Reposted by Laurie WooleverMaria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 18/09/2026Why AI will never be able to write, by Nathan Munn flaminghydra.com/issue-650 35721
Reposted by Laurie WooleverMaria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 18/09/2026One of the best ever posts on @flaminghydra.com, a sky-high bar. 03113
Reposted by Laurie WooleverMaria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 15/09/2026Read @flaminghydra.com because it's good, and also because there is zero AI in it. There's no ads, so no AI ads. Our newsletter is made by human writers, artists and editors. Subscriptions start at $3/month flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/subscribeflaminghydra.comFlaming Hydrajournalist owned and operated 0215
Reposted by Laurie WooleverFlaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 09/09/2026ALSO TODAY: @lauriewoolever.bsky.social in conversation with Claire Stapleton on her new book "Don't Be Evil," about her time at Google, "a state power that runs the world.” "Obviously, power and unlimited resources are part and parcel of this rotted system." flaminghydra.com/be-good-inst...flaminghydra.comBe Good Instead“Don’t Be Evil” was the company motto at Google LLC until 2018; the phrase was even included in the prospectus for the company’s 2004 IPO filing. It is also the title of former Google employee Claire ... 05310
Reposted by Laurie WooleverStarbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 07/09/2026From Louisville to LA to Philly to Denver, Starbucks workers are turning up across the country for Labor Day! Our message is simple: it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer, and in support of workers. BOYCOTT STARBUCKS. 012054
Reposted by Laurie WooleverUncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 04/09/2026they’ll figure it out if they get hungry enough 8983862025
Reposted by Laurie WooleverElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Can't get numb to this: it's frightening how Trump et al have normalized lawless behavior by govt officials. US govt cruelty to immigrants is not remotely new, but people like Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, moved the Overton window on accepting scandalous outrages. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...nytimes.comDeportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICETen deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties. 11362168
Reposted by Laurie WooleverFlaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 26/08/2026TODAY: @littlewow.online in conversation with labor lawyer and union organizer Jeremy Bernick on U.S. Wikipedia workers' union drive. "What we’re asking for ... are basic social and political rights that our own employees in other countries are already entitled to." flaminghydra.com/wiki-workers...flaminghydra.comWiki Workers of the World UniteThe Wikimedia Foundation’s annual Wikimania conference in Paris drew nearly 5,250 participants this year, in person and online. It’s the Foundation’s 25th anniversary, and the conference’s organizers ... 05325
Reposted by Laurie WooleverSung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Maybe humanoid robots need the equivalent of a sports car’s 0 to 100 to 0 benchmark: accelerate, reach peak speed, and come to a controlled stop. 712715
Reposted by Laurie WooleverRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE 343148233449
Reposted by Laurie WooleverRobert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right 1100286126347
Reposted by Laurie WooleverSpiteful Matt @realmfresh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Tech Company: We have this new feature for our product that sprays diarrhea on all our customers. Customers: No that sounds terrible, and we all think it sucks. Tech Company: We will force the diarrhea spray on them unless they go into the settings to turn it off. God we're so smart 601642315
Reposted by Laurie WooleverThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026This is how you know we need a wealth tax 1299198766616
Reposted by Laurie WooleverMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/08/2026One America, where people are smart enough to know you don't form plurals with apostrophes. Another America, where people are stupid enough to use apostrophes to form plurals. 1321137272705
