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maria

@maria@thelife.boats

experiments in journalism

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https://flaminghydra.com/welcome

#journalism #fun #books #media #culture #pressfreedom #speechrights #digitalownership #digitalcommons #archiving #libraries

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mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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Feminists taught me that Mad Max Fury Road is not a feminist movie. I get that.

Fury Road was just an action movie where the violent protagonist was a woman with a visible disability, instead of an able bodied man. I get that.

But I still enjoy the fact that George Miller looked at all the dudes that got angry that a woman was the star of a Mad Max movie, and said "Cry about it!" and doubled down.

I am so watching this.

Furiosa extended trailer
(CW: movie violence)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LYV3001u574

maria,
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@mekkaokereke

I wrote at the time, there's more to it, and I still think so

https://web.archive.org/web/20230806230819/https://www.theawl.com/2015/05/the-startling-humanism-of-mad-max-fury-road/

maria, to random
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Still in a huge rage at Google!

https://flaminghydra.com/the-parasite-kills-the-host/

maria, to random
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Tech journalists, please exhibit the fury that is called for

https://flaminghydra.com/issue-78/

maria, to random
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Should you subscribe to FLAMING HYDRA the fun and good writers' cooperative??

We've got three new FREE pieces for you to try, so you can decide:

The Journalist and The Other Murderer, by Carrie Frye
https://flaminghydra.com/the-journalist-and-the-other-murderer/

How We Left Gaza, by Moh Telbani
https://flaminghydra.com/how-we-left-gaza/

One of The Good Ones, by Myriam Gurba
https://flaminghydra.com/one-of-the-good-ones/

maria, to random
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My daughter is an inexhaustible fount of good cheer, she just sent this over

maria, to random
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This is what really happened to a real family in Gaza. The dad is a writer whom we have known for many years.

flaminghydra.com/issue-73/

(small paywall; worth it)

maria, to random
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Ben Sasse and the WSJ "wrestle with ideas" and suffer one defeat after another

maria, to random
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My daughter sent this over today and man it is the real reality, a beautifully compressed version of the thing I wrote the other day about Iago

https://flaminghydra.com/iago-is-everywhere/

maria, to random
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The Flint Water Crisis started ten years ago today.

Flint is a community uniquely equipped to explain the importance of strong local government.

At Popula, a wild, deeply absorbing and informative conversation with their former mayor:

https://popula.com/2024/04/25/the-flint-water-crisis-ten-years-later/

maria, to journalism
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IT IS HERE: Flaming Hydra Subscriber RSS Feeds!! yooooo

Subscribers, please visit flaminghydra.com/account for your own personal RSS feed.

Grateful thanks to @404mediaco for building this VERY COOL thing.

https://flaminghydra.com




maria, to random
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It looks like the end for most of the outdoor dining sheds that sprang up across NYC. At Flaming Hydra, @davidrussellmoore looked at free street parking and its dominance over city basics like protected bike lanes, trash containers, urban gardens, playgrounds, dedicated bus lanes, etc.

https://flaminghydra.com/eat-in-the-street/

focusedoninfinity, to random
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Heads up, friends!

maria,
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@paezha @focusedoninfinity @rustoleumlove

iGilead

maria, to random
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SUPERFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, courtesy of the Naked Emperors of Silicon Valley

New from me at Flaming Hydra

(paywall, but mini!)

https://flaminghydra.com/issue-48/

maria, to random
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Pay for information so you'll get good, accurate, vividly interesting information, instead of ads, lies, bullshit, and propaganda.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/journalist-run-media-flaming-hydra/

maria,
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@wjmaggos

Sorry I don't understand the question?? Freelancers will always write in multiple venues, it seems certain

maria,
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@wjmaggos

That won't work because quality can't surface without top-notch editorial attention and focus. The better the editing, the better the reading

This is consistently taken for granted (by management, readers, and even by fellow journalists) because the work is invisible by design, like the fine seams in a good suit.

maria,
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@wjmaggos

No, I don't think so. The job isn't just to get things into shape, it's to gather a group of people and views, like a chorus, an orchestra

maria, to Pubtips
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EBOOKS ARE BOOKS

Come and meet Brick House/Flaming Hydra at in Columbus tomorrow, and learn how YOUR library can use our new BRIET app to OWN and LOAN (not license)

... and how YOUR independent press can SELL ebooks...

Rightsholders, protect digital ownership!!!

email me, @davidrussellmoore or @unitof for more info

https://thebrick.house/briet-from-the-brick-house-is-heading-to-indielib-2024/



maria, to journalism
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Better #journalism, if you want it:

Paying for what you read determines what can/will be written

New from me at @thenation

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/journalist-run-media-flaming-hydra/

#media
#democracy
#freepress
#internet

maria, to random
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People in Gaza just had regular jobs and families and then they got this text that was like LEAVE or GET KILLED and they threw their kids and some clothes in the car, and now some kind of freaks have destroyed their houses and they can probably never go home

https://popula.com/2024/02/05/120-days-away-from-home-in-north-gaza-palestine/

maria, to random
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The freedom to repudiate, mock and condemn... this freedom also is under attack by the fash

(via calls for 'free speech' 'civility' 'both sides' and what have you)

Protect the right to ridicule those contemptible garbagios at all costs, call them every bad name you can think of e.g. lowlife garbage weasels, sad poltroons etc.

maria,
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@wjmaggos

You get to say that! And it's equally important that everyone else also gets to say what they think, 'divisive' or not

seachanger, to random
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a great question to ask is what’s our vision for 2025? I continue to think that most people will choose the healthier and more fun-filled future, but lack the space for imagining it themselves https://mastodon.social/

maria,
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@seachanger

SO true and well said. Imagining a better future and putting it in motion is the most important task right now, but all we think about is the bad guys... long past time for that to end

maria, to random
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Harry Siegel on Jimmy Breslin?! Don't mind if I do

https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/jimmy-breslin-and-the-lost-rhythm-of-new-york

maria, to random
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Journalist-run media: we are just DOING IT, come on in, the water's fine

WHAT a huge pleasure this was to write for @thenation

BONUS: this story comes with a whole bunch of free Flaming Hydra stories for you to try out!!

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/journalist-run-media-flaming-hydra/

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