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Followers
136.8K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$766 – $1.2K / sponsored post
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Known for
📊 Post engagement
1.1K
Avg engagement / post
0.8%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2023
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: The most shadow banned post in the history of posts lol · 10.6K likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
2 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 7 text · 5 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
271×
Follows 505 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Someone send Zuck software brain post haste www.theverge.com/podcast/9170...
This is 1000 percent software brain!
Google Zero in the NYT - thanks @kateconger.com ;) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...
Went searching for our piece on this and well
(That piece: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...)
I was recently in the middle of extremely fancy executives seriously discussing the new trend of going to “priestess training” (???) while also lambasting the corrosion of culture and end of science
This fuckin guy
“Is that… good?” is quickly becoming the third Decoder question
Are they always like this or is Trump Sports Curse real
Y’all we are throwing the baby’s first birthday party and… I think I have to buy a party speaker
Lol at Mike Johnson being like, fuck textualism and originalism
Everyone is going to say much smarter things about the insane 5-4 birthright ruling but I just think it's funny Kavanaugh wanted it so bad he decided textualism is dead
🦋 Handle & authenticity
Bluesky handle
@reckless.bsky.social
A default .bsky.social handle — genuine, but not domain-verified. Confirm identity before a high-value deal.
On Bluesky since
Apr 2023
An early adopter from the invite-only beta (before the Feb 2024 public launch) — an original, established account.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 1.1K views per post.
📤Posts about 2× per week.
🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.
🛡️ Audience credibility
95/100
Excellent
Credibility score
99%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~0.8% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
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