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“Against all odds and against my better musical judgment, I’d listened to what Pink Floyd had to say and heard something I could use.” This beautiful piece by @josie.zone explores how art can help exorcise the lonely feelings that lead to fascism in a person

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Amazing piece. Gave me a whole new way to listen to The Wall, and a brand new way to internalize it after 30 years of listening to it. Beautifully and honestly written.

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Feeling targeted by this (it’s very good)

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Worth the read

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"Harvard isn’t solely to blame for Elise and Vivek going full fash, but...the Ivy League is a fertile environment for casually cruel 'maverick' ideas. Professors suggest top-down social engineering or justify the worst human tendencies... THEY couldn’t get into Harvard, after all." #pinkfloydthewall

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Terrific piece from @josie.zone in @flaminghydra.com that connects a lot of ugly dots 💥

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If you’re gonna read one thing today, idk yall, this seems worth it to be it.

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TODAY: @josie.zone finds love of Pink Floyd in a hopeless place. “Ugly as it is, the fascist portion of the album presents a profound way to deal with self-loathing.” flaminghydra.com/issue-265/

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A personal essay that will get me in trouble, but it's worth it:

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Jaw-dropping Hydra today by @josie.zone Meritocracy, 'elites', why Elise Stefanik, V. Ramaswamy et al. went fash, Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' Free to read because hell yes but after that promise to subscribe to @flaminghydra.com to keep such work as this alive, thriving flaminghydra.com/issue-265/

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Because it's ad-free and investor-free, @flaminghydra.com grows slowly, by design. The more subscribers and donations we have, the better and stronger we get. It helps a ton to share our work, send it to your friends, talk about it here on Bluesky! and subscribe: flaminghydra.com/subscribe

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New short story up at @flaminghydra.com today. flaminghydra.com/issue-264/

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a beautiful Hydra today

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TODAY: @lukeoneil47.bsky.social on counseling a friend through a hard time. “I was trying to solve it for him like a 1,000 piece puzzle I wasn’t even at the table doing. Shouting out instructions blindly from the other room.” flaminghydra.com/issue-264/?a...

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Interesting critique of revenge movies, using Rebel Ridge, (by Jeremy Saulnier released on Netflix), as an example of how to do it. By Miles Klee. You might have to pay $3 for a 1-month sub to FlamingHydra, but it's worth it if you're a budding screenwriter flaminghydra.com/revenge-revi...

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Hello, if you have got $60K to help protect independent journalism, please send it over to @flaminghydra so we can hire a real actual creative director. You can donate via our 501(c)3 colleagues at the Participatory Politics Foundation! also! Contact [email protected] for details, thank you

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I’m not deranged. They’re deranged.

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Oh that? That's just the most recent addition to my collection of objects that are impossible to explain to people who aren't the right kind of online, courtesy of @davidjroth.bsky.social and @flaminghydra.com

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This was funny in the way good people being driven mad by cruel mindless stupidly find humor in the absurd.

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"His dad is nowhere to be seen but the entire cabinet and a five-ninths majority of the Supreme Court are out there in the shade of the rotten magnolia that Andrew Jackson planted with his own bloodstained hands." - @benehrenreich.bsky.social flaminghydra.com/issue-263/#y...

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TODAY: @benehrenreich.bsky.social embarks on a quick fever dream across the White House lawn. "Elon has appeared. He’s doing a little striptease that no one ever asked for." flaminghydra.com/r/d3d0d5bc?m...

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TODAY: a poem with Carrie Frye! flaminghydra.com/r/fb29480a?m...

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I love black cats and I loved this poem <3

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I adore everything Carrie Frye writes: flaminghydra.com/issue-262/#a... (h/t to those who remember Tingle Alley in its heyday!)

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TODAY: a poem with Carrie Frye! flaminghydra.com/r/fb29480a?m...

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Buy. Paper. Books. (and download ownable ebooks onto your own devices) New from me at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-261/

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I wrote at @flaminghydra.com today about the disappearance of privacy in your own house and some ideas on how to heal from that flaminghydra.com/issue-261/

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I love @lauriewoolever.bsky.social whether musing, raging, or cooking (eggs, in this case)

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Subscribe to @flaminghydra.com and you too can get a one-of-a-kind, family heirloom-type baseball card signed by @davidjroth.bsky.social

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I'm not just reposting this because it's great writing from @mariabustillos.bsky.social, but also as a reminder to watch "the conversation," one of my favorite movies of all time

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Endlessly reposting @flaminghydra.com, where the Good Shit lives. ⚡️

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New in @flaminghydra.com: the tech "geniuses" of Silicon Valley are obsessed with a hypothetical about AI, a nuclear warhead, and uttering an offensive word to save millions of lives. The scenario reveals just how stupid the culture wars have made them:

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TODAY: @mariabustillos.bsky.social considers the ways that surveillance capitalism is literally stealing from you. "Worst of all, maybe, it emerges more and more that you never owned the media you thought you’d 'bought' in the first place." flaminghydra.com/r/f3643502?m...

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At @flaminghydra.com, @milesklee.bsky.social is the bomb dot com on the broligarchs, and @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social with a tale of Jah and Caesar flaminghydra.com/issue-260/

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