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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You know what’s ripe for a comeback is the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series by Joan Aiken. Smart & non-condescending YA, fantastical without being fantasy, dark and Dickensian as hell, extremely lefty and anticapitalist, a full dozen sequels, amazing Edward Gorey covers.
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
You know what’s ripe for a comeback is the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series by Joan Aiken. Smart & non-condescending YA, fantastical without being fantasy, dark and Dickensian as hell, extremely lefty and anticapitalist, a full dozen sequels, amazing Edward Gorey covers.
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here it is, the archived link for @hels.bsky.social 's cold oven turkey that I make every Thanksgiving
web.archive.org/web/20201117...
web.archive.org/web/20201117...
Issue #14: Cold-Oven Thanksgiving Turkey
= Hello! I recently tweeted a bare-bones method for roasting a perfect Thanksgiving turkey in a cold oven, and many people had lots of questions. =
web.archive.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
here it is, the archived link for @hels.bsky.social 's cold oven turkey that I make every Thanksgiving
web.archive.org/web/20201117...
web.archive.org/web/20201117...
Such a great idea let’s all do it
hey instead of reading and sharing some book that sucks by a woman in love with an insane corpse who neither deserves nor needs the coverage, why not instead buy and read MY book. due to me being normal simplicitybook.xyz
November 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Such a great idea let’s all do it
Not to overromanticize farming, which is arduous low-margin labor, but sending me a press release about a cute fancy jam company and calling the farmer-owner an “entrepreneur” is … so icky. Why. Why would you voluntarily insert the decaying ghoul of capital into this bucolic narrative landscape.
November 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Not to overromanticize farming, which is arduous low-margin labor, but sending me a press release about a cute fancy jam company and calling the farmer-owner an “entrepreneur” is … so icky. Why. Why would you voluntarily insert the decaying ghoul of capital into this bucolic narrative landscape.
Uh oh I’m getting really into Slay the Spire
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Uh oh I’m getting really into Slay the Spire
I really cannot emphasize enough that if you like dark, horny, angry, extremely lefty big-ideas literature, you will ADORE this book
I have next to zero interest in Wicked the movie, but I’ve been rereading Wicked the book and I’m again struck by how brutal and intelligent and unflinchingly politically radical it is.
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I really cannot emphasize enough that if you like dark, horny, angry, extremely lefty big-ideas literature, you will ADORE this book
Hello it’s Helen’s Holiday Gift Guide time!!!!!!! www.newyorker.com/culture/on-a...
A Holiday Gift Guide: Tools, Treats, and Trifles for Food Lovers
Our food critic’s annual roundup of gastronomic ideas for giving.
www.newyorker.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Hello it’s Helen’s Holiday Gift Guide time!!!!!!! www.newyorker.com/culture/on-a...
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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
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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
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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.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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
If I even kind of know you and you start watching Taskmaster you can ask for my number when you get to the “I only want to talk about Taskmaster” phase
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is me with Terry Pratchett btw
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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:
Read more below:
Progressive Jewish groups say ADL's 'Mamdani Monitor' is 'Islamophobic and racist' - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jewish organizations are split along ideological and strategic lines over how to interact with the mayor-elect.
www.jta.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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:
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
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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
Another Haaretz piece that I am struggling with, but this, in particular, just makes me feel like the "relationship" between Israel and the diaspora is — in the eyes of many Israelis — that the diaspora sends money while being dismissed as lesser Jews. Not healthy!
www.haaretz.com/jewish/2025-...
www.haaretz.com/jewish/2025-...
November 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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
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.
two contradictory ideas that i hold in my head at the same time: 1) i think the threat to both SNAP recipients and federal workers is significant enough now that even bad deals are worth making to prevent further harm, and, 2) everyone who caves now should retire in shame
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.