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the person who realised you could rearrange the letters in gossip girl to read âgo piss girlâ truly one of the great minds of our generation, madam your legacy
Like it's a place that strange people go to enjoy themselves and drink and talk, and there's dancing too. It works as a great replacement for the medieval tavern as a gathering place for characters in television
And while yes, you can't get a room to sleep in at the gay bar, it is usually in an urban neighborhood so there might be a small local hotel nearby or something
Also Fags love giving out quests to random passerby. Just yesterday I sent 7 men and 4 women to buy me gardening seeds in exchange for cursed artifacts
point of reference from an able-bodied person: standing in one place for an hour kinda makes my feet/legs hurt. longer than that is when it really hits but it takes an hour to get there.
if you are in pain within minutes or seconds, that is not normal. that is a Symptom. poke your doctor into finding out what it is or connect with disabled and chronic pain groups.
if you are in extreme pain, not just "ugh my feet ache" pain but "i am going to pass out" pain, that is not normal. that is a Symptom. poke your doctor into finding out what it is or connect with disabled and chronic pain groups.
I know some people try to rationalize as "well it's not excruciating compared to my baseline" and I am gently reminding you that the baseline is zero. zero is normal. this ^ is not. be kind to yourself.
I love how everyone is still asking hey so my symptoms are actually symptoms? Even if I feel only x amount of pain after x amount of time? BUDDY THE NORM IS FEELING MILD DISCOMFORT AT MOST AFTER STANDING FOR AN HOUR AND THEY RECOVER WITHIN A FEW HOURS TO A DAY
The data engineer started as a casual reader of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Then he became obsessed, and built the most extensive network gra
In February, a user named EricKeller2 posted on Reddit. âI mapped every connection in the Epstein files,â he wrote. He had built a website and database of more than 1.5 million files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. A giant interactive network graph showed the connections between 1,000-plus people in Epsteinâs social worldâthrough flight manifests, email exchanges, and other documents that connect them. The post included a link to the site: Epsteinexposed.com.
That post got 5.5 million views. Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world visited the site in the days that followed. And EricKeller2 was busier than ever.
EricKeller2âs real name isnât Eric Keller. He used a pseudonym to protect himself and his family from Jeffrey Epsteinâs rich and powerful friends. A thirtysomething data engineer with a wife and kids, heâd been following the child sexual abuse case for yearsâreading court filings, depositions, materials from the Giuffre v. Maxwell case. But in the fall of 2025, as the initial deadline from the Epstein Files Transparency Act approached, he got more organized. And then he got obsessed.
Every day since then, Keller has been doggedly loading hundreds and hundreds of files into his database. Epstein Exposed contains material from many sources beyond the US Department of Justiceâs file dump, including unsealed court records and FBI tips, and it focuses on exposing âthe connective tissue,â as Keller put it, between the files. The site calls itself âthe most comprehensive searchable database of every person, document, flight, and connection in the Epstein files.â
âThere were nights I had to stop,â he tells me. âThere are descriptions of things no human being should have experienced.â He remembers one 2017 email thread between Epstein and an intermediary, in which Epstein offers $300 to a girl for a topless massage. The intermediary tells him that the girl wasnât available because she had school on Monday. Epstein then ups the offer to $400.
âYou can build a mental wall between yourself and what youâre reading, but it doesnât always hold up,â he adds. âSome nights it doesnât hold at all.â
He has a personal reason for pouring himself into this project. âI am a survivor of childhood sexual abuse,â he tells me. Itâs why he canât seem to look away from the horror inside those files. And so he builds.
The Epstein Library on the Justice Departmentâs website is a model of disorganization. In early December, Keller was clicking through the tens of thousands of pages of documents in the library and feeling âfrustrated disbeliefâ at the chaosâfiles that could be hundreds of pages long, text that was sometimes blurry or sideways, a wire transfer with no context, an email chain with half the names blacked out, a flight log with only initials. âItâs disorienting,â he says. âYouâre reading fragments of something enormous and trying to figure out which fragments matter and how they connect.â
One night, he spent about four hours trying to trace a single personâs name across some 30 documents in the archive. âI just stopped and thought, I am doing by hand what a database could do in milliseconds,â he says. As a builder of database infrastructure at a midsize company, he knew exactly what to do next. âI opened a code editor and started building. By 3 am I had a basic search prototype working against a few hundred documents,â he says.
Around that time, a site called Jmail.world was making a splash as a tool for people to peruse Epsteinâs emails as if using a Gmail interface. Launched in mid-November and built by a group of tech-savvy volunteers, it has since grown to include, among other things, his photos, flights, and Amazon purchase history, also displayed as if the reader is viewing Epsteinâs own accounts. Keller used the tool and liked it. âJmail was proof that the community could build better tools than the government was providing,â he told me.
It also helped him hone his own project. âInstead of thinking about one category of documents, I started thinking about the network,â he says. âHow do you connect a person who appears in an email to a flight they were on, to a wire transfer, to a deposition they gave? That cross-referencing problem is what I wanted to solve.â
Then, on December 19, the Justice Department released its first big tranche, adding hundreds of thousands of new documents to the existing archive. Immediately, Kellerâs workload ballooned to an all-time high. The prototype he had built earlier in the month became the foundation for processing all of it.
Most nights he worked until 3 or 4 am, sipping cold coffee while navigating a sea of open tabs.
Because of his childhood, he says, âwhen the first documents started dropping, I couldnât look away. I understood at a gut level what was being described in those files.â In the evenings, heâd return home from his day job and, once everyone in his family was in bed, heâd hole up in his home office and spend hours scrolling through downloaded PDFs.
Many documents were posted as images, and heâd run each page through layers of software to convert them into searchable textâsometimes one system would fail to convert the text and heâd run it through a second or third. Then heâd use another system to extract important details such as names, organizations, dates, and locations. Heâd perform hash verificationâa process that checks whether the Justice Departmentâs files have been tampered withâand redaction analysis, to scan for inconsistencies in how the government blacked out information. He tracked all his work in a meticulous, digital, color-coded ledger. âItâs not uploading files,â he says. âItâs rebuilding a crime scene from 2 million fragments of evidence.â
At the end of January, the DOJ dropped an even bigger tranche, this one containing more than 3 million files. Although the workload swelled even more overnight, Keller says the file drop was validating. After all, the entire system heâd been building had been designed for that moment.
On February 5, Keller registered his domain. A week later, the number of files in his database had crossed a million. Heâd also set up the first version of a colorful, interactive network graph that showed the connections between the powerful figures orbiting Epsteinâfinanciers, politicians, academics, royalty. He decided he was ready to share it with the world, and he turned to Reddit.
With the sudden influx of visitors, the site needed constant attention. At one point it crashed in the middle of the night; Keller got it stable by dawn only to have it crash again that afternoon.
A former investigator messaged him, wanting to cross-reference a specific set of Deutsche Bank wire transfers against flight dates to see if money had moved on the same days that people had flown. A journalist from a major European outlet was using the site to investigate connections between Epsteinâs financial network and someone in their country, and wanted help finding every document that mentioned certain company names. A forensic accountant specializing in financial crime reached out, offering to review a pattern of wire transfers that Kellerâs site had surfaced; that person said that certain transaction patterns were consistent with layering techniques used in money laundering. âThe response tells you something specific,â Keller said. âThere is a real community of people who have been trying to get to the truth here for a long time, and the site gave them something they did not have before.â
The site kept crashing, and he was rewriting infrastructure deep into the night. In the mornings, heâd stagger into his day job and pretend that everything was normal. What fueled him was anger, he saysâa sense that the DOJ had made the files practically unsearchable and that the public deserved better.
Twelve days after the launch of Epstein Exposed, Keller quit his job. On Reddit and through his siteâs contact email, people were asking him how they could contribute, so he set up a donation page. âWhen I looked at what had come in, and what the site had become, it was clear that this was now the work.â
Even committing himself full-time to the site, heâs stretched thin. He forgets to eat, he says, unless his wife puts food in front of him. His back hurts. His eyes are constantly tired. He drinks too much coffee. Some mornings he forgets what day it is or when he last went outside. âMy wife jokes that when this chapter is over I owe her about three months of normal,â he says.
Heâs also under legal pressure. He has received formal demand letters from law firms representing individuals in the database. The letters arrive with 24-hour deadlines. âSome are on behalf of genuine victims, and I take those seriously,â he says. âIâve redacted dozens of documents for verified survivors. But not all of them check out.â
Keller says the files force him to reflect on his own childhood trauma. âWhen Iâm reading through testimony or looking at records of what was done to these girls and young women, Iâm not seeing strangers. Iâm seeing something I understand from the inside,â he says. Sometimes the emails stop him cold. In one from March 2014, someone writes to Epstein: âThank you for a fun night. Your littlest girl was a little naughty.â Or thereâs the email from 2017, in which someone tells Epstein they met a girl whoâs âlike Lolita from Nabokov, femme miniature,â and asks if they should send him âher type of candidates only.â
âTheyâre referencing a novel about a man raping a 12-year-old,â Keller says. âAs scouting criterion. In an email.â
Keller canât help but think about his own kids too. âThere are moments where that connection hits you, and you have to stop and just sit with it. Itâs part of what makes it hard to walk away at the end of the night.â
Scroll through the hundreds of replies to Kellerâs launch post on Reddit and youâll notice a recurring sentiment: Heâs building the infrastructure that the government should have set up in the first place.
For some time now, online communities have been helping to fill holes left by institutions. Reddit in particular has stood out. Last month, when the DOJ gave lawmakers a strict window in which to peek at the unredacted Epstein files, many members of Congress felt overwhelmed. Congressman Maxwell Frost, a Democrat from Florida, knew he needed to âbe strategic and act fast.â
âOn Reddit, there was an active community (r/Epstein) crowdsourcing information and digging into the details, so we posted there to gather direct links to the DOJâs website and better understand what to prioritize,â Frost told me. âMillions of people interacted with that post, which made clear that the American people want answers.â
As Keller sees it, the online communityâs role in the Epstein saga is, primarily, to refuse to let the issue dieâto spur new prosecutions and to help the victims see justice. âI think about them constantly,â he says of the survivors. âIf they can come to this site and search and find documentation that confirms yes, this happened, yes, it was real, yes, the world knows,â he said, âthat matters in a way I donât have adequate language for.â
Since quitting his job, Keller has found himself burning through his savings faster than he expected. He says he spends roughly $3,500 a month to keep the server running, and some weeks the donations donât cover it. But he says his wife understands why this matters to him and has been supportive. The database has now indexed 2.15 million documents, cataloged 1,500 people, and mapped tens of thousands of Epsteinâs connections. âYou donât walk away from that,â he said. âImagine where this can be in six months or a year from now. I believe this will make a difference. I have to. These things cannot be allowed to stand.â
Traffic to his site remains high for now, but Keller says he isnât obsessed with those numbers. âEven if the traffic drops to 10 people a day, those 10 people might include a journalist working on a lead, a researcher writing a paper, or a survivor looking for their own name in the record. Thatâs enough,â he says.
The work is far from over. He recently finished building out a forensic finance system. More than 130,000 documents still need to have their text made fully machine-readable. Hash verification is only 64 percent complete.
Not to mention, community members are still submitting names and researchers are still flagging new connections between documents. Itâs why he doesnât think this project has a finish line. So for now, Eric Keller will do what heâs been doing for months: sit down at his monitor, sip some stale coffee, and get back to work.
