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Known for
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While on vacation a week ago I was in Friedrichshaven, looking out from the shore of Lake Constance during a red warning for thunderstorms, when this happened:
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REMINDER that it's not dieselpunk unless you've got zeppelins *and* VTOL cargo airplanes. But Friedrichshaven has both …
📊 Post engagement
152
Avg engagement / post
0.5%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: It never ceases to amaze me how today's techbros vision of the f · 871 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
24.1 / week
Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
17×
Follows 1.6K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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So, I just unboxed the first C64 I've ever owned. It was too expensive for 16-year-old me in 1982, but the C64U costs the same in real terms and I'm not 16 any more.
It also comes with 128Mb of RAM, a 50MHz CPU (emulated in hardware by an …
#WritersCoffeeClub 22 July: Are the limits of what is considered 'erotic' more or less universal?
Ha ha nope! Not even within our own culture and time, never mind other species.
REMINDER that it's not dieselpunk unless you've got zeppelins *and* VTOL cargo airplanes. But Friedrichshaven has both …
While on vacation a week ago I was in Friedrichshaven, looking out from the shore of Lake Constance during a red warning for thunderstorms, when this happened:
NB: example of story-related reason to go fully explicit on sex: to show the reader (without telling) that the protagonists they've been invited to empathize with for the past 100 pages aren't anatomically human ...
#WritersCoffeeClub July 21: Do your works contain erotic elements? How far do you go?
Yes, but only when it's plot-appropriate, and I'm not usually insert-tab-A-in-slot-B explicit (unless there's a story-related reason) …
#WritersCoffeeClub 20th July ~ Talk about a friend who really drives you as a writer.
Is this some weird American vernacular idiom? Because I can't work out what this prompt is asking. (Drives me … mad? Drives me … like a car? Drives me … …
Update: The suitcase has arrived in Edinburgh (per its AirTag). I'll collect it in the morning—it's on my way to the supermarket.
Lolsob: 24 days and 3000km of InterRail, and on our last train journey home some numpty grabbed the wrong Samsonite suitcase as they got off the train in Newcastle, the penultimate stop, leaving theirs on the train! So LNER are putting my …
Welp, sitting in Eurostar Plus class on a train to St Pancras. Then another train and home to Edinburgh tonight. 6h30m on trains if there are no delays, but allowing time off for lunch and beers in London.
#WritersCoffeeClub 19th July ~ Where is the line between following genre or medium conventions, and creating something trite?
This question makes no sense: there is no clear dividing line because triteness is a subjective interpretation by…
REMINDER that it's not dieselpunk unless you've got zeppelins *and* VTOL cargo airplanes. But Friedrichshaven has both …
While on vacation a week ago I was in Friedrichshaven, looking out from the shore of Lake Constance during a red warning for thunderstorms, when this happened:
NB: example of story-related reason to go fully explicit on sex: to show the reader (without telling) that the protagonists they've been invited to empathize with for the past 100 pages aren't anatomically human ...
#WritersCoffeeClub July 21: Do your works contain erotic elements? How far do you go?
Yes, but only when it's plot-appropriate, and I'm not usually insert-tab-A-in-slot-B explicit (unless there's a story-related reason) …
#WritersCoffeeClub 20th July ~ Talk about a friend who really drives you as a writer.
Is this some weird American vernacular idiom? Because I can't work out what this prompt is asking. (Drives me … mad? Drives me … like a car? Drives me … …
Update: The suitcase has arrived in Edinburgh (per its AirTag). I'll collect it in the morning—it's on my way to the supermarket.
Lolsob: 24 days and 3000km of InterRail, and on our last train journey home some numpty grabbed the wrong Samsonite suitcase as they got off the train in Newcastle, the penultimate stop, leaving theirs on the train! So LNER are putting my …
Welp, sitting in Eurostar Plus class on a train to St Pancras. Then another train and home to Edinburgh tonight. 6h30m on trains if there are no delays, but allowing time off for lunch and beers in London.
#WritersCoffeeClub 19th July ~ Where is the line between following genre or medium conventions, and creating something trite?
This question makes no sense: there is no clear dividing line because triteness is a subjective interpretation by…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
wandering.shop
A sci-fi & writing server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 152 views per post.
📤Posts about 24.1× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated81/100
Excellent
Credibility score
97%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.5% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- 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
Scottish resident SF/F author (he/him/they/them). Three times Hugo Award winner, 30+ novels in print. Does not play well with Nazis. Abolish the monarchy!
Born in a world with 320ppm atmospheric CO2, 3.3 billion people.
@cstross.bsky.social on Bluesky
blog at: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
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🔀 Audience overlap
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