Allegra Rosenberg

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

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! ❄️⚓️🌈

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

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...

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.

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

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...

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

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Why No One Knows What’s Happening Tonight A love letter to music listings

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...

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

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

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

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tchotchke #46: Has being good at admin ruined my life? The galloping life of the mind.

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

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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 🤩🌈❄️

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/books/a-quee... it’s so good!

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 !!!

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)

Ivan the Terra Bus The Atlas Obscura Podcast · Episode

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

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

writing the second draft of this book is really like this

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

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

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?"

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

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 :)

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

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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.

lmao hell yeah

More on the death of US science

ahhh so excited to read!

i would like it a lot of zohran did whatever it takes to keep lander involved with the campaign. ride a tandem bike with him in your ads man this is great stuff

permission to lib out being ceremonially granted in group chats across the city tonight

then she was like “wasn’t zohran that movie about a space board game” and i had to be like mom that’s zathura.