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Claire E. Aubin

@ceaubin.com
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"A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian ◦ historian of really bad people @ Yale ◦ host, This Guy Sucked ◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028) all opinions my own. www.ceaubin.com thisguysucked.com

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 11h
This week’s episode of @thisguysucked.com is about artist Paul Gauguin, but we wanted to make sure my discussion with Daisy on the relationship between nudity/sexual violence in art and the current rise of deepfakes didn’t get missed, so here’s a clip of that.
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/10/2026
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/10/2026
ngl this looks soooo fun
hoplites riding dolphins on a terracotta psykter
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 30/09/2026
I can spot a Petrarch from 1000 yards
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 29/09/2026
Text message: very NYC problems to have, needing a last minute comedian to fill in
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 29/09/2026
THAT'S MY SHOW!!!!!
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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 · 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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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 24/09/2026
some more greatest hits from them for y'all, including one where they call me a raspy shrew, which is a real departure from the people who usually say my voice is too girly
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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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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
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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 · 18/09/2026
LORD BYRON WE REBUKE YOU
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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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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 15/09/2026
deeply cursed start to a bibliography btw
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 14/09/2026
This was the episode btw
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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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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 12/09/2026
look, i'm as shocked as you are
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 12/09/2026
one of the best things about living in New England is that your neighbor could have spent many decades as an art dealer and sell you beautiful paintings to hang in your bedroom for very little money
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 11/09/2026
Just saw a Reddit post where someone asked why they sometimes find a pile of dead ants on their kitchen counter in the morning. Anyways it turns out their child’s headphones were housing a full-on ant colony and they were making little tiny ant graveyards overnight
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 11/09/2026
Hello (once again) from the Met! I hope your Thursday was lovely!
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 10/09/2026
Today on @thisguysucked.com! The wonderful @laurenworking.bsky.social and I chat about Martin Frobisher, who proved how easy it was to fail upwards in the early modern period if you convinced people you knew where to get gold.
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 08/09/2026
It’s gonna take a couple thousand years, give or take, but don’t let me stop ya sister!
A woman holding a pink microphone with text over her that reads: writing the entire Bible BY HAND for my future husband
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 08/09/2026
THURSDAY ON @thisguysucked.com: the wonderful Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social joins me to talk about an early modern adventurer in Canada who loved kidnapping. Not great.
A painting of a man in a ruff, his face scribbled out
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 06/09/2026
Really important stuff happening in the sweaterverse for me right now
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 04/09/2026
every day, a new treasure on facebook marketplace
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 04/09/2026
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 04/09/2026
If I had a nickel for every time a TGS episode started with a Civil War guy and ended with drugs and Dune, I wouldn't have a lot of money, but it is weird that it happened twice George McClellan (that rat bastard) with @jamellebouie.net now streaming.
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 03/09/2026
The person who had my phone number before me had a Korean name. As a result, most of the weird-ass scammer texts I get try to lure me into conversation using… questions about East Asian food???
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 03/09/2026
TODAY ON @thisguysucked.com: The excellent Jamelle Bouie @jamellebouie.net tells me that George McClellan was a racist coward who deserves to have his name cursed forever. So we tried our best to do that.
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 02/09/2026
The pod's rating ratio is honestly very funny - people REALLY HATE when you say controversial things like 'Thomas Jefferson was a racist' or 'Russian people are weird'
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 02/09/2026
new “no one will ever hire you with that” just dropped
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 02/09/2026
tomorrow at 5:00 a.m. only on thisguysucked.com/merch
Jamelle Bouie on tiktok wearing a “you can’t libel the dead” TGS merch hat
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/09/2026
Truly nobody is doing it like @uncpress.bsky.social and @sonyabonczek.bsky.social - I am so excited to read all of these.
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/09/2026
Sam Waterston tells Yale: “Never give in to a bully.”
Sam Waterston talks into a microphone at the Democratize Yale rally
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/09/2026
We thought we’d give you a little taster of this week’s @thisguysucked.com episode with @jamellebouie.net, which went off the rails immediately and which is very much not about Kamala Harris. Out Thursday.
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/09/2026
There’s a very specific aesthetic happening in my Blackwell’s pre-order at the moment
Tom Cox’s Curious Events Lately Occurring In This Neighbourhood and AK Blakemore’s Doom Painting, both with black red and cream covers
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 31/08/2026
THURSDAY ON @thisguysucked.com: pal of the pod @jamellebouie.net and I talk Kamala Harris, Dune, incompetent Civil War generals, and the time we got trapped at Mount Vernon.
A photograph of a guy with his face scribbled out
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 30/08/2026
Hey I visited this new neighborhood and everybody there knew you?
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 28/08/2026
Great news everyone, I’ve found this year’s campus-office-door-New Yorker-cartoon!
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