Claire
@clairington.bsky.social
I like to talk to people of all political persuasions. Work in a university in Scotland.
Have seen a few people ask this. Based on some previous encounters I think it's a power move: I am far too busy and important to write in whole sentences. It is up to you, the lesser people, to make sense of it and get back to me. If it ends up slightly oblique then so much the better.
This is so besides the point, but...what is the deal with Epstein's punctuation? All his emails have deranged punctuation like this.
Still working our way through approx. 23,000 pages of Epstein related documents released by House Oversight Cmte.
In another email.. this one from Feb. 2017.. Epstein references Trump
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In another email.. this one from Feb. 2017.. Epstein references Trump
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November 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Have seen a few people ask this. Based on some previous encounters I think it's a power move: I am far too busy and important to write in whole sentences. It is up to you, the lesser people, to make sense of it and get back to me. If it ends up slightly oblique then so much the better.
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
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To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
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and they want you to think that Epstein and Mandelson weren’t close friends for aeons
![From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Peter Mandelson
11/6/2016 8:36:05 PM
jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Re:
Importance:
High
Of course, donald in WH. Will he get there?
Yes, without Andrew it would not have gone nuclear. Did you advise me to stay with R? Such a handful but loyal and never embarrassing.
From: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, 6 November 2016 at 20:32
To: Peter Mandelson 4
Subject: Re:
trump/ and having agreat deal of fun. in hindsight. you were right about staying away from andrew. I was right in your staying with rinaldo
On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 9:30 PM, Peter Mandelson 4
What's the donald white house? And how are you ?
wrote:
From: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, 6 November 2016 at 19:42
To: Peter Mandelson <
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November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
and they want you to think that Epstein and Mandelson weren’t close friends for aeons
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The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won
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Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
I think my 'don't put misogynists into positions of power because they will hurt everyone' theory is holding up. Respect to all the American women who really did try and warn everyone.
Everything is Connected.
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I think my 'don't put misogynists into positions of power because they will hurt everyone' theory is holding up. Respect to all the American women who really did try and warn everyone.
Popular culture at the turn of the last century gave us Lads' Mags, American Pie, and Britney Spears in a school uniform. Surely this was driven by the advent of online porn. The idea that the most powerful men on the planet were indulging themselves with actual people isn't in the least surprising
November 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Popular culture at the turn of the last century gave us Lads' Mags, American Pie, and Britney Spears in a school uniform. Surely this was driven by the advent of online porn. The idea that the most powerful men on the planet were indulging themselves with actual people isn't in the least surprising
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NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
Would absolutely love to read something by a UK-level commentator that looks at the events of 2010-2015 (which increasingly appear to be explanatory) and contextualises the Scottish independence movement as something other than 'nationalism is bad, actually'
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Would absolutely love to read something by a UK-level commentator that looks at the events of 2010-2015 (which increasingly appear to be explanatory) and contextualises the Scottish independence movement as something other than 'nationalism is bad, actually'
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Quelques Feuilles / Some Leaves
New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.
New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.
November 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Quelques Feuilles / Some Leaves
New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.
New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.
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am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
Lovely to have the power to ruin so many things
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Lovely to have the power to ruin so many things
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Marcella Giulia Pace, Italian astrophotographer who took ten years to capture 48 colours of the moon #WomensArt (via Amazing Physics) #FullMoon
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Marcella Giulia Pace, Italian astrophotographer who took ten years to capture 48 colours of the moon #WomensArt (via Amazing Physics) #FullMoon
Am now wondering if it's worse, from a legal perspective, to suggest that someone is being racist for money vs being racist because they believe it.
Have been wondering about this and I think it's underplayed. Goodwin is being disgustingly racist for money
One potential factor in X radicalisation/racism which shouldn’t be ignored is the financial incentive to be outrageous/widely-shared. Rupert Lowe - whose payments we know as he has to declare them - can clear £5,000 a month in X payments.
November 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Am now wondering if it's worse, from a legal perspective, to suggest that someone is being racist for money vs being racist because they believe it.
Have been wondering about this and I think it's underplayed. Goodwin is being disgustingly racist for money
One potential factor in X radicalisation/racism which shouldn’t be ignored is the financial incentive to be outrageous/widely-shared. Rupert Lowe - whose payments we know as he has to declare them - can clear £5,000 a month in X payments.
November 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Have been wondering about this and I think it's underplayed. Goodwin is being disgustingly racist for money
By which I mean international students as well. This is very much my area and have had many difficult conversations with highly talented postdocs who can't find anything at all here. Hard to advise them otherwise than 'look further afield'.
Yes agree, just that the focus on attracting top talent from elsewhere tends to overlook the fact that we don't tend to nurture the top talent we already have very well.
October 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
By which I mean international students as well. This is very much my area and have had many difficult conversations with highly talented postdocs who can't find anything at all here. Hard to advise them otherwise than 'look further afield'.
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I am in Samhain mood today. Here is the first of the two riddle-poems at the beginning of the Milan MS Ambr. C. 301 infra, most famous for its Old Irish glosses.
It's a riddle that speaks about a mysterious phantom-like apparition.
The text is my edition and translation.
It's a riddle that speaks about a mysterious phantom-like apparition.
The text is my edition and translation.
October 31, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I am in Samhain mood today. Here is the first of the two riddle-poems at the beginning of the Milan MS Ambr. C. 301 infra, most famous for its Old Irish glosses.
It's a riddle that speaks about a mysterious phantom-like apparition.
The text is my edition and translation.
It's a riddle that speaks about a mysterious phantom-like apparition.
The text is my edition and translation.
Ah. So both Mossad and Gadaffi knew what this man was. Interesting, yes. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022...
The fall of Prince Andrew – a timeline
How concerns were raised over his relationship with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Ah. So both Mossad and Gadaffi knew what this man was. Interesting, yes. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022...
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BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
October 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
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Margaret Atwood reading her novel Surfacing, December 1972
(Photo by Ron Bull)
(Photo by Ron Bull)
October 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Margaret Atwood reading her novel Surfacing, December 1972
(Photo by Ron Bull)
(Photo by Ron Bull)
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Margaret Atwood writing The Handmaid’s Tale, West Berlin, 1984
(Photo by Isolde Ohlbaum)
(Photo by Isolde Ohlbaum)
October 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Margaret Atwood writing The Handmaid’s Tale, West Berlin, 1984
(Photo by Isolde Ohlbaum)
(Photo by Isolde Ohlbaum)