Emmett O'Connell

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564

Account age

3 yrs

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Olympia narrowly avoided a downtown I-5 in the 1950s, not for preservation, but because tunneling was too expensive. Had it been built, the city likely would've later needed a second bypass through rural south Thurston County, reshaping growth and doubling the damage.
It could have been much, much worse – Olympia Time
https://olympiatime.com/2026/07/18/it-could-have-been-much-much-worse/

9 views Olympia narrowly avoided a downtown I-5 in the 1950s, not for preservation, but because tunneling was too expensive. Had it been built, the city likely would've later needed a second bypass through rural south Thurston County, reshaping growth and doubling the damage. It could have been much, much worse – Olympia Time https://olympiatime.com/2026/07/18/it-could-have-been-much-much-worse/

A local news website near me uses an AI too to write news summaries each day. Oftentimes they are so vague is barely counts as news, but sometimes they pick up news from another places and specifically place it near me. Like this shooting about Rochester NY that they place in Rochester WA
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Top Local News – Thurston County – July 25, 2026 - ThurstonTalk
https://www.thurstontalk.com/2026/07/25/top

4 views A local news website near me uses an AI too to write news summaries each day. Oftentimes they are so vague is barely counts as news, but sometimes they pick up news from another places and specifically place it near me. Like this shooting about Rochester NY that they place in Rochester WA /1 Top Local News – Thurston County – July 25, 2026 - ThurstonTalk https://www.thurstontalk.com/2026/07/25/top

📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

0.7%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Olympia narrowly avoided a downtown I-5 in the 1950s, not for pr · 9 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

4.7 / week

Posts several times a week.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

0.6×

Follows 918 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Olympia narrowly avoided a downtown I-5 in the 1950s, not for preservation, but because tunneling was too expensive. Had it been built, the city likely would've later needed a second bypass through rural south Thurston County, reshaping growth and doubling the damage. It could h… ★ 9

Shaped by an ancient glacial flood, Maytown, WA later hosted a dynamite plant, a 1960s rock festival, and decades of development battles. Today, plans have come full circle: mine the flood's original gravel deposits and eventually restore … ★ 2 While it feels surprising to see conservative arguments against Flock, it probably shouldn't. Libertarian and constitutional right-wingers are waking up to government overreach and 4th Amendment violations. Mass surveillance could unite th… ★ 3 As local news corporate owners retreat from local editorials to avoid offending readers, journalists are being told to build direct social trust. You can't connect with a community if you refuse to stand for it. Real audience engagement re… ★ 2 This sounds like Asimov's Laws of Robotics, except it holds human creators legally accountable if they deploy engagement-maximizing features that foreseeably harm vulnerable users. Why Congress Must Codify a Chatbot Duty of Care https://te… ★ 5 Here is the actual story from Rochester NY This is a basic sort of mistake that is generally solvable by simply looking at content before posting it. But for the user, this is a risk, especially when we're talking about public safety info… ★ 2

A local news website near me uses an AI too to write news summaries each day. Oftentimes they are so vague is barely counts as news, but sometimes they pick up news from another places and specifically place it near me. Like this shooting … ★ 4 Honoring Whitman with a statue is built on a historic falsehood to bolster a white colonial history of Washington State. We should take this opportunity to remove the statue from the Capitol altogether and deconstruct it. Marcus Whitman st… ★ 4 Telegram channels tied to white supremacist “active clubs” rapidly reshared the same Patriot Front rally video after its July 4 D.C. march. The coordinated timing suggests these supposedly decentralized groups may be more centrally organiz… ★ 2 Social Security's deficit is caused by inequality, not demographics. Policy-driven upward wealth redistribution stagnated wages and pushed high incomes past the tax cap. Aligning wage growth with productivity would eliminate most of the sh… ★ 9 Seattle’s World Cup win vs suburban stadium gridlock proves density rules. Urban stadiums integrated into transit grids aren't just better for fans; they're fiscally superior, yielding higher property tax per acre & avoiding the massive pu… ★ 5 "Economists, policymakers and technology leaders must act now to understand the economics of transformative AI and to build the incentives, guardrails, and institutions needed to steer AI in a direction that complements humans and benefits… ★ 2

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Home server

mas.to

A large general-interest Mastodon server. On the fediverse the server a creator picks hints at their community — this one spans all topics.

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 4 views per post.

📤Posts about 4.7× per week.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated

66/100

Good Credibility score

89%

Real Real audience

Low Fake-follower risk

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Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~0.7% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
Established account (3+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

blogger at Olympia Time, (former-ish) semi-pro history writer, Podcaster at the Olympia Standard, full-time local government (elections, document recording, etc) communicator. Most average rec o40 central defender ever. Views are my own

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