Reposted by Laurie Woolevers. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 04/08/2026I did NOT realize that many supermarket sushi counters are actually run as franchises within stores, & that the working conditions are horrendously abusive. Journalism like this surfacing these issues is so important, so if you like this, please donate to @prismreports.org so they can keep doing it!prismreports.orgThe hidden cost of America's supermarket sushi boomMyanmar refugees face exploitative working conditions as the backbone of the grocery store sushi industry, according to a lawsuit 15719
Reposted by Laurie WooleverFlaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 04/08/2026ALSO TODAY: @lauriewoolever.bsky.social on RFK Jr.'s stupid cooking show. "When he is not making inane claims like 'The government was lying to us for 70 years and saying that protein causes heart attacks,' Kennedy stands there looking like a wet and sleepy raisin." flaminghydra.com/open-your-mo...flaminghydra.comOpen Your Mouth, Await the HarvestThis Absolute Fucking Shitwhistle Has A Cooking Show 67018
Reposted by Laurie WooleverMaria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 02/08/2026The Republican party leader and U.S. president is a crook and a rapist and Republicans in Congress, who can remove him from power, are not taking even one step to do so 03012
Reposted by Laurie Wooleverrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 31/07/2026i wrote about my favorite odyssey adaptation, o brother where art thou (2000) 1752278
Laurie Woolever @lauriewoolever.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I’d pay $3 *per paragraph* for a piece like this. Subscribe to Flaming Hydra - $3 per MONTH! 0162
Reposted by Laurie WooleverNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 18/07/2026journalists, especially cultural, do not need to contend with AI. It's a machine fed and wielded by billionaires and fascists that is destroying every little corner of the world, and to treat it as a fun toy some people have learned how to drive is advertising for capital interests. Have some class. 114829
Reposted by Laurie WooleverFlaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 17/07/2026TODAY: @lauriewoolever.bsky.social on the book "How To Stop Time," an account of heroin addiction that "could not be farther from the histrionic and self-aggrandizing nostalgie de la boue typical of celebrated 20th-century addiction memoirs." flaminghydra.com/r/edb41ae6?m...flaminghydra.comSpeak, memoryLaurie Woolever on living in the past 1269
Reposted by Laurie WooleverMaria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 17/07/2026Replace Bari Weiss with Jorts 1475
Reposted by Laurie WooleverProgramme 4 @programme4.tv · 01/09/2025Programme 4 is brought to you in part by Ramon’s Venetian Room on Rte. 9 138924
Reposted by Laurie Woolevergamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026you’ve hardly touched jean stapleton’s nut fingers 1624751
Reposted by Laurie WooleverMaria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 09/07/2026If you've been meaning to subscribe to @flaminghydra.com, do it now and read @samthielman.com on creeping fascist discourse; impeccable, sanity-restoring. flaminghydra.com/issue-602/flaminghydra.comAdvance compliance / Prank callsSam Thielman on cozying up to villains; Miles Klee, scam connoisseur 053
Reposted by Laurie WooleverFlaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 30/06/2026TODAY: @g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social on a time of mourning. "We were greeted by a jovial worker from the funeral home. He showed us different people, different bodies, and turned it into a kind of guessing game: was this him or not?" flaminghydra.com/issue-597/#m...flaminghydra.comEnd game / Lovers leapA delicate reminiscence from Grzegorz Kwiatkowski, and jj skolnik on reality (blurring) TV 1196
Reposted by Laurie WooleverElon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I wrote about how the vice president of the United States waded into the personal affairs of a friend who may, or may not, be Rod Dreher. Please share & subscribe! [reposted] 414641
Reposted by Laurie WooleverMaria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 24/06/2026This is so good. It would be so good even if it didn't have a most remarkable photo at the end. But it does. flaminghydra.com/issue-592/flaminghydra.comBut I like itAnna Merlan’s days as a record store clerk 43010
Reposted by Laurie WooleverMaria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 23/06/2026Holy mackerel this is insane. LLMs have a strong bias toward *their own* 'writing' to real writing in sorting tasks. iow human submissions automatically drop to the bottom in LLM sorting tasks. Resumes examined here with jaw-dropping results arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00462 411546
