Jaya Saxena
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Founder-Owner of @weareravenous.com Series Editor at Best American Food and Travel Writing Queens, NY she/her Tips to jaya@weareravenous.con
Love this on Filipino spaghetti getting its due
Ravenous@weareravenous.com · yesterdayJollibee is inspiring more Filipino restaurants to put the hot dog spaghetti on the menu. Sweet.
Jollibee is inspiring more Filipino restaurants to put the hot dog spaghetti on the menu. Sweet.
Is Filipino Spaghetti Cool Yet?
Jollibee is inspiring more Filipino restaurants to put the hot dog spaghetti on the menu. Sweet.
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Instead of scrolling on my phone I read for 10 minutes before bed last night and had the worst most fitfull sleep in recent memory, so checkmate, everyone concerned about my wellbeing
Love this on Filipino spaghetti getting its due
Ravenous@weareravenous.com · yesterdayJollibee is inspiring more Filipino restaurants to put the hot dog spaghetti on the menu. Sweet.
Just saying! www.weareravenous.com/ai-slop-rest...
Is That Restaurant’s AI Slop False Advertising?
It’s lazy, cheap, and misleading — but did your local diner break any laws by posting that altered image of that uncanny burger? Ravenous speaks with Truth In Advertising for answers.
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Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · yesterdayJust as I don't want to read a book by someone who couldn't be bothered to write it, I *definitely* don't want to eat food by someone who doesn't want me to see that food in actual photo form. You're advertising a product that does not and cannot exist in corporeal reality. WTF.
Good on @weareravenous.com for being so thoughtful about freelance commissions, and also … man, things are bleak www.weareravenous.com/ai-freelance...
"What is left is an unsavory choice for the audience: the complicity of silence or the complicity of judgment." slate.com/life/2026/08...
The Ariana Grande News Leaves Us With Two Unsavory Options
The audience has two unsavory options.
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I wrote about Ravenous preparing to commission freelance (yayy!!!) and realizing that means having to plan for AI scams (boooooo) www.weareravenous.com/ai-freelance...
AI Is Fucking Over Freelancers
Watching what AI is doing to the process of commissioning freelance work is making us depressed and angry.
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really loving all the protests against and support for trans women happening in and around the WNBA, a league that has never had a trans woman play in it. we’re just THAT interesting to talk about! for everyone! how fun!!!!
The AI scammy freelancer writer problem is overwhelming for small publications. Heck, for big ones too. @jayasaxena.com wrote about some of what we’ve seen and learned, and what @weareravenous.com is going to do when we move into accepting pitches soon.
Jaya Saxena@jayasaxena.com · 3d agoI wrote about Ravenous preparing to commission freelance (yayy!!!) and realizing that means having to plan for AI scams (boooooo) www.weareravenous.com/ai-freelance...
Jaya rules, and Ravenous rules! This is such a vivid example of how generative AI does not "democratize" art and culture like its boosters claim. It actually increases the need for/impulse towards gatekeeping because in practice, AI just democratizes fraud. Actual work still takes time and skill!
Jaya Saxena@jayasaxena.com · 3d agoI wrote about Ravenous preparing to commission freelance (yayy!!!) and realizing that means having to plan for AI scams (boooooo) www.weareravenous.com/ai-freelance...
I wrote about Ravenous preparing to commission freelance (yayy!!!) and realizing that means having to plan for AI scams (boooooo) www.weareravenous.com/ai-freelance...
AI Is Fucking Over Freelancers
Watching what AI is doing to the process of commissioning freelance work is making us depressed and angry.
weareravenous.com
wow didn’t know that Gillibrand was fraternizing with these bigots (somehow makes sense that MGP is)
Jonathan Larsen@jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 4d agoNEW: Corporate media zero in signs of antisemitism on the left. Meanwhile, one of Rep. Haley Stevens's most powerful backers in her Senate race attends a Bible study that teaches that the Jews killed Jesus...
“'Amateur eater' is a blatantly ridiculous thing to call someone, as if 'being good at going to a restaurant' is a real skill...But almost 35 years after the first Restaurant Week, not all chefs and critics are such snobs about it." www.weareravenous.com/restaurant-w...
Restaurant Week Is Good, Actually
Chefs and diners have been plenty skeptical of Restaurant Week's discounted menus. But what if it's a better way to learn what a city's restaurants have to offer?
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Restaurant Week in DC is how my coworkers who were relatively new to the DC area got to try a bunch of restaurants we wouldn’t normally go to cause of cost. (I’d been to some of them because I’d been with my parents who paid in the past)
Jaya Saxena@jayasaxena.com · 6d ago“'Amateur eater' is a blatantly ridiculous thing to call someone, as if 'being good at going to a restaurant' is a real skill...But almost 35 years after the first Restaurant Week, not all chefs and critics are such snobs about it." www.weareravenous.com/restaurant-w...
“'Amateur eater' is a blatantly ridiculous thing to call someone, as if 'being good at going to a restaurant' is a real skill...But almost 35 years after the first Restaurant Week, not all chefs and critics are such snobs about it." www.weareravenous.com/restaurant-w...
Restaurant Week Is Good, Actually
Chefs and diners have been plenty skeptical of Restaurant Week's discounted menus. But what if it's a better way to learn what a city's restaurants have to offer?
weareravenous.com
I wrote about Restaurant Week, the criticisms it's received over the years (both snobbish and legitimate), and why it's endured even as we've developed many other ways for finding where to eat www.weareravenous.com/restaurant-w...
Restaurant Week Is Good, Actually
Chefs and diners have been plenty skeptical of Restaurant Week's discounted menus. But what if it's a better way to learn what a city's restaurants have to offer?
weareravenous.com
Chefs and diners have been plenty skeptical of Restaurant Week's discounted menus. But what if it's a better way to learn what a city's restaurants have to offer?
Restaurant Week Is Good, Actually
Chefs and diners have been plenty skeptical of Restaurant Week's discounted menus. But what if it's a better way to learn what a city's restaurants have to offer?
weareravenous.com
I wrote about Restaurant Week, the criticisms it's received over the years (both snobbish and legitimate), and why it's endured even as we've developed many other ways for finding where to eat www.weareravenous.com/restaurant-w...
Restaurant Week Is Good, Actually
Chefs and diners have been plenty skeptical of Restaurant Week's discounted menus. But what if it's a better way to learn what a city's restaurants have to offer?
weareravenous.com
"It sounds like leftovers being thrown in the toilet, the slop and slush echoing across porcelain. It sounds like Joey Chestnut mid-competition. It sounds like what I imagine Steve-O heard when he was spiraling through the air in a Porta Potty." www.weareravenous.com/odyssey-circ...
The Eating in 'The Odyssey' Sounds Like Vomiting in Reverse
Movies need to start saying when they're Not Safe For Misophonia.
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I hope this discourse goes on forever and keeps dragging more characters into it. Where is Agnes Callard’s take.What does that guy who filmed his wife rolling down a hill make of the film’s depiction of marital fidelity
Aaron Bady@zunguzungu.bsky.social · 7d agoOkay now it's getting real
*Alt Rodney Dangerfield* I told my wife I was gonna find my clown. She told me to lose it!
"It sounds like leftovers being thrown in the toilet, the slop and slush echoing across porcelain. It sounds like Joey Chestnut mid-competition. It sounds like what I imagine Steve-O heard when he was spiraling through the air in a Porta Potty." www.weareravenous.com/odyssey-circ...
The Eating in 'The Odyssey' Sounds Like Vomiting in Reverse
Movies need to start saying when they're Not Safe For Misophonia.
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today on @darkertimes.bsky.social: I *love* this essay from the inimitable @scumbelievable.bsky.social on witches on film and text, subtext, power, and worldview: www.darkertimes.com/witches-worl...
We Are the Daughters of the Witches You Couldn't Film
Gretchen Felker-Martin examines the tangled web of historical fact, social anxieties, and authorial worldview in art about witchcraft.
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