The No. 1 reason aviation is so safe is that there are at least two of absolutely everything, redundancies on the redundancies. No single human should have ever been expected to perform this perfectly, it isn’t possible and shouldn’t even be legal.

We need hearings now.

Sheep and flowers Amy Chu meets a shepherd, et al.

Amy Chu (@camoot.bsky.social). What a delight it is to read her work. After a day that may have left your nerves raw (again) I highly recommend her story today, it is about visiting some marvelous sheep including a saintly one.

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Best and Worst Days of 2025 A Quantitative Assessment into the Best and Worst Days of 2025 This study, “A Quantitative Assessment into the Best and Worst Day of 2025,” is the continuation of a previous study conducted by the Pr...

ALSO TODAY: @camoot.bsky.social with a DEFINITIVE, qualitative, mathematical assessment of some days last year. flaminghydra.com/best-and-wor...

Village people / Days of our lives Jídé Salawu reflects on migration and African identities; Amy Chu does social science

Tropes like 'country kid off to the big city' impose real limitations on identity. @jidesalawu.bsky.social on how that works in postcolonial African literature. It's real good

And for dessert, @camoot.bsky.social's uh theories about the best/worst days of 2025

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Thank god, someone finally said it 🗣️ I can be my true self now

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

SO FREAKING KIND of you to watch it!! TY <3

VOGUS Trend Predictions: Fall 2025 a fiery writer-owned cooperative

FLAMING HYDRA!!! @camoot.bsky.social FALL FORECAST!!! STANLEY CAULDRON!!! YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST!!! flaminghydra.com/vogus-trend-...

Ty for reading!! ❤️

SO KIND TY 😭😭😭❤️

Super market Amy Chu on shopping at Daily Table

How buying food could be different and better, as @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has proposed

And as it was, in Boston. From Amy Chu (@camoot.bsky.social) the illustrated story of Boston's Daily Table

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📢 If you’re able to get to Newark: Protest outside Department of Homeland Security office! 📢

620 Frelinghuysen Ave.
Newark, NJ 07114

Organizations and community members on the ground are asking for support and for all of us to stand with them now.

Firsthand account of all the rotten stuff that went down on Eureka Ave this morning. TY @lukeoneil47.bsky.social for running it.

Govt: BUY THE SODA STREAM!!! BUY IT!!!! 🔫

The fullest extent of the law The morning after the wildfires had spread widely enough that they begged addressing the mayor stood up outside of the charred strip mall where we used to get takeout Korean and assured the public that any looters would be dealt with in the harshest possible fashion. Much like she had said before with respect to the floods. The tableau was almost beautiful. Ash falling like snowflakes and the heat of the flames over the hill glowing like Christmas. Someone must have set that up. Five of them had been arrested already she said this time and the last time and the next. Criminals who had come from outside of the city she said. The councilors joined along in chorus after her in their own respective speeches. Both ally and enemy alike. A switch having flipped in all of their brains when they realized that they could not shoot and could not arrest fire or water or wind. After that they were out of ideas. Punishment being the only tool they had ever wielded. I was sitting on the foot edge of a bad bed in a motel seventy five miles south while the kids were outside bothering the buttons of an emptied out soda machine. Each of us wishing for a different kind of miracle. I checked out of habit to see if they had a Bible in the drawer. This is not who we are she said. What was it exactly that they were supposed to be looting here? Were they stuffing their pockets with fistfuls of ash? There was nothing that we had left behind that anyone could take from us in any way that mattered anymore. It all belonged to the fire now. Probably always did.

Few new shorts of mine up at @flaminghydra.com today. Thanks for reading.

The fullest extent of the law

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Hinge is a useless app if it shows me every man in a 4 mile radius except my cute neighbor

I love this take because I am a serial crusher and also filled with hope

Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

Adult Ballet Class a collective of 60 writers, on fire and hard to kill

ALSO TODAY: a HYDRA FIRST from @camoot.bsky.social: a little video about the godforsaken dance we're all doing flaminghydra.com/adult-ballet...

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United Nations employee, were killed by Israeli forces “one by one” and buried in a mass grave eight days ago in southern Gaza, the UN has said. According to the UN humanitarian affairs office (Ocha), the Palestinian Red Crescent and civil defence workers were on a mission to rescue colleagues who had been shot at earlier in the day, when their clearly marked vehicles came under heavy Israeli fire in Rafah city’s Tel al-Sultan. A Red Crescent official in Gaza said that there was evidence of at least one person being detained and killed, as the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied. Continue reading...

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN

Free Rumeysa Ozturk A Tufts University student named Rumeysa Ozturk was disappeared off the streets of Somerville, MA yesterday for the crime of co-writing an extremely tame op-ed last year asking her school to divest fr...

A dispatch from a protest against the disappearance of Rumeysa Ozturk in Somerville last night.

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I was ghosted by a writer for the New Yorker so I try stand up comedy.

I rest easy knowing I’ll never be successful enough for him to see this 😌

A Reminder to Our Nation: Everybody Poops a collective of 60 writers, on fire and hard to kill

ALSO TODAY: @camoot.bsky.social begs you to remember one single, salient fact about everyone on this planet, even the most miserable, good for nothing and elected among us: flaminghydra.com/a-reminder-t...

Space craft / Bottom line Miles Klee with a rare gospel, and Amy Chu on bodily imperatives

TODAY: @milesklee.bsky.social considers the God of Parking and their many supplicants. “The god of parking receives the highest volume of prayers from Koreatown, Los Angeles. Some of these are answered, believe it or not.” flaminghydra.com/r/6929931f?m...

Someone who grows up during the South African apartheid who now frequently advocates for White people… I think there’s a word for that???

Just saw the brutalist and loved it. It was an ode to men’s vintage sweaters

TY for the kindest words ever 🥺 @littlewow.bsky.social If jokes and humor can help journalists, activists, and other ppl who do the important, good work to sustain their energy, then let's keep laughing! Thanks to @flaminghydra.com for providing this space ❤️‍🔥

Join the U.S. Digital Service (DOGE) | DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency Drive change that uplifts the American people.

I think everyone should apply for a DOGE job. Or at least, you know, fill out the form. Maybe even apply for other people. Fictional people, even. Inanimate objects. In this form right here. doge.gov/join

Like no it’s ok guys we got some cardboard and spray paint and bad lighting, we good

I swear we are living in a bad dystopian movie with a low production budget