TODAY: join us in defending the Internet Archive and protecting libraries!! An important appellate hearing is happening this morning, which you can read all about at the link below. And if you’re in New York and you spot our wheatpaste, please snap a photo and share. www.battleforlibraries.com
If you are one of the impassioned readers who have commented on our unique black screen/white text format, i.e. you absolutely fucking hate it and it hurts your eyes, fear not! There's a way to make it display differently in Chrome.
Libraries are punk as hell. Matt Yglesias disagrees, so Osita Nwanevu put him in his place. (@ositanwanevu.bsky.social) flaminghydra.com/iss...@ositanwanevu.bsky.social) flaminghydra.com/iss...
Kim Kelly (@kimkelly.bsky.social) is here to give you the newest in metal with Riff Wrecks Vol 2.
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The world burns, and music plays. Music plays and the world burns. Here are the songs that soundtrack our destruction. By Luke O'Neil. (@lukeoneil47.bsky.social) flaminghydra.com/iss...@lukeoneil47.bsky.social) flaminghydra.com/iss...
Show us your mug! (Real mug, not your face. Tho you can show us that too)
From Hydra Julianne Escobedo Shepherd (@jawnita.bsky.social):
"FUN FACT: I got this mug for free from the New York Public Library when I got to interview fellow Hydra/my writing idol Myriam Gurba there, about her book Creep!"
ATTN: BLUESKY
IT IS TIME FOR US TO LISTEN TO THE GOBLINS. LET'S LET THE GOBLINS SPEAK, FOR ONCE.
(By Tom Scocca, @tomscocca.bsky.social)
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Harry Siegel thinks about how AI was imagined in a 1950's children's book—and the ways it failed then are the ways that it may fail now. flaminghydra.com/iss...
Bad news for Los Angeles: Your best friend is about to the National Weather Service. Honestly. By Defector's Diana Moskovitz (@dianamoskovitz.bsky.social) flaminghydra.com/iss...@dianamoskovitz.bsky.social) flaminghydra.com/iss...
Anna Merlan went on a trip to Israel, paid for by Israel, as promotion for Israel. She reflects on the new meaning of Birthright. flaminghydra.com/iss...
A radically timely talk with Black feminist scholar, lecturer, writer, activist, publisher, and organizer *whew!* Barbara Smith, from k.e. harloe: flaminghydra.com/iss...
Today's Hydra,@joemacleod666.bsky.social, is hosting an OSCAR MANIA THAT IS FREE. If you are in Baltimore, it is technically illegal for you not to go.
[sees a bunch of writers making perpetual stew] No need to hog the soup, boy! Mightn't I have a sip??
By Joe MacLeod (@joemacleod666.bsky.social)
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IP is no longer a meal but a vending machine, slipped out of its pre-made packaging and delivered straight to the consumer, bland and tasteless. Sam Thielman (@[email protected]) breaks down one of the biggest conspiracies of the Information Age: flaminghydra.com/iss...
Jennie Rose Halperin (@littlewow.bsky.social) decided to fulfill her dying mother's wish to get married. Except, it didn't go exactly as planned. flaminghydra.com/iss...@littlewow.bsky.social) decided to fulfill her dying mother's wish to get married. Except, it didn't go exactly as planned. flaminghydra.com/iss...