Today I donated to a fund for Julio’s wife and three kids: gofund.me/fa2c2e72d Yet another family torn apart by an antihuman policy of cruelty for cruelty’s sake.

TFW you find out the beloved Chinese restaurant of your childhood was also a favorite of Henry Kissinger, sigh.

Loved this from @jayasaxena.com: www.eater.com/food-culture...

Among the inaugural class of @foodandwine.com's Hospitality Heroes is a Philadelphia dishwasher who remains anonymous "out of concern for his safety." He has worked at the same celebrated restaurant for 20 years. I wish it was safe for us to know his name. www.foodandwine.com/2025-hospita...

I am proud to support my friend Adell Coleman in this tremendous work. I can't wait to see what she will make; I know it will be stupendous. www.indiegogo.com/projects/ech...

New call for feature pitches for @technologyreview.com! This time, the theme is Crime. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Pitches due Friday Sept 26.

Listening to my neighbors watch DDLJ through our shared wall. 🥲🥲🥲

Happy final day of @coyotemedia.org's fundraiser! We're about 20% away from our goal. Pitching in makes a worker owned media org happen, and it would allow me personally to write more about women's sports and other things, which I really want to do! givebutter.com/coyotemedia

It’s the final week of Coyote’s fundraiser! Support us in creating an independent Bay Area journalism powerhouse if you can!

If we reach $150K, we'll have runway through the end of the year to: 📰 More stories, more often ✍️ Bigger freelance budget 💰 Fair wages for our 11 worker-owners Building truly independent media is a team effort. Can you help us reach the stretch goal? 🐺 givebutter.com/coyotemedia

Simply the best. Better than all the rest. Better than anyone.

Genuinely heartbroken about the Ramos endorsement. 😞💔

"Harriet Tubman, along with Black soldiers, took part in a daring Union raid of Combahee Ferry near Beaufort, South Carolina. She became the first American woman to lead a major military operation when she and at least 150 Black soldiers helped to rescue more than 700 Black Americans..."

I guess it does make sense that rhubarb is a vegetable.

Hi Ambrook has a cool job opening for a "storyteller" to go around the country collecting farmer and rancher stories. Apply here: jobs.ashbyhq.com/ambrook/d809...

RIP again to roadmapmag.com, which now redirects to a Puerto Rico surfing website. Thank you for saving my little magazine @waybackmachine.bsky.social: web.archive.org/web/20250219...

Hello, media friends in the NYC (and LA) area. We are hiring a Features Editor over at Decider. dowjones.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/New_Yo...

*strokes chin* Hmmm, how should I describe this particular dish? *looks ponderously out the window* Hmm, how about.....? Yes...? *fingers return to the keyboard* "Delicious."

I clicked on this so fast lol www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...

Writing about salads tonight and every lil description is like, "Yum, this is a good salad."

We're sad to learn of the passing of Lou Nasti, an "artistic mechanical engineer" who redid the tricks for Astroland's Dante's Inferno in the 90s. The 7 ft. gorilla in front of Deno's Spook-A-Rama is one of his creations. His oral history in our archive: www.coneyislandhistory.org/oral-history...

Thank you to @hellgatenyc.com for sharing the news that really matters (to me): the passing global decorative robotics legend Lou Nasti. A true New Yorker, a true Christmas Character, and the subject of one of my all-time favorite stories for @bkmag.bsky.social: www.bkmag.com/2016/12/08/n...

My (publishing) dudes, where is The Collected Jami Attenberg essay collection and why isn't it in my hands right now???

Also hat tip to @jaimealyse.bsky.social's Insta for alerting me to Dan's essay! I clicked on it so fast. 😂

I loved Dan Kois on the Dave Eggers of 25 years ago (slate.com/culture/2025...), but I loved even more this vintage essay from @jamiattenberg.bsky.social — via the Wayback Machine! — that got an oblique in-text link: web.archive.org/web/20000824...

Excited to see Roadmap Magazine back online (ty @mollymcardle.bsky.social). V interesting to revisit my piece on Ellen Ullman's work and themes around computers + bodies two very AI-oriented years on. "Technology has humanity’s grubby fingerprints all over it, echoes of the people who created it."

This is a great essay!

I also love this poem!

roadmapmag.com/archive is back online, bless. I do not know for how long but I hope for forever!

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Congratulations to Sam Schwartz, who has been working on congestion pricing since Mayor Lindsay: nextcity.org/features/mov... Also to every single resident, commuter, and visitor in our great city!!!

Big if true

Saw this again & thought “Welp it’s making the rounds again” — simultaneously my most ultraniche yet evergreen of features — & when I looked it up here to see what set if off I saw that the rounds started…last year.

Okay, who hurled in the lobby trash can at Gypsy tonight?

I don't want this to get lost in the news, but that's KIND OF the reason we're hiring—there's so much news! But here's the headline for the reporter position: —75k/year —Fully covered health insurance —Part-ownership of the company —25 vacation days —Joining an incredible team! PLEASE APPLY!

This year's Christmas cookies. 🥰

This weekend, coming to a Bluesky near you. 🍪🍪🍪

Pour a tiny glass of eggnog out for roadmapmag.com, you beautiful URL, we hardly knew ye.

Tina Brown still needs to spring for a copyeditor but I love how much she loves her son. 🥲

Tina! You can afford a copy editor! Employ one!

Reading this with a baby monitor sitting next to me. (It's great.) www.theverge.com/c/24278723/c...

I am writing about books again… COOKBOOKS. 😎👩🏻‍🍳😜 www.foodandwine.com/best-cookboo... @foodandwine.flipboard.com.ap.brid.gy I have already clipped several recipes for the holidays (cookies, pigs in a blanket lol, & several options for black-eyed peas).

I supported my friend Ceraun’s crowdfunding campaign to make their short film Eko & Nars. Donations of up to $1,000 will be matched! seedandspark.com/fund/eko-nars

for the NYTBR, I got to recommend a list of horror books for ween— uh, scaredy-cats. gift link! www.nytimes.com/2024/10/12/b...

Someone please stream “Long Ago & Far Away,” thank you. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Ag...

Hello I am here to brag about @clairecomstockgay.bsky.social again! She is now writing DAILY horoscopes for @thecut.bsky.social! www.thecut.com/article/dail...

Tomorrow there’s a new episode with @emilyhughes.bsky.social - talking about HER book for a change. We get into childhood terrors and what’s she’s learned about fear and filmmaking in the writing of HORROR FOR WEENIES.

Vinson Cunningham reciting quotations from Godfather in an Obama voice is! wow! (As in: both technically accomplished + wild sounding.) A genuine pleasure to hear him think out loud: talkeasypod.com/vinson-cunni...

When I say Kathryn Benson was possibly the kindest person I’ve ever met I mean that. Her entire obituary is here and you can see what she accomplished in her catastrophically short life: www.moorefuneral.com/m/obituaries... I will never forget how we both hated camping and wanted to read instead.