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Fame, the hunger for knowledge, the desire to shape history, to see the truth and to tell the truth: the dimensions of ambition are vast and contradictory
If you're a journalist and/or read journalism: @katz.theracket.news at @flaminghydra.com. So good.
Free to read:
flaminghydra.com/issue-481/
If you're a journalist and/or read journalism: @katz.theracket.news at @flaminghydra.com. So good.
Free to read:
flaminghydra.com/issue-481/
Fortunate man / Despairing diversion
Jonathan M. Katz on journalistic ambition, and meme master Tom Tomorrow
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January 15, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Fame, the hunger for knowledge, the desire to shape history, to see the truth and to tell the truth: the dimensions of ambition are vast and contradictory
If you're a journalist and/or read journalism: @katz.theracket.news at @flaminghydra.com. So good.
Free to read:
flaminghydra.com/issue-481/
If you're a journalist and/or read journalism: @katz.theracket.news at @flaminghydra.com. So good.
Free to read:
flaminghydra.com/issue-481/
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Its’a me, AP Man
ALSO TODAY: @katz.theracket.news on 'The Stringer' and his own time covering various international horrors with the AP. "[F]or three months I refused to sleep inside a building, lying on bare bricks beside a cracked hotel pool until someone brought me a tent." flaminghydra.com/issue-481/#f...
Fortunate man / Despairing diversion
Jonathan M. Katz on journalistic ambition, and meme master Tom Tomorrow
flaminghydra.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Its’a me, AP Man
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Great issue of Flaming Hydra today!
Jonathan M. Katz on journalistic ambition, and meme master Tom Tomorrow
Jonathan M. Katz on journalistic ambition, and meme master Tom Tomorrow
Fortunate man / Despairing diversion
Jonathan M. Katz on journalistic ambition, and meme master Tom Tomorrow
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January 14, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Great issue of Flaming Hydra today!
Jonathan M. Katz on journalistic ambition, and meme master Tom Tomorrow
Jonathan M. Katz on journalistic ambition, and meme master Tom Tomorrow
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Alright, I really gotta subscribe now. Way to go!
TODAY: An ABSOLUTELY FREE edition, where we introduce our new contributor, freaking @tomtomorrow.bsky.social! The man himself! flaminghydra.com/famous-meme-...
FAMOUS MEME Comics
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January 14, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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A BIG FAT FREEEEEEEEE ONE FOR YOU TODAY!!! (THEN YOU SHOULD SUBSCRIBE)
TODAY: An ABSOLUTELY FREE edition, where we introduce our new contributor, freaking @tomtomorrow.bsky.social! The man himself! flaminghydra.com/famous-meme-...
FAMOUS MEME Comics
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January 14, 2026 at 11:25 PM
A BIG FAT FREEEEEEEEE ONE FOR YOU TODAY!!! (THEN YOU SHOULD SUBSCRIBE)
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TODAY: An ABSOLUTELY FREE edition, where we introduce our new contributor, freaking @tomtomorrow.bsky.social! The man himself! flaminghydra.com/famous-meme-...
FAMOUS MEME Comics
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January 14, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Hello, I am wigging out
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Huge, mega, all-star edition of FLAMING HYDRA today, as we witness the debut of none other than the legendary @tomtomorrow.bsky.social with a brand new "This Modern World"! All this and @katz.theracket.news, and it's all free! Don't wait! Click now!
TODAY: An ABSOLUTELY FREE edition, where we introduce our new contributor, freaking @tomtomorrow.bsky.social! The man himself! flaminghydra.com/famous-meme-...
FAMOUS MEME Comics
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January 14, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Huge, mega, all-star edition of FLAMING HYDRA today, as we witness the debut of none other than the legendary @tomtomorrow.bsky.social with a brand new "This Modern World"! All this and @katz.theracket.news, and it's all free! Don't wait! Click now!
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Remember I said we have a surprise at @flaminghydra.com?? It's here! and FREE for all to read
Your Internet Friend @tomtomorrow.bsky.social debuts today (I am DYIIIIIINNG)
AND
An essay from @katz.theracket.news that all journalists will love forever and be scared by
flaminghydra.com/issue-481/
Your Internet Friend @tomtomorrow.bsky.social debuts today (I am DYIIIIIINNG)
AND
An essay from @katz.theracket.news that all journalists will love forever and be scared by
flaminghydra.com/issue-481/
Fortunate man / Despairing diversion
Jonathan M. Katz on journalistic ambition, and meme master Tom Tomorrow
flaminghydra.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Remember I said we have a surprise at @flaminghydra.com?? It's here! and FREE for all to read
Your Internet Friend @tomtomorrow.bsky.social debuts today (I am DYIIIIIINNG)
AND
An essay from @katz.theracket.news that all journalists will love forever and be scared by
flaminghydra.com/issue-481/
Your Internet Friend @tomtomorrow.bsky.social debuts today (I am DYIIIIIINNG)
AND
An essay from @katz.theracket.news that all journalists will love forever and be scared by
flaminghydra.com/issue-481/
TODAY: An ABSOLUTELY FREE edition, where we introduce our new contributor, freaking @tomtomorrow.bsky.social! The man himself! flaminghydra.com/famous-meme-...
FAMOUS MEME Comics
You may riff in the comments
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January 14, 2026 at 10:44 PM
TODAY: An ABSOLUTELY FREE edition, where we introduce our new contributor, freaking @tomtomorrow.bsky.social! The man himself! flaminghydra.com/famous-meme-...
Oh we got a HUMDINGER today
January 14, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Oh we got a HUMDINGER today
TODAY: Unsettling new fiction from Nathan Munn. "It was pricey upfront, but in the long run it would be much easier to materially support the lifespan of one body than three." flaminghydra.com/welcome-home/
Welcome Home
“At first, it’ll feel like the three of you are in a group chat,” Dr. Crane said. “But after a few weeks, internal communication gets to be so fast and smooth that it evolves into a single flow. Then ...
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January 13, 2026 at 10:14 PM
TODAY: Unsettling new fiction from Nathan Munn. "It was pricey upfront, but in the long run it would be much easier to materially support the lifespan of one body than three." flaminghydra.com/welcome-home/
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Ian Williams (@brocktoon.bsky.social) connected the dots on related issues yesterday at @flaminghydra.com
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January 13, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Ian Williams (@brocktoon.bsky.social) connected the dots on related issues yesterday at @flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com/issue-479/
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"There’s no engagement on Twitter. Get rid of that excuse. If you’re on the left or center, nobody on Twitter comes to your work through that app." flaminghydra.com/issue-479/
January 12, 2026 at 11:18 PM
"There’s no engagement on Twitter. Get rid of that excuse. If you’re on the left or center, nobody on Twitter comes to your work through that app." flaminghydra.com/issue-479/
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Get Off Twitter!
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See no evil
Some advice from Ian Williams
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January 13, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Get Off Twitter!
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It's wild to me when journos invoke the "we can't leave Twitter, it's ~ the ~ public forum even if problematic." It's such a capitulation to unearned authority, the precise kind of capitulation one should be lowercase-c constitutionally incapable of if one is to call oneself a journalist
TODAY: Ian Williams with a modest proposal: get off Twitter, seriously. "I myself joined and left Twitter, LiveJournal, Mastodon, and at least six forums when they went bad. Just leave. None of this lasts forever." flaminghydra.com/issue-479/?a...
See no evil
Some advice from Ian Williams
flaminghydra.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:18 PM
It's wild to me when journos invoke the "we can't leave Twitter, it's ~ the ~ public forum even if problematic." It's such a capitulation to unearned authority, the precise kind of capitulation one should be lowercase-c constitutionally incapable of if one is to call oneself a journalist
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Savage indignation regarding the Grok scandal, very satisfying read, new from Ian Williams @brocktoon.bsky.social
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flaminghydra.com/issue-479/
January 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Savage indignation regarding the Grok scandal, very satisfying read, new from Ian Williams @brocktoon.bsky.social
flaminghydra.com/issue-479/
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Up on @flaminghydra.com from me: the child porn app everyone keeps using, the tortured justifications by the addicted which grant AI sentience, and the chasm opening up beneath us with a side of Male Fantasies.
Savage indignation regarding the Grok scandal, very satisfying read, new from Ian Williams @brocktoon.bsky.social
flaminghydra.com/issue-479/
flaminghydra.com/issue-479/
January 12, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Up on @flaminghydra.com from me: the child porn app everyone keeps using, the tortured justifications by the addicted which grant AI sentience, and the chasm opening up beneath us with a side of Male Fantasies.
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TODAY: Ian Williams with a modest proposal: get off Twitter, seriously. "I myself joined and left Twitter, LiveJournal, Mastodon, and at least six forums when they went bad. Just leave. None of this lasts forever." flaminghydra.com/issue-479/?a...
See no evil
Some advice from Ian Williams
flaminghydra.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:58 PM
TODAY: Ian Williams with a modest proposal: get off Twitter, seriously. "I myself joined and left Twitter, LiveJournal, Mastodon, and at least six forums when they went bad. Just leave. None of this lasts forever." flaminghydra.com/issue-479/?a...
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Wrote about repetition in life in my latest for @flaminghydra.com! How many times might we say the same thing or do the same action in the course of a lifetime? The thought is one that haunts me
ALSO TODAY: @brianhioe.bsky.social on repeating patterns. “I take the same commute and walk the same streets, day in and day out. I consider a set of political and social issues that transform in subtle ways, day by day, year after year, and yet never really change.” flaminghydra.com/my-catchphra...
My Catchphrase
A friend drew a caricature of me at a sketching event the other day, and wrote “It’s one of those things” beneath it, like a caption.
“Do I say that a lot?” I asked. Apparently, I do. On reflection, ...
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January 12, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Wrote about repetition in life in my latest for @flaminghydra.com! How many times might we say the same thing or do the same action in the course of a lifetime? The thought is one that haunts me
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January 12, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Congratulations to our fiery collective @flaminghydra.com
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Do any of y'all have a favorite Flaming Hydra post or two in the archives? I just (finally) subscribed and can click around for names I recognize but I'm sure I'll miss some good stuff! flaminghydra.com
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January 11, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Do any of y'all have a favorite Flaming Hydra post or two in the archives? I just (finally) subscribed and can click around for names I recognize but I'm sure I'll miss some good stuff! flaminghydra.com
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A lot of really sublime fiction from @lukeoneil47.bsky.social is available at @flaminghydra.com.
Hooray for the internet! (Sometimes!)
Luke O’Neil looks like our author.
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Luke O’Neil looks like our author.
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The End and After
The rules
I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. A total bloodbath. The referee would have stepped in by now but they had knocked him ...
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January 11, 2026 at 5:24 PM
A lot of really sublime fiction from @lukeoneil47.bsky.social is available at @flaminghydra.com.
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expanded my thinking on manhood(s) and sex/gender as an inside-out proposition into a blog, happy with how this one turned out
TODAY: @modernistwitch.myatproto.social on manhood amidst our “wildly toxic” society. “But spending too much time or energy thinking about the bounds of manhood or womanhood is a failing proposition, because they are such enormous and uncontrollable containers.” flaminghydra.com/what-is-manh...
What Is Manhood?
Five years ago, I had top surgery, and three years ago, I started testosterone. People might wonder why I chose this, why I wanted to be a man, what I saw in manhood. And honestly: I don’t have an ans...
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January 9, 2026 at 11:25 PM
expanded my thinking on manhood(s) and sex/gender as an inside-out proposition into a blog, happy with how this one turned out