Camoot

A must-read before or after watching the new doc!!! No spoilers at all, simply a fantastic analysis of his journey as a tv personality/performance artist???

I feel validated because I started watching some SNL sketches from the Shane Gillis episode, and I couldn’t finish any of them because they weren’t funny, which is probably worse for his career than being a woman hater 🤷‍♀️

sparing vignettes that cut so deep!

TODAY: @camoot.bsky.social on breaking up with the Brad. "We promised each other that they’d have to drag us out from under the rubble before we left of our own free will." flaminghydra.com/breaking-up-...

This one hit extra hard after apartment hunting today. Told the broker I’m going from five roommates to one. He called it an “upgrade” Not sure I agree!! Esp after reading this interview

ALSO TODAY: @emilyflake.bsky.social on choosing your own, middle-aged adventure. “You decide the situation merits swearing in front of a child, especially Kingston, who is the worst.” flaminghydra.com/choose-your-...

TODAY: @felipedlh.bsky.social on navigating a great and terrible distance. “My father was tethered to Ecuador for his treatment, as I was to the United States, held fast in the glacial gears of our immigration bureaucracy.” flaminghydra.com/destiny-take...

ALSO TODAY: @camoot.bsky.social encounters a sinister haircut operation. flaminghydra.com/baa-aahd-hai...

ALSO TODAY: @camoot.bsky.social on life as a pre-grieving cat nurse. “How was I going to handle any loss in my life?” flaminghydra.com/five-things-...

The DRAMA

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.

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. flaminghydra.com/issue-525/

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

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 flaminghydra.com/p/c21dbf3d-6...

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

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

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

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 flaminghydra.com/issue-350/

📢 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!!!! 🔫

Few new shorts of mine up at @flaminghydra.com today. Thanks for reading. The fullest extent of the law flaminghydra.com/almost-beaut...

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

"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."

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

A dispatch from a protest against the disappearance of Rumeysa Ozturk in Somerville last night. www.welcometohellworld.com/free-rumeysa...

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

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...

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 ❤️‍🔥

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

TODAY: @parkermolloy.com on this fraught moment for openly trans writers. “Did I put too much faith in the idea that progress was permanent? Did I make myself—and maybe, by extension, others—more vulnerable by being so public?” flaminghydra.com/r/232ff70b?m...

Gasp* Is Conan the most featured celebrity on @flaminghydra.com

ALSO: @camoot.bsky.social towards a perfect day flaminghydra.com/toward-a-qua... Sa

One of my favorite combos of articles!! Sometimes Flaming Hydra reads my mind. Real life and fairy tale romances

"This is his masterpiece, a delicate book about the unreliability of memory and the necessity of record-keeping in the face of an especially cruel form of oppressive lying, where the IDF and the broader Israeli government conspire to pretend that they haven’t destroyed your home and family."

New snack about online dating! Just trying to document the hopes and dreams of my 20s. open.substack.com/pub/camootbl...

One year I’ll finally be brave enough to sleep through the new years