Phoebe Maltz Bovy

The posts on here about this really really miss the mark.

Do others on here not know what I'm referring to or did I once again and somewhat intentionally fail to read the room?

Effortless and chill, overanalyzed The height of style these days is an appearance of effortlessness.

Is 'chill' the dominant style aesthetic or is this just a local-moms thing? I, unchill, demand answers! phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/effortless...

A less-bad one surely!

The version of MAGA with a place for Weiss is not the most concerning of all possible MAGAs, should now be obvious.

"Weiss has been a staunch Zionist, which one presumes — is the reason for the heavy security, especially after the assassination of fellow media personality Charlie Kirk." Whatever this is, it isn't, like, a manicure budget.

Exclusive | Bari Weiss’ security detail costs CBS $10,000 a day as network undergoes layoffs Page Six hears that as staffers watch their colleagues pack up their desks, they’re also learning that the security detail for new CBSNews boss Bari Weiss costs the company five figures every day.…

pagesix.com/2025/11/03/e... I would be wary of being gleeful about this, or more specifically about assuming physical risks to BW would be 1) imagined or 2) exclusively from the left!

You're probably right. But having moved from NYC to another state AND from the US to Canada, both as an adult, these are extremely different levels of commitment. (I moved to Canada in 2015 and not for political reasons.)

Right-wing anti-Zionism is real be careful what you wish for times. (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social had a good post on this a while back.)

I haven't checked in for a while: has anyone written a think-piece about how Lily Allen's album has more impact than Taylor Swift's because we prefer the artistic expression of misery/anger to happy contentment? (Don't come for me, Swifties, I like both.)

Mentioning the war "The Germans" vs "German Week"

A post I'd written in my head a while ago and somehow forgot to actually write until this evening! phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/mentioning...

I'm waiting for an actual British person who actually remembers 1975 to tell me there's something huge I've missed.

Mentioning the war "The Germans" vs "German Week"

A post I'd written in my head a while ago and somehow forgot to actually write until this evening! phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/mentioning...

As do some Jews for right-wing 'America is a Christian country'-style populism.

There are alliances of convenience between some right-wing Jews and Christian Zionists but what you do not see, at all, are pro-Israel or (with rare exceptions) anti-Israel Jews applauding the groyper set.

Real plot-lost times when people on here I believe were making cracks about a certain B. Weiss being a secret Nazi I mean come on.

This feels like a right-wing version of where society is meant to be being destroyed at once by 'Nazis' and by 'Zionists' who are presumed in cahoots.

This is the value of reruns. 99% of what seems new is not.

What was it??

The importance of this scene is that it explains why ‘just shop vintage’ isn’t a proxy for natural fibers. This was the 1970s!

I'm in Toronto not far from all this and genuinely concerned!!

Does Trump lose it if Toronto wins the sport or is his mind elsewhere?

Putting it on the list! The hope is to combine this with the next trip to see family in Belgium.

My life goal is a tour of UK charity shops. But I do have a great wool cricket sweater from a used clothing store in Toronto!

I know it's not Trump not sports but: surely there is some corner of Bluesky miffed that the default material of sweaters is plastic?!

This I want to dwell on for a moment: we’ve crossed some threshold where it has to be specified if the clothing is not mostly made from plastic. Where this is a luxurious enough quality to merit a mention. Whereas in the past, a luxury material would be named (cashmere, silk), it is now noteworthy when something that resembles a cotton t-shirt is made out of cotton. This can no longer be assumed. It’s like when the entry-level jobs were reinvented as unpaid internships, and job ads started to mention, as though this were surprising, that they paid money for this.

Enough with the faux-brics CashSoft, Soufflé Yarn, and other nemeses

I've had it with the renamings of man-made fiber sweater materials! phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/enough-wit...

Asking all the kids who come to our door follow-up questions because I am the scariest of characters for Halloween: Isaac Chotiner