to celebrate one year (!!!) of the pod, we’re doing another trip of Hometown Heroes. This week on the Benevolent Feed, mattie brings us NYC’s most hateable slash lovable oaf: nogodsnomayors.com

An extraordinary read on its own terms-- Jaya's the very best at this-- but I'm also struck by the parallels to the recent re-up of the poptimism discourse in the music crit world. Quite a bit to-- wait for it-- chew on here.

“To call anyone a “foodie” with any sincerity in 2025 is like asking a metrosexual about the truthiness of his blog. You sound ridiculous.” www.eater.com/food-culture...

as always this jaya piece is sickeningly good and such a perfect distillation of the era that made us all such freaks about food

A great read, as usual, from @jayasaxena.com

Tall boys coming out of the woodwork and finally saying the truth: 4 hurts like shit, fuck that seat

Here it is, my last piece for @eater.bsky.social: my treatise on the last 20 years of food culture, and how food turned into fandom. I really hope you read it. www.eater.com/food-culture...

This is a great exploration of why food culture now triggers my Gen X “they suck now that they play stadiums” grumpiness.

I love reading @jayasaxena.com's writing!!!!

You should all read this in full it's v good!

"You can watch a million TikToks, but to engage, you still need to go to the hot bakery. You still need to actually make the ramen you saw on YouTube. You still need to get the reservation, and then your taste buds have to wrap themselves around a chutney pizza.... No one else can taste it for you."

this is it: this is our modern history of eating distilled into one of the most poignant things i’ve ever read about food

Here it is, my last piece for @eater.bsky.social: my treatise on the last 20 years of food culture, and how food turned into fandom. I really hope you read it. www.eater.com/food-culture...

had a really nice chat about the new book for vol 1 bk~~

Interviewed two icons about being the faces of American food www.eater.com/food-culture...

omg amazing everything about this yes

this was a lovely read, especially given [starts to gesture broadly & then just never stops spinning]

Interviewed two icons about being the faces of American food www.eater.com/food-culture...

“It’s just fucking super Google that destroys the environment.” Today on COYOTE @soleilho.com checks in with an Oakland venue owner who’s fed up with AI-generated show flyers, to talk about what we lose when we normalize the practice (It’s not just braincells!)

my new book is OUT TODAY! it’s been described as "the writer at her best: mystified, curious, pathetic, absurd" — you can buy it here

Prom night @mattielubchansky.com @tricialockwood.bsky.social

Just a reminder that if you like Mattie's comics you'll love her new book bookshop.org/p/books/simp...

Send a letter in one click to ABC & Disney executives Dana Walden, Debra OConnell and Almin Karamehmedovic demanding that they reinstate Jimmy Kimmel Live! and stand up against future political intimidation. wgaea.st/ABC-Letter

I just need a third corrupt government official to bribe someone with a food bag and I can pitch

if you are in a professional or personal situation where you cannot fully divest yourself from something being rightly boycotted, you've got an easy out: shut the fuck up. no one asked. you're free. i'm not your priest.

this sunday at the brooklyn book fest! see you there~

Someone else mentioned to me that the First Amendment should be upheld regardless of the wholesomeness of particular speech and I totally agree! I do think that’s a different consideration than: “Who is doing cancel culture now???”

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

Guys I just got an email inviting me to sign up for a protest--any advice?

nice review here. did you know you can get my new book? on sale now? www.newhavenindependent.org/article/take...

you need cold, salt and a meal at the same time

if you pay hundreds of dollars and attach a bodycam that feeds data directly into meta’s ad servers to your head to hear shit like “I love your setup with … soy sauce .. and … other ingredients” you are a world historical sucker. charles ponzi’s marks got nothing on you

Watched Almost Famous last night and Bangs’ lines about how the “industry of cool” just wants you to write sanctimonious stories about the industry’s genius that ultimately destroy an art form hit harder

While I got my knuckles rapped by corporate America for being rude and tasteless about a guy who dreamed of the stoning of me and everyone I love, Fox's Brian Kilmeade advocated explicitly for the state murder of all homeless people -- on live TV, no less -- to virtually no response.

Just a reminder that I'm a good writer and editor who hits deadlines, if you have any freelance or part-time work you wanna throw at me.

This just sucks, Ben & Jerry's always made activism inextricable from their product

love when a restaurant realizes they have no vegetarian options and are like "uhhhhhhh fuck ok blistered shishitos"

Just got through to Gillibrand's office on this

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

I wish I knew what to do about any of it

Hey. Hey! Don't watch TikTok out loud at a restaurant. Even if you think it's turned too low for anyone to hear! Headphones are so cheap! Don't do it!!

chuck schumer has got on a sleeping gown and cap and he is eating expensive little cheeses right now on a velvet day bed

❤️🔥 HOT OFF THE PRESSES! 🔥❤️ COYOTE Media Collective is live!! We’re so incredibly proud of this smart, fierce, unapologetic Bay Area media project. Dive in, see what we’ve been building, read our stories, and join the pack! coyotemedia.org

I love to spend all my time unemployed on the phone for COBRA or unemployment insurance!! This is a great use of my energy and talents!!

i just use it for the one thing | patreon.com/lubchansky

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Hi ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere If you have any national platform at all Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us

Love to go to a revitalized waterfront. Whatcha got here, a brewery in an old shipping container? Across the street from a place with Dubai chocolate strawberries? Wow amazing

Hello everyone. You may know Gretchen Felker-Martin has once again been suspended from bc they do that whenever some chud complains. Her brand-new ongoing DC series was also cancelled for the same reason. It’s stupid fascist bullshit as usual. Gretchen’s work rules. Consider supporting her here:

I'm not a conspiracy theorist but if there was ever going to be a real-world conspiracy I think it would probably be cooked up by a bunch of conspiracy theory fans who happened to find themselves in control of all the levers & saw an opportunity to do all the evil shit they've been projecting about