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...

📣 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...

📣 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...

Time for @terrorcamp.bsky.social at Shackleton Autumn School, kicking off with the brilliant @tchotchke.bsky.social ❄️🐧

📣 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! 🤩

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! ❄️⚓️🌈

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...

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

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

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

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

📢 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 🤩🌈❄️

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)

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

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

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.

More on the death of US science

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

my mom was like "wasn't zohran the fortune teller in big that makes tom hanks an adult" and i had to be like mom that's zoltar.

this weather is a conspiracy to make me stay in and work on my book

i want to start blogging again but i don't really want to do it on substack but also i have like 700 subscribers on there and a long-running bad habit of ditching platforms right when my following actually becomes meaningful...

www.atlasobscura.com/articles/all... i have written about the history of the controversial SLOP BOWL for AO! read it while you eat your lunch !!!!

There's an inherent human drive to post and see posts. That's what the cave drawings at Lascaux are. That's what those little ancient sculptures of animals in the Met are. Man needs to post!!!

On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park. New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.

I'm in the BBC! Talking about IMPORTANT INTERNET HISTORY! If you want more of this kind of thing, please stay tuned for my book's preorder link coming later this year.... www.bbc.com/future/artic...

PUT A FINGER DOWN IF YOU WERE ALSO TRAUMATIZED BY THE YA NOVEL "LIFE AS WE KNEW IT" IN MIDDLE SCHOOL

How do government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, become searchable & accessible online? Now you can see it happen in real time. 🎞️⤵️ Watch it live: www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R... #InternetArchive #LiveStream #LiveNow

i officially am SICK of being in my late 20s.... it SUCKS..... i need to be in my early 30s for the sake of my mental health!!!!!! less than 4 months left i can do this!!!

“Look, we both know why you are here,” the agent told me... “It’s because of what you wrote online about the protests at Columbia University,” he said. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

I was interviewed for @vox.com's This Is Love podcast about Pennell and Atkinson's Antarctic love story — really proud of how it turned out, please take a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/47Sl...

instead of any of the many projects i SHOULD be working on i'm instead fixating on uncovering the biography of an unremembered genius australian-jewish woman... of which more anon.... but in the meantime i am Once Again Asking for a giant hat like hers

New for 2025: Terror Camp Polar Parties! 🥳❄️ Terror Camp’s main event will always be online. But the joy of real-life community is something powerful, irreplaceable, and more important than ever. So with your help, we want to celebrate Terror Camp all over the world in person!

"Our online lives will reshape not only the practice of studying history but also how future generations will tell the story of the past." www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

www.psu.edu/news/researc... that's just Captain Scott's ongoing cryogenic DJ set... leave him alone

considering trying an “ancestor diet” where i see what subsisting on shtetl food (potatoes and rye bread) plus weightlifting (to imitate carrying babies and laundry) would do for my mood and energy level

Ryan once told me about his strategy for The Screenshot Paragraph and tbh this might be one of the best @garbageday.email screenshot paragraphs to ever pop off the screen and punch me in the face

books: Umberto Eco, Julian Jaynes, Rumi movies: The Pink Panther (Sellers), Stanley Kubrick, the Marx Brothers, The Day The Earth Stood Still shows: the original Twilight Zone

literally what the fuck lol