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For @flaminghydra.com wrote about the phenomenon of experiencing places digitally through exile or other impediments to travel due to political reasons flaminghydra.com/listening-fr...

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Looky! Here's a whole new batch of FREE SAMPLE PIECES out from behind the paywall at FLAMING HYDRA, as recommended by our readers and subscribers! flaminghydra.com/issue-322/

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I've read and re-read this beautiful essay by John Saward again and again since it first landed in my inbox. Last week, I begged the nice folks at @flaminghydra.com to release it from behind the paywall. And they did! Whether you are from Chicago or have never been, I hope you enjoy.

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My first piece for @flaminghydra.com was about how it feels to be Canadian while under threat of annexation from America. It's sad that we even have to say it, but we'll stand up to any fascist prick who comes our way. #canada #truenorth #never51 flaminghydra.com/at-the-edge-...

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Thank you so much to the @flaminghydra.com reader who asked that my disgusting short story “One Small Step” be made more widely available. It is now at the link below to upset your friends and revolt your family members:

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"A lot of the regulars at a bar I like to go to are Hongkongers who came to Taiwan after the 2019 protests—effectively, people in exile. There are always videos of simply strolling around Hong Kong playing on a projector, offering patrons a way to experience places now forbidden to them."

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FUN NEWS!! A wonderful reader responded to the @flaminghydra.com reader poll requesting that my pieces "At the Edge of Empire" and "Health Care You Can Trust" be made FREE for all to read! Shout out to all the Hydras and you can read my very Canadian stories here: flaminghydra.com/contributor/...

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TODAY: @brianhioe.bsky.social on listening to the Chinese music underground from afar. “Still, there’s something special about watching programs from China or Hong Kong—namely, that I can’t go there.” flaminghydra.com/r/5b7e5591?m...

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We need people-to-people journalism. Worker owned, subscriber supported, no investors or ads, we saw this coming and that is why we started @flaminghydra.com Free samples no paywall: flaminghydra.com/free Subcribe: flaminghydra.com/subscribe

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Due to the complicated lives of artists, or however the New Yorker would put it, we may not have a new piece today. Great time to catch up on our very good week of blogs! Until next week, friends!

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TODAY: why don’t you take a cute little poll and decide which of our blogs should be made free and unpaywalled! Why wouldn’t you! flaminghydra.com/choose-your-...

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For @flaminghydra.com subscribers we have a fun POLL today. Voting that is NOT horrible, choose your favorite blogs to make free for all to read!! flaminghydra.com/choose-your-...

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TODAY: why don’t you take a cute little poll and decide which of our blogs should be made free and unpaywalled! Why wouldn’t you! flaminghydra.com/choose-your-...

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Now the colors and the fun can begin because @emilyflake.bsky.social has ARRIVED ON HERE she is also in @flaminghydra.com with a wonderful comic about Pollinator Gardens WOW flaminghydra.com/birds-and-be...

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It’s me, your favorite chaos gardener with a new comic up on @flaminghydra.com !

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A high-profile Nigerian senator is challenging her boss (and the patriarchy) in a brave, powerful, public way. @jidesalawu.bsky.social with an absorbing account of the embroglio surrounding Senator Natasha H. Akpoti-Uduaghan flaminghydra.com/birds-and-be...

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Got the book! Thanks Carrie Frye and the folks at @flaminghydra.com!

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FLAMING HYDRA! A new COMIC from Emily Flake @emilyflake.bsky.social: Pollinator Gardens Explained flaminghydra.com/pollinator-g...

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TODAY: @emilyflake.bsky.social with an illustrated visit to a pollinator garden flaminghydra.com/r/6f639330?m...

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Was such a pleasure to edit Osita again. Great piece on why writing is not enough, and also why writing will never die.

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@ositanwanevu.com talking about harnessing media power mentions 'To Be Born Free', Orson Welles's powerful, beautiful and deeply relevant 1940s radio broadcast. 'There is only one thing to be done with slaves. Free them.' flaminghydra.com/issue-319/#p...

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Automatic for the People, by Nathan Munn @nmunn.bsky.social: "The deeper you get into the machinery of internet marketing, the fewer traces of human beings can be found." READ MORE at FLAMING HYDRA! flaminghydra.com/automatic-fo...

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Seizing the megaphone with Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com; Nathan Munn @nmunn.bsky.social reveals the monster in the machine. READ at FLAMING HYDRA! flaminghydra.com/issue-319/

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"To become a dog person is to become a synesthete. What began for me as a strange and suspect source of hair everywhere and swamp breath and stuffed-lizard obsession eventually became an essential nutrient overflowing with warmth and light and color and melody." flaminghydra.com/my-life-in-d...

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One photo, easy reminder of what’s being taken from us. Via flaminghydra.com/r/5925093c?m... flaminghydra.com/content/imag...

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We really need a humanist movement, placing humans - all humans, not just our self-appointed tech overlords - at the top of the decision-making matrices. Before these antisocial dorks kill us all, he sort of joked! flaminghydra.com/automatic-fo...

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Big thanks to @methsaxon.bsky.social and @mariabustillos.com for their fine and thoughtful editing of this piece!

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Back to back supreme bangers at flaminghydra dot com this day. 🔥 🐉 (they do this, right?)

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Both of these pieces are excellent, and the @nmunn.bsky.social essay on the dystopian march of soulless data-driven consumerist tech fascism synthesizes and articulates my ongoing anxieties better than I ever could hope to do.

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A lovely, poignant essay from @ositanwanevu.com contemplating the mediums through which we send and receive messages, and why writing will always be it's own special thing.

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The dead-eyed fascism fueling #Project2025 and similar garbage movements reflects Big Tech's dehumanizing quest to render human beings into data sets to be analyzed, exploited, and discarded. My latest for @flaminghydra.com (paywall, please subscribe for $3/month!) flaminghydra.com/automatic-fo...

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TODAY: @ositanwanevu.com on Hasan Piker and how we move the needle in this day and age. “Writing, for me, is a means to the possibly delusional end of effecting a measure of change in this country.” flaminghydra.com/r/769fa71c?m...

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Flaming Hydra Round Table PODCAST! Episode 9: CANADA ELECTIONSPLAINER with @nmunn.bsky.social and @zachrabiroff.com! flaminghydra.com/podcast-round-table-episode-9-canadasplainer/

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"To become a dog person is to become a synesthete. What began for me as a strange and suspect source of hair everywhere and swamp breath and stuffed-lizard obsession eventually became an essential nutrient overflowing with warmth and light and color and melody." flaminghydra.com/issue-318/#m...

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On the Flaming Hydra! @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on SINNERS. Spoilers! GO see it! flaminghydra.com/pick-poor-ro...

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Mindbending, hilarious high and low tour of the exciting things @lauriewoolever.bsky.social ate on book tour. flaminghydra.com/issue-318/

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How in time Misha Angrist became a Dog Person I am a cat person mostly and found this story so lovely and affecting flaminghydra.com/issue-318/#m... file:///C:/innocencia/personal/dl/Django%20May%202008.jpeg

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hometown, i really need you guys to start showing out properly for events, because there should be no reason for this to be our entry in a food tour diary!!!

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Canadian public healthcare is both amazing and flawed. Read about destroyed femurs, cancer scares, and reasonable cafeteria prices in my essay for @flaminghydra.com ! Also, please subscribe. flaminghydra.com/health-care-...

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TODAY: @lauriewoolever.bsky.social goes on book tour, and eats delightfully throughout. "Now, the city is forever linked in my mind with the astounding bowl of tomatoes and cheese that I ate at a restaurant called Ten Foot Henry." flaminghydra.com/r/5925093c?m...

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Paywalls should be enticing and motivating. But most publishers ignore this critical moment, using a platform default. Not @flaminghydra.com! They're experimenting. Their paywall a showstopper! Today's newsletter features best AND worst paywalls journalistspaythemselves.com/p/best-and-w...

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This is so good. @flaminghydra.com consistently bringing the best work out there.

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