Black Celebration, White Agitation What a truly bizarre Black History Month.

After *three* years, I decided to pick my pen back up and discuss “the BAFTA incident” at length.

And now we are two Celebrating Flaming Hydra’s second birthday

TODAY: celebrate our second birthday with us with some free selections from the archive! 🎈🎂 www.google.com/url?q=https:...

Do not let your outrage and your learning stop with ICE. Develop an understanding of the connections between federal repression and local policing, between repressive bureaucracies at home and abroad, between the actors who profit on it in 50 languages, etc.

And I fucking hate the caveats especially "NO CRIMINAL RECORD."

People who have criminal records ALSO deserve dignity. OK.

@clarkishakent.blacksky.app do you have venmo?

the Montana State Bobcat mascot, who I’m pretty sure saw me and thought “dang what a cool guy”

he sees you when you’re sleeping
he knows when you’re awake
he’s an anthro po morphic bobcat
and he wants to eat your steak

Tokyo record bar!

Curious to know, which Kiš book?

The evidence of things not seen

Update: Uggi has bitten another book to add to the giveaway! We are going to see if he feels up to biting a couple more later today.

Had this debate this week

@jaywillis.net I’m in the same ritual. do I start jj mccarthy or baker?

I mean

another day, another reminder of the illegitimacy of the supreme court

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

Zohran and Rama smiling at each other in a gymnasium.

A wide shot of the gym with voting booths.

Zohran holding a ballot and smiling.

On this beautiful morning in Astoria, I cast my ballot for our city and our future.

I hope you will too.

AI Will Never Be Your Friend The Friend necklace promises constant companionship and understanding. But this isn’t friendship—it’s a soulless, cynical way to prey on our loneliness and fear.

Guess who is back to writing? I wrote about people defacing the friend companion ads, and the cycle of tech vultures destroying our world and then feeding on the consequential loneliness and pain www.thenation.com/article/soci...

A stack of five books

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@flaminghydra.com nooo, missed the deadline. Late submission:
Inside Time Means Kids Enjoying Nintendo.

A german shepherd dog sitting in a living room and Hildur Knutsdottir’s book The Night Guest in the foreground

Weekend reads 10/10 @hildur.bsky.social

Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are In on the Joke What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.

At a comedy show, Mahmoud Khalil told Zohran Mamdani, “I am excited about the possibility of raising my son in a city where you are mayor.” It was a stunning moment, Hanif Abdurraqib writes.

“Defund the police” was in fact a great slogan.

Joy in the dark is a candle. I don’t feel good about our country, and I don’t wish I our country well.

I wrote about the bowl and about how joy in a dark time is a candle that must be protected.

Interesting to watch this man be presented as a puzzle and as someone deranged because of the act of killing, which when done on an individual basis is seen as monstrous, but no one can pretend that killing is so rare to be so, or that it’s viewed as monstrous when it’s formalized.

“America seems filled with violent people who like causing people pain but hate when those people tell them that pain hurts.”

— Kiese Laymon, HEAVY: an American memoir

Elk cows and calves on a hillside with trees

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

You hide in the herd. You wait. And you never forget. @sgj.bsky.social

Black Men Will Vote for Harris—White Men Are the Problem Why is the media talking so much about the fraction of Black men who might go MAGA when more than 60 percent of white men will vote for Trump?

Harris will get between 85-90% of Black men’s votes. “The “problem” in this country is how the *majority* of white people vote. The force holding this country back is the *majority* of white people. The people who have turned against democracy are the *majority* of white people.”