A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem.
$3/month
https://flaminghydra.com
Flaming Hydra
Loading...
This might be the universe's sign that it's time, at last, for a re-read (I haven't done one since I was about 13 so there will be many that aren't re at all, he published a fair bit after 1995 right??)
ALSO TODAY: @lauriewoolever.bsky.social with a goop(not that one) recipe and some thoughts on imperfection, via chef and cookbook author Greg Baxtrom. “As much as I like being a chef, I’ve also become good at problem solving. I know what to do if a toilet breaks.” flaminghydra.com/chips-and-go...
TODAY: @supremenothing.myatproto.social on meditation grifters. “Quacks and mountebanks have been a consistent feature of life in the U.S. for roughly as long as it’s existed, and they are currently experiencing one of their cyclical renaissances.” flaminghydra.com/meditating-o...
Just had the good fortune to read this in today’s @flaminghydra.com.
Fantastic piece of writing, indicting the whole shitty system and the wellness grifters grifting off the carcasses left behind by the private equity grifters too.
Wrote about the little thrill of getting the job done flaminghydra.com/men-at-work/
💙📚
fun and true, about both literature and politics
"ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE DO NOT EXIST, THEN THERE IS NOTHING BUT BLIND OBLIVION."
I haven't read every Discord book yet, but every single one has left a lasting impression so far. They're all so deeply human.
Louie Stowell
wrote about meditation and psychedelic therapy helping me (in addition to therapy and psych meds) despite my deep mistrust of Wellness
If you are interested in a positive vision of masculinity in U.S. culture always read @rbuas.bsky.social, at @flaminghydra.com today on accomplishing difficult tasks
flaminghydra.com/men-at-work/
Flaming Hydra
Flaming Hydra
FReadom Fighter
TheGins
I have meditated every single day for 400 days today, according to my tracker app. I took up the practice after a traumatic incident threw me out of balance; I needed very badly to self-regulate, and ...
About once a month when I was a kid, we’d all get in the car on a Sunday morning, having attended Mass the evening before, and drive an hour to visit my grandparents in Herkimer, New York. My grandmot...
The first weekend after we moved into our apartment I rented a U-Haul to pick up some furniture way out in the suburbs. This was about four years ago now. We’d been eating all our meals sitting on the...
The first weekend after we moved into our apartment I rented a U-Haul to pick up some furniture way out in the suburbs. This was about four years ago now. We’d been eating all our meals sitting on the...
flaminghydra.com
TODAY: @ilanaslightly.bsky.social on the worlds and politics of Terry Pratchett, who was, by the way, "passionately anti-authoritarian, and a humanist, whose values shine through every book." flaminghydra.com/i-too-am-beg...
wrote about meditation and psychedelic therapy helping me (in addition to therapy and psych meds) despite my deep mistrust of Wellness
TODAY: @ilanaslightly.bsky.social on the worlds and politics of Terry Pratchett, who was, by the way, "passionately anti-authoritarian, and a humanist, whose values shine through every book." flaminghydra.com/i-too-am-beg...
TODAY: @ilanaslightly.bsky.social on the worlds and politics of Terry Pratchett, who was, by the way, "passionately anti-authoritarian, and a humanist, whose values shine through every book." flaminghydra.com/i-too-am-beg...
TODAY: @ilanaslightly.bsky.social on the worlds and politics of Terry Pratchett, who was, by the way, "passionately anti-authoritarian, and a humanist, whose values shine through every book." flaminghydra.com/i-too-am-beg...
TODAY: @supremenothing.myatproto.social on meditation grifters. “Quacks and mountebanks have been a consistent feature of life in the U.S. for roughly as long as it’s existed, and they are currently experiencing one of their cyclical renaissances.” flaminghydra.com/meditating-o...
Ankh-Morpork, the beautifully chaotic city-state where many of the late Terry Pratchett’s beloved Discworld novels take place, has a beggars’ guild. It’s basically a protection racket: if you don’t wa...
Ankh-Morpork, the beautifully chaotic city-state where many of the late Terry Pratchett’s beloved Discworld novels take place, has a beggars’ guild. It’s basically a protection racket: if you don’t wa...
Ankh-Morpork, the beautifully chaotic city-state where many of the late Terry Pratchett’s beloved Discworld novels take place, has a beggars’ guild. It’s basically a protection racket: if you don’t wa...
Ankh-Morpork, the beautifully chaotic city-state where many of the late Terry Pratchett’s beloved Discworld novels take place, has a beggars’ guild. It’s basically a protection racket: if you don’t wa...
I have meditated every single day for 400 days today, according to my tracker app. I took up the practice after a traumatic incident threw me out of balance; I needed very badly to self-regulate, and ...
TODAY: @supremenothing.myatproto.social on meditation grifters. “Quacks and mountebanks have been a consistent feature of life in the U.S. for roughly as long as it’s existed, and they are currently experiencing one of their cyclical renaissances.” flaminghydra.com/meditating-o...
I have meditated every single day for 400 days today, according to my tracker app. I took up the practice after a traumatic incident threw me out of balance; I needed very badly to self-regulate, and ...
