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76
Account age
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📊 Post engagement
1
Avg engagement / post
1.3%
Engagement vs followers
Jun 2021
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: I got halfway through Adam Greenfield’s new book “Lifehouse” bef · 2 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.37 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 3 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.4×
Follows 202 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
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Anya Kielar, “Artist,” 2023. Foam, fabric, aqua resin, paint, Plexiglass. 34 × 26 × 7 ½ in. Exhibited that year at Document, Chicago: https://documentspace.com/exhibition/anya-kielar/
~115 issues after launching the new edition of Frontier Magazine, I’m ending my run. I’ll be focusing on Valise, which I cofounded, and on other editing, writing, and editorial-strategy projects. The last newsletter just went out: https://…
As I approach, I’ve taken to calling out to people standing/lingering in the bike lane: “Let me enjoy this lane until Ford takes it from us!”
https://urbanists.social/@straphanger/113385295834486460
Today is the tenth anniversary of Graydon Hoare’s “Always Bet On Text.” https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html
This mirrors my sentiments after watching the video of the talk last night. Highly recommended.
https://gardenstate.social/@glecharles/113285592381253199
The little free library in my neighborhood really delivered this morning …
For the past few months I’ve worked with the Teiger Foundation to clarify the story around its new climate action program. I also interviewed five of its first-year grantees and told their stories, too. Case study TK, but for now, the stor…
I have a thing for geology and deep time. I enjoyed this review of geologist Marcia Bjornerud’s new book, her first for a trade publisher, in The New Yorker this week:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/02/turning-to-stone-discover…
Thought about this old video about artist John Baldessari, which I hadn’t watched in a few years. Narrated by Tom Waits in a funny, deadpan style and with rapid cuts, it totally holds up. Six minutes of pure entertainment:
https://vimeo.co…
The weekly newsletter I write about “big ideas in architecture” hit its 100th issue today. To celebrate, I jettisoned the ideas and just shared a bunch of beautiful #libraries:
https://magazine.frontier.is/shelf-space/
More big news in my world: super-talented house producer Matt Karmil is releasing his first album since March 2020. Wasn’t sure there’d be another one, to be honest. The lead single is good; if you want more of an intro, try the 2018 album…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
indieweb.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
On Mastodon since
Jun 2021
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2021 — 5 years ago.
👁️Averages 1 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.4× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated80/100
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 (~1.3% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Established account (5+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Chicagoan in Toronto, autodidact into art/photo, experimental music, minor literary forms, #landscape history, #baking, #software, & the #NBA and #NHL. Email is my social media.
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