maria

maria, 7 days ago to random

Fascists are secretly and illegally removing books from school libraries

https://buckscountybeacon.com/2024/05/uncovering-the-cover-up-how-republican-pennridge-school-board-directors-secretly-banned-books/

maria, 18 days ago to random

My daughter just texted to wish me a Happy World Goth Day !!!

Excuse my while I go don my silk turban and black lipstick ty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxqq5vahHKk

maria, 23 days ago to random

Still in a huge rage at Google!

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

maria, 24 days ago to random

Tech journalists, please exhibit the fury that is called for

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

maria, 26 days ago to random

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, 30 days ago to random

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

maria, 1 month ago to random

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, 1 month ago to random

Ben Sasse and the WSJ "wrestle with ideas" and suffer one defeat after another

maria, 1 month ago to random

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, 1 month ago to random

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, 1 month ago to journalism

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

#journalism
#cooperative
#press
#pressfreedom

maria, 2 months ago to random

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/

maria, 2 months ago to random

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, 2 months ago to random

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, 2 months ago to Pubtips

EBOOKS ARE BOOKS

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

... 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/

#libraries
#publishing
#pressfreedom

maria, 2 months ago to journalism

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, 2 months ago to random

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, 2 months ago to random

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, 2 months ago to random

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, 2 months ago to random

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/

maria, 2 months ago to random

ASU University Librarian James O'Donnell considers the @internetarchive lawsuit, and asks the salient question:

How Do We Rescue the Past?

https://popula.com/2024/03/25/a-university-librarian-asks-how-do-we-rescue-the-past/

#libraries
#internetarchive
#archives

maria, 2 months ago to random

Hello, librarians aren't criminals

It's no accident these clowns attacked the @internetarchive which is the Library of Alexandria of our own times

Librarians, writers, artists, rise up!!

maria, 2 months ago to random

Corporate media has lost the plot

There is no moral equilibrium with fascism at one end of the balance.

maria, 2 months ago to random

A Palestinian writer we love (wrote a few times for Popula) is looking to relocate from Gaza with his young family.

Please help if you can, and boost widely:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/family-desperate-to-flee-gaza

maria, 2 months ago to random

Jonathan M. Katz shares the story of how he exposed Katie Britt's lies on his TikTok

A free @flaminghydra post:

https://flaminghydra.com/there-should-be-newspapers-that-we-work-at-where-we-do-this/