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HUGE thank you to everyone who came out tonight for the show with @patrickwyman.bsky.social and @joshgondelman.bsky.social - it was such a joy! Fuck Ayn Rand!

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 14h

This Guy Sucked is a truly great podcast and you should vote for it. Vote for it!

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 21h

Extremely cool news. TGS got nominated for not one but TWO Signal Awards -- Best History Podcast and Best History Podcast Episode! I could not be more thrilled :-)

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 20h

ALAS. Manny is sick and unable to host, which sucks enormously. HOWEVER! The incredible Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social is now hosting tonight, so grab your last minute tickets if you haven't already!

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 21h

Extremely cool news. TGS got nominated for not one but TWO Signal Awards -- Best History Podcast and Best History Podcast Episode! I could not be more thrilled :-)

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 28/09/2026

*ahem* TGS IS HAVING A LIVE SHOW TOMORROW IN NYC AND I HAVE TWO EXTRA GUEST LIST TICKETS. IF YOU ARE A MUTUAL AND YOU WANT THEM PLEASE HIT ME UP

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 28/09/2026

I was on strike or actions-short-of-strike every single year of my PhD at Edinburgh. In the snow, in the rain, in a pandemic, fighting for a better future for my colleagues and students. The cuts Edinburgh is facing right now are devastating and I urge you to care.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 28/09/2026

Solidarity with all my friends and former colleagues at UoE - you and your students deserve better than this.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. Jay Feely, a former NFL kicker and a GOP candidate for Congress in Arizona, has made “protecting women’s sports” a centerpiece of his election campaign. So I reviewed years of Feely’s podcast appearances to see what he actually thinks about female athletes. 🧵

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 27/09/2026

The internet is an evil place, dispatch no. 1364739: there is an account on TikTok with 150,000 followers who generates AI videos that replace real women’s faces with a simulated version that has down syndrome in order to promote a weight loss scam left - the original post right - the AI fake

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 27/09/2026

if u did not get a sunday morning high five already, augie’s got an extra for u

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 25/09/2026

I’m telling you right now, I would rather stick a fork in my eye than watch this new movie about a PhD student falling in love with her professor

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 25/09/2026

I get asked pretty frequently whether the pod would consider going to a video format, and a very honest reason that we haven't so far is because of how many comments on the *audio-only* show disparage my appearance.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 25/09/2026

I could never go on Subway Takes because I would say something like “there’s no such thing as an empath” or “astrology is fundamentally antifeminist” and then 100,000 people would call me MAGA in the comments

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 24/09/2026

There's a person who HATES me for some reason and keeps leaving bizarre comments on TGS' Spotify about this fantasy they have of me drinking oat milk (?) and then heart-ing or laugh-reacting to their own comment, which I think is maybe the saddest parasocial interaction I've experienced thus far

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 24/09/2026

TGS PRESENTS: THE GOOSISODE is now available on our Patreon. Lmao.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 23/09/2026

would you believe me if i told you the results were inconclusive

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 23/09/2026

what does the Penguin Random House website know that I don't

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 23/09/2026

New all-timer reaction image just dropped

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 22/09/2026

there's a whole conversation happening on the other site about JKR's consistently awful depictions of anybody who is not white and English, and I was just alerted to this INSANE passage from 2013 about a Polish housecleaner

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 22/09/2026

Every morning our dog tries to con us into both giving him breakfast. And today, after many years of this, he finally succeeded

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 22/09/2026

For professors who were worried that the history job market might be a bit bad this year for your PhDs and postdocs, I have some news: it’s actually much worse

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 21/09/2026

Have you ever thought to yourself: “wow, I wish I could listen to a historian doing a goose-themed actual play with three literal professional TTRPG players?” Because I’ve got great news for you coming on Thursday from @thisguysucked.com if so.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 21/09/2026

I’ve been going to the same yoga class 2-3x per week for two months now and the teacher has asked me if I’m new/what my name is every single class? What kind of masterful gambit is this?

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As somebody who studies likely the most-impersonated cultural figure in US history (at least), I support this message. Part of the Twain Doctrine in Cold War US was to encourage imitation, because it reduced Twain to patriotic iconography while confusing his actual literary & historical contexts.

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Jorvorskie Layne's @jorvorskielaynes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

People gotta get more creative with it. No politics from a statue. It needs to be a Ben Franklin ghost account that posts nothing but OnlyFeet ratings.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 20/09/2026

I need to confess something: I think people who go online, make a profile that is meant to be them cosplaying a known historical figure/laundering their contemporary takes through a historical figure (‘The Ghost of Mark Twain’ etc) are extremely weird and suspect

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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 19/09/2026

this is a cry for help and also @ceaubin.com’s fault kind of

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 18/09/2026

Currently listening to a fifteen minute voice note from @amanda.omg.lol and she just dropped a banger — “usually when someone thinks they’re smarter than everybody, it means they’re not and also something’s wrong”

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 18/09/2026

I am reminded again of @jamellebouie.net saying that if an American was allowed into British politics they would become an apex predator

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 17/09/2026

I bought a fidget toy from the TikTok shop to help with the hellish experience of getting my back tattooed and it has unfortunately taken over my life. AMA

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 17/09/2026

NOW OUT ON @thisguysucked.com: Lord Byron, the most toxic man on earth — unless you’re his sister, apparently? Featuring the brilliant @k8lister.bsky.social, LB’s number one hater.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 17/09/2026

NOW OUT ON @thisguysucked.com: Lord Byron, the most toxic man on earth — unless you’re his sister, apparently? Featuring the brilliant @k8lister.bsky.social, LB’s number one hater.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 16/09/2026

Yeah, I mean. I guess you could use that as a pillow if you wanted to

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 16/09/2026

they don’t warn you when you go to grad school that this might be where you end up

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 16/09/2026

Tomorrow on @thisguysucked.com: an episode featuring Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social that I can only really describe as a fever dream.

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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 16/09/2026

i’m really just exposing myself here and idk why but should @ceaubin.com and i make a horrible podcast together

a text that suggests claire and i read HPMoR for a podcast and i say i have read it

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Hello. Doing a PhD has given me depression and now I wish to inflict my pain on others"

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 15/09/2026

deeply cursed start to a bibliography btw

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 15/09/2026

shout out the poor librarian who just had to go and retrieve my one bajillion great man history book holds today, and who probably thinks i have the worst taste in history ever

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 14/09/2026

THURSDAY ON @thisguysucked.com: the episode that has inspired the strongest reaction from me thus far, featuring the brilliant Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social and this f***ing guy

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