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Followers
47
Account age
4 yrs
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Known for
📊 Post engagement
3
Avg engagement / post
6.4%
Engagement vs followers
May 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: The Financial Times is not pulling its punches. · 16 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.41 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 3 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.9×
Follows 54 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
The Financial Times is not pulling its punches.
Good news on the UK’s Digital ID plans:
Our new PM is ditching the scheme.
https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/07/20/uks-seventh-prime-minister-in-a-decade-says-hell-ditch-digital-id-scheme/5274794
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has just opened up their standards library! This is one of those technology-freeing moments that have a small impact in the single year timescale, but an enormous impact over a decade.…
The US ban on foreign nationals using Anthropic Fable/Mythos is looking increasingly like part of their punishment of Anthropic and less like a rational decision.
There was no jailbreak.
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/15/feds…
RIP Anthony Head. Not only the quintessential English librarian in Buffy, but Dr Frank-n-furter in the RHPS, and a Dr Who villain!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0p0rz4n0mo
Hell has just frozen over.
Microsoft has just released an officuially MS-supported Linux release. (Downstream of Fedora.)
ZDnet’s take: “Microsoft effectively admits that it's a de facto Linux-based company.”
Wow.
https://www.zdnet.com/art…
As a mosquito magnet I did not want to learn the week before the Cambridge Beer Festival that beer makes you more attractive to mosquitos:
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-people-mosquito-magnets-clues-emerging.html
Electric vehicle batteries are getting safer, and dodgy third-party rechargers are still a serious hazard. I have a feeling, though, that this report from the QBE “global business insurer” is going to be heavily spun by the pro-pollution i…
There are few bodies in the world more desirous of surveillance powers than the London Metropolitan Police. But when that surveillance is applied to their own members they “do not deserve to be treated with this level of suspicion by their…
I recall that there was discussion here about how Amazon was rife with counterfeit editions of books. Before I spend money on a book, can I check whether a particular book is suspect?
The book is “The Magic of M.C.Escher.” I got a link to …
For all the table-top RPGers out there.
US copyright expiries to look forward to in 2026, courtesy of Duke Law:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9f_k7fQPA
I recall that there was discussion here about how Amazon was rife with counterfeit editions of books. Before I spend money on a book, can I check whether a particular book is suspect?
The book is “The Magic of M.C.Escher.” I got a link to …
For all the table-top RPGers out there.
US copyright expiries to look forward to in 2026, courtesy of Duke Law:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9f_k7fQPA
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
mathstodon.xyz
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On Mastodon since
May 2022
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 4 years ago.
👁️Averages 3 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.4× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated76/100
Good
Credibility score
97%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
Medium
Data confidence
- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~6.4% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Established account (4+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Started out in maths, flunked a PhD, moved into IT, doing OK at that.
Linux and Open Source are my things, and especially Inkscape and Blender for 2D and 3D art.
I also buy and photograph the engravings from the 1800’s Illustrated London News (and a few other books). [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fbH6SAwR7Cq9H0moLi04JdmlIzCfW-Rt?usp=sharing]
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