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...
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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
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-...
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 🤩🌈❄️
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)
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: 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.
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.
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
leaflet looks v cool! but ideally if i was going to be using a new cms or app it would mirror to/be hosted directly on my website! i may just start doing that with substack posts...
it would be extremely way more Chic to have like. a Blog. on my cool website. but substack also has built in social and community stuff that would be good for me career wise in advance of book stuff.... can someone just tell me what to do thanks
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!!!
It’s bittersweet because she too couldn’t pursue her dream (being a mathematical crystallographer) and had to get a boring job… hard relate….
I really loved doing this and it sounds so good.... I love yapping.... I love podcast...........
“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...
coming soon!!!
full pic... i think sadly we have lost the technology for hats this good... if i pivot to hatmaking and/or hat collecting do not be surprised. i am simply asking for Big Hat Summer to be a thing
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
oooh no! tysm this looks amazing
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
i don't want to become The Tumblr Post Girl but also there are so many of these all the time
music would have to be a whole other thread of course
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
i am writing a book!!!! i have to access academic resources or else the book will suck!!! i gave this university so much money!!!!!!!!!!
literally what the fuck lol
I actually would love to be referred to as a creature by wealthy VCs and the paper of record I'd find it incredibly affirming
Audrey Gelman 🤝 Margery Kempe, 15th-century Christian mystic ostracized for the intensity of her passion: being referred to as a "creature"
having a really absurd few days wish someone would send me 40 US dollars so i could buy a new Choosing Keeping notebook to stress-journal in
this also applies to Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" imho
need to find a way to work it into my book... something something fandom brain = hallucinating the nonexistent aura of a mass produced media object
Andrew Cuomo is afraid he'll lose, so his donors want you to fear me. His SuperPAC just sent out a mailer that artificially lengthened and darkened my beard. This is blatant Islamophobia—the kind of racism that explains why MAGA billionaires support his campaign.
lmao real
these have all been posted within the last month btw. the well is never dry
despite everything tumblr remains undefeated as a platform full of the funniest people online fyi
i have added the taskmaster house to atlas obscura. i am very proud of this. www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-t...
the most dangerous emotion you can have as someone who used to work in the music industry is nostalgia for the music industry
there's something beautiful about having the same haircut for 10 years. I am a cartoon character and proud
SO THRILLED ABOUT THIS !!! Go @cates.bsky.social ‼️‼️🫶🫶🫶
It’s that time again! We’re amazed and delighted to be kicking off the FIFTH(!) annual Terror Camp polar conference, with information about our programming, key dates, how to submit an abstract, and more. ❄️ Full details: www.tumblr.com/terrorcamp/7...
Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.
And of course I had to slip in a mention of Siegfried Sassoon's WWI bestie Dr. Rivers (Pat Barker readers know....)
As someone with an intensely vivid mind's eye, I'm fascinated by the fact that there can be such different internal experiences in perception between individuals that yet result in /no/ measurable difference in life outcomes, career, artistic ability, etc:
Really excited this is finally up in NatGeo — I interviewed scientists and subreddit members about aphantasia, a subtle difference in human perception that thousands of people over the last decade have been suddenly learning they've had all their lives: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
🗣️ NEW YORK EVENT ALERT 🗣️ Join us for The Longest Picnic Of The Year in Central Park, hosted by TC community members Lars & Theo, on June 21! Details here: www.tumblr.com/thepratandth... RSVP here: partiful.com/e/OcI7quga1g...
anyway here's the email I sent to jim bankoff last week. i'm still heartbroken. I have been insanely, destructively angry for weeks, and I think I will be for a long time.
$22 breakfast at coffeeshop: indefensible, but i had leftovers for lunch ok $16 sushi and $2 ice cream dinner in the east village: im literally a new yorker in my twenties what do you want from me
it’s been like 7 years since i read money diaries with any regularity but i still go through periods of narrating my day’s purchases to myself as if i’m defending them to an imaginary refinery29 readership
Entry 12: KARAOKE (with @tchotchke.bsky.social and @palmerh.bsky.social 💕)
devastating
i have never experienced buying a lamp or lampshade off of facebook marketplace and being like "yes this is the size of object i expected"
like literally that’s all you ever need… if there’s an establishment in nyc that would do this for me i’d become a customer for life
at least once a week i think of the toasted brioche with butter + mug of black coffee for $5 deal at maru coffee in DTLA in 2019
i wrote about rfk jr's dubious supplement advice, hypervitaminosis A in the antarctic, and contend that no one deserves to be lied to, and no child deserves to be made ill on the strength of those lies: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
found out that yom kippur starts on my birthday this year so that will be a very interesting way to kick off my 30s
my dream is to be in a post-punk ironic talk-singing band making spectacular bangers like this one but unfortunately i am completely bereft of pithy observations about urban youth and society open.spotify.com/track/7fDiAp...
it’s crazy when someone is like “i don’t have any hobbies” because hobbies are the only things i have
I was so impressed by @tchotchke.bsky.social diving into what Harry Potter fandom even looks like in the Hogwarts Legacy era, after JK Rowling's many transphobic, highly public and influential statements www.polygon.com/23836351/har...
I cannot explain how much I loved every inch of this place... if you are into Meow Wolf/Lucy Sparrow/literally just anything Atlas Obscura-y, you will love it too
this was like insanely fun 😭 forgot how much i love Doing Evence........ but now i'm so back
My latest for @atlasobscura.com: I visited Rex's Dino Store, the new and fantastically funny prehistoric newsstand at Grand Army Plaza, designed by @akiva.bsky.social and Sarah Cassidy! www.atlasobscura.com/articles/din...
I DID… at the very beginning of lockdown induced derangement
I don't think I've had a "first byline" story so far that I would have said was adorable but here you go yourfirstbyline.substack.com/p/my-first-b...
not to toot my own horn but i wrote my semi-viral taskmaster piece FIVE YEARS ago, take that other esteemed publications the-niche.blog/2020/04/02/t...
I would read this romance novel (from the New-York Daily Tribune for October 1, 1897)
