/caravaggio-s...
Caravaggio, Sam Altman, and Me
I was wandering around a humid church in Rome, vibrating on no sleep, and there was a murder going down on the wall. It can feel sometimes in these kind of places like you are hallucinating, the smell...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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So many thanks to @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social for taking the time to talk with me about Tales of Militant Chemistry @flaminghydra.com.
@ucpress.bsky.social
@ucpress.bsky.social
Today at Flaming Hydra, I interviewed film and media historian @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on her deeply-researched new book uncovering the role played by Kodak—the household brand that popularized the snapshot—and other film manufacturers in industrial warfare.
Kodak, for the Wartimes of Your Life
Kodak, the company that popularized the “snapshot” and made photography accessible to the world, produced much more than the friendly, once-ubiquitous film rolls sold worldwide in their small, vivid y...
flaminghydra.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
So many thanks to @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social for taking the time to talk with me about Tales of Militant Chemistry @flaminghydra.com.
@ucpress.bsky.social
@ucpress.bsky.social
TODAY: @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social enters the land of Chappell Roan. “My friend who is somehow a heat-seeking missile for fun had invited me to attend.” flaminghydra.com/r/9a9cfe10?m...
Tinseltown treat / Puzzle pro
Diana Moskovitz at the Chappell Roan show, and Carrie Frye talks game design with Dan Kois
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November 7, 2025 at 2:32 AM
TODAY: @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social enters the land of Chappell Roan. “My friend who is somehow a heat-seeking missile for fun had invited me to attend.” flaminghydra.com/r/9a9cfe10?m...
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If you want to live in a nice world you have to support independent media and independent journalists that are doing the work and saying what needs to be said.
@404media.co @defector.com @marisakabas.bsky.social @theflytrapmedia.com @flaminghydra.com @aftermath.site
Probably missing quite a few!
@404media.co @defector.com @marisakabas.bsky.social @theflytrapmedia.com @flaminghydra.com @aftermath.site
Probably missing quite a few!
November 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
If you want to live in a nice world you have to support independent media and independent journalists that are doing the work and saying what needs to be said.
@404media.co @defector.com @marisakabas.bsky.social @theflytrapmedia.com @flaminghydra.com @aftermath.site
Probably missing quite a few!
@404media.co @defector.com @marisakabas.bsky.social @theflytrapmedia.com @flaminghydra.com @aftermath.site
Probably missing quite a few!
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ALSO TODAY: The latest installment of ACE GOES TO Hollywood, in which Jack Pendarvis interviews his friend Ace about the series of events that led him to work on a Pauly Shore movie. " I got to ask you, though, do you think people know who Carrot Top is?" flaminghydra.com/ace-goes-to-...
Ace Goes to Hollywood: Episode 12
Ace Goes to Hollywood is the continuing transcript of a ride from Oxford, Mississippi, to Memphis, Tennessee, during which Jack Pendarvis interviewed Ace Atkins about his work on the Pauly Shore film ...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
ALSO TODAY: The latest installment of ACE GOES TO Hollywood, in which Jack Pendarvis interviews his friend Ace about the series of events that led him to work on a Pauly Shore movie. " I got to ask you, though, do you think people know who Carrot Top is?" flaminghydra.com/ace-goes-to-...
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TODAY: @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social in conversation with Alice Lovejoy, on Kodak's strange and largely unknown foray into the war machine. "This is one of the bigger ironies in the book, a question about safety—whose safety matters?" flaminghydra.com/gadget-works...
Gadget works / Red redemption
David Moore talks Kodak (and war machines) with author Alice Lovejoy; Jack and Ace hit the road
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November 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
TODAY: @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social in conversation with Alice Lovejoy, on Kodak's strange and largely unknown foray into the war machine. "This is one of the bigger ironies in the book, a question about safety—whose safety matters?" flaminghydra.com/gadget-works...
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Kodak was deeply involved in the Manhattan Project wat
TODAY: @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social in conversation with Alice Lovejoy, on Kodak's strange and largely unknown foray into the war machine. "This is one of the bigger ironies in the book, a question about safety—whose safety matters?" flaminghydra.com/gadget-works...
