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Shirley Wang

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 27/06/2024
Writing is not linearly productive. You can write something no one wants and spend months or years on it; it’s not wasted time. It’s time spent learning how to do things you’ll put into practice elsewhere, so long as you don’t get discouraged and stop.
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Andrew Zahler @andrewzahler.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
Check to make sure you're not around any open gas lines when you click this link, because @tcraggs22.bsky.social drops some fire about the WNBA, Caitlin Clark, and class in this @flaminghydra.com piece: flaminghydra.com/issue-110/
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Classy basketball / Dollars to donuts
Today: Tommy Craggs, late of "Game Theory" on HBO and writer and editor at Mother Jones, HuffPost, Slate, Gawker Media, and Deadspin; and Hamilton Nolan, author of the newsletter How Things Work and t...
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
This has been a fun outlet for me, and I've written some stuff there I'm really happy with. More than that, though, it has been reliably excellent to read every day, with a wide array of posts from a very diverse and talented group of people. I'm biased, but I think it's a steal for the price.
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 15/06/2024
ALSO TODAY: @shirleyw.bsky.social on the sneakily subversive message of London from The Suite Life of Zach and Cody (deep cut!!) flaminghydra.com/dumb-asian-s...
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Dumb Asian Smart Blonde
by Shirley Wang I began rewatching The Suite Life of Zach and Cody again recently, a Disney show I loved as a tween. It’s about mischief-making identical twins who live in the Tipton Hotel in Bosto...
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Patrick Sauer @pjsauer.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
When a former Pitchfork editor stops you in the hallway of your building asking if you saw @flaminghydra today, you know you’ve crossed that elusive nerdy Brooklyn underemployed writer rubicon. Classical Fo-Fo-Fo-evah @csmcgowan.bsky.social
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 06/06/2024
That’s right John Mountain Goats.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
I cannot stress strongly enough how much you need to read this immediately
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 24/05/2024
@katzonearth.bsky.social has the sharpest political sense of anybody, I always learn a lot when we talk, and also he should be running the NYT op ed page BONUS: a crazy Sarah Palin anecdote
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 22/05/2024
People really liked this one and I’m always glad when it pops back up.
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Shirley Wang @shirleyw.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
Came across an article about Disney World by @thielman.bsky.social that helped me better understand why I love the art that I love the-toast.net/2014/11/25/d...
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No Matter How Your Heart Is Grieving: Disney for the Sad -The Toast
A willing foe, and sea room.
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 17/05/2024
Congrats as always to those who made it to the end of the thread, and to me for not forgetting what I was doing mid-task and then jolting up from the couch in horror to finish writing it 20 minutes later. Have a lovely weekend, FH friends.
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Shirley Wang @shirleyw.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
Will today’s @flaminghydra.com newsletter have comics, serious news, podcasts or reviews, diatribes or diaries??? It’s a SURPRISE and there’s only one way to find out → flaminghydra.com/subscribe
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Flaming Hydra
a collective of 60 writers, on fire and hard to kill
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Shirley Wang @shirleyw.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
If you miss the good websites flaminghydra.com
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Flaming Hydra
a collective of 60 writers, on fire and hard to kill
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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 04/05/2024
It reminds me of a bar that always has good bands. You just show up when you can and see something good you wouldn't have been able to find on my own. It's a beautiful thing to feel like you're in community with talented people making wonderful stuff.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
Part of what's been fun about the Flaming Hydra experience is the opportunity to do the sort of work that mainstream publications won't. That includes service journalism like this.
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Shirley Wang @shirleyw.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
Aneurysm much??
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Shirley Wang @shirleyw.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
🤦🏻‍♀️
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 02/05/2024
TODAY: @tomscocca.bsky.social on terrifying "assistance" features: "Support! Not the first word I would have chosen to describe a car that slows down, without consulting the driver, in the crowding on the way to the George Washington Bridge." flaminghydra.com/it-looks-lik...
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It Looks Like You Need Help
by Tom Scocca I was on my way up and out of town, following Google's orders to get to the Palisades Parkway in a rented Toyota Prius, when I hit a little bit of traffic—hardly any traffic, the bare...
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
congratulations to you, Flaming Hydra. I have resisted a number of your headlines but this is the one that makes me a subscriber.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
Kind of shocked to see flaming hydra with less than 2000 followers, are you guys even aware of how much good work these guys are doing? Follow their account, read their stuff, this is the good stuff!
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 30/04/2024
STUDENTS! People who WANT STUDENTS TO BE ABLE TO READ FLAMING HYDRA FOR FREE! Both types of people should click on this link! flaminghydra.com/students/
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Friends of Learning!
THIS IS THE PLACE FOR Are You a Student? Apply for a free student subscription to Flaming Hydra, courtesy of readers and friends of students, writers, Hydras, artists, journalism, enlightenment, an...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/04/2024
Onion updates: @leilza.bsky.social Brillson, Flaming Hydra writer and former exec at the communist app TikTok, is our Chief Marketing Officer. Danielle @strle.bsky.social, Tumblr alum from when Tumblr was the best, is our Chief Product Officer. The chairman of The Onion is overlord Jeff Lawson.
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Jay Bullock, cyclic vomiter @folkbum.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
i have enjoyed a lot of what @flaminghydra.com has published since subscribing but today's essay is the first i've read that i've thought, "I MUST TEACH THIS" sooooo good
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Shirley Wang @shirleyw.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
Really stunning read today from Carrie Frye in @flaminghydra.com , about why a writer w a fat publishing deal would abandon a book flaminghydra.com/r/772fb32f?m...
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Today: Carrie Frye, writer and book editor at Black Cardigan Edit. Issue No. 61 The Journalist and the Other Murderer Carrie Frye The Journalist and the Other Murderer by Carrie Frye In July ...
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Jacob Ford @unitof.com · 22/04/2024
GET YER FEED, GET YOUR PRIVATE RSS FEED! THREE DOLLA THREE DOLLA flaminghydra.com/account
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Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
"NPR is cool!" because of Tiny Desk. NPR is crushing it on TikTok... AND still laying off journalists and canceling shows. What exactly is all this brand awareness good for if it's not keeping the core product of NPR afloat?
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'NPR is cool!' How Tiny Desk Concerts became a pop culture phenomenon
With more than 1,100 tapings, Tiny Desk has drawn heavy comparisons to MTV’s groundbreaking “Unplugged” series of the ’90s.
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 16/04/2024
@davidjroth.bsky.social, on why he helped found flaminghydra.com  studyhall.xyz/free-newslet... “I need to believe that there’s another way that things can be instead of just endless layoffs and retrenchment that you see everywhere else in the industry.”
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Flaming Hydra: An Idiosyncratic Writing Community That’s Built to Last
January of 2024 was a “bloodbath” for the media industry. Hundreds of journalists were laid off, outlets like The Messenger and Vice.com stopped publishing, and others like Pitchfork
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
We're talking Civil War, zombies, Weezer, Oppenheimer, and more on this week's @flaminghydra.com podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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‎Flaming Hydra Round Table: Episode 0007: Episode 7: Zombie no go think, unless you tell am to think (Zombie) on Apple Podcasts
‎Show Flaming Hydra Round Table, Ep Episode 0007: Episode 7: Zombie no go think, unless you tell am to think (Zombie) - Apr 15, 2024
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/04/2024
I have been loving my subscription to @flaminghydra.com, a collective of writers publishing quirky, smart, moving, provocative writing every day. This essay is a great example of one of my favorite genres and so hard to pull off. Pop philosophy. t.co/qjNoeSJaMC
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How Is It So Blue?
by David Moore Yves Klein’s Blue Monochrome (1961) is a painting of about five by six feet, arresting enough to make a high school class on a field trip stand transfixed in front of it and repeat: ...
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Colin McGowan @csmcgowan.bsky.social · 11/04/2024
I'm at Flaming Hydra with a piece about the ways widespread sports betting has warped the games, how it might eventually ruin them altogether, and how little anyone in charge seems to care. flaminghydra.com/the-sports-b...
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The Sports Betting Industry Thinks You're a Loser
by Colin McGowan What will we tolerate in pursuit of the feeling sports provide? We put up with all the advertising: televised games have felt, for quite a while now, as if they take place within t...
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Shirley Wang @shirleyw.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
Who says u gotta watch the entire movie to write a review?? lol @katzonearth.bsky.social
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 07/04/2024
They should relax, because it cannot do either Also yes, I wrote one popula.com/2023/10/22/w...
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
According to the New Yorker newsletter, John McPhee finally experienced his first earthquake today. link.newyorker.com/view/5ee1731...
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Shirley Wang @shirleyw.bsky.social · 04/04/2024
I rly need people to stop trying to “revolutionize” industries (read: fire as many people as possible)
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 03/04/2024
Arwa Mahdawi, a half-Palestinian journalist, writes with grief, generosity and heart about her life right now flaminghydra.com/how-to-be-pr...
A clear empty drinking glass with a few drops of liquor at the bottom, on the surface of a table
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Shirley Wang @shirleyw.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
These past few months have been bleak af, but I’m fighting to stay hopeful www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Future of Media Is Journalist-Run
It has already been a dire year for the industry, but the shoots of a thriving media ecosystem are here.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 30/03/2024
The thing about Bluesky is that the philosophy and tech behind this project is pretty mind-blowing and may well usher in a fundamentally new approach to social media, but the reason most people are on here is because this is where the funny people went
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Shirley Wang @shirleyw.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
It is certainly difficult to talk about, but @hafizah.bsky.social makes a solid case for refusing to vote for Biden in today’s issue of @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-44/
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Shrink the silver screen / Vote by conscience
Today: Osita Nwanevu, a contributing editor at The New Republic and columnist at The Guardian; and Hafizah Augustus Geter, poet, writer, editor, literary agent, and author of The Black Period: On Pers...
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Shirley Wang @shirleyw.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
Lots of unpaywalled pieces in this, a lovely sampling
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 29/03/2024
Propaganda wants to be free Information wants to be paid for For the @thenation.com I wrote about journalist-owned media; exhilarating www.thenation.com/article/soci...
detail of an old press pass reads "Working Press, Radio, TV Pass"
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Tim Chuma @timchuma.com · 28/03/2024
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Due to an editor not getting the point that I had quit after I had stopped answering emails for 3 weeks I posted this to them. It is A3 sized.
Resignation letter
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
For my latest @flaminghydra.com piece, I wrote an essay about surviving the DoorDash Wars: flaminghydra.com/issue-43/
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Shirley Wang @shirleyw.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
@kolatubosun.bsky.social imagines a trip where he visits Nigerian diaspora writers across the US!!
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 26/03/2024
Flaming Hydra WOW Sam Thielman suitably on fire today, extremely satisfying raging against the machine Hop the paywall!! $3/month super CHEAP excellent and convivial place to hang out and read good writing flaminghydra.com
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 26/03/2024
flaminghydra.com/issue-41/
SpongeBob SquarePants interstitial card:
SOME TIME LATERDonald Trump owes the state of New York $466 million. Like anyone else, he had been ordered to post a bond worth the entire amount by Monday, the 25th of March, irrespective of whether he wins back some part of the money on appeal. That day, a panel of five judges reduced the amount of Trump's bond to $175 million, and gave him an extra ten days to pay it. Trump will continue to appeal the judgment, but with less urgency now; New York State Attorney General Letitia James is far less likely to begin unwinding the interlocking businesses around his investments in order to get at the principal, if any, protected by them.
This is not the biggest deal in the world, at least on paper. Trump was never going to end up arguing with the cashier at Key Food over whether his EBT card ought to pay for a Boar's Head rotisserie chicken, no matter how delightful that sounds. He was rich yesterday, he is rich today, he will be rich tomorrow.
Wealth is an inherited condition, like eye color or blood typ
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 25/03/2024
also today! Another installment of Flaming Hydra roundtable, where writers crawl out of their holes and try to be sociable together while talking about our work: pod.link/1734067425
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Flaming Hydra Round Table
Weekly fireside chats with the contributors behind flaminghydra.com
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