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31.4K
Account age
2 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
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🧰 Free analysis for John Skiles Skinner
📊 Post engagement
433
Avg engagement / post
1.4%
Engagement vs followers
Aug 2023
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: The only thing I'll remember about Lindsey Graham is his mistrea · 4.2K likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
3.3 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
33×
Follows 946 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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I can never un-see the people who willfully died of infection because of Facebook memes. Who sprinted harder toward death because they saw their own family members die in denial. It has changed my idea of human nature from the root.
This appears to have been the psychological motivation for DOGE:
firing the most talented and dedicated public servants so that billionaires could prove to themselves that talent and dedication do not exist
DOGE has effectively hidden itself by breaking FOIA
"If the department is stonewalling the inspector general’s office, it’s an extremely safe bet that they’re absolutely ignoring FOIA officers who are asking for information" per @laurenle…
A lot of people crave self annihilation when they get bored
I missed this when it happened 2 months ago, but ask.com ("Ask Jeeves") finally shut down.
My career started when I typed "how can I become a computer hacker" into it around 2000-2001.
I'm trying to find the video of Graham's red-faced temper tantrum on the subject of "who paid for her lie detector test," a question that had already been answered. Anyone have it?
I am looking for writing about the replacement of US federal gov capacity, destroyed by the Trump admin, by other entities: state governments, nonprofits, ex-feds, and volunteers working to preserve gov data, provide scientific advice, etc…
"MAGA Republicans are *not* more willing than anyone else to personally commit violence. They don’t want to throw the brick. They want someone else to throw the brick for them."
Excellent essay on the tipping point into a low-trust societ…
In this book there's a brief mention of American Legion members massacring trade union guys in 1919.
Wait...the same Legion where my parents took me for chili feeds as a kid?
One Wikipedia article later I'm reeling at how pervasive a cap…
My parents got married in July 1976 and it made their anniversary super memorable because the bicentennial was a big deal for decades afterward
What's your 4th of July read? I'm learning about the Americans who struggled for freedom against censorship, xenophobia, surveillance, and oligarchy in 1917-1921
🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@skiles.blue
The handle is the domain skiles.blue. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real skiles.blue account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
Aug 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 433 views per post.
📤Posts about 3.3× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🛡️ Audience credibility
81/100
Excellent
Credibility score
97%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~1.4% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
I work on @securedrop.org
Former fed at 18F "deleted" by DOGE
🔗 https://skiles.blue/
🔀 Audience overlap
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