I should not have buried this point in a thread. It's so key for understanding the change that has occurred. Those words would have been gibberish in 1992 but even in 2022.

What is making me lose it over this story: yes Breads is doing well in NYC... and part of why that is has to do with Jewish customers wanting it to succeed, for Jewish-solidarity-type reasons.

I thought I had this idiosyncratic decor taste but then I learned I'm just another "grandmillennial." phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/i-love-bei...

I am on call for everybody's international relations needs, dropping everything.

What the actual.

Located the source of The Smell, and it was the dryer vent, which had accumulated I want to say decades' worth of some kind of scented scent (I don't know how people scent their dryers, is this dryer sheets?) at an intensity where now my fingers will forever have The Smell, but now the dryer won't.

Is the hope that the owners have some sort of epiphany that there's no such thing as Israeli cuisine and simply stop? I mean they're free to decide that, but then there's no Breads Bakery.

On the new (?) need to be publicity-oriented and gorgeous if you, woman, wish to be any sort of public intellectual. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/the-author...

What's it called when, over the course of YEARS, you periodically think 'I could use some better t-shirts/socks/underwear' and you get those but cannot get yourself to get rid of the old ones and then cannot close the drawers these are kept in?

Torn between wondering where is the treadmill I ordered and dreading the day that this treadmill shows up and I am expected to use it.

It is remarkable how the most ardent cases for Bluesky are about how awful the presumed alternative is. Every criticism of this one (on which I - Jewish! woman! - have prob had the worse individual experiences) gets received as endorsement of the other.

Jewish problems, human problems. thecjn.ca/opinion/pers...

Jewish problems, human problems. thecjn.ca/opinion/pers...

Many such cases

The one easy secret to weight loss: if you’re the NYT restaurant critic, stop being in that role. Intrigued to see how this is turned into something generally applicable . cooking.nytimes.com/article/our-...

I feel about neo-Bundists the way I feel about people who earnestly identify as communist which is that talking about how these philosophies are obviously superior is all well and good provided you just never read any mid-twentieth century history

Still thinking about this (obviously). Thinking esp about how 'the JAP' is this ultimate despised figure including and maybe especially *within* the community.

Don't say I didn't warn you! Not paywalled: phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/if-houses-...

I’ve learned that if you wait long enough, trends can circle back. We did a full renovation with brown and beige 18 years ago, saw everyone do white and gray after, and now gray is declared over and wood cabinets are back.

Don't say I didn't warn you! Not paywalled: phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/if-houses-...

I know there are world events, I will also be posting my blog that compares fashion writing with interior decorating writing whenever I've finished it.

The contemporary marketing copy phenomenon of ‘it’s not plastic’ given as reason enough to buy an otherwise unimpressive item.

Who's the politician whose politics you disagree strongly with, whose politics influence their interior decorating choices, etc etc phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

The absolute height of sexism: that these raccoon slippers complete with realistic hands are only available in men's sizes.

If you mute the name "Bari Weiss" does the TL on here just disappear or

OK it's this but also that I find it unnerving when anything short of full-throated enthusiasm for a politician, even an 'I have/would have voted for this person but with qualms,' is treated as suspect. Consider how it seems in the other direction!!!!

When I was a kid I would only get sick on school vacations, like my body knew those were the only times I could. Now my body is like 'oh your kids are returning to childcare and school?' and the fever set in. (Fear not I have not infected my colleagues as I work from home.)

Curating my Bluesky feed to get the perfect ratio of people saying everyone needs to get off X to people reposting screenshots from X

Realizing that my big objection to Mamdani's speech (that I know of only from snippets/skimming transcript) is the New York exceptionalism, like I'm sorry but the things he mentioned would also be possible in Toronto.

Just discovered that the university where I got my doctorate considers me to have been "placed," which is surprising to me given that I don't work at all in academia but sure! as.nyu.edu/departments/...

Very healthy and productive that one gets to pick whether to object to hatred of Jews that comes from the left or from the right and it has to be zero-sum.

This is why everyone should do as I do and use Instagram for dog pics.

THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE is a multigenerational mystery set in rural Canada, and it is now available for purchase as an ebook from Amazon (amazon.ca/dp/B0GCYD6Q77) & Kobo (kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...). I'll also be releasing a chapter a week for free on Inkitt (inkitt.com/stories/1625...).

Interesting article by @phoebebovy.bsky.social in @thecjn.bsky.social about divergences between Canadian and American Jewish experiences in regard to the struggle against antisemitism.

If you hate all Jews but the 0.0001% who are exceptions to the rule, if you hate all older Jews and cast them as "elites," you're a... yeah why even bother.

It's me, walking around Toronto in the new, ritzy, Upper East Side Jewish tradition.

There's a downwardly-mobile hipster cosplaying their own born-poor upwardly-mobile ancestors thing happening huh.

The boots being on loan thing yes, I don't think it matters either way if the point of the callout is 'socialist promotes FANCY' as versus 'socialist secretly rich' but it is a silly callout either way.

As a Jewish upper east side Mamdani voter, this honestly hurts my feelings AND bears no relation to my synagogue or its history. Don’t talk like this.

Back at work @thecjn.bsky.social after a near-continuous couple-week break so I will share my 2025-in-conclusion column even though it is now, I am aware, 2026: thecjn.ca/opinion/2025...

Bluesky's main character has a Canadian connection I see.

Do I dare say how many of these are mentioned in my forthcoming book? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

A vacation-from-vacation post, sans paywall. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/break-with...

It’s still the break, is all.

It strikes me that I might just not like ANY politicians. Thoughts about them go from 'probably won't be terrible' (such as) to apocalypse imminent. He is very handsome though and I'm happy you're happy.

How it looks in our entryway even when no guests are over.

Boot price discourse! At last an area where I have the knowledge to weigh in, if only I was remotely bothered about this either way.

You're meant to do year in review of accomplishments and I forgot. I promise I had some! Articles, podcasts, book 2 can now be preordered, many newsletter posts about straight women and Britcoms and floral dresses.