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TODAY: a gorgeous photo essay from @todseelie.bsky.social about Dia de Los Muertos in New Orleans flaminghydra.com/r/9d595220?m...
Dead can dance / Lyrics live
Tod Seelie’s exquisite photos of New Orleans, and a poem from the olden time by Harry Siegel
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November 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Carrie Frye has the most lovely story today, and then there is a glorious @todseelie.bsky.social photo feature.

Writing and art made by real people!! is so good!!!!

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Bills, bills, bills / What a lovely day
Carrie Frye recounts the tale of a North Carolina auction win; exquisite photos of a desert festival by Tod Seelie
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September 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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ALSO TODAY: @todseelie.bsky.social on the wildest desert festival you’ve probably never heard of. “There are truly no spectators, no one who isn’t participating to some degree” flaminghydra.com/wasteland-in...
Wasteland In Pictures
A few years ago, I packed my van and headed into the post-apocalypse.  Wasteland Weekend is a fully immersive dystopian festival held annually in the Mojave Desert, built around a theme and aesthetic...
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September 18, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Keep up with the different surveillance technologies police are using across the U.S., from body-worn cameras to cell-site simulators. Stay informed using the Atlas of Surveillance. atlasofsurveillance.org/
Atlas of Surveillance
Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research
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August 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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🚨 Trump seizes control of DC police and puts Pam Bondi in charge as National Guard troops deploy. Critics call it a manufactured emergency amid record low crime, while the White House claims the city faces complete lawlessness.
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August 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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TODAY: @annamerlan.bsky.social in conversation with @jessesword.com, editor of the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction, on a perfectly insulting word. "I think that it’s good to be skeptical of technology, as many SF writers have been from its earliest days" flaminghydra.com/r/6188a49d?m...
Machine language / Drive-by dining
Anna Merlan and Jesse Sheidlower talk 'clankers' and Joe MacLeod stops for a bite at Cracker Barrel
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August 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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For @flaminghydra.com I talked to @jessesword.com, a lexicographer and, full disclosure, my friend, about the perfect word "clankers" and the extremely imperfect story that's being told about where it came from: flaminghydra.com/clank-clank/
Clank Clank
a fiery writer-owned cooperative
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August 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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I’ve followed decades of modern skeptical discourse and looked into its precursors back to antiquity. Some things are almost steady state—there are always frauds, quacks, and charlatans, and often fears of a “rising tide of irrationality.” But elevating cranks to this level of power *is* different
August 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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California is such a progressive state that we allow the private utility companies to decide what they do and don't do

it's like gentle parenting: just because some towns get torched and people die doesn't mean you can discipline them harshly
August 31, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Please do not try to count for yourselves the number of times I have tweeted “the F word” as you will die of old age in the process
August 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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The Trump administration says they're the "most transparent" in history. But when I asked the Department of Homeland Security who writes their social media posts, something extremely weird happened: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“The most transparent administration in history” refuses to say who’s behind their batshit social media
Government trolls spread cruel memes and "textbook propaganda” on behalf of Trump.
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August 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I shared some photos I've taken of the only good office Christmas parties: Tony Hawk's

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Tony Hawk’s Holiday Office Parties Go to Extremes
Normally, photographers are not allowed to share private events that we photograph for celebrity clients—weddings, birthdays, bar mitzvahs, engagement parties, etc. But in the case of Tony Hawk’s holi...
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August 28, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Join Tony Hawk and his crew on adventures concocted by what must be the world's most soulful event designer, N.D. Austin, gorgeously photographed by Tod Seelie
TODAY: @todseelie.bsky.social on photographing Tony Hawk's very unusual office Christmas parties, where guests "climbed through drain tunnels to find a hidden pop-up omakase restaurant [and] traveled through the desert on handmade train cars" flaminghydra.com/issue-391/#t...
Festive photos / Literary launch
Tony Hawk’s office parties, dazzlingly photographed by Tod Seelie; Efe Paul Azino and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún discuss a NYC festival debut
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August 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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TODAY: @todseelie.bsky.social on photographing Tony Hawk's very unusual office Christmas parties, where guests "climbed through drain tunnels to find a hidden pop-up omakase restaurant [and] traveled through the desert on handmade train cars" flaminghydra.com/issue-391/#t...
Festive photos / Literary launch
Tony Hawk’s office parties, dazzlingly photographed by Tod Seelie; Efe Paul Azino and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún discuss a NYC festival debut
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August 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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🚨 Ted Cruz vacationed in Athens as floods killed 100 in Texas, reviving criticism of absent officials during emergencies and raising questions about leadership accountability.
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August 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Ghislaine Maxwell has asserted that she never saw the man she is hoping will spring her from a 20-year prison sentence “in any inappropriate setting” throughout the years he spent hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein.
Ghislaine Maxwell absolves Trump, and everyone else, in DOJ interviews
“I never, ever saw any man doing something inappropriate with a woman of any age,”
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August 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"rent a campsite?!?“ why? I can try falling asleep to a loud generator at home for free
August 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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TODAY: @todseelie.bsky.social visits a pretend war zone deep in the California desert flaminghydra.com/r/ba58dd52?m...
Built for violence / Left for dead
Tod Seelie’s visit to the pretend war zone, and Zito Madu, missing the departed
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July 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Amazing photos from a still banged up and bruised @todseelie.bsky.social, but at least we finally got the tear gas out of his clothes flaminghydra.com/issue-344/#n...
Show of strength
Tod Seelie photographs No Kings in Los Angeles
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June 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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TODAY: @todseelie.bsky.social on photographing Los Angeles' No Kings protest, and the cop-created chaos afterwards. "What the LAPD, Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, and California Highway Patrol lack in numbers, they make up for in sheer violence." flaminghydra.com/r/f8c77e46?m...
Show of strength
Tod Seelie photographs No Kings in Los Angeles
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June 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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amazing photos (as always) of the No Kings march in DTLA from @todseelie.bsky.social in @flaminghydra.com

(ps: you should totally become a subscriber)
Show of strength
Tod Seelie photographs No Kings in Los Angeles
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June 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house."

The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.
An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"
The practice, an expert warns, could lead to "reprisals and retribution by the police for your politics.”
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June 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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TODAY: Introducing BRAND NEW HYDRA, photographer @todseelie.bsky.social, with a photo essay on crashing the Venice Biennale with a bunch of art punks on rafts made of junk flaminghydra.com/p/f071b948-c...
Art Bateau
It’s a long story that started with a dream and some junk rafts.  Four years after setting off on a journey that started on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis and took us as far as the Hudson River...
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May 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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scoop: Business Insider is reducing staff by 21% as it reduces its reliance on “traffic-sensitive businesses.” Memo from CEO Barbara Peng:
May 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM