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2.4K
Account age
2 yrs
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📊 Post engagement
7
Avg engagement / post
0.3%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2023
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: Now seems like an excellent time to support independent media, l · 23 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.39 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
5.1×
Follows 462 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Today is Andie MacDowell’s birthday. Hmmm. Interesting. #macdowell
Skedaddle is a nifty word. Just saying.
Very grateful to have my poem “Our Survey of Western Dirt” be a part of the latest issue of Barrelhouse. Many thanks to Mike Ingram and his students at Temple (see next post for their names) for including it. www.barrelhousemag.com/online-…
If you think time at MacDowell might be beneficial to your art (fwiw I bet it would be) then APPLY. They are incredibly welcoming and supportive, the experience was transformative for me and many others, and no, you don’t have to be a supe…
How many ethical violations is Brooks going to be allowed to get away with? (Question applies equally to Dillon Brooks of the NBA and David Brooks of the NYT)
Same. If I had to point to a moment that made me a writer, it was seeing Arcadia at ACT in SF in 2013. Walked in with no idea of what the play was about, walked out forever changed. Amazing production. Went back and saw it the next night, …
“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
Spotted in the SF Bay Area. Feels like an inflection point for me, marking the moment when I can no longer maintain even the illusion that I have …
Jane Goodall was a gem. I only met her a few times, but was struck by how she had both a strong sense of purpose and real kindness - a rare combination.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Love it when someone digs into a minor local mystery and finds all kind of interesting tidbits behind it … it’s great that @coyotemedia.org and Reo Eveleth are on it.
Also, support literary magazines, especially if you submit to them. As you are able, amplify them on social media, subscribe, or volunteer as a reader. I learned a ton reading for @themassreview.bsky.social. The lit mag ecosystem needs bal…
My prediction has been that Al, as implemented in LLMs, will fall far short of the hype. A common reply has been,
"but imagine how much better it will be in X years!" To which I say not all digital things improve exponentially (e.g. self-d…
🦋 Handle & authenticity
Bluesky handle
@davidwrites1.bsky.social
A default .bsky.social handle — genuine, but not domain-verified. Confirm identity before a high-value deal.
On Bluesky since
Nov 2023
An early adopter from the invite-only beta (before the Feb 2024 public launch) — an original, established account.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2023 — 2 years ago.
👁️Averages 7 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.4× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated61/100
Fair
Credibility score
84%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 84% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.3% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Bluesky.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Writer / fiction / Iowa Writers’ Workshop / MacDowell / Yaddo | Ethiopia / literary translation from Amharic | Previously a paleoanthropologist.
www.davidwrites.net
Translator of the Ethiopian novel Oromay by Baalu Girma.
www.davidwrites.net/oromay
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