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Allegra Rosenberg
@tchotchke.bsky.social
community editor @atlasobscura.com + fandom + media + tech + history + polar exploration + the libidinal pleasures of obsession

newsletter: tchotchke.substack.com
website: allegrarosenberg.com
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TODAY’S THE DAY! ❄️🤩🎉

We can’t wait to kick off Terror Camp V today, starting at 9:00am PST / 12:00pm EST / 6:00pm CET.

You should have received a link to join the conference via Eventbrite email — let us know if you have any problems, and we’ll help!
December 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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This weekend is the next iteration of Terror Camp, a free online conference for polar exploration enthusiasts, which has the highest level of intellectual content and hilarity I have ever encountered: www.terror.camp @terrorcamp.bsky.social
Terror Camp | Polar Fan Conference
Terror Camp is an annual virtual gathering of hundreds of polar exploration enthusiasts. Inspired by AMC's The Terror and the history of the Franklin Expedition, this polar exploration conference feat...
www.terror.camp
December 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Anyway. There's still good stuff about the Internet. At @terrorcamp.bsky.social on Sunday, I'll be chatting with Edward Berger (The Terror, Conclave, All Quiet on the Western Front) & Florian Hofmeister (The Terror, Tár, True Detective). Have questions, check out the link in my last Re-post.
December 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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"Terror Camp Clear" by @tchotchke.bsky.social of @terrorcamp.bsky.social is the eleventh and final post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2025/12/01/t...

#envhist #envhum
December 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Did you know? You can help support Terror Camp by paying for a conference ticket or donating at any time! Here's everything your support helps us do—from Zoom licenses to charity donations: terror.camp/so/75PgE5vmu...
How you can support Terror Camp
Hi Friend, When we started Terror Camp, we had no idea we’d be here, five years on with thousands of community members all over the world. By now, you know that while Terror Camp is (and will always b...
terror.camp
November 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
new article on AO! about the HOT NEW TREND ON TIKTOK, memes about "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," just in time for the 50-year anniversary of the disaster

www.atlasobscura.com/articles/edm...
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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📣 SATURDAY KEYNOTE ANNOUNCED: Inside Amundsen's House with Anders Bache!

Step inside the historic home of Roald Amundsen, as curator Anders Bache invites us on an exclusive tour of his amazing recent discoveries. 🤩

❄️ Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam...
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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📣 FRIDAY KEYNOTE ANNOUNCED: Careers in Polar Humanities!

Interested in becoming a professional polar obsessive? Join us as we hear from five incredible experts working across the field of polar humanities.

❄️ Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam...
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Time for @terrorcamp.bsky.social at Shackleton Autumn School, kicking off with the brilliant @tchotchke.bsky.social ❄️🐧
October 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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📣 TERROR CAMP V PROGRAM ANNOUNCED!

Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam...

We’re thrilled to bring you a fantastic line-up of presentations for Terror Camp V, from deep dives into Inuit texts and polar history to queer naval fiction & scurvy. Find out what we've got in store! 🤩
October 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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i just wish more people knew about the race to the north pole of 1909
October 4, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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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! ❄️⚓️🌈
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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
August 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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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
August 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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
August 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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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
July 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
thank you to my mom for digging out a tom lehrer LP and sending me this insanely hilarious bio… rip to the 🐐
July 28, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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
July 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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
July 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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📢 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 🤩🌈❄️
July 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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 !!!
July 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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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)
July 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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
open.spotify.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
writing the second draft of this book is really like this
June 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
subscribe to my substack ... i will be posting more often ...!!!
new TCHOTCHKE — about wishing, uselessly, that my phone was not only gone but perhaps never existed at all:

tchotchke.substack.com/p/tchotchke-...
June 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM