“my house is on Pretty Girl Avenue” saaaaaame

does anyone on here have thoughts about the Bilt credit card / has experience paying rent with Bilt?? I think I am finally ready to make the jump 👀

No cuomo (said while thinking abt “no homo”)

had a busy week but this kind of only-in-New York marathon of events, shows, parties, dinner reservations, et al. never gets old even after 11 years of living here :)

It should not be this hard to find an agent, right??????

I love this newsletter for writers: @katemckean.bsky.social . One of my fav reads in my email.

may issue of Immigrant Strong, my free monthly newsletter, is out! includes an essay i published this month, my favorite memoir of the year so far, and more writing and interviews with immigrant writers open.substack.com/pub/immigran...

need a Costco-sized bag of these to get me through this day

good morning blue sky pls tell me your favorite people to follow that make this place feel like golden age tw*tt*r i miss the shitposts

wow i stop taking Zyrtec for one day and suddenly I’m clogged up like a middle manager’s email inbox after a week of PTO this sucks

Come on New York Prove to the world that you are as cool as you incessantly claim you are Or just admit you're an overpriced version of Jersey City

We're now 8 points away from sending Andrew Cuomo back to the suburbs.

also btw while I’m here: heads up that I’m gonna start writing classes again, watch this space ❤️

I’ve been an editor for 11 years and my god I still have to say this once a month!! writers— please please PLEASE do not resolve your editor’s notes in the Google Doc until they tell you it is your turn to review and address!! I promise you they will tell you when it’s your move

“Websites are their people; laying off the majority of a site’s staff is akin to molting skin and bones – and keeping only a name. So while Polygon persists, we still feel like now is an appropriate time to give former staff a chance to eulogize what was.” Read: aftermath.site/polygon-vox-...

need an app that lets me post on here and tweet on the other website simultaneously

Are you an American living in Ireland? Or perhaps you know an American who has moved to Ireland? I’d love to interview you for a story on Condé Nast Traveler — please reply below!

being on bluesky

Need everyone to know that for a final performance of Boston Ballet's Nutcracker, they costumed the party scene dolls as Elphaba and Glinda and even included the viral finger-hold moment. (Screenshot because it won't show the preview, but watch the IG video! Link: www.instagram.com/reel/DEP8Rsx... )

Oh shit my book comes out this year!

Andy Cohen is still screaming about Eric Adams's indictments, I love this, happy new year everyone!!!

those gay raunchy holiday copypastas are sacred and must be handed down generation to generation

Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2025?

I want to talk about how I’m excited to teach parallelization in my Statistical Computing course, but I think most of my followers are here because of Onions. So here he is.

ONIONS

Huge night here at NYU. An undergrad trying to fix their grade accidentally discovered how to email 11,000 instructors on a secret group email list, unifying the faculty like no one before. I have hundreds of email replies in my inbox. And apparently Onions, the puppy, has just been granted tenure.

Lose some files. Misplace some paperwork. Type a name in wrong. Check the wrong box. Normal people are bad at their jobs all the time. Screw something up. There's gonna be a lot of opportunities in the coming years to do a bad job for the good of all.

Americans can enjoy power fluctuations so intellectually, artistically arrested hacks can make grotesque, unethically-derived "content" and images. "...more than three-quarters of highly-distorted power readings across the country are within 50 miles of significant data center activity."

This level of wealth concentration is indefensible

thank you, RimmerCommando 🫡

me, pictured, getting zapped by a taser “Matt Ortile stunned in new photo”

butch de noël is that anything?

May I tempt madam with an end-of-year listicle www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Hello! I write a weekly column for the New Yorker (mostly restaurant reviews, sometimes other vibey stuff) called The Food Scene. It’s also conveniently available as an email—the whole article, in full, no paywall!—which you can sign up for here:

I made a gingerbread panopticon

Some people: it is offensive to compare Israel to the Nazis IDF soldier taking part in the Gaza genocide: “I felt like a Nazi. It looked exactly like we were the Nazis and they were the Jews.” In an Israeli paper by an Israeli interviewing Israelis. archive.is/2024.12.23-1...

I'd say Melissa Febos's whole book Body Work? But especially "In Praise of Navel Gazing"!

I think of this one from Alexander Chee as an essay about essay writing: themorningnews.org/article/anni...

Happens in lots of literary fiction to cis people also. Nonfiction also. A general lack of description, maybe even an anxiety about it.

Fuck it we bawl

question for the literary nonfiction girlies on here: tell me about your favorite ‘essays about essays’ — I’m revisiting Jia’s “the personal essay boom is over” and thinking of compiling a little reading list

Amen.

was bored at a family event earlier so i vsco’ed old pics of me to look like pictures of a movie protagonist’s dead wife

re-reading the outlines & drafts of my first book and wow, that 27-year-old was really on fire 🤩 i mean i’m cringing at some of the prose lmao but there was so much material!!! a lot of so-so writing that led to something exceptional that i’m v proud of 🥹 (buy my book here! bit.ly/groomxbookshop)

non-binary assassins be like did you read my mxnifestx

I have jury duty coming up so it’s time to get weird where anyone can see it — who’s the weirdest Disney character you ever had a crush on because mine is both of Ursula’s eels

hello! trying to get recognized as a handsome gay on here; have a little selfie dump, more tk

the new C trains really are so fierce, it’s giving 2014 Milan