Helen Rosner
@hels.bsky.social
“Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
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Helen Rosner
@hels.bsky.social
· Nov 12
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smh, more AI insanity — it’s just one nipple
I am going to read this now, but not because of the AI summary Safari created
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
smh, more AI insanity — it’s just one nipple
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"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
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-...
La Boca Is All Smoke, No Fire
The Argentinean chef Francis Mallmann is notorious for his love of cooking over open flames. With his New York début, he fizzles out.
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
"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!
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-...
La Boca Is All Smoke, No Fire
The Argentinean chef Francis Mallmann is notorious for his love of cooking over open flames. With his New York début, he fizzles out.
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Anyway!
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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.
In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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.
In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.
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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.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
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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-...
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-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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-...
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!
“I don’t want to go back to La Boca, and I can’t in good conscience recommend that anyone else eat there.”
A wonderfully-written review of a very good restaurant is one thing, but a wonderfully-written review of a very bad restaurant is something else all together.
Bravo, @hels.bsky.social.
A wonderfully-written review of a very good restaurant is one thing, but a wonderfully-written review of a very bad restaurant is something else all together.
Bravo, @hels.bsky.social.
La Boca Is All Smoke, No Fire
The Argentinean chef Francis Mallmann is notorious for his love of cooking over open flames. With his New York début, he fizzles out.
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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-...
La Boca Is All Smoke, No Fire
The Argentinean chef Francis Mallmann is notorious for his love of cooking over open flames. With his New York début, he fizzles out.
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Breathtaking
All the time. ALL the time.
you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
All the time. ALL the time.
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"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
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"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)
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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)
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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
November 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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
according to @jessyedwards.bsky.social of @hellgatenyc.com Curtis Sliwa just said on stage that he was offered $10 million to drop out of the race
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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
November 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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
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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!
November 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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!
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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...
How did Zohran Mamdani win over New York’s small restaurants?
A dispatch from NYC by Apoorva Tadepalli.
www.vittlesmagazine.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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
I always heard that the starch from the pasta water helps the sauce stick better. Is that a cooking myth? (I’ve never remembered to do it, myself.)
November 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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.
November 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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
October 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I ordered fries for the table and literally no one else ate any fries I’m spiraling
I am LOSING my MIND
October 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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
October 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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
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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...
850+ US rabbis sign letter opposing Mamdani and the ‘political normalization’ of anti-Zionism
Letter calling to 'defend the Jewish future' rejects 'false choice' of 'treating Jewish self-determination as a negotiable ideal or Jewish inclusion as something to be granted’
www.timesofisrael.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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?????
October 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I had not realized fear was part of the wipes equation?????
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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.
Remember, as SNAP is about to end, the standing rule remains firm:
If you see someone stealing diapers or formula no you didn't.
If you see someone stealing diapers or formula no you didn't.
October 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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.