Laurie Woolever @lauriewoolever.bsky.social · 29/05/2026In case you missed it, I wrote for FLAMING HYDRA about Bourdain fan culture, Summer House and the Mets: flaminghydra.com/like-a-fist-...flaminghydra.comLike a Fist Around Your HeartBecause I worked with Anthony Bourdain for a number of years, and wrote Bourdain, an oral biography, after his death, people often share their memories and ideas about Tony with me. Without asking for... 5404
Reposted by Laurie WooleverSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...time.comThe Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day StartedHistorians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865 184126945869
Reposted by Laurie WooleverCovie @covie93.bsky.social · 19/05/2026No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol. 540182616645
Reposted by Laurie WooleverMaria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 15/05/2026Flaming Hydra posts at Bluesky only, because it offers healthy options for human journalists and readers: no-algorithm, follow-only feeds, plus Galactic Block. We can't be hijacked or smothered here. Bluesky is great for @flaminghydra.com and independent journalism flaminghydra.comflaminghydra.comFlaming Hydrajournalist owned and operated 212828
Laurie Woolever @lauriewoolever.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Come to West Cork with me, let’s cosplay White Lotus and Yaddo open.substack.com/pub/lauriewo...open.substack.comLet's Go to Ireland TogetherI promise it will be worth it 020
Reposted by Laurie WooleverFlaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 06/05/2026ALSO TODAY: @lauriewoolever.bsky.social on a somewhat disquieting hat about her old, dearly departed, greatly mourned boss. "Casual fandom is the long tail that helps keep the memory alive." flaminghydra.com/like-a-fist-...flaminghydra.comLike a Fist Around Your HeartBecause I worked with Anthony Bourdain for a number of years, and wrote Bourdain, an oral biography, after his death, people often share their memories and ideas about Tony with me. Without asking for... 2213
Reposted by Laurie WooleverFlaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 10/04/2026TODAY: @lauriewoolever.bsky.social on book tour in Australia. "Older, wiser, sober, and no longer obligated to an airline sponsor requiring me to take such a horrible route, I was determined this time to arrive in top form." flaminghydra.com/r/0b80b9fc?m...flaminghydra.comAuthor’s note / Fish taleLaurie Woolever visits the Land Down Under; new short fiction from Luke O’Neil 1113
Reposted by Laurie WooleverMaria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 11/03/2026Today @lauriewoolever.bsky.social reflects on a recent visit to the Oneida Community Mansion House museum; Oneida was yet another in a long line of social experiments torqued to fit the needs of one man's sexual appetites. Very fine essay 'Free Love, Yeah Right' flaminghydra.com/issue-519/flaminghydra.comCult classic / Mad scientistsLaurie Woolever visits the Oneida Community; Misha Angrist on the war on science 182
Reposted by Laurie WooleverNewcastle Writers Festival @newwritersfest.bsky.social · 15/02/2026From working with a British Formula 1 racing team to the intense heat of New York kitchens and creating award-winning croissants, Kate Reid and @lauriewoolever.bsky.social have been shaped by ambition and a hunger for meaning. They will speak to Kate Evans at #NWF2026 🎟️ bit.ly/4rfO4ul 031
Reposted by Laurie WooleverNewcastle Writers Festival @newwritersfest.bsky.social · 24/02/2026New York cook, food writer, & personal assistant to the late chef Anthony Bourdain, @lauriewoolever.bsky.social, joins festival director Rosemarie Milsom for a candid conversation about finding her voice. 🎟️ www.newcastlewritersfestival.org.au/events/care-and-feeding-laurie-woolever-in-conversation/ 032
Reposted by Laurie WooleverJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing) 1542225836059
Reposted by Laurie WooleverToussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 09/01/2026I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious." 1190952737
Reposted by Laurie Woolever404 Media @404media.co · 07/01/2026At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.404media.coDHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a WomanAt least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. 4532601113
Reposted by Laurie WooleverGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 03/01/2026From peoplesforumnyc on Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DTClPsBDg6J/ 2523202
Laurie Woolever @lauriewoolever.bsky.social · 01/01/2026You can jump into this Rob Schneider Roast thread anywhere and find much to sustain you 182