Gadget works / Red redemption
David Moore talks Kodak (and war machines) with author Alice Lovejoy; Jack and Ace hit the road
flaminghydra.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Kodak was deeply involved in the Manhattan Project wat
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Today at Flaming Hydra, I interviewed film and media historian @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on her deeply-researched new book uncovering the role played by Kodak—the household brand that popularized the snapshot—and other film manufacturers in industrial warfare.
Kodak, for the Wartimes of Your Life
Kodak, the company that popularized the “snapshot” and made photography accessible to the world, produced much more than the friendly, once-ubiquitous film rolls sold worldwide in their small, vivid y...
flaminghydra.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Today at Flaming Hydra, I interviewed film and media historian @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on her deeply-researched new book uncovering the role played by Kodak—the household brand that popularized the snapshot—and other film manufacturers in industrial warfare.
TODAY: @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social in conversation with Alice Lovejoy, on Kodak's strange and largely unknown foray into the war machine. "This is one of the bigger ironies in the book, a question about safety—whose safety matters?" flaminghydra.com/gadget-works...
Gadget works / Red redemption
David Moore talks Kodak (and war machines) with author Alice Lovejoy; Jack and Ace hit the road
flaminghydra.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
TODAY: @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social in conversation with Alice Lovejoy, on Kodak's strange and largely unknown foray into the war machine. "This is one of the bigger ironies in the book, a question about safety—whose safety matters?" flaminghydra.com/gadget-works...
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What a glorious day to subscribe to @flaminghydra.com and read about trans rights, responsible media, and press freedom! I love this talk.
#yay
#yay
Over at @flaminghydra.com, I have a new interview with @jael.bsky.social about working as a reporter in DC and her band's new song "horseglue" flaminghydra.com/d-c-journali...
D.C. Journalist’s Nightmare Song
Jael Holzman spent seven years as a congressional reporter, breaking important stories about Freedom of Information Act violations, PFAS contamination cover-ups, and conflicts of interest at the highe...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
What a glorious day to subscribe to @flaminghydra.com and read about trans rights, responsible media, and press freedom! I love this talk.
#yay
#yay
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Over at @flaminghydra.com, I have a new interview with @jael.bsky.social about working as a reporter in DC and her band's new song "horseglue" flaminghydra.com/d-c-journali...
D.C. Journalist’s Nightmare Song
Jael Holzman spent seven years as a congressional reporter, breaking important stories about Freedom of Information Act violations, PFAS contamination cover-ups, and conflicts of interest at the highe...
flaminghydra.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Over at @flaminghydra.com, I have a new interview with @jael.bsky.social about working as a reporter in DC and her band's new song "horseglue" flaminghydra.com/d-c-journali...
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I love to support journalists & worker owned outlets directly!
@marisakabas.bsky.social @stevanzetti.bsky.social @404media.co @theflytrapmedia.com @flaminghydra.com
@marisakabas.bsky.social @stevanzetti.bsky.social @404media.co @theflytrapmedia.com @flaminghydra.com
We all have to stop worrying about legacy media and create/fund new sources. It’s not 1998 anymore, the emperor has no clothes.
i love that mamdani also beat the NYT in this election. like a drum.
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I love to support journalists & worker owned outlets directly!
@marisakabas.bsky.social @stevanzetti.bsky.social @404media.co @theflytrapmedia.com @flaminghydra.com
@marisakabas.bsky.social @stevanzetti.bsky.social @404media.co @theflytrapmedia.com @flaminghydra.com
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this episode contains shoutouts to the good people at @flaminghydra.com and @defector.com !
Thank you @zeets.bsky.social for joining the podcast! Fantastic chat on how gambling changed sports journalism, personal narratives in writing about soccer, and moving away from "debate" content online.
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Sports Gambling, Personal Narratives, and Soccer ft. Zito Madu
Podcast Episode · The Study Hall Podcast · 11/05/2025 · 1h
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November 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
this episode contains shoutouts to the good people at @flaminghydra.com and @defector.com !
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p.s. the maestro of headlines dazzles yet again
TODAY: @parkermolloy.com in conversation with @jael.bsky.social, a musician and a senior reporter at Heatmap News. "I do think we need to start boycotting news outlets that take fossil fuel money." flaminghydra.com/issue-435/#d...
Hill bully elegy
Parker Molloy talks media with Jael Holzman of Ekko Astral; a photo album from Flaming Hydra’s first-ever party
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November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
p.s. the maestro of headlines dazzles yet again