I feel like one of the problems with telling people to “believe women” is that it assumes the folks in need of telling already possess a baseline belief that women are people

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

Hopped into a yellow cab in midtown and the air inside was so dense with B.O. I gagged and hopped right out again, NYC is back babeyyyy

This is me with Terry Pratchett btw

A chorus of Jewish New York communities, including Bend the Arc, are repudiating the ADL's blatant Islamophobia in a joint statement. Read more below:

A few months ago I got my daughter this line-drawing Bluey sweatshirt (not my pic) which she’s been refusing to wear because “Bluey should be blue”—and today I was like, fuck it, what’s the point of owning something you don’t want to wear, and I went and got the crayola markers and we colored it in

When I try to explain this phenomenon to non-Jews I feel like I sound like a crazy person

smh, more AI insanity — it’s just one nipple

"Mallmann has always been an evangelist for the magnificence of vegetables (his most recent cookbook is “Green Fire”), and so the list of entrées includes an entire head of cauliflower, which tastes like an entire head of cauliflower." lol

Anyway!

Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term. In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Poor Thomas had to endure one of these dinners and bore it with such pep and grace!

It feels inelegant to say you should read my latest review because it’s very negative. You should read my latest review because it’s insane. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Breathtaking

All the time. ALL the time.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Extremely niche but I trust it’ll find its audience: I’ve been rereading the Thursday Next books and I’m utterly convinced Aornis Hades was ripped off wholesale by Stephen Moffat to create Euros Holmes (spoiler, don’t care)

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

Someone go get out there on this and win yourself a Pulitzer

98% thrilled for the future of our beautiful city; 2% savoring delicious schadenfreude at Cuomo getting his weenie loser ass handed to him twice in one election

Regular reminder that the best work covering this city is done by local outlets - @wnyc.org @thecity.nyc @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social @hellgatenyc.com and others. You don’t have to rely tonight on the newspaper you are constantly annoyed at!

A great dispatch from NYC in @vittles.bsky.social today about the role of small food businesses in Zohran Mamdani's campaigns – here's hoping some UK politicians take note... www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/how-did-zo...

Not a myth, but not the whole story. Finishing pasta in the sauce means it absorbs sauce, so the dish is more texture/flavor coherent. The starch in the PW adds a silky mouthfeel, but most PW isn’t starchy enough. In my exp finishing in sauce does 90% of the work, PW as a substance adds 10% at best

Hey listen you know you can splash in ANY liquid into the sauce for finishing the pasta, right? It doesn’t have to be the pasta water. It can be anything. Sink water. Wine. Chx stock. The idea is just the pasta does its last minute of cooking in a slightly watery sauce, which it helps reduce.

I ordered fries for the table and literally no one else ate any fries I’m spiraling

I am LOSING my MIND

Kind of feel like America’s canned and shelf-stable food manufacturers should be announcing massive donations and community profit diversions and food pantry partnerships right now, ahead of the massive surge in demand they are, I assume, about to get extremely rich off of

I wonder what the Venn diagram is between rabbis outside of New York who signed a letter expressing a position on the NYC election, and those who insist that people who do not live in Israel shouldn't express opinions about Israel's security. www.timesofisrael.com/650-us-rabbi...

I had not realized fear was part of the wipes equation?????

It is not your job to protect the profits of shareholders. They do not need your help, and you are only a couple of bad breaks away from being the person unable to afford the food they exploit our need for.

I do awfully like the prelude to Parsifal

Three! What a trip!

You should NOT get double meat on a Wawa classic Italian but you SHOULD get double meat on a Jersey Mike’s, I don’t know how else to explain this to you

love this video of @hels.bsky.social walking through all the reasons I love bahn mi: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQl7...

New Yorkers don’t like to admit the true secret to thriving in this town, which is taking an Uber to the subway

Palestine is everywhere

Lower-cost insulin manufactured by the state of California will be available to consumers starting Jan. 1, 2026, for about $11 per pen.

my god there has never been a more accurate use of this

My 2yo daughter has reached deep into the Jungian collective unconscious and emerged, naturally, with a portrait of Hedonismbot

Yeah sure whatever come on in

Accidentally ordered two tofu pad thais last night and you cannot IMAGINE the JOY and DELIGHT I felt opening the fridge just now and being presented with the substance of that error

I read this wordplay thing when I was a kid (Gardner? Lederer?) about a old man who goes to see his curate nephew preach a sermon & has a heart attack when he glances at the scribbled notes and reads “Uncle and I shall owe devil” — mis-spacing “Unclean, dishallowed evil.” I think about this A LOT—

Hey if you have a culinary or restaurant or cooking or grocery or whatever question that I can answer — etiquette, advice, culture explainer, vibe prompts, etc — for my (ostensibly) food-related sporadic advice column, please send it to [email protected] with “Helen Help Me” in the subject line!

Moby Dick is best understood as an intentionally comedic, full-on goofy-ass farce

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

So many lovely UK-originating people in my US-based life and whenever I hang out with them suddenly I’m saying shit to their faces like “oh, did the gas station sushi make you ill?” jfc so embarrassing

For the first time I had the wherewithal to listen to @hels.bsky.social and use a hairdryer and it DID NOT DISAPPOINT