Good morning, or afternoon, to you, possibly good evening? I don't know, I was trying to hibernate, but the people I share a sublet cave with, Flaming Hydra, wanted me to tell you about The Holidays, which is a thing I usually sleep through, which, if you haven't tried it, hibernating, wow, do yourself a favor, it's like The Holidays and a Cleanse and a Self Care and an Intermittent Fasting all in one, and when you wake up, it's Springtime, and there's the Sun in the morning and for a whole lot longer than Winter, with the endless darkness, ugh, yeah, DAYLIGHT, it's a great way to live.

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Anyway, I guess a lot of you can't sleep/don't sleep/won't sleep all Winter, which is why you break up your periods of unrelenting not-sleeping with stuff like The Holidays, and you have Current Events and important stuff that is more important to you than getting a good couple-three-four months of restful shuteye, so before I fall asleep (don't be jealous) please help out my cave-mates for The Holidays and subscribe and read all the great things at Flaming Hydra.

I am a bear and I don't understand money, but the Flaming Hydras tell me it is such a deal, an incredible assortment of writers, and they don't write what The Man wants, because there are no advertisers "supporting" Flaming Hydra (while lowkey telling them what to write, urfh), and it is a coöperative, which means the Flaming Hydra workers control the means of production, which, even as a drowsy illiterate bear who somehow knows how to applies a diacritical like I read The New Yorker, I can totally get behind this fine publication, and I urge you to support it. If you already subscribe, we'll be back tomorrow with a new episode, and please forward this ursine communication to someone who needs to know about Flaming Hydra and this collection of free posts.

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