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bettina makalintal

@bettina.bsky.social
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i write for eater, i cook a lot etc / i'm here but also i'm not / @crispyegg420 on instagram

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026
NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
i wrote about the sinister vibes surrounding the entire concept of the "luxury" grocery store www.eater.com/food-culture...
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I’m Over the Erewhonification of Fancy Grocery Stores
The rise of “luxury” grocery stores feels deeply sinister
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Longreads @longreads.com · 29/07/2026
"Sometimes, Sharpie on scraps, done quickly and cheaply, says more than an AI-generated image ever could." @bettina.bsky.social for @eater.bsky.social: www.eater.com/trends/97508...
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In the Age of AI, the Analog Restaurant Feels Radical
Some restaurants are leaning into handmade touches, as AI-generated food photos and flyers become commonplace
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The Conversationalist @conversationalist.org · 20/05/2026
How do you express care through food? Kovie Biakolo chats with food writers @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social and @bettina.bsky.social in our latest podcast about how food and care connect, dinner parties, and "girl dinner" being a form of self-care. Listen 🎙️: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
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Vox Media Union @voxmediaunion.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Thank you all SO MUCH for your support. Our incredible Bargaining Committee worked into the night for us and reached a Tentative Agreement at around 5am! 🙏💪🥳🎉 As of now there will be NO STRIKE! Please continue enjoying all our work, knowing you all helped us get here! #unionstrong #voxunion #1u
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The Salon with Jill Damatac, guest-hosted by @bettina.bsky.social, up now: www.aliciakennedy.news/p/is-this-re...
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“Is This Real for Me?”
A conversation with author Jill Damatac on mythology, recipes, and legibility.
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Vox Media Union @voxmediaunion.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The Vox Media Union’s current union contract expires at 11:59 pm ET on June 12. Time is running out, but Vox Media management has refused to even discuss our proposals in good faith. Send a letter urging Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff to negotiate a fair contract NOW! wgaea.st/vox-letter
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Help union members at Vox Media win a fair contract
Writers Guild of America East members at Vox Media are bargaining for a new union contract before their current CBA expires at 11:59 pm ET on June 12. Our proposed terms are fair, reasonable, and foc...
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
i’m wife
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
every pitch meeting i just say "like a money diary" and hope something sticks. finally, i was able to be nosy about "date night" and what people consider worth spending money on www.eater.com/24365630/dat...
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The State of Date Night Dining
We asked couples across the country about budgets, date nights in, and what makes a restaurant really "worth it"
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
happy valentine's day, i wrote a good headline www.eater.com/24365776/fin...
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At Taco Bell, I Lived Más and I Loved Más
After chatting someone up on OkCupid, we went to Taco Bell for our first date — and that’s history.
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Vox Media Union @voxmediaunion.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
We are overwhelmed by and grateful for the support we've received from everyone in the aftermath of Vox Media's awful end-of-year layoffs. If you have some spare cash, please donate. All funds will go directly to those who lost their jobs last week. www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
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Donate to Stand with the Vox Media Union and Thrillist Union, organized by Ashok Selvam
On Thursday, December 5, nearly 40 members of the Vox Media Union, Thr… Ashok Selvam needs your support for Stand with the Vox Media Union and Thrillist Union
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Annmarie Pisano @annmariepisano.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
🍜🍽️ French onion soup beans, made loosely from this @bettina.bsky.social substack. Beans are the Rancho Gordo Snowcaps that they sent out to the club awhile back.
overhead shot that looks like french onion soupBut surprise, when you cut into the bread, the soup is full of beans!
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
we’re so back
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
to know her (my focaccia) is to love her (my focaccia)
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
ppl are like "green bean casserole is mushy" like that's a bad thing but that's the whole point!!!
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
we got married and it was fun!!!!!
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
why are we calling it “dopamine decor” when it’s literally just. buying things you like
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
the most mid food creators are obsessed with rating and ranking global foods and like why! just make the food! what is the point of the needless comparisons!
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
i can’t believe that this is the person i’ve become
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
i sprinkled a little salt sugar msg mixture on my focaccia and it turned out extremely delicious. do with that information what you will
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
the burrito making station
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
one thing about being on the internet for a really long time is you inevitably watch all your fav blog era girlies go from being innocuous and twee to scamming people with crystals or becoming niche wellness influencers obsessed with forehead tapping or the "divine feminine"
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
i'm a girl with simple wants i just want a house with a nice big dining room with enough space for a long table to have dinner parties
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Ian MacAllen @ianmacallen.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Check out the @eater.bsky.social piece on maximalism in restaurants, and the piece where I spoke to @bettina.bsky.social about how Italian food is the perfect fit for this trend. www.eater.com/23900383/why...
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
they should make a photo app that detects that you've done all your makeup but forgot to put something on your lips and reminds you before you take a selfie (this is my struggle)
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
superiority burger focaccia greens sandwich (bettina’s version)
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
get me OFF bed bug internet i don’t need to know!!!!
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 03/10/2023
went to get our marriage license 💏
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
i’m cringe (a wife guy) but i’m free (in love)
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
made a good sandwich
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
pov you’re about to eat mac and cheese
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
it’s so important to romanticize the mundane like. bro you’re telling me i get to go to the farmers market to buy cute lil potatoes, walk around the city while going to the tailor and dropping off film, and get a fun matcha lemonade for the walk home?? i’m in love w that life actually
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
why are the tiktok girlies doing advent calendars…. It’s not even halloween
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
dinnerposting (it’s chili crisp carbonara with pork floss)
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
C Pam Zhang's Land of Milk and Honey, out today, has the most gorgeous descriptions of food and raises great questions about the nature of hunger, pleasure, and fine dining. i interviewed her about it: www.eater.com/23889575/c-p...
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Who Gets to Eat Well After the Climate Crisis?
C Pam Zhang’s dystopian "Land of Milk and Honey" imagines how fine dining might persist after food systems collapse.
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
lunchposting
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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
teamed up with @bettina.bsky.social to write about some great books you should read this fall www.eater.com/23889429/bes...
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The Best Food Books to Read This Fall
With these 11 works of food-focused fiction and nonfiction you won’t mind being cooped up inside as the temperatures drop.
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
soup steals the spotlight during soup season even though the real star is the crispy gone soggy bread that you put in your soup
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
SOUP SEASON
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
one thing we should let die with twitter is accounts that just scold you about drinking water or scrolling too much or having your shoulders too tense
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
bluesky is for normal people threads is for annoying people
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
bro my ego cannot handle starting from zero on this many platforms
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 05/07/2023
everyone who knows me from instagram alone thinks my name is buttina and i'm never escaping it
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 05/07/2023
this website is glitchy but in a kind of endearing way
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 05/07/2023
not enough ppl use bluesky yet so it's a safe space to admit that the baby grimace birthday pictures made me cry the other day
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 04/07/2023
unfortunately the fitness bros are onto something with the blended cottage cheese hacks
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bettina makalintal @bettina.bsky.social · 04/07/2023
i made a matcha coffee cake
a loaf of matcha coffee cake cooling on top of a wire rack
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