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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 5d

i just wish more people knew about the race to the north pole of 1909

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Sarah Pickman @sarahmpicks.bsky.social · 21d

Full house tonight at South Street Seaport Museum for talks on queer polar and maritime history with @tchotchke.bsky.social @evamolinaflores.bsky.social and Seth Stein LeJacq! ❄️⚓️🌈

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Allegra Rosenberg @tchotchke.bsky.social · Aug 5

I'm guest hosting @walthickey.bsky.social's Numlock News today! Read on for a numerical roundup of stories about the internet, fashion, literature, the Fringe, basically a lot of very on-brand fare: www.numlock.com/p/numlock-ne...

Numlock News: August 5, 2025 • Wattpad, Scams, Lying Prudes

By Allegra Rosenberg

www.numlock.com

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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · Aug 3

Web links and websites disappear all the time. But Google’s planned erasure of millions of links at once demonstrates the risks of putting our personal and collective digital histories in Big Tech’s hands. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... via @shiraovide.bsky.social

Analysis | Google is killing millions of web links to save a few bucks

The company junked its 15-year-old web address format, which will break a deluge of links in academic research, court documents and websites.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Allegra Rosenberg @tchotchke.bsky.social · Aug 4

New from me on @sherwood.news: Wattpad is full of fanfiction and they want you to know it!

sherwood.news/culture/fand...

Fandom is big business, and Wattpad is poised to cash in

Wattpad wants to be the go-to destination for fans of existing IP as well as young creators looking to stir up new audiences for their own original...

sherwood.news

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · Jul 27

In my debut for @theatlantic.com, I wrote about the disappearance of cultural listings from major New York media outlets, and what it portends for artists, audiences, institutions, and journalists. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Why No One Knows What’s Happening Tonight

A love letter to music listings

www.theatlantic.com

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Allegra Rosenberg @tchotchke.bsky.social · Jul 28

thank you to my mom for digging out a tom lehrer LP and sending me this insanely hilarious bio… rip to the 🐐

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Allegra Rosenberg @tchotchke.bsky.social · Jul 26

I would take a course on “how to win arguments against opinionated men at parties when you know you’re right but are easily intimidated by the other person being loud and dismissive” is this a thing that is offered anywhere

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Allegra Rosenberg @tchotchke.bsky.social · Jul 26

maybe I should not put so much stock into the words of Virginia Woolf but tell me what you think:

tchotchke.substack.com/p/tchotchke-...

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Allegra Rosenberg @tchotchke.bsky.social · Jul 26

New tchotchke about how being good at admin has possibly ruined my chances of being an artist: tchotchke.substack.com/p/tchotchke-...

tchotchke #46: Has being good at admin ruined my life?

The galloping life of the mind.

tchotchke.substack.com

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Terror Camp @terrorcamp.bsky.social · Jul 25

📢 This is your one week reminder!📢

Our FREE talk on queer polar history at the South Street Seaport Museum in NYC takes place in one week! Get your RSVP in now 🤩🌈❄️

Terror Camp @terrorcamp.bsky.social · Jul 4

🗣️ UPCOMING NYC EVENT 🗣️

On July 31st, we’ll be back at the South Street Seaport Museum for another FREE evening of polar & maritime talks, this time with a Queer History theme 🌈✨

❄️ MORE INFO & RSVP HERE: southstreetseaportmuseum.org/queer-polar-...

Queer History: Polar Exploration - South Street Seaport Museum

Learn all about queer maritime and polar history in this evening of free talks in this mini-symposium presented by the South Street Seaport Museum and the polar social club, Terror and Erebus Society.

southstreetseaportmuseum.org

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Allegra Rosenberg @tchotchke.bsky.social · Jul 25

www.ucpress.edu/books/a-quee... it’s so good!

A Queer Way of Feeling by Diana Anselmo - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

www.ucpress.edu

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Allegra Rosenberg @tchotchke.bsky.social · Jul 25

let out a very happy sound at the sight of @hesterblum.bsky.social cited in this book about early 20th century female film fangirls ... MY INTERESTS !!!

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · Jul 1

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

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Allegra Rosenberg @tchotchke.bsky.social · Jul 1

I'm on the @atlasobscura.com PODCAST today chatting about IVAN THE TERRA BUS !!! open.spotify.com/episode/0RXg...

Ivan the Terra Bus

The Atlas Obscura Podcast · Episode

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Allegra Rosenberg @tchotchke.bsky.social · Jun 29

like it's mostly over but occasionally im back. and then im over again

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Allegra Rosenberg @tchotchke.bsky.social · Jun 29

writing the second draft of this book is really like this

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Allegra Rosenberg @tchotchke.bsky.social · Jun 27

subscribe to my substack ... i will be posting more often ...!!!

Allegra Rosenberg @tchotchke.bsky.social · Jun 26

new TCHOTCHKE — about wishing, uselessly, that my phone was not only gone but perhaps never existed at all:

tchotchke.substack.com/p/tchotchke-...

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · Jun 27

the use of the word "cured" here... "cured of the desire to watch any more episodes"...

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Jun 27

Really a sad way to go through life www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/b...

On how A.I. can transform media consumption:
Reading the A.I. summary — I think it can be useful. I think it has a powerfully inoculating effect. Like, I think long-form, lots-of-episodes TV is a waste of time. But it’s very tempting, right? You watch an episode and you’re like, “Oh, geez, I really want to know what happens here.”
And so I discovered a couple of years ago, obviously, that the solution is you immediately go to Wikipedia and read the entire summary of the season, and then you’re cured of the desire to watch any more episodes. So there is a therapeutic benefit to A.I. summaries.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Jun 27

Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"

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Allegra Rosenberg @tchotchke.bsky.social · Jun 26

once you’ve realized you need to wash your hair it’s already too late. trying to complete any kind of focused work while aware of unwashed hair is a fool’s errand. this is the leading cause of frantic 3pm showers in curly haired women

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Allegra Rosenberg @tchotchke.bsky.social · Jun 26

subletting my room in ridgewood for AUGUST please let me know if you would like to live here !!!! it’s nice !!!!! mutuals or friends-of-mutuals preferred :)

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Allegra Rosenberg @tchotchke.bsky.social · Jun 26

new TCHOTCHKE — about wishing, uselessly, that my phone was not only gone but perhaps never existed at all:

tchotchke.substack.com/p/tchotchke-...

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Luke Winkie @lukewinkie.bsky.social · Jun 26

Wrote about Zohran, edgy podcasts, “problematic men,” and how I yearn for a world where political discourse looked and felt more like our group chats.

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Allegra Rosenberg @tchotchke.bsky.social · Jun 26

lmao hell yeah

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