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

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

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July 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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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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writing the second draft of this book is really like this
June 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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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 :)
June 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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new TCHOTCHKE — about wishing, uselessly, that my phone was not only gone but perhaps never existed at all:

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June 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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it’s good but it’s not good enough frankly
June 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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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
June 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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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
June 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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i don't want to become The Tumblr Post Girl but also there are so many of these all the time
Damnnnn I kinda need to die of carbon monoxide poisoning and then get cryogenically preserved and then have the company that preserved me go bankrupt and quietly dispose of my thawed body in a local culvert where I get eatennnnnn by some armadillos yes armadillos as their native habitat is expanding ever northwards
June 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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literally what the fuck lol
June 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Audrey Gelman 🤝 Margery Kempe, 15th-century Christian mystic ostracized for the intensity of her passion: being referred to as a "creature"
June 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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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
June 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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these have all been posted within the last month btw. the well is never dry
@squaresaw: So last month I got hit by a car and died right. Which I didn't initially realize until I watched some guy haul my body into his pickup and drive off. Which, being that it's deep in rural Michigan, I assume means my body will make some venison jerky and maybe some wall decoration, and I'll be resigned to being one of hundreds of deer ghosts floating around Saginaw, which is w/e. But then I find out the guy works at a taxidermy shop or something, and he's actually pretty good at stuffing and mounting deer carcasses, which I come to find out when I find myself face to face with my old body in the shop window. So naturally, I figure since ghosts need to possess something to interact with the living world and etc etc etc the most logical thing to do is to possess my own body, since it's basically a statue of myself. And a little surprisingly, it actually fits like a glove. Like, since it's my body, it feels like stepping right back into place. So I get out of town and back to my herd, eventually. And that's where the trouble starts coming into it, because after I get settled again, I don't know how to explain to everyone else what feels so weird. Like since I can move my body and do everything I used to do, it's functionally the same, like nothing happened. Or it SHOULD be, so I don't know how to explain how it's NOT. But it's just hard to explain it to someone who's never been hit by a truck I guess
June 12, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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despite everything tumblr remains undefeated as a platform full of the funniest people online fyi
June 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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there's something beautiful about having the same haircut for 10 years. I am a cartoon character and proud
June 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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And of course I had to slip in a mention of Siegfried Sassoon's WWI bestie Dr. Rivers (Pat Barker readers know....)
May 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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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:
May 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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devastating
May 17, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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this week: air dry clay ‼️‼️‼️
May 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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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
May 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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And here's his amazing band THE OTTERS, with a full album recorded live at Schubas in 1994: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgGV...
May 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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My dad died a year ago today, so I'm uploading some of his music in his memory.... here's a full two hours of his EARTH CLUB radio show on WBEZ, aired 5/7/1993: archive.org/details/eart...
May 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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and if i told you i was currently obsessing over the memes and jokes and hints at romance in a 1910 australian uni geology summer camp scrapbook ... well you'd probably be like "yeah sounds like something you would do"
May 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM