Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay) @ortile.bsky.social · 05/10/2025“my house is on Pretty Girl Avenue” saaaaaame 020
Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay) @ortile.bsky.social · 17/08/2025does anyone on here have thoughts about the Bilt credit card / has experience paying rent with Bilt?? I think I am finally ready to make the jump 👀 000
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)colin feral @sal.gay · 22/06/2025No cuomo (said while thinking abt “no homo”) 161
Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay) @ortile.bsky.social · 22/06/2025had a busy week but this kind of only-in-New York marathon of events, shows, parties, dinner reservations, et al. never gets old even after 11 years of living here :) 060
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 03/06/2025It should not be this hard to find an agent, right??????agentsandbooks.comIt Should Not Be This Hard to Find an AgentExcept...... (And an Excerpt) 2337
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)Kristine Ada Carter @kristineadacarter.bsky.social · 29/05/2025I love this newsletter for writers: @katemckean.bsky.social . One of my fav reads in my email. 142
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social · 29/05/2025may issue of Immigrant Strong, my free monthly newsletter, is out! includes an essay i published this month, my favorite memoir of the year so far, and more writing and interviews with immigrant writers open.substack.com/pub/immigran...open.substack.comImmigrant Strong: May 2025My Electric Lit essay, the newsletter turns six, and my favorite memoir of the year 021
Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay) @ortile.bsky.social · 29/05/2025need a Costco-sized bag of these to get me through this day 030
Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay) @ortile.bsky.social · 29/05/2025good morning blue sky pls tell me your favorite people to follow that make this place feel like golden age tw*tt*r i miss the shitposts 9140
Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay) @ortile.bsky.social · 29/05/2025wow i stop taking Zyrtec for one day and suddenly I’m clogged up like a middle manager’s email inbox after a week of PTO this sucks 010
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 29/05/2025Come on New York Prove to the world that you are as cool as you incessantly claim you are Or just admit you're an overpriced version of Jersey City 0463
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 28/05/2025We're now 8 points away from sending Andrew Cuomo back to the suburbs. 1356197937
Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay) @ortile.bsky.social · 28/05/2025also btw while I’m here: heads up that I’m gonna start writing classes again, watch this space ❤️ 120
Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay) @ortile.bsky.social · 28/05/2025different editors have different styles but trust me when I say this is one thing we all agree on!! those edits on page 1 may change once the editor gets to page 3—leave the draft alone until it comes back to you take a break! watch some TV, make a meal, call a friend, touch seaweed, SOMETHING ELSE 150
Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay) @ortile.bsky.social · 28/05/2025I’ve been an editor for 11 years and my god I still have to say this once a month!! writers— please please PLEASE do not resolve your editor’s notes in the Google Doc until they tell you it is your turn to review and address!! I promise you they will tell you when it’s your move 251
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 19/05/2025“Websites are their people; laying off the majority of a site’s staff is akin to molting skin and bones – and keeping only a name. So while Polygon persists, we still feel like now is an appropriate time to give former staff a chance to eulogize what was.” Read: aftermath.site/polygon-vox-...aftermath.siteA Fond Farewell To Polygon, From The People Who Worked There - Aftermath"It was a good website. I doubt I'll ever find a place like it for the rest of my career" 122960
Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay) @ortile.bsky.social · 19/05/2025need an app that lets me post on here and tweet on the other website simultaneously 000
Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay) @ortile.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Are you an American living in Ireland? Or perhaps you know an American who has moved to Ireland? I’d love to interview you for a story on Condé Nast Traveler — please reply below! 0410
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)big lou @thetallblonde.bsky.social · 08/01/2025being on bluesky 178251402709
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Need everyone to know that for a final performance of Boston Ballet's Nutcracker, they costumed the party scene dolls as Elphaba and Glinda and even included the viral finger-hold moment. (Screenshot because it won't show the preview, but watch the IG video! Link: www.instagram.com/reel/DEP8Rsx... ) 0286
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Oh shit my book comes out this year! 2052329
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Andy Cohen is still screaming about Eric Adams's indictments, I love this, happy new year everyone!!! 0364
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)thot catalog @thotcatalog.bsky.social · 01/01/2025those gay raunchy holiday copypastas are sacred and must be handed down generation to generation 1532
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2025? 1716
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)Klint Kanopka @klint.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I want to talk about how I’m excited to teach parallelization in my Statistical Computing course, but I think most of my followers are here because of Onions. So here he is. 55146488
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)Joseph Osmundson @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social · 30/12/2024ONIONS 0201
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Huge night here at NYU. An undergrad trying to fix their grade accidentally discovered how to email 11,000 instructors on a secret group email list, unifying the faculty like no one before. I have hundreds of email replies in my inbox. And apparently Onions, the puppy, has just been granted tenure. 764525630
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)Funkit Toys @funkittoys.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Lose some files. Misplace some paperwork. Type a name in wrong. Check the wrong box. Normal people are bad at their jobs all the time. Screw something up. There's gonna be a lot of opportunities in the coming years to do a bad job for the good of all. 13622261
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Americans can enjoy power fluctuations so intellectually, artistically arrested hacks can make grotesque, unethically-derived "content" and images. "...more than three-quarters of highly-distorted power readings across the country are within 50 miles of significant data center activity."bloomberg.comAI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours WorseThere’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas 044
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 27/12/2024This level of wealth concentration is indefensible 15259401843
Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay) @ortile.bsky.social · 25/12/2024me, pictured, getting zapped by a taser “Matt Ortile stunned in new photo” 070
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 22/12/2024May I tempt madam with an end-of-year listicle www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...newyorker.comThe Best Restaurant Dishes of 2024A food critic’s favorite menu items from a year of dining out. 79110
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Hello! I write a weekly column for the New Yorker (mostly restaurant reviews, sometimes other vibey stuff) called The Food Scene. It’s also conveniently available as an email—the whole article, in full, no paywall!—which you can sign up for here:newyorker.comSign up for The Food Scene newsletterHelen Rosner on what, where, and how to eat. 3847958
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)Sasha Darling PHD, MD, DSL @sashadarling.bsky.social · 24/12/2024I made a gingerbread panopticon 384258184499
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Some people: it is offensive to compare Israel to the Nazis IDF soldier taking part in the Gaza genocide: “I felt like a Nazi. It looked exactly like we were the Nazis and they were the Jews.” In an Israeli paper by an Israeli interviewing Israelis. archive.is/2024.12.23-1...haaretz.com'When you enter Gaza, you are God': Inside the minds of IDF soldiers who commit war crimes | Opinion*** 17711343
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 23/12/2024I'd say Melissa Febos's whole book Body Work? But especially "In Praise of Navel Gazing"! 031
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)Joanna B (she/her) @thewelllostmind.bsky.social · 23/12/2024I think of this one from Alexander Chee as an essay about essay writing: themorningnews.org/article/anni...themorningnews.orgAnnie Dillard and the Writing Life - The Morning NewsWriters aren’t born, they’re made—from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage. 031
Reposted by Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay)Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Happens in lots of literary fiction to cis people also. Nonfiction also. A general lack of description, maybe even an anxiety about it. 111077
Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay) @ortile.bsky.social · 23/12/2024question for the literary nonfiction girlies on here: tell me about your favorite ‘essays about essays’ — I’m revisiting Jia’s “the personal essay boom is over” and thinking of compiling a little reading list 2225
Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay) @ortile.bsky.social · 21/12/2024the Venice pic is def what they used at the funeral 010