Sona S. K. Rai (she/her)

The @NYCMayor youtube channel no longer has the old pressers and streamed events from @ericadamsfornyc and @BilldeBlasio. This is critical for broadcast reporters who want to use archival sound and footage. It’s also NYC history. Please bring them back! @the_vello @anna_bahr

Being 43 is wild. People your age are living completely different lives. Some are grandparents. Some are raising toddlers. Some are newly divorced. Some are newly engaged. Some haven’t slept in three years. Some are in St. Tropez posting Aperol spritzes from a yacht. Some look 25. Some look like they personally remember the invention of Tupperware. Nobody got the same assignment.

@mollytaft Sigh, sometimes comms people work in a really toxic environment, and even if they tell their leads this, they insist on it anyway.

lots of corporate press / comms people asking me to share drafts of stories before publication (??) these days. baby that is not how it has ever worked

Last Friday, a Brooklyn woman was forced to give birth in shackles in open court after 24 hours in custody. Police and courtroom staff denied her adequate medical care, bodily autonomy, and privacy as she went through labor. 1/

Thinking today of an Everlane ex-employee who told us this in 2020

new @NewYorker column, on the rise of hyperlocal neighborhood email newsletters, solo shoe-leather operations telling you what's going on on your block. In Brooklyn alone there's the Carroll Gardens Times, the Court Street Journal, the Grand Army Gazette, the Boerum Bulletin...

Not to be dramatic, but if we lose @NYMag too, I might die

@jacksdiningroom Vato in Brooklyn

Is it just me, or are there not any good breakfast burritos in NYC? I don’t understand they can’t be that hard to make. Low key though, Golden Diner might have the best breakfast burrito no one knows about, gets very over looked by the pancakes. Who’s got recs tho? #nyc #food

@postproctorism Greenwood Cemetery is so beautiful this time of year, and has great views from Battle Hill. I know it sounds counterintuitive since it's a cemetery, but it is a wonderful place to see birds and feel closer to nature and be more alone.

nyc oomfs: any recommendations on places to wander when you’re really sad? I need to step my depression walk game up.

@rak_garg Kanyakumari and Sharab Aur Kebab are slept on.

Is it just me or are all of the upscale Indian places in NYC beyond mid. I’ve now been to Ambassador’s, Bungalow, Junoon, Musaafer, Gupshup. Each more disappointing than the last.

My ex Dan Eggen passed away. I miss him already, I keep texting him as if he will respond. He had been laid off not long ago from the Wash Post but had texted me how excited he was for his new job at NOTUS. (More)

williamsburg peaked when that doctor got back from treating ebola patients in guinea and then went to the gutter

the decline of cultural criticism is partly why we have cultural slop

Sobering story from my boy @NoahCZuss thetimes.com/us/news-today/…

An FT correction for the ages...

@bluewmist Using a photo nutrition app to monitor fiber and protein intake. Weighing myself regularly to make sure I'm not gaining weight back. Using the glucose goddess hacks since I have PCOS. Actually taking my thyroid meds everyday. Focusing on adequate sleep.

@bluewmist Doing exercise snacks throughout the day, with 1 high impact cardio session and 3 hard lifting sessions throughout the week (15 minute dance and yoga classes on Peloton or 20 minute walks)...not just gym time. Doing stretching or dancing while watching TV.

People who lost a lot of weight, what was the one small daily habit that actually changed everything for you?

This is the work that can’t be replicated by AI or pursued by a reporter with a Substack. It requires time - during which a reporter isn’t producing a lot of copy. Building trust with sources so you can tell sensitive stories, that’s a process that doesn’t scale.

"Nearly five years." Investigative journalism takes years and years. The investment is immense, and always worth it, and, in the era of "hot takes" and ephemeral "content," rigorously reported journalistic work is needed more than ever. We must keep supporting investigative journalism. From @mannyNYT, lead reporter of the blockbuster piece on Cesar Chavez ⤵️

@hell_line0 My husband does all the cooking too <3.

Me (a surgeon who took a month off to travel without my husband) minding my own business A random male acquaintance: And what about your husband? Me: What about him? Him: Did you at least make some food and freeze it for him before you left? Me: . . . He is an adult. He also does all the cooking at home. Him: I don’t cook. What kind of man does all the cooking?? Me: An independent one who isn’t looking for free labor. A man in my replies: You went off for vacation for a month without your husband?? Me: Yes, I took a month between jobs to travel and make memories with my other family members Him: I need to educate you on why that’s deranged and selfish Why do medicore men have opinions on what exceptional women do?