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It also took me a bit to understand it but basically it’s just creating a BITCHIN ACRONYM
THE RULES Create an ENTERTAINING and APT acronym from the letters provided. Use only the initial letters—use all of them, and in the order shown. If there is a theme specified, your HYDRANYM should refer to it in some way. For example if the theme were HISTORY, and the letters given G F P M, a possible submission would be: Greeks Found Perseus Manly. On Thursday, June 19, we’ll publish a form where you can read—and vote—on the best 21 entries received, as judged by a panel of Flaming Hydra editors. Winners will receive bragging rights and their name and winning entry will be posted on the ANNALS of HYDRANYM page.
June 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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TODAY: as part of our LOST INTERNET series, @milesklee.bsky.social on.. [adjusts spectacles incredulously]… Zombo.com?

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A screenshot of zombo.com which is just those words in janky letters and font
August 23, 2024 at 12:10 AM
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TODAY: join us in defending the Internet Archive and protecting libraries!! An important appellate hearing is happening this morning, which you can read all about at the link below. And if you’re in New York and you spot our wheatpaste, please snap a photo and share. www.battleforlibraries.com
A pink wheatpaste poster that reads Defebd the Internet archive, we need digital libraries, let them own books. An owl sits atop a stack of books that all say BANNED on the side.
June 28, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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In celebration of our one hundredth issue, we have also gotten our first DM from a robot lady!!! honored!! swooning!!
screenshot reads "Hello Flaming. How are you doing today" and a heart emoji
June 18, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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If you are one of the impassioned readers who have commented on our unique black screen/white text format, i.e. you absolutely fucking hate it and it hurts your eyes, fear not! There's a way to make it display differently in Chrome.
How do I turn on Reading mode in Chrome? Manage Reading mode 1. On your computer, open Chrome. 2. Go to a website with text that you'd like to read. 3. At the top right, select More More tools. Reading mode. 4. Under "Reading mode," use the toolbar to: Adjust the font: Select the Down arrow. Adjust the font size: Select to increase the font size and to decrease it. Google Help https://support.google.com › chrome › answer Use Reading mode in the Side panel - Google Chrome Help
May 29, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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The first time we have been asked this question on Twitter, but certainly not the last!
Screenshot of a sentence that reads, "But also.... are you a cult?"
May 21, 2024 at 1:24 AM
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A new, better media system is possible: radical reimaginings from Flaming Hydra's @mariabustillos.bsky.social

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There can be a symbiotic, mutually beneficial relationship between readers and the writers, editors, and artists who are fairly paid to serve them, on terms as clear as day: We make the best, most interesting, most well-written publication we possibly can, and if you like it, you pay us to continue. There’s no one else involved in the transaction whose agenda might conflict with its purposes. When the deal is that simple, we can treat one another with respect and camaraderie.
May 8, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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This is... not accurate lol www.todayintabs.com/p/turn-aroun...
March 6, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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Libraries are punk as hell. Matt Yglesias disagrees, so Osita Nwanevu put him in his place. (@ositanwanevu.bsky.social) flaminghydra.com/iss...
A t-shirt that says What's More Punk Than The Public Library
March 1, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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What we are listening to as the world is ending, according to Luke O'Neil. flaminghydra.com/iss...
March 1, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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The politics of goblins who are, frankly, sick of your shit. By Tom Scocca. flaminghydra.com/iss...
March 1, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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Harry Siegel looks back on how computers are never going to be good at doing your homework. flaminghydra.com/iss...
March 1, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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The inner workings of an editorial artist, by Jim Cooke. flaminghydra.com/iss...
Sketched grass with a foot emerging from it.
March 1, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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Diana Moskovitz makes the case for trusting the government, but only for the weather: flaminghydra.com/iss...
Logo of the National Weather Service
March 1, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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Kim Kelly (@kimkelly.bsky.social) is here to give you the newest in metal with Riff Wrecks Vol 2.
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The words "Kim Kelly's Riff Wrecks" on a flaming background with a skull.
March 1, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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The world burns, and music plays. Music plays and the world burns. Here are the songs that soundtrack our destruction. By Luke O'Neil. (@lukeoneil47.bsky.social) flaminghydra.com/iss...
A picture of Aaron Bushnell on a white background with the text, "I will no longer be complicit in genocide."
February 29, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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Show us your mug! (Real mug, not your face. Tho you can show us that too)
From Hydra Julianne Escobedo Shepherd (@jawnita.bsky.social):
"FUN FACT: I got this mug for free from the New York Public Library when I got to interview fellow Hydra/my writing idol Myriam Gurba there, about her book Creep!"
A mug that says, "What are you reading now"
February 29, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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ATTN: BLUESKY

IT IS TIME FOR US TO LISTEN TO THE GOBLINS. LET'S LET THE GOBLINS SPEAK, FOR ONCE.

(By Tom Scocca, @tomscocca.bsky.social)
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A sinister looking green goblin carrying a blade.
February 28, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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Harry Siegel thinks about how AI was imagined in a 1950's children's book—and the ways it failed then are the ways that it may fail now. flaminghydra.com/iss...
The Homework Machine—written in consultation with the Dr. Louis Robinson, Manager of the Mathematics and Applications Department, IBM—is sweet, mildly engaging kid stuff, with the children feeding information into the Professor’s machine so it can do their homework for them, and only realizing at the end that they did more work, and learned more, than they would have by just doing their homework, while learning Valuable Lessons about friendship and fairness, not to mention the machines.
February 28, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Jim Cooke opens up his sketchbook to show his thought process—and how an editorial concept goes from a brain to a page.
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Jim Cooke's sketchbook showing an image of feet diving into seagrass.
February 26, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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Bad news for Los Angeles: Your best friend is about to the National Weather Service. Honestly. By Defector's Diana Moskovitz (@dianamoskovitz.bsky.social) flaminghydra.com/iss...
February 26, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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Anna Merlan went on a trip to Israel, paid for by Israel, as promotion for Israel. She reflects on the new meaning of Birthright. flaminghydra.com/iss...
A screenshot of a young couple draped in an Israeli flag. Next to them is a text box promising their safety in Israel on a Birthright trip.
February 23, 2024 at 11:55 PM
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What if the only real thing left is Wikipedia? God, that's depressing. By Joe MacLeod flaminghydra.com/iss...
The Wikipedia orb logo
February 23, 2024 at 11:54 PM
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How movies are becoming like vending machines. Single-serve, packaged, on demand. By Sam Thielman. flaminghydra.com/iss...
AI generated ghosts wearing different superhero costumes in a vending machine
February 23, 2024 at 11:54 PM
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This world is filled with Iagos, by Maria Bustillos. flaminghydra.com/iss...
Iago from The Lion King
February 23, 2024 at 11:54 PM