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C. E. Aubin

@ceaubin.bsky.social

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"A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian ◦ historian of nazis & america @ Yale ◦ fellow, RITM and @yalewhc ◦ THE HOMELAND, Cambridge UP 2026 ◦ host of This Guy Sucked, the world’s meanest history podcast opinions my own. https://thisguysucked.com

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · Aug 5

I’m so beyond excited to share that This Guy Sucked was selected by Apple Podcasts as one of their top ten best new shows of 2025! How wild is that?!

Check out the rest of the list here: apple.co/bestsofar

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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 2h

The Program in Jewish Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with expertise in Jews of the Islamic World.

Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies - Northampton, Massachusetts (US) job with Success Advertising/Cherenson Group - Smith College | 37897363

tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with expertise in Jews of the Islamic World, to begin July 1, 2026

jobs.chronicle.com

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Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social · 5h

📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙

☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 2h

How cool! As someone who absolutely fell victim to sunbed culture while living in Scotland, I’m definitely going to snag a copy.

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 20h

Slightly belated but I’m very excited to be joining Yale’s Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration as a Faculty Fellow!

ritm.yale.edu/2025-2026-fa...

2025-2026 Faculty Fellows

ritm.yale.edu

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 20h

omfg I haven't heard the name Cobrasnake in years...

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 23h

yo honestly its actually insane, america is always electing Some Moron, and everyone is like "its so fucking over" and then somehow, things end up ok and then "we're so fucking back." if anything gives me hope for the future, its that we're basically constantly doing Some Shit and bouncing back.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 23h

Doing live show prep currently and I'm really coming to understand that American presidents have been weird and rude and uncouth (and caused the rest of the world to cringe) pretty much since we started having presidents

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 1d

yoooooooo go get books from @bookshop.org

the ebook of mine & @lollardfish.bsky.social's THE BRIGHT AGES is $1.99!!!!!!

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 1d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 1d

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A screenshot from Zelda Williams' instagram stories. It reads:

Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. Its dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough', just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

The second Instagram stories screenshot from Zelda Williams. It reads:

"And for the love of EVERY THING, stop calling it 'the future'. AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume."

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cynrical @cynrical.bsky.social · 2d

excited for the pro Butlerian Jihad stance of my favourite history podcast

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

Okay so what if I told you there was a podcast where -

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

jane goodall releasing a video of her listing the people she dislikes and ending with a vague message of hope is so iconic. truly someone i aspire to model myself after

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 2d

in some ways the computer is a type of guy. :3 a type of guy who can suck, even.

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 2d

THURSDAY ON TGS: we’ve got a fun little collaboration with @amanda.omg.lol and @isabel.kim of Wow If True and the guy in question is less of a ‘who’ and more of a ‘what.’ Anyways, back to scrolling!

A computer with its screen scribbled out

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 2d

if you're in line to receive an email from me STAY IN LINE

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 2d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

contingentmagazine.org

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 3d

Definitely not, the people I’m seeing (including apparently lifelong swifties) are absolutely panning it and saying they think it’s MAGA coded and embarrassing lol

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 3d

As a zillennial woman with the commensurate social media algorithms and all they entail, I can officially announce that TikTok has turned on Taylor Swift

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 3d

An Institute for Justice lawyer replied to me on Twitter. They already have one class action lawsuit in Alabama and are working on getting in touch with the citizens impacted by the Chicago ICE raid.

Here’s their contact page: ij.org/about-us/con...

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 6d

TODAY ON TGS: I was joined by the brilliant Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social to talk partly about George Pitt-Rivers, but also partly about the way powerful people marginalize others both before and after they die.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 3d

Oh I’ve got those in spades!

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 3d

The secret is to get a wheel of brie that almost exactly fits in the container you’re using to bake it! I like to slice the top in a sort of hashtag pattern and then put some sliced fruit, drizzle of honey, nuts, and whatever herb I’ve got on hand, and then bake at 375 w/ the lid on for 15-20 mins

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 3d

My body is a machine built specifically for turning brie into baked brie

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