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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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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
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In celebration of our one hundredth issue, we have also gotten our first DM from a robot lady!!! honored!! swooning!!
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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.
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The first time we have been asked this question on Twitter, but certainly not the last!
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A new, better media system is possible: radical reimaginings from Flaming Hydra's @mariabustillos.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The politics of goblins who are, frankly, sick of your shit. By Tom Scocca. flaminghydra.com/iss...
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What we are listening to as the world is ending, according to Luke O'Neil. flaminghydra.com/iss...
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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...
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Diana Moskovitz makes the case for trusting the government, but only for the weather: flaminghydra.com/iss...
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The inner workings of an editorial artist, by Jim Cooke. flaminghydra.com/iss...
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Harry Siegel looks back on how computers are never going to be good at doing your homework. flaminghydra.com/iss...
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Kim Kelly (@kimkelly.bsky.social) is here to give you the newest in metal with Riff Wrecks Vol 2. flaminghydra.com/iss...@kimkelly.bsky.social) is here to give you the newest in metal with Riff Wrecks Vol 2. flaminghydra.com/iss...
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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...
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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!"
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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) flaminghydra.com/iss...@tomscocca.bsky.social) flaminghydra.com/iss...
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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...
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Jim Cooke opens up his sketchbook to show his thought process—and how an editorial concept goes from a brain to a page. flaminghydra.com/iss...
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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...
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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...
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This world is filled with Iagos, by Maria Bustillos. flaminghydra.com/iss...
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How movies are becoming like vending machines. Single-serve, packaged, on demand. By Sam Thielman. flaminghydra.com/iss...
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What if the only real thing left is Wikipedia? God, that's depressing. By Joe MacLeod flaminghydra.com/iss...
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A radically timely talk with Black feminist scholar, lecturer, writer, activist, publisher, and organizer *whew!* Barbara Smith, from k.e. harloe: flaminghydra.com/iss...
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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.
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[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) flaminghydra.com/iss...@joemacleod666.bsky.social) flaminghydra.com/iss...
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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...
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Why is Shirley Jackson suddenly more relevant than ever? In a piece of comics journalism, Carrie Frye depicts her timeliness: flaminghydra.com/iss...
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Every single one of us knows this guy. This guy sucks. story by John Saward (@rbuas.bsky.social)
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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...