Claire
@clairington.bsky.social
I like to talk to people of all political persuasions. Work in a university in Scotland.
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Didn't mean to jump on your comments to do that though! That's just where it went in my head
Growing up female you quickly learn that certain of your peers thrive on being part of the in group and making sure others are in the out group. Always, always awful for adults to inflict it on children.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Trans girls banned from joining Girlguiding
Girls’ adventure charity says it made decision after seeking legal advice in wake of supreme court ruling on gender
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Growing up female you quickly learn that certain of your peers thrive on being part of the in group and making sure others are in the out group. Always, always awful for adults to inflict it on children.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
'disgusting buffoon'
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
'disgusting buffoon'
I remember when this was brought in in the UK, and all the usual 'pro life' people pushed back on the grounds that it would encourage girls to have sex
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I remember when this was brought in in the UK, and all the usual 'pro life' people pushed back on the grounds that it would encourage girls to have sex
Not fully on board with Chaminda's anti-intellectualism but this is a key point. There have to be ideas behind any political project. There question is then how best to communicate them.
The generation of New Labour "strategists" and flunkies who grew up in Blair's slipstream thought "comms" were everything. There was nothing behind the eyes. There was no "there" there.
And Cameron played the same role for the Tories, but on steroids.
And Cameron played the same role for the Tories, but on steroids.
November 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Not fully on board with Chaminda's anti-intellectualism but this is a key point. There have to be ideas behind any political project. There question is then how best to communicate them.
Remember having a spirited conversation with a computer scientist around 2017 when he told me that ai could produce music that sounds exactly like Beethoven and *people couldn't tell the difference*...
I'M 'SCIENTISTS', YOU GUYS, AND I'M SAYING "IT'S UNDERSTANDABLE IF IT *FEELS* REAL BUT IT'S NOT. ACTUALLY. REAL."
can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Remember having a spirited conversation with a computer scientist around 2017 when he told me that ai could produce music that sounds exactly like Beethoven and *people couldn't tell the difference*...
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I often talk about “stitching” so I thought you might like to see one of my pieces. I am fascinated by moss, lichen and fungi so try to interpret what I see with stitches and beads.
#fiberart #embroidery
#fiberart #embroidery
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I often talk about “stitching” so I thought you might like to see one of my pieces. I am fascinated by moss, lichen and fungi so try to interpret what I see with stitches and beads.
#fiberart #embroidery
#fiberart #embroidery
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Ok palate cleanse time. In case you missed it, here's my most popular post ever
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
November 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Ok palate cleanse time. In case you missed it, here's my most popular post ever
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nostalgia is a scam invented by big new to sell more old
November 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
nostalgia is a scam invented by big new to sell more old
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the baby (17 months) raised both her hands and said “WEADY?” so I said “ready!” and then she slapped me in the face
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
the baby (17 months) raised both her hands and said “WEADY?” so I said “ready!” and then she slapped me in the face
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
All of this was brutally obvious to anyone paying attention at the time. Part of me is still furious, and probably always will be. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
All of this was brutally obvious to anyone paying attention at the time. Part of me is still furious, and probably always will be. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
I'm sorry, are we honestly suggesting that front desk employees are being given the power to decide which women are allowed to use their services, based on how we look? Definitely can't see any problems there. Ffs
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look
The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash
www.thetimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I'm sorry, are we honestly suggesting that front desk employees are being given the power to decide which women are allowed to use their services, based on how we look? Definitely can't see any problems there. Ffs
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
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All of us have dealt with this shit all the fucking time our whole fucking lives
this is not about me, but i'd like all the men who've been condescending to me to think about the fact that all their female colleagues do this job with this shit going on around us - "around us" at best
November 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
All of us have dealt with this shit all the fucking time our whole fucking lives
Top five music genres:
1. Anything where the rhythm section kicks ass far in excess of the rest of the band
2. Anything with real, layered vocal harmonies
3. Bonus points for combining 1 and 2
4. Anything that can inspire a crowd to dance
5. The ones that somehow reach into your heart
1. Anything where the rhythm section kicks ass far in excess of the rest of the band
2. Anything with real, layered vocal harmonies
3. Bonus points for combining 1 and 2
4. Anything that can inspire a crowd to dance
5. The ones that somehow reach into your heart
Top five music genres
1. Unhappy Scandinavian women with synths
2. Trad folk about how someone died down a well or was shagged/murdered by a servant
3. Minor members of The Byrds on drugs
4. Billie Holiday singing anything
5. Songwriters who are so English that it’s almost performative
1. Unhappy Scandinavian women with synths
2. Trad folk about how someone died down a well or was shagged/murdered by a servant
3. Minor members of The Byrds on drugs
4. Billie Holiday singing anything
5. Songwriters who are so English that it’s almost performative
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Top five music genres:
1. Anything where the rhythm section kicks ass far in excess of the rest of the band
2. Anything with real, layered vocal harmonies
3. Bonus points for combining 1 and 2
4. Anything that can inspire a crowd to dance
5. The ones that somehow reach into your heart
1. Anything where the rhythm section kicks ass far in excess of the rest of the band
2. Anything with real, layered vocal harmonies
3. Bonus points for combining 1 and 2
4. Anything that can inspire a crowd to dance
5. The ones that somehow reach into your heart
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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
==>